Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1974

Eno, but doubtless most people who say that here will go for the wrong one

Oh yeah, and A tábua de esmeralda cause it's brilliant and Errare Humanum Est is a top 10 songs of all-time.

I went with my gut feeling on the King Crimson twofer, no regrets

great list, and yeah Slapp Happy would be my personal #1 from this year

i do like slapp happy. Sometimes I just forget things. I'm not one for remembering release dates

What a bloody ridiculous list. And without the aforementioned reggae records, New Skin for the Old Ceremony, Joe Henderson's The Elements and Clifford Jordan's Glass Bead Games. Dang.

the elements was one i took out as i thought nobody would vote for it

And I know little about reggae and dub so i need schooling

1974 I was really all about Sparks, both of their '74 albums are on my alltime list. Nice to see Hatfield and the North mentioned above, I may have played their s/t more than any of the albums on the poll.

And I know little about reggae and dub so i need schooling

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy)

dadawah's "love and peace" is absolutely utterly essential reggae

Nyabinghi space rock. Definitely essential listening.

"Peace & Love" but otherwise otm

eno won't win because of split voting. i think it is either neil or joni who will finish first. maybe robert has a chance too.

There's my favourite Bowie, maybe my favourite Neil Young, totally amazing mindblowing stuff by Eno, Genesis, King Crimson, Roxy Music (and a wonderful Richard & Linda Thompson album as well).
But even if I am a massive fan of all of those and especially Bowie and Diamond Dogs IS my fave Bowie...
It's Gene Clark - No Other for me.

missed the Richard & Linda Thompson, that might have beaten Neil Young, but I'm happy with my choice.

other great reggae albums from '74:

King Tubby - Dub From the Roots
Keith Hudson & Family Man - Pick a Dub
Augustus Pablo - This Is Augustus Pablo
Burning Spear - Rocking Time
Keith Hudson - Entering the Dragon

Get Up With It tho.

Kimono my House is the big omission here. And Relayer :)

two great Magma albums this year too - Kohntarkosz and Wurdah Itah, though I don't know if the latter was known by that name back then

i know the dadawah actually

Gut vote this time is Grievous Angel: rueful restless sidewise insights, exhilarating sounds=high lonesome wild blue yonder---

Top Ten would of course incl. Big Star, Miles, Funkadelic, and several Not Listed (wasn't Van Morrison's It's Too Late To Stop Nowa '74 release?)

Voting Joni. I don't like all the songs on it but the highs are very high

Voting Joni. I don't like all the songs on it but the highs are very high

1974 debuts & other notable rock LPs not yet mentioned...

RONNIE WOOD- I GOT MY OWN ALBUM TO DO!!!

Kiss- s/t, Hotter than Hell
Rush- s/t
Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
Bad Company- s/t
Kansas - s/t
Queen- II
Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
Aerosmith- Get Your Wings
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helping
Tom Waits- Heart of Saturday Night
Little Feat- Feets Don't Fail Me Now
Sweet- Desolation Blvd.
Joe Walsh- So What
Weather Report- Mysterious Traveler
Thin Lizzy- Nightlife

no other without even thinking about it

Neil or Joni or Big Star

weather report album is there!
xps

plumped for On the Beach, my favourite album by one of my favourite songwriters.

closely followed by:

Cluster - Zuckerzeit
B.T. Express - Do it til your satisfied

Shuggie!

the shuggie otis record has a very amazing short little track that i nominated for the under two minutes poll and y’all should vote for it :)

happy house! :)

Eno, but doubtless most people who say that here will go for the wrong one

― imago, Wednesday, February 27, 2019 8:03 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's because you will be voting for the wrong one ;)

It hurts to bypass Zuckerzeit and On The Beach, but this is Warm Jets for me.

Big Star over Autobahn. I listened to a lot of the 'most acclaimed albums of 1974' recently, and one that surprised me positively was Late For The Sky by Jackson Browne

i assume their list is a bit different to mine?

Yes - acclaimed music.net I think, one of those list aggregators - two in their top 20 that are missing from yours are Kimono My House and Late For The Sky, that's why I mentioned it.

http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/1974a.htm

oh I know the site, just hadn't seen their list.

get up with it <3

Late For The Sky first side is one of the most fantastic, depressing, intense, insular sides of any singer/songwriter record. its the real shit. falls apart a bit on side 2.... but damn i've listened to side 1 soooo many times.

the opener got used in taxi driver of course. amazing album opener.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqYiHkx7ils

But side 2 has "Before the Deluge!" Amazing album closer.

there are few albums as singular, as beautiful, as mysterious as “rock bottom” — i don’t know anything that sounds quite like it.

it also achieves an emotional depth that, before hearing it, i didn’t realize was possible in “rock” music.

plus ivor cutler, i mean c’mon.

a very important album for me. so it’s robert wyatt this year.

there are few albums as singular, as beautiful, as mysterious as “rock bottom” — i don’t know anything that sounds quite like it.

it also achieves an emotional depth that, before hearing it, i didn’t realize was possible in “rock” music.

plus ivor cutler, i mean c’mon.

a very important album for me. so it’s robert wyatt this year.

d’oh sry

On the Beach and Taking Tiger Mountain are extremely perfect rock Albums as well imo

There are quite a few POCs on this list. 1974 was a great year for soul and funk and reggae.

That's because you will be voting for the wrong one ;)

It hurts to bypass Zuckerzeit and On The Beach, but this is Warm Jets for me.

― Uptown VONC (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 28 February 2019 08:58 (nine hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

can never understand why that ragtag bunch of demos and neat ideas has so much more critical cachet than the ensuing full-bore rock masterpiece but I guess that's opinions eh!!!

you can say what you want about HCTWJ but they aren't "ragtag demos"

Here Come the Warm Jets was recorded in twelve days at Majestic Studios in London during September 1973 by recording engineer Derek Chandler.

After recording the individual tracks, Eno condensed and mixed the instrumentation deeply, resulting in some of the tracks bearing little resemblance to what the musicians recorded during the session.

haha fine. it definitely sounds more 'try this, see what happens' than its successor, which feels very much of a piece and calculated to destroy me

Calling HCTWJ demos is ludicrous.

Maybe some of us prefer Try This, See What Happens to Something Calculated To Destroy Imago?

I know I do