What a decade for music! Literally something for everyone. And everyone plays an instrument!!! Sabotage.....still gives me goosebumps after all these years 😱
What a fantastic selection! It inspired me (15 years old back then) to dig out old records that I hadn't listened to for ages. Thank you for this pleasure, you've made my Friday night! 👍
Interesting list. I'm not a big rock fan and thus haven't heard 85% of the albums listed, but agree with many of your top 20 choices. I think these deserve tp be in the top 95: Scorpions - In Trance; Moxy - self titled; Skyhooks - Ego Is Not A Dirty Word
Nice one! Glad to see Bad Co, Led Zep, and BTO in the top 10. Also glad to know you like Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top. We do love our "southern fried rock" here in North Carolina!😍👍😎
I really love Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top. These are one of the best bands that perform southern rock and that brought a certain flavor to rock music. About ZZ Top is an extraordinary group that originally combined southern rock with blues and hard rock. As always, thank you for your meaningful comment!!!🥁🎸🎤✌️
THIN LIZZY weren't big in the U.S.A. yet here they are #22 on the list. Up until Phil Lynott's untimely death, THIN LIZZY were a great Rock Band. They graced our shores a few times in Australia. We punched our fists in the air and yelled with approval at their legendary concerts. Great Band. Pronounce the Band name with an Irish accent 'Tin Lizzy' "Tonight there's going to be a Jailbreak, somewhere in this town" "Breakout!!!" Rock on with Thin Lizzy
Oh yeah!!!! Ian Hunter at #31 When the Guitar was invented it was for "Once Bitten Twice Shy" by Ian Hunter. "Allo" Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople had a huge Hit with Bowie's "All the Young Dudes"
AC/DC at 56 is a decent entry. Steely Dan are cool. Pilot & The Rubettes are a bit fun, but they're not better than Bands you've left out of the list. Styx, Journey and Rush are Bands neither me or Australia are interested in, they don't Chart or get airplay. Grand Funk Railroad had a huge Hit with "Locomotion" in Australia. It was cleverly produced and to me it was a lot of fun. 10cc are pure class. OMG!!! Considering that the U.S.A. and Canada totally ignored STATUS QUO after 1968, I'm shocked and surprised to see "On The Level" in at #32 on your personal chart. I'd be very keen to know how you were made aware of the album. STATUS QUO were massive everywhere in the World except for the U.S.A. and Canada. "On The Level" peaked at #2 in Australia in 1975. Checkout the long version of "Down Down" on the album. I have watched the Evolution of STATUS QUO from the 60's Psychedelic Rock to the Stoner Rock of 1970/1971 albums, through their massively successful charting albums and singles of the 70's and early 80's. I own the 33 studio albums that the name STATUS QUO have released. Only a couple of them are of poor quality, due to them experimenting. You won't meet more biased fans than a QUO fan. We don't think, we know that they are the best Rock Band in history. In the early/ mid 80's they lost 2 original members due to 'music differences' and cocaine abuse by Francis Rossi. Even their new music direction picked up millions of new fans. "On the Level" is not only one of STATUS QUO's best albums, it is one of the best albums ever made. I read a lot of the Comments on You Tube and I've found a lot of Americans and Canadians saying "Why haven't I heard of this Band before now?" "They are awesome!!" Not many Bands have managed to play Rock n Roll 'properly'. STATUS QUO are one of the few that achieved to do it. Long Live STATUS QUO!! RIP - Alan Lancaster & Rick Parfitt
There's a few very good Bands and albums in the Top of the list. Roxy music, ZZ Top, McCartney & Wings, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Bowie, Bad Co., BTO, Rainbow, Sabbath, Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
1. Black Sabbath - Sabotage 2. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti * KISS - Alive! 3. Scorpions - In Trance 4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 5. Rush - Fly By Night * Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet or On Your Knees 6. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic 7. Nazareth - Hair of The Dog 8. Heart - Dreamboat Annie 9. KISS - Dressed to Kill 10. Thin Lizzy - Fighting 11. Rainbow - RB's Rainbow 12. Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent 13. UFO - Force It 14. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks 15. Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare 16. Rush - Caress of Steel 17. Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery 18. Queen - A Night at The Opera 19. Styx - Equinox 20. Budgie - Bandolier 21. ZZ Top - Fandango 22. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma
Uncle Frank in at #19. People thought Frank took a lot of drugs, yet Coffee and Cigarettes were his vices. Captain Beefheart didn't read or write music he whistled all the tunes to his Band in the studio. They were smart enough to work out the notes. I can't think of Frank Zappa without automatically thinking of Captain Beefheart.
Bruce Springsteen Bornu To Run was on this list ? Also Scorpions In trance is hard rock masterpiece ( and all of their late 70ties albums, especailly Taken By Force 1978)
You're good I'll hand you that however I'm a little surprised, know I'm a lot surprised that you didn't have Armageddon by Armageddon their debut and only album they've ever released. Supergroup from 1975 that only made one album due to singer Keith r e l f being electrocuted shortly thereafter. A true masterpiece in heavy progressive rock much better than anything Rush ever put out. I have to say I'm really surprised especially being as it's one of your list and you're usually right on on this type of thing.😊 90% great list anyway so you get a low grade A or a B+ for this effort😊
Kudos on the Hollies, Procol, and Strawbs discs. I still love The Hollies, the band's 1974 release, but Another Night is almost as good. The Journey album, though was pretty forgettable, and some of the other choices leave much to be desired. It was a good year for rock, and some of the best didn't make it onto your list. B E S T O F 1 9 7 5 01 W I S H Y O U W E R E H E R E Pink Floyd 02 B L O O D O N T H E T R A C K S Bob Dylan 03 F L E E T W O O D M A C Fleetwood Mac 04 A N I G H T A T T H E O P E R A Queen 05 B O R N T O R U N Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band 06 V E N U S A N D M A R S Paul McCartney & Wings 07 P H Y S I C A L G R A F F I T I Led Zeppelin 08 K A T Y L I E D Steely Dan 09 F A C E T H E M U S I C Electric Light Orchestra 10 C R I S I S ? W H A T C R I S I S ? Supertramp 11 Y O U N G A M E R I C A N S David Bowie 12 C A P T A I N F A N T A S T I C A N D T H E B R O W N D I R T C O W B O Y Elton John 13 Z U M A Neil Young 14 M O D E R N T I M E S Al Stewart 15 O N E O F T H E S E N I G H T S the Eagles 16 T O Y S I N T H E A T T I C Aerosmith 17 G H O S T S the Strawbs 18 T O N I G HT ' S T H E N I G H T Neil Young 19 S T I L L C R A Z Y A F T E R A L L T H E S E Y E A R S Paul Simon 20 T H E W H O B Y N U M B E R S the W ho 21 B E A U T I F U L L O S E R Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band 22 S I R E N Roxy Music 23 C H E W I N G P I N E Leo Kottke 24 J O H N F O G E R T Y John Fogerty 25 B E T W E E N T H E L I N E S Janis Ian 26 D R E A M B O A T A N N I E Heart 27 A N O T H E R N I G H T the Hollies 28 F O R C E I T UFO 29 S O A P O P E R A the Kinks 30 E Q U I N O X Styx 31 A T L A N T I C C R O S S I N G S Rod Stewart 32 N U T H I N ' F A N C Y Lynyrd Skynyrd 33 B L U E S F O R A L L A H the Grateful Dead 34 S C H E H E R E Z A D E A N D O T H E R S T O R I E S Renaissance 35 T H E O R I G I N A L S O U N D T R A C K 10cc 36 S H O O T I N G S T A R Bad Company 37 O U T O F H A N D Gary Stewart 38 S T A M P E D E the Doobie Brothers 39 F R A M P T O N Peter Frampton 40 B L U E S K Y -- N I G H T T H U N D E R Michael Martin Murphey 41 H A I R O F T H E D O G Nazareth 42 S C H O O L B O Y S I N D I S G R A C E the Kinks 43 T H E R E ' S O N E I N E V E R Y C R O W D Eric Clapton 44 L O S T G E N E R A T I O N Elliott Murphy 45 N O M A D N E S S the Strawbs 46 C O N E Y I S L A N D B A B Y Lou Reed 47 N I G H T L I G H T S Elliott Murphy 48 H O R S E S Patty Smith 49 P R E S S U R E D R O P Robert Palmer 50 I N I T I A T I O N Todd Rundgren
1975 is one of the best years in rock music, many groups recorded many interesting albums!!!👍👍👍
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Excellent merci pour le partage remember 😊
Good list. Nice that you considered some good pop albums. Always amazes me that some people have a narrow view of rock.
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What a decade for music! Literally something for everyone. And everyone plays an instrument!!!
Sabotage.....still gives me goosebumps after all these years 😱
What a fantastic selection! It inspired me (15 years old back then) to dig out old records that I hadn't listened to for ages. Thank you for this pleasure, you've made my Friday night! 👍
I'm glad you enjoyed viewing my list!!!
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Oh wow Hot Chocolate & Suzi Quatro, I haven't heard of them in ages! Some fantastic albums on that list.
I think everyone who lived at thе times will be happy to remember one or another album from this list.
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SPARKS in at #20
SPARKS played in Sydney last week.
They were bloody brilliant.
#1 Song in Heaven.
Interesting list. I'm not a big rock fan and thus haven't heard 85% of the albums listed, but agree with many of your top 20 choices.
I think these deserve tp be in the top 95: Scorpions - In Trance; Moxy - self titled; Skyhooks - Ego Is Not A Dirty Word
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Nice one! Glad to see Bad Co, Led Zep, and BTO in the top 10. Also glad to know you like Lynyrd Skynyrd and ZZ Top. We do love our "southern fried rock" here in North Carolina!😍👍😎
I really love Lynyrd Skynyrd and
ZZ Top.
These are one of the best bands that perform southern rock and that brought a certain flavor to rock music.
About ZZ Top is an extraordinary group that originally combined southern rock with blues and hard rock.
As always, thank you for your meaningful comment!!!🥁🎸🎤✌️
THIN LIZZY weren't big in the U.S.A. yet here they are #22 on the list.
Up until Phil Lynott's untimely death, THIN LIZZY were a great Rock Band.
They graced our shores a few times in Australia.
We punched our fists in the air and yelled with approval at their legendary concerts.
Great Band.
Pronounce the Band name with an Irish accent 'Tin Lizzy'
"Tonight there's going to be a Jailbreak, somewhere in this town"
"Breakout!!!"
Rock on with Thin Lizzy
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Glad you included Kansas Masque. Would personally have put Song For America on here as well.....but then again I'm partial 😊
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Oh yeah!!!!
Ian Hunter at #31
When the Guitar was invented it was for "Once Bitten Twice Shy" by Ian Hunter.
"Allo"
Ian Hunter and Mott the Hoople had a huge Hit with Bowie's "All the Young Dudes"
AC/DC at 56 is a decent entry.
Steely Dan are cool.
Pilot & The Rubettes are a bit fun, but they're not better than Bands you've left out of the list.
Styx, Journey and Rush are Bands neither me or Australia are interested in, they don't Chart or get airplay.
Grand Funk Railroad had a huge Hit with "Locomotion" in Australia. It was cleverly produced and to me it was a lot of fun.
10cc are pure class.
OMG!!! Considering that the U.S.A. and Canada totally ignored STATUS QUO after 1968, I'm shocked and surprised to see "On The Level" in at #32 on your personal chart.
I'd be very keen to know how you were made aware of the album.
STATUS QUO were massive everywhere in the World except for the U.S.A. and Canada.
"On The Level" peaked at #2 in Australia in 1975.
Checkout the long version of "Down Down" on the album.
I have watched the Evolution of STATUS QUO from the 60's Psychedelic Rock to the Stoner Rock of 1970/1971 albums, through their massively successful charting albums and singles of the 70's and early 80's.
I own the 33 studio albums that the name STATUS QUO have released.
Only a couple of them are of poor quality, due to them experimenting.
You won't meet more biased fans than a QUO fan.
We don't think, we know that they are the best Rock Band in history.
In the early/ mid 80's they lost 2 original members due to 'music differences' and cocaine abuse by Francis Rossi.
Even their new music direction picked up millions of new fans.
"On the Level" is not only one of STATUS QUO's best albums, it is one of the best albums ever made.
I read a lot of the Comments on You Tube and I've found a lot of Americans and Canadians saying "Why haven't I heard of this Band before now?" "They are awesome!!"
Not many Bands have managed to play Rock n Roll 'properly'.
STATUS QUO are one of the few that achieved to do it.
Long Live STATUS QUO!!
RIP - Alan Lancaster & Rick Parfitt
Cool comment!!!
I think that young people who are interested in rock music of the seventies will find a lot of interesting things for themselves.🎤🥁🎸✌️
There's a few very good Bands and albums in the Top of the list.
Roxy music, ZZ Top, McCartney & Wings, Elton John, Fleetwood Mac, Bowie,
Bad Co., BTO, Rainbow, Sabbath, Zeppelin and Pink Floyd.
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Great choices
1. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
2. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
* KISS - Alive!
3. Scorpions - In Trance
4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5. Rush - Fly By Night
* Blue Oyster Cult - On Your Feet or On Your Knees
6. Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
7. Nazareth - Hair of The Dog
8. Heart - Dreamboat Annie
9. KISS - Dressed to Kill
10. Thin Lizzy - Fighting
11. Rainbow - RB's Rainbow
12. Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent
13. UFO - Force It
14. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
15. Alice Cooper - Welcome to My Nightmare
16. Rush - Caress of Steel
17. Jethro Tull - Minstrel In The Gallery
18. Queen - A Night at The Opera
19. Styx - Equinox
20. Budgie - Bandolier
21. ZZ Top - Fandango
22. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma
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Three excellent ones, my order: 1. A Night at the Opera 2. Wish You Were Hear 3. Physical Graffiti
Some bloody good stuff in that list
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Interesting list!🤔👍
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Good music!
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Uncle Frank in at #19.
People thought Frank took a lot of drugs, yet Coffee and Cigarettes were his vices.
Captain Beefheart didn't read or write music he whistled all the tunes to his Band in the studio.
They were smart enough to work out the notes.
I can't think of Frank Zappa without automatically thinking of Captain Beefheart.
These lists clearly indicate the huge drop off in quality from 1970-72 to 1973-75
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Drop off was after 73 I think. 73 is great.
Pretty good for '75, but missing two of my top picks:
Another Green World - Brian Eno
Blue Jays - Justin Hayward and John Lodge
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Bruce Springsteen Bornu To Run was on this list ? Also Scorpions In trance is hard rock masterpiece ( and all of their late 70ties albums, especailly Taken By Force 1978)
Your Gold Teeth is on Steely Dan's second album. Your Gold Teeth II is on Katy Lied. You seem to have them mixed up.
Best years were 1971 until 1973-1974. With still original Yes, Genesis, Alice Cooper....
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You're good I'll hand you that however I'm a little surprised, know I'm a lot surprised that you didn't have Armageddon by Armageddon their debut and only album they've ever released. Supergroup from 1975 that only made one album due to singer Keith r e l f being electrocuted shortly thereafter. A true masterpiece in heavy progressive rock much better than anything Rush ever put out. I have to say I'm really surprised especially being as it's one of your list and you're usually right on on this type of thing.😊 90% great list anyway so you get a low grade A or a B+ for this effort😊
Roy wood’s mustard should be on here.
The top four were great, though I would put Sabotage at number three. Most of the rest were pretty ordinary.
Angel=S/T, 1975= Essential Work of Epic POMP!!!!# 30 ...Aeosmith-Toys In The Attic !!!Heavy Rock=# 34
Abba. Boney.m. olivia newton john.
BORN TO RUN AT 25?!?!
The Who 69th. A big joke 😅
Kudos on the Hollies, Procol, and Strawbs discs. I still love The Hollies, the band's 1974 release, but Another Night is almost as good. The Journey album, though was pretty forgettable, and some of the other choices leave much to be desired. It was a good year for rock, and some of the best didn't make it onto your list.
B E S T O F 1 9 7 5
01 W I S H Y O U W E R E H E R E
Pink Floyd
02 B L O O D O N T H E T R A C K S
Bob Dylan
03 F L E E T W O O D M A C
Fleetwood Mac
04 A N I G H T A T T H E O P E R A
Queen
05 B O R N T O R U N
Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band
06 V E N U S A N D M A R S
Paul McCartney & Wings
07 P H Y S I C A L G R A F F I T I
Led Zeppelin
08 K A T Y L I E D
Steely Dan
09 F A C E T H E M U S I C
Electric Light Orchestra
10 C R I S I S ? W H A T C R I S I S ?
Supertramp
11 Y O U N G A M E R I C A N S
David Bowie
12 C A P T A I N F A N T A S T I C A N D T H E
B R O W N D I R T C O W B O Y
Elton John
13 Z U M A
Neil Young
14 M O D E R N T I M E S
Al Stewart
15 O N E O F T H E S E N I G H T S
the Eagles
16 T O Y S I N T H E A T T I C
Aerosmith
17 G H O S T S
the Strawbs
18 T O N I G HT ' S T H E N I G H T
Neil Young
19 S T I L L C R A Z Y A F T E R A L L T H E S E Y E A R S
Paul Simon
20 T H E W H O B Y N U M B E R S
the W ho
21 B E A U T I F U L L O S E R
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
22 S I R E N
Roxy Music
23 C H E W I N G P I N E
Leo Kottke
24 J O H N F O G E R T Y
John Fogerty
25 B E T W E E N T H E L I N E S
Janis Ian
26 D R E A M B O A T A N N I E
Heart
27 A N O T H E R N I G H T
the Hollies
28 F O R C E I T
UFO
29 S O A P O P E R A
the Kinks
30 E Q U I N O X
Styx
31 A T L A N T I C C R O S S I N G S
Rod Stewart
32 N U T H I N ' F A N C Y
Lynyrd Skynyrd
33 B L U E S F O R A L L A H
the Grateful Dead
34 S C H E H E R E Z A D E A N D O T H E R S T O R I E S
Renaissance
35 T H E O R I G I N A L S O U N D T R A C K
10cc
36 S H O O T I N G S T A R
Bad Company
37 O U T O F H A N D
Gary Stewart
38 S T A M P E D E
the Doobie Brothers
39 F R A M P T O N
Peter Frampton
40 B L U E S K Y -- N I G H T T H U N D E R
Michael Martin Murphey
41 H A I R O F T H E D O G
Nazareth
42 S C H O O L B O Y S I N D I S G R A C E
the Kinks
43 T H E R E ' S O N E I N E V E R Y C R O W D
Eric Clapton
44 L O S T G E N E R A T I O N
Elliott Murphy
45 N O M A D N E S S
the Strawbs
46 C O N E Y I S L A N D B A B Y
Lou Reed
47 N I G H T L I G H T S
Elliott Murphy
48 H O R S E S
Patty Smith
49 P R E S S U R E D R O P
Robert Palmer
50 I N I T I A T I O N
Todd Rundgren
Terrible list !!!
It's not the same for everybody!!!