Albums of 1975

[Cosmic Harmony]

I personally hold 1975 as one of the greatest years in music history for the sheer number of amazing albums released that their. From Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" to KISS' "Alive!" to Alice Cooper's "Welcome To My Nightmare" to The Boss' "Born To Run" it was just an absolutely stellar year in music that had some of the best work by many of music's finest. Some of the biggest were:


*Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd

*T.N.T. - AC/DC

*Welcome to My Nightmare - Alice Cooper

*The Who by Numbers - The Who

*Young Americans - David Bowie

*Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith

*Sabotage - Black Sabbath

*Siren - Roxy Music

*Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

*A Night at the Opera - Queen

*Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull

*Hair of the Dog - Nazareth

*Fandango! - ZZ Top

*Face the Music - ELO

*Alive! - Kiss

*Dreamboat Annie - Heart

*Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan

*Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck

*Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart

*Captain Fantastic & the Brown Dirt Cowboy - Elton John

*Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

*Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac

*Fool for the City - Foghat

*Fly by Night - Rush

*Nuthin' Fancy - Lynyrd Skynyrd

*One of These Nights - Eagles

*Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Rainbow

*Rock 'n' Roll - John Lennon

*Slade in Flame - Slade

*Straight Shooter - Bad Company

*Venus and Mars - Paul McCartney & Wings



I tried to hit up everything big but I'm sure I probably forgot something, so feel free to bring up anything I left out. What all do you all love about this year?

 

[Zombeels]

Kinks - Schoolboys In Disgrace
Sweet - Desolation Boulevard
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales And Bombers
Amon Düül II - Made In Germany
Patti Smith - Horses
Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
Ian Hunter - Ian Hunter
Nektar - Recycled
Robin Trower - For Earth Below
War - Why Can't We Be Friends
Rush - Caress Of Steel
Styx - Equinox

 

[Dave78]

The thing that I can appreciate about the 70's (and the 80's, too, for that matter) was that there was absolutely no shortage of great music released each year. Also from 75 (I believe), but not listed above are Ted Nugent's self-titled debut and BTO's Four Wheel Drive.

Some of my favs from '75 listed above are:

The Who by Numbers - The Who

Young Americans - David Bowie

Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith

Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin

Alive! - Kiss

Blow by Blow - Jeff Beck

Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen

Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac

Straight Shooter - Bad Company

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Sweet - Desolation Boulevard

I absolutely love "Desolation Boulevard", though I believe it was released sometime in late '74.

 

[Zombeels]

My mistake, you're right. The hits carried onto 1975.

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

*Sigh of relief* If I'd missed my favorite Sweet album then I would've been ashamed of myself.

 

[LG]

Great list Cosmic,,,I think you got most of them. I'll do a closer inspection later but nice thread and a fabulous year for rock music!

 

[Gabble Ratchet]

Wikipedia is fantastic for topics like this!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_in_music#Albums_released

A Night At The Opera - Queen would be my pick, but there's plenty of greatness there

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Thank you very much LG. ^^

 

[Cosmic Harmony]

Another great musical (I emphasize the words "great musical" heavily) masterpiece from 1975 is non other than....



I just watched this earlier today when I remember it came out in '75.