Favourite Albums of 1975?

my personal ranking:

1 Neil Young - Zuma
2 Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
3 Brian Eno - Another Green World
4 Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
5 Brian Eno - Discreet Music
6 Amon Düül II - Made In Germany
7 Kraftwerk - Radioactivity

and a great year for funk. maybe THE year...

Graham Central Station - Ain't No Doubt
James Brown - Sex Machine Today
James Brown - Everybody's Doin' The Hustle & Dead On The Double Bump
Temptations - A Song For You
Brass Construction - 1
Commodores - Caught in the act
Commodores - Movin' On
The Isley Brothers - The Heat Is On
Kool and the gang - Spirit of the boogie
Herbie Hancock - Manchild

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There are at least two albums better than Brian Eno - Another Green World.

And no, not by Neil Young.

Which ones?

Keep diggin'.

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Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Supertramp - Crisis? What Crisis?
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Eagles - One Of These Nights
Curved Air - Midnight Wire
David Bowie - The Young Americans
Electric Light Orchestra - Face The Music
Paul McCartney & Wings - Venus And Mars
The Who - By Numbers
Jefferson Starship - Red Octopus
Queen - A Night At The Opera
John Lennon - Rock n Roll
The Bee Gees - Main Course
America - Hearts
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Neil Young - Zuma
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Todd Rundgren - Initiation
The Carpenters - Horizon
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Danny Kirwan - Second Chapter
Elton John - Rock of the Westies
Journey - Journey
Janis Ian - Between The Lines
Earth, Wind, & Fire - That's The Way Of The World

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P-Funk dropped three of the top funk classics consecutively that year - Chocolate City, Let's Take it To the Stage and Mothership Connection. So, yeah, pretty funky year.

What else?


Agharta - Miles Davis
The Case of the Three-Sided Dream in Color - Rahsaan Roland Kirk


Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
Horses - Patti Smith
Actions Speak Louder Than Words - Chocolate Milk

Fire on the Bayou - The Meters
Gratitude - Earth Wind and Fire
Wake Up Everybody - Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes

Al Green is Love
A Quiet Storm - Smokey Robinson

Love to Love You Baby - Donna Summer

Siren - Roxy Music
Discreet Music - Brian Eno
First Minute of a New Day/ From South Africa to South Carolina - Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson
Marcas Garvey - Burning Spear
Revolution Dub - Lee Perry & the Upsetters

Nighthawks at the Diner - Tom Waits
We Got By - Al Jarreau
Evening Star - Fripp & Eno
In the Next World You're On Your Own - Firesign Theatre


HM: Basement Tapes - Dylan & the Band
Flood - Herbie Hancock (Japanese only until CD)

My Favorite Top Ten:

Welcome to my Nightmare - Alice Cooper
The Basement Tales - Dylan/The Band
Blow By Blow - Jeff Beck
Capt Fantastic & Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John
One Size Fits All - Frank Zappa
Katy Lied - Steely Dan
Chocolate City - Parliment
Why Can't We be Friends - WAR
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith

Side note: This is the year were Disco first reared its ugly head...

• Doobie Brothers - Stampede
• Bob Marley and the Wailers - Live!
• Parliament - Mothership Connection
• 10cc - The Original Soundtrack
• The Eagles - One of These Nights
• Bee Gees - Main Course
• Queen - A Night at the Opera
• Parliament - Chocolate City
• Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
• Elton John - Rock of the Westies
• Earth, Wind, & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
• Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - Wake up Everybody
• Journey - Journey
• Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
• Steely Dan - Katy Lied

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The greatest album from 1975 you've never listened to? The eponymous debut of Crack the Sky. It was named Best Debut Album of the year by Rolling Stone Magazine. It is a Prog Rock classic. They are local legends in this area but never quite ever broke through to the mainstream. They made some very good music, and are still together and recording, but that first album is fantastic.

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Out of ones not yet mentioned, I'm a big fan of Mahavishnu Orchestra's Visions of the Emerald Beyond. Not as ferocious as the original lineup, but the introduction of funkier textures is most welcome. (It was a funky year indeed, even outside the genre.)


It's also the year that Fela Kuti put out Confusion, which might his band at the peak of their powers. Absolutely commanding stuff.


And say what you will about Kiss, Alive! shows them most thrillingly in their element.

Indeed. More funky stuff from '75---

Oops, might have to rejig my top 10

Landed is one of Cans weakest albums, but it is still a Can album and so worthwhile

I could say the same for John Cales Slow Dazzle. Not his best, but still pretty good

And Richard and Linda Thompson's Hokey Pokey.

Prog, eh? I'll definitely check it out.... Been looking for mostly female vocalists in 70s prog bands in general


Thanks!

That's from their 1974 album, Nightbirds. Labelle's 1975 record, Phoenix, is ok but not as good as that one.

Good call, but Fela is so hard to fit on these lists. I think he put out 30 records between 1974 and 1978, and they're all pretty much fantastic. He Miss Road from 1975 is great as well.

Right, but it charted in 75

I don't think it's too bad, maybe a little more commercial sounding.


I've been missing a lot of German records because I don't have a reliable reference for release dates, so I'll have to look them up each, and that's time. I will say that Neu '75 is an obvious one.

All of this talk of funk, and I forgot the Ohio Players' Honey.

I like this! Thanks for sharing. I'm surprised I've never heard of it. I wonder if Mastodon's album Crack the Skye is a tribute to them.

Some other good albums from this year that haven't been mentioned yet:

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Klaus Schulze - Timewind
Manuel Göttsching - Inventions for Electric Guitar
Rainbow - (Self-Titled)
Tangerine Dream - Ricochet