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1973 was a very good year, wasn't it?

Posted by J (A) on April 26, 2006 at 12:45:20

That would be the year the biggest, bestest, most incredible, horrifyingly intellectual, stupefying, pud-hardening slab o'wax of all time was for some reason released so that us ordinary individuals would be able to purchase it in either its initial form, or in one of the gobs of slightly different forms that have come out in the years since.

At least, that's what some people think. And that's great! For them. I think it's been awhile since I've seen so many taken to task for not liking something as much as someone else, but no matter. A healthy message board should be able to rebound nicely from such a thread.

But it's a funny thing. I hadn't gotten around to posting my, uh, top 10 Desert Island frisbees, and every time I started to compile a list, I wasn't able to stop before at least 15 or 20, after which I didn't have the time to trim 'em in order to comply. But...in this here thread the idea occurred to me that there might just be quite a few records from that wonderful year that would make their way into my list o'favorites, and in fact there's at least a couple that are probably in my top 10. Now, while I'm long sick to death of DSOTM worship, the thing is, even though I might only pull it out once every year or two, I actually like the thing. I think it's a decent rec, the best by this particular outfit. But then I'm not much of a fan of theirs. What recs better from this one year? Let's see. 10 from that year I'd bring to a desert island with me, before reaching for that one:

Iggy & the Stooges—Raw Power
The Who—Quadrophenia
Roxy Music—For Your Pleasure
Led Zeppelin—Houses Of The Holy
Tom Waits—Closing Time
John Cale—Paris 1919
New York Dolls—debut
Ringo Starr—Ringo
Elton John—Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Gram Parsons—Grievous Angel

I've felt for at least an hour or two that leaving Raw Power or Quadrophenia off my all-time, ultimate, cross-my-fingers-and-hope-to-, bitchinest, grooviest top top top 10 list, would be tantamount to needing a new pair of ears. So those, along with what I've long considered to be the best of all Led Zeppelin (hallowed be their name, too, natch) recs, plus the debuts from the Dolls & Waits make for a fairly formidable argument that 1973 was a pretty darned good year for myoozak, even considering it wasn't much of a year for such stalwarts as Dylan, Neil Young, & the Jackson Five, or the Rolling Stones or some of the other ex-Beatles. Thinking about how many darned fine recs came out of this interesting time frame was the reason why I decided to bother with this post, actually.

Now, depending on mood, I might strike the Elton John or the Ringo rec in favor of Dark Side. But then there's some other recs that came out that wonderful year, some of which I'm more familiar with than others, but all of which I suspect someone out there might just rate a tad higher than this other rec that to some is apparently the only thing that ever mattered...recs like the Faces' Ooh La La...and T. Rex's Tanx...and Stevie Wonder's Innervisions...and the first two Bruce Springsteen recs...and the first Sweet & Queen recs...and Lou Reed's Berlin...David Bowie's Aladdin Sane & Pin Ups...James Brown's The Payback...Thin Lizzy's Vagabonds Of The Western World...Black Sabbath's Sabbath Bloody Sabbath...Paul McCartney & Wings' Band On The Run...Alice Cooper's Billion Dollar Babies...

...nah, 23 million people can't be wrong, can they, now...

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