Music - Favorite Albums from Favorite Year

[UHF]

What is your favorite year with respect to studio and live albums?

1973.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon.
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound.

Yes - Yessongs (triple live album).
Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans (double album).

Doobie Brothers - Captain and Me.
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.

Marshall Tucker Band - self titled debut album.
Allman Brothers - Brothers and Sisters.
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd.

Emerson Lake & Palmer - Brain Salad Surgery.
Renaissance - Ashes are Burning.
Kansas - self titled debut album.

Chicago - Chicago VI.
Styx - Styx III.

Led Zeppelin - House of the Holy.
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.

Montrose - self titled debut album.
Aerosmith - self titled debut album.

 

[rvwsleep]

1971

Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East.
(I saw them perform at the Fillmore)

The Doors - L A Woman

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Janis Joplin - Pearl

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin IV

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Pink Floyd - Meddle

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

The Who - Who's Next

Yes - Fragile

 

[Monte]

1959

Songs of Our Soil (Johnny Cash)
Come Dance with Me (Frank Sinatra)
A Date with Elvis (Elvis Presley)
Belafonte at Carnegie Hall (Harry Belafonte)
That's All (Bobby Darin)

 

[darkstar1]

1968: Electric Ladyland; Beggar’s Banquet; Music from Big Pink; Traffic; Gris Gris (Dr. John); Bookends (Simon and Garfunkel); We’re Only In It For The Money (Mothers) and Wheels of Fire…to name a few.

 

[Bigboote]

Great topic. We play cards with another couple about once a month. For the past several years, in January or February I'll play all music from 50 years ago. I thought I'd need to scratch well below the surface after 1971, but I found so many good albums from 1972, I might do another month. I'm torn between 1968 and 69, so am doing 1969. These are all albums I own and have listened to in the last month or two, roughly in order of how often I listen to them. I tried to keep it to 10 artists, but didn't succeed. 15 is a moral victory.

One thing that always strikes me -- look at how fast these bands came out with albums. And these aren't crap albums full of album filler. The three by Creedence, two by the Moodies, and two by Zeppelin don't have a bad cut among them. Now you're lucky if your favorite band comes out with an album every two years.

Moody Blues – On the Threshhold of a Dream
To Our Children’s Children’s Children

Creedence Clearwater Revival -- Bayou Country
Green River
Willie and the Poor Boys (they outsold the Beatles in 1969)

the Kinks -- Arthur

Fairport Convention – Unhalfbricking

Procol Harum – A Salty Dog

King Crimson -- In the Court of the Crimson King

Joni Mitchell – Clouds

Tommy – the Who

Led Zeppelin I
LZ II

Sly and the Family Stone – Stand!

Hot Rats – Frank Zappa

Santana self-titled

Soft Parade – the Doors

Steppenwolf – Monster
At Your Birthday Party

The Beatles – Abbey Road

Miles Davis – In a Silent Way

the Rascals -- Freedom Suite

 

[UHF]

Great topic. . . . I tried to keep it to 10 artists, but didn't succeed. 15 is a moral victory. . . .

One thing that always strikes me -- look at how fast these bands came out with albums. And these aren't crap albums full of album filler. . . .

Has any other group/artist released 3 straight double albums at the beginning of their career?

Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago II
Chicago III

 

[Bigboote]

Has any other group/artist released 3 straight double albums at the beginning of their career?

Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago II
Chicago III

Carnegie Hall was a four record set, too.

 

[huskyblooz]

1971

Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East.
(I saw them perform at the Fillmore)

The Doors - L A Woman

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Janis Joplin - Pearl

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin IV

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Pink Floyd - Meddle

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

The Who - Who's Next

Yes - Fragile

OMG. I beg anyone to come up with a better list. These are ALL classic albums.!!!

 

[Dove]

The Year was 1983:

"Earth Crisis" - Steel Pulse

"Texas Flood" - Stevie Ray Vaughn

"War" - U2

"Labor of Love" - UB40

"Sports" - Huey Lewis and the News

"Synchronicity" - The Po Po

"Let's Dance" - David Bowie

 

[uconnfan68]

1971

Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East.
(I saw them perform at the Fillmore)

The Doors - L A Woman

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Janis Joplin - Pearl

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin IV

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Pink Floyd - Meddle

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

The Who - Who's Next

Yes - Fragile

Several of my all-time favorites.

 

[Cedar]

1971

Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East.
(I saw them perform at the Fillmore)

The Doors - L A Woman

Jethro Tull - Aqualung

Janis Joplin - Pearl

Joni Mitchell - Blue

Led Zepplin - Led Zepplin IV

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Pink Floyd - Meddle

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story

The Who - Who's Next

Yes - Fragile

Great list. Here are some other albums that were released in 1971. Some of these albums aren’t my favorites, but they are classics nonetheless.

George Harrison — The Concert for Bangladesh
John Lennon — Imagine
Paul McCartney — Ram
Carole King — Tapestry
Carlos Santana — Santana III
Carly Simon — self titled, Anticipation
The Doobie Brothers — The Doobie Brothers
Traffic — The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Welcome to the Canteen

 

[Beemer]

Has any other group/artist released 3 straight double albums at the beginning of their career?

Chicago Transit Authority
Chicago II
Chicago III

Early Chicago was just incredible. Then Terry Kath died....

 

[Mdoggie]

The miseducation of Lauryn Hill 1998!

 

[UHF]

Great list. Here are some other albums that were released in 1971. Some of these albums aren’t my favorites, but they are classics nonetheless.

George Harrison — The Concert for Bangladesh
John Lennon — Imagine
Paul McCartney — Ram
Carole King — Tapestry
Carlos Santana — Santana III
Carly Simon — self titled, Anticipation
The Doobie Brothers — The Doobie Brothers
Traffic — The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Welcome to the Canteen

1971 ablum release - Rare Earth Live In Concert - double album.

 

[Kaizen]

 

[Kaizen]

2021 The Eagles Hotel California 40th Anniversary Remastered Edition

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[meyers7]

I'd have to with 1976. Really just starting to get into music as I hit high school. And these came out.

Eagles - Hotel California
Kansas - Leftoverture
Boston - Boston
AC/DC - High Voltage
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Rush - 2112
Bog Seger - Night Moves

 

[Summoner]

 

[FfldCntyFan]

A lot of tremendous picks but in all candor, 1967 has to be viewed as the best ever.

It saw the debut of The Doors (The Doors, followed by Strange Days), Big Brother and The Holding Company (Big Brother and The Holding Company), Pink Floyd (The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), Traffic (Mr. Fantasy), Procol Harum (Procol Harum),The Jimi Hendrix Experience (Are You Experienced?) and The Velvet Underground (The Velvet Underground & Nico). A lesser debut that year was Moby Grape (Moby Grape) who in most years would have been far more than an afterthought.

It also had seminal albums by Bob Dylan (John Wesley Harding), Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, along with After Bathing at Baxter's), The Who (The Who Sell Out), Cream (Disraeli Gears), The Rolling Stones (Their Satanic Majesties Request along with Between the Buttons) as well as quality albums from The Byrds (Younger Than Yesterday), Eric Burdon & The Animals (Winds of Change).

The above can stand up to any year and it is not even including what many view as the greatest album ever; The Beatles (Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. In 1967 they also released Magical Mystery Tour),

I'm intentionally leaving out a less than stellar The Beach Boys album and a couple extremely popular albums by The Monkees.

 

[Kaizen]

2002 The Very Best of Linda Ronstadt

 

[Kaizen]

The Very Best of the Carpenters