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

[treeduck]

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

He's a jazz saxophone guy. He also played on a lot of TV shows both the themes and the incidental music.

[Stormtron]

Aerosmith - Get Your Wings

[Segue Myles]

Roxy Music- Country Life for me!

[treeduck]

Roxy Music- Country Life for me!

The cover is great! :smoke:

[The Cat 3]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2014/11/Sheer-Heart-Attack-Frontal.jpg?w=600&h=0&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89

[Mithrandir]

Queen 2

This album is so criminally overlooked. It is a monster!!

[goose]

And the lamb shits down on the competition.........

 

in 2nd place is supertramp

Crime is tops for me.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

Queen 2

This album is so criminally overlooked. It is a monster!!

 

It's my second favorite Queen album. I think Mick likes to call it one of the progenitors of progressive metal, and I'm very inclined to agree. Ogre Battle, The March Of The Black Queen, Father To Son....this is the first album I'd offer someone who thinks Queen were a singles band.

[Entre_Perpetuo]

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/files/2014/11/Sheer-Heart-Attack-Frontal.jpg?w=600&h=0&zc=1&s=0&a=t&q=89

 

 

So many bands did these kind of "sexy" shirtless cover photo shots. Most of them sucked, but this one does not. I think it really succeeds because the band look like they're being cooked alive or something, lol. Add that to the News Of The World cover and Queen are very good at presenting themselves in dire circumstances. That reminds me...

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s16cRi22kNQ

 

I wonder how Stewie feels about the Sheer Heart Attack cover.

[tangy]

And the lamb shits down on the competition.........

 

in 2nd place is supertramp

Crime is tops for me.

 

Ha, ha you're bloody well right

You know you're right to say

[Mithrandir]

Roxy Music- Country Life for me!

Love this album!!

[Mithrandir]

And the lamb shits down on the competition.........

 

in 2nd place is supertramp

Nah.

[78jazz]

Too hard for me here. I see 4 albums (Relayer, Hotter Than Hell, Get Your Wings, The Power and the Glory) that all vie for the top spot.

[treeduck]

Again there's lots of great stuff here, two Deep Purple albums, two Queen albums, two King Crimson albums and all are great.

 

Then you've got YES, TULL, Budgie, the Kansas debut, Aerosmith, Gentle Giant, UFO, Blue Oyster cult.

 

My final choice though is Sheer Heart Attack, it just has more killer songs than any other album here.

[treeduck]

Have I missed 1978?

Well did you?