GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1973

[Serjeant Grumbles]

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Obviously make sure to hit up RYM yourself and search your favourite genres.

The deadline is 15th of May 2020.

The rules:
- submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.

GNMD = General Non-Metal Discussion, so NO UNAMBIGUOUSLY METAL ALBUMS are to be included in anybody's list.

 

[Slammed]

1. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
2. Jim Croce - I Got a Name
3. Jim Croce - Life and Times
4. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
5. The Who – Quadrophenia
6. Queen – Queen
7. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
8. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
9. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
10. Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Four

 

[CiG]

1. Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
2. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
3. Yoko Ono - Approximately Infinite Universe
4. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd - (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
6. Pink Fairies - Kings of Oblivion
7. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
8. Grand Funk - We're an American Band
9. The Wailers - Burnin'
10. Coloured Balls - Ball Power

*Didn't include Buffalo, Uriah Heep, Budgie, Blue Öyster Cult, Ice Cross and a few others because metal.

 

[Krow]

Uriah Heep and BOC being considered metal is a stretch. Buffalo, Ice Cross, and Budgie... I mean I get it but are we ever going to do metal rankings for the 70s? Seems like these will get left in limbo forever if not.

 

[CiG]

Don't see why we wouldn't, we've almost done every year. The idea was we were going to do the entire decade as one game.

 

[Bloopy]

CiG's stretches are the longest by a margin, but we're used to them by this point!

 

[CiG]

I just go by primary and secondary genre classifications on RYM, Wiki etc.

 

[mutantllama]

Don't see why we wouldn't, we've almost done every year. The idea was we were going to do the entire decade as one game.

I don't participate in these lists mostly because I'm a lazy fuck, but what about dividing up the decade in two?

 

[Bloopy]

The other idea was to make it a top 20 instead of dividing in two.

I just go by primary and secondary genre classifications on RYM, Wiki etc.

Secondary is a wide spectrum. You kept High Tide - Sea Shanties on your 1969 list. Even Queen - Sheer Heart Attack has heavy metal as secondary. It's cool if the 70s metal criteria is a little loose though, because then my list is gonna look quite tame.

 

[Einherjar86]

Fucking beast of a year.

1. Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
2. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
3. Tom Waits - Closing Time
4. Sandy Denny - Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
5. Bert Jansch - Moonshine
6. Fripp & Eno - (no pussyfooting)
7. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
8. Lou Reed - Berlin
9. Jethro Tull - A Passion Play
10. Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans

No idea how Tull and Yes are that far down the RYM list, but then I have a prog fetish...


I also feel it's my obligation to point out that Gravity's Rainbow was published in 1973. As I said, BEAST.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1973 is a crazy good year. A phenomenal year for soul and a great year for prog as well.

 

[CiG]

Secondary is a wide spectrum. You kept High Tide - Sea Shanties on your 1969 list.

Fair, I think my logic was anything pre-Sabbath is especially retroactively tagged as metal.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
2. Ohio Players - Ecstasy
3. Funkadelic - Cosmic Slop
4. Icecross - Icecross
5. Queen - Queen
6. Isley Brothers - 3 + 3
7. The O'Jays - Ship Ahoy
8. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
9. Four Tops - Main Street People
10. Area - Arbeit macht frei
Betty Davis - Betty Davis
Blue Öyster Cult - Tyranny and Mutation
Todd Rundgren - A Wizard, A True Star
Tower of Power - Tower of Power
Maxayn - Mindful
Montrose - Montrose
Buffalo - Volcanic Rock
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Fripp & Eno - (No Pussyfooting)
The Temptations - Masterpiece
Gentle Giant - In a Glass House
Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
King Crimson - Larks' Tongues in Aspic
The Who - Quadrophenia
Ruphus - New Born Day
Willie Hutch - The Mack

As always, could probably rotate a lot of these around but whatevs. Awesome year

 

[Bloopy]

1. Trevor Wishart - Journey Into Space
2. Golden Earring - Moontan
3. Aerosmith - Aerosmith
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd - (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
5. Conrad Schnitzler - Rot
6. Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
7. Iggy and The Stooges - Raw Power
8. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
9. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
10. Thin Lizzy - Vagabonds of the Western World

HM: Queen - Queen

Good thing I searched for a couple of discoveries. The Trevor Wishart album is some wild noise, especially for 1973.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

Yeah, probably one of my top 3 years ever, in the eternity of the multiverse.

1. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
2. Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
3. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery
   
4. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
5. Hawkwind - Space Ritual
6. Camel - Camel
7. The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
8. Renaissance - Ashes Are Burning
9. Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh
10. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
2. Tom Waits - Closing Time
3. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
4. Mothers of Invention - Over-Nite Sensation
5. Spirogyra - Bells, Boots and Shambles
6. Waylon Jennings - Lonesome, On'ry and Mean
7. Sun Ra - Space is the Space
8. David Allan Coe - Requiem for a Harlequin
9. Lou Reed - Berlin
10. Françoise Hardy - Message personnel

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstasy
Lynyrd Skynyrd - (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells

 

[crimsonfloyd]

1. Pink Floyd- The Dark Side of the Moon
2. King Crimson- Lark’s Tongues in Aspic
3. Marvin Gaye- Let's Get it On
4. Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
5. James Brown- The Payback
6. Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy
7. Bob Marley and the Wailers- Catch a Fire
8. Boscoe- Boscoe
9. Al Green- Call Me
10. Genesis- Selling England by the Pound

 

[Sirjack]

1. Billy Cobham - Spectrum
2. Return To Forever - Hymn Of The Seventh Galaxy
3. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
4. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Photos Of Ghosts
5. Mahavishnui Orchestra - Between Nothingness And Eternity
6. The Mothers - Over-Nite Sensation
7. Rick Wakeman - The Six Wives Of Henry VIII
8. King Crimson - Larks' Tongue In Aspic (probably my favourite - or most listened to KC - side 2)
9. Weather Report - Sweetnighter
10. Carlos Santana And John Mclaughlin - Love Devotion Surrender

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[challenge_everything]

^fusion jizzfest right there

 

[Somethingface]

1. Can - Future Days
2. Gong - Flying Teapot
3. Area - Arbeit macht frei
4. King Crimson - Larks' Tongues In Aspic
5. Embryo - Rocksession
6. Faust - Faust IV
7. Banco del Mutuo Sccorso - Io sono nato libero
8. Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
9. Jumbo - Vietato ai minoiri di 18 anni?
10. Le Orme - Felona e Sorona