Top 39 Music Albums of 1973
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Produced by Al Kooper. Say what you want about "Free Bird". You don't really hear it all the time on the radio, and the truth is, it's a great song. And this is an excellent debut album. "Simple Man", "Tuesday's Gone", "Gimme Three Steps", "I Ain't The One", AND "Free Bird"...all on one glorious disc. Skynyrd picked up Southern rock from the ashes of the Allmans and carried it proudly until they suffered their own tragedy. But they were great for awhile, and their debut album is powerful stuff.
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1973
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Produced by Pink Floyd. A moving, stunning piece of art. This album flows together like no other, and the entire mood and atmosphere is consistent throughout. Not just lyrically...this is musically as sound a concept album as there is. It still sells a gazillion copies to this day, and is revered for good reason. This is a sonic masterpiece that has yet to be even close to duplicated over what is now 40 years plus. Perfect in every way, pleasing to every sense, beautiful in the rarest of ways.
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1973
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Produced by Paul McCartney. The most frustrating solo career in the history of music...Paul McCartney, for all of the great songs he wrote in that band he was in, has made only one great album over the last almost forty five years. Band On The Run is where he pulled himself together and got it done, with a little help from Denny Laine and Linda. This album is almost all Paul, at his best, tearing up tracks like "Let Me Roll It", "Jet", "Helen Wheels", and "Nineteen Hundred Eighty Five". He never came close to this again.
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1973
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Produced by Jimmy Page. Zeppelin's fifth album is ranked by some as their best work, but I think it's below a few of their albums. Not that it isn't an amazing album, as are all of Zeppelin's records. This one has beautiful songs like "The Rain Song" with lots of layers, tracks with the usual powerful riffs, and more experimentation than ever before. Even the stuff that doesn't quite work fits in with everything else to make this yet another masterpiece from this great band.
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1973
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[First added to this chart: 04/13/2012]
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1973
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Produced by John Lennon. Not a particularly exceptional album, but a more important one than it gets credit for. Lennon was running out of ideas at this point, he was on exile from Yoko Ono, and he was starting to turn away from being so damn political. The title track is great...the rest is more interesting than anything else. One thing Lennon never was: boring. And even though Mind Games isn't really standout, it's an important document in the history of John Lennon, which makes it automatically (in my book) important.
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1973
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Produced by Willie Mitchell. The run of hits and great albums that Al Green went on in the early 70's was quite remarkable, and this album is the best of them. He hadn't yet gone over the gospel deep end yet, and his golden voice and natural soulfulness make this a true masterpiece. "Here I Am (Come And Take Me)" and "Call me (Come Back Home)" were the big hits, but it's his take on the saddest song ever written, Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" that really brings it home.
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1973
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1973 – ABC
Produced By TERRY CASHMAN & TOMMY WEST
1. I Got A Name
2. Lover’s Cross
3. Five Short Minutes
4. Age
5. Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues
6. I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
7. Salon And Saloon
8. Thursday
9. Top Hat Bar And Grille
10. Recently
11. The Hard Way Every Time
The story behind some albums makes them difficult to write about. Jim Croce had released a pair of albums in the 1960’s that had little or no impact on the music industry. His third album, 1972’s You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, was his big breakthrough, with three sizeable hits. He followed that up the next year with Life And Times, and he was well on his way to a substantial career. But barely a year after You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, he was killed in a plane crash in Louisiana. Less than two months later, his already finished fifth album, I Got A Name, was released. It’s a continuation of Croce’s career path and shows that he was still growing as an artist. But he had also indicated to his wife (in a letter she received after he had been killed) that he wanted to leave music behind and live a low-key life out of the spotlight. We’ll never know…
The highlights here are the title track, the excellent folk rock of “Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues”, and the lovely “I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song”. Also of note is “Salon And Saloon”, the last song he recorded, which was written by his musical partner, Maury Muehleisen, who was also killed in the crash. These tracks are wonderful and show the full promise of Croce. But it’s also easy to forget that Croce was one of the original second wave of folkies, with more interest in singing about personal reflection than about the world and what goes on in it. Croce shows his penchant for what became the genre of adult contemporary here as well, so the album loses points for that. But Croce, who was 30 when he died, was also capable of making great music. Did he have, somewhere in his future, an album of consistently great material? We’ll never know… [First added to this chart: 06/28/2018]
Produced By TERRY CASHMAN & TOMMY WEST
1. I Got A Name
2. Lover’s Cross
3. Five Short Minutes
4. Age
5. Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues
6. I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song
7. Salon And Saloon
8. Thursday
9. Top Hat Bar And Grille
10. Recently
11. The Hard Way Every Time
The story behind some albums makes them difficult to write about. Jim Croce had released a pair of albums in the 1960’s that had little or no impact on the music industry. His third album, 1972’s You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, was his big breakthrough, with three sizeable hits. He followed that up the next year with Life And Times, and he was well on his way to a substantial career. But barely a year after You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, he was killed in a plane crash in Louisiana. Less than two months later, his already finished fifth album, I Got A Name, was released. It’s a continuation of Croce’s career path and shows that he was still growing as an artist. But he had also indicated to his wife (in a letter she received after he had been killed) that he wanted to leave music behind and live a low-key life out of the spotlight. We’ll never know…
The highlights here are the title track, the excellent folk rock of “Workin’ At The Car Wash Blues”, and the lovely “I’ll Have To Say I Love You In A Song”. Also of note is “Salon And Saloon”, the last song he recorded, which was written by his musical partner, Maury Muehleisen, who was also killed in the crash. These tracks are wonderful and show the full promise of Croce. But it’s also easy to forget that Croce was one of the original second wave of folkies, with more interest in singing about personal reflection than about the world and what goes on in it. Croce shows his penchant for what became the genre of adult contemporary here as well, so the album loses points for that. But Croce, who was 30 when he died, was also capable of making great music. Did he have, somewhere in his future, an album of consistently great material? We’ll never know… [First added to this chart: 06/28/2018]
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Top 39 Music Albums of 1973 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Elton John | 2 | 5% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 2 | 5% | |
| Little Feat | 1 | 3% | |
| Steely Dan | 1 | 3% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 1 | 3% | |
| Steeleye Span | 1 | 3% | |
| T. Rex | 1 | 3% | |
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