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My top 10 - 1974 albums: 1) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 2) King Crimson - Red 3) Camel - Mirage 4) Deep Purple - Burn 5) Yes - Relayer 6) King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black 7) Bad Company - Bad Company 8) Supertramp - Crime of the Century 9) Chicago - VII 10) Tangerine Dream - Phaedra Honorable mentions: UFO - Phenomenom Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow Queen - II Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Bulevard Kraftwerk - Autobahn Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping David Bowie - Diamond Dogs Jethro Tull - War Child Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Walls and Bridges is my favorite John Lennon album Larry and I absolutely love #9 Dream,it's one of my favorite John Lennon songs and also thank you very much for the mention. Bob.
In no real order my top albums from 1974 would be: War Child - Jethro Tull Apostrophe (') - Frank Zappa Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower Desolation Boulevard - Sweet Autobahn - Kraftwerk Jim Stafford - Jim Stafford Stormbringer - Deep Purple Slow Flux - Steppenwolf Walls and Bridges - John Lennon Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Camel-Mirage, Renaissance-Turn of the cards, Strawbs-Hero and Heroine,Rory Gallagher-Irish Tour, Little Feat-Feats don't fail me now, Trace-s/t, Mountain-Twin Peaks,Gong-You and Bad Company-s/t are other great albums this year
Another great year. My favorites: 1. Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan) 2. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis) 3. Burn (Deep Purple) 4. Crime of the Century (Supertramp) 5. It's Only Rock and Roll (Stones) 6. On the Border (Eagles) 7. Get Your Wings (Aerosmith) 8. Fullfullingness' First Finale (Stevie Wonder) 9. Relayer (Yes) 10. Streetlife Serenade (Billy Joel) Honorables: Chicago VII Kansas (debut) Bad Company (debut)
I think 1974 is underappreciated for great music. It's my third favourite year from the 1970s, just edging past 1977. Here are my top 20 albums based on plays. 1 Crime of the Century - Supertramp 2 It's Too Late To Stop Now - Van Morrison 3 Country Life - Roxy Music 4 Relayer - Yes 5= Mirage - Camel 5= Sheet Music - 10cc 5= The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis 8= Ducks Deluxe - Ducks Deluxe 8= Sheer Heart Attack - Queen 10 Bad Company - Bad Company 11 Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan 12 Not Fragile - Bachman Turner Overdrive 13= David Live - David Bowie 13= Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison 15= Axe Victim - Be Bop Deluxe 15= Odds & Sods - The Who 17= Burn - Deep Purple 17= I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard & Linda Thompson 17= Nutz - Nutz 20= Heartbreaker - Free 20= Irish Tour - Rory Gallagher I'm very happy with the top of the list, but I do feel the need to play Not Fragile and Irish Tour to give them a bit of a boost. It's taken me more than 40 years to appreciate The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. I used to regard it as the weak link in a fantastic run of studio albums from 1970-1976. I still don't fully understand the concept.
Couple albums you didn’t mention that I like : Roxy & Elsewhere, Camel- Mirage, Santana- Lotus, Gentle Giant- Power and the Glory, Renaissance- Turn of the Cards, Barclay James Harvest- Live, Steely Dan- Pretzel Logic, Deep Purple- Burn
My cheat songs at the end: Walls and Bridges - John Lennon Sally Can't Dance - Lou Reed Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra Road Food - The Guess Who Not Fragile - Bachman Turner Overdrive Get Your Wings - Aerosmith Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell It's Only Rock 'n Roll - the Rolling Stones The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis Bad Company - Bad Company Rock and Roll Animal - Lou Reed Sneaking Sally Through the Ally - Robert Palmer Sheet Music - 10cc Apostrophe - Frank Zappa On the Boarder - Eagles
My 20 favourite albums of 1974 (only in english and in alphabetical order) : Beach Boys - In Concert Chicago - VII Egg - The Civil Surface Ekseption - Bingo First Class - (self-titled album) Focus - Hamburger Concerto Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory Guess Who - Road Food (Canadian) Jethro Tull - War Child King Crimson - Red Nektar - Remember The Future Premiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became The World Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards Sparks - Kimono My House Strawbs - Hero And Heroine Stylistics - Let's Put It All Together 10cc - Sheet Music Triumvirat - Illusions On A Double Dimple Wakeman, Rick - Journey To the Centre Of The Earth
1. The Lamb Lies Down… - Genesis 2. Apostrophe - Zappa 3. Roxy And Elsewhere - The Mothers 4. Starless And Bible Black - King Crimson 5. Red - King Crimson 6. On The Beach - Neil Young 7. Queen 2 8. Hotter Than Hell - Kiss (give it another chance Larry, I know it has rough lofi production but it just makes it more unique) 9. Autobahn - Kraftwerk 10. Relayer - Yes 11. Power And The Glory - Gentle Giant (I know I’m cheating) Not in any particular order, and I’m sure I forgot MANY that deserve to be here
Had to dig a bit to come up with these: 9. Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge 8. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack 7. Kraftwerk - Autobahn 6. Electric Lights Orchestra - Eldorado 5. Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard 4. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark 3. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread 2. Supertramp - Crime Of the Century 1. Joe Walsh - So What And again I am sure there are some I forgot.
Haven’t listened enough to love some of the classic albums of 1974 so my list will be 10. Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloe 9. King Crimson - Red 8. Frank Zapppa - Apostrophe 7. John Cale - Fear 6. Todd Rundgren - Todd 5. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs 4. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) 3. Sparks - Kimono My House 2. Sparks - Propaganda 1. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Well Larry - you asked for it - my favorite 1974 albums: 1 Exotic Birds and Fruit - Procol Harum 2 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis 3 Wish You Were Here - Badfinger 4 Jim Stafford (Spiders & Snakes) - Jim Stafford 5 Preservation Act 2 - The Kinks 6 Propaganda - Sparks 7 No Other - Gene Clark 8 Dingo - Gary Shearston 9 The Psychomodo - Cockney Rebel 10 Pinball - Brian Protheroe + Best female album: Everything Changes - Lesley Duncan
Yes Propaganda has become my favorite Sparks album over time, but I usually point people to Kimono for an idea of what they were all about in the early / mid '70's. Propaganda has much stranger songs and I think is more likely to frighten Sparks neophytes away. Also, great job Larry on coming around to Queen 2, and thanks for the mention of Gene Clark, a friend of mine recommended him to me years ago but I forgot to check him out, needed the reminder.
Some great ones not mentioned in the video, for me, are 461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton, Ass by Badfinger (1973 in US, but 1974 in UK and I'm a Brit, so there!), The Kids & Me by Billy Preston, Before the Flood by Bob Dylan & the Band, Caribou by Elton John, The Man with the Golden Gun soundtrack by John Barry, Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder, AWB by Average White Band, Bad Company by Bad Company, Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis by Elvis Presley and Dark Horse by George Harrison.
1974? Easy to come up with 20 classics (in alphabetical order): 1) BAD CO - S/T 2) CHICAGO - VII 3) DOOBIE BROTHERS - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits 4) EAGLES - On The Border 5) ELO - Eldorado 6) GENESIS - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 7) GENTLE GIANT - The Power and the Glory 8) HUMBLE PIE - Thunderbox 9) KRAFTWERK - Autobahn 10) MOTT THE HOOPLE - The Hoople 11) ANN PEEBLES - I Can't Stand the Rain 12) QUEEN - Sheer Heart Attack 13) ROLLING STONES - It's Only Rock and Roll 14) LINDA RONSTADT - Heart Like a Wheel 15) RUSH - S/T 16) SEALS & CROFTS - Unborn Child 17) SUPERTRAMP - Crime of the Century 18) 10CC - Sheet Music 19) STEVIE WONDER - Fulfillingness First Finale 20) YES - Relayer
Some pretty good choices there. I don't have rankings for them, but here are some 1974 albums I always liked a lot: VII by Chicago Caribou by Elton John Apostrophe (the first Zappa album I ever bought) Burn by Deep Purple Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan Kansas (self-titled debut album) Court & Spark by Joni Mitchell Feats Don't Fail Me Now by Little Feat Not Fragile by BTO 461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton
Somehow missed this video, my bad, best year there ever was perhaps 1. Magma - Kohntarkosz 2. Egg - The Civil Surface 3. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory 4. Henry Cow - Unrest 5. Genesis - The Lamb 6. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness First Finale 7. Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet 8. Peter Hammill - In Camera 9. Area - Caution Radiation Area 10. Miles Davis - Get Up With It Had to do at least a Top 10, still missing the best Yes album though which sucks
Mr. Muffin, I second your vote on Gene Clark's No Other. What a wacked masterpiece!! Gene never recovered from its critical and commercial failure. Nobody was ready for it :D Another 1974 album that I'll recommend to you is Big Star's Radio City. Going back to 1973, I also recommend The Byrds "The Byrds". People hurled hate at it because it was a David Crosby vanity project. He made it big in CSN so he figured he could hoist the Byrds back out from obscurity. I admit it doesn't make sense as a continuation of the Byrds legacy. But if one just listens to it on its own terms, it's a great album. Not to mention, it's the final Byrds contribution from Gene Clark. I'm having more trouble participating on albums by a "release year" basis because my database doesn't have that detail in it. But I'll chime in with anything that pops into my mind.
Good list. Less proggy than your 73 list 👍 I should check out Gene Clark. 1 Natty Dread - Bob Marley 2 Hotter Than Hell - Kiss 3 Kiss - Kiss 4 Zinc Alloy..... - T Rex 5 Phenomenon - UFO 6 Queen II - Queen 7 Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons 8 Walls and Bridges - John Lennon 9 Quatro - Suzi Quatro 10 Dark Horse - George Harrison
The Heart of Saturday Night by Tom Waits and Before the Flood by Bob Dylan and the Band would make my top 2 I think. Veedon Fleece by Van would be in the running as well, as would Planet Waves by Bob and the Band. Enjoying this series Larry!
An album from 1974 I have really gotten into this last year is the Bee Gees’ Mr Natural. The 1970s really were a great decade for ‘the album’. Also - Walls & Bridges by John Lennon, one of my favourites!
1971 is my favourite year of music but 1974 is still great too! I’ve not listen to many albums from that year, so I can’t really comment on what my favourite is! However, I will definitely check out Gene Clark’s No Other very soon!
Hi Studmuffin the Edgar Winter group was so good I saw the concerts for both those albums. Alex Harvey band was excellent as well. Its only rock'n'roll, Diamond Dogs, Apostrophe, Crime of the Century these are all in my collection and have been since they came out and I still love and play them. 1974 was a great year for music one I love a lot from that year was Gordon Lightfoot, Sundown to me his best and he made a lot of good music.
Uncanny alignment with my tastes, except I would bump ELO from the list and promote The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway. I would be interested in your take on 1977 - to me a huge inflection point that brought a lot of fresh ideas and great albums.
I just got done listening to Neil Young's On the Beach, then came upstairs and lo and behold, you made a video with the best albums of 1974. Of course I was thinking the best album of the year, hands down, has got to be on the list, if not in the top ten then at least the runners up. Why, Larry, why? :)
Hotter than Hell was recorded on Ampex tape (lower quality tape) which is why the production sounds muddled. When it was remastered for the CD, the original master tape was falling apart with oxide flakes, it was saved and still retains the not so great sound . There are fan edited versions out there where the album is remixed and the song sound much richer and better.
Here's my 1974 list of the albums I know: 10. John Lennon - Walls & Bridges 9. Deep Purple - Burn 8. Aerosmith - Get Your Wings 7. Dedalus - Materiale per tre esecutori e nastro magnetico 6. KISS - KISS 5. Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla 4. Sparks - Kimono My House 3. Budgie - Bandolier 2. Camel - Mirage 1. Sparks - Propaganda Larry, do you like Camel or/and Budgie at least a bit? :)
@@canadianstudmuffin I absolutely understand that, not with those bands maybe, but as a rule of the thumb. It's been the same for me for several other classic rock artists, it's not to say that they won't click eventually, but with that much good music to get to know to, one has to choose. I'm glad you liked it a bit at least :)
That’s it Larry..the gloves are off..I am getting a cat and naming it Mittens..Apostrophe would definitely be in my top ten..Eldorado👍No Other is a classic..Relayer is awesome too..great list..❤👍glen
1. DIAMOND DOGS - David Bowie (RCA) 2. RED - King Crimson (EG) 3. KISS & HOTTER THAN HELL - Kiss (Casablanca) *both fantastic! - you might say HTH is disappointing production wise (I myself like it..sounds as if it was truly sent up "from" Hell & adds to the effect...even sort of matches the surreal, hellish rear cover photography by NS) But okay, argue the production sound if you want, but you cannot argue with the excellent songs - LP is full of classics! 4. SECRET TREATIES - Blue Oyster Cult (Columbia) 5. KIMONO MY HOUSE - Sparks (Island) 🏝️ 6. RELAYER - Yes (Atlantic) 7. SHEER HEART ATTACK - Queen (EMI) 8. APOSTROPHE (') - Frank Zappa (Discreet) 9. SHEET MUSIC - 10cc (UK) 10. CRIME OF THE CENTURY - Supertramp (A&M) And here's a boatload more, very worthy of the list as well! Hard to do just 10 in any year of the 1970s! These are all great too: In For The Kill - Budgie Get Your Wings - Aerosmith Elderado - ELO Roxy & Elsewhere - Zappa and the Mothers Nightmares...and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle - J. Geils Band Phenomenon - UFO AWB - Average White Band Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd Rock and Roll Outlaws - Foghat On The Beach - Neil Young Here Come The Warm Jets - ENO Bad Co. - Bad Company They Say I'm Different - Betty Davis Country Life - Roxy Music Standing on The Verge of Getting It On - Funkadelic It's Only Rock and Roll - Rolling Stones Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley - Robert Palmer Queen II - Queen Get Up With It - Miles Davis Bridge Of Sighs - Robin Trower Fire - Ohio Players Desolation Boulevard - Sweet Axe Victim - Be Bop Deluxe War Child - Jethro Tull Kansas - Kansas Rush - Rush What Were Once Vices are Now Habits - The Doobie Brothers Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell Not Fragile - BTO School Punks - Brownsville Station No Other - Gene Clark I Want To See The Bright Lights... - Dick and Linda Thompson The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - ENO Rejuvenation - The Meters The Impossible Dream - TSAHB The Hoople - Mott The Hoople Living in The Seventies - Skyhooks Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder Autobahn - Kraftwerk
@@canadianstudmuffin You beat me to it, Larry! There's no way I'd leave McCartney out, IF he'd released an album in 1974. I fully understand that "Band On The Run," one of my favorite childhood singles, was killing it all through 1974, but the fact is (and as you obviously well know), the album proper was recorded and released in 1973. December, yes, but Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Three.
Great listing (and I got more into Queen II than into Sheer Heart Attack). Didn't guess your number one (but I mistakenly took a '75 album), maybe next time..
The first Sparks album I listened to was Propaganda. What a stupid music I thought ( I was 13). A year or two later it grew into and became my only desert island loved album. Next would be Yes Drama and Haken Mountain. 🤘😎🤘
Roxy Music Country Life Le Orme Contrappunti Yes Relayer Can Soon Over Babaluma Chris de Burgh Far Beyond These Castle Walls Matheus Musikk Fra Balders Hage Umberto Balsamo Passato Presente E Futuro Never heard of progressive country music so I had to check out Gene Clark No Other. I have often thought about what if there were progressive country. I have imagined Charley Pride and Jon Anderson joining forces and wondered how would that be. Well maybe Soon by Yes is country. Anything with steel guitar may create a country feel. Anyway, I can't remember having heard Gene Clark although the name feels slightly familiar. The song No Other feels very much 1974. It reminds me of something I like but can't put my finger on what. It has a very nice groove. It's a bit Fleetwood Mac-ish too. Beatles comes to mind too. Actually I'm surprised I've never heard that song No Other before. It's a bit dreamy too and I love things that sound dreamy. It feels heavy and light at the same time. The song From A Silver Phial resonated with me too at first listen. I love the soundscape. And it sounds very 70's, which can also be a timeless and nostalgic feeling. Music that takes you on a journey. Music with a lot of soul. I love the song Some Misunderstanding too. It sounds a bit depressing and helpless just like Operator by Jim Croce. Although I'm not paying too much attention to lyrics, the music and soundscape gives me a sense of endless tears and yearning. It resonates. I also think Propaganda may be Sparks best album. Yes Relayer have to be number one as I pause your video. And now I'll continue your video. It took a while for me too to get into that album. I felt a bit nervous when you said it was their best because I know you like to say their previous is their best but then you quickly said so. But for a while I thought maybe you had forgotten about Yes ha ha. But Yes I guessed correctly it was Yes. 3 songs is enough for an album. You know you are great when you can release an album with only 3 songs and get away with it. Well back to Gene Clark. I can't get him off my mind now. The song True One is nice too. I love country, but mostly when regular pop artists does country like Elvis Costello Good Year For The Roses and Lobo Stoney and Denny Laine Send Me The Heart and Carpenters Top Of The World and Elvis Presley Snowbird and so on. But I love Charley Pride and got all his albums, well almost. Glen Campbell also has some great ones. The song True One by Gene Clark seemed like a proper country song to me and I loved it. Well I had to just find some other random Gene Clark songs to check out too. But I didn't find anything that struck me. Maybe his 1974 album is his best. And maybe I'll just need to give it some more time. Mike Oldfield Hergest Ridge is also a nice 1974 album. I think I will put on that album now because I have almost forgotten about it. Ommadawn is much easier to remember from him. I'll get back to Gene Clark later. I'm not sure what my favorite 1974 album is. I was born in 1974. I just suddenly remembered that. But I got into music very early. The first 1974 album I ever heard might be Chris De Burgh's first album. The second was maybe Genesis Lamb Lies Down double album, but I'm very sensitive and the haunted atmosphere of that album puts me off even though I think it's still a very good album. But I must say I like the lighter feeling of their other 70's albums a lot better. It's a bit odd too because I love old mines and urban exploring and have been at a lot of haunted places and sometimes ghosts have come back home with me even though I didn't invite them. Well I guess the thing is The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway sounds evil to me and it puts me off in spite of great songs. The other Genesis albums don't have that kind of feeling at all. There's something special about Lamb Lies Down album. And it was actually recorded at a haunted place too. Well I can't explain it. I just love listening to all the other 70's albums by Genesis a lot more. Voyage of the acolyte too, for me that's a Genesis album too. But the interesting thing about the songs on Lamb Lies Down is that some actually are very old songs that were re-worked, and I love the old songs from around the very first Genesis album plus Trespass. Lilywhite Lilith was a song named The Light from around Nursery Cryme era. Anyway was from 1970 which can be heard on the Jackson Tapes. If The Lamb had been recorded at a nice place with a nice atmosphere and Peter Gabriel had not been such a dictator about the lyrics on that album then I'm sure it would have resonated with me a lot more. But it is what it is. Tony Banks was a bit upset about his song Lambia getting such strange lyrics from Peter Gabriel. Actually Queen Sheer Heart Attack might have been the first 1974 album I heard as we had that album on tape where I grew up. Well really I'm just an 80's person wanting to be a 70's person. I love the 80's and that's where I really grew up musically. But music did die a bit with the introduction of drum machines and synths faking real instruments. It's in the 70's where the soul of the music lies. I almost forgot to listen to Hergest Ridge. I'm listening to it now. I suddenly remembered another great 1974 album: Hudson-Ford Free Spirit
Listening to the song No Other by Gene Clark again I realise it reminded me of Manfred Mann's Earth Band. And listening to Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield again I realised I don't like it as much anymore. And I mispelled Lamia, and I think my favoirte on The Lamb album is The Chamber Of 32 Doors but I'm not sure. I think the first song on Peter Gabriels first solo album sounds like a sequel to his last Genesis album. I've had Soon Over Babaluma as my favorite Can album, but I'm wondering whether maybe I like their album Ege Bamyasi more as a whole album. I think Sheer Heart Attack is my favorite Queen album but I'm not really listening to them anymore but still enjoy having their albums, I think it's more nostalgia for me now. But I think all their proper studio albums up to and including The Game are great albums worth having. I think both 1974 albums by Sparks could well have been one double. It's actually difficult to say which one is the best. I believe I do like Propaganda more, but at the same time I feel like Kimono my house has some more major moments. But if I should take songs from both albums and make a single album I think I'll choose more songs from Propaganda.
Badfinger wish you were here Bob Dylan blood on the tracks Elton John caribou Gene Clark no other Ronnie lane anymore for anymore Van Morrison veeden fleece Richard and Linda Thompson I want to see the bright lights tonight Eagles on the border Neil young on the beach Little feat feats don't fail me now
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My top 10 - 1974 albums:
1) Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
2) King Crimson - Red
3) Camel - Mirage
4) Deep Purple - Burn
5) Yes - Relayer
6) King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
7) Bad Company - Bad Company
8) Supertramp - Crime of the Century
9) Chicago - VII
10) Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Honorable mentions:
UFO - Phenomenom
Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow
Queen - II
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Bulevard
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Jethro Tull - War Child
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Walls and Bridges is my favorite John Lennon album Larry and I absolutely love #9 Dream,it's one of my favorite John Lennon songs and also thank you very much for the mention. Bob.
One of my favourite Lennon songs too Bob
I love #9 Dream, such a beautiful song!👍
In no real order my top albums from 1974 would be:
War Child - Jethro Tull
Apostrophe (') - Frank Zappa
Bridge of Sighs - Robin Trower
Desolation Boulevard - Sweet
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Jim Stafford - Jim Stafford
Stormbringer - Deep Purple
Slow Flux - Steppenwolf
Walls and Bridges - John Lennon
Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Camel-Mirage, Renaissance-Turn of the cards, Strawbs-Hero and Heroine,Rory Gallagher-Irish Tour, Little Feat-Feats don't fail me now, Trace-s/t, Mountain-Twin Peaks,Gong-You and Bad Company-s/t are other great albums this year
Another great year. My favorites:
1. Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan)
2. Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (Genesis)
3. Burn (Deep Purple)
4. Crime of the Century (Supertramp)
5. It's Only Rock and Roll (Stones)
6. On the Border (Eagles)
7. Get Your Wings (Aerosmith)
8. Fullfullingness' First Finale (Stevie Wonder)
9. Relayer (Yes)
10. Streetlife Serenade (Billy Joel)
Honorables:
Chicago VII
Kansas (debut)
Bad Company (debut)
I think 1974 is underappreciated for great music. It's my third favourite year from the 1970s, just edging past 1977.
Here are my top 20 albums based on plays.
1 Crime of the Century - Supertramp
2 It's Too Late To Stop Now - Van Morrison
3 Country Life - Roxy Music
4 Relayer - Yes
5= Mirage - Camel
5= Sheet Music - 10cc
5= The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway - Genesis
8= Ducks Deluxe - Ducks Deluxe
8= Sheer Heart Attack - Queen
10 Bad Company - Bad Company
11 Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
12 Not Fragile - Bachman Turner Overdrive
13= David Live - David Bowie
13= Veedon Fleece - Van Morrison
15= Axe Victim - Be Bop Deluxe
15= Odds & Sods - The Who
17= Burn - Deep Purple
17= I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight - Richard & Linda Thompson
17= Nutz - Nutz
20= Heartbreaker - Free
20= Irish Tour - Rory Gallagher
I'm very happy with the top of the list, but I do feel the need to play Not Fragile and Irish Tour to give them a bit of a boost. It's taken me more than 40 years to appreciate The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway. I used to regard it as the weak link in a fantastic run of studio albums from 1970-1976. I still don't fully understand the concept.
Couple albums you didn’t mention that I like : Roxy & Elsewhere, Camel- Mirage, Santana- Lotus, Gentle Giant- Power and the Glory, Renaissance- Turn of the Cards, Barclay James Harvest- Live, Steely Dan- Pretzel Logic, Deep Purple- Burn
My cheat songs at the end:
Walls and Bridges - John Lennon
Sally Can't Dance - Lou Reed
Eldorado - Electric Light Orchestra
Road Food - The Guess Who
Not Fragile - Bachman Turner Overdrive
Get Your Wings - Aerosmith
Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
It's Only Rock 'n Roll - the Rolling Stones
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Bad Company - Bad Company
Rock and Roll Animal - Lou Reed
Sneaking Sally Through the Ally - Robert Palmer
Sheet Music - 10cc
Apostrophe - Frank Zappa
On the Boarder - Eagles
My 20 favourite albums of 1974 (only in english and in alphabetical order) :
Beach Boys - In Concert
Chicago - VII
Egg - The Civil Surface
Ekseption - Bingo
First Class - (self-titled album)
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
Guess Who - Road Food (Canadian)
Jethro Tull - War Child
King Crimson - Red
Nektar - Remember The Future
Premiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became The World
Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards
Sparks - Kimono My House
Strawbs - Hero And Heroine
Stylistics - Let's Put It All Together
10cc - Sheet Music
Triumvirat - Illusions On A Double Dimple
Wakeman, Rick - Journey To the Centre Of The Earth
ELO's Eldorado didn't click with me at first. Now it's my favourite for 1974.
1. The Lamb Lies Down… - Genesis
2. Apostrophe - Zappa
3. Roxy And Elsewhere - The Mothers
4. Starless And Bible Black - King Crimson
5. Red - King Crimson
6. On The Beach - Neil Young
7. Queen 2
8. Hotter Than Hell - Kiss (give it another chance Larry, I know it has rough lofi production but it just makes it more unique)
9. Autobahn - Kraftwerk
10. Relayer - Yes
11. Power And The Glory - Gentle Giant (I know I’m cheating)
Not in any particular order, and I’m sure I forgot MANY that deserve to be here
Had to dig a bit to come up with these:
9. Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
8. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
7. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
6. Electric Lights Orchestra - Eldorado
5. Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
4. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
3. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Natty Dread
2. Supertramp - Crime Of the Century
1. Joe Walsh - So What
And again I am sure there are some I forgot.
Haven’t listened enough to love some of the classic albums of 1974 so my list will be
10. Eberhard Weber - The Colours of Chloe
9. King Crimson - Red
8. Frank Zapppa - Apostrophe
7. John Cale - Fear
6. Todd Rundgren - Todd
5. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
4. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
3. Sparks - Kimono My House
2. Sparks - Propaganda
1. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Gotta be Diamond Dogs by David Bowie for my number 1. My favourite Bowie album
Well Larry - you asked for it - my favorite 1974 albums:
1 Exotic Birds and Fruit - Procol Harum
2 The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
3 Wish You Were Here - Badfinger
4 Jim Stafford (Spiders & Snakes) - Jim Stafford
5 Preservation Act 2 - The Kinks
6 Propaganda - Sparks
7 No Other - Gene Clark
8 Dingo - Gary Shearston
9 The Psychomodo - Cockney Rebel
10 Pinball - Brian Protheroe
+ Best female album: Everything Changes - Lesley Duncan
Great list, Larry. Appreciate the ELO, Yes and Supertramp mentions. You left out Phil McCracken Plays Sparks at Budokan.
Yes Propaganda has become my favorite Sparks album over time, but I usually point people to Kimono for an idea of what they were all about in the early / mid '70's. Propaganda has much stranger songs and I think is more likely to frighten Sparks neophytes away. Also, great job Larry on coming around to Queen 2, and thanks for the mention of Gene Clark, a friend of mine recommended him to me years ago but I forgot to check him out, needed the reminder.
Some great ones not mentioned in the video, for me, are 461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton, Ass by Badfinger (1973 in US, but 1974 in UK and I'm a Brit, so there!), The Kids & Me by Billy Preston, Before the Flood by Bob Dylan & the Band, Caribou by Elton John, The Man with the Golden Gun soundtrack by John Barry, Fulfillingness' First Finale by Stevie Wonder, AWB by Average White Band, Bad Company by Bad Company, Elvis Recorded Live on Stage in Memphis by Elvis Presley and Dark Horse by George Harrison.
1974? Easy to come up with 20 classics (in alphabetical order):
1) BAD CO - S/T
2) CHICAGO - VII
3) DOOBIE BROTHERS - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
4) EAGLES - On The Border
5) ELO - Eldorado
6) GENESIS - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
7) GENTLE GIANT - The Power and the Glory
8) HUMBLE PIE - Thunderbox
9) KRAFTWERK - Autobahn
10) MOTT THE HOOPLE - The Hoople
11) ANN PEEBLES - I Can't Stand the Rain
12) QUEEN - Sheer Heart Attack
13) ROLLING STONES - It's Only Rock and Roll
14) LINDA RONSTADT - Heart Like a Wheel
15) RUSH - S/T
16) SEALS & CROFTS - Unborn Child
17) SUPERTRAMP - Crime of the Century
18) 10CC - Sheet Music
19) STEVIE WONDER - Fulfillingness First Finale
20) YES - Relayer
I would like to add an honourable mention: ‘Not Fragile’ Bachman Turner Overdrive.
Some pretty good choices there. I don't have rankings for them, but here are some 1974 albums I always liked a lot:
VII by Chicago
Caribou by Elton John
Apostrophe (the first Zappa album I ever bought)
Burn by Deep Purple
Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan
Kansas (self-titled debut album)
Court & Spark by Joni Mitchell
Feats Don't Fail Me Now by Little Feat
Not Fragile by BTO
461 Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton
So many great albums: Red, Relayer, Walls And Bridgers, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway, Burn, Starless And Bible Black, Propaganda, Kimono My House...
Somehow missed this video, my bad, best year there ever was perhaps
1. Magma - Kohntarkosz
2. Egg - The Civil Surface
3. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
4. Henry Cow - Unrest
5. Genesis - The Lamb
6. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness First Finale
7. Samla Mammas Manna - Klossa Knapitatet
8. Peter Hammill - In Camera
9. Area - Caution Radiation Area
10. Miles Davis - Get Up With It
Had to do at least a Top 10, still missing the best Yes album though which sucks
Mr. Muffin,
I second your vote on Gene Clark's No Other. What a wacked masterpiece!! Gene never recovered from its critical and commercial failure. Nobody was ready for it :D Another 1974 album that I'll recommend to you is Big Star's Radio City. Going back to 1973, I also recommend The Byrds "The Byrds". People hurled hate at it because it was a David Crosby vanity project. He made it big in CSN so he figured he could hoist the Byrds back out from obscurity. I admit it doesn't make sense as a continuation of the Byrds legacy. But if one just listens to it on its own terms, it's a great album. Not to mention, it's the final Byrds contribution from Gene Clark.
I'm having more trouble participating on albums by a "release year" basis because my database doesn't have that detail in it. But I'll chime in with anything that pops into my mind.
I agree with you about Jeff Lynne. Crime Of The Century is a awesome album. Great number one choice, my favorite Yes album. Great video.
Good list. Less proggy than your 73 list 👍 I should check out Gene Clark.
1 Natty Dread - Bob Marley
2 Hotter Than Hell - Kiss
3 Kiss - Kiss
4 Zinc Alloy..... - T Rex
5 Phenomenon - UFO
6 Queen II - Queen
7 Grievous Angel - Gram Parsons
8 Walls and Bridges - John Lennon
9 Quatro - Suzi Quatro
10 Dark Horse - George Harrison
I left off Living in the 70s by Skyhooks (Australian band). I always think of it as a 1975 album. It might be #1 or 2.
The Heart of Saturday Night by Tom Waits and Before the Flood by Bob Dylan and the Band would make my top 2 I think. Veedon Fleece by Van would be in the running as well, as would Planet Waves by Bob and the Band. Enjoying this series Larry!
An album from 1974 I have really gotten into this last year is the Bee Gees’ Mr Natural.
The 1970s really were a great decade for ‘the album’.
Also - Walls & Bridges by John Lennon, one of my favourites!
Great top 10 Larry , so many great albums in 1974 but for me Queen 2 and sheer heart attack are my favorite but so many to choose 👍✌
Super! And here are my favorite rock albums from 1974: 1. Yes: Relayer, 2. Genesis: The Lamb Lies On Broadway, 3. Frank Zappa: Roxy & Elsewhere.
1971 is my favourite year of music but 1974 is still great too! I’ve not listen to many albums from that year, so I can’t really comment on what my favourite is! However, I will definitely check out Gene Clark’s No Other very soon!
Hi Studmuffin the Edgar Winter group was so good I saw the concerts for both those albums. Alex Harvey band was excellent as well. Its only rock'n'roll, Diamond Dogs, Apostrophe, Crime of the Century these are all in my collection and have been since they came out and I still love and play them. 1974 was a great year for music one I love a lot from that year was Gordon Lightfoot, Sundown to me his best and he made a lot of good music.
Uncanny alignment with my tastes, except I would bump ELO from the list and promote The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
I would be interested in your take on 1977 - to me a huge inflection point that brought a lot of fresh ideas and great albums.
I just got done listening to Neil Young's On the Beach, then came upstairs and lo and behold, you made a video with the best albums of 1974. Of course I was thinking the best album of the year, hands down, has got to be on the list, if not in the top ten then at least the runners up. Why, Larry, why? :)
I guessed Relayer. YES!!! Yay!!
One of my favorite albums from 1974 are Rush debut album and Kiss debut album
Hotter than Hell was recorded on Ampex tape (lower quality tape) which is why the production sounds muddled. When it was remastered for the CD, the original master tape was falling apart with oxide flakes, it was saved and still retains the not so great sound . There are fan edited versions out there where the album is remixed and the song sound much richer and better.
Renaissance-Turn of the cards is my favourite of 1974. Red and Relayer also top-notch
"Dominance and Submission" - favorite BÖC song
Thank you for « Crime Of The Century », such an underrated album
Here's my 1974 list of the albums I know:
10. John Lennon - Walls & Bridges
9. Deep Purple - Burn
8. Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
7. Dedalus - Materiale per tre esecutori e nastro magnetico
6. KISS - KISS
5. Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
4. Sparks - Kimono My House
3. Budgie - Bandolier
2. Camel - Mirage
1. Sparks - Propaganda
Larry, do you like Camel or/and Budgie at least a bit? :)
Haven't really heard much by either band and what I've heard was good but didn't make me want to delve deeper into their music.
@@canadianstudmuffin I absolutely understand that, not with those bands maybe, but as a rule of the thumb. It's been the same for me for several other classic rock artists, it's not to say that they won't click eventually, but with that much good music to get to know to, one has to choose. I'm glad you liked it a bit at least :)
1974 also saw
Court & Spark (Joni Mitchell), Fullfillingness First Finale (S Wonder) 461 Ocean Boulevard (Clapton),
A good year!
Love me some Stevie. A true treasure
My Favourite album of 1974 by far is Rush. I would agree with Queen and Yes.
Good series this is, but how about doing your list of Best Cover Songs of Beatles Songs. There's so many great ones out there
That’s it Larry..the gloves are off..I am getting a cat and naming it Mittens..Apostrophe would definitely be in my top ten..Eldorado👍No Other is a classic..Relayer is awesome too..great list..❤👍glen
1. DIAMOND DOGS - David Bowie (RCA)
2. RED - King Crimson (EG)
3. KISS & HOTTER THAN HELL - Kiss (Casablanca) *both fantastic! - you might say HTH is disappointing production wise (I myself like it..sounds as if it was truly sent up "from" Hell & adds to the effect...even sort of matches the surreal, hellish rear cover photography by NS) But okay, argue the production sound if you want, but you cannot argue with the excellent songs - LP is full of classics!
4. SECRET TREATIES - Blue Oyster Cult (Columbia)
5. KIMONO MY HOUSE - Sparks (Island) 🏝️
6. RELAYER - Yes (Atlantic)
7. SHEER HEART ATTACK - Queen (EMI)
8. APOSTROPHE (') - Frank Zappa (Discreet)
9. SHEET MUSIC - 10cc (UK)
10. CRIME OF THE CENTURY - Supertramp (A&M)
And here's a boatload more, very worthy of the list as well! Hard to do just 10 in any year of the 1970s!
These are all great too:
In For The Kill - Budgie
Get Your Wings - Aerosmith
Elderado - ELO
Roxy & Elsewhere - Zappa and the Mothers
Nightmares...and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle - J. Geils Band
Phenomenon - UFO
AWB - Average White Band
Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Rock and Roll Outlaws - Foghat
On The Beach - Neil Young
Here Come The Warm Jets - ENO
Bad Co. - Bad Company
They Say I'm Different - Betty Davis
Country Life - Roxy Music
Standing on The Verge of Getting It On - Funkadelic
It's Only Rock and Roll - Rolling Stones
Pretzel Logic - Steely Dan
Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley - Robert Palmer
Queen II - Queen
Get Up With It - Miles Davis
Bridge Of Sighs - Robin Trower
Fire - Ohio Players
Desolation Boulevard - Sweet
Axe Victim - Be Bop Deluxe
War Child - Jethro Tull
Kansas - Kansas
Rush - Rush
What Were Once Vices are Now Habits - The Doobie Brothers
Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell
Not Fragile - BTO
School Punks - Brownsville Station
No Other - Gene Clark
I Want To See The Bright Lights... - Dick and Linda Thompson
The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - Genesis
Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy - ENO
Rejuvenation - The Meters
The Impossible Dream - TSAHB
The Hoople - Mott The Hoople
Living in The Seventies - Skyhooks
Fulfillingness' First Finale - Stevie Wonder
Autobahn - Kraftwerk
Where's McCartney? 🤡
He didn't release an album in 1974......
@@canadianstudmuffin You beat me to it, Larry! There's no way I'd leave McCartney out, IF he'd released an album in 1974. I fully understand that "Band On The Run," one of my favorite childhood singles, was killing it all through 1974, but the fact is (and as you obviously well know), the album proper was recorded and released in 1973. December, yes, but Nineteen Hundred and Seventy Three.
I read that 1974 is the all-time best year for pop/rock music.
My personal nr 1 album from 1974 is Burn by Deep Purple
Great listing (and I got more into Queen II than into Sheer Heart Attack). Didn't guess your number one (but I mistakenly took a '75 album), maybe next time..
RIP David Crosby 81
Just realized I left one album off my list: Second Helping by Lynyrd Skynyrd.
The first Sparks album I listened to was Propaganda. What a stupid music I thought ( I was 13). A year or two later it grew into and became my only desert island loved album. Next would be Yes Drama and Haken Mountain. 🤘😎🤘
Roxy Music Country Life
Le Orme Contrappunti
Yes Relayer
Can Soon Over Babaluma
Chris de Burgh Far Beyond These Castle Walls
Matheus Musikk Fra Balders Hage
Umberto Balsamo Passato Presente E Futuro
Never heard of progressive country music so I had to check out Gene Clark No Other. I have often thought about what if there were progressive country. I have imagined Charley Pride and Jon Anderson joining forces and wondered how would that be. Well maybe Soon by Yes is country. Anything with steel guitar may create a country feel. Anyway, I can't remember having heard Gene Clark although the name feels slightly familiar. The song No Other feels very much 1974. It reminds me of something I like but can't put my finger on what. It has a very nice groove. It's a bit Fleetwood Mac-ish too. Beatles comes to mind too. Actually I'm surprised I've never heard that song No Other before. It's a bit dreamy too and I love things that sound dreamy. It feels heavy and light at the same time. The song From A Silver Phial resonated with me too at first listen. I love the soundscape. And it sounds very 70's, which can also be a timeless and nostalgic feeling. Music that takes you on a journey. Music with a lot of soul. I love the song Some Misunderstanding too. It sounds a bit depressing and helpless just like Operator by Jim Croce. Although I'm not paying too much attention to lyrics, the music and soundscape gives me a sense of endless tears and yearning. It resonates.
I also think Propaganda may be Sparks best album.
Yes Relayer have to be number one as I pause your video. And now I'll continue your video. It took a while for me too to get into that album. I felt a bit nervous when you said it was their best because I know you like to say their previous is their best but then you quickly said so. But for a while I thought maybe you had forgotten about Yes ha ha. But Yes I guessed correctly it was Yes. 3 songs is enough for an album. You know you are great when you can release an album with only 3 songs and get away with it.
Well back to Gene Clark. I can't get him off my mind now. The song True One is nice too. I love country, but mostly when regular pop artists does country like Elvis Costello Good Year For The Roses and Lobo Stoney and Denny Laine Send Me The Heart and Carpenters Top Of The World and Elvis Presley Snowbird and so on. But I love Charley Pride and got all his albums, well almost. Glen Campbell also has some great ones. The song True One by Gene Clark seemed like a proper country song to me and I loved it. Well I had to just find some other random Gene Clark songs to check out too. But I didn't find anything that struck me. Maybe his 1974 album is his best. And maybe I'll just need to give it some more time.
Mike Oldfield Hergest Ridge is also a nice 1974 album. I think I will put on that album now because I have almost forgotten about it. Ommadawn is much easier to remember from him. I'll get back to Gene Clark later.
I'm not sure what my favorite 1974 album is. I was born in 1974. I just suddenly remembered that. But I got into music very early. The first 1974 album I ever heard might be Chris De Burgh's first album. The second was maybe Genesis Lamb Lies Down double album, but I'm very sensitive and the haunted atmosphere of that album puts me off even though I think it's still a very good album. But I must say I like the lighter feeling of their other 70's albums a lot better. It's a bit odd too because I love old mines and urban exploring and have been at a lot of haunted places and sometimes ghosts have come back home with me even though I didn't invite them. Well I guess the thing is The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway sounds evil to me and it puts me off in spite of great songs. The other Genesis albums don't have that kind of feeling at all. There's something special about Lamb Lies Down album. And it was actually recorded at a haunted place too. Well I can't explain it. I just love listening to all the other 70's albums by Genesis a lot more. Voyage of the acolyte too, for me that's a Genesis album too. But the interesting thing about the songs on Lamb Lies Down is that some actually are very old songs that were re-worked, and I love the old songs from around the very first Genesis album plus Trespass. Lilywhite Lilith was a song named The Light from around Nursery Cryme era. Anyway was from 1970 which can be heard on the Jackson Tapes. If The Lamb had been recorded at a nice place with a nice atmosphere and Peter Gabriel had not been such a dictator about the lyrics on that album then I'm sure it would have resonated with me a lot more. But it is what it is. Tony Banks was a bit upset about his song Lambia getting such strange lyrics from Peter Gabriel.
Actually Queen Sheer Heart Attack might have been the first 1974 album I heard as we had that album on tape where I grew up. Well really I'm just an 80's person wanting to be a 70's person. I love the 80's and that's where I really grew up musically. But music did die a bit with the introduction of drum machines and synths faking real instruments. It's in the 70's where the soul of the music lies.
I almost forgot to listen to Hergest Ridge. I'm listening to it now.
I suddenly remembered another great 1974 album: Hudson-Ford Free Spirit
Listening to the song No Other by Gene Clark again I realise it reminded me of Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
And listening to Hergest Ridge by Mike Oldfield again I realised I don't like it as much anymore.
And I mispelled Lamia, and I think my favoirte on The Lamb album is The Chamber Of 32 Doors but I'm not sure. I think the first song on Peter Gabriels first solo album sounds like a sequel to his last Genesis album.
I've had Soon Over Babaluma as my favorite Can album, but I'm wondering whether maybe I like their album Ege Bamyasi more as a whole album.
I think Sheer Heart Attack is my favorite Queen album but I'm not really listening to them anymore but still enjoy having their albums, I think it's more nostalgia for me now. But I think all their proper studio albums up to and including The Game are great albums worth having.
I think both 1974 albums by Sparks could well have been one double. It's actually difficult to say which one is the best. I believe I do like Propaganda more, but at the same time I feel like Kimono my house has some more major moments. But if I should take songs from both albums and make a single album I think I'll choose more songs from Propaganda.
Wow, I had a listen to that Gene Clark album and on first listen it sounds really great.
It's so good!
Wish Rush had some love for their debut album!
I bought the album when it was released and it's great, just not in my top 10.
Rush Aerosmith Judas Priest Kiss lotta great debut albums in 74
Rory Gallagher irish tour 74
There’s no “Prince of Heaven’s eyes” by Fruupp! Have we lost the plot mr muffin man 🧐
Badfinger wish you were here
Bob Dylan blood on the tracks
Elton John caribou
Gene Clark no other
Ronnie lane anymore for anymore
Van Morrison veeden fleece
Richard and Linda Thompson I want to see the bright lights tonight
Eagles on the border
Neil young on the beach
Little feat feats don't fail me now
Very American..
What about rock bottom?
Not even a mention of Jackson Brownes, 'Late for the Sky'? Not much of a list.
Perhaps I like different music than you do? Make your own list perhaps.
Natty Dread - Bob Marley ... Harmonium - Harmonium ... Beau Dommage - Beau Dommage
Eldorado crime of the century's Blue oyster cult secret treaties and for sentimental reasons Alice Cooper's muscle love
‘Muscle of Love’ was 73, followed by their ‘Greatest Hits’ in 74.
Thank you my mistake
No elton john
No.
Come on, Caribou? I've seen the saucers. They didn't like that album either. His Greatest Hits album in '74 was excellent though.