My favourite albums from 1974

1. 36

   New Skin for the Old Ceremony

   Leonard Cohen

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Is This What You Wanted
   2. Chelsea Hotel #2 ●
   3. Lover Lover Lover
   4. Field Commander Cohen
   5. Why Don't You Try
   6. There Is a War
   7. A Singer Must Die
   8. I Tried to Leave You
   9. Who by Fire
   10. Take This Longing
   11. Leaving Green Sleeves

   Genres

   • Chamber folk

2. 35

   Jolene

   Dolly Parton

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Jolene ●
   2. When Someone Wants to Leave
   3. River of Happiness
   4. Early Morning Breeze
   5. Highlight of My Life
   6. I Will Always Love You
   7. Randy
   8. Living on Memories of You
   9. Lonely Comin' Down
   10. It Must Be You

   Genres

   • Country folk

3. 34

   Fly to the Rainbow

   Scorpions

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Speedy's Coming
   2. They Need a Million
   3. Drifting Sun
   4. Fly People Fly
   5. This Is My Song
   6. Far Away
   7. Fly to the Rainbow ●

   Genres

   • Hard rock

4. 33

   Too Much Too Soon

   New York Dolls

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Babylon
   2. Stranded in the Jungle
   3. Who Are the Mystery Girls?
   4. (There's Gonna Be a) Showdown
   5. It's Too Late
   6. Puss 'n' Boots
   7. Chatterbox ●
   8. Bad Detective
   9. Don't Start Me Talkin'
   10. Human Being

   Genres

   • Glam rock
   • Proto-punk

5. 32

   Rock and Roll Outlaws

   Foghat

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Eight Days on the Road ●
   2. Hate to See You Go
   3. Dreamer
   4. Trouble in My Way
   5. Rock and Roll Outlaw
   6. Shirley Jean
   7. Blue Spruce Woman
   8. Chateau Lafitte '59 Boogie

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Blues rock

6. 31

   Court and Spark

   Joni Mitchell

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Court and Spark
   2. Help Me ●
   3. Free Man in Paris
   4. People's Parties
   5. The Same Situation
   6. Car on a Hill
   7. Down to You
   8. Just Like This Train
   9. Raised on Robbery
   10. Trouble Child
   11. Twisted

   Genres

   • Jazz pop
   • Jazz rock

7. 30

   Rock Bottom

   Robert Wyatt

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Art rock
   • Progressive rock
   • Psychedelic rock

8. 29

   Todd

   Todd Rundgren

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Space rock

9. 28

   Hall of the Mountain Grill

   Hawkwind

   
   

   Tracklist

   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

   Genres

   • Space rock
   • Progressive rock

10. 27

    The Power and the Glory

    Gentle Giant

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Space rock
    • Progressive rock

11. 26

    Shock Treatment

    Edgar Winter Group

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Glam rock
    • Jazz fusion

12. 25

    Fulfillingness' First Finale

    Stevie Wonder

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive soul

13. 24

    Invisible

    Invisible

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Jazz rock
    • Progressive rock
    • Art rock

14. 23

    Bridge of Sighs

    Robin Trower

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues
    • Blues rock

15. 22

    Queen II

    Queen

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Glam rock
    • Art rock

16. 21

    The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway

    Genesis

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

17. 20

    There's the Rub

    Wishbone Ash

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Hard rock

18. 19

    Starless and Bible Black

    King Crimson

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Art rock
    • Jazz fusion

19. 18

    On the Beach

    Neil Young

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Folk rock

20. 17

    Kansas

    Kansas

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • Boogie 'n' roll

21. 16

    Pretzel Logic

    Steely Dan

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Jazz rock

22. 15

    Autobahn

    Kraftwerk

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Electropop
    • Krautrock

23. 14

    Diamond Dogs

    David Bowie

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Glam rock
    • art rock

24. 13

    War Child

    Jethro Tull

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

25. 12

    Second Helping

    Lynyrd Skynyrd

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Southern rock
    • Blues rock

26. 11

    Bad Company

    Bad Company

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • blues rock

27. 10

    Country Life

    Roxy Music

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Progressive rock

28. 9

    Phenomenon

    UFO

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • Blues rock

29. 8

    Kiss

    Kiss

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • glam rock

30. 7

    Red

    King Crimson

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • experimental rock

31. 6

    Get Your Wings

    Aerosmith

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • hard rock

32. 5

    Mirage

    Camel

    
    

    Tracklist

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

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

33. 4

    Secret Treaties

    Blue Öyster Cult

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • heavy metal

34. 3

    Sheer Heart Attack

    Queen

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • glam rock

35. 2

    Stormbringer

    Deep Purple

    
    

    Tracklist

    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 ●

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • funk rock

36. 1

    Burn

    Deep Purple

    
    

    Tracklist

    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

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • blues rock