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1974 - THE YEAR © ℗®™ Part 20 - Which album from this list of 1974 releases do you consider to be the best?

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1974 THE YEAR © ℗®™ Part 20  

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  1. 1. Which album from 1974 in your judgement is the top album of that year based on this list?

    • Queen - Queen II
      1
    • Deep Purple - Burn
      2
    • King Crimson - Red
      1
    • Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
      1
    • Yes - Relayer
      3
    • Queen - Sheer Heart Attack
      4
    • Budgie - In For the Kill
      0
    • Jethro Tull - War Child
      1
    • UFO - Phenomenon
      1
    • Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
      1
    • KISS - Hotter Than Hell
      1
    • Supertramp - Crime of the Century
      2
    • Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
      0
    • Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
      1
    • King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black
      0
    • Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
      1
    • Judas Priest - Rocka Rolla
      0
    • Deep Purple - Stormbringer
      0
    • The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
      0
    • Thin Lizzy - Nightlife
      0
    • Roxy Music - Country Life
      1
    • Return to Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
      0
    • Gryphon - Red Queen to Gryphon Three
      0
    • Scorpions - Fly to the Rainbow
      1
    • New York Dolls - Too Much Too Soon
      0
    • KISS - KISS
      0
    • Kansas - Kansas
      0
    • Nazareth - Rampant
      0
    • Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else
      0
    • Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
      0
    • Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
      0
    • Uriah Heep - Wonderworld
      0
    • Miles Davis - Big Fun
      0
    • Status Quo - Quo
      0
    • Bowie - Diamond Dogs
      2
    • Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
      0
    • Kraftwerk - Autobahn
      1
    • Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile
      0
    • Montrose - Paper Money
      0
    • Bad Company - Bad Company
      1

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Nova Carmina

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Yikes. There's no stopping the rock, is there?

 

I wanna pick Thin Lizzy as an emotional favorite, but I can't really claim it's better than Burn or Stormbringer or War Child or either KISS album or The Lamb Lies Down.

 

Oh, dear, I'm rambling again.

 

It's Burn.

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King Crimson - Red

 

very close call with Relayer & Lamb Lies Down.

 

Also excellent: Crime of the Century, Starless and Bible Black, Queen II, Bridge of Sighs, Sheer Heart Attack, Pretzel Logic,

 

Kansas appears on the scene!

 

HOWEVER, you missed one released in 74 that would be in my top 20 all-time:

Apostrophe_%28%27%29.jpg

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King Crimson - Red

 

very close call with Relayer & Lamb Lies Down.

 

Also excellent: Crime of the Century, Starless and Bible Black, Queen II, Bridge of Sighs, Sheer Heart Attack, Pretzel Logic,

 

Kansas appears on the scene!

 

HOWEVER, you missed one released in 74 that would be in my top 20 all-time:

Apostrophe_%28%27%29.jpg

I had it in but I took it out. What I do is I open out the 40 options and I put certainties up in the high positions and maybes at the bottom. Then when all the slots are filled (and I get a bit worried) I have to remove some titles to make way for the ones that HAVE to be in. It's usually the ones at the bottom, the maybees that get ousted, occasionally it's an album that I had down as a certainty that goes out.

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cygnify

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King Crimson - Red

 

very close call with Relayer & Lamb Lies Down.

 

Also excellent: Crime of the Century, Starless and Bible Black, Queen II, Bridge of Sighs, Sheer Heart Attack, Pretzel Logic,

 

Kansas appears on the scene!

 

HOWEVER, you missed one released in 74 that would be in my top 20 all-time:

Apostrophe_%28%27%29.jpg

I had it in but I took it out. What I do is I open out the 40 options and I put certainties up in the high positions and maybes at the bottom. Then when all the slots are filled (and I get a bit worried) I have to remove some titles to make way for the ones that HAVE to be in. It's usually the ones at the bottom, the maybees that get ousted, occasionally it's an album that I had down as a certainty that goes out.

 

That's cool; obviously you choose different ones than I, or perhaps somebody else, would. I understand. This is fun!

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Another year filled with really good releases! I am like Entre Perpetuo, it's very hard to decide because there are so many good ones.

 

I ended up voting for Bowie's Diamond Dogs as a sentimental favorite; I don't know if it is the best, but I've always loved it. Halfway between Ziggy and the Thin White Duke, Bowie is kind of trying to figure out who to be next and made an entertaining record.

 

Burn for a close second, then one of the Queen releases.

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HOWEVER, you missed one released in 74 that would be in my top 20 all-time:

Apostrophe_%28%27%29.jpg

 

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe was voted 'best guitar album' of 1974 by Guitar Player Magazine.

 

There is also his stellar live album released in 1974

Zappa_Roxy_%26_Elsewhere.jpg

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HOWEVER, you missed one released in 74 that would be in my top 20 all-time:

Apostrophe_%28%27%29.jpg

 

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe was voted 'best guitar album' of 1974 by Guitar Player Magazine.

 

There is also his stellar live album released in 1974

Zappa_Roxy_%26_Elsewhere.jpg

Aha you see Live albums, I don't include them, it's studio albums only. There's kind of exceptions where an album is half live and half new material like Night of the Living Dregs and Fandango but otherwise it's studio only for this series.

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RushFanForever

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HOWEVER, you missed one released in 74 that would be in my top 20 all-time:

Apostrophe_%28%27%29.jpg

 

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe was voted 'best guitar album' of 1974 by Guitar Player Magazine.

 

There is also his stellar live album released in 1974

Zappa_Roxy_%26_Elsewhere.jpg

 

Now that I think about it, I think both albums were bundled together as one in the Guitar Player polls.

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treeduck

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Here's one I wanted to put in just because of the cover...

 

http://jamesostafford.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/tom-scott-and-the-la-express-front.jpg?w=1000&h=&crop=1

 

Rush connection - there’s a song on that album called “Spindrift”

So you looked it up eh? :smoke:

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Here's one I wanted to put in just because of the cover...

 

http://jamesostafford.files.wordpress.com/2017/05/tom-scott-and-the-la-express-front.jpg?w=1000&h=&crop=1

 

Rush connection - there’s a song on that album called “Spindrift”

So you looked it up eh? :smoke:

 

Yup. Never even heard of that artist before

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