I don't really listen to music much anymore, and when I do, I don't get the buzz that I used to (as is common with age). But what I love about you, Andy, is that you really trigger my nostalgia and take me back to my teen years in the late 70s and early 80s when I discovered and was really blown away by (what I've come to realise is a fairly limited selection of) prog rock and some other related rock music. Ah, happy days! I only ever got into jazz in a VERY limited way later, and I've never listened to more than 1 or 2 jazz rock albums. And I must say that "Physical Graffiti" is the only album I know from your selection here. But, as ever, your enthusiasm is infectious and I love it! Keep up the good work!!
Great list Andy, thanks. Homework👍 My top 10 1975: 1. Miles Davis: Agharta 2. Jeff Beck: Blow by blow 3. The Gil Evans Orchestra plays the music of Jimi Hendrix 4. Deep Purple: Come taste the band 5. David Bowie: Young Americans 6. Lou Reed: Lou Reed Live 7. Bill Evans & Tony Benett: The BE & TB Album 8. Jan Hammer: The first Seven days 9. Mahavishnu Orchestra: Visions of the emerald beyond 10. Toots Thielemans: Live vol. 2
INPO: Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull Fly by Night - Rush Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan Physical Graffitti - Led Zeppelin Dressed to Kill - Kiss Abba - Abba Alive - Kiss Caress of Steel - Rush Fish out of Water - Chris Squire The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell Live! - Bob Marley and the Wailers
1.Blood On The Tracks - Dylan 2.Beethoven 5th Symphony - Carlos Kleiber 3.Horses Patti Smith 4.Born To Run - Springsteen 5.Wish You Were Here - Floyd 6.Pieces Of The Sky - Emmylou Harris 7.Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart 8.Still Caught Up - Millie Jackson 9.The Who By Numbers 10.Straight Shooter - Bad Company
Andy, by having "Fly By Night" on this list, I hereby absolve you of all previous transgressions from your videos. You now have a clean slate with me 😁. Thanks.
A very good list Andy!! Not too rocker more jazzy or fusion but I like it. "Visions of The Emerald Beyound" is not Mahavishnu Orhestra favorite among the most of their fans (I think it is "Birds Of Fire") but actually it is a very good album. "Nightingales & Bombers" By Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Minstrel In The Gallery" by Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" , "Black Sabbath's "Sabotage" are really good too. Good show Andy!!
I saw Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer in Chicago 1976 when they open for Aerosmith at Comiskey Park. The stadium caught fire that day while Jeff Beck was on stage
My list of 11 (no particular order with one extra as an honorable mention) Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water Supertramp - Crisis What Crisis Earth Wind and Fire - That's the Way of the World Rufus - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte Kansas - Song for America Queen - A Night at the Opera ELO - Face the Music Paul McCartney and Wings - Venus and Mars Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Very cool. I've got a great list now of albums to listen (and re-listen) to. Awesome picks! I got to see Gentle Giant in the early seventies at the German rockfests (yes, I'm older than you, lol). They always stood out. They played so cleanly and efficiently with tons of musicality. I'm in guitar heaven with Venusian Summer, so thanks for that!
I had 4 of the albums on your list back in the 70's. I get your point about Physical Graffiti but I listened to it back then without the knowledge that some of the songs were outtakes from other sessions, so it's still my favorite Zeppelin album. It was the first album of theirs that I was waiting for as a fan. I also loved Blow by Blow, which I picked up while it still was on the charts. One Size Fits All was a later purchase, since there were so many Zappa records that I needed to catch up on. I owned Visions of the Emerald Beyond but I hated it and never revisited John McLaughlin. Oddly, I became a huge fan of Jean-Luc Ponty later on, without ever making the connection that he was on that album. My interest in Jazz Fusion was just getting started in 1975 as a 14/15 year old. I funded my music habit back then with my paper route. I rode my bike 10 miles to the closest record store.
Between this list, perusing the 1975 albums, and finishing up Michael Walker’s Laurel Canyon…covering all that airbrushed eagles, singer songwriter stuff…all I can say is thank God for the punk rock. I do enjoy listening to someone speak passionately and intelligently about things they love…you accomplished that.
No particular order: Tull - Minstrel; Renaissance - Scheherazade; Chris Squire - Fish; Supertramp - Crisis?; Pink Floyd - WYWH; Camel - Snow Goose; Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn; Magma Live ; Harmonium - Les cinq saisons; Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte; VdGG - Godbluff
I purchased a used LP copy of “Visions of the Emerald Beyond” recently because of your earlier praise of the album. Thank you. Wonderful. Still exploring it. On the more prog-oriented side, I might have included “Minstrel in the Gallery,” maybe my favorite Tull album. Who knows?
Great stuff, very inspiring! Some more candidates not mentioned so far: Alphonse Mouzon - Mind Transplant, Terje Rypdal - Odyssey, Tommy Bolin - Teaser, Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Joachim Kühn - Hip Elegy. By the way, how does the teaser photo relate to the list (also for the other years)?
Great video! Fly By Night is killer! I was lucky enough to see Rush on the Moving Pictures Tour! My top albums for 1975 would include SABOTAGE - WISH YOU WERE HERE - HAIR OF THE DOG - HORSES - THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS - FLY BY NIGHT - PHYSICAL GRAFITTI ... just to name a few. Cheers
I'm glad you like those early Rush albums but you mixed up the tracks a little... 😆 I did something similar. I heard 2112... was blown away... and ran out and bought Archives and A Farewell To Kings (which had just recently came out at the time). As you know, back in those days, you didn't know when albums came out. I didn't know that Hemispheres came out until I heard Circumstances on the radio. Of course, I ran out and bought it as soon as I could. I was on top of things from that point on. Never missed a release after that.
Great to have Gentle Giant, but Chris Squire's reunion with Bill Bruford sadly missed in "Fish out of Water". That's a magnificent album of 1975 with brilliant orchestration.
no particular order. I try not to equate things that I like as being ‘good’, but these 10 are albums that impacted me positively. Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Queen - A Night at the Opera Rush - Fly by Night FZ - One Size Fits All ABBA - ABBA Heart - Dreamboat Annie LZ - Physical Graffiti MO - Visions of the Emerald Beyond Parliament - Mothership Connection Honorable Mention: Elton John - Captain Fantastic +
Really struggled leaving some off, so in the end went with a top 20. 20. Ambrosia - ambrosia 19. Fighting - thin Lizzy 18. Fire on the bayou - the meters 17. High voltage - AC/DC 16. Visions of the emerald beyond - Mahavishnu orchestra 15. Radio-activity - Kraftwerk 14. Go girl crazy - the dictators 13. On your feet or on your knees - blue oyster cult 12. Blow by blow - Jeff beck 11. Fly by night - rush 10. Chocolate city - parliament 9. Fleetwood Mac - fleetwood Mac 8. One size fits all - Frank Zappa 7. The hissing of summer lawns - Joni Mitchell 6. Sabotage - black sabbath 5. Slow dazzle - John cale 4. Wish you were here - pink Floyd 3. Born to run - Bruce Springsteen 2. Physical graffiti - Led zeppelin 1. Horses - Patti Smith
Great video Andy, I love your enthusiasm. I have 6/10, in fact two of them I bought last year on your recommendation, Tony Williams Lifetime and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, both great albums and I thank you for the recommendation 👍 You've given me your others to now check out.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Black Sabbath - Sabotage Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here Rush - Fly By Night Foghat - Fool For The City Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time Scorpions - In Trance Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent ZZ Top - Fandango!
1. Queen - A Night at the Opera 2. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run 3. Patti Smith - Horses 4. Be-Bop Deluxe - Futurama 5. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 6. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack 7. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Best Years of Our Lives 8. Roxy Music - Siren 9. Fleetwood Mac - s/t 10. Al Stewart - Modern Times HM: ABBA - s/t
I kinda grinned when this list started. By the time you wrapped up, showcasing so many albums that I've spent countless hours enjoying, I was broadly smiling! Admittedly, there are a few albums that I've never heard at all - but I'm in the process of rectifying that omission. Thank you Andy!
Prediction: 1) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond 2) Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All 3) The New Tony Williams Lifetime - Believe It 4) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 5) Brian Eno - Another Green World 6) Parliament - Mothership Connection 7) Black Sabbath - Sabotage 8) John Abercrombie - Timeless 9) Herbie Hancock - Man-Child 10) KC and the Sunshine Band - KC and the Sunshine Band
I just listened to your comment of your #10 of 1975 Free Hand, I'm wondering when will we find an interview here with John Weathers, it's just about time ..
The other great thing about One Size Fits All that I think needs to be mentioned is - the recording and mix sound absolutely amazing! And the instruments and voices sound luscious.
My top ten for 1975 in no particular order: Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell, Force it - UFO, Go Girl Crazy - The Dictators - Lou Reed Live - Lou Reed, The Tubes - The Tubes, Initiation - Todd Rundgren, Blow By Blow - Jeff Beck, No Mystery - RTF, Fandango - ZZ Top, Teaser - Tommy Bolin, Physical Graffiti - LZ
Yes teaser... Great stuff! Would be interesting to see what tommy bolin had come up with if he had lived. I heard that Tommy's work with Billy Cobham in the early seventies influenced Jeff beck to move in a more fusion like way
Chris Squire's 'Fish Out Of Water' is pretty badass, and I agree OSFA is Zappa's best album but I'm surprised you didn't mention my favorite track ANDY!
The album Spectrum was a central to Jeff Beck’s inspiration for Blow by Blow, he played it in his car (where he listened to most of his music), he also hated the string arrangement on the brilliant Diamond Dust (surprisingly) on first hearing it, so he said. (Really miss JB) PS Rory Gallagher, Philo or Gary Moore are the kings of Ireland 🇮🇪 not Van Misery Morrison Great and interesting list 🎸👍
Mental Notes by Split Enz. Prog. Its mental, alright. If you like the Cardiacs, this is the album that may have well started it. Another eccentric New Zealand 70's band was Mother Goose. Highly accomplished musicians. Their big hit was Baked Beans.
mother goose was never taken seriously because of their costumes and silly antics-- nappy and dummy?? etc later they did 'straight' music and failed. good band but pigeon holed themselves
By tor and the snowman 😅! You mixed up the tracks of Fly by night and Caress of Steel! We had a Makro card too, I clearly remember getting Topo Oceans for a bargain price there, happy days.😊
I saw Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer, fantastic, Tommy Bolin opened for them in Miami that night and unfortunately went to his hotel after the show and died. What a night. Those were the days when music was so great, and all the time, something new every month from someone. Cheers.
This was my ten faves of '75 at the time... I never do retro versions...no particular order.. Warrior of the Edge of Time - Hawkwind Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield Sabotage - Black Sabbath Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell Bundles - Soft Machine HQ - Roy Harper Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Caress of Steel has Bastille Day, I Think I’m Going Bald, Lakeside Park, The Necromancer, and The Fountain of Lamneth. I think it’s my favorite Rush album, but it’s tricky because I love side one of 2112 so much. Rush adapted and caved a little and went a little commercial in some later albums but the purity of the band was on display in this one. (And 2112 side one)
My top 10 list of 1975 contains 21 albums. They are: 1. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 2. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: One Size Fits All 3. Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis? 4. Electric Light Orchestra: Face the Music 5. Bad Company: Straight Shooter 6. Murray Head: Say It Ain't So 7. Jethro Tull: Minstrel in the Gallery 8. Rainbow: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow 9. Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy 10. Wings: Venus and Mars 11. Harmonium: Si On Avait Besoin d'Une Cinquième Saison 12. Strawbs: Nomadness 13. Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow 14. David Bowie: Young Americans 15. Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers: Bongo Fury 16. Gary Wright: The Dream Weaver 17. Hawkwind: Warrior on the Edge of Time 18. Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac 19. Roxy Music: Siren 20. Heart: Dreamboat Annie 21. Rush: Fly By Night Rock! 🤘
Thanks for reminding me about Believe It. I paused this and went and listened to the whole thing on TH-cam. It's unbelievably good. I hadn't heard it since the 1970s. I had to repeat "Fred." Now I'm back to your countdown.
01. bob marley & the wailers-live 02. gentle giant-free hands 03. mahavishnu orchestra-visions of the emerald beyond 04. john abercrombie-timeless 05. herbie hancock-flood 06. curtis mayfield-there's no place like america today 07. led zeppelin-physical graffiti 08. pink floyd-wish you were here 09. jeff beck-blow by blow 10. deep purple-come taste the band 11. lenny white-venusian summer 12. joni mitchell-the hissing of the summer lawns 13. wayne shorter-native dancer 14. weather report-tale spinnin' 15. return to forever-no mystery 16. pat metheny-bright size life 17. stanley clarke-journey to love 18. neu!-'75 19. patti smith-horses 20. robert wyatt-ruth is stranger than robet 21. al green-is love 22. tom waits-nighthawks at the diner 23. parliament-chocolate city 24. frank zappa-one size fits all 25. jethro tull-minstrel in the gallery 26. thin lizzy-fighting 27. ac/dc-high voltage 28. roy ayers ubiquity - mystic voyage 29. alphonse mouzon-mind transplant 30. supertramp-crisis? what crisis? 31. rush-caress of steel 32. tommy bolin-teaser the ranking isn't possible for me here! but bob marley might be the main act in '75 due to the impact reggae has had since!!!
My list is only 8: Horses - Patti Smith Down by the Jetty - Dr. Feelgood Malpractice - Dr. Feelgood Physical Graffiti -Led Zeppelin Lou Reed Live (+RR Animal) - Lou Reed HQ - Roy Harper Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen Zuma -Neil Young & Crazy Horse Bonus: Abba because the Legs!
Physical Graffiti is my favorite Zeppelin album. (I’m generally a fan of the “sprawling patchwork double album”. The White Album. And, Andy, you’re wrong about Exile on Main St ;)
Herbie Hancock "Man-Child"? Was no.6 on US R&B charts 1975. Definitely agree with your no 1 however. I walked into a record store (ahhh the days..) and they were playing such a wild tune, turns out it was the last track off the album (tk13 "On the Way Home..."), totally blown away, was teleported to space instantly, walked up to counter and just said I'll buy it not knowing who it was. Got home played it very loud, as "Cosmic Strut" plays my older non musician brother walks in "what's this, I love it" It was then he converted to fusion.
Nice. Ray Gomez spent the first fifteen years of his life in Morocco, I believe; then moved to Spain. I love your brief rant/tribute to him! And indeed, it is impossible to cut this down to 10 albums, so there's absolutely no way I could criticize. (I was going to joke about you having mistakenly overlooped Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", but then nuances of irony are too easily flattened in social media postst).
The way Jimmy moves around the timing of his 'fills' on Houses Of The Holy is joyous...and that's just one song that hardly gets a mention cos it's commercial.
Visions of the Emerald Beyond / Mahavishnu Orchestra Crosswinds / Billy Cobham Mind Transplant / Alphonse Mouzon Another Green World / Brian Eno Slow Dazzle / John Cale Diamond Head / Phil Manzanera Upon the Wings of Music / Jean-Luc Ponty Cross-Collateral / Passport Blow By Blow / Jeff Beck Landed / CAN
Hey up Andy. My favourite 10 are: Renaissance - Scheherazade & other stories. Hawkwind - Warrior in the edge of time Camel - The Snow Goose Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte Supertramp - Crisis! What crisis? Pink Floyd - Wish you were here Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti Gentle Giant - Freehand Dr. Feelgood - Down by the Jetty Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Renaissance never gets the attention they so richly deserve. Choosing a favorite is for me difficult. If pushed I'd probably pick Turn of the Cards. Great list, BTW.
One Size Fits All, No Mystery, Believe It, Free Hand. My favorites from the year. Bloody masterpieces. Crazy how just the 1 year span of 1975 is so much better for music than the last 25 years has been 😂
Andy, I think is a very fair list. Perhaps not Rush and Gentle Giant for me. I largely departed from the rock and prog world by then and my tastes became more arcane and esoteric. I would have included Jarrett's The Koln Concert released in '75; and with that I would challenge you on your earlier removal of that album from your most influential jazz album episode. I was introduced to Jarrett in 1974 with his solo Lucerne-Bremen ECM release, which I prefer to Koln. Nevertheless, both of those albums. especially Koln, were an enormous influential entry point for me as well as many in my generation to the world of ECM artists, especially in the US. I really think you underestimate Koln's importance. Consider ECM's releases in '75 alone: Abercrombie's Timeless, Bill Connors' Theme to the Guardian, Kuhn's Ecstasy and Trance, Towner's Solstice, Weber's Yellow Fields, Rypdal's Odyssey, Burton Quintet's Dreams So Real, and Jarretts' other Arbour Zena (a personal favorite) and Luminessence. A stellar year for ECM and each exploring new directions and venues in jazz, some without earlier precedents.
Of course Physical Graffiti and Wish you were Here, plus, Zuma (Neil Young) Fleetwood Mac Another Green World (Eno) Katy Lied (Steely Dan) Nuthin' Fancy (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Siren (Roxy Music) Malpractice (Dr. Feelgood) Marcus Garvey (Burning Spear) Natty Dread (Bob Marley and the Wailers) Landed (Can) and 'One of These Nights (Eagles) They were good with Bernie Leaden.
@@frankpentangeli7945 You're right, October 74. Possibly their best album. The Live album came out in 75. Another brilliant album. And I can't believe I forgot 'Fly By Night.
(Random Order) 01. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales and Bombers 02. Jean-Luc Ponty - Upon the Wings of Music 03. Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club 04. John Cale - Slow Dazzle 05. Larry Young - Fuel 06. Neu! 75 07. Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning 08. Sonny Rollins - Nucleus 09. Brian Eno - Another Green World 10. Henry Mancini - Symphonic Soul
@ that’s the only song I know from Manfred Mann ‘revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night’ are the coolest lyrics I heard in my childhood, the way the boss sang it made it seem like an entirely different song
A couple from 1975 Black Oak Arkansas /Ain't Life Grand has some amazing songs on that one...The Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer very good production on that with a good line up of songs from three of the members and different styles .Edgar was a great saxophone player as well and still is I reckon
Black Sabbath's fabulous album 'Sabotage' was by far my favourite album of 1975 & still tom this day one of my favourite albums of all time. Anyone who hasn't heard it needs to hear it BUT the last 2 tracks on the album are the best tracks on the album so I would suggest you start with "The Writ" & "Meglomania" if you do listen to it.
I was a Rush freak in the 80's. A mate ftom Manchester at high school who came to Oz told me about Rush and I owe him for that wisdom. Bought Moving Pictures first,then Permanent Waves then Hemispheres then the whole catalogue previous to those albums. Neil Peart was my inspiration to drum better.❤
I adore One Size Fits All. It is absolutely the place to begin for anyone interested in Frank's music. But even after you've heard all of Frank's stuff this album stands out as a timeless classic.
I was a teenager in the 1970's so I know that era well. Thanks for the tip on the Lenny White LP. I will check it out. Loved his work with RTF who are one of my favorite all-time bands. Don't care for Mahavishnu Orchestra even though I appreciate the immense talent. I tried many times to get on board, but too far out there and overly dissonant like "Bitches Brew". I much prefer other Miles Davis LP's including "Silent Way" which preceded "Bitches Brew" which was in a similar vein, but more melodic and rhythmic. I have many McLaughlin LP's and saw him live once, but I don't own any MO and probably never will. Glad you had Jeff Beck's "Blow By Blow" on the list, which is a brilliant masterpiece LP by arguably the #1 all-time rock guitarist. Rush's "Fly By Night" featuring Anthem and By Tor and the Snow Dog was a strong pick. Plus this was the first Rush LP with Neil Peart which made it a very important historical document and a significant transition for the band which you pointed out.
I have a very different top 10 list in order worst to best: Fleetwood Mac, Toys in the Attic, Fandango!, Equinox, One of These Nights, Dreamboat Annie, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Wish You Were Here, Night at the Opera, Face the Music
Difficult to narrow it down and of course my personal favourites not necessarily the actual 10 best of that year...Wish You Were Here,Pink Floyd. Sabotage, Black Sabbath. Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell. Blow By Blow, Jeff Beck. Agharta, Miles Davis. Timeless, John Abercrombie. Venusian Summer, Lenny White. Bundles, Soft Machine. Believe It,Tony Williams Lifetime. Come Taste The Band, Deep Purple
Absolutely Bang On re picks #1 & #2.....Mahavishnu made a masterpiece with Emerald Beyond, and the guitar work on Lenny's album is to die for! May I suggest an honourable mention for 1975.....Alphonse Mouzon's Mind Transplant with the magical guitar work of Tommy Bolin and others.
Great list and great content. Really enjoyed "living in the past" with this. 👍🎶❤I would swap out Gentle Giant for Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd or Jethro Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery. Otherwise spot on (imo).
Andy - Your last two videos have given me an inspiration that might result in your top viewed video ever. You always say that the videos where you list the things you "hate" get the most views. This kind of plays on that. Do a video called TEN ALBUMS I LOVE THAT EVERYONE ELSE BLOODY HATES! It can't lose! Let me help you get started: Anything by Kraftwerk. Go for it!
The Botanic Gardens of Sidney corpse flower finally bloomed. It was my weirdo equivalent of the tv crackling wood fireplace at Christmas for a few days but it finally happened. It's a beautifully strange thing but thankfully smell-o-vision never really caught on because it's meant to have a very unique and unpleasant scent. I like to think of it kind of like the prog of plants. I lived a two minute walk from the actual Lakeside Park (Port Dalhousie) in my teens. I spent so many nickels (5 cents) riding the vintage carousel, so many hours walking through the carnival when it came and playing chicken with the water going in and out on the beach. That song really is a memory for me. It was on Caress of Steel though not Fly by Night. I couldn't remember either. Lol
Just listened to Venusian Summer What an EFFING BLOODY BRILLIANT album especially from Venusian Summer Suite on Stellar playing by everyone Thanks for turning me on to it
I do enjoy your videos , Andy , I really do ...and you've widened my knowledge of music ....but ....there's always a but.....this isn't a true reflection of the Best Albums of 1975 is it , it's just your opinion from your favourite genre . Where is Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks , Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here , Neil Young's Zuma , Parliament's Mothership Connection or Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger ?
Great list but you might want to review the track lists before you press record ;-) And Ten Years Gone is one of the best Zeppelin songs. So beautiful, so underrated. The album it comes from is my clear no. 1 in '75
I generally have very similar taste to Andy (diehard MO and Jan Hammer fan here) and he makes me aware of things I somehow didn't get exposed to -- case in point, Gentle Giant - just listened to Freehand, starting to really connect to them (hats off to Brad Mehldau and his Jacobs Ladder album as well.)
Top 10 in 1975 1. Mother Focus - Focus 2. Short cut draw blood Jim Capaldi 3. Wish you were here Pink Floyd 4. Switch - Golden Earring 5. Four wheel drive - BTO 6. Hair of the dog Nazareth 7. Reach for the sky Sutherland Brothers & Quiver 8. Why can't we be friends War 9. Minstrel in the gallery Jethro Tull 10. Suicide Sal Maggie Bell I wonder whether Andy will pick any of these (other than Floyd).
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I mistakenly thought that Visions of the emerald beyond was 1974, otherwise, I'd have included it in a heartbeat. I love that you love John McLaughlin, and 'Lilah's Dance' and 'Earth Ship' are as good as it gets. So that means, I 'd take out BTO from my list.
1. Nazareth: Hair of the Dog 2. Status Quo: On the level 3. Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffitti 4: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Live 5. The Who: By numbers 6. Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow 7. Black Sabbath: Sabotage 8. Golden Earring: Switch 9. Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band 10. UFO: Force
10. Katy Lied 9. Ricochet 8. Scheherazade and Other Tales 7. Bob James 2 6. One Size Fits All 5. Stepping into Tomorrow 4. Wish You Were Here 3. Warrior on the Edge of Time 2. Sabotage 1. Free Hand
Todd Rundgren-Initiation : definitely one of his most misunderstood albums. Too musically ambitious for most people. Steely Dan-Katy Lied : not their best by any standard but 70s Steely Dan could do no wrong. Very good. The Tubes-The Tubes : the first album of a band that should have been huge. Smart and talented guys. Maybe too smart for their own good. Love them. Queen-Night at the Opera : not my favourite Queen album but they put a lot of work into it in order to make it something special. And special it is. Magma-Live / Hhai : I'm not into the so called Magma "classics". This live is when they started to become very listenable.
To paraphrase McGlothlin from 35 years ago, "I have no idea how Allan is doing what he does, but if I could figure it out I would absolutely steal it from him!" Enough said.
I bought Believe It after I read an article with Carlos Santana who said this was his favourite album. I was easily influenced and also bourght the Pat Metheny Group record when Phil Collins did the same as you on radio 1 in about 1979. He mentioned Chester Thompson double drumming on Roxy and Elsewhere as his influence for Genesis concert double drumming solos.
I don't really listen to music much anymore, and when I do, I don't get the buzz that I used to (as is common with age). But what I love about you, Andy, is that you really trigger my nostalgia and take me back to my teen years in the late 70s and early 80s when I discovered and was really blown away by (what I've come to realise is a fairly limited selection of) prog rock and some other related rock music. Ah, happy days! I only ever got into jazz in a VERY limited way later, and I've never listened to more than 1 or 2 jazz rock albums. And I must say that "Physical Graffiti" is the only album I know from your selection here. But, as ever, your enthusiasm is infectious and I love it! Keep up the good work!!
@@mchmch6185 you should probably check out king gizzard & The Lizard wizard
Minstrel in the Gallery is probably my most treasured album from 1975
Great list Andy, thanks. Homework👍
My top 10 1975:
1. Miles Davis: Agharta
2. Jeff Beck: Blow by blow
3. The Gil Evans Orchestra plays the music of Jimi Hendrix
4. Deep Purple: Come taste the band
5. David Bowie: Young Americans
6. Lou Reed: Lou Reed Live
7. Bill Evans & Tony Benett: The BE & TB Album
8. Jan Hammer: The first Seven days
9. Mahavishnu Orchestra: Visions of the emerald beyond
10. Toots Thielemans: Live vol. 2
Wow, great list!
INPO:
Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
Minstrel in the Gallery - Jethro Tull
Fly by Night - Rush
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Physical Graffitti - Led Zeppelin
Dressed to Kill - Kiss
Abba - Abba
Alive - Kiss
Caress of Steel - Rush
Fish out of Water - Chris Squire
The Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
Live! - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Got some good ones for sure
Blood on the tracks is my number 1 for 75' I think Born to Run needs to be on the list as well
Ten Years Gone is among my 10 all time favourite songs.
Absolutely exquisite .
1.Blood On The Tracks - Dylan
2.Beethoven 5th Symphony - Carlos Kleiber
3.Horses Patti Smith
4.Born To Run - Springsteen
5.Wish You Were Here - Floyd
6.Pieces Of The Sky - Emmylou Harris
7.Atlantic Crossing - Rod Stewart
8.Still Caught Up - Millie Jackson
9.The Who By Numbers
10.Straight Shooter - Bad Company
Andy, by having "Fly By Night" on this list, I hereby absolve you of all previous transgressions from your videos. You now have a clean slate with me 😁. Thanks.
but ... By-Tor and the SNOWMAN????? 😆
Don't absolve him. You'll only encourage him to put even more shite on his next list.
How many women like Rush? And how many of those would you date? Overrated for that reason.
@@PseudoIntellectual2.0 who cares what women like
@@bassfan41 So you must not be straight.
Ray Gomez on "Mating Drive" completely rips my head off and still kills me after all this time. What a guitar player. Thanks for spotlighting him.
A very good list Andy!! Not too rocker more jazzy or fusion but I like it. "Visions of The Emerald Beyound" is not Mahavishnu Orhestra favorite among the most of their fans (I think it is "Birds Of Fire") but actually it is a very good album. "Nightingales & Bombers" By Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Minstrel In The Gallery" by Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" , "Black Sabbath's "Sabotage" are really good too. Good show Andy!!
I saw Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer in Chicago 1976 when they open for Aerosmith at Comiskey Park. The stadium caught fire that day while Jeff Beck was on stage
I saw them in Auckland 1976 and it changed the trajectory of my musical experiences
My list of 11 (no particular order with one extra as an honorable mention)
Chris Squire - Fish Out of Water
Supertramp - Crisis What Crisis
Earth Wind and Fire - That's the Way of the World
Rufus - Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Kansas - Song for America
Queen - A Night at the Opera
ELO - Face the Music
Paul McCartney and Wings - Venus and Mars
Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Very cool. I've got a great list now of albums to listen (and re-listen) to. Awesome picks! I got to see Gentle Giant in the early seventies at the German rockfests (yes, I'm older than you, lol). They always stood out. They played so cleanly and efficiently with tons of musicality. I'm in guitar heaven with Venusian Summer, so thanks for that!
Haven't seen the whole video yet, but: By-tor and the Snowman?? And you mix Fly by night with Carress of steel a lot...
Love your channel and videos🙂
I had 4 of the albums on your list back in the 70's. I get your point about Physical Graffiti but I listened to it back then without the knowledge that some of the songs were outtakes from other sessions, so it's still my favorite Zeppelin album. It was the first album of theirs that I was waiting for as a fan. I also loved Blow by Blow, which I picked up while it still was on the charts. One Size Fits All was a later purchase, since there were so many Zappa records that I needed to catch up on. I owned Visions of the Emerald Beyond but I hated it and never revisited John McLaughlin. Oddly, I became a huge fan of Jean-Luc Ponty later on, without ever making the connection that he was on that album. My interest in Jazz Fusion was just getting started in 1975 as a 14/15 year old. I funded my music habit back then with my paper route. I rode my bike 10 miles to the closest record store.
The suspense is killing me as your slugging that sugar. Great list of classic albums!
Slugging that sugar..note to self, great album title!
On a roll! Good insights. Love the enthusiasm.
Between this list, perusing the 1975 albums, and finishing up Michael Walker’s Laurel Canyon…covering all that airbrushed eagles, singer songwriter stuff…all I can say is thank God for the punk rock.
I do enjoy listening to someone speak passionately and intelligently about things they love…you accomplished that.
No particular order:
Tull - Minstrel; Renaissance - Scheherazade; Chris Squire - Fish; Supertramp - Crisis?; Pink Floyd - WYWH; Camel - Snow Goose; Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn; Magma Live ; Harmonium - Les cinq saisons; Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte; VdGG - Godbluff
I purchased a used LP copy of “Visions of the Emerald Beyond” recently because of your earlier praise of the album. Thank you. Wonderful. Still exploring it. On the more prog-oriented side, I might have included “Minstrel in the Gallery,” maybe my favorite Tull album. Who knows?
Great stuff, very inspiring! Some more candidates not mentioned so far: Alphonse Mouzon - Mind Transplant, Terje Rypdal - Odyssey, Tommy Bolin - Teaser, Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Joachim Kühn - Hip Elegy. By the way, how does the teaser photo relate to the list (also for the other years)?
Great video! Fly By Night is killer! I was lucky enough to see Rush on the Moving Pictures Tour! My top albums for 1975 would include SABOTAGE - WISH YOU WERE HERE - HAIR OF THE DOG - HORSES - THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS - FLY BY NIGHT - PHYSICAL GRAFITTI ... just to name a few. Cheers
I'm glad you like those early Rush albums but you mixed up the tracks a little... 😆 I did something similar. I heard 2112... was blown away... and ran out and bought Archives and A Farewell To Kings (which had just recently came out at the time). As you know, back in those days, you didn't know when albums came out. I didn't know that Hemispheres came out until I heard Circumstances on the radio. Of course, I ran out and bought it as soon as I could. I was on top of things from that point on. Never missed a release after that.
Great to have Gentle Giant, but Chris Squire's reunion with Bill Bruford sadly missed in "Fish out of Water". That's a magnificent album of 1975 with brilliant orchestration.
no particular order. I try not to equate things that I like as being ‘good’, but these 10 are albums that impacted me positively.
Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Rush - Fly by Night
FZ - One Size Fits All
ABBA - ABBA
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
LZ - Physical Graffiti
MO - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Honorable Mention: Elton John - Captain Fantastic +
Really struggled leaving some off, so in the end went with a top 20.
20. Ambrosia - ambrosia
19. Fighting - thin Lizzy
18. Fire on the bayou - the meters
17. High voltage - AC/DC
16. Visions of the emerald beyond - Mahavishnu orchestra
15. Radio-activity - Kraftwerk
14. Go girl crazy - the dictators
13. On your feet or on your knees - blue oyster cult
12. Blow by blow - Jeff beck
11. Fly by night - rush
10. Chocolate city - parliament
9. Fleetwood Mac - fleetwood Mac
8. One size fits all - Frank Zappa
7. The hissing of summer lawns - Joni Mitchell
6. Sabotage - black sabbath
5. Slow dazzle - John cale
4. Wish you were here - pink Floyd
3. Born to run - Bruce Springsteen
2. Physical graffiti - Led zeppelin
1. Horses - Patti Smith
Great video Andy, I love your enthusiasm. I have 6/10, in fact two of them I bought last year on your recommendation, Tony Williams Lifetime and The Mahavishnu Orchestra, both great albums and I thank you for the recommendation 👍
You've given me your others to now check out.
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Black Sabbath - Sabotage
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rush - Fly By Night
Foghat - Fool For The City
Hawkwind - Warrior On The Edge Of Time
Scorpions - In Trance
Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
ZZ Top - Fandango!
What no Nazareth hair of the dog Pink Floyd's wish you were here Bachman-Turner overdrive 4 wheel drive
And of course UFO force it Robin trower for earth below
And of course bad company straight shooter styx's equinox
@@mikekeeler6362Wish you were here is here! Maybe he edited it?
Hawkwind! All but forgotten. They were great!
1. Queen - A Night at the Opera
2. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
3. Patti Smith - Horses
4. Be-Bop Deluxe - Futurama
5. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
6. The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
7. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Best Years of Our Lives
8. Roxy Music - Siren
9. Fleetwood Mac - s/t
10. Al Stewart - Modern Times
HM:
ABBA - s/t
Andy with the backwards ball cap and guzzling pepsi gave me 80's flashbacks. LOL. 😁
I kinda grinned when this list started. By the time you wrapped up, showcasing so many albums that I've spent countless hours enjoying, I was broadly smiling! Admittedly, there are a few albums that I've never heard at all - but I'm in the process of rectifying that omission. Thank you Andy!
Prediction:
1) Mahavishnu Orchestra - Visions of the Emerald Beyond
2) Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All
3) The New Tony Williams Lifetime - Believe It
4) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
5) Brian Eno - Another Green World
6) Parliament - Mothership Connection
7) Black Sabbath - Sabotage
8) John Abercrombie - Timeless
9) Herbie Hancock - Man-Child
10) KC and the Sunshine Band - KC and the Sunshine Band
Close! Also - I think I like your list even more
I just listened to your comment of your #10 of 1975 Free Hand, I'm wondering when will we find an interview here with John Weathers, it's just about time ..
Yes, he's a nice bloke!
The other great thing about One Size Fits All that I think needs to be mentioned is - the recording and mix sound absolutely amazing! And the instruments and voices sound luscious.
Nearly impossible to get a good digital copy of it
My top ten for 1975 in no particular order: Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell, Force it - UFO, Go Girl Crazy - The Dictators - Lou Reed Live - Lou Reed, The Tubes - The Tubes, Initiation - Todd Rundgren, Blow By Blow - Jeff Beck, No Mystery - RTF, Fandango - ZZ Top, Teaser - Tommy Bolin, Physical Graffiti - LZ
It was strange that Lou Reed divided the rr Animal and LIve.
The Hissing of Sumer Lawns is my top choice too, along with Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn and (especially) Vangelis' Heaven and Hell.
Good choice with Teaser, what an eclectic superb album
Yes teaser... Great stuff! Would be interesting to see what tommy bolin had come up with if he had lived. I heard that Tommy's work with Billy Cobham in the early seventies influenced Jeff beck to move in a more fusion like way
I am also really liking toys in the attic. Good Rocking 1975 album
Chris Squire's 'Fish Out Of Water' is pretty badass, and I agree OSFA is Zappa's best album but I'm surprised you didn't mention my favorite track ANDY!
'Andy' is my favourite Zappa track too. Or maybe tied with 'Muffin Man'.
Great selection. Take a shot every time Andy says”For me”.
Or "my favorite..." (We love you, Andy ...)
The album Spectrum was a central to Jeff Beck’s inspiration for Blow by Blow, he played it in his car (where he listened to most of his music), he also hated the string arrangement on the brilliant Diamond Dust (surprisingly) on first hearing it, so he said. (Really miss JB)
PS Rory Gallagher, Philo or Gary Moore are the kings of Ireland 🇮🇪 not Van Misery Morrison
Great and interesting list 🎸👍
Did you catch the Christie's Jeff Beck guitar auction this afternoon?
Mental Notes by Split Enz. Prog. Its mental, alright. If you like the Cardiacs, this is the album that may have well started it.
Another eccentric New Zealand 70's band was Mother Goose. Highly accomplished musicians. Their big hit was Baked Beans.
Good call! Go the ENZ!
@pmatti01 Cheers, mate.
mother goose was never taken seriously because of their costumes and silly antics-- nappy and dummy?? etc later they did 'straight' music and failed. good band but pigeon holed themselves
@markblahwoof789 Yep, it's too bad. They were excellent musicians.
By tor and the snowman 😅! You mixed up the tracks of Fly by night and Caress of Steel! We had a Makro card too, I clearly remember getting Topo Oceans for a bargain price there, happy days.😊
What a fantastic video have a great day as always happy Wednesday Andy from Canada ❤😊
First Seven Days is phenomenal.
One of the great musical windows that you opened for us on the channel was to Jan Hammer.
I saw Jeff Beck with Jan Hammer, fantastic, Tommy Bolin opened for them in Miami that night and unfortunately went to his hotel after the show and died. What a night. Those were the days when music was so great, and all the time, something new every month from someone. Cheers.
Does someone have to die for you to have a good night out?
This was my ten faves of '75 at the time... I never do retro versions...no particular order..
Warrior of the Edge of Time - Hawkwind
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Hissing of Summer Lawns - Joni Mitchell
Bundles - Soft Machine
HQ - Roy Harper
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
I'm a guitar player, but first time I heard you #1 it was the drumming that blew me away. unbelievable
Andy, please do a video about Be Bop Deluxe, they are such and underrated band and Bill Nelson is amazing guitarist and musician 🙏
Caress of Steel has Bastille Day, I Think I’m Going Bald, Lakeside Park, The Necromancer, and The Fountain of Lamneth. I think it’s my favorite Rush album, but it’s tricky because I love side one of 2112 so much. Rush adapted and caved a little and went a little commercial in some later albums but the purity of the band was on display in this one. (And 2112 side one)
Great list! Ray Gomez play on Roy Buchanan album Loading Zone which I think includes a track named Fly By Night.
My top 10 list of 1975 contains 21 albums. They are:
1. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
2. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention: One Size Fits All
3. Supertramp: Crisis? What Crisis?
4. Electric Light Orchestra: Face the Music
5. Bad Company: Straight Shooter
6. Murray Head: Say It Ain't So
7. Jethro Tull: Minstrel in the Gallery
8. Rainbow: Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
9. Elton John: Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
10. Wings: Venus and Mars
11. Harmonium: Si On Avait Besoin d'Une Cinquième Saison
12. Strawbs: Nomadness
13. Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow
14. David Bowie: Young Americans
15. Zappa/Beefheart/Mothers: Bongo Fury
16. Gary Wright: The Dream Weaver
17. Hawkwind: Warrior on the Edge of Time
18. Fleetwood Mac: Fleetwood Mac
19. Roxy Music: Siren
20. Heart: Dreamboat Annie
21. Rush: Fly By Night
Rock! 🤘
Thanks for reminding me about Believe It. I paused this and went and listened to the whole thing on TH-cam. It's unbelievably good. I hadn't heard it since the 1970s. I had to repeat "Fred." Now I'm back to your countdown.
01. bob marley & the wailers-live
02. gentle giant-free hands
03. mahavishnu orchestra-visions of the emerald beyond
04. john abercrombie-timeless
05. herbie hancock-flood
06. curtis mayfield-there's no place like america today
07. led zeppelin-physical graffiti
08. pink floyd-wish you were here
09. jeff beck-blow by blow
10. deep purple-come taste the band
11. lenny white-venusian summer
12. joni mitchell-the hissing of the summer lawns
13. wayne shorter-native dancer
14. weather report-tale spinnin'
15. return to forever-no mystery
16. pat metheny-bright size life
17. stanley clarke-journey to love
18. neu!-'75
19. patti smith-horses
20. robert wyatt-ruth is stranger than robet
21. al green-is love
22. tom waits-nighthawks at the diner
23. parliament-chocolate city
24. frank zappa-one size fits all
25. jethro tull-minstrel in the gallery
26. thin lizzy-fighting
27. ac/dc-high voltage
28. roy ayers ubiquity - mystic voyage
29. alphonse mouzon-mind transplant
30. supertramp-crisis? what crisis?
31. rush-caress of steel
32. tommy bolin-teaser
the ranking isn't possible for me here! but bob marley might be the main act in '75 due to the impact reggae has had since!!!
My list is only 8: Horses - Patti Smith
Down by the Jetty - Dr. Feelgood
Malpractice - Dr. Feelgood
Physical Graffiti -Led Zeppelin
Lou Reed Live (+RR Animal) - Lou Reed
HQ - Roy Harper
Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
Zuma -Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Bonus: Abba because the Legs!
Physical Graffiti is my favorite Zeppelin album. (I’m generally a fan of the “sprawling patchwork double album”. The White Album. And, Andy, you’re wrong about Exile on Main St ;)
Herbie Hancock "Man-Child"? Was no.6 on US R&B charts 1975. Definitely agree with your no 1 however. I walked into a record store (ahhh the days..) and they were playing such a wild tune, turns out it was the last track off the album (tk13 "On the Way Home..."), totally blown away, was teleported to space instantly, walked up to counter and just said I'll buy it not knowing who it was. Got home played it very loud, as "Cosmic Strut" plays my older non musician brother walks in "what's this, I love it" It was then he converted to fusion.
Nice. Ray Gomez spent the first fifteen years of his life in Morocco, I believe; then moved to Spain. I love your brief rant/tribute to him! And indeed, it is impossible to cut this down to 10 albums, so there's absolutely no way I could criticize. (I was going to joke about you having mistakenly overlooped Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here", but then nuances of irony are too easily flattened in social media postst).
Futurama by Be Bop Delux (1975) epic. What an amazing year!!
The way Jimmy moves around the timing of his 'fills' on Houses Of The Holy is joyous...and that's just one song that hardly gets a mention cos it's commercial.
Visions of the Emerald Beyond / Mahavishnu Orchestra
Crosswinds / Billy Cobham
Mind Transplant / Alphonse Mouzon
Another Green World / Brian Eno
Slow Dazzle / John Cale
Diamond Head / Phil Manzanera
Upon the Wings of Music / Jean-Luc Ponty
Cross-Collateral / Passport
Blow By Blow / Jeff Beck
Landed / CAN
Hey up Andy. My favourite 10 are:
Renaissance - Scheherazade & other stories.
Hawkwind - Warrior in the edge of time
Camel - The Snow Goose
Steve Hackett - Voyage of the Acolyte
Supertramp - Crisis! What crisis?
Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Gentle Giant - Freehand
Dr. Feelgood - Down by the Jetty
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Renaissance never gets the attention they so richly deserve. Choosing a favorite is for me difficult. If pushed I'd probably pick Turn of the Cards. Great list, BTW.
@reshhaverstahm7729
Cheers pal. Turn of the cards is my favourite also. 👍
By-Tor and the Snowman ⛄
Andy 4 of those songs are not on Fly By Night! It's one of your favorite albums???!?!?!
It sounds like Caress Of Steel is one of his favorite albums!
@@billphelps5611 Hahaha yep
Thanks!
Love you
Bytor and the Snowman! Priceless! Andy, you're the Count Arthur Strong of Prog and Jazz. (And don't ever change!)
@@eleanorchristiansen6125 omg, you are right 😀
Ha ha ha, I caught that one too! Bytor and the Snowman sounds like it came from the Rush Christmas record!
It's that the one that goes... "I'm walking in the air..."?
You couldn't make it up...
One Size Fits All, No Mystery, Believe It, Free Hand. My favorites from the year. Bloody masterpieces. Crazy how just the 1 year span of 1975 is so much better for music than the last 25 years has been 😂
Return to Forever is my favourite band name ever and one of my favourite groups
Andy, I think is a very fair list. Perhaps not Rush and Gentle Giant for me. I largely departed from the rock and prog world by then and my tastes became more arcane and esoteric. I would have included Jarrett's The Koln Concert released in '75; and with that I would challenge you on your earlier removal of that album from your most influential jazz album episode. I was introduced to Jarrett in 1974 with his solo Lucerne-Bremen ECM release, which I prefer to Koln. Nevertheless, both of those albums. especially Koln, were an enormous influential entry point for me as well as many in my generation to the world of ECM artists, especially in the US. I really think you underestimate Koln's importance. Consider ECM's releases in '75 alone: Abercrombie's Timeless, Bill Connors' Theme to the Guardian, Kuhn's Ecstasy and Trance, Towner's Solstice, Weber's Yellow Fields, Rypdal's Odyssey, Burton Quintet's Dreams So Real, and Jarretts' other Arbour Zena (a personal favorite) and Luminessence. A stellar year for ECM and each exploring new directions and venues in jazz, some without earlier precedents.
Of course Physical Graffiti and Wish you were Here, plus, Zuma (Neil Young) Fleetwood Mac Another Green World (Eno) Katy Lied (Steely Dan) Nuthin' Fancy (Lynyrd Skynyrd) Siren (Roxy Music) Malpractice (Dr. Feelgood) Marcus Garvey (Burning Spear) Natty Dread (Bob Marley and the Wailers) Landed (Can) and 'One of These Nights (Eagles) They were good with Bernie Leaden.
I love Natty Dread, but I think it might have been released in 1974.
@@frankpentangeli7945 You're right, October 74. Possibly their best album. The Live album came out in 75. Another brilliant album. And I can't believe I forgot 'Fly By Night.
Andy, half of the songs you mentioned for Fly By Night are actually from Caress Of Steel. (Both albums from 1975 so you get a pass)
(Random Order)
01. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales and Bombers
02. Jean-Luc Ponty - Upon the Wings of Music
03. Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club
04. John Cale - Slow Dazzle
05. Larry Young - Fuel
06. Neu! 75
07. Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
08. Sonny Rollins - Nucleus
09. Brian Eno - Another Green World
10. Henry Mancini - Symphonic Soul
Blinded by the Light, great song, the Boss absolutely destroyed that one though...
@michaeltischuk7972 Great song, wrong album...
You're weird.
@@michaeltischuk7972 Without the Boss the song wouldn't exist, because he wrote it.
@ that’s the only song I know from Manfred Mann ‘revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night’ are the coolest lyrics I heard in my childhood, the way the boss sang it made it seem like an entirely different song
A couple from 1975 Black Oak Arkansas /Ain't Life Grand has some amazing songs on that one...The Edgar Winter Group with Rick Derringer very good production on that with a good line up of songs from three of the members and different styles .Edgar was a great saxophone player as well and still is I reckon
Black Sabbath's fabulous album 'Sabotage' was by far my favourite album of 1975 & still tom this day one of my favourite albums of all time. Anyone who hasn't heard it needs to hear it BUT the last 2 tracks on the album are the best tracks on the album so I would suggest you start with "The Writ" & "Meglomania" if you do listen to it.
I was a Rush freak in the 80's.
A mate ftom Manchester at high school who came to Oz told me about Rush and I owe him for that wisdom.
Bought Moving Pictures first,then Permanent Waves then Hemispheres then the whole catalogue previous to those albums.
Neil Peart was my inspiration to drum better.❤
I adore One Size Fits All. It is absolutely the place to begin for anyone interested in Frank's music. But even after you've heard all of Frank's stuff this album stands out as a timeless classic.
The MVP player on Lenny White Venusian Summer is David Sancious. His 1975 Forest of Feelings produced by Billy Cobham is a progfusion masterpiece.
I was a teenager in the 1970's so I know that era well. Thanks for the tip on the Lenny White LP. I will check it out. Loved his work with RTF who are one of my favorite all-time bands.
Don't care for Mahavishnu Orchestra even though I appreciate the immense talent. I tried many times to get on board, but too far out there and overly dissonant like "Bitches Brew". I much prefer other Miles Davis LP's including "Silent Way" which preceded "Bitches Brew" which was in a similar vein, but more melodic and rhythmic. I have many McLaughlin LP's and saw him live once, but I don't own any MO and probably never will. Glad you had Jeff Beck's "Blow By Blow" on the list, which is a brilliant masterpiece LP by arguably the #1 all-time rock guitarist. Rush's "Fly By Night" featuring Anthem and By Tor and the Snow Dog was a strong pick. Plus this was the first Rush LP with Neil Peart which made it a very important historical document and a significant transition for the band which you pointed out.
Is there a difference between Jazz Rock and Jazz Fusion?
Probably, but who cares ? 😋
Yes
Maybe... Jazz could be fused with Rhythm+Blues or Funk without most elements of rock music... but hard to avoid rock music elements in practice
It's called jazz confusion
There were a whole ten?! Oh, wait, I forgot, right, it was 1975, not 2024.
I have a very different top 10 list in order worst to best: Fleetwood Mac, Toys in the Attic, Fandango!, Equinox, One of These Nights, Dreamboat Annie, Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy, Wish You Were Here, Night at the Opera, Face the Music
Difficult to narrow it down and of course my personal favourites not necessarily the actual 10 best of that year...Wish You Were Here,Pink Floyd. Sabotage, Black Sabbath. Hissing Of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell. Blow By Blow, Jeff Beck. Agharta, Miles Davis. Timeless, John Abercrombie. Venusian Summer, Lenny White. Bundles, Soft Machine. Believe It,Tony Williams Lifetime. Come Taste The Band, Deep Purple
Absolutely Bang On re picks #1 & #2.....Mahavishnu made a masterpiece with Emerald Beyond, and the guitar work on Lenny's album is to die for! May I suggest an honourable mention for 1975.....Alphonse Mouzon's Mind Transplant with the magical guitar work of Tommy Bolin and others.
Great list and great content. Really enjoyed "living in the past" with this. 👍🎶❤I would swap out Gentle Giant for Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd or Jethro Tull's Minstrel in the Gallery. Otherwise spot on (imo).
Clickbait thumbnail...but very nice 😂
These albums are getting very attractive ✌️
Is that Linda Carter? My boyhood crush...she came third in Miss Universe 1972.....Third!!
It is Lynda Carter.
Makes one wonder what woman came in first.
Geez!🙄
Andy - Your last two videos have given me an inspiration that might result in your top viewed video ever. You always say that the videos where you list the things you "hate" get the most views. This kind of plays on that. Do a video called TEN ALBUMS I LOVE THAT EVERYONE ELSE BLOODY HATES! It can't lose! Let me help you get started: Anything by Kraftwerk. Go for it!
That's a great idea...thanks
Everyone hates Kraftwerk?
The Botanic Gardens of Sidney corpse flower finally bloomed. It was my weirdo equivalent of the tv crackling wood fireplace at Christmas for a few days but it finally happened. It's a beautifully strange thing but thankfully smell-o-vision never really caught on because it's meant to have a very unique and unpleasant scent. I like to think of it kind of like the prog of plants.
I lived a two minute walk from the actual Lakeside Park (Port Dalhousie) in my teens. I spent so many nickels (5 cents) riding the vintage carousel, so many hours walking through the carnival when it came and playing chicken with the water going in and out on the beach. That song really is a memory for me.
It was on Caress of Steel though not Fly by Night. I couldn't remember either. Lol
Just listened to Venusian Summer
What an EFFING BLOODY BRILLIANT album especially from Venusian Summer Suite on Stellar playing by everyone
Thanks for turning me on to it
Fantastic video, thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I do enjoy your videos , Andy , I really do ...and you've widened my knowledge of music ....but ....there's always a but.....this isn't a true reflection of the Best Albums of 1975 is it , it's just your opinion from your favourite genre .
Where is Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks , Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here , Neil Young's Zuma , Parliament's Mothership Connection or Willie Nelson's Red Headed Stranger ?
Great list but you might want to review the track lists before you press record ;-)
And Ten Years Gone is one of the best Zeppelin songs. So beautiful, so underrated. The album it comes from is my clear no. 1 in '75
Have you heard of the Spanish band Iceberg?
They're like a mix between RTF and Mahavishnu Orchestra
Great selection, honorable mentions: War, can't we be friends and Jethro Tull, Minstrel in the gallery
One of my favorite albums of 75 is Waves, by Jade Warrior. Great album cover too, based on the the famous painting.. Great Wave Off Of Kanagawa.
Definitely getting those 3 Rush albums muddled up (or at least Fly By Night & Caress Of Steel)! 🤣
I generally have very similar taste to Andy (diehard MO and Jan Hammer fan here) and he makes me aware of things I somehow didn't get exposed to -- case in point, Gentle Giant - just listened to Freehand, starting to really connect to them (hats off to Brad Mehldau and his Jacobs Ladder album as well.)
Thanks for giving kudos to Max Middleton!
Top 10 in 1975
1. Mother Focus - Focus
2. Short cut draw blood
Jim Capaldi
3. Wish you were here
Pink Floyd
4. Switch - Golden Earring
5. Four wheel drive -
BTO
6. Hair of the dog
Nazareth
7. Reach for the sky
Sutherland Brothers &
Quiver
8. Why can't we be friends
War
9. Minstrel in the gallery
Jethro Tull
10. Suicide Sal
Maggie Bell
I wonder whether Andy will pick any of these (other than Floyd).
none of them :(
@@AndyEdwardsDrummer I mistakenly thought that Visions of the emerald beyond was 1974, otherwise, I'd have included it in a heartbeat. I love that you love John McLaughlin, and 'Lilah's Dance' and 'Earth Ship' are as good as it gets. So that means, I 'd take out BTO from my list.
Mother Focus is a great chill out album with only one vocal song about going to the bathroom..
Bto four wheel drive.
Right on
Damn good year. I had all those albums, cept Rush. I bought Visions OTEB, Blow by Blow, Physical Graffiti, Free Hand as soon as they came out.
You keep using the word "obtuse". I do not think it means what you think it means.
Inconceivable
1. Nazareth: Hair of the Dog
2. Status Quo: On the level
3. Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffitti
4: The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: Live
5. The Who: By numbers
6. Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow
7. Black Sabbath: Sabotage
8. Golden Earring: Switch
9. Deep Purple: Come Taste the Band
10. UFO: Force
10. Katy Lied
9. Ricochet
8. Scheherazade and Other Tales
7. Bob James 2
6. One Size Fits All
5. Stepping into Tomorrow
4. Wish You Were Here
3. Warrior on the Edge of Time
2. Sabotage
1. Free Hand
Todd Rundgren-Initiation : definitely one of his most misunderstood albums. Too musically ambitious for most people.
Steely Dan-Katy Lied : not their best by any standard but 70s Steely Dan could do no wrong. Very good.
The Tubes-The Tubes : the first album of a band that should have been huge. Smart and talented guys. Maybe too smart for their own good. Love them.
Queen-Night at the Opera : not my favourite Queen album but they put a lot of work into it in order to make it something special. And special it is.
Magma-Live / Hhai : I'm not into the so called Magma "classics". This live is when they started to become very listenable.
To paraphrase McGlothlin from 35 years ago, "I have no idea how Allan is doing what he does, but if I could figure it out I would absolutely steal it from him!" Enough said.
I bought Believe It after I read an article with Carlos Santana who said this was his favourite album. I was easily influenced and also bourght the Pat Metheny Group record when Phil Collins did the same as you on radio 1 in about 1979. He mentioned Chester Thompson double drumming on Roxy and Elsewhere as his influence for Genesis concert double drumming solos.