1974: τα καλύτερα άλμπουμ πριν 40 χρόνια

'1974' ή πώς θα ήταν μια λίστα best albums 40 χρόνια πριν:

Επειδή οι λίστες του Wild Thing έχουν αρχίσει να παίρνουν διαστάσεις και δεν χωρούν στα πλαϊνά των σελίδων μας (σσ. εν προκειμένω του αρχείου του 'Blast From The Past'), έχουν αρχίσει να αποκτούν θέση και στο κέντρο τους. Ιδού λοιπόν μια πρόχειρη (...) επιλογή από κυκλοφορίες του 1974 που αξίζει να έχετε υπ' όψιν σας. Ναι, ξέρω, λείπουν διάφορα, αλλά αυτά τα έχετε όλα; Αν ναι, κερδίζετε τον τίτλο του «Επίτιμου Μέλους της Λεγεώνας Τιμής των Συντακτών του Wild Thing» (σσ. μιλήστε με τον αρχισυντάκτη για τις λεπτομέρειες της παρασημοφόρησης). Αν δε τα έχετε και σε βινύλια, το Wild Thing θα κρατήσει μυστική την ηλικία σας.

Σαράντα χρόνια πριν το σωτήριον έτος 2014 εις το οποίον ήδη βαδίζουμε (τοίχο-τοίχο), να τι άκουγε ο πρόγονος των σημερινών wildthings...

• Aerosmith: Get Your Wings
• America: Holiday
• Chet Atkins: Chet Atkins Picks on Jerry Reed
• Atlanta Rhythm Section: Third Annual Pipe Dream
• Kevin Ayers: The Confessions of Dr. Dream and Other Stories
• Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Eno & Nico: June 1, 1974 (live)
  
• Backman-Turner Overdrive: Not Fragile
• Bad Company: Bad Co.
• Badfinger: Badfinger
• Badfinger: Wish You Were Here
• Joan Baez: Gracias a la Vida (Here's to Life)
• Baker Gurvitz Army: Baker Gurvitz Army
• Barclay James Harvest: Everyone Is Everybody Else
• Big Star: Radio City
• Black Oak Arkansas: Early Times
• Black Oak Arkansas: Street Party
• Blood, Sweat & Tears: Mirror Image
• Bloodrock: Whirlwind Tongues
• Blue Oyster Cult: Secret Treaties
• Marc Bolan: The Beginning of Doves
• David Bowie: Diamond Dogs
• David Bowie: David Live
• Brinsley Schwarz: The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz
• James Brown: Hell
• Roy Buchanan: That's What I Am Here For
• Roy Buchanan: In the Beginning (Rescue Me)
• Tim Buckley: Look at the Fool
• Budgie: In for the Kill!
• Kenny Burrell: Up the Street, 'Round the Corner, Down the Block
• J.J. Cale: Okie
• John Cale: Fear
• Robert Calvert: Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters
• Camel: Mirage
• Can: Soon Over Babaluma
• Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Unconditionally Guaranteed
• Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Bluejeans & Moonbeams
• Caravan: Caravan & The New Symphonia
• Johnny Cash: Junkie and the Juicehead Minus Me
• Chicago: Chicago VII
• Eric Clapton: 461 Ocean Boulevard
• Gene Clark: No Other
• Stanley Clarke: Stanley Clarke
• Cluster: Zuckerzeit
• Cockney Rebel: The Psychomodo
• Leonard Cohen: New Skin For The Old Ceremony
• John Coltrane: Interstellar Space (ηχογράφηση '67)
  
• Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young: So Far (συλλογή)
  
• Ivor Cutler: Dandruff
• Miles Davis: Get Up with It
• Deep Purple: Burn
• Deep Purple: Stormbringer
• Jack DeJohnette: Sorcery
• Sandy Denny: Like an Old Fashioned Waltz
• Dr. Feelgood: Down By The Jetty
• Dr. John: Desitively Bonnaroo
• Bob Dylan: Planet Waves
• Bob Dylan: Before The Flood
• Eagles: On The Border
• The Electric Light Orchestra: Eldorado, A Symphony
• Eloy: Floating
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer (live)
  
• Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy)
• Fleetwood Mac: Heroes Are Hard To Find
• Flo & Eddie: Flo & Eddie
• Tom Fogerty: Zephyr National
• Funkadelic: Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
• Rory Gallagher: Irish Tour '74 (live)
  
• Genesis: The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
• Gentle Giant: The Power and the Glory
• Gong: You
• Jerry Goodman & Jan Hammer: Like Children
• The Grateful Dead: From the Mars Hotel
• Gryphon: Midnight Mushrumps
• Gryphon: Red Queen to Gryphon Three
• Arlo Guthrie: Arlo Guthrie
• Peter Hammill: The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
• Peter Hammill: In Camera
• Herbie Hancock: Thrust
• George Harrison: Dark Horse
• Hawkwind: Hall of the Mountain Grill
• Henry Cow: Unrest
• The Incredible String Band: Hard Rope & Silken Twine
• The J. Geils Band: Nightmares... and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle
• Etta James: Come a Little Closer
• Jade Warrior: Floating World
• Jane: Jane III
• Bert Jansch: L.A. Turnaround
• Keith Jarrett: Treasure Island
• Jefferson Airplane: Early Flight
• Jefferson Starship: Dragon Fly
• Jethro Tull: War Child
• Billy Joel: Streetlife Serenade
• Elton John: Caribou
• Jo Jo Gunne: So... Where's The Show?
• Judas Priest: Rocka Rolla
• Kansas: Kansas
• B.B. King & Bobby Bland: Together for the First Time... Live
• King Crimson: Starless and Bible Black
• King Crimson: Red
• Carole King: Wrap Around Joy
• The Kinks: Preservation Act 2
• Kiss: Kiss
• Kiss: Hotter Than Hell
• Lee Konitz: Satori
• Erkin Koray: Elektronik Türküler
• Kraftwerk: Autobahn
• Ronnie Lane: Ronnie Lane's Slim Chance
• John Lennon: Walls and Bridges
• Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me Now
• Jon Lord: Windows
• Lucifer's Friend: Banquet
• Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping
• Man: Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics
• Man: Slow Motion
• Manfred Mann's Earth Band: The Good Earth
• Bob Marley & The Wailers: Natty Dread
• The Marshall Tucker Band: A New Life
• The Marshall Tucker Band: Where We All Belong
• Dave Mason: Dave Mason
• Curtis Mayfield: Got to Find a Way
• Roger McGuinn: Peace on You
• Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
• Joni Mitchell: Miles of Aisles (live)
  
• Airto Moreira: Virgin Land
• Van Morrison: It's Too Late To Stop Now (live)
  
• Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece
• Mott the Hoople: The Hoople
• Mountain: Twin Peaks (live)
  
• Mountain: Avalanche
• Nazareth: Rampant
• Nektar: Down to Earth
• Randy Newman: Good Old Boys
• New York Dolls: Too Much Too Soon
• Nico: The End...
• The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Stars & Stripes Forever
• Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes: Call of the Wild
• Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes: Tooth Fang & Claw
• Shuggie Otis: Inspiration Information
• Parliament: Up for the Down Stroke
• Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel
• Ann Peebles: I Can't Stand The Rain
• Phantom: Phantom's Divine Comedy
• Poco: Seven
• Popol Vuh: Einsjäger & Siebenjäger
• Elvis Presley: Good Times
• The Pretty Things: Silk Torpedo
• Procol Harum: Exotic Birds and Fruit
• Queen: Queen II
• Queen: Sheer Heart Attack
• Raspberries: Starting Over
• Lou Reed: Sally Can't Dance
• Renaissance: Turn of the Cards
• REO Speedwagon: Lost in a Dream
• Return to Forever: Where Have I Known You Before
• The Rolling Stones: It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
• Linda Ronstadt: Heart Like A Wheel
• Roxy Music: Country Life
• Rufus: Rags to Rufus
• Rufus: Rufusized
• Rush: Rush
• Terje Rypdal: Whenever I Seem to Be Far Away
  
• Buffy Sainte-Marie: Buffy
• Pharoah Sanders: Love in Us All
• Santana: Lotus
• Santana: Borboletta
• Devadip Carlos Santana & Turiya Alice Coltrane: Illuminations
• Seals and Crofts: Unborn Child
• Scorpions: Fly to the Rainbow
• Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson: Winter in America
• The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: The Impossible Dream
• Archie Shepp: Kwanza
• Carly Simon: Hotcakes
• Slade: Old New Borrowed and Blue
• Slapp Happy: Slapp Happy (Casablanca Moon)
• Sly and the Family Stone: Small Talk
• Soft Machine: Seven
• Sparks: Propaganda
• Spooky Tooth: The Mirror
• Status Quo: Quo
• Steeleye Span: Now We Are Six
• Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic
• Steppenwolf: Slow Flux
• Cat Stevens: Buddha and the Chocolate Box
• Sonny Stitt: Satan
• Strawbs: Hero and Heroine
• Styx: Man of Miracles
• Supertramp: Crime Of The Century
• Sweet: Sweet Fanny Adams
• Sweet: Desolation Boulevard
• T.Rex: Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow
• T.Rex: Bolan's Zip-Gun
• Tangerine Dream: Phaedra
• James Taylor: Walking Man
• Ten Years After: Positive Vibrations
• Thin Lizzy: Night Life
• B.J. Thomas: Longhorns & Londonbridges
• Three Dog Night: Hard Labor
• Traffic: When the Eagle Flies
• Robin Trower: Bridge of Sighs
• UFO: Phenomenon
• Uriah Heep: Wonderworld
• Utopia: Todd Rundgren's Utopia
• The Velvet Underground: 1969 - Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed, Volume 1
• The Velvet Underground: 1969 - Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed, Volume 2
• Edward Vesala: Nan Madol
• Tom Waits: The Heart of Saturday Night
• Rick Wakeman: Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
• Weather Report: Mysterious Traveller
• The Who: Odds & Sods (συλλογή)
• Edgar Winter: Shock Treatment
• Johnny Winter: Saints & Sinners
• Wishbone Ash: There's The Rub
• Stevie Wonder: Fulfillingness' First Finale
• Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
• Yes: Relayer
• Neil Young: On the Beach
• Frank Zappa: Apostrophe
• Frank Zappa: Roxy & Elsewhere (live)
  
• Zipper: Zipper
  

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