BILLY COBHAM - CROSSWINDS- Stellar line up of players with the Brecker Brothers and George Duke excelling. Michael’s solos on Pleasant Pheasant and Heather are so memorable. Duke is a master accompanist across Spanish Moss and of course Cobham is magisterial on drums. Big shout also to Lee Pastora on Latin percussion especially on Pleasant Pheasant. Cobham revisited Heather on his recent Drum and Voice Vol 5.
Day 13: The self-titled debut by Rush. Quite different from the majority of their catalog, much more hard rock than prog. But they were also really good at that. Lots of great songs, like "Finding My Way", "Need Some Love", the slower "Here Again", "What You're Doing", "Before and After", which changes from a slower song to a bluesy hard rocker, and the fan-favorite "Working Man". The lyrics of "In the Mood" are pretty ridiculous, almost like a collection of cliché rock lyrics, but the song itself is still fun. Alex Lifeson and John Rutsey are on fire all over this album, as is Geddy Lee. I particularly love his vocal style.
19. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack Favorite Tracks: Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy, Brighton Rock 20. Rush - Rush 21. Herbie Hancock - Thrust 22. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway 23. Big Star - Radio City 24. Renaissance - The Turning of the Cards 25. Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
What a great album. Queen is my alltime favorite band - their run of the first 8 albums is so impressive. Both of their 74 records will rank very high on my list 😉 My favorite on Sheer Heart Attack is the Tenement Funster/Flick of the Wrist/Lily of the Valley-Suite (for me this was and is one track 😆)
1. Rush - Rush 2. Kansas - Kansas 3. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadwav 4. Gong - You 5. Deep Purple - Burn 6. Chicago - Chicago VII 7. Yes - Relaver 8. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse 9. Jefferson Starship - Dragon Fly 10. Bad Company - Bad Company 11. King Crimson - Red 12. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic 13. Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory One of the best produced albums in this legendary prog band’s catalog. Almost a perfect album. Playing The Game is by far my favorite song on the album.
Pick #19: Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs #31: Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic #30: Atlanta Rhythm Section's Third Annual Pipe Dream #29: Rolling Stones' It's Only Rock and Roll #28: Thin Lizzy's Nightlife #27: David Bowie's Diamond Dogs #26: Hawkwind's Hall of the Mountain Grill #25: Chicago VII #24: Todd Rundgren's Utopia #23: Renaissance's Turn of the Cards #22: Scorpions' Fly to the Rainbow #21: Sweet's Sweet Fanny Adams/Desolation Boulevard #20: Gentle Giant's Power and the Glory #19: Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs
Pick # 13 Crime of the Century by Supertramp. There are good albums, great albums. Some though are just a little bit more special and this amazing album is just that! Concept albums are a thing of the past, this record with its underlying theme of madness and loneliness you'd think it would be a depressing listen, but not so! School is absolutely the best song to kick this album off, Dreamer, a single release, also a great start to side 2. A fantastic album helped by brilliant production propels it into another league altogether and is one of the highlights of 1974 and endorsed by the many complimentary posts from subscribers to this channel
Todays pick: Roxy Music - "Country Life". My Favorite Roxy album, and IMO their best. So many killer songs on this one. "The Thrill Of It All", "Out Of The Blue", and "Prairie Rose" are RM classics, while "All I Want Is You", "Casanova", and "A Really Good Time" are excellent as well. And can`t beat that album cover.
Great album choice! Country Life l think is their best too, strong throughout and maybe a tad more accessible than three earlier albums, and without question stronger than their last three albums.
I was just listening to Apostrophe (') the other day. Definitely one of Zappa's greatest! My Day 13 Pick: Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping Yup, the sophomore album from Jacksonville's finest. Not quite as long as the debut, a little more compact and to the point. I'll admit that I rarely listen to opener "Sweet Home Alabama" nowadays, as it's one of the most overplayed songs of all time. However, I still love "Don't Ask Me No Questions," "Workin' for MCA," "Call Me the Breeze," and especially "The Ballad of Curtis Lowe."
My day 13 favorite 50 year old album is Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill. 1. Supertramp - Crime of the Century 2. PFM - L’isola di ninete 3. Yes - Relayer 4. King Crimson - Red 5. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory 6. Peter Hammill - In Camera 7. Arti & Mestieri - Tilt 8. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain 9. Biglietto - Biglietto per L’Inferno 10. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom 11. Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three 12. Area - Caution Radiation Area 13. Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Apostrophe was a great follow-up to Overnight Sensation. Both those albums I had when they came out. I was 17-18 years old. I still find myself playing the lyrics in my head 50 years later. They were such catchy tunes.
My favorite 1974 album for day 13 is "Thrust" by Herbie Hancock. Day 1-Burn-Deep Purple Day 2-Standing on the Verge of Getting It On-Funkadelic Day 3-Energized-Foghat Day 4-Sally Can't Dance-Lou Reed Day 5-Wally-Wally Day 6-Mirage-Camel Day 7-Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends-Emerson, Lake & Palmer Day 8-Journey to the Centre of the Earth-Rick Wakeman Day 9-Heart Like a Wheel-Linda Ronstadt Day 10-Refugee-Refugee Day 11-Saints & Sinners-Johnny Winter Day 12-Queen of the Night-Maggie Bell Day 13-Thrust-Herbie Hancock
Terrific choice. You got me thinking given that Palm Grease was used in a Death Wish film I might go left field and choose the theme to Dirty Harry . Cheers.
@@shaunogle530 Thanks Shaun, You know it's funny when I was listening to this album last night it was giving me the vibe of a seventies movie soundtrack kinda like "Shaft". I really love that funky jazzy sound.
Great choice there, l might be in the minority here but 1975's The Last Record Album (my first LF record album) is my favourite of theirs, Romance Dance, Somebody's Leaving and Mercenary Territory three fantastic tracks on that one.
# 19 The Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock’n’ Roll Apart from “Angie” (go figure!) my introduction to the Stones way back then. Although everybody knows and cites the title track the whole album is somewhat forgotten. That’s a shame if you think about tracks like “Time Waits For No One” (which Pete loves so much because of Mick Taylor’s incredible Santana-like solo) or “Fingerprint File”, my personal favorite, which is funky and spooky as hell. # 20 Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before? # 21 Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim # 22 Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller # 23 Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight # 24 Yes - Relayer # 25 Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark # 26 Deep Purple - Burn # 27 Kraftwerk - Autobahn # 28 Todd Rundgren’s Utopia - same # 29 Tangerine Dream - Phaedra # 30 Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage # 31 Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
My #19 of 1974 is Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell (Jan. 17). Full List: 31) Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat (Aug. 9) 30) Meet The Residents - The Residents (April 1) 29) Hall Of The Mountain Grill - Hawkwind (Sept. 6) 28) Five-A-Side - Ace (couldn't find a release date, other than '1974') 27) Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley - Robert Palmer (Sept.) 26) Hotter Than Hell - Kiss (Oct. 22) 25) Old New Borrowed & Blue - Slade (Feb. 15) 24) I Can Stand A Little Rain - Joe Cocker (Aug. 7) 23) Inspiration Information - Shuggie Otis (Oct.) 22) Sheer Heart Attack - Queen (Nov. 8) 21) Chicago VII - Chicago (March 11) 20) Planet Waves - Bob Dylan (Jan. 17) 19) Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell (Jan. 17)
My choice today, the first of two from this UK band and I simply could not leave either from my list, Queen ll. Provided the band with their initial breakthrough into the UK mainstream via hit single 7 Seas of Rhye. It was heavy and even slightly prog tinged. Queen managing to get a song of that type into the UK charts and onto UK radio was quite something at that time. In fact Queen didn't really sound like any other heavy band. The centrepiece of the album is to my ears the epic March of The Black Queen, which set the template for the band's epics to come. It's both proggy and heavy in places and a genuine dark air pervades throughout. Elsewhere there's White Queen with its quiet/loud passages. There's the heavy Father to Son featuring some wild guitar pyrotechnics from Brian May, the pounding uncompromising Ogre Battle, another of Queen's proto speed metal songs and the likes of The Roger Taylor penned and sung Loser In The End with its layered harmonies and mixture of acoustic and electric powerchord guitars. There's also plenty of Queen's characteristic whimsicality with the likes of Funny How Love Is. All these with incredible production and amazing vocal arrangements, this really is one of the great headphones albums. More Queen to come from my list.
Another excellent write-up and album choice Jerry. I had to decide between this album and Sheer Heart Attack, and I went with the latter, because I already had Queen II on an earlier list of '70s favorites.
@@christophercoles4401 Thanks Chris. I love both Queen's 74 releases and they each have such special personal meaning on my classic rock journey, I simply had to include them both.
Ranking my Top 31 of 74: 19. Bad Company - Bad Company 20. Rush - Rush 21. Hatfield And The North - Hatfield And The North 22. Yes - Relayer 23. Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage 24. Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three 25. Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards 26. Kansas - Kansas 27. Bachman Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile 28. King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black 29. Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else 30. The Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits 31. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs HM: 32. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark 33. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 34. Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard 35. Roxy Music - Country Life 36. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Deep Purple - Burn -February 1974 Deep Purple - Stormbringer - November - 1974 A double pick for today and tomorrow, the mklll line up featuring Coverdale/Hughes two of the greatest singers in rock history and two of their greatest songs for me "Burn and "Stormbringer"
My Day 13 pick is CHICAGO VII by Chicago: This is and odd but great album. Originally conceived as an instrumental jazz album, the idea fell apart in the studio. Having said that, the bulk of disk one IS instrumental jazz. Very tasty as well. Then, the second disk is their rock/pop album, which spawned three major radio hits, which in turn helped see the album to fans with (I've Been) Searchin' So Long; Wishing You Were Here and Call On Me. Terry Kath only turned in two songs as a writer, and only sang on two songs, one of them a Peter Cetera's Wishing You Were Here. But Lamm, Cetera, and Pankow are all at the top of their game here. Great album, however weird. Peace.
No. 13. Cat Stevens - Buddha and the Chocolate Box. 😃👍. This is the fifth studio album. It was released in March 1974. This album has the Top 10 hit "Oh Very Young." It contains a favorite Cat Stevens track, "King of Trees." I find this album so darn charming in both the album design elements and all of the tracks. 🔥. Rock Always! - Heather
My choice early in the month. It was the first Cat Stevens album l bought, not his best l don't think, Teaser and the Firecat is my favourite, l do love Oh Very Young though and for me Sun/C79 is another great track, probably my favourite on the album.
My pick for today Kiss Hotter than Hell Such raw production but that's what makes this album cool. Parasite is one of ace frehley most awesome riffs. Great album
Today my pick #19 is Queen II a great album with the single seven seas of Rhye, my favorite on the album is Ogre Battle 19- Queen II 20- Marshall Tucker Band A New Life 21- Chicago VII 22- The Guess Who Road Flood 23- UFO Phenomenon 24- Elton John Caribou 25- Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard 26- Atlanta Rhythm Section Third Annual Pipe Dream 27- Deep Purple Stormbringer 28- Billy Joel Streetlife Serenade 29- Joe Walsh So What 30- Gordon Lightfoot Sundown 31- John Denver Back Home Again
Outstanding choice Pete. Apostrophe is another album that I just knew would be on your list. One of Frank's best. 13) Camel - Mirage Mirage is a wonderful album from Camel, a band who was coming of age on their second release. Camel excels here with a variety of tight compositions, and you can see potential on this album that their debut only hinted at. From the start, "Freefall" displays a more challenging direction. Peter Bardens' keyboards and Andrew Latimer's guitars play off of one another so well and Bardens delivers a fine lead vocal. "Supertwister" introduces us to Latimer's flute playing, and Dave Ferguson has a nice thick bass part to go along with the beautiful interlude-style number. "Nimrodel" was Camel's first try at true extended storytelling, with frequent time changes and musical soundscapes, ending with a guitar solo that sounds like Latimer is playing it on a mountaintop. The first ever Latimer/Bardens collaboration (which would become the cornerstone of the band) is "Earthrise", an instrumental featuring Andy Ward doing some excellent speed drumming parts, but the keyboard/guitar exchanges continue to be the highlight. However, the record's major showpiece is the 13-minute "Lady Fantasy" suite. There are two lyrical sections, but the music provides the atmosphere, and Latimer plays some excellent guitar parts, especially about nine minutes in. The track is the band's first true classic. Mirage is a singularly magnificent album, and was criminally overlooked at the time of its release. Even if they weren't quite as highly regarded or famous as Yes, Genesis or ELP, with Mirage, Camel delivered one of the finest Progressive Rock albums ever made. 1) Slade - Slade In FLAME 2) Thin Lizzy - Night Life 3) Charlie Daniels Band - Fire On The Mountain 4) Al Green - Explores Your Mind 5) Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic 6) Mott The Hoople - The Hoople 7) Queen - Sheer Heart Attack 8) Strawbs - Hero & Heroine 9) Supertramp - Crime Of The Century 10) Sweet - Sweet Fannie Adams/Desolation Boulevard 11) The Spinners - Mighty Love 12) The Raspberries - Starting Over 13) Camel - Mirage
Excellent choice Chris! That's one album I couldn't leave off my list either. I think Camel is an extremely underrated band. Their first four albums are fantastic!
Chicago - vII - the sixth studio album by American rock band Chicago. It was released on March 11, 1974 by Columbia Records. It is notable for being their first double album of new material since 1971's Chicago III and remains their final studio release in that format. It features session percussionist Laudir de Oliveira, who would become a full-fledged band member for the release of Chicago VIII the following year. While touring in support of Chicago VI in 1973, the band began getting restless and started integrating some lengthy jazz instrumentals into their sets. While audiences' reactions varied, Chicago greatly enjoyed the experience, decided (after years of talking about it) to record a pure jazz-influenced set of tracks, and headed straight to producer James William Guercio's Caribou Ranch studios to cut their ambitious new album. While the sessions began well, there was soon dissension within the group about the jazz project, with, reportedly, Peter Cetera and Guercio both wary of the commercial risk of such an undertaking. While the band reasoned that some of the jazzy material was too good to throw away, the others finally relented and accepted including the more pop and rock-oriented songs that the band had composed in the meantime. Almost by accident, Chicago had another double album on their hands. Of the more conventional material, Chicago once again turned in a varied set of songs, with Terry Kath's "Byblos", named after a club that Chicago had played in Osaka, Japan, ranking among his best efforts. Robert Lamm, who was recording a solo album entitled Skinny Boy at the time, turned in several new songs, even donating his solo album's title track, featuring The Pointer Sisters on backing vocals. James Pankow came through with another success, "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (#9), and trumpeter Lee Loughnane succeeded on his first try at songwriting with the hit "Call on Me" (#6). Peter Cetera made the biggest strides on Chicago VII, composing "Happy Man" and "Wishing You Were Here" (#11), a lush ballad (signs of the future, taking the band even farther from their original style and sound) that features three of The Beach Boys on backing vocals and which became a big hit in late 1974. "Happy Man" was subsequently covered by Tony Orlando and Dawn on their album To Be With You. Peter Cetera also covered "Happy Man" in 1995 on his solo album One Clear Voice and again in 2005 on his solo album Faithfully which is a re-release of One Clear Voice. Chicago VII is notable for having writing contributions from all (and only) the members of the band, and for having most of the members stretching out in new ways: Loughnane sang lead ("Song of the Evergreens") and wrote a song, Pankow sang backup, Kath played bass, Cetera played guitar, and Walter Parazaider and Danny Seraphine composed. Released in March 1974, Chicago VII - despite its first disc being almost exclusively jazz instrumentals - reached #1 in the US, becoming another big success for the band. The album was mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic.
After classic albums like Talking Book and Innervisions, the genius of Stevie released this very good album in '74. #19- Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale Albums That Are 50 Years Old in 2024 #19- Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale #20- Queen - Sheer Heart Attack #21- Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway #22- Pappo s Blues - Vol.5 #23- Bob Marley - Natty Dread #24- Secos & Molhados - Secos & Molhados II #25- Kraftwerk - Autobahn #26- Gong - You #27- Nico - The End #28- Kiss - Kiss #29- Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) #30- David Bowie-Diamond Dogs #31- Sparks - Kimono My House
#13 Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard This is the album Eric released after a long break as he was recovering from a heroin addiction. Maybe it seemed like the end of the line for him and Keith Richards…but they are both still here. But stay away from 🍷 alcohol !! Anyway this album is very laid back and underwhelming compared to Derek and the Dominoes, Blind Faith or Cream. The first track “Motherless Children” is my favorite song here. It rolls and rocks along in a haphazard way but focused with beautiful hooks. “Please Be With Me” is a fine sleeper track. It’s Eric singing with Yvonne Elliman. Try to sing it if you can…it’s hard to do. But it has a real simmering beauty that makes it such a wonderful song. “I Shot the Sheriff” had such a worldwide effect on introducing Reggae to the world masses. I really couldn’t stand the song when I first heard it. “This isn’t Rock !!”…but eventually I came around to it. Now I appreciate the tune for opening me up to new sounds. This is not Eric’s best album by any stretch. But for me there is enough to come back and spin it every once in a while. #12 Kiss - Hotter Than Hell I had a real advantage with this band. I saw them live in 1974 opening up for Black Oak Arkansas before I heard their music. I had seen Black Oak in ‘73 so I knew what I was getting. But when I looked down a backstage hallway and saw these Kiss guys in costume for the first time. I said “What the f..k is that ! “ But when they got on stage it was another world of heavy rock presented theatrically. I got so close that I could feel the flames. Yea they had these pipes that shot flame up. My eyebrows got singed…this was truly “in your face rock and roll. They were so young and limber as they jumped in unison…it was stunning in every way. Then this bass player was spitting blood and propelling fire from his mouth. It was rock music like I had never experienced before or since. So I had to buy an album…and that was “Hotter Than Hell” with the great title track. The bass line in that song reminded me of Grand Funk Railroad. It’s a grinder at a low bottom that held the song together. Other great tracks were “Got To Choose”, “Parasite” and “Watchin’ You”. The big hit was “Let Me Go Rock ‘n Roll” This record and the other early Kiss albums reinforced what I saw that night on stage. They had the ability to write great rock tunes…and they had the guts to deliver them straight at you with no filter. Rock would never be this pure again to my mind. Opinions vary on this band. And I am talking to you who are about to tell me how you can’t stand Kiss. And your initials are MT !!! 😊 But hear my words today. When you see them when I did and the way I did…they get into your blood and never leave. Kiss is nowhere near my favorite band which is The Who. But they are an indelible part of the rock history that lives within me and comes out in these articles of mine. But it’s about time they quit for good …Dontcha think ???🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great write-up Richard. You and I feel similarly about KISS. Their impact on the '70s can't be denied, and they did make some very good Hard Rock. Obviously not in the same class as The Who (also my favorite band), but that's a mighty exclusive club anyway.
19. Nightlife by Thin Lizzy 20. Planet Waves by Bob Dylan 21. Queen II by Queen 22. Red by King Crimson 23. Hijack by Amon Düül II 24. It's Only Rock ‘n Roll by the Rolling Stones 25. Kiss by Kiss 26. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis 27. Miami by James Gang 28. Old New Borrowed and Blue by Slade 29. Starting Over by Raspberries 30. You by Gong 31. Another Time, Another Place by Bryan Ferry
Excellent pick David. This album marked the beginning of the classic Thin Lizzy twin-guitar sound. I've always felt it was a bit underrated. It's truly unique in Lizzy's catalog.
Great pick, Pete! I have Roxy & Elswhere on my list. My number 19 Aerosmith - Get Your Wings 20 Randy Newman - Good Old Boys 21 Rush - Rush 22 UFO - Phenomenon 23 Ted Nugent’s Amboy Dukes - Tooth, Fang & Claw 24 Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Unconditionally Guaranteed 25 Tangerine Dream - Phaedra 26 Sparks - Kimono My House 27 Roxy Music - Country Life 28 Ann Peebles - I Can‘t Stand the Rain 29 Magma - Ẁurdah Ïtah 30 Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties 31 Kansas - Kansas
For the Day 13 I present the folowing picks of mine: David Bowie - Diamond Dogs, released on 24th April 1974. Already seen as pick of many comentators in previous days, on my list it was for today. Ex-YU pop/rock album: Dalibor Brun - Ponovo na poznatom putu
Ranking them #31-1. Own all of these, most on vinyl. #19-Bad Company-Bad Company #20-Scorpions-Fly to the Rainbow #21-Kiss-Hotter Than Hell #22-Kansas-Kansas #23-Joe Walsh-So What #24-Yes-Relayer #25-Rory Gallagher-Irish Tour 74 #26-Nazareth-Rampant #27-Rush-Rush #28-David Bowie-Diamond Dogs #29-Thin Lizzy-Nightlife #30-BTO-Not Fragile #31-Budgie-In For the Kill
So What is my favorite on your list. An underappreciated album that flew under the radar for a lot of people. It is also the last studio album Joe released before joining the Eagles.
Day 13: Stanley Clarke Day 12: Thin Lizzy - Nightlife Day 11: Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Day 10: ELP - Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends Day 9: Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller Day 8: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway Day 7: Deep Purple - Burn Day 6: Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before Day 5: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse Day 4: Uriah Heep - Wonderworld Day 3: Yes - Relayer Day 2: Kraftwerk - Autobahn Day 1: King Crimson - Red
#19 Renaissance-Turn of the Cards I've known the band for years and years, but I hadn't really bothered to investigate their music before I came across this channel. A very good album, and at least as good as Ashes Are Burning. Even though "Can You Understand" remains my fav Renaissance song, Pete is right; "Mother Russia" is a terrific track. I think this was the last record to feature a composition by ex-member Jim McCarty, best known as the drummer of the Yardbirds ("Things I Don't Understand"). My only complaint is that they seemingly had a 'habit' of borrowing classical compositions without properly crediting them. Here, "Cold Is Being" is obviously the famous Adagio by Albinoni (the real composer Remo Giazotto), but never mind. #20 Frank Zappa-Apostrophe (') Numbers 21-31 (in no specific order): King Crimson-Starless and Bible Black, Deep Purple-Stormbringer, Yes-Relayer, Queen II, Neil Young-On the Beach, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Van Morrison-Veedon Fleece, David Bowie-Diamond Dogs, The Rolling Stones-It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, 10cc-Sheet Music, Kiss-Hotter than Hell.
Good one Pete! I only had Hot Rats, Man from Utopia and Tinseltown Rebellion which are all great before SOT but Overnite Sensation, One Size Fits All and Apostrophe (today) are a creative peak among a career of peaks which I’m so glad I eventually digested completely in their glory - thank you Pete! These were all albums I had heard back in college on friends stereos but didn’t appreciate all the eccentric greatness; Hilarious and with great jazz/rock chops - what’s not to love!
31 Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd #30 Relayer - Yes #29 King Crimson - Red #28 Wishbone Ash - Theres The Rub #27 Trapeze- Hot Wire #26 Budgie - In For The Kill #25 Roxy Music - Country Life #24 Chris Youlden - City Child #23 John Lennon - Walls & Bridges #22 Billy Cobham - Crosswinds #21 Jethro Tull - War Child #20 Thin Lizzy - Nightlife #19 Sweet - Desolation Boulevard + Sweet FA
@@steverogers2635 Thank you Steve! The title cut Sweet F A has to be one of the earlier examples of a heavy metal gallop! Bet Steve Harris was listening to that track a bit!
Today's choice is Rock N Roll Animal by Lou Reed. Two of my favorite live cuts are on this album, Sweet Jane and Rock 'n' Roll. Great guitar interplay by Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter.
#19 Utopia - Todd Rundgren's Utopia #20 King Crimson - Red #21 Rufus - Rags To Rufus #22 Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow #23 Chicago - Chicago VII #24 Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley #25 Rush - Rush #26 Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74 #27 Deep Purple - Burn #28 Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic #29 Nektar - Down To Earth #30 Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard #31 New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
Day 13. Larry Coryell - Introducing Eleventh House with Larry Coryell Coryell makes his fusion band debut with 11th House and he brings a load of talent with him in Alphonse Mouzon, Randy Brecker, Mike Mandel and Danny Trifon. The songs are that mix of bebop quickness and rock/funk sensibilities with a heavy Miles Davis/Herbie Hancock influence. In other words, this set rocks. 1. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel 2. Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel 3. Gong - You 4. Guru Guru - Dance Of The Flames 5. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping 6. Joe Pass - Virtuoso 7. 2nd Chapter of Acts - With Footnotes 8. Kraftwerk - Autobahn 9. The Meters - Rejuvenation 10. Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill 11. Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Winter in America 12. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different 13. Larry Coryell - Introducing Eleventh House with Larry Coryell
Awesome pick today Pete! Still to come for me. Day 13 (#19): Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller 20. Rush - Rush 21. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping 22. Chicago - Chicago VII 23. Eagles - On The Border 24. Herbie Hancock - Thrust 25. Kiss - Kiss/Hotter Than Hell 26. Stevie Wonder - Fullfillingness’ First Finale 27. Lou Reed - Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal; Sally Can’t Dance 28. Aerosmith - Get Your Wings 29. Supertramp - Crime of the Century 30. Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock and Roll 31. Elton John - Caribou
19. UFO - Phenomenon (Chrysalis/EMI) If there was ever a hard rock band that deserved to break through to superstardom in 1974 with hooky, melodic, accessible songwriting, a hot shot guitarist (Michael Schenker) and strong vocalist (Phil Mogg), it's UFO. The only thing that must have held them back from Led Zeppelin, Kiss and Van Halen level popularity was most likely the most banal of all reasons in the music business -- business. Forget the bean counters, at least we can pay proper homage now, just as Iron Maiden strives to correct the injustice by blasting "Doctor Doctor" on the PA before every single show they play, to millions of people. Gotta love that Hipgnosis cover too. 20. Sparks - Propaganda (Island) 21. Good Rats - Tasty (WB) 22. Roxy Music - Country Life (EG) 23. Budgie - In For The Kill! (MCA) 24. Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim (Harvest) 25. Cockney Rebel - Psychomodo (EMI) 26. 10cc - Sheet Music (UK) 27. Supertramp - Crime of the Century (A&M) 28. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (MCA) 29. Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado (Jet/EpicLegacy) 30. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (RCA) 31. Rush - Rush (Mercury) 32. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping (MCA) 33. Mott The Hoople - The Hoople (Columbia) 34. Neil Young - On The Beach (Reprise) 35. Yes - Relayer (Atlantic) 36. Popol Vuh - Einsjager & Siebenjager (Spalax) 37. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (Reprise) 38. Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (RCA) 39. Gene Clark - No Other (Line) 40. Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Philips) 41. Big Star - Sister Lovers (Aura) 42. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Impossible Dream (Mercury) 43. The Meters - Rejuvenation (Reprise) 44. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Atlantic) 45. Strawbs - Hero and Heroine (A&M) 46. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory (PolyGram) 47. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown) 48. Gong - You (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 3) (Virgin) 49. Camel - Mirage (Deram) 50. Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before (Polydor)
1. Autobahn (Kraftwerk) 2. Borboletta (Santana) 3. Chicago VII (Chicago) 4. Court And Spark (Joni Mitchell) 5. Caravan And The New Symphonia (Caravan) 6. Eldorado (Electric Light Orchestra) 7. Everyone Is Everybody Else (Barclay James Harvest) 8. In Camera (Peter Hammill) 9. Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Genesis) 10. Irish Tour '74 (Rory Gallager) 11. Mirage (Camel) 12. The Power And The Glory (Gentle Giant) 13. Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan)
Day 13 My choice for today is: Santana “Lotus” 1 The Moody Blues “This is the Moody Blues” 2 BB King and Bobby Bland”Together for the First Time” 3 Donna Summer “Lady of the Night” 4 Bad Company “Bad Company” 5 Arlo Guthrie “Arlo Guthrie” 6 JJ Cale “Okie” 7 Freddie King “Burglar” 8 Diana Ross “Live at Caesars” 9 Rory Gallagher “Irish Tour” 10 John Lennon “Walls and Bridges” 11 Muddy Waters “Unk”in Funk” 12 Rolling Stones “It’s only Rock and Roll” 13 Santana “Lotus”
My Pick for Today #13 Jethro Tull - Warchild I wasn't a huge TULL fan outside of my three favorite albums, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch, (and of coarse Bursting Out!) and felt that was all I needed. Then in the early 2000's I was in a band with a guy who was a major TULL fan and he enlightened me on some of the earlier albums, and man did I get into them! this album besides the well known hits Skating Away & Bungle... the songs are much like what I loved about my favorite era of the Band. Warchild, Back-Door Angels, Sealion and Two Fingers are favorites. the acoustic Solitaire is fantastic.
OK, Pete, so I AM doing mine in order, so here we go: #19: Fly to the Rainbow by Scorpions - “Drifting Sun” is my number 2 rock track from 74. Everything penned and played by Uli Jon Roth was absolute gold! #20: Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report #21: The Trio by Peterson, Pass, & Pederson #22: Stormbringer by Deep Purple #23: Sheer Heart Attack by Queen #24: Paper Money by Montrose #25: Self-Titled Debut by Rush #26: In for the Kill! by Budgie #27: Secret Treaties by Blue Oyster Cult #28: Reality by Monk Montgomery #29: Self-Titled Debut by Bad Company # 30: Sweet Fanny Adams by Sweet # 31: Carolina County Ball by Elf
Hi everyone, hope you're having a great weekend... My pick today is the debut album by a band I've loved ever since hearing their most famous song and so, my wayward sons - and daughters - I give you.. KANSAS "Kansas" What a start to an incredible recording history... Cheers everyone, back tomorrow...
Iain. I’m really worried about Kevin. He’s been off a long time. I’m starting to think that he’s having some issues with his pacemaker. That the doctors put in. I wish he would send one of us a message.
@@bengalgangster You're welcome, bengal. I bet it was. There have been so many incarnations of the line-up and sound that it will be interesting to hear. 🎶💜💜
Great pick Pete. He had just the best musicians in his band. A lot of people groove on Frank’s songwriting and lyrics, but he was a master craftsman on the guitar. On a personal note Pete, the FM station we listened to in 1974, they played virtual every song on the album.
Good shirt, Pete! I am soooo glad you show love to that TK/Guercio period! Too bad you were not featuring what I thought you may, but I am confident it is on the way. Day #13 for me is an album I do not care to hear anymore, but is still a classic and sounded so good to me as a youngster (it in fact "blew me away"). I am talking about David Bowie's DIAMOND DOGS, released on 5/24/74. REBEL REBEL became one of FM rock's songs of that summer in the Atlantic City area (which is the Philly market). I will admit that 'BIG BROTHER/CHANT OF THE EVER CIRCLING SKELETAL FAMILY still sounds as good as it did back in the summer of 74. Day #1 -Joni Mitchell - COURT AND SPARK 1/17/74 Day #2- Gordon Lightfoot -SUNDOWN *Late January Day #3 - DB - ONCE VICES…2/1/74 Day #4- Tangerine Dream - PHAEDRA - 2/20 Day #5- Steely Dan - PRETZELOGIC- 2/20 Day #6 - Grand Funk Railroad - SHININ’ ON - 3/1 Day #7 - Kanasas - SELF-TITLED - 3/7 Day #8 - Chicago VII - 3/8 Day #9 - Peter Frampton - SOMETHING’S HAPPENING - Sometime in March 74 Day #10 - Robin Trower - BRIDGE OF SIGHS - 4/20/74 Day #11 - Focus - HAMBURGER CONCERTO - 4/74 Day #12 - The Kinks - PRESERVATION ACT II - 5/8
GREAT CHOICE! I knew this had to make the list. This was my 1st Frank Zappa experience & made me dig into his discography a bit more & half century later I still haven't heard all his albums! Such a trippy album & FUN enjoyable ❤
My pick for day13 is Paul Desmond - Skylark Another gem from the CTI label, featuring Desmond on alto sax, Gabor Szabo on guitar, Bob James on piano and electric piano, Ron Carter on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. Laid back and excellent.
19 Neil Young On the Beach 20 Abba Waterloo 21 Sparks Kimono my House 22 Strawbs Hero and Heroine 23 Raspberries Starting Over 24 Henry Cow Unrest 25 Ringo Starr Goodnight Vienna 26 David Bowie Diamond Dogs 27 Queen II 28 Hatfield and the North s/t 29 The Residents Meet the Residents 30 Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain 31 Richard and Linda Thompson
Good one right there that's on my honorable mention list indeed. many good ones that didn't make the cut but we're so close Today day 13 Grateful Dead from the Mars hotel This would be where they were starting to get burned out on touring take a break from live performing for a bit Coming quickly on the heels of the prior wake of the flood album a lot more livelier. The great rev up us blues One of my favorites The unbroken chain song so well by Phil with its unique different time changes and more just a classic Dead song Also has what would become a later live extended jam and favorite Scarlett begonias And the closer ship of fools
Day 13. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
My favorite tune is Broadway Melody of 1974.
The Lamia has been my favourite track for years.
Thank you, Pete, for your pick.
All the damn time.
My Pick #13: Kansas- Kansas
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Life is better with music
#19: Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Great choice.
Hi Zachary. Awesome choice
BILLY COBHAM - CROSSWINDS- Stellar line up of players with the Brecker Brothers and George Duke excelling. Michael’s solos on Pleasant Pheasant and Heather are so memorable. Duke is a master accompanist across Spanish Moss and of course Cobham is magisterial on drums. Big shout also to Lee Pastora on Latin percussion especially on Pleasant Pheasant. Cobham revisited Heather on his recent Drum and Voice Vol 5.
Great choice Shaun!
Hi Shaun. Don’t know much of his music.
Great choice love this one!
Day 13: The self-titled debut by Rush. Quite different from the majority of their catalog, much more hard rock than prog. But they were also really good at that. Lots of great songs, like "Finding My Way", "Need Some Love", the slower "Here Again", "What You're Doing", "Before and After", which changes from a slower song to a bluesy hard rocker, and the fan-favorite "Working Man". The lyrics of "In the Mood" are pretty ridiculous, almost like a collection of cliché rock lyrics, but the song itself is still fun. Alex Lifeson and John Rutsey are on fire all over this album, as is Geddy Lee. I particularly love his vocal style.
Hi Pete. Sorry, I never really gotten into Zappa. Here is my pick for day 19,
Pick #13 - Budgie - In For The Kill
Day 13: Supertramp - Crime of the Century
19. Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Favorite Tracks: Killer Queen, Stone Cold Crazy, Brighton Rock
20. Rush - Rush
21. Herbie Hancock - Thrust
22. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
23. Big Star - Radio City
24. Renaissance - The Turning of the Cards
25. Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
repost!
Hi Tom. Excellent choice. I know some of their music and have a couple of albums.
What a great album. Queen is my alltime favorite band - their run of the first 8 albums is so impressive. Both of their 74 records will rank very high on my list 😉
My favorite on Sheer Heart Attack is the Tenement Funster/Flick of the Wrist/Lily of the Valley-Suite (for me this was and is one track 😆)
Great pick.
Great pick. Album fully moved the band into being the great 70's theatric rocking Queen. Martin Popoff's album by album book is excellent.
today's selection:
graham nash "wild tales"...
i'm a folkie at heart...
1. Rush - Rush
2. Kansas - Kansas
3. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On
Broadwav
4. Gong - You
5. Deep Purple - Burn
6. Chicago - Chicago VII
7. Yes - Relaver
8. Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
9. Jefferson Starship - Dragon Fly
10. Bad Company - Bad Company
11. King Crimson - Red
12. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
13. Gentle Giant - The Power And The Glory
One of the best produced albums in this legendary prog band’s catalog. Almost a perfect album. Playing The Game is by far my favorite song on the album.
Pick #19: Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs
#31: Steely Dan's Pretzel Logic
#30: Atlanta Rhythm Section's Third Annual Pipe Dream
#29: Rolling Stones' It's Only Rock and Roll
#28: Thin Lizzy's Nightlife
#27: David Bowie's Diamond Dogs
#26: Hawkwind's Hall of the Mountain Grill
#25: Chicago VII
#24: Todd Rundgren's Utopia
#23: Renaissance's Turn of the Cards
#22: Scorpions' Fly to the Rainbow
#21: Sweet's Sweet Fanny Adams/Desolation Boulevard
#20: Gentle Giant's Power and the Glory
#19: Robin Trower's Bridge of Sighs
Hi Harizon. Excellent choice
#13. Foghat Rock and Roll Outlaws.
Great pick Jeffrey!
My pick #13: David Bowie "Diamond Dogs"
Pick # 13 Crime of the Century by Supertramp. There are good albums, great albums. Some though are just a little bit more special and this amazing album is just that! Concept albums are a thing of the past, this record with its underlying theme of madness and loneliness you'd think it would be a depressing listen, but not so! School is absolutely the best song to kick this album off, Dreamer, a single release, also a great start to side 2. A fantastic album helped by brilliant production propels it into another league altogether and is one of the highlights of 1974 and endorsed by the many complimentary posts from subscribers to this channel
Hi Keith. Excellent choice and article
Excellent pick Keith.
Great choice Keith!
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks again Melanie
@@christophercoles4401Thank you Christopher
Todays pick: Roxy Music - "Country Life". My Favorite Roxy album, and IMO their best. So many killer songs on this one. "The Thrill Of It All", "Out Of The Blue", and "Prairie Rose" are RM classics, while "All I Want Is You", "Casanova", and "A Really Good Time" are excellent as well. And can`t beat that album cover.
Hi Jeffrey. Heard of the band but I’ve never listened to them before.
Great pick Jeffrey. I have this album coming up soon on my list. Tomorrow, as a matter of fact.
Great album choice! Country Life l think is their best too, strong throughout and maybe a tad more accessible than three earlier albums, and without question stronger than their last three albums.
@@melaniethurber5117 Hi Melanie. A British band, some people call their music "art rock". You might like them.
@@christophercoles4401 Thanks Chris, I`ll be watching for your write up.
Cheers Pete. Bad Company. Top to bottom just a classic rock album. Zappa will be coming.
Great pick
I was just listening to Apostrophe (') the other day. Definitely one of Zappa's greatest!
My Day 13 Pick:
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Yup, the sophomore album from Jacksonville's finest. Not quite as long as the debut, a little more compact and to the point.
I'll admit that I rarely listen to opener "Sweet Home Alabama" nowadays, as it's one of the most overplayed songs of all time. However, I still love "Don't Ask Me No Questions," "Workin' for MCA," "Call Me the Breeze," and especially "The Ballad of Curtis Lowe."
Fantastic pick Mark.
Great pick. The Ballad of Curtis Lowe is one of my favorites also.
My day 13 favorite 50 year old album is Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill.
1. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
2. PFM - L’isola di ninete
3. Yes - Relayer
4. King Crimson - Red
5. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
6. Peter Hammill - In Camera
7. Arti & Mestieri - Tilt
8. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
9. Biglietto - Biglietto per L’Inferno
10. Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
11. Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
12. Area - Caution Radiation Area
13. Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
#13 Bachman-Turner Overdrive "Not Fragile"
Cool pick Ramon.
Great pick
Pick # 13, Foghat "Energized".
Apostrophe was a great follow-up to Overnight Sensation. Both those albums I had when they came out. I was 17-18 years old. I still find myself playing the lyrics in my head 50 years later. They were such catchy tunes.
#18 Heart Like A Wheel - LINDA RONSTADT
My favorite 1974 album for day 13 is "Thrust" by Herbie Hancock.
Day 1-Burn-Deep Purple
Day 2-Standing on the Verge of Getting It On-Funkadelic
Day 3-Energized-Foghat
Day 4-Sally Can't Dance-Lou Reed
Day 5-Wally-Wally
Day 6-Mirage-Camel
Day 7-Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends-Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Day 8-Journey to the Centre of the Earth-Rick Wakeman
Day 9-Heart Like a Wheel-Linda Ronstadt
Day 10-Refugee-Refugee
Day 11-Saints & Sinners-Johnny Winter
Day 12-Queen of the Night-Maggie Bell
Day 13-Thrust-Herbie Hancock
Terrific choice. You got me thinking given that Palm Grease was used in a Death Wish film I might go left field and choose the theme to Dirty Harry . Cheers.
Hi Steve. Excellent choice
@@shaunogle530 Thanks Shaun, You know it's funny when I was listening to this album last night it was giving me the vibe of a seventies movie soundtrack kinda like "Shaft". I really love that funky jazzy sound.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks a lot Melanie!
Excellent pick Steve.
#13 - Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs...
13. Eloy - Floating
#19. Little Feat-Feats Don't Fail Me now. Classic album, might be my favourite, excellent top to bottom.
Hi Michael. Excellent choice
Great choice there, l might be in the minority here but 1975's The Last Record Album (my first LF record album) is my favourite of theirs, Romance Dance, Somebody's Leaving and Mercenary Territory three fantastic tracks on that one.
@@keithjones7390 Thanks Keith. Another good one there.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Melanie.
Great pick Michael, I`ve got this one coming up too.
# 19 The Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock’n’ Roll
Apart from “Angie” (go figure!) my introduction to the Stones way back then. Although everybody knows and cites the title track the whole album is somewhat forgotten. That’s a shame if you think about tracks like “Time Waits For No One” (which Pete loves so much because of Mick Taylor’s incredible Santana-like solo) or “Fingerprint File”, my personal favorite, which is funky and spooky as hell.
# 20 Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before?
# 21 Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim
# 22 Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller
# 23 Richard & Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
# 24 Yes - Relayer
# 25 Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
# 26 Deep Purple - Burn
# 27 Kraftwerk - Autobahn
# 28 Todd Rundgren’s Utopia - same
# 29 Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
# 30 Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
# 31 Triumvirat - Illusions on a Double Dimple
Great choice Paul!
Title track is up there with the best Stones.
Hi Paul. Awesome choice
Great pick Paul.
Somebody always watching you! Love Fingerprint File
My pick 13 is Secret Treaties - Blue Oyster Cult
Cool pick Stoney!
Great pick Stoney.
Stellar pick. One of their best.
Great pick. Later on my list.
Hey stoney, great pick!
My #19 of 1974 is Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell (Jan. 17).
Full List:
31) Feats Don't Fail Me Now - Little Feat (Aug. 9)
30) Meet The Residents - The Residents (April 1)
29) Hall Of The Mountain Grill - Hawkwind (Sept. 6)
28) Five-A-Side - Ace (couldn't find a release date, other than '1974')
27) Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley - Robert Palmer (Sept.)
26) Hotter Than Hell - Kiss (Oct. 22)
25) Old New Borrowed & Blue - Slade (Feb. 15)
24) I Can Stand A Little Rain - Joe Cocker (Aug. 7)
23) Inspiration Information - Shuggie Otis (Oct.)
22) Sheer Heart Attack - Queen (Nov. 8)
21) Chicago VII - Chicago (March 11)
20) Planet Waves - Bob Dylan (Jan. 17)
19) Court And Spark - Joni Mitchell (Jan. 17)
My choice today, the first of two from this UK band and I simply could not leave either from my list, Queen ll. Provided the band with their initial breakthrough into the UK mainstream via hit single 7 Seas of Rhye. It was heavy and even slightly prog tinged. Queen managing to get a song of that type into the UK charts and onto UK radio was quite something at that time. In fact Queen didn't really sound like any other heavy band. The centrepiece of the album is to my ears the epic March of The Black Queen, which set the template for the band's epics to come.
It's both proggy and heavy in places and a genuine dark air pervades throughout. Elsewhere there's White Queen with its quiet/loud passages. There's the heavy Father to Son featuring some wild guitar pyrotechnics from Brian May, the pounding uncompromising Ogre Battle, another of Queen's proto speed metal songs and the likes of The Roger Taylor penned and sung Loser In The End with its layered harmonies and mixture of acoustic and electric powerchord guitars. There's also plenty of Queen's characteristic whimsicality with the likes of Funny How Love Is. All these with incredible production and amazing vocal arrangements, this really is one of the great headphones albums. More Queen to come from my list.
Hi Jerry. Excellent choice and article
Another excellent write-up and album choice Jerry. I had to decide between this album and Sheer Heart Attack, and I went with the latter, because I already had Queen II on an earlier list of '70s favorites.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks Melanie.
@@christophercoles4401 Thanks Chris. I love both Queen's 74 releases and they each have such special personal meaning on my classic rock journey, I simply had to include them both.
Great pick Jerry!
#13 - Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
My pick for Day 13 (#19 in my countdown)
Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Hi Rafael. Awesome choice
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you Melanie, have a wonderful day !!
Great choice and mine as well for today.
Pick 13. The self-titled release by Bad Company
Great choice.
Great pick, I'll have this one coming up
Brian Eno - Here Cone The Warm Jets
My pick today is Bad Company - Bad Company
Great pick
Ranking my Top 31 of 74:
19. Bad Company - Bad Company
20. Rush - Rush
21. Hatfield And The North - Hatfield And The North
22. Yes - Relayer
23. Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner And The Empty Stage
24. Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three
25. Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards
26. Kansas - Kansas
27. Bachman Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile
28. King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black
29. Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else
30. The Doobie Brothers - What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits
31. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
HM:
32. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark
33. Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
34. Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
35. Roxy Music - Country Life
36. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
Hi birdab. Bad Company is a fantastic choice.
I’m going to pull a CATINO” here. Lol. KISS/7️⃣4️⃣- combo platter - debut & Hotter than HELL- thanks Pete for Your time 👍💯
Lou Reed Rock N Roll Animal. The 70s was a untouchable decade for live albums. When live albums were monumental.
Nicely done Gary. I did it with Sweet earlier.
Great choice Gary ! I listed Kiss Hotter Than Hell today as my #12. But don’t read my article…I talk about seeing them live in 1974 !!😊
@@christophercoles4401 / yes. Lol. I saw it. 👍💯
@@richardbooth6063 / awesome. I did see them. First time. Madison square GARDEN. NYC. 12-16-77. Enjoy day 👍💯
Pick # 13- Yes- Relayer
Very cool Cap! One of their best!
@@steverogers2635 Yes sir 🍻
Great pick Captain ! I saw YES on this tour in ‘74. They had a stage set up like a clipper ship in my imagination 💭!! Lots of dry ice !!
@@richardbooth6063 A clipper ship awesome. The Captain would be right at home. Cheers good sir 🍻
Counting 'em down #19 Jethro Tull - Warchild. Love this album. Saw this tour, absolutely amazing
Great pick Floyd!
Hi Floyd. Excellent choice
Floyd / have this pick last week. Saw the tour? Damn, you must have the Olds” like myself lol 👍💯
@@garyjoyce2160 probably older. i saw passion play. 2nd concert i ever went to
Saw that show in Dallas 74. Great show
My pick for today is :"Queen ll"(1974).
Hi Daniel. Excellent choice
@@melaniethurber5117 Thank you Melanie.I like more their early albums than their later albums.Take care Melanie.✌
It’s a great one .
My second favourite after Overnight Sensation .
My pick for today is Robin Trower’s great Bridge of Sighs .
Thanks !
Deep Purple - Burn -February 1974
Deep Purple - Stormbringer - November - 1974
A double pick for today and tomorrow, the mklll line up featuring Coverdale/Hughes two of the greatest singers in rock history and two of their greatest songs for me "Burn and "Stormbringer"
Hi Andrew. Awesome choice
My Day 13 pick is CHICAGO VII by Chicago: This is and odd but great album. Originally conceived as an instrumental jazz album, the idea fell apart in the studio. Having said that, the bulk of disk one IS instrumental jazz. Very tasty as well. Then, the second disk is their rock/pop album, which spawned three major radio hits, which in turn helped see the album to fans with (I've Been) Searchin' So Long; Wishing You Were Here and Call On Me. Terry Kath only turned in two songs as a writer, and only sang on two songs, one of them a Peter Cetera's Wishing You Were Here. But Lamm, Cetera, and Pankow are all at the top of their game here. Great album, however weird. Peace.
On my list later. One of m6 favourite Chicago albums.
Excellent pick and write up, skroehr.
Day #13 in my list:
Relayer - Yes
No. 13. Cat Stevens - Buddha and the Chocolate Box. 😃👍. This is the fifth studio album. It was released in March 1974. This album has the Top 10 hit "Oh Very Young." It contains a favorite Cat Stevens track, "King of Trees." I find this album so darn charming in both the album design elements and all of the tracks. 🔥. Rock Always! - Heather
Hi Heather. I don’t have Stevens listed but I should have listed his albums. Awesome choice and article.
Very nice pick Heather. I can't believe I forgot all about this album. Not only was it a huge hit, but I actually own it.
My choice early in the month. It was the first Cat Stevens album l bought, not his best l don't think, Teaser and the Firecat is my favourite, l do love Oh Very Young though and for me Sun/C79 is another great track, probably my favourite on the album.
@@melaniethurber5117 Thanks, Melanie! 😃👍.
@@christophercoles4401 Thanks, Christopher! 😃👍.
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
My pick today is Bridge of Sighs by Robin Trower.
Thank you, I guess you are the only one besides me, don't get it
My pick for day 13 is Secret Treaties by Blue Oyster Cult. With Astronomy for a closer song, it can't be all bad!!
My pick for today
Kiss Hotter than Hell
Such raw production but that's what makes this album cool. Parasite is one of ace frehley most awesome riffs. Great album
Today my pick #19 is Queen II a great album with the single seven seas of Rhye, my favorite on the album is Ogre Battle
19- Queen II
20- Marshall Tucker Band A New Life
21- Chicago VII
22- The Guess Who Road Flood
23- UFO Phenomenon
24- Elton John Caribou
25- Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard
26- Atlanta Rhythm Section Third Annual Pipe Dream
27- Deep Purple Stormbringer
28- Billy Joel Streetlife Serenade
29- Joe Walsh So What
30- Gordon Lightfoot Sundown
31- John Denver Back Home Again
Nice one Tyler. Ogre Battle is my fav Queen song.
Outstanding choice Pete. Apostrophe is another album that I just knew would be on your list. One of Frank's best.
13) Camel - Mirage
Mirage is a wonderful album from Camel, a band who was coming of age on their second release. Camel excels here with a variety of tight compositions, and you can see potential on this album that their debut only hinted at.
From the start, "Freefall" displays a more challenging direction. Peter Bardens' keyboards and Andrew Latimer's guitars play off of one another so well and Bardens delivers a fine lead vocal. "Supertwister" introduces us to Latimer's flute playing, and Dave Ferguson has a nice thick bass part to go along with the beautiful interlude-style number. "Nimrodel" was Camel's first try at true extended storytelling, with frequent time changes and musical soundscapes, ending with a guitar solo that sounds like Latimer is playing it on a mountaintop. The first ever Latimer/Bardens collaboration (which would become the cornerstone of the band) is "Earthrise", an instrumental featuring Andy Ward doing some excellent speed drumming parts, but the keyboard/guitar exchanges continue to be the highlight.
However, the record's major showpiece is the 13-minute "Lady Fantasy" suite. There are two lyrical sections, but the music provides the atmosphere, and Latimer plays some excellent guitar parts, especially about nine minutes in. The track is the band's first true classic.
Mirage is a singularly magnificent album, and was criminally overlooked at the time of its release. Even if they weren't quite as highly regarded or famous as Yes, Genesis or ELP, with Mirage, Camel delivered one of the finest Progressive Rock albums ever made.
1) Slade - Slade In FLAME
2) Thin Lizzy - Night Life
3) Charlie Daniels Band - Fire On The Mountain
4) Al Green - Explores Your Mind
5) Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
6) Mott The Hoople - The Hoople
7) Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
8) Strawbs - Hero & Heroine
9) Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
10) Sweet - Sweet Fannie Adams/Desolation Boulevard
11) The Spinners - Mighty Love
12) The Raspberries - Starting Over
13) Camel - Mirage
Excellent choice Chris! That's one album I couldn't leave off my list either. I think Camel is an extremely underrated band. Their first four albums are fantastic!
Fantastic album choice. For me Camel are amongst the many bands who recorded their best work on their earlier records.
@@steverogers2635 Thanks Steve. I agree. I'm kind of partial to The Snow Goose, but I don't really have a favorite.
@@keithjones7390 Thanks Keith. I agree. Their early records are among the best '70s Prog albums.
@@christophercoles4401I have never heard this album Chris. I guess I am a YES, ELP, Pink Floyd snob. I will download and listen to it today !!
Chicago - vII - the sixth studio album by American rock band Chicago. It was released on March 11, 1974 by Columbia Records. It is notable for being their first double album of new material since 1971's Chicago III and remains their final studio release in that format. It features session percussionist Laudir de Oliveira, who would become a full-fledged band member for the release of Chicago VIII the following year.
While touring in support of Chicago VI in 1973, the band began getting restless and started integrating some lengthy jazz instrumentals into their sets. While audiences' reactions varied, Chicago greatly enjoyed the experience, decided (after years of talking about it) to record a pure jazz-influenced set of tracks, and headed straight to producer James William Guercio's Caribou Ranch studios to cut their ambitious new album.
While the sessions began well, there was soon dissension within the group about the jazz project, with, reportedly, Peter Cetera and Guercio both wary of the commercial risk of such an undertaking. While the band reasoned that some of the jazzy material was too good to throw away, the others finally relented and accepted including the more pop and rock-oriented songs that the band had composed in the meantime. Almost by accident, Chicago had another double album on their hands.
Of the more conventional material, Chicago once again turned in a varied set of songs, with Terry Kath's "Byblos", named after a club that Chicago had played in Osaka, Japan, ranking among his best efforts. Robert Lamm, who was recording a solo album entitled Skinny Boy at the time, turned in several new songs, even donating his solo album's title track, featuring The Pointer Sisters on backing vocals. James Pankow came through with another success, "(I've Been) Searchin' So Long" (#9), and trumpeter Lee Loughnane succeeded on his first try at songwriting with the hit "Call on Me" (#6). Peter Cetera made the biggest strides on Chicago VII, composing "Happy Man" and "Wishing You Were Here" (#11), a lush ballad (signs of the future, taking the band even farther from their original style and sound) that features three of The Beach Boys on backing vocals and which became a big hit in late 1974. "Happy Man" was subsequently covered by Tony Orlando and Dawn on their album To Be With You. Peter Cetera also covered "Happy Man" in 1995 on his solo album One Clear Voice and again in 2005 on his solo album Faithfully which is a re-release of One Clear Voice.
Chicago VII is notable for having writing contributions from all (and only) the members of the band, and for having most of the members stretching out in new ways: Loughnane sang lead ("Song of the Evergreens") and wrote a song, Pankow sang backup, Kath played bass, Cetera played guitar, and Walter Parazaider and Danny Seraphine composed.
Released in March 1974, Chicago VII - despite its first disc being almost exclusively jazz instrumentals - reached #1 in the US, becoming another big success for the band.
The album was mixed and released in both stereo and quadraphonic.
I had that earlier on excellent choice
Great write up on this one ✌🏼🤠
After classic albums like Talking Book and Innervisions, the genius of Stevie released this very good album in '74.
#19- Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
Albums That Are 50 Years Old in 2024
#19- Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale
#20- Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
#21- Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
#22- Pappo s Blues - Vol.5
#23- Bob Marley - Natty Dread
#24- Secos & Molhados - Secos & Molhados II
#25- Kraftwerk - Autobahn
#26- Gong - You
#27- Nico - The End
#28- Kiss - Kiss
#29- Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
#30- David Bowie-Diamond Dogs
#31- Sparks - Kimono My House
Day 13 pick Deep Purple Burn
#13 Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
This is the album Eric released after a long break as he was recovering from a heroin addiction. Maybe it seemed like the end of the line for him and Keith Richards…but they are both still here. But stay away from 🍷 alcohol !!
Anyway this album is very laid back and underwhelming compared to Derek and the Dominoes, Blind Faith or Cream. The first track “Motherless Children” is my favorite song here. It rolls and rocks along in a haphazard way but focused with beautiful hooks.
“Please Be With Me” is a fine sleeper track. It’s Eric singing with Yvonne Elliman. Try to sing it if you can…it’s hard to do. But it has a real simmering beauty that makes it such a wonderful song.
“I Shot the Sheriff” had such a worldwide effect on introducing Reggae to the world masses. I really couldn’t stand the song when I first heard it. “This isn’t Rock !!”…but eventually I came around to it. Now I appreciate the tune for opening me up to new sounds.
This is not Eric’s best album by any stretch. But for me there is enough to come back and spin it every once in a while.
#12 Kiss - Hotter Than Hell
I had a real advantage with this band. I saw them live in 1974 opening up for Black Oak Arkansas before I heard their music. I had seen Black Oak in ‘73 so I knew what I was getting. But when I looked down a backstage hallway and saw these Kiss guys in costume for the first time. I said “What the f..k is that ! “ But when they got on stage it was another world of heavy rock presented theatrically. I got so close that I could feel the flames. Yea they had these pipes that shot flame up. My eyebrows got singed…this was truly “in your face rock and roll. They were so young and limber as they jumped in unison…it was stunning in every way. Then this bass player was spitting blood and propelling fire from his mouth. It was rock music like I had never experienced before or since.
So I had to buy an album…and that was “Hotter Than Hell” with the great title track. The bass line in that song reminded me of Grand Funk Railroad. It’s a grinder at a low bottom that held the song together.
Other great tracks were “Got To Choose”, “Parasite” and “Watchin’ You”. The big hit was “Let Me Go Rock ‘n Roll”
This record and the other early Kiss albums reinforced what I saw that night on stage. They had the ability to write great rock tunes…and they had the guts to deliver them straight at you with no filter. Rock would never be this pure again to my mind.
Opinions vary on this band. And I am talking to you who are about to tell me how you can’t stand Kiss. And your initials are MT !!! 😊
But hear my words today. When you see them when I did and the way I did…they get into your blood and never leave. Kiss is nowhere near my favorite band which is The Who. But they are an indelible part of the rock history that lives within me and comes out in these articles of mine.
But it’s about time they quit for good …Dontcha think ???🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Great choices Richard! I love both of those albums!
Great write-up Richard. You and I feel similarly about KISS. Their impact on the '70s can't be denied, and they did make some very good Hard Rock. Obviously not in the same class as The Who (also my favorite band), but that's a mighty exclusive club anyway.
Hi Richard. Your #13 choice is superb and so isn’t the article. Your # 12. We’ll just skip it.
@@melaniethurber5117Aw cmon Melanie ! I had your reply built in to my article. !! lol 😝And it was my #12 that you skipped !
@@christophercoles4401Thanks Chris ! The Kiss from ‘74 to ‘76 was something special !
19. Nightlife by Thin Lizzy
20. Planet Waves by Bob Dylan
21. Queen II by Queen
22. Red by King Crimson
23. Hijack by Amon Düül II
24. It's Only Rock ‘n Roll by the Rolling Stones
25. Kiss by Kiss
26. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway by Genesis
27. Miami by James Gang
28. Old New Borrowed and Blue by Slade
29. Starting Over by Raspberries
30. You by Gong
31. Another Time, Another Place by Bryan Ferry
Excellent pick David. This album marked the beginning of the classic Thin Lizzy twin-guitar sound. I've always felt it was a bit underrated. It's truly unique in Lizzy's catalog.
Great pick. Later on my list.
Great pick, will be on my list as well 👍
My #13: George Harrison - Dark Horse
Today
Foghat - Rock and Roll outlaws
Today's pick: "Sweet Fanny Adams" by The Sweet.
Great pick
Great pick, Pete! I have Roxy & Elswhere on my list.
My number 19 Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
20 Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
21 Rush - Rush
22 UFO - Phenomenon
23 Ted Nugent’s Amboy Dukes - Tooth, Fang & Claw
24 Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Unconditionally Guaranteed
25 Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
26 Sparks - Kimono My House
27 Roxy Music - Country Life
28 Ann Peebles - I Can‘t Stand the Rain
29 Magma - Ẁurdah Ïtah
30 Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
31 Kansas - Kansas
Hi Alfred. Excellent choice and list.
@@melaniethurber5117Thank you, Melanie!
Excellent choice, Alfred. I picked Get Your Wings this month as well.
@@weirddebbiem1619 Thank you, Debbie. Another match.
@@Alfred_Domke_antispace-sounds You're welcome, Alfred. Yay, a match.
For the Day 13 I present the folowing picks of mine:
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs, released on 24th April 1974. Already seen as pick of many comentators in previous days, on my list it was for today.
Ex-YU pop/rock album: Dalibor Brun - Ponovo na poznatom putu
Just listened to this one while shoveling snow. Will be on my list tomorrow.
#19. Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow
highlights: “Speedy’s coming” “They need a million” “Fly to the rainbow”
Excellent choice today. They Need a Million is so epic.
0:23 pick #13
My picks: Grand Funk Railroad - Shinin On / All the Girls In the World Beware!!!
Ranking them #31-1. Own all of these, most on vinyl.
#19-Bad Company-Bad Company
#20-Scorpions-Fly to the Rainbow
#21-Kiss-Hotter Than Hell
#22-Kansas-Kansas
#23-Joe Walsh-So What
#24-Yes-Relayer
#25-Rory Gallagher-Irish Tour 74
#26-Nazareth-Rampant
#27-Rush-Rush
#28-David Bowie-Diamond Dogs
#29-Thin Lizzy-Nightlife
#30-BTO-Not Fragile
#31-Budgie-In For the Kill
Great pick
Great choice Kevin, a classic debut album.
Great pick. Later on my list.
@@JoelPrice253It’s such a great year for classic music
So What is my favorite on your list. An underappreciated album that flew under the radar for a lot of people. It is also the last studio album Joe released before joining the Eagles.
Day 13: Stanley Clarke
Day 12: Thin Lizzy - Nightlife
Day 11: Rick Wakeman - Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
Day 10: ELP - Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends
Day 9: Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller
Day 8: Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Day 7: Deep Purple - Burn
Day 6: Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
Day 5: Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
Day 4: Uriah Heep - Wonderworld
Day 3: Yes - Relayer
Day 2: Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Day 1: King Crimson - Red
#19 Renaissance-Turn of the Cards
I've known the band for years and years, but I hadn't really bothered to investigate their music before I came across this channel. A very good album, and at least as good as Ashes Are Burning. Even though "Can You Understand" remains my fav Renaissance song, Pete is right; "Mother Russia" is a terrific track. I think this was the last record to feature a composition by ex-member Jim McCarty, best known as the drummer of the Yardbirds ("Things I Don't Understand"). My only complaint is that they seemingly had a 'habit' of borrowing classical compositions without properly crediting them. Here, "Cold Is Being" is obviously the famous Adagio by Albinoni (the real composer Remo Giazotto), but never mind.
#20 Frank Zappa-Apostrophe (')
Numbers 21-31 (in no specific order): King Crimson-Starless and Bible Black, Deep Purple-Stormbringer, Yes-Relayer, Queen II, Neil Young-On the Beach, Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Van Morrison-Veedon Fleece, David Bowie-Diamond Dogs, The Rolling Stones-It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, 10cc-Sheet Music, Kiss-Hotter than Hell.
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
Matching picks!
Great pick.
@@JoelPrice253 ty
Killer Pick!! lol more on that later!
The Donald/ definitely- had it last week 👍💯
Today I'm going with REO Speedwagon's 'Lost in a Dream'. I really quite like some of their early stuff in particular - some good rocking tunes.
Great choice, will be coming up on my list too, later in the month.
Cool pick
19. Crosswinds - Billy Cobham
My pick as well. Stunning.
@@shaunogle530 Definitely!
Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel. Filled with live staples. US Blues, Scarlet Begonias, Pride of Cucomonga, and Ship of Fools.
Hey that was on my list today too
Today I'm picking the last album released by this blues rock band. For Jan 13th , it's "Positive Vibrations" from Ten Years After.
Hi King. Awesome choice
Good one Pete! I only had Hot Rats, Man from Utopia and Tinseltown Rebellion which are all great before SOT but Overnite Sensation, One Size Fits All and Apostrophe (today) are a creative peak among a career of peaks which I’m so glad I eventually digested completely in their glory - thank you Pete! These were all albums I had heard back in college on friends stereos but didn’t appreciate all the eccentric greatness; Hilarious and with great jazz/rock chops - what’s not to love!
31 Second Helping - Lynyrd Skynyrd
#30 Relayer - Yes
#29 King Crimson - Red
#28 Wishbone Ash - Theres The Rub
#27 Trapeze- Hot Wire
#26 Budgie - In For The Kill
#25 Roxy Music - Country Life
#24 Chris Youlden - City Child
#23 John Lennon - Walls & Bridges
#22 Billy Cobham - Crosswinds
#21 Jethro Tull - War Child
#20 Thin Lizzy - Nightlife
#19 Sweet - Desolation Boulevard + Sweet FA
Cool pick Logan!
@@steverogers2635 Thank you Steve! The title cut Sweet F A has to be one of the earlier examples of a heavy metal gallop! Bet Steve Harris was listening to that track a bit!
Today's choice is Rock N Roll Animal by Lou Reed. Two of my favorite live cuts are on this album, Sweet Jane and Rock 'n' Roll. Great guitar interplay by Dick Wagner and Steve Hunter.
If I were ranking my list, this would be in my top 3. Excellent album/choice!
Thank you.@@gaznathemoon1128
Great pick, it’s in my top 30, so I’ll pick it for my Day 13 selection, too. A top 3 Zappa album IMHO.
#19 Utopia - Todd Rundgren's Utopia
#20 King Crimson - Red
#21 Rufus - Rags To Rufus
#22 Scorpions - Fly To The Rainbow
#23 Chicago - Chicago VII
#24 Robert Palmer - Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley
#25 Rush - Rush
#26 Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
#27 Deep Purple - Burn
#28 Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
#29 Nektar - Down To Earth
#30 Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
#31 New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
Another excellent pick Monte.
Day 13. Larry Coryell - Introducing Eleventh House with Larry Coryell Coryell makes his fusion band debut with 11th House and he brings a load of talent with him in Alphonse Mouzon, Randy Brecker, Mike Mandel and Danny Trifon. The songs are that mix of bebop quickness and rock/funk sensibilities with a heavy Miles Davis/Herbie Hancock influence. In other words, this set rocks.
1. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
2. Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel
3. Gong - You
4. Guru Guru - Dance Of The Flames
5. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
6. Joe Pass - Virtuoso
7. 2nd Chapter of Acts - With Footnotes
8. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
9. The Meters - Rejuvenation
10. Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
11. Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson - Winter in America
12. Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different
13. Larry Coryell - Introducing Eleventh House with Larry Coryell
Terrific album. Randy Brecker seems to have played on every quality album of the early/late 1970s.
Ushers in a wonderful album run with Level One/Aspects - excellent fusion!
Awesome pick today Pete! Still to come for me.
Day 13 (#19): Weather Report - Mysterious Traveller
20. Rush - Rush
21. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
22. Chicago - Chicago VII
23. Eagles - On The Border
24. Herbie Hancock - Thrust
25. Kiss - Kiss/Hotter Than Hell
26. Stevie Wonder - Fullfillingness’ First Finale
27. Lou Reed - Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal; Sally Can’t Dance
28. Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
29. Supertramp - Crime of the Century
30. Rolling Stones - It’s Only Rock and Roll
31. Elton John - Caribou
Cool pick Scott.
19. UFO - Phenomenon (Chrysalis/EMI)
If there was ever a hard rock band that deserved to break through to superstardom in 1974 with hooky, melodic, accessible songwriting, a hot shot guitarist (Michael Schenker) and strong vocalist (Phil Mogg), it's UFO. The only thing that must have held them back from Led Zeppelin, Kiss and Van Halen level popularity was most likely the most banal of all reasons in the music business -- business. Forget the bean counters, at least we can pay proper homage now, just as Iron Maiden strives to correct the injustice by blasting "Doctor Doctor" on the PA before every single show they play, to millions of people. Gotta love that Hipgnosis cover too.
20. Sparks - Propaganda (Island)
21. Good Rats - Tasty (WB)
22. Roxy Music - Country Life (EG)
23. Budgie - In For The Kill! (MCA)
24. Be-Bop Deluxe - Axe Victim (Harvest)
25. Cockney Rebel - Psychomodo (EMI)
26. 10cc - Sheet Music (UK)
27. Supertramp - Crime of the Century (A&M)
28. Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (MCA)
29. Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado (Jet/EpicLegacy)
30. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs (RCA)
31. Rush - Rush (Mercury)
32. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping (MCA)
33. Mott The Hoople - The Hoople (Columbia)
34. Neil Young - On The Beach (Reprise)
35. Yes - Relayer (Atlantic)
36. Popol Vuh - Einsjager & Siebenjager (Spalax)
37. Joni Mitchell - Court And Spark (Reprise)
38. Sweet - Desolation Boulevard (RCA)
39. Gene Clark - No Other (Line)
40. Kraftwerk - Autobahn (Philips)
41. Big Star - Sister Lovers (Aura)
42. The Sensational Alex Harvey Band - The Impossible Dream (Mercury)
43. The Meters - Rejuvenation (Reprise)
44. Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Atlantic)
45. Strawbs - Hero and Heroine (A&M)
46. Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory (PolyGram)
47. Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness' First Finale (Motown)
48. Gong - You (Radio Gnome Invisible Pt. 3) (Virgin)
49. Camel - Mirage (Deram)
50. Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before (Polydor)
#19 of 31: Neil Young: On the Beach
Very nice. And also my choice today.
1. Autobahn (Kraftwerk)
2. Borboletta (Santana)
3. Chicago VII (Chicago)
4. Court And Spark (Joni Mitchell)
5. Caravan And The New Symphonia (Caravan)
6. Eldorado (Electric Light Orchestra)
7. Everyone Is Everybody Else (Barclay James Harvest)
8. In Camera (Peter Hammill)
9. Lamb Lies Down On Broadway (Genesis)
10. Irish Tour '74 (Rory Gallager)
11. Mirage (Camel)
12. The Power And The Glory (Gentle Giant)
13. Pretzel Logic (Steely Dan)
Day 13
My choice for today is:
Santana
“Lotus”
1 The Moody Blues “This is the Moody Blues”
2 BB King and Bobby Bland”Together for the First Time”
3 Donna Summer “Lady of the Night”
4 Bad Company “Bad Company”
5 Arlo Guthrie “Arlo Guthrie”
6 JJ Cale “Okie”
7 Freddie King “Burglar”
8 Diana Ross “Live at Caesars”
9 Rory Gallagher “Irish Tour”
10 John Lennon “Walls and Bridges”
11 Muddy Waters “Unk”in Funk”
12 Rolling Stones “It’s only Rock and Roll”
13 Santana “Lotus”
Definitely gets a thumbs up 👍from me for this choice, Melanie.
Nice choice Melanie. I have it coming up
A superb live album.I still have my original vinyl triple with the accompanying artwork. Great choice.
Excellent pick Melanie! That album is fantastic!
Excellent pick Melanie.
My Pick for Today #13 Jethro Tull - Warchild
I wasn't a huge TULL fan outside of my three favorite albums, Songs From The Wood, Heavy Horses and Stormwatch, (and of coarse Bursting Out!) and
felt that was all I needed. Then in the early 2000's I was in a band with a guy who was a major TULL fan and he enlightened me on some of the earlier
albums, and man did I get into them! this album besides the well known hits Skating Away & Bungle... the songs are much like what I loved about my
favorite era of the Band. Warchild, Back-Door Angels, Sealion and Two Fingers are favorites. the acoustic Solitaire is fantastic.
Hi Drew. Excellent choice and article.
#19- Budgie: IN for the KiLL
HEAVY Riffage with great Guitar and Soulful Metal singing.
Never heard em til 2020!! Love it!
#20- BAD Co.
Great pick ziggy!
@@steverogers2635 Aye! Capn
OK, Pete, so I AM doing mine in order, so here we go:
#19: Fly to the Rainbow by Scorpions - “Drifting Sun” is my number 2 rock track from 74. Everything penned and played by Uli Jon Roth was absolute gold!
#20: Mysterious Traveller by Weather Report
#21: The Trio by Peterson, Pass, & Pederson
#22: Stormbringer by Deep Purple
#23: Sheer Heart Attack by Queen
#24: Paper Money by Montrose
#25: Self-Titled Debut by Rush
#26: In for the Kill! by Budgie
#27: Secret Treaties by Blue Oyster Cult
#28: Reality by Monk Montgomery
#29: Self-Titled Debut by Bad Company
# 30: Sweet Fanny Adams by Sweet
# 31: Carolina County Ball by Elf
Hi everyone, hope you're having a great weekend...
My pick today is the debut album by a band I've loved ever since hearing their most famous song and so, my wayward sons - and daughters - I give you..
KANSAS "Kansas"
What a start to an incredible recording history... Cheers everyone, back tomorrow...
Needless to say this is a magnificent choice Iain. It really sets out the Kansas ethos for the 70s.
Excellent pick Iain. One of several excellent debut albums from '74.
Hi Iain. Awesome choice and article.
Iain. I’m really worried about Kevin. He’s been off a long time. I’m starting to think that he’s having some issues with his pacemaker. That the doctors put in. I wish he would send one of us a message.
@@melaniethurber5117 I'm thinking the same, let's keep everything x'ed...
my day #19 pick is
fleetwood mac
"heroes are hard to find"
cheers
Hi Bengal. Awesome choice
Awesome choice, bengal. I am not as familiar with this album as their other ones. I plan to do a personal listo of Fleetwood Mac. 🎶💜💜
@@melaniethurber5117 hey mel thanx🐯
@@weirddebbiem1619 hey deb thanx, yah the f mac listo ws fun💜💜
@@bengalgangster You're welcome, bengal. I bet it was. There have been so many incarnations of the line-up and sound that it will be interesting to hear. 🎶💜💜
19. Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
20. David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
21. Montrose - Paper Money
22. King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
23. Deep Purple - Burn
24. Yes - Relayer
25. The Who - Odds & Sods
26. Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
27. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Second Helping
28. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
29. Nazareth - Rampant
30. Uriah Heep - Wonderworld
31. Deep Purple - Stormbringer
for day 13 my 19th favourite album, Im going with UFO Phenomenon
great shirt Pete!
Great pick Pete. He had just the best musicians in his band. A lot of people groove on Frank’s songwriting and lyrics, but he was a master craftsman on the guitar. On a personal note Pete, the FM station we listened to in 1974, they played virtual every song on the album.
Good shirt, Pete! I am soooo glad you show love to that TK/Guercio period! Too bad you were not featuring what I thought you may, but I am confident it is on the way.
Day #13 for me is an album I do not care to hear anymore, but is still a classic and sounded so good to me as a youngster (it in fact "blew me away"). I am talking about David Bowie's DIAMOND DOGS, released on 5/24/74. REBEL REBEL became one of FM rock's songs of that summer in the Atlantic City area (which is the Philly market).
I will admit that 'BIG BROTHER/CHANT OF THE EVER CIRCLING SKELETAL FAMILY still sounds as good as it did back in the summer of 74.
Day #1 -Joni Mitchell - COURT AND SPARK 1/17/74
Day #2- Gordon Lightfoot -SUNDOWN *Late January
Day #3 - DB - ONCE VICES…2/1/74
Day #4- Tangerine Dream - PHAEDRA - 2/20
Day #5- Steely Dan - PRETZELOGIC- 2/20
Day #6 - Grand Funk Railroad - SHININ’ ON - 3/1
Day #7 - Kanasas - SELF-TITLED - 3/7
Day #8 - Chicago VII - 3/8
Day #9 - Peter Frampton - SOMETHING’S HAPPENING - Sometime in March 74
Day #10 - Robin Trower - BRIDGE OF SIGHS - 4/20/74
Day #11 - Focus - HAMBURGER CONCERTO - 4/74
Day #12 - The Kinks - PRESERVATION ACT II - 5/8
Jethro Tull War Child
GREAT CHOICE! I knew this had to make the list. This was my 1st Frank Zappa experience & made me dig into his discography a bit more & half century later I still haven't heard all his albums! Such a trippy album & FUN enjoyable ❤
My pick for day13 is
Paul Desmond - Skylark
Another gem from the CTI label, featuring Desmond on alto sax, Gabor Szabo on guitar, Bob James on piano and electric piano, Ron Carter on bass and Jack DeJohnette on drums. Laid back and excellent.
New to me. I’ll give this a listen. His playing on DBQ live at Carnegie Hall is fantastic.
Hi Bret. Don’t know your choice. I’ll have to check it out.
19 Neil Young On the Beach
20 Abba Waterloo
21 Sparks Kimono my House
22 Strawbs Hero and Heroine
23 Raspberries Starting Over
24 Henry Cow Unrest
25 Ringo Starr Goodnight Vienna
26 David Bowie Diamond Dogs
27 Queen II
28 Hatfield and the North s/t
29 The Residents Meet the Residents
30 Brian Eno Taking Tiger Mountain
31 Richard and Linda Thompson
Hi Todd! Excellent pick! That was mine that I forgot to add on. I especially love the track See the sky about rain, whole thing is fantastic tho.
@@gaznathemoon1128 thanks gazn. And you are spot on.
For day 13 I'll go with Kiss - Hotter Than Hell.
pick 13 Bad Company - 1st release self-titled.
My pick for today: Van Morrison - Veedon Fleece
Good one right there that's on my honorable mention list indeed. many good ones that didn't make the cut but we're so close
Today day 13
Grateful Dead from the Mars hotel
This would be where they were starting to get burned out on touring take a break from live performing for a bit
Coming quickly on the heels of the prior wake of the flood album a lot more livelier.
The great rev up us blues
One of my favorites The unbroken chain song so well by Phil with its unique different time changes and more just a classic Dead song
Also has what would become a later live extended jam and favorite Scarlett begonias
And the closer ship of fools
Hi Kev. Great pick and excellent article.
@@melaniethurber5117 Melanie thank you 🤠