Tag Archives: 1974 albums
1974 COUNTDOWN | THE LIST
Here is the entire 1974 COUNTDOWN, with links to the original posts. Following this are the other 1974 posts including live albums, film soundtracks and jazz. And here is an invitation to add their your own favourite 1974 albums in the Comments… ranked or unranked, two or twenty, curated our plucked out of the ether, […]
1974 COUNTDOWN | #15 — #11
#15 LOU REED — ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ANIMAL Steve Hunter and Dick Wagner on guitars supercharge this live Lou Reed classic. Drawing heavily on his Velvet Underground period, but in updated arrangements, the song-list is user friendly but never cuddly. The version of “Heroin” is scarifying and “Lady Day” despairing. But at other times the […]
1974 COUNTDOWN | HITS AND HISTORIES
A selection of compilation albums from 1974. * YES — YESTERDAYS Released in late 1974 in the USA and early 1975 in the UK, Yesterdays was the first Yes compilation. As it only covers the first two LPs, the main attractions for Yes fans are the inclusion of their cover version of Simon and Garfunkel’s […]
1974 COUNTDOWN | #40 — #36
#40 ROBIN TROWER — BRIDGE OF SIGHS English guitarist Robin Trower channels the spirit of Jimi Hendrix better than anyone. Never simply in thrall to the Hendrix legend, Trower uses his considerable talents to craft his own psychedelic-infused blues rock, and does it very well. This is his second solo album and a fine power-trio […]
1974 COUNTDOWN | #54 — #50
#54 GRATEFUL DEAD — FROM THE MARS HOTEL Given their penchant for live albums, it was a forgivable error to assume From The Mars Hotel was another; perhaps a one night stand at a seedy spaced-themed Las Vegas bar? But no, this is a studio album. Although the single “U.S. Blues” failed to chart, From […]
1974 COUNTDOWN | #59 — #55
#59 DAN FOGELBERG — SOUVENIRS With Joe Walsh on guitars, Don Henley and Glen Frey guesting, plus backing vocals from Graham Nash, you could be forgiven for thinking Dan Fogelberg was a cut-price one-man Eagles. Except Souvenirs is no mark-down album, offering great songs in a melodic country-rock vein. This is an LP I taped […]
1974 COUNTDOWN | #69 — #65
#69 LOU REED — SALLY CAN’T DANCE Eternally suspicious of, well, everything actually, Lou Reed was not exactly overjoyed by the unexpected success of Sally Can’t Dance. His acidic comment ran thusly: “It seems like the less I’m involved with a record, the bigger a hit it becomes. If I weren’t on the record at […]
1974 COUNTDOWN | #74—#70
#74 MACKENZIE THEORY — BON VOYAGE How fitting to begin another COUNTDOWN voyage with an album called Bon Voyage. How ironic saying “Hello” to another epic trek through more than six dozen albums (selected from a pool of around three hundred) with a ritual phrase of farewell. How ambivalent was your correspondent about attempting this […]
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