Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1975

high fives to frogbs. You can tell how much I rate that album when it beats out 2 of my fave Parliament albums

Weirdly I've only heard H to He, Who Am the Only One and Pawn Hearts. To Godbluff I go!

Hmm, it looks like I have it, but maybe never listened? Hmm...

Hot take: Horses is amazing.

Always been my fave VDGG

that's prob my fav Fela, so I can't not vote for it

Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
Joe Higgs - Life of Contradiction
Max Romeo - Revelation Time

if you listed the Burning Spear it would've been a tough choice for me

Evening Star

I'm probably going to end up voting for it as well, even though I ultimately prefer (No Pussyfooting).

Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces/ Stepping Into Tomorrow

This ... tho "Movin'" might be my favorite single of the year.

Granny's list is great. The roots&dub firehose is on full strength by '75; I could list half a dozen others).

I like Joia too. Other personal faves: Don Cherry - Brown Rice and Gil e Jorge. Paêbirú is a cool record.

Paêbirú is amazing

It is! It's by Lula Côrtes & Zé Ramalho, which I didn't mention for some reason. Also, Gil e Jorge is by Gilberto Gil and Jorge Ben, not Don Cherry which my bad syntax might have implied.

Born To Run

those 2 Parliament albums are hard to beat tbh. other contenders are Dictators & Dr Feelgood

no Hawkwind again :'(

Oh man I would've voted for Hawkwind too! I see Slave didn't make the cut either

This is Parliament vs Fela for me

Oh wait The Concept is '78! What is wrong with my head???

Siren for me, but I would wager I have played Made In Germany more than anyone on this board.

heh I bet you'd win that, I can't recall it at all

Metropolis is actually a highly regarded Amon Duul II track on ILM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKSVgOFO2ng

Funk is not getting enough love in these polls, so it'll probably be Mothership Connection for me.

(xp) Made In Germany has gotten plenty of praise on ILX over the years.

I like it but I wouldn't describe it as one of the best albums of 1975.

I wouldn't either! It's a longtime personal fave though. (And every time I mention it I add that I have still never heard the entire 2 records, just the single US LP, which I have played to death.)

I missed a reggae album that's a personal fave:

Keith Hudson - Torch of Freedom

I will give that a listen

Great list. I'd add
"Metal Machine Music" - Lou Reed
"Fish Out of Water" - Chris Squire
"Caress of Steel" - Rush

Could have easily voted for Joni again, but went for Fela this time.

Willie Nelson

I voted for the Parliament albums ("Chocolate City" and "Mothership Connection"). I'd rank the latter as my fave of the 2, even though there's no Eddie Hazel, but we do get some rad Fred Wesley/Maceo Parker/Brecker Brothers horn charts.

This was touuuuugggh. Went with Agharta.

So have to go with Another Green World. Still properly rated as an amazing piece of music :D

Would also vote for AGW if someone ran a best LP cover poll...

godbluff definitely the best vdgg record btw

ok, here's my list of records from '75 i rate:

amanaz - africa
apoteosi - s/t
archimedes badkar - badrock for barn i alla aldrar
area - crac!
blue magic - 13 blue magic lane
clearlight - delired cameleon family
derek austin - further faces
ejwuusl wessahqqan - s/t
ethos - ardour
exile one - face au public
gentle giant - free hand
hatfield and the north - the rotters' club
harmonium - si on avait besoin d'une cinquieme saison
jack trombey & john eady - sliced orange
jeanne lee - conspiracy
jimmy giuffre three - river chant
joe higgs - life of contradiction
john williams - john williams & friends
jpt scare band - acid acetate excursion
julie tippetts - sunset glow
keith & julie tippett - couple in spirit
larry young - fuel
los sonny's - en tv
maneige - les porches
masahiko togashi - spiritual nature
maxophone - s/t
ney matogrosso - agua do ceu - passaro
pescado rabioso - artaud
petr novak - kraska a zvire
phoenix - cantofabule
relatively clean rivers - s/t
rimo di filippi - riflessi
rob thomsett - yaraandoo
robert wyatt - ruth is stranger than richard
s.j.c. powell - celestial madness
smart nkansah and his sweet talks - adam and eve
sonny & linda sharrock - paradise
takehisa kosugi - catch-wave
teddy lasry - action printing
tomasz stanko - twet
the undisputed truth - cosmic truth
weldon irvine - spirit man
3/3 - s/t

out of those i particularly love "artaud" and relatively clean rivers

kind of a boring list, not very wide-ranging, but i have certain fairly specific tastes i guess

have to go with the dan since realistically i have listened to that album 100 x more than any other on here

No Basement Tapes?

or sun sessions

forget who quipped that the two best records of 1975 were recorded many years earlier

... must have been a uk writer since the us release of the sun sessions was in 76? hm now i’m confusing myself

YOUNG AMERICANZ

forget who quipped that the two best records of 1975 were recorded many years earlier

― budo jeru

the basement tapes is great but it's really weird that it caused everybody to basically ignore "blood on the tracks" at the time

nowadays the quip would probably be about 1975's best records being recorded many years later

like, did people in 1975 really not have room enough in their head for "goin' to acapulco" and "idiot wind" both?

nowadays the quip would probably be about 1975's best records being recorded many years later

― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, March 6, 2019 9:21 PM (twelve minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tbh i don’t know what this means

also i’ve been meaning to say that nothing save “blood” really jumped out at me from this list (the favs of rush align more closely with my own this year for whatever reason, the amanaz record in particular)

so. because of being a teenager and the splendor of “simple twist of fate” i’m going with bob.

gotta vote for neu 75 here

kind of a boring list, not very wide-ranging

lol rush, this can't be said for any of your lists. Props for including Phoenix, I forgot it came out in 1975.

Gavin Bryars, "The Sinking Of The Titanic / Jesus' Blood Never Failed Failed Me Yet" is a notable absentee.

So 1975 wasn't a drop off in quality like people thought then?

In rock music terms, it probably was.

Physical Graffiti just over Sabotage. Would have voted for Mothership Connection - but if I did, I'd also be voting for Chocolate City which just ain't gonna happen.

Chocolate City is brilliant

I assume that was a mistake sticking the two albums together like that?

no, Like the last poll I had to do it to make the 50 limit on the poll

Cheat.

hardly. its cost the vote of turrican #1

NME Albums 1975

1. Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
2. Natty Dread - Bob Marley & The Wailers
3. Live - Bob Marley & The Wailers
4. The Last Record Album - Little Feat
5. Nils Lofgren - Nils Lofgren
6. The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan
7. Young Americans - David Bowie
8. Pieces Of The Sky - Emmylou Harris
9. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
10. The Who By Numbers - The Who
11. Tonight's The Night - Neil Young
12. The Sun Collection - Elvis Presley
13. Horses - Patti Smith
14. John Fogerty - John Fogerty
15. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
16. Party Down - Little Beaver
17. Rock 'n' Roll - John Lennon
18. Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear
19. Still Crazy After All These Years - Paul Simon
20. There's No Place Like America Today - Curtis Mayfield

I ended up going with Evening Star despite how rigged this poll is (PINK FLOYD RULES).

That Nils Lofgren album is really good

not heard it

Props to NME for being into Bob Marley before he got big.

And for still riding with Curtis, even after his commercial star had stopped shining as brightly.

the nils lofgren s/t is fine, i wouldn't call it "good"

he can write a song, and his voice is really pleasant to listen to imo but the grin and early solo records kinda drag, i feel like they are hampered by bad arrangements and too much filler

"everybody's missing the sun" is like a perfect song tho

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

*shrugs*

Wonder if we will get as many votes as the last poll

Voting for Harmonia

The Dictators Go Girl Crazy a distant third with a huge choice between probably my favorite Aerosmith album against a Black Sabbath disc that isn't their best but might be their darkest.

Think I have to go with 'Smith for this one but it's very close.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ah my funkadelic vote didn't register :(

not quite as many votes as the 1974 poll, but almost!

Good result overall, although I remain Dylagnostic and AGW is a bit too worshipped ;-)

And Brown Rice would have been my vote fer sure. Einsjager def '75 as well.

a lot of votes still

Thanks to everyone who voted.

New poll!
Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1976

Dang, I would have sworn I cast a vote for Siren. Well, consider it tied with The Snow Goose. (But it's better than that.)

Eric H. started a poll about Earth, Wind & Fire’s That’s the Way of the World, an album that, as he noted upthread, really should have been on the 1975 list.

Link here.