My favourite albums from 1974

1. 30

   Rock Bottom

   Robert Wyatt

   

   

   Art rock | Progressive rock | Psychedelic rock

   Tracks:

   1. Sea Song
   2. A Last Straw ●
   3. Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road
   4. Alifb
   5. Alifie
   6. Little Red Riding Hood Hit the Road

   Album blurb pending

2. 29

   Todd

   Todd Rundgren

   

   

   Progressive rock | Space rock

   Tracks:

   1. How About a Little Fanfare?
   2. I Think You Know
   3. The Spark of Life
   4. An Elpee's Worth of Toons
   5. A Dream Goes on Forever
   6. Lord Chancellor's Nightmare Song
   7. Drunken Blue Rooster
   8. The Last Ride
   9. Everybody's Going to Heaven / King Kong Reggae
   10. No. 1 Lowest Common Denominator
   11. Useless Begging
   12. Sidewalk Cafe
   13. Izzat Love?
   14. Heavy Metal Kids ●
   15. In and out of the Chakras We Go
   16. Don't You Ever Learn?
   17. Sons of 1984

   Album blurb pending

3. 28

   Hall of the Mountain Grill

   Hawkwind

   

   

   Space rock | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. The Psychedelic Warlords (Disappear in Smoke) ●
   2. Wind of Change
   3. D-Rider
   4. Web Weaver
   5. You'd Better Believe It
   6. Hall of the Mountain Grill
   7. Lost Johnny
   8. Goat Willow
   9. Paradox

   Album blurb pending

4. 27

   The Power and the Glory

   Gentle Giant

   

   

   Space rock | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. Proclamation ●
   2. So Sincere
   3. Aspirations
   4. Playing the Game
   5. Cogs in Cogs
   6. No God's a Man
   7. The Face
   8. Valedictory

   Album blurb pending

5. 26

   Shock Treatment

   Edgar Winter Group

   

   

   Glam rock | Jazz fusion

   Tracks:

   1. Some Kinda Animal
   2. Easy Street ●
   3. Sundown
   4. Miracle of Love
   5. Do Like Me
   6. Rock & Roll Woman
   7. Someone Take My Heart Away
   8. Queen of My Dreams
   9. Maybe Some Day You'll Call My Name
   10. River's Risin'
   11. Animal

   Album blurb pending

6. 25

   Fulfillingness' First Finale

   Stevie Wonder

   

   

   Progressive soul

   Tracks:

   1. Smile Please
   2. Heaven Is 10 Zillion Light Years Away
   3. Too Shy to Say
   4. Boogie on Reggae Woman ●
   5. Creepin'
   6. You Have Done Nothin'
   7. It Ain't No Use
   8. They Won't Go When I Go
   9. Bird of Beauty
   10. Please Don't Go

   Album blurb pending

7. 24

   Invisible

   Invisible

   

   

   Jazz rock | Progressive rock | Art rock

   Tracks:

   1. Jugo de lúcuma
   2. El diluvio y la pasajera ●
   3. Suspensión
   4. Tema de Elmo Lesto
   5. Azafata del tran fantasma
   6. Irregular

   Album blurb pending

8. 23

   Bridge of Sighs

   Robin Trower

   

   

   Blues | Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. Day of the Eagle
   2. Bridge of Sighs ●
   3. In This Place
   4. The Fool and Me
   5. Too Rolling Stoned
   6. About to Begin
   7. Lady Love
   8. Little Bit of Sympathy

   Album blurb pending

9. 22

   Queen II

   Queen

   

   

   Glam rock | Art rock

   Tracks:

   1. Procession
   2. Father to Son
   3. White Queen (As It Began)
   4. Some Day One Day
   5. The Loser in the End
   6. Ogre Battle
   7. The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke
   8. Nevermore
   9. The March of the Black Queen
   10. Funny How Love Is
   11. Seven Seas of Rhye ●

   Album blurb pending

10. 21

    The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

    Genesis

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway ●
    2. Fly on a Windshield
    3. Broadway Melody of 1974
    4. Cuckoo Cocoon
    5. In the Cage
    6. The Grand Parade of Lifeless Packaging
    7. Back in N.Y.C.
    8. Hairless Heart
    9. Counting out Time
    10. Carpet Crawlers
    11. The Chamber of 32 Doors
    12. Lilywhite Lilith
    13. The Waiting Room
    14. Anyway
    15. Here Comes the Supernatural Anaesthetist
    16. The Lamia
    17. Silent Sorrow in Empty Boats
    18. The Colony of Slipperman
    19. Ravine
    20. The Light Dies Down on Broadway
    21. Rising the Scree
    22. In the Rapids
    23. it

    Album blurb pending

11. 20

    There's the Rub

    Wishbone Ash

    

    

    Progressive rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Silver Shoes
    2. Don't Come Back
    3. Persephone ●
    4. Hometown
    5. Lady Jay
    6. F.U.B.B.

    Album blurb pending

12. 19

    Starless and Bible Black

    King Crimson

    

    

    Progressive rock | Art rock | Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. The Great Deceiver
    2. Lament
    3. We'll Let You Know
    4. The Night Watch
    5. Trio
    6. The Mincer
    7. Starless and Bible Black
    8. Fracture ●

    Album blurb pending

13. 18

    On the Beach

    Neil Young

    

    

    Folk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Walk on
    2. See the Sky About to Rain
    3. Revolution Blues
    4. For the Turnstiles
    5. Vampire Blues
    6. On the Beach ●
    7. Motion Pictures
    8. Ambulance Blues

    Album blurb pending

14. 17

    Kansas

    Kansas

    

    

    Progressive rock | Boogie 'n' roll

    Tracks:

    1. Can I Tell You ●
    2. Bringing It Back
    3. Lonely Wind
    4. Belaxes
    5. Journey from Mariabronn
    6. The Pilgrimage
    7. Aperçu
    8. Death of Mother Nature Suite

    Album blurb pending

15. 16

    Pretzel Logic

    Steely Dan

    

    

    Jazz rock

    Tracks:

    1. Rikki Don't Lose That Number
    2. Night by Night ●
    3. Any Major Dude Will Tell You
    4. Barrytown
    5. East St. Louis Toodle-oo
    6. Parker's Band
    7. Through with Buzz
    8. Pretzel Logic
    9. With a Gun
    10. Charlie Freak
    11. Monkey in Your Soul

    Album blurb pending

16. 15

    Autobahn

    Kraftwerk

    

    

    Electropop | Krautrock

    Tracks:

    1. Autobahn ●
    2. Kometenmelodie 1
    3. Kometenmelodie 2
    4. Mitternacht
    5. Morgenspaziergang

    Album blurb pending

17. 14

    Diamond Dogs

    David Bowie

    

    

    Glam rock | art rock

    Tracks:

    1. Future Legends
    2. Diamond Dogs
    3. Sweet Thing
    4. Candidate
    5. Sweet Thing (Reprise)
    6. Rebel Rebel
    7. Rock'n'Roll with Me
    8. We Are the Dead
    9. 1984 ●
    10. Big Brother
    11. Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family

    Album blurb pending

18. 13

    War Child

    Jethro Tull

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. War Child
    2. Queen and Country
    3. Ladies
    4. Back-Door Angels
    5. Sealion
    6. Skating Away on the Thin Ice of the New Day
    7. Bungle in the Jungle ●
    8. Only Solitaire
    9. The Third Hoorah
    10. Two Fingers

    Album blurb pending

19. 12

    Second Helping

    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    

    

    Southern rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Sweet Home Alabama
    2. I Need You
    3. Don't Ask Me No Questions
    4. Workin' for MCA
    5. The Ballad of Curtis Loew
    6. Swamp Music ●
    7. The Needle and the Spoon
    8. Call Me the Breeze

    Album blurb pending

20. 11

    Bad Company

    Bad Company

    

    

    Hard rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Can't Get Enough
    2. Rock Steady
    3. Ready to Love
    4. Don't Let Me Down
    5. Bad Company ●
    6. The Way I Choose
    7. Movin' on
    8. Seagull

    Album blurb pending

21. 10

    Country Life

    Roxy Music

    

    

    Art rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Thrill of It All ●
    2. Three and Nine
    3. All I Want Is You
    4. Out of the Blue
    5. If It Takes All Night
    6. Bitter-Sweet
    7. Triptych
    8. Casanova
    9. A Really Good Time
    10. Prairie Rose

    Album blurb pending

22. 9

    Phenomenon

    UFO

    

    

    Hard rock | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Too Young to Know
    2. Crystal Light
    3. Doctor Doctor ●
    4. Space Child
    5. Rock Bottom
    6. Oh My
    7. Time on My Hands
    8. Built for Comfort
    9. Lipstick Traces
    10. Queen of the Deep

    Album blurb pending

23. 8

    Kiss

    Kiss

    

    

    Hard rock | glam rock

    Tracks:

    1. Strutter
    2. Nothin' to Lose
    3. Firehouse
    4. Cold Gin
    5. Let Me Know
    6. Kissin' Time
    7. Deuce
    8. Love Theme from Kiss
    9. 100,000 Years
    10. Black Diamond ●

    Album blurb pending

24. 7

    Red

    King Crimson

    

    

    Progressive rock | experimental rock

    Tracks:

    1. Red
    2. Fallen Angel
    3. One More Red Nightmare
    4. Providence
    5. Starless ●

    Album blurb pending

25. 6

    Get Your Wings

    Aerosmith

    

    

    Blues rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Same Old Song and Dance ●
    2. Lord of the Thighs
    3. Spaced
    4. Woman of the World
    5. S.O.S. (Too Bad)
    6. Train Kept a Rollin'
    7. Seasons of Wither
    8. Pandora's Box

    Album blurb pending

26. 5

    Mirage

    Camel

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Freefall
    2. Supertwister
    3. The White Rider
    4. Earthrise
    5. Lady Fantasy ●

    Album blurb pending

27. 4

    Secret Treaties

    Blue Öyster Cult

    

    

    Hard rock | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Career of Evil
    2. Subhuman
    3. Dominance and Submission
    4. ME 262
    5. Cagey Cretins
    6. Harvester of Eyes
    7. Flaming Telepaths
    8. Astronomy ●

    Album blurb pending

28. 3

    Sheer Heart Attack

    Queen

    

    

    Hard rock | glam rock

    Tracks:

    1. Brighton Rock
    2. Killer Queen
    3. Tenement Funster
    4. Flick of the Wrist
    5. Lily of the Valley
    6. Now I'm Here
    7. In the Lap of the Gods
    8. Stone Cold Crazy ●
    9. Dear Friends
    10. Misfire
    11. Bring Back That Leroy Brown
    12. She Makes Me (Stormtrooper in Stilettoes)
    13. In the Lap of the Gods ... Revisited

    Album blurb pending

29. 2

    Stormbringer

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock | funk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Stormbringer
    2. Love Don't Mean a Thing
    3. Holy Man
    4. Hold on
    5. Lady Double Dealer
    6. You Can't Do It Right (with the One You Love)
    7. High Ball Shooter
    8. The Gypsy
    9. Soldier of Fortune ●

    Album blurb pending

30. 1

    Burn

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock | blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Burn
    2. Might Just Take Your Life
    3. Lay Down, Stay Down
    4. Sail Away
    5. You Fool No One
    6. What's Goin' on Here
    7. Mistreated ●
    8. 'A' 200

    Album blurb pending