Best Albums of 1973
Listed below are the best albums of 1973 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 3 hours ago).
"Billy Joe Shaver wrote some damn fine songs, and Waylon delivers the goods singing them. Maybe not quite as important an album as people sometimes say it is, and Waylon probably gets too much credit for the outlaw movement in general, but still a great album." Reply
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1973
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"The peak of the Faces' career. "Cindy", "My Fault", "Late Side", "Glad and Sorry", and "Ooh La La" are all excellent songs and come basically one after another. Rod's vocals are fine as ever (on the ones where he bothered to show up), and the talented band show off their skills, albeit in a more ..." [+] Reply
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Sandinistar | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"~retired album note recorded for archival purposes because I hate my future kids already~ "I'd like to say this album was the beginning of something but I'm not entirely sure what. Arguably it was the first excursion of "Frippertronics" but I'm not sure even Robert Fripp knows exactly what that i..." [+] Reply
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"Pin ups, is David Bowie's covers album. Similar to Bryan Ferry's, these foolish things, but where as that was pop as well as rock, pin ups, is set in the late sixties rock scene. Featuring versions of The Who, The Kinks, Pink Floyd, and, The pretty things, it's all enjoyable, with the cover of Th..." [+] Reply
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1973
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"This is a fantastic record, and I don't really understand how it's the lowest-ranked of ELO's original-run studio albums. It puts on display an ELO at their most uncompromising; the orchestral elements are used less as enhancements for pop songs and more to imbue an explicit classical music influ..." [+] Reply
"I cannot understand how this album is only ranked 7th among all Funkadelic albums by users of this website. "Cosmic Slop," the title track might be the best funk track ever written. There is certainly not another in the P-Funk library to compare to it. The story told by the writer is dramatic, vi..." [+] Reply
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"such a great album. My roommate at music school was a jazz trumpeter, he played this all the time and I grew to like it. One of the first fusion albums. with stanley clarke, Flora purim." Reply
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ffudnebbuh | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 11 of 100
Best Albums of 1973 composition
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| Karl Böhm / Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Chorus | 5 | 1% | |
| Various Artists | 5 | 1% | |
| Elvis Presley | 4 | 0% | |
| Status Quo | 4 | 0% | |
| Roy Ayers | 3 | 0% | |
| Gladys Knight & The Pips | 3 | 0% | |
| Pharoah Sanders | 3 | 0% | |
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392 | 39% | |
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214 | 21% | |
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54 | 5% | |
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47 | 5% | |
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37 | 4% | |
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37 | 4% | |
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18 | 2% | |
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