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

Court & Spark

I really hope some of you check out this wonderful album which features a backing group of certain pfunk alumni inc Eddie and Bernie and the life and death suite is some of the most amazing music ever made.
Chairmen of the Board - Skin I'm In

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVFUr66Xk1c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLqfXlIq6RE

Why are the King Crimson and Miles albums grouped into single options but the two Eno albums separate options? This is Red vs The Lamb vs Warm Jets for me. Might go with The Lamb for the number of times I've listened to it on long drives.

1. Radio City
2. Court & Spark
3. I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight

Another great year, the first half of the '70s was such a great time for albums, I think there's maybe a drop-off at '75/'76 but I may well be wrong.

Whattayear! Also missing:

Blue Oyster Cult- Secret Treaties
Stevie Wonder- Fullfillingness First Finale
Lynyrd Skynyrd- Second Helping
New York Dolls- Too Much Too Soon

sund4r to make space

I think there's maybe a drop-off at '75/'76 but I may well be wrong.

I think there was too but I still managed to fill out 50 and I'll still get people saying I've missed their fave albums

MUSIK VON HARMONIA YET ANOTHER MASSIVE OVERSIGHT

i listen to "here come the warm jets" more than any other album here so that one

Taking Tiger Mountain and Pretzel Logic are both tempting but I may have to vote for my favorite Bowie album.

interesting picks. i always thought of '74 as the last great year for prog, but when i go through my '74 i am finding a lot of soul as well. blue magic s/t, black heat's "no time to burn", george duke's "feel"... AND WHERE THE FUCK IS FULFILLINGNESS' FIRST FINALE? also, casablanca moon, kimono my house, _todd_

Court & Spark. no contest.

I may have to vote for my favorite Bowie album.

― o. nate, Wednesday, 27 February 2019 15:28 (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Diamond Dogs is my fave Bowie

i am torn in between "here come the warm jets" and "on the beach". it used to be the former but i go for the latter now. such a gorgeous stream of melancholy.

sund4r to make space

Oh, I see your note at the beginning now.

Radio City

Ultiumately, I concur, korny.

I'm torn between Zuckerzeit, which is one of those albums that I always enjoy hearing no matter what, and (kind of surprisingly) On the Beach. The Fela is once again super tempting, I probably should have held out for Confusion tbh, which is colossal.

The Jorge Ben and Harmonia albums already mentioned would be my own most important additions along with Dadawah, Peace & Love and Keith Hudson, Flesh of My Flesh Blood of My Blood. This is also a foundational year for dub (Pick a Dub, Dub from the Roots, The Roots of Dub).

Eno will get my vote for 75 so I'll choose The Lamb for 74. It still feels wrong to not click On The Beach or Court & Spark

my 75 list is currently 56 strong so will have to double up artists again.

The Payback, for me, Clive.

Probably going to vote for "Soon Over Babaluma" because I don't think anyone else will.

Big Star - Radio City
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Funkadelic - Standing on the Verge of Getting It On
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Not a good year for this rockist (no Sabbath album!) but I will go with Parsons only slightly over Kraftwerk and a little above the rest.

We know in your heart you were voting for California Jam 74

A lot of love here for Court And Spark. Its a great album, it took a long time to come around to though compared to other Joni albums

eno will still win

Favorites here: the two Enos, Davis, On the Beach, I want to see the bright lights tonight, Court & Spark, They Say I'm Different, Confusion.
Wow, Autobahn is from 1974 ?
Rock Bottom I don't return to.

Where are Slapp Happy (seriously, for a krautrock and J.Mitchell fan !), At the Helm (East NY Ensemble de Music), Troppo (M. Garrick), Jolene, Veedon Fleece, I Can't stand the rain ?

I voted for Davis cause Get Up with It is my favorite by him and cause you split Mr Jean Baptise de la Salle in two.

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

sorry, i live get up with it but “red china blues” is fucking trash and almost ruins the record

Strongly disagree!

The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage is the biggest miss here obv

― imago, Friday, 1 March 2019 21:13 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not sure you can say anything is missing when you have only heard 5 of the albums in the poll!

Good album that though. Well, about half of it is.

The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage is the biggest miss here obv

― imago

"in camera" also great

that it is

"Elis & Tom" isn't listed, so I'll go with I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight. Good lord this was a fantastic year.
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what is that a playlist for? nothings coming up

Plenty of fine titles above and within thread. Odd to phrase it this way, but if i had to give up ever listening to all but one of these titles, i would have to choose,,,

Radio City

xp damn try this instead 43 Hours of Music From 1974

My favourite album of 1974 is probably I Can't Stand The Rain by Ann Peebles, but out of these maybe one of the Enos?

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There's an ILX result if ever there was one.

Funk/soul/jazz acts not exactly setting the heather on fire there.

That is definitely ILX for you

i would've given one of them some love but i couldn't see myself voting for any of them not named "fulfillingness' first finale"

the top 3 are my faves, in that order!

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

Wish I'd voted for Tiger Mountain now...

Tiger Mountain
On the Beach
Las Grecas - Gipsy Rock
Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub
Soon Over Babaluma
Radio City
Ya Ho Wha 13 - Penetration
Sabotage
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treatises
Upsetters - Double Seven
ABBA - Waterloo
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs

i think this is the most votes these polls have had so far

(Ohhh Dadawah shd be between Can and Big Star)

The Top 5 played from my listening list kept since '96.

Robin Trower- Bridge of Sighs
Miles Davis- Get Up With It/ Big Fun
Tangerine Dream- Phaedra
Blue Oyster Cult- Secret Treaties
Joe Walsh- So What (tied with)
Can- Soon Over Babaluma