Favourite Albums of 1974?

[Sprague Dawley]

my current ranking:

1 Neil Young - On the beach. best burnout album ever
2 Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony.
3 Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
4 Big Star Radio City
5 Amon Düül II - Hijack - more accessible than the preceding much-vaunted freakout psych stuff. I love it.
6 Graham Central Station ‎– Release Yourself
7 Ry Cooder - Paradise And Lunch
8 John Cale - Fear
9 King Crimson Red
10 Lou Reed ‎– Rock N Roll Animal
11 Ohio Players ‎– Skin Tight
12 The Temptations - 1990
13 Bob Dylan- Planet Waves

[matt72582]

Supertramp - Crime of the Century
John Lennon - Walls And Bridges
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Neil Young - On The Beach
ELO - Eldorado
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Nino Ferrer - Nino And Radiah
America - Hat Trick
Elton John - Caribou
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread

George Harrison - Dark Horse
Eagles - On The Border
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock N' Roll
Todd Rundgren - Todd
Chicago - VII

[doubledenim]

Came here for the Steely Dan memes.

[GulfportDoc]

Did y'all skip 1972..?...:)

[Torgo]

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
King Crimson - Red (it's already been mentioned, but the more, the merrier)
Magma - Köhntarkösz
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Tower of Power - Back to Oakland

[Torgo]

Came here for the Steely Dan memes.https://i.imgur.com/B98GXoH.png

[Captain Terror]

Magma - Köhntarkösz

:yup:

[matt72582]

Did y'all skip 1972..?...:)


This started with movies, too.. Someone else posted just one year, random year, and I thought (after responding) "Might as well paste it on here", but then a few days ago, someone picked 1974. Maybe I'll turn back after 1979, and hit 1972 :)

[Jinnistan]

Get Up With It - Miles Davis
Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Standing on the Verge of Getting it On - Funkadelic
Rejuvenation - The Meters
Lotus - Santana
Starless and Bible Black - King Crimson
Meet The Residents - The Residents
Rock Bottom - Robert Wyatt
Hell - James Brown
Pussycats - Harry Nilsson
Dancing Machine - Jackson 5
Big Fun - Miles Davis
Soon Over Babaluna - Can
Thrust - Herbie Hancock
Mandrilland - Mandrill
The End - Nico
Phases and Stages - Willie Nelson
Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder
Sweet Exorcist - Curtis Mayfield
Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - Brian Eno

HM: 1969: Velvet Underground Live

[Jinnistan]

Special consideration:


That Ni^^er's Crazy - Richard Pryor
Everything You Know is Wrong - Firesign Theatre
The Missing White House Tapes - National Lampoon
The Law, Language and Lenny Bruce
Live at Drury Lane - Monty Python

[Sprague Dawley]

Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
Thrust - Herbie Hancock
The End - Nico
Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - Brian Eno
Oh damn "Here Come The Warm Jets" came out in 73 not 74. I have brought great shame upon the Music and Film online community.

Missed "Thrust" too. Love that one.

The End by Nico drove me around the bend and I sold it. I think its her voice sometimes.

Proabbaly really need that "Veedon Fleece" lp but there are never reasoably priced copies around

[Jinnistan]

Oh damn "Here Come The Warm Jets" came out in 73 not 74. I have brought great shame upon the Music and Film online community.
Wiki is listing its release as January 1974, so I'm wrong here.

Missed "Thrust" too. Love that one.
There's probably a bunch of jazz that I'm missing, since I don't have a handy resource for release dates. Already, I know I missed a few:

Chapter Three - Gato Barbieri
Mysterious Traveller - Weather Report
Virgin Land - Airto Moriera
Sorcery - Jack DeJohnette

And there are others from 1974 coming to mind:

Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Machine Gun - Commodores
Nightbirds - Labelle
Unrest - Henry Cow
I Want to See the Bright Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson
Information Inspiration - Shuggie Otis
Slow Dancer - Boz Scaggs
Rags to Rufus - Rufus

Proabbaly really need that "Veedon Fleece" lp but there are never reasoably priced copies around
Yeah, that's one that never comes into my local record store. I've pestered the guy there for years about it. It's the only Van from his classic run that I don't have on vinyl. Well, except Tupelo Honey because I don't really care much for that one.

[Sprague Dawley]

Machine Gun - Commodores
Rags to Rufus - Rufus
Oh yeah I have these 2, the Commodores one seems incredibly underrated. It aint no Lionel Richie Dancing on the Ceiling BS!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z3_6Ep7u-s

It's the only Van from his classic run that I don't have on vinyl. Well, except Tupelo Honey because I don't really care much for that one.

Astral Weeks - bought this on CD but it sounded so damn shrill and horrid. His voice was just piercingly terrible. Replaced it with a CASSETTE copy which sounds awesome.
His Band And The Street Choir: need
Moondance: also had on cd but it sounded so bad it got chucked.
Tupelo Honey: think I have 2 copies of this on LP
Saint Dominic's Preview - need
Veedon Fleece - need

[Jinnistan]

Oh yeah I have these 2, the Commodores one seems incredibly underrated. It aint no Lionel Richie Dancing on the Ceiling BS!
Yeah, early Commodores were much more collaborative, and Richie would only emerge as the band's 'hitmaker' later in the decade.


Astral Weeks - bought this on CD but it sounded so damn shrill and horrid. His voice was just piercingly terrible. Replaced it with a CASSETTE copy which sounds awesome.

Moondance: also had on cd but it sounded so bad it got chucked.
I remember the initial CD version of Weeks which suffered from the thin mastering of 1st gen CDs. Both of these have been remastered in recent years.


Of the others, I like his debut, which is probably best, at this point, to pick up as The Bang Masters, with great tracks like "TB Sheets" and "He Ain't Give You None" and some rarities like "Joe Harper Saturday Morning" and "The Back Room".


Hard Nose The Highway is one you can find cheap, and it's not great, but I like it better than some fans do. Not everything works on it, but it's not as samey and predictable as Tupelo. I've been talking to crumbsroom recently about Common One, which is another really overlooked gem.

[xSookieStackhouse]

gosh i only have 80s,90s,early 2000s albums lol but i do love some 70s songs tho :p

[John Dumbear]

Huge drop off from '73 with some gems sprinkled in like:

Robin Trower - Bridge of Signs
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
Deep Purple - Burn
Little Feat - Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Kraftwerk - Autobaun
America - Holiday
Kansas - Kansas

[Mr Minio]

1. Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets (1974)
2. King Crimson - Red (1974)
3. Quella Vecchia Locanda - Il tempo della gioia (1974)
4. Batsumi - Batsumi (1974)
5. J.A. シーザー [J.A. Ceasar] - 田園に死す (Den'en ni shisu) (1974)
6. Astor Piazzolla - Libertango (1974)
7. The Pyramids - King of Kings (1974)
8. Pharoah Sanders - Love in Us All (1974)
9. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)
10. Χριστόδουλος Χάλαρης [Christodoulos Halaris] - Ακολουθία (1974)
11. Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (1974)
12. Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night (1974)
13. Magical Power Mako - Magical Power (1974)
14. Biglietto per l'Inferno - Biglietto per l'Inferno (1974)
15. Pierrot Lunaire - Pierrot Lunaire (1974)

Here's some good music for you, folks.

[KeyserCorleone]

This is my kind of discussion.

1. Joni Mithcell - Court and Spark - Folk Pop
2. King Crimson - Red - Prog Rock
3. Gene Clark - No Other - Country Rock
4. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra - Prog Electronic
5. Charlie Daniels - Fire On the Mountain - Southern Rock, Country Rock
6. Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece - Folk Rock
7. Camel - Mirage - Prog Rock (I know the keyboardist's daughter on Facebook)
8. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe - Jazz-Rock
9. Jorge Ben - A Tabua de Esmeralda - MPB, Samba-Rock
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd - A Second Helping - Southern Rock
11. Dolly Parton - Jolene - Country
12. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Prog Rock
13. Supertramp - Crime of the Century - Pop Rock, Prog Rock
14. Eloy - Floating - Prog Rock, Space Rock
15. Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo - Glam Rock, Pop Rock
16. Sparks - Kimono My House - Art Rock, Glam Rock
17. Secos and Molhados - Secos and Molhados (2) - Prog Pop, Folk Pop
18. Herbie Hancock - Death Wish - Jazz Fusion
19. James Brown - Hell - Soul-Funk
20. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight - Folk Rock

[Jinnistan]

7. The Pyramids - King of Kings (1974)

That's a pretty deep cut.


I don't have very much Asian music from this time period, but I do have a copy of this:


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[Captain Terror]

Some favorites of mine that haven't been mentioned yet:

Mike Auldridge Blues & Bluegrass
Bad Company
Badfinger Wish You Were Here
Chris Bell I Am the Cosmos
Richard Betts Highway Call
Elvin Bishop Let It Flow
Cluster Zuckerzeit
Billy Cobham Crosswinds
Billy Cobham Total Eclipse
Cowboy/Boyer & Talton
Miles Davis Dark Magus
Dr John Desitively Bonnaroo
Focus Hamburger Concerto
Foghat Energized
Foghat Rock and Roll Outlaws
Edgar Froese Aqua
Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain Grill
KISS
KISS Hotter Than Hell
The Marshall Tucker Band A New Life
The Marshall Tucker Band Where We All Belong
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Stars & Stripes Forever
Ozark Mountain Daredevils It'll Shine When It Shines
Parliament Up for the Down Stroke
Queen II
Raspberries Starting Over
Return to Forever Where Have I Known You Before
Santana Borboletta
Santana/Coltrane Illuminations
Klaus Schulze Blackdance
Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Traffic When The Eagle Flies
Wet Willie Keep on Smilin'
The Wild Magnolias
Yes Relayer
Zappa/Mothers Roxy & Elsewhere

[Sprague Dawley]

9. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)Had this LP but just lost patience with it, really wanted it to be my thing but it went so ambient it just seemed to disappear into the ether. Which was probably the point of it but still...
Hawkwind Hall of the Mountain GrillOh hell yes. Have the cassette of this. Great burnout music.

[jiraffejustin]

1. Merle Haggard Presents His 30th Album

[crumbsroom]

Wiki is listing its release as January 1974, so I'm wrong here.


There's probably a bunch of jazz that I'm missing, since I don't have a handy resource for release dates. Already, I know I missed a few:

Chapter Three - Gato Barbieri
Mysterious Traveller - Weather Report
Virgin Land - Airto Moriera
Sorcery - Jack DeJohnette

And there are others from 1974 coming to mind:

Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
Machine Gun - Commodores
Nightbirds - Labelle
Unrest - Henry Cow
I Want to See the Bright Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson
Information Inspiration - Shuggie Otis
Slow Dancer - Boz Scaggs
Rags to Rufus - Rufus


Yeah, that's one that never comes into my local record store. I've pestered the guy there for years about it. It's the only Van from his classic run that I don't have on vinyl. Well, except Tupelo Honey because I don't really care much for that one.


Tupelo Honey was the first Morrison I ever found on vinyl, so I have a soft spot for it, even if some of it is probably pretty mild stuff. Still, Straight to Your Heart Like a Cannonball will always be on my short list favs of his.

[jiraffejustin]

Spooky Lady's Sideshow by Kris Kristofferson deserves some love too. Kris has some tremendously well-written tunes on this LP and they are about as grim as you'd expect from him. "Ever since the first I had, the worst I had was good" is an awesome line.

"Cause nightmares are somebody's daydreams
Daydreams are somebody's lies.
Lies ain't no harder than telling the truth.
Truth is the perfect disguise"

[Sprague Dawley]

Tupelo Honey was the first Morrison I ever found on vinyl, so I have a soft spot for it, even if some of it is probably pretty mild stuff
It's amazing how deep that "first consciousness" impacts for records. I have so many bands where my favourite LP of theirs is "what, that one?"