Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1974 poll

have to vote for Lamb

voted randy newman

'74 top 5:

Radio City
Court and Spark
I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Rock Bottom
No Other

Notable ommission: Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, possibly my favourite album of theirs.

I havent heard Standing on the Verge but I get the feeling that that's one of those albums where ILM is still ahead of the rockcrit curve

which is mystifying cuz i've assumed that parliament were canon on high for basically my whole life

Notable ommission: Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On, possibly my favourite album of theirs.

^ this x1000. Just listened to this last week for the first time in years, and it was just as mindblowing as I remember. The way the band kicks in on "Red Hot Mama" is so ridiculously swinging it's almost painful. Weird that this isn't seen as one of their peaks alongside Maggot Brain and Mothership Connection (or is it?).

In its absence, voted for Grievous Angel. First heard it on the same day I heard Cecil Taylor's Unit Structures for the first time, found both records equally baffling. Now I can't imagine life without them.

top ten for 1974:

1. Kimono My House
2. Magma - Wurdah Itah
3. Red
4. Taking Tiger Mountain
5. Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
6. Todd Rundgren - Todd
7. Yes - Relayer
8. Utopia s/t
9. Rock Bottom
10. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

It's Too Late To Stop Now is live as well.

i wish i had known this, would have been able to add Queen's Sheer Heart Attack to this list. would anyone really have voted for it though?

frogbs I would've been somewhat interested in reading your top 10s for all these years tbh

Gavin is spot on mentioning Funkadelic, another great funk album they missed out. It's my favourite album George Clinton has ever been involved with and there's a lot of competition.

going to vote for Pretzel Logic, Country Life, Radio City or On the Beach.

Autobahn.

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I think this is between Sparks and Roxy for me, although those aren't my favorite by either band. Big love for that Robert Wyatt album too.

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i did not see this one coming, i thought Big Star was going to take it.

oh i ended up voting for Steely Dan, second time i have done that in these '70s polls.

surprised by neil young's margin of victory here

ah hah, i knew it would be neil.

ah hah, i knew it would be neil.

Not surprised at the Neil win, but pretty surprised Parsons only got 2 votes.

who are the other two smart people who voted for phaedra?!