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1973



Iggy and The Stooges – Raw Power (American punk rock)
Aerosmith – Aerosmith (American hard rock, debut)
Queen – Queen (English hard rock/ progressive rock, debut)
Pink Floyd – The Dark Side Of The Moon (English progressive rock)
Little Feat – Dixie Chicken (American southern rock)
Black Sabbath – Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (English heavy metal)
Frank Zappa – Over-Nite Sensation (American jazz fusion / comedy rock)
Marvin Gaye – Let’s Get It On (American soul)
Deep Purple – Who Do We Think We Are (English heavy metal)
Led Zeppelin – Houses Of The Holy (English hard rock/ heavy metal)
David Bowie – Aladdin Sane (English glam rock)
Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies (American hard rock/heavy metal)
Blue Oyster Cult – Tyranny And Mutation (heavy metal/psychedelic rock)
David Bowie – Pin Ups (English glam rock, cover album)
New York Dolls – New York Dolls (American punk rock/glam rock)
The Who – Quadrophenia (English hard rock, rock opera)
Paul McCartney & Wings – Band On The Run (English pop rock)
Montrose – Montrose (American hard rock/heavy metal, debut for band featuring future Van Halen singer/solo artist Sammy Hagar).
Lynyrd Skynyrd – (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) (American southern rock, debut)
Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (English pop rock/ glam rock)
Thin Lizzy – Vagabonds Of The Western World (Irish hard rock/ blues rock)
Genesis – Selling England By The Pound (English progressive rock)
Sparks – A Woofer In Tweeter’s Clothing (American art-pop/glam rock)
Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure (English art rock/glam rock)
George Harrison – Living in the Material World (English folk-rock)
Ringo Starr – Ringo (English pop rock)
John Lennon – Mind Games (English pop rock)
Paul McCartney & Wings – Red Rose Speedway (English pop rock)
ZZ Top – Tres Hombres (American blues rock)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Brain Salad Surgery (English progressive rock)
Stevie Wonder – Innervisions (American funk/soul)
Yes – Tales From Topographic Oceans (English progressive rock, double concept album with 4 side-long compositions)
Mahavishnu Orchestra – Birds of Fire (American jazz fusion)
The Rolling Stones – Goat’s Head Soup (English rock and roll)
Bob Dylan – Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid (American folk-rock, soundtrack to the film of the same name)
Bruce Springsteen – Greetings From Ashbury Park, N.J. (American folk rock, debut album)
Bruce Springsteen – The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (American rock and roll)
Tom Waits – Closing Time (American folk rock/jazz, debut album)
Steely Dan – Countdown To Ecstasy (American jazz-rock)
Lou Reed – Berlin (American art rock/ rock opera, solo album by former Velvet Underground member)
Faust - Faust IV (German experimental rock/krautrock)        
Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells (English progressive rock, debut)
John Cale – Paris 1919 (Welsh art-pop/baroque pop, solo album by former Velvet Underground member)
The Allman Brothers – Brothers and Sisters (American southern rock)
 Marshall Tucker Band – Marshall Tucker Band (American southern rock/country rock, debut)
T. Rex – Tanx (English glam rock)
Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star (American art pop)
Uriah Heep – Sweet Freedom (English heavy metal/progressive rock)
Fleetwood Mac – Mystery To Me (English pop rock/blues rock)
Necromandus – Orexis Of Death (English progressive metal, recorded in 1973 but officially released in 1999)
King Crimson – Larks’ Tongues In Aspic (English progressive rock)
Can – Future Days (German experimental rock/krautrock, their last album with vocalist Damo Suzuki)
Herbie Hancock – Headhunters (American jazz-funk)
Mott The Hoople – Mott (English glam rock / hard rock)
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Catch A Fire (Jamaican reggae)
Faces – Ooh La La (English hard rock/blues rock, their last studio album)
Neu! – Neu! 2 (German experimental rock/krautrock)
Hawkwind – Space Ritual (English space rock/proto-punk, live album)


Notes: 

My favorite new discovery of this session was Necromandus - their initial claim to fame was being discovered, managed and produced by Tony Iommi, and there are some similarities to the more prog side of Sabbath. Neu! 2 inspired an album of mine without my actually hearing it - See, the backstory to the album is that they ran out of money partway through the sessions, so most of side b was the same two songs being sped up, slowed down, or otherwise manipulated - I remembered hearing about this when I was running way behind schedule on an RPM album I was supposed to complete at the end of the month, and decided to try the same thing. In general, the early 70's is turning out to be one of my favorite periods of music - at very least anytime I've hit a year between 1970 and 1975 I've found some exciting stuff.

10. Todd Rundgren  A Wizard, A True Star
9. Can - Future Days
8. Herbie Hancock - Headhunters
7. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
6.  The Stooges - Raw Power
5. Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
4. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
3. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
2. Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
1. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon

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