My favourite albums from 1973

1. 30

   Desperado

   The Eagles

   

   

   County rock | Folk rock

   Tracks:

   1. Doolin-Dalton
   2. Twenty-One
   3. Out of Coontrol
   4. Tequila Sunrise ●
   5. Desperado
   6. Certain Kind of Fool
   7. Doolin-Dalton (reprise)
   8. Outlaw Man
   9. Saturday Night
   10. Bitter Creek
   11. Doolin-Dalton/Desperado (reprise)

2. 29

   Future Days

   Can

   

   

   Space rock | Ambient

   Tracks:

   1. Future Days
   2. Spray
   3. Moonshake
   4. Bel Air ●

3. 28

   Countdown to Ecstasy

   Steely Dan

   

   

   Jazz rock

   Tracks:

   1. Bodhisattva
   2. Razor Boy
   3. The Boston Rag
   4. Your Gold Teeth
   5. Show Biz Kids ●
   6. My Old School
   7. Pearl of the Quarter
   8. King of the World

4. 27

   New York Dolls

   New York Dolls

   

   

   Proto-punk | Glam rock

   Tracks:

   1. Personality Crisis
   2. Looking for a Kiss
   3. Vietnamese Baby
   4. Lonely Planet Boy
   5. Frankenstein
   6. Trash ●
   7. Bad Girl
   8. Subway Train
   9. Pills
   10. Private World
   11. Jet Boy

5. 26

   Aerosmith

   Aerosmith

   

   

   Hard rock | Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. Make It
   2. Somebody
   3. Dream on
   4. One Way Street
   5. Mama Kin ●
   6. Write Me a Letter
   7. Movin' out
   8. Walkin' the Dog

6. 25

   Tales from Topographic Oceans

   Yes

   

   

   Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn) ●
   2. The Remembering (High the Memory)
   3. The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun)
   4. Ritual (Nous Sommed du Soleil)

7. 24

   Queen

   Queen

   

   

   Hard rock | Glam rock

   Tracks:

   1. Keep Yourself Alive ●
   2. Doing All Right
   3. Great King Rat
   4. My Fairy King
   5. Liar
   6. The Night Comes Down
   7. Modern Times Rock 'n' Roll
   8. Son and Daughter
   9. Jesus
   10. Seven Seas of Rhye

8. 23

   Tyranny and Mutation

   Blue Öyster Cult

   

   

   Hard rock | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Red & the Black
   2. O.D'd on Life Itself
   3. Hot Rails to Hell
   4. 7 Screaming Diz-Busters ●
   5. baby Ice Dog
   6. Wings Wetted Down
   7. Teen Archer
   8. Mistress of te Salmon Salt (Quicktime Girl)

9. 22

   Brain Salad Surgery

   Emerson, Lake & Palmer

   

   

   Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. Jerusalem
   2. Toccata
   3. Still ... You Turn Me on
   4. Benny the Bouncer
   5. Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression ●
   6. Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression
   7. Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression

10. 21

    Sufficiently Breathless

    Captain Beyond

    

    

    Progressive rock | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Sufficiently Breathless
    2. Bright Blue Tango
    3. Drifting in Space
    4. Evil Men
    5. Starglow Energy
    6. Distant Sun
    7. Voyages of Past Travellers
    8. Everything Is a Circle ●

11. 20

    Back Street Crawler

    Paul Kossoff

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Tuesday Morning ●
    2. I'm Ready
    3. Time Away
    4. Molten Gold
    5. Back Street Crawler (Don't Need You No More)

12. 19

    Faust IV

    Faust

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Krautrock ●
    2. The Sad Skinhead
    3. Jennifer
    4. Just a Second
    5. Giggy Smile / Picnic on a Frozen River, Deuxieme Tableau
    6. Läuft...Heißt Das Es Läuft Oder Es Kommt Bald...Läuft
    7. Run
    8. It's a Bit of a Pain

13. 18

    Tres Hombres

    ZZ Top

    

    

    Blues rock | southern rock

    Tracks:

    1. Waitin' for the Bus ●
    2. Jesus Just Left Chicago
    3. Beer Drinkers & Hell Raises
    4. Master of Sparks
    5. Hot, Blue and Righteous
    6. Move Me on Down the Line
    7. Precious and Grace
    8. La Grange
    9. Sheik
    10. Have You Heard?

14. 17

    Selling England by the Pound

    Genesis

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Dancing with the Moonlit Knight ●
    2. I Know What I Like (in Your Wardrobe)
    3. Firth of Fifth
    4. More Fool Me
    5. The Battle of Epping Forest
    6. After the Ordeal
    7. The Cinema Show
    8. Aisle of Plenty

15. 16

    From Books and Dreams

    Message

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Sleep!
    2. Dreams and Nightmares (Dreams) ●
    3. Turn Over!
    4. Sigh
    5. Dreams and Nightmares (Nightmares)

16. 15

    Sabbath Bloody Sabbath

    Black Sabbath

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ●
    2. A National Acrobat
    3. Fluff
    4. Sabra Cadabra
    5. Killing Yourself to Live
    6. Who Are You?
    7. Looking for Today
    8. Spital Architect

17. 14

    Tattoo

    Rory Gallagher

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Tattoo'd Lady
    2. Cradle Rock ●
    3. 20:20 Vision
    4. They Don't Make Them Like you Anymore
    5. Livin' Like a Trucker
    6. Sleep on a Clothes Line
    7. Who's That Coming
    8. A Million Miles Away
    9. Admit It

18. 13

    Birds of Fire

    Mahavishnu Orchestra

    

    

    Jazz fusion | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Birds of Fire ●
    2. Miles Beyond
    3. Celestial Terrestrial Commuters
    4. Sapphire Bullets of Pure Love
    5. Thousand Island Park
    6. Hope
    7. One Word
    8. Sanctuary
    9. Open Country Joy
    10. Resolution

19. 12

    Montrose

    Montrose

    

    

    Hard rock | Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Rock the Nation
    2. Bad Motor Scooter
    3. Space Station #5 ●
    4. I Don't Want It
    5. Good Rockin' Tonight
    6. Rock Candy
    7. One Thing on My Mind
    8. Make It Last

20. 11

    Innervisions

    Stevie Wonder

    

    

    Progressive soul | Funk

    Tracks:

    1. Too High
    2. Visions
    3. Living for the City
    4. Golden Lady
    5. Higher Ground ●
    6. Jesus Children of America
    7. All in Love Is Fair
    8. Don't You Worry 'Bout a Thing
    9. He's Misstra Know-It-All

21. 10

    Larks' Tongues in Aspic

    King Crimson

    

    

    Progressive rock | avant-garde rock

    Tracks:

    1. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Pt. 1
    2. Book of Saturday
    3. Exiles
    4. Easy Money
    5. The Talking Drum
    6. Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Pt. 2 ●

22. 9

    Tubular Bells

    Mike Oldfield

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Tubular Bells, Pt. I ●
    2. Tubular Bells, Pt. II

23. 8

    Brothers and Sisters

    The Allman Brothers Band

    

    

    Southern rock | Jam rock

    Tracks:

    1. Wasted Words
    2. Ramblin' Man
    3. Come and Go Blues
    4. Jelly Jelly
    5. Southbound
    6. Jessica ●
    7. Pony Boy

24. 7

    Camel

    Camel

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Slow Yourself Down
    2. Mystic Queen
    3. Six Ate
    4. Separation
    5. Never Let Go ●
    6. Curiosity
    7. Arubaluba

25. 6

    Billion Dollar Babies

    Alice Cooper

    

    

    Hard rock | glam rock

    Tracks:

    1. Hello Hooray
    2. Raped and Freezin'
    3. Elected
    4. Billion Dollar Babies
    5. Unfinished Business
    6. No More Mr. Nice Guy
    7. Generation Landslide ●
    8. Sick Things
    9. Mary Ann
    10. I Love the Dead

26. 5

    Raw Power

    Iggy and the Stooges

    

    

    Garage rock | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Search and Destroy
    2. Gimme Danger
    3. Your Pretty Fave Is Going to Hell
    4. Penetration ●
    5. Raw Power
    6. I Need Somebody
    7. Shake Appeal
    8. Death Trip

27. 4

    Who Do We Think We Are?

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Woman from Tokyo
    2. Mary Long
    3. Super Trouper
    4. Smooth Dancer
    5. Rat Bat Blue ●
    6. Place in Line
    7. Our Lady

28. 3

    The Dark Side of the Moon

    Pink Floyd

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Speak to Me
    2. Breathe (In the Air)
    3. On the Run
    4. Time ●
    5. The Great Gig in the Sky
    6. Money
    7. Us and Them
    8. Any Colour You Like
    9. Brain Damage
    10. Eclipse

29. 2

    Houses of the Holy

    Led Zeppelin

    

    

    Hard rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Song Remains the Same
    2. The Rain Song
    3. Over the Hills and Far Away
    4. The Crunge
    5. Dancing Days
    6. D'Yer Mak'er
    7. No Quarter ●
    8. The Ocean

30. 1

    Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd

    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    

    

    Southern rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. I Ain't the One
    2. Tuesday's Gone
    3. Gimme Three Steps
    4. Simple Man
    5. Things Goin' on
    6. Mississippi Kid
    7. Poison Whiskey
    8. Free Bird ●