Top 39 Music Albums of 1973 by 
Romanelli 
- Chart updated: 05/27/2025 19:45
- (Created: 04/11/2012 18:21).
- Chart size: 39 albums.
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Produced By CHRIS THOMAS
1. Child’s Christmas In Wales
2. Hanky Panky Nohow
3. The Endless Plain Of Fortune
4. Andalucia
5. Macbeth
6. Paris 1919
7. Graham Greene
8. Half Past France
9. Antarctica Starts Here
While a member of The Velvet Underground, John Cale was the out there, avant garde element of the group. Kicked out by Lou Reed in 1968 for wanting to take their music completely over the deep end, Cale embarked on a long and winding solo career that has had its rewards and its major missteps. But his third album, Paris 1919, marked the beginning of his most fruitful and excellent period. Procol Harum producer Chris Thomas brings the strings (The UCLA Symphony), and Little Feat’s Lowell George brings some nice melodic guitar to Cale’s most accessible and beautiful album. Named after the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that many believe was where the seeds of Germany’s Third Reich were planted, this album of surprisingly lovely tracks carries a theme of life in early 20th century Europe. Cale does turn it up a notch for “Macbeth”, but the rest is more peaceful and pop than Cale has ever been, before or since.
The most tuneful songs are the best here. “Hanky Panky Nohow”, “Andalucia”, and especially the title track could have been hits for Cale, and they stand up very well so many years later. The period for Cale between this album in 1973 through his next three albums, Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, are his strongest, but it’s on Paris 1919 where you get to hear him at his best as a writer. The man known as rock’s strange viola player got it mostly right here, and while many of his other works can be somewhet alienating, this album stays strong and coherent. John Cale may have been a secondary player in the Velvet’s to Reed, but after he was gone, his absence was not a minor thing. This is as good as you’ll hear John Cale, and it’s a great place to start (outside of the Velvet’s early albums, of course) with one of rock’s greatest eccentrics and creative forces. [First added to this chart: 04/13/2012]
Produced By CHRIS THOMAS
1. Child’s Christmas In Wales
2. Hanky Panky Nohow
3. The Endless Plain Of Fortune
4. Andalucia
5. Macbeth
6. Paris 1919
7. Graham Greene
8. Half Past France
9. Antarctica Starts Here
While a member of The Velvet Underground, John Cale was the out there, avant garde element of the group. Kicked out by Lou Reed in 1968 for wanting to take their music completely over the deep end, Cale embarked on a long and winding solo career that has had its rewards and its major missteps. But his third album, Paris 1919, marked the beginning of his most fruitful and excellent period. Procol Harum producer Chris Thomas brings the strings (The UCLA Symphony), and Little Feat’s Lowell George brings some nice melodic guitar to Cale’s most accessible and beautiful album. Named after the 1919 Paris Peace Conference that many believe was where the seeds of Germany’s Third Reich were planted, this album of surprisingly lovely tracks carries a theme of life in early 20th century Europe. Cale does turn it up a notch for “Macbeth”, but the rest is more peaceful and pop than Cale has ever been, before or since.
The most tuneful songs are the best here. “Hanky Panky Nohow”, “Andalucia”, and especially the title track could have been hits for Cale, and they stand up very well so many years later. The period for Cale between this album in 1973 through his next three albums, Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, are his strongest, but it’s on Paris 1919 where you get to hear him at his best as a writer. The man known as rock’s strange viola player got it mostly right here, and while many of his other works can be somewhet alienating, this album stays strong and coherent. John Cale may have been a secondary player in the Velvet’s to Reed, but after he was gone, his absence was not a minor thing. This is as good as you’ll hear John Cale, and it’s a great place to start (outside of the Velvet’s early albums, of course) with one of rock’s greatest eccentrics and creative forces. [First added to this chart: 04/13/2012]
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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% | |
| Al Green | 1 | 3% | |
| Stevie Wonder | 1 | 3% | |
| David Bowie | 1 | 3% | |
| The Allman Brothers Band | 1 | 3% | |
| John Cale | 1 | 3% | |
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