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: 6 hours ago).
"Superb album .. i ain't the one great song to start the album , tuesday gone still one of my favourites,and what can you say about free bird......pity these guys didn't get the recognition they deserved until it was too late." Reply
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1973
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3,741
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"I purchased Tubular Bells in 1983, ten years after the release of the album but I didn't even have a turntable on which to listen to it. I can't remember exactly why I bought it other than seeing the cover at a record shop and thinking it looked really cool. Perhaps the attendant at the store men..." [+] Reply
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1973
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3,412
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"Glam-art-rockers were up and coming, full of talent, and sure of it. FYP feels a little too self-consciously charismatic to provide the effortlessly classy pop they became known for, but is interesting enough to fool around with from time to time." Reply
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swhaze | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (7 helpful | 1 unhelpful)
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1973
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3,379
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"jazzy funk or funky jazz neither fazzy junk nor junky fazz" Reply
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jwammo12 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +8 votes (8 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1973
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3,264
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"A most unusual debut album for Waits- hardly indicative of his material to come, though perhaps topically relevant. Pretty much in every subsequent album, Waits sounds as if he's getting drunk at a bar. Here, he's already been there and done that- the album's title "closing time" couldn't be more..." [+] Reply
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poppmusic | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1973
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3,081
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"Clearly a rock opera of what I interpret as a dysfunctional woman who ends up with a family she doesn't want, and the children are taken off her, which leads to her inevitable suicide. Incredibly moving album - the last good Lou Reed album, it took him three albums to reach the peak of his solo c..." [+] Reply
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SuedeSwede | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1973
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"People need to stop associating Springsteen with Born In the U.S.A. and Glory Days and give New York City Serenade a deep listen. It's a song that develops and builds so powerfully before having one of the best payoffs in music history. I listen to this album when I wish Born to Run was more musi..." [+] Reply
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1973
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2,827
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"Another quick review.... Yes, this is perhaps the sexiest and most romantic record ever made. As a single guy who isn't a ladies man by any stretch of the imagination, it can be kinda strange to think how much I empathize with this record. The first half in particular is flawless as far as I'm co..." [+] Reply
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Mercury | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +10 votes (10 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1973
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"Luis Alberto Spinetta was a big fan of John Lennon, and the latter's Plastic Ono Band is a point of reference to begin to understand the masterpiece known as Artaud. Both albums were recorded at times of turmoil in both artists' lives and in their respective countries, and this is reflected on th..." [+] Reply
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1973
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""A poor man's Dark Side Of The Moon." Oh God no. This album is everything DSOTM only wishes to be (and it's a pretty bad comparison anyway)." Reply
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1973
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 2 of 100
Best Albums of 1973 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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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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| Country | Albums | % | |
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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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