I've just now (re)discovered that I have the Golden Palominos' Blast of Silence on vinyl. It looks a little scratched up; I will try to check if it plays ok this weekend. If you want it you can have it for the price of shipping.
@cafreema: What? Having a kid broke your google?
You bet your bippy it did! Thanks for the linky! What the hell was I thinking? It's Pitchfork. I didn't have half the stuff they listed and I disagree heartily at their #1s for both the 80s and 90s. HOWEVER. They reminded me I must find Ride's Nowhere and listen to it, stat! I bookmarked that. I want to go back and read more of those reviews.
@Muggsy
Well I knew SOMEone would debate with me. Don't get me wrong, I like Nirvana. I have the darlingest box set from them that came in a metal tin: With The Lights Out.
So you just toddle on, You Know You're Right (Solo Acoustic), stuck in your little heart-shaped box.
@amclark2
Bless your heart! Thanks, but do you know what? I am right now listening to Kraftwerk's The Model which is downstairs and I haven't listened to in over 5 years since the turntable isn't hooked up. I think I need ot suck it up and buy the CD. It came out in 1986 I think, when CDs still weren't in many of the stores, so it's hard to find, Why they haven't re-issued it, I don't know. The vinyl copies are always on eBay but not the CDs. I have it on cassete around here, but can't be bothered to listen to that, either. I need digital! Thanks though, that's a very generous offer.
First of all, I'll have to say that Nirvana is my favorite rock band since the Clash, who was my favorite rock band since Led Zep, who was my favorite rock band since the Beatles/Stones/Who, and so on and so on back to when Thag first took two animal femurs and pounded them on an empty, dried out gourd (or skull depending the geography).
Dave Grohl is the kickassyiest drummer of the last 20 years of popular music. He is the truest disciple of John Bonham (which he himself with his Zep 4 Bonham tatoo would be proud to claim). Without him, Nirvana wouldn't have had the heft to become a focal point of post-punk rock and roll. Pearl Jam's drummer is good, but he is very much in the late 70s arena rock tradition (for better or worse). I don't proclaim Grohl's superiority likely, since one of Pearl Jam's drummer is actually a distant relative of mine.
Besides, Mr Vedder (or do I mean Vader?) always sounds like he's squeezing one out on the morning after a visit to the all-U-can-eat burrito bar......
@katrina "Your post has convinced me I must try out Tag & Rename."
The best feature is that it will rename the files from the tags. I think all the tags are available, at least all I have ever needed (composer, for example.) I think there is a free-trial window, probably thirty days.
If Tag & Rename costs money, I'd suggest exploring Mp3tag instead. I used it for years until switching to foobar2000 as my player. You can do all sorts of batch re-tagging and re-naming with both.
As for the great Guvera giveaway, a few more albums popped into my mind last night. But all good things... I think I'm finally ready to let go. Hopefully the disappearance of all but the demo channel is an indication that they're getting ready to launch new ones for October.
Well, drat, I actually had a list for this morning. Just have to see what the future brings....
Last night, musing upon the future, I was thinking if there were to be a band seriously underrepresented in your collection, presented with an opportunity such as this, how it might be best to hit the big ones off a greatest/best of first because these, and of course long tracks, are the most likely to be Album Only if you went looking elsewhere to supplement.
I don't do many single track (cash) purchases so maybe I just haven't noticed but browsing these last 2 weeks it seems per track prices have gone up out there. 7dig @ $1.49, for instance. That's more than I would cough up for one track, 0.99 was bad enough.
Katrina - While I love, love, love both OK Computer and Daydream Nation, I agree they would not be #1 for me from either decade. That said, I can't really complain too much about either being in that spot.
Hopefully we get another day of credits, but if not I thank Guvera and EMI again! My collection is far more complete than it was before this month.
@Katrina: I'm not big on absolutes. If you want to say Pearl Jam's bass player is better than Nirvana's, you'll get no argument from me. If you want to argue vocals with Eddie Vedder v. Kurt Cobain, I can appreciate both sides. I prefer Nirvana to Pearl Jam, but I've heard Vedder kill on other stuff (like the Who''s Live at Royal Albert Hall gig, where he absolutely nailed the vocal on "I'm One"). But Dave Grohl v. almost any living rock drummer is a mismatch. I'm sure there's somebody out there who could hang, but it's a short list, and I don't see the guy from Pearl Jam making it.
@BigD: I've also been waiting for the Station to Station reissue to show up on Guvera, but I kinda figured they'd hold it back till after the promo. In the interest of throwing a few bucks EMI's way while still getting a deal, I bought the DL from Amazon last night. Used my $5 Amie Street coupon and got the whole shebang for $6.99.
I am hoping we'll get one last day of EMI freebies, since I got halfway through Dr. John's Mercernary last night before running out.
I have (or had at some point) 55 out of the 100 for the 90's list. My average is a lot better at the top end - I have 10 out of the top 10, 20 out of the top 16, and the average slides steadily from there. I guess I'm 90's boy. What's funniest to me is to see things I've had for close to 20 years right next to things I just got this year for the first time.
I don't disagree with any of their picks, but I never tend to disagree with lists because I'm never really able to pick a favorite for a given time. The two albums that stuck out most to me were Dylan and Waits - but those don't really count do they? (And why no Neil Young picks?)
As for Nirvana Gohl is a great drummer, but lately I'm on the outs with Nirvana. I can't listen to them without hearing what a control freak Cobain was, and really how narrow their musical vision tends to be. That's just me lately though. I'm sure I'll come back around.
For me Siamese Dream is #1 for the nineties, but that has as much to do with things the album represents for me as it does the album itself. (Jimmy Chamberlain is a fantastic drummer too. Not in Grohl's class, but he's right up there.)
I'm not sure what I'd put at #1 for the eighties. That would take some serious cogitation.
Sometime in the least year someone at the eMusic board posted an article from a musician who writes about artists' compensation issues in digital media. It was apropos to the effects that the price increases at eMu had on payouts to artists themselves. The writer contacted his old label to his if his band was receiving credit toward the monies "advanced" to them with the sale of albums. The response was chilly: they didn't care about the sales of an "unrecooped" band.
The only valid argument about price floors for downloads came from Bissie, who explained how much an artist is due per song and per recorded minute. However, I think that the experiences of the musician reveal more about record label economics, especialy the larger conglomerates like EMI. Most of their attention is on making the most of the newest releases. What was put out 10-20 years ago should take up that much attention.
A promotion such as this probably helps EMI by raising the profile of its name. We tend to think in terms of records labels because we have been both disciplined by and disappointed with eMusic. I tend to think that kind of branding has largely disappeared from public consciousness. Personally, I found it difficult to see what was available if a strong brand wasn't attached to it, which is probably why Mute, Sugar Hill, Blue Note and Real World received so much of my attention. Yet great examples of the same genres were available elsewhere in the catalog, and I hesitated on the Ravi Shankars and the Gerry Mulligans until much later. It was just easier to get another Jackie McLean. (Also because those Blue Notes has longer tracks, and I've become a cheapskate. Thanks again, eMu.)
We might well have given EMI a better idea how to market itself and its associates: what kinds of music are interesting to voracious consumers like us. We may also have given them ideas how to present their back catalogs and exploit them to promote new releases. Who knows? I can think of a few newer Real Worlds that I want, and my might pick up some Sonny Criss and more Gerry Mulligan soon.
ETA: David Grohl is a great woodchopper. Jimmy Chamberlain is a great drummer. The coolest drummer by far is Janet Weiss.
Well start piling up stones, I must be some kind of revanchist - I have precisely 3 of the Pitchfork 90's list - Dylan's Time Out Of Mind, and In Utero and Nevermind - the last two thanks to the 7dig Xmas sale last year. Funny because I bought a lot, I mean a lot, of music in the 90's but I guess it was all in other genres.
I don't think double copies count as two, but if they do, I have about 160 of the 80s and 135 of the 90s.
Otherwise, I have around 95 out of a 100 for each of the decades, although I can't say I remember what more than half of them sound like.
If London Calling had been released 3 weeks later, it would have been voted best album of the 80s. I consider it an 80s album, since it wasn't released until Jan 1980 in the US.
In my book, In Utero is the best album of the 90s - how can you top "doll steak-test meat"?
I am a little surprised that Purple Rain ranked a lot higher than Sign of the Times. And neither Born in the USA nor Tunnel of Love even make the cut? That's just arch!
There was WAY too much Prince on the list, I mean, c'mon. Prince's The Hits/The B-Sides covers what you need from there...Get 1999 from 1982 and you're good for the 80s.
The #1 album from the 90s was, clearly, U2's Achtung Baby. And, it was ALSO a commercial success! How sweet is that?
Amazon has a reality check for you on this: 80s vs 90s. On the whole, I would have to rate the 90s quite a bit higher in terms of suck factor, largely based on the emergence of "country" albums.
If I'm being honest...it was the music of the 90's that made me appreciate that there was a lot of 70's music that didn't suck as much as I had thought it did at the time, it even made some of the 80's look better. I'm a 50's/60's type guy musically at heart, but the former explains why my most numerous EMI grabs were Bowie, Floyd, Robin Trower, and UFO. The Blue Note was nice icing on the cake, well that and The Cramps.
Maybe the coming decade will make me appreciate the 90's - I'm such an optimist.
I definitely think that overall quality of music took a nose dive in the late 80s. Between the late 50s to the mid 70s, a large percentage of the better albums were actually on major labels. When that quality started declining, you had the rise of the indies in the late 70s which kept thing interesting for another decade. Now the indie scene is so Balkanized and given over to hipster/hypster irony that very few things have any real impact any more.
When I look at the top selling album charts from the 60s through the 80s, I like a surprising amount of it - maybe 15-16 out of the yearly top 20 are worth buying, in my opinion. Now, it's a matter of maybe 2-3 out of 20, most of it I wouldn't waste the space on it even if it were free.
I went to Robert Christgau site and copied his A-List albums from one year (1970).
These albums all came out in the same year!
A doubt you could come up with a more impressive list if you came up with top decade lists for the the 90s or 00s:
* Derek and the Dominos: Layla [Atco]
* Firesign Theatre: Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers [Columbia]
* Van Morrison: Moondance [Warner Bros.]
* Randy Newman: 12 Songs [Reprise]
* Sly & the Family Stone: Greatest Hits [Epic]
* Neil Young: After the Gold Rush [Reprise]
* The Beatles: Hey Jude [Apple]
* James Brown: Sex Machine [King]
* Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo's Factory [Fantasy]
* Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark [Atlantic]
* Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead [Warner Bros.]
* Al Green: Al Green Gets Next to You [Hi]
* The Insect Trust: Hoboken Saturday Night [Atco]
* John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band [Apple]
* John McLaughlin: Devotion [Douglas]
* Van Morrison: His Band and Street Choir [Warner Bros.]
* Tracy Nelson: Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country [Mercury]
* Dolly Parton: The Best of Dolly Parton [RCA Victor]
* Leon Thomas: The Leon Thomas Album [Flying Dutchman]
* The Velvet Underground: Loaded [Cotillion]
* The Beach Boys: Sunflower [Brother/Reprise]
* The Beatles: Let It Be [Apple]
* Big Brother and the Holding Company: Be a Brother [Columbia]
* James Brown: Super Bad [King]
* Jerry Butler: The Best of Jerry Butler [Mercury]
* Canned Heat: Future Blues [BGO]
* Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Lick My Decals Off, Baby [Bizarre/Straight]
* Creedence Clearwater Revival: Pendulum [Fantasy]
* Miles Davis: Bitches Brew [Columbia]
* Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: To Bonnie from Delaney [Atco]
* Delaney & Bonnie & Friends With Eric Clapton: On Tour [Atco]
* The Doors: 13 [Elektra]
* Lee Dorsey: Yes We Can [Polydor]
* Bob Dylan: New Morning [Columbia]
* Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking [A&M]
* Fleetwood Mac: Kiln House [Reprise]
* Allen Ginsberg: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience [Verve/Forecast]
* Grateful Dead: American Beauty [Warner Bros.]
* Janis Joplin: Pearl [Columbia]
* Gladys Knight & the Pips: Greatest Hits [Soul]
* Jerry Lee Lewis: The Best of Jerry Lee Lewis [Smash]
* Love: False Start [Blue Thumb]
* Loretta Lynn: Loretta Lynn Writes 'Em and Sings 'Em [Decca]
* MC5: Back in the U.S.A. [Atlantic]
* Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon [Reprise]
* Mother Earth: Satisfied [Mercury]
* Nolan: No Apologies [Lizard]
* Ann Peebles: Part Time Love [Hi]
* Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival [Reprise]
* Charlie Rich: The Fabulous Charlie Rich [Epic]
* Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley [Mercury]
* The Stooges: Fun House [Elektra]
* Booker T. & the MG's: Greatest Hits [Stax]
* Johnnie Taylor: Johnnie Taylor's Greatest Hits Vol. 1 [Stax]
* The Temptations: Greatest Hits, Volume 2 [Gordy]
* Ike & Tina Turner and the Ikettes: Come Together [Liberty]
* Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson: The Original Cleanhead [Blues Time]
* Jesse Winchester: Jesse Winchester [Ampex]
* Ray Charles: A 25th Anniversary in Show Business Salute to Ray Charles [ABC]
* Miles Davis: Jack Johnson [Columbia]
* Sly & the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On [Epic]
* Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story [Mercury]
* Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Motel Shot [Atco]
* Tom T. Hall: In Search of a Song [Mercury]
* Jimi Hendrix: The Cry of Love [Reprise]
* Joy of Cooking: Joy of Cooking [Capitol]
* Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV [Atlantic]
* John Lennon: Imagine [Apple]
* Nils Lofgren/Grin: 1 + 1 [Spindizzy]
* Mahavishnu Orchestra/John McLaughlin: The Inner Mounting Flame [Columbia]
* Joni Mitchell: Blue [Reprise]
* Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson [RCA Victor]
* Wilson Pickett: The Best of Wilson Pickett Vol. II [Atlantic]
* John Prine: John Prine [Atlantic]
* The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers [Rolling Stones]
* The Who: Who's Next [Decca]
* Stevie Wonder: Stevie Wonder's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 [Tamla]
* David Bowie: Hunky Dory [RCA Victor]
* James Brown: Hot Pants [Polydor]
* Clarence Carter: The Best of Clarence Carter [Atlantic]
* Ray Charles: Volcanic Action of My Soul [ABC]
* The Chi-Lites: (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People [Brunswick]
* Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love and Hate [Columbia]
* Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse [Reprise]
* Miles Davis: Live-Evil [Columbia]
* The Doors: L.A. Woman [Elektra]
* Faces: A Nod Is as Good as a Wink . . . to a Blind Horse [Warner Bros.]
* Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge [Reprise]
* Michael Hurley & Pals: Armchair Boogie [Raccoon]
* Jackson 5: Greatest Hits [Motown]
* B.B. King: Live in Cook County Jail [ABC]
* Carole King: Tapestry [Ode]
* Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey [Warner Bros.]
* The Move: Message from the Country [Capitol]
* Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors [RCA Victor]
* Bonnie Raitt: Bonnie Raitt [Warner Bros.]
* Helen Reddy: Helen Reddy [Capitol]
* Sir Douglas Quintet: The Return of Doug Saldana [Philips]
* The Stylistics: The Stylistics [Avco]
* Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers: Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers [Alligator]
* The Who: Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy [Decca]
* Bill Withers: Just As I Am [Sussex]
* Howlin' Wolf: The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions [Chess]
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I've just now (re)discovered that I have the Golden Palominos' Blast of Silence on vinyl. It looks a little scratched up; I will try to check if it plays ok this weekend. If you want it you can have it for the price of shipping.
You bet your bippy it did! Thanks for the linky! What the hell was I thinking? It's Pitchfork. I didn't have half the stuff they listed and I disagree heartily at their #1s for both the 80s and 90s. HOWEVER. They reminded me I must find Ride's Nowhere and listen to it, stat! I bookmarked that. I want to go back and read more of those reviews.
@Muggsy
Well I knew SOMEone would debate with me. Don't get me wrong, I like Nirvana. I have the darlingest box set from them that came in a metal tin: With The Lights Out.
So you just toddle on, You Know You're Right (Solo Acoustic), stuck in your little heart-shaped box.
@amclark2
Bless your heart! Thanks, but do you know what? I am right now listening to Kraftwerk's The Model which is downstairs and I haven't listened to in over 5 years since the turntable isn't hooked up. I think I need ot suck it up and buy the CD. It came out in 1986 I think, when CDs still weren't in many of the stores, so it's hard to find, Why they haven't re-issued it, I don't know. The vinyl copies are always on eBay but not the CDs. I have it on cassete around here, but can't be bothered to listen to that, either. I need digital! Thanks though, that's a very generous offer.
Dave Grohl is the kickassyiest drummer of the last 20 years of popular music. He is the truest disciple of John Bonham (which he himself with his Zep 4 Bonham tatoo would be proud to claim). Without him, Nirvana wouldn't have had the heft to become a focal point of post-punk rock and roll. Pearl Jam's drummer is good, but he is very much in the late 70s arena rock tradition (for better or worse). I don't proclaim Grohl's superiority likely, since one of Pearl Jam's drummer is actually a distant relative of mine.
Besides, Mr Vedder (or do I mean Vader?) always sounds like he's squeezing one out on the morning after a visit to the all-U-can-eat burrito bar......
Well. I am WERY WERY happy with my Dandy Warhols, Wire, Kraftwerk, and The Feelies albums I got.
So...it's still 29 September in Australia, right? There is still hope for more credits?
OK. This is even BETTER. New month, boatloads of new credits! woo hoo!
The best feature is that it will rename the files from the tags. I think all the tags are available, at least all I have ever needed (composer, for example.) I think there is a free-trial window, probably thirty days.
As for the great Guvera giveaway, a few more albums popped into my mind last night. But all good things... I think I'm finally ready to let go. Hopefully the disappearance of all but the demo channel is an indication that they're getting ready to launch new ones for October.
Last night, musing upon the future, I was thinking if there were to be a band seriously underrepresented in your collection, presented with an opportunity such as this, how it might be best to hit the big ones off a greatest/best of first because these, and of course long tracks, are the most likely to be Album Only if you went looking elsewhere to supplement.
I don't do many single track (cash) purchases so maybe I just haven't noticed but browsing these last 2 weeks it seems per track prices have gone up out there. 7dig @ $1.49, for instance. That's more than I would cough up for one track, 0.99 was bad enough.
Hopefully we get another day of credits, but if not I thank Guvera and EMI again! My collection is far more complete than it was before this month.
Craig
@BigD: I've also been waiting for the Station to Station reissue to show up on Guvera, but I kinda figured they'd hold it back till after the promo. In the interest of throwing a few bucks EMI's way while still getting a deal, I bought the DL from Amazon last night. Used my $5 Amie Street coupon and got the whole shebang for $6.99.
I am hoping we'll get one last day of EMI freebies, since I got halfway through Dr. John's Mercernary last night before running out.
I don't disagree with any of their picks, but I never tend to disagree with lists because I'm never really able to pick a favorite for a given time. The two albums that stuck out most to me were Dylan and Waits - but those don't really count do they? (And why no Neil Young picks?)
As for Nirvana Gohl is a great drummer, but lately I'm on the outs with Nirvana. I can't listen to them without hearing what a control freak Cobain was, and really how narrow their musical vision tends to be. That's just me lately though. I'm sure I'll come back around.
How'd you pull that off?
For me Siamese Dream is #1 for the nineties, but that has as much to do with things the album represents for me as it does the album itself. (Jimmy Chamberlain is a fantastic drummer too. Not in Grohl's class, but he's right up there.)
I'm not sure what I'd put at #1 for the eighties. That would take some serious cogitation.
Craig
Sometime in the least year someone at the eMusic board posted an article from a musician who writes about artists' compensation issues in digital media. It was apropos to the effects that the price increases at eMu had on payouts to artists themselves. The writer contacted his old label to his if his band was receiving credit toward the monies "advanced" to them with the sale of albums. The response was chilly: they didn't care about the sales of an "unrecooped" band.
The only valid argument about price floors for downloads came from Bissie, who explained how much an artist is due per song and per recorded minute. However, I think that the experiences of the musician reveal more about record label economics, especialy the larger conglomerates like EMI. Most of their attention is on making the most of the newest releases. What was put out 10-20 years ago should take up that much attention.
A promotion such as this probably helps EMI by raising the profile of its name. We tend to think in terms of records labels because we have been both disciplined by and disappointed with eMusic. I tend to think that kind of branding has largely disappeared from public consciousness. Personally, I found it difficult to see what was available if a strong brand wasn't attached to it, which is probably why Mute, Sugar Hill, Blue Note and Real World received so much of my attention. Yet great examples of the same genres were available elsewhere in the catalog, and I hesitated on the Ravi Shankars and the Gerry Mulligans until much later. It was just easier to get another Jackie McLean. (Also because those Blue Notes has longer tracks, and I've become a cheapskate. Thanks again, eMu.)
We might well have given EMI a better idea how to market itself and its associates: what kinds of music are interesting to voracious consumers like us. We may also have given them ideas how to present their back catalogs and exploit them to promote new releases. Who knows? I can think of a few newer Real Worlds that I want, and my might pick up some Sonny Criss and more Gerry Mulligan soon.
ETA: David Grohl is a great woodchopper. Jimmy Chamberlain is a great drummer. The coolest drummer by far is Janet Weiss.
It was the 90's; I used fuzzy math like Al Gore.
amclark2 - Do you store your 90s albums in a lock-box?
Craig
I don't think double copies count as two, but if they do, I have about 160 of the 80s and 135 of the 90s.
Otherwise, I have around 95 out of a 100 for each of the decades, although I can't say I remember what more than half of them sound like.
If London Calling had been released 3 weeks later, it would have been voted best album of the 80s. I consider it an 80s album, since it wasn't released until Jan 1980 in the US.
In my book, In Utero is the best album of the 90s - how can you top "doll steak-test meat"?
I am a little surprised that Purple Rain ranked a lot higher than Sign of the Times. And neither Born in the USA nor Tunnel of Love even make the cut? That's just arch!
The #1 album from the 90s was, clearly, U2's Achtung Baby. And, it was ALSO a commercial success! How sweet is that?
Maybe the coming decade will make me appreciate the 90's - I'm such an optimist.
When I look at the top selling album charts from the 60s through the 80s, I like a surprising amount of it - maybe 15-16 out of the yearly top 20 are worth buying, in my opinion. Now, it's a matter of maybe 2-3 out of 20, most of it I wouldn't waste the space on it even if it were free.
These albums all came out in the same year!
A doubt you could come up with a more impressive list if you came up with top decade lists for the the 90s or 00s:
* Derek and the Dominos: Layla [Atco]
* Firesign Theatre: Don't Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers [Columbia]
* Van Morrison: Moondance [Warner Bros.]
* Randy Newman: 12 Songs [Reprise]
* Sly & the Family Stone: Greatest Hits [Epic]
* Neil Young: After the Gold Rush [Reprise]
* The Beatles: Hey Jude [Apple]
* James Brown: Sex Machine [King]
* Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo's Factory [Fantasy]
* Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark [Atlantic]
* Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead [Warner Bros.]
* Al Green: Al Green Gets Next to You [Hi]
* The Insect Trust: Hoboken Saturday Night [Atco]
* John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band [Apple]
* John McLaughlin: Devotion [Douglas]
* Van Morrison: His Band and Street Choir [Warner Bros.]
* Tracy Nelson: Mother Earth Presents Tracy Nelson Country [Mercury]
* Dolly Parton: The Best of Dolly Parton [RCA Victor]
* Leon Thomas: The Leon Thomas Album [Flying Dutchman]
* The Velvet Underground: Loaded [Cotillion]
* The Beach Boys: Sunflower [Brother/Reprise]
* The Beatles: Let It Be [Apple]
* Big Brother and the Holding Company: Be a Brother [Columbia]
* James Brown: Super Bad [King]
* Jerry Butler: The Best of Jerry Butler [Mercury]
* Canned Heat: Future Blues [BGO]
* Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Lick My Decals Off, Baby [Bizarre/Straight]
* Creedence Clearwater Revival: Pendulum [Fantasy]
* Miles Davis: Bitches Brew [Columbia]
* Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: To Bonnie from Delaney [Atco]
* Delaney & Bonnie & Friends With Eric Clapton: On Tour [Atco]
* The Doors: 13 [Elektra]
* Lee Dorsey: Yes We Can [Polydor]
* Bob Dylan: New Morning [Columbia]
* Fairport Convention: Unhalfbricking [A&M]
* Fleetwood Mac: Kiln House [Reprise]
* Allen Ginsberg: William Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience [Verve/Forecast]
* Grateful Dead: American Beauty [Warner Bros.]
* Janis Joplin: Pearl [Columbia]
* Gladys Knight & the Pips: Greatest Hits [Soul]
* Jerry Lee Lewis: The Best of Jerry Lee Lewis [Smash]
* Love: False Start [Blue Thumb]
* Loretta Lynn: Loretta Lynn Writes 'Em and Sings 'Em [Decca]
* MC5: Back in the U.S.A. [Atlantic]
* Joni Mitchell: Ladies of the Canyon [Reprise]
* Mother Earth: Satisfied [Mercury]
* Nolan: No Apologies [Lizard]
* Ann Peebles: Part Time Love [Hi]
* Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience: Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival [Reprise]
* Charlie Rich: The Fabulous Charlie Rich [Epic]
* Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley [Mercury]
* The Stooges: Fun House [Elektra]
* Booker T. & the MG's: Greatest Hits [Stax]
* Johnnie Taylor: Johnnie Taylor's Greatest Hits Vol. 1 [Stax]
* The Temptations: Greatest Hits, Volume 2 [Gordy]
* Ike & Tina Turner and the Ikettes: Come Together [Liberty]
* Eddie "Cleanhead" Vinson: The Original Cleanhead [Blues Time]
* Jesse Winchester: Jesse Winchester [Ampex]
* Ray Charles: A 25th Anniversary in Show Business Salute to Ray Charles [ABC]
* Miles Davis: Jack Johnson [Columbia]
* Sly & the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On [Epic]
* Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story [Mercury]
* Delaney & Bonnie & Friends: Motel Shot [Atco]
* Tom T. Hall: In Search of a Song [Mercury]
* Jimi Hendrix: The Cry of Love [Reprise]
* Joy of Cooking: Joy of Cooking [Capitol]
* Led Zeppelin: Led Zeppelin IV [Atlantic]
* John Lennon: Imagine [Apple]
* Nils Lofgren/Grin: 1 + 1 [Spindizzy]
* Mahavishnu Orchestra/John McLaughlin: The Inner Mounting Flame [Columbia]
* Joni Mitchell: Blue [Reprise]
* Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Schmilsson [RCA Victor]
* Wilson Pickett: The Best of Wilson Pickett Vol. II [Atlantic]
* John Prine: John Prine [Atlantic]
* The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers [Rolling Stones]
* The Who: Who's Next [Decca]
* Stevie Wonder: Stevie Wonder's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 [Tamla]
* David Bowie: Hunky Dory [RCA Victor]
* James Brown: Hot Pants [Polydor]
* Clarence Carter: The Best of Clarence Carter [Atlantic]
* Ray Charles: Volcanic Action of My Soul [ABC]
* The Chi-Lites: (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People [Brunswick]
* Leonard Cohen: Songs of Love and Hate [Columbia]
* Crazy Horse: Crazy Horse [Reprise]
* Miles Davis: Live-Evil [Columbia]
* The Doors: L.A. Woman [Elektra]
* Faces: A Nod Is as Good as a Wink . . . to a Blind Horse [Warner Bros.]
* Jimi Hendrix: Rainbow Bridge [Reprise]
* Michael Hurley & Pals: Armchair Boogie [Raccoon]
* Jackson 5: Greatest Hits [Motown]
* B.B. King: Live in Cook County Jail [ABC]
* Carole King: Tapestry [Ode]
* Van Morrison: Tupelo Honey [Warner Bros.]
* The Move: Message from the Country [Capitol]
* Dolly Parton: Coat of Many Colors [RCA Victor]
* Bonnie Raitt: Bonnie Raitt [Warner Bros.]
* Helen Reddy: Helen Reddy [Capitol]
* Sir Douglas Quintet: The Return of Doug Saldana [Philips]
* The Stylistics: The Stylistics [Avco]
* Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers: Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers [Alligator]
* The Who: Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy [Decca]
* Bill Withers: Just As I Am [Sussex]
* Howlin' Wolf: The London Howlin' Wolf Sessions [Chess]