If you could only own and play music from one year what would you choose?
I think 1973 for me. I cut and pasted a couple of lists to support my thinking. Any better suggestions?
There are some great websites showing releases by year.
1. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
2. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
4. Quadrophenia - The Who
5. Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
7. Call Me - Al Green
8. Catch A Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers
9. Band On The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
10. New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
11. Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges
12. For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
13. Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin
14. There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
15. Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
16. Burnin' - Bob Marley and the Wailers
17. The Spinners - The Spinners
18. Fresh - Sly and the Family Stone
19. 3+3 - The Isley Brothers
20. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
21. The Payback - James Brown
22. The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen
23. Berlin - Lou Reed
24. Wild and Peaceful - Kool and The Gang
25. Imagination - Gladys Knight and The Pips
26. Here Come the Warm Jets - Eno
27. Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan
28. Brothers And Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
29. Funky Kingston - Toots and the Maytals
30. Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
31. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
32. Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
33. Mott - Mott the Hoople
34. Paris 1919 - John Cale
35. Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
36. Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
37. Closing Time - Tom Waits
38. Space Ritual - Hawkwind
39. Over-Nite Sensation - The Mothers
40. Faust IV - Faust
41. Future Days - Can
42. GP - Gram Parsons
43. A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren
44. Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
45. Stranded - Roxy Music
Aerosmith – Aerosmith
Allman Brothers Band – Brothers and Sister
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
Alice Cooper Band – Billion Dollar Babies
Jim Croce – Life and Times & I Got a Name
The Doobie Brothers – The Captain and Me
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis – Selling England By the Pound
Grateful Dead – Wake of the Flood
Hall & Oates – Abandoned Luncheonette
George Harrison – Living in the Material World
Billy Joel – Piano Man
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
Lynard Skynard – Pronounced ‘lĕh-‘nérd ‘skin-‘nérd
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon *
Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
Bruce Spingsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ & The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle +
Thin Lizzy – Vagabonds of the Western World
Joe Walsh – The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get
The Who – Quadrophenia
Stevie Wonder – Innervision
John Martyn Solid Air.
Free Heartbreaker.
I think 1973 for me. I cut and pasted a couple of lists to support my thinking. Any better suggestions?
There are some great websites showing releases by year.
1. Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
2. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
4. Quadrophenia - The Who
5. Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd - Lynyrd Skynyrd
6. Let's Get It On - Marvin Gaye
7. Call Me - Al Green
8. Catch A Fire - Bob Marley & The Wailers
9. Band On The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings
10. New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
11. Raw Power - Iggy And The Stooges
12. For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music
13. Houses Of The Holy - Led Zeppelin
14. There Goes Rhymin' Simon - Paul Simon
15. Aladdin Sane - David Bowie
16. Burnin' - Bob Marley and the Wailers
17. The Spinners - The Spinners
18. Fresh - Sly and the Family Stone
19. 3+3 - The Isley Brothers
20. Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
21. The Payback - James Brown
22. The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle - Bruce Springsteen
23. Berlin - Lou Reed
24. Wild and Peaceful - Kool and The Gang
25. Imagination - Gladys Knight and The Pips
26. Here Come the Warm Jets - Eno
27. Countdown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan
28. Brothers And Sisters - The Allman Brothers Band
29. Funky Kingston - Toots and the Maytals
30. Selling England by the Pound - Genesis
31. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath - Black Sabbath
32. Larks' Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson
33. Mott - Mott the Hoople
34. Paris 1919 - John Cale
35. Dixie Chicken - Little Feat
36. Billion Dollar Babies - Alice Cooper
37. Closing Time - Tom Waits
38. Space Ritual - Hawkwind
39. Over-Nite Sensation - The Mothers
40. Faust IV - Faust
41. Future Days - Can
42. GP - Gram Parsons
43. A Wizard, a True Star - Todd Rundgren
44. Tres Hombres - ZZ Top
45. Stranded - Roxy Music
Aerosmith – Aerosmith
Allman Brothers Band – Brothers and Sister
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane
Alice Cooper Band – Billion Dollar Babies
Jim Croce – Life and Times & I Got a Name
The Doobie Brothers – The Captain and Me
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery
Genesis – Selling England By the Pound
Grateful Dead – Wake of the Flood
Hall & Oates – Abandoned Luncheonette
George Harrison – Living in the Material World
Billy Joel – Piano Man
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Led Zeppelin – Houses of the Holy
Lynard Skynard – Pronounced ‘lĕh-‘nérd ‘skin-‘nérd
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band on the Run
Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon *
Paul Simon – There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
Bruce Spingsteen – Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ & The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle +
Thin Lizzy – Vagabonds of the Western World
Joe Walsh – The Smoker You Drink, the Player You Get
The Who – Quadrophenia
Stevie Wonder – Innervision
John Martyn Solid Air.
Free Heartbreaker.
