Top 100 Music Albums of 1973
by Johnnyo 
The rules; I have to own it & it cannot be a greatest hits or compliation
- Chart updated: 10/24/2025 10:15
- (Created: 05/16/2012 15:11).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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The best album of a brilliant year. 2nd best Floyd album after Wish You Were Here
[First added to this chart: 06/04/2012]
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1973
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58,619
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[First added to this chart: 06/04/2012]
Year of Release:
1973
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1,442
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One of the funkyest albums you will ever hear.
[First added to this chart: 06/04/2012]
This is my third favourite Sabb album coming in a very closely behind the self-titled album with Paranoid as my no. 1
Substance abuse issues that the band had had on previous albums and that apparently continued here.
In just three years the band had produced four fantastic, ground-breaking albums and undertaken extensive tours and then came into the studio to produce their fifth album in just over three years.
By all accounts, the initial attempts to write songs for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath were unsuccessful. Tony Iommi said "Ideas weren't coming out the way they were on Vol. 4 and we really got discontent. Everybody was sitting there waiting for me to come up with something. I just couldn't think of anything. And if I didn't come up with anything, nobody would do anything” Not too surprising when you consider the workload of the previous few years.
For me, sometimes you’re in the right frame of mind for you to have an instant connection to an album, sometimes it takes a little longer. With this album, my connection was instantaneous. I thought that it was the most mature album up to that point and possibly of their whole career.
One final anecdote about the album. Rick Wakeman was brought in as a session player, appearing on "Sabbra Cadabra". He refused payment from the band and was ultimately compensated with beer for his contribution. So Rock N Roll.
One last word from Ozzy. He said that Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was "the beginning of the end" for Black Sabbath's original line-up. Speaking to Mojo he said "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was really the album after which I should have said goodbye because after that I really started unravelling. Then we ended up falling out of favour with each other."
I think that makes total sense as I would argue that this is the last great Sabbath album (although there were others which were good). [First added to this chart: 07/03/2012]
Substance abuse issues that the band had had on previous albums and that apparently continued here.
In just three years the band had produced four fantastic, ground-breaking albums and undertaken extensive tours and then came into the studio to produce their fifth album in just over three years.
By all accounts, the initial attempts to write songs for Sabbath Bloody Sabbath were unsuccessful. Tony Iommi said "Ideas weren't coming out the way they were on Vol. 4 and we really got discontent. Everybody was sitting there waiting for me to come up with something. I just couldn't think of anything. And if I didn't come up with anything, nobody would do anything” Not too surprising when you consider the workload of the previous few years.
For me, sometimes you’re in the right frame of mind for you to have an instant connection to an album, sometimes it takes a little longer. With this album, my connection was instantaneous. I thought that it was the most mature album up to that point and possibly of their whole career.
One final anecdote about the album. Rick Wakeman was brought in as a session player, appearing on "Sabbra Cadabra". He refused payment from the band and was ultimately compensated with beer for his contribution. So Rock N Roll.
One last word from Ozzy. He said that Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was "the beginning of the end" for Black Sabbath's original line-up. Speaking to Mojo he said "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath was really the album after which I should have said goodbye because after that I really started unravelling. Then we ended up falling out of favour with each other."
I think that makes total sense as I would argue that this is the last great Sabbath album (although there were others which were good). [First added to this chart: 07/03/2012]
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1973
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2,301
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[First added to this chart: 01/31/2013]
[First added to this chart: 06/04/2012]
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1973
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1,047
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[First added to this chart: 07/07/2018]
[First added to this chart: 06/17/2012]
Year of Release:
1973
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7,360
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[First added to this chart: 06/17/2015]
Start of a legend!
[First added to this chart: 06/04/2012]
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1973
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 composition
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| Elton John | 2 | 2% | |
| Rory Gallagher | 2 | 2% | |
| Fleetwood Mac | 2 | 2% | |
| Genesis | 2 | 2% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 2 | 2% | |
| John Martyn | 2 | 2% | |
| Various Artists | 2 | 2% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1973 chart changes
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| Down 1 from 85th to 86thLaid Back by Gregg Allman |
| Down 1 from 86th to 87thWho Do We Think We Are by Deep Purple |
| Down 1 from 87th to 88thWild Tales by Graham Nash |
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| Deliver The Word by WAR |
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| Can't Get No Grindin' by Muddy Waters |
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From Moondance 06/30/2021 02:58 | #271168
Another top chart. Great to see the double dose of Springsteen's first 2 albums.
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