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

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.

when people talk about how punk was needed it was always the singles chart/top of the pops they spoke about that was dire in 75/76

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_British_music

and why has nobody on this thread complained about a lack of max boyce and perry como albums?

No, I think a lot of rock bands/artists were considered washed up and out of touch by '76. Even the good ones.

Best-selling singles

[2]
No. Title Artist Peak
position
1 "Bye Bye Baby" Bay City Rollers 1
2 "Sailing" Rod Stewart 1
3 "Can't Give You Anything (But My Love)" The Stylistics 1
4 "Whispering Grass" Windsor Davies and Don Estelle 1
5 "Stand by Your Man" Tammy Wynette 1
6 "Give a Little Love" Bay City Rollers 1
7 "Hold Me Close" David Essex 1
8 "The Last Farewell" Roger Whittaker 2
9 "I Only Have Eyes for You" Art Garfunkel 1
10 "Tears On My Pillow" Johnny Nash 1
11 "I'm Not in Love" 10cc 1
12 "Barbados" Typically Tropical 1
13 "If" Telly Savalas 1
14 "There Goes My First Love" The Drifters 3
15 "Three Steps to Heaven" Showaddywaddy 2
16 "The Hustle" Van McCoy 3
17 "Space Oddity" David Bowie 1
18 "January" Pilot 1
19 "Funky Moped"/"The Magic Roundabout" Jasper Carrott 5
20 "Make Me Smile (Come Up and See Me)" Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel 1
21 "Oh Boy" Mud 1
22 "Bohemian Rhapsody" Queen 1
23 "Misty" Ray Stevens 2
24 "Lovin' You" Minnie Ripperton 2
25 "The Way We Were"–"Try to Remember" Gladys Knight & the Pips 4
26 "Sugar Candy Kisses" Mac and Katie Kissoon 3
27 "There's a Whole Lot of Loving" Guys & Dolls 2
28 "Please Mr. Postman" The Carpenters 2
29 "Sing Baby Sing" The Stylistics 3
30 "Love Is the Drug" Roxy Music 2
31 "Rhinestone Cowboy" Glen Campbell 4
32 "Moonlighting" Leo Sayer 2
33 "D.I.V.O.R.C.E." Billy Connolly 1
34 "Hurts So Good" Susan Cadogan 4
35 "Only You Can" Fox 3
36 "Honey" Bobby Goldsboro 2
37 "Fox on the Run" Sweet 2
38 "Blanket on the Ground" Billie Jo Spears 6
39 "It's Been So Long" George McCrae 4
40 "Scotch on the Rocks" Band of the Black Watch 8
41 "You Sexy Thing" Hot Chocolate 2
42 "Feelings" Morris Albert 4
43 "The Secrets That You Keep" Mud 3
44 "If You Think You Know How to Love Me" Smokie 3
45 "The Bump" Kenny 3
46 "I'm on Fire" 5000 Volts 4
47 "Love Me Love My Dog" Peter Shelley 3
48 "SOS" ABBA 6
49 "That's the Way (I Like It)" KC & the Sunshine Band 4
50 "Disco Stomp" Hamilton Bohannon 6

Much more significant than the Wombles being best selling singles act of 1975, or whatever.

... that was probably '74 then!

https://i.imgur.com/CeDwar6.png

tbh i don’t know what this means

― budo jeru

there's this band the kids like called "the 1975" or something

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

― pomenitul

aww, thanks! i just started getting a little burned out on listing another bunch of prog and library music lps :)

regarding whether '75 and '76 were "fallow years" i don't think one can judge that by just looking at what albums came out that year. "artaud" and "relatively clean rivers" are both great records but nobody (at least nobody in the anglosphere) was really listening to or talking about them when they came out. there was plenty of interesting stuff going on at the fringes, but then there always is. a lot of the musical genres of the early '70s were burning themselves out as major musical forces, or at the very least becoming diasporic. i'm not surprised that critics responded so positively to "born to run" given this environment.

i do wonder how people will judge the last few years, which as far as i'm concerned are pretty much all fringe.

I enjoy seeing them too! much to check out

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

YOUNG AMERICANZ

― calstars, Thursday, March 7, 2019 2:58 AM (thirteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

rather shamefully im not a fan of that album.

I choose to believe that you're belatedly referring to Wish You Were Here.

not a fan of that either except for the 1st track. Though I have come round to the title track. gimme a decade and i'll maybe add it to this list.

and its why Yes haven't appeared on any lists of mine.

If you like the first track, then you probably like the last one as well. That's more than half the record! And if you've come around to the title track, solely 'Welcome to the Machine' and 'Have a Cigar' aren't to your liking.

I'll get there

fuck The Wall though

I'm firmly in the PINK FLOYD RULES camp but have yet to fully embrace that one.

You mad

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.