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

Best-selling singles

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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!

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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

Defimite write-in vote for Brown Rice / Don Cherry.

i dunno how I forgot that one

There definitely seems to be a drop off in quality from ‘74 but in fairness that was an amazing year. This is pretty easily BoTT for me.

only for rock as pointed out

indeed ! also different parts of the globe e.g. zamrock peaks in 75 / 76, so many amazing records

xp to rush, not sure how i didn’t get the joke (beer)

Horses is my choice, don't think it is overrated!

http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/village7080.htm#1975

P&J Top 20 1975

1. Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
2. Patti Smith - Horses
3. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
4. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
5. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
6. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
7. Roxy Music - Country Life
8. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread
9. The Band - Northern Lights-Southern Cross
10. The Who - The Who By Numbers
11. Toots & The Maytals - Funky Kingston
12. Neil Young - Zuma
13. Roxy Music - Siren
14. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
15. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
16. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
17. Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes - To Be True
18. Gary Stewart - Out Of Hand
19. Nils Lofgren - Nils Lofgren
20. Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

that Who album sticks out like a sore thumb there

Not as much as Nils Lofgren does

I don't even know who Gary Stewart is tbh.

Same, also Harold Melvin?

Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes? But of course!

No idea who gary stewart is at all

Also weird that Young Americans, Physical Graffiti, and Wish You Were Here are missing. And surely Sabotage would best that Harold Melvin album

I caned Wish You Were Here hard when I was 14 but can't remember the last time listened to it. I've a feeling the title track is insufferable but there's some nice moogy shit on the big numbers.

Out of Hand is a 1975 honky tonk album by Country music singer Gary Stewart. The singer's second album, his debut for RCA Records, reached #6 on Billboard's Country Albums chart, launching three charting singles, "Drinkin' Thing" (#10), "Out of Hand" (#4), and "She's Actin' Single (I'm Drinkin' Doubles)" (#1).

lol

Just realized there's no John Cale on this list, might have gone with "Helen Of Troy" / "Slow Dazzle".

Other 1975 albums I love that haven't been mentioned:
Be Bop Deluxe, "Futurama"
Richard & Linda Thompson - "Hokey Pokey" / "Pour Down Like Silver"
Monty Python - "The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

I dig bits of Fairport Convention and Robert Wyatt's 1975 albums but not their entirety.

Voted Neu! since it's utterly perfect.

Einsjäger & Siebenjäger is probably the Vuh album I've played the most. Don't know the other one mentioned above.

It's the one after it. Einsjager was recorded in May 1974, I think, are we sure it wasn't released in 1974 too?

Slow Dazzle is and always was, since first release, one of my favorite and most played albums of the 70s! Still plays itself in my headbox without warning, like Another Green World never did, although it seemed like a dramatic change, revelation and milestone at the time, prob was, historically speaking.
Cale certainly facilitated the thin wild mercury sound of my gut vote, Horses---"we came in all glib and half-assed," Smith remembered; he put them right to work, on point like a knife in the swirl. So we get 'minimalist fury," as xgau said at the time, while still missing their live sound, but we do get spoken word intro of the title track, building and changing again, the headphones trip of "Birdland," lots of other (Tom Velaine's guitar melding to "Break It Up," American reggae like no one except Garland J, could so personalize, re "Redondo Beach," the BOC distillation of "Free Money," etc etc), yet it was its own thing, an eerie breath of fresh protopunk air through the starting-to-creak superstructure of already middle-aging Age of Rock.
Of course there's at least an invaluable Top Ten: Miles, Neil, Funkadelic etc.
xxpost Gary Stewart was a crazy and sometimes exhilarating country singer, outstanding in the left field, much younger than Willie, the only other living country singer me and my buddies were excited about in the 70s (yeah we liked Waylon and Emmylou and a few others, were shamefully ignorant of Townes and the ex-Flatlanders). Backstory in this brief review of the last album issued in his lifetime, but also touching/tripping on the reissue of Out of Hand) (prob still in villagevoice.com, but archived here after a few glitchy phases there):
https://myvil.blogspot.com/2005/12/out-of-hand.html

i somehow avoided listened to Neu 75 cause I haaaated the second one, but darn if 75 isn't incredible.

75 is amazing and probably my fave

Also weird that Young Americans, Physical Graffiti, and Wish You Were Here are missing. And surely Sabotage would best that Harold Melvin album

― calstars, Friday, March 8, 2019 8:34 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

given that you hadn't heard of harold melvin this is a bit of an assumption.

I cant remember which Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes albums I have but its all the ones Teddy is on bar one

To be true is,I think,the last with teddy. has my favourite harold melvin song the single "bad luck " on it. Disco classic

Teddy just had the best voice.

I'm wrong, wake up everybody, the next album, is the last with teddy

Teddy is god but I still went '75.

im not sure how i managed to miss them out in my lists

That's the Way of the World is a conspicuous omission.

By my listening list (going back to '96), these are the five I have played the most.

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti
Black Sabbath- Sabotage
Neil Young- Tonight's the Night
Jeff Beck- Blow by Blow

you've taken a note of everything you've listened to since 96?