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1973..... the best of?
yyyyeeesssss.... not my fav year by a mile, didnt like the predominant styles, prog, glam, philly/sweet soul. however i did find some gems amongst them...
all time favs 1. Todd Rundgren - I saw the light , what a happy uplifting track! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXq81-cGJr4 2. Electric Light Orchestra - Showdown, to think all that hair used to be fashionable! lol http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKyL8KcZp5U 3. Steeleye Span - Gaudette, arguably our best folk-rock outfit. a big fav act of mine in the early 70's. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHGe8hyWVTg 4. Albert Hammond - It never rains in southern california, another upbeat american soft rock track http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UA3kFSvdN0 good 5. Wizzard - see my baby jive, rock n roll revival at its best imho. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHNdQJPmTRU 6. Jackson 5 - Skywriter, not a fan of the j5, but this track really appeals to me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsAk8XR5-RQ 7. Bobby Goldsborough - Summer the first time, a very sultry sexy song about losing it to an older woman... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYHEBa6Xx48 8. Anne Marie David - Wonderful dream, the eurovision winner and one of my euro favs. she was rather cute as well! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp06VgPxdGc 9. Detroit Emeralds - Feel the need in me, ok, i hated sweetsoul and philly. but there are exceptions and this is one! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Axt_80nsfU 10. Mungo Jerry - Alright alright alright, great little pop song. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3vK4zJ80l5M 11. Kiki Dee - Amereuse, another track about losing your cherry! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckMXLNKODc 12. Slade - Cum on feel the noize, glam at its best. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6MQRCCNncGA ok 13. Roberta Flack - Killing me softly with his song 14. Roxy Music - Pyjamarama 15. Focus - Hocus pocus 16. Focus - Sylvia 17. Hot Chocolate - Brother louie 18. Mud - Hypnosis 19. T Rex - Truck on (tyke) 20. Albert Hammond - Free electric band 21. David Cassidy - I am a clown 22. Wizzard - I wish it could be christmas everyday 23. Slade - Merry christmas everybody 24. Chairman of the Board - Im on my way to a better place 25. Faces - Cindy incidentally 26. T Rex - 20th Centuary boy 27. Mud - Crazy 28. Medicine Head - One and one is one 29. Clifford T Ward - Gaye 30. Hudson Ford - Pick up the pieces 31. Manfred Manns Earth Band - Joybringer 32. Nazereth - This flight tonight 33. Elton John - Step into christmas 34. Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the jar 35. Alice Cooper - Hello hurray 36. Alice Cooper - No more mr nice guy 37. Suzi Quatro - Can the can 38. Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you 39. Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstien 40. Slade - Skweez me pleez me 41. Wizzard - Angel fingers 42. David Essex - Lamplight 43. Roxy Music - Street life 44. Roy Wood - Forever 45. Drupi - Vado via 46. Slade - My friend stan 47. Suzi quatro - 48 Crash 48. Carpenters - Yesterday once more 49. Detroit Spinners - Could it be im falling in love 50. Free - Wishing well theres my favs... what are yours? |
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what? no one else has an opinion on 73?...
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A pretty good year. I'd say Pyjamarama, Whiskey in the Jar and Amoureuse are all brilliant songs. Others are :
Money - Pink Floyd Bennie and the Jets - Elton John Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet Angie - The Rolling Stones. Plenty of others too. |
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It was a great year for albums:
Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. - Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band GP - Gram Parsons Raw Power - The Stooges In the Right Place - Dr. John Dixie Chicken - Little Feat The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Orchestra Paris 1919 - John Cale Catch a Fire - Bob Marley & the Wailers Ooh La La - Faces There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield Berlin - Lou Reed Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan Innervisions - Stevie Wonder Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye Goats Head Soup - The Rolling Stones Future Days - Can Hard Nose the Highway - Van Morrison 3 + 3 - The Isley Brothers The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen (again!) Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John Head Hunters - Herbie Hancock Quadrophenia - The Who Burnin' - Bob Marley & the Wailers (again!) Inside Out - John Martyn The Joker - Steve Miller Band Spectrum - Billy Cobham Stranded - Roxy Music (again!) Abandoned Luncheonette - Hall & Oates Band on the Run - Paul McCartney & Wings (courtesy of Wikipedia). Those are just some of the albums from 1973 that I liked at the time or discovered later. There are dozens more that came out that year and are just as good. It was an outstanding year for music! |
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I prefer it to any chart so far this year , I was 12 and that Bobby Goldsborough song was like porn to me at the time .
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Thanks VERY much once again, for taking the time to write that list of some fabulous music
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I prefer it to any chart so far this year , I was 12 and that Bobby Goldsborough song was like porn to me at the time .
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Thanks VERY much once again, for taking the time to write that list of some fabulous music
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oh there's some brilliant songs there.
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Of the songs you listed Rob the ones I like best include:
Showdown Feel the Need in Me Brother Louie Free Electric Band I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day Merry Christmas Everybody Pick Up the Pieces Can the Can Street Life Vado Via I admit that I often find 1973 a bit mediocre when it comes on Pick of the Pops. However, with the help of the Top 20 Book, I identify these as other 1973 songs I like:- Status Quo:- Paper Plane / Caroline Ball Park Incident:- Wizzard ELO:- Roll Over Beethoven Stevie Wonder:- Superstition Timmy Thomas:- Why Can't We Live Together? 10 CC:- Rubber Bullets George Harrison:- Give Me Love Medicine Head:- Rising Sun Ike & Tina Turner:- Nutbush City Limits Alvin Stardust:- My Coo-ca-Choo Mud:- Dyna-mite Cozy Powell:- Dance With the Devil Leo Sayer:- The Show Must Go On (which might be 1974 but I have always associated this and Dance With the Devil together!) |
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1973 was one of the best years for music ever. This was the year when the timeless Dark Side of the Moon was released.
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Ball Park Incident:- Wizzard Leo Sayer:- The Show Must Go On (which might be 1974 but I have always associated this and Dance With the Devil together!) ball park incident was 72 for completely the opposite, contradictory reasons! lol... i always associated that with dec 72, dispite the largest part of its chart run being in 73. its a personal thing ![]() Quote:
1973 was one of the best years for music ever. This was the year when the timeless Dark Side of the Moon was released.
personally, i hate it! pretencious crap...
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Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin - fantastic album.
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Two Roxy Music albums - For Your Pleasure & Stranded.
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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road!
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yeah leo was 74 because thats when the single spent most of its chart run in the charts.
ball park incident was 72 for completely the opposite, contradictory reasons! lol... i always associated that with dec 72, dispite the largest part of its chart run being in 73. its a personal thing ![]()
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Bowie retired Ziggy
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David Bowie - Life on mars
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Phaedra by Tangerine Dream is another classic album recorded in 1973.
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Amoreuse by Kiki Dee was a lovely track from that year.
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I may well start a 1974 thread on Sunday. Watch this space!
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The music was all beginning to unravel by '73, epitomised by the release of the very "safe" Dark Side of the Moon by the Floyd, which I bought on release and was very disappointed with. (And the original "Dark Side of the Moon" album by Medicine Head released the year before is much better!)
The experimentation of the late '60s and beginning of the '70s in music and the counter-culture was being replaced by corporate rock and singer-songwriter bland-outs, and the pop pap of "glam" in the UK. Oh, and there was no Beefheart album either(and when he released two the following year they were the worst of his career). |
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