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HOA: 1974 eligibles list

The Doors percolate back up to the top of the rankings…they’re the first artist to be ranked #1 in two different years (’70 and now ’74).

You should check out the 1973 results on the results thread if you haven’t done so yet.

Post your ballots on the 1974 voting thread.


HALL OF ACCLAIM: TOP 50 CANDIDATES FOR 1974 ELECTION

Only releases through December 31, 1973 included.

1973 releases indicated with an asterisk.

1. THE DOORS
ALBUMS: The Doors (21); Strange Days (645); Waiting for the Sun (1819), Morrison Hotel (922); Absolutely Live (1907); L.A. Woman (225).
SONGS: Break on Through (To the Other Side) (1110); Light My Fire (33); The End (559); People Are Strange (1141); Hello, I Love You (1676); Riders on the Storm (483).

2. JOHN LENNON
ALBUMS: John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (57); Imagine (95).
SONGS: Cold Turkey (1339); Instant Karma (We All Shine On) (271); Working Class Hero (1106); God (734); Imagine (26); Jealous Guy (958).

3. PINK FLOYD
ALBUMS: The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (100); A Saucerful of Secrets (2348); Atom Heart Mother (2476); Meddle (1256); The Dark Side of the Moon (20)*.
SONGS: Arnold Layne (702); See Emily Play (257); Interstellar Overdrive (1642); Money (1147)*; Time (2481)*; Us and Them (1329)*.

4. AL GREEN
ALBUMS: Al Green Gets Next to You (1886); Let’s Stay Together (670); I’m Still in Love with You (522); Call Me (257)*; Livin’ for You (2556)*.
SONGS: Tired of Being Alone (350); Let’s Stay Together (63); Look What You Done for Me (2554); I’m Still in Love with You (1893); Call Me (1352)*; Love and Happiness (1816)*.

5. BLACK SABBATH
ALBUMS: Black Sabbath (440); Paranoid (146); Master of Reality (969); Vol. 4 (767); Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1401)*.
SONGS: Paranoid (183); Iron Man (676); Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1805)*.

6. FRANK ZAPPA/THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
ALBUMS: Freak Out! (279); Absolutely Free (1060); We’re Only in It for the Money (169); Uncle Meat (721); Hot Rats (203); Over-Nite Sensation (2280)*.
SONG: Willie the Pimp (Parts I and II) (2727).

7. LOU REED
ALBUMS: Transformer (79); Berlin (212)*.
SONGS: Walk on the Wild Side (58); Perfect Day (1972); Satellite of Love (1296).

8. BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS
ALBUMS: Soul Rebels (2802); African Herbsman (757); Catch a Fire (158)*; Burnin’ (433)*.
SONGS: Stir It Up (935); Duppy Conqueror (2675); Lively Up Yourself (1100); Get Up, Stand Up (285)*; I Shot the Sheriff (450)*.

9. ROXY MUSIC
ALBUMS: Roxy Music (207); For Your Pleasure (94)*; Stranded (588)*.
SONGS: Virginia Plain (154); A Song for Europe (2654)*; Pyjamarama (2630)*; Do the Strand (2737)*; Mother of Pearl (2993)*.

10. GRATEFUL DEAD
ALBUMS: Anthem of the Sun (2356); Live/Dead (359); Aoxomoxoa (1784); Workingman’s Dead (362); American Beauty (301).
SONGS: Dark Star (651); Uncle John’s Band (1170); Box of Rain (654).

11. T. REX
ALBUMS: Electric Warrior (176); The Slider (669).
SONGS: Get It On (Bang a Gong) (110); Jeepster (2276); Telegram Sam (605); Children of the Revolution (597); 20th Century Boy (584)*.

12. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND
ALBUMS: Safe as Milk (423); Trout Mask Replica (54); Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1563); Clear Spot (594).
SONG: Big Eyed Beans from Venus (1384).

13. ELTON JOHN
ALBUMS: Elton John (2979); Tumbleweed Connection (1780); Honky Chateau (1190); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (142)*.
SONGS: Your Song (294); Tiny Dancer (1063); Rocket Man (1655); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (529)*; Candle in the Wind (1062)*; Bennie and the Jets (1248)*.

14. CREAM
ALBUMS: Fresh Cream (1096); Disraeli Gears (177); Wheels of Fire (1096).
SONGS: I Feel Free (1501); Sunshine of Your Love (458); White Room (2352); Crossroads (1282).

15. CROSBY, STILLS, NASH (& YOUNG)
ALBUMS: Crosby, Stills and Nash (313); Dèjá Vu (159); Four-Way Street (1334).
SONGS: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (1294); Helpless (1520); Ohio (521).

16. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
ALBUMS: Surrealistic Pillow (163); After Bathing at Baxter’s (1333); Crown of Creation (2061); Volunteers (988).
SONGS: Somebody to Love (462); White Rabbit (215).

17. DEEP PURPLE
ALBUMS: In Rock (346); Machine Head (247); Made in Japan (413).
SONGS: Highway Star (2072); Smoke on the Water (508).

18. ROD STEWART
ALBUMS: The Rod Stewart Album (1918); Gasoline Alley (802); Every Picture Tells a Story (152); Never a Dull Moment (1557).
SONGS: Maggie May (103); You Wear It Well (1798).

19. JANIS JOPLIN/BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY
ALBUMS: Cheap Thrills (221); Pearl (199).
SONGS: Piece of My Heart (711); Me and Bobby McGee (365).

20. CURTIS MAYFIELD
ALBUMS: Curtis (524); Curtis/Live (1530); Superfly (1972)*.
SONGS: (Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go (2380); We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue (1922); Move On Up (656); Freddie’s Dead (1297)*; Superfly (1942)*.

21. THE SUPREMES
ALBUMS: Where Did Our Love Go (1984); The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland (1946).
SONGS: Where Did Our Love Go (211); Baby Love (718); Stop! In the Name of Love (143); You Can’t Hurry Love (421); You Keep Me Hangin’ On (818).

22. SONNY ROLLINS
ALBUMS: Tenor Madness (1104); Saxophone Colossus (370); Way Out West (891); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (1021); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (1150); The Bridge (1158).
SONG: St. Thomas (2551).

23. LOVE
ALBUMS: Love (2423); Da Capo (1649); Forever Changes (50).
SONG: Alone Again Or (219).

24. DEREK AND THE DOMINOS
ALBUM: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (69).
SONG: Layla (48).

25. ORNETTE COLEMAN
ALBUMS: Something Else!!! (1861); The Shape of Jazz to Come (315); Change of the Century (762); Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation (501); This Is Our Music (1688); At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1 (1584).
SONGS: none.

26. CAROLE KING
ALBUM: Tapestry (61).
SONGS: Home Again (2477); It’s Too Late (334); I Feel the Earth Move (1340); You’ve Got a Friend (1018).

27. NICO
ALBUMS: The Velvet Underground & Nico (4); Chelsea Girl (2482); The Marble Index (1305); Desertshore (2523).
SONGS: All Tomorrow’s Parties (1336); Femme Fatale (2013); These Days (1032).

28. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
ALBUMS: Idlewild South (2827); At Fillmore East (102); Eat a Peach (1389); Brothers and Sisters (1847)*.
SONGS: Whipping Post (1368); Ramblin’ Man (1328)*; Jessica (1647)*.

29. TIM BUCKLEY
ALBUMS: Goodbye and Hello (1204); Happy Sad (456); Starsailor (579); Blue Afternoon (2163); Greetings from L.A. (1237).
SONG: Song to the Siren (916).

30. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: A Girl Called Dusty (2881); Dusty in Memphis (96).
SONGS: I Only Want to Be with You (2876); You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (1094); Son of a Preacher Man (199).

31. SANTANA
ALBUMS: Santana (1242); Abraxas (171), Santana III (2288); Caravanserai (1483).
SONGS: Black Magic Woman (745); Oye Como Va (1263).

32. JIMMY CLIFF
ALBUM: The Harder They Come (196).
SONGS: Many Rivers to Cross (166); Vietnam (2043); The Harder They Come (427).

33. CAN
ALBUMS: Monster Movie (1496); Tago Mago (261); Ege Bamyasi (691); Future Days (646)*.
SONGS: none.

34. THE FOUR TOPS
ALBUM: Second Album (2587); Reach Out (1486).
SONGS: Baby I Need Your Loving (828); I Can’t Help Myself (1401); It’s the Same Old Song (1581); Reach Out (I’ll Be There) (36); Standing in the Shadows of Love (1568); Bernadette (2587).

35. BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: Buffalo Springfield (1351); Buffalo Springfield Again (330).
SONGS: For What It’s Worth (102); Expecting to Fly (1156).

36. STAN GETZ
ALBUMS: Hamp & Getz (2186); Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (2614); Focus (1769); Jazz Samba (818); Getz/Gilberto (394); Stan Getz and Bill Evans (2433).
SONGS: The Girl from Ipanema (538); Corcovado (2078).

37. STEELY DAN
ALBUMS: Can’t Buy a Thrill (431); Countdown to Ecstasy (396)*.
SONGS: Do It Again (1289); Reeling in the Years (438); The Boston Rag (2791)*.

38. HERBIE HANCOCK
ALBUMS: Takin’ Off (1523); Empyrean Isles (1535); Maiden Voyage (483); Mwandishi (1716); Sextant (2133)*; Head Hunters (534)*.
SONGS: none.

39. FAIRPORT CONVENTION
ALBUMS: Fairport Convention (2450); What We Did on Our Holidays (2337); Unhalfbricking (480); Liege and Lief (407).
SONGS: Who Knows Where the Time Goes (393); A Sailor’s Life (2572).

40. MC5
ALBUMS: Kick Out the Jams (216); Back in the USA (628).
SONG: Kick Out the Jams (361).

41. BILL EVANS
ALBUMS: Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1659); Portrait in Jazz (1689); Explorations (2257); Sunday at the Village Vanguard (479); Waltz for Debby (496); Undercurrent (2306).
SONG: Waltz for Debby (2639).

42. COUNT BASIE
ALBUMS: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (1310); April in Paris (1000); At Newport (1447); The Atomic Mr. Basie (657).
SONGS: One O’Clock Jump (865); Lester Leaps In (2182); April in Paris (1447).

43. ALICE COOPER
ALBUMS: Love It to Death (1345); Killer (939); School’s Out (1304); Billion Dollar Babies (1217)*.
SONGS: I’m Eighteen (1373); School’s Out (384).

44. RANDY NEWMAN
ALBUMS: 12 Songs (349); Sail Away (390).
SONG: Sail Away (690).

45. TRAFFIC
ALBUMS: Mr. Fantasy (491); Traffic (965); John Barleycorn Must Die (515); The Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys (2517).
SONGS: Paper Sun (2913); Dear Mr. Fantasy (2232).

46. IKE AND TINA TURNER
ALBUM: River Deep Mountain High (908).
SONGS: A Fool in Love (2560); It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (2061); River Deep Mountain High (22); Proud Mary (2975).

47. THE ISLEY BROTHERS
ALBUM: 3+3 (912)*.
SONGS: Shout (Parts 1 and 2) (230); Twist and Shout (1030); This Old Heart of Mine (1452); It’s Your Thing (956); That Lady (1252)*; Summer Breeze (2896)*.

48. ISAAC HAYES
ALBUMS: Hot Buttered Soul (358); Shaft (1263).
SONGS: Walk On By (2531); By the Time I Get to Phoenix (1896); Theme from Shaft (242).

49. THE RONETTES
ALBUM: Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes Featuring Veronica (1497).
SONGS: Be My Baby (12); Baby, I Love You (2461); Walking in the Rain (2535).

50. THE DRIFTERS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Money Honey (921); There Goes My Baby (269); Save the Last Dance for Me (670); Up on the Roof (870); On Broadway (894); Under the Boardwalk (1456).

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MOVING UP: Pink Floyd, Al Green, Black Sabbath, Lou Reed, Roxy Music, T. Rex, The Allman Brothers Band, Can.

NEW TO THE LIST: Bob Marley and the Wailers, Elton John, Steely Dan, Herbie Hancock, Alice Cooper, The Isley Brothers.

(This is the third time the the Isleys have popped up into the top 50, and it’ll be the last.)

FELL OFF THE LIST: Dizzy Gillespie, B.B. King.

BUBBLING UNDER: Todd Rundgren, Yes, Mott the Hoople, Paul McCartney, King Crimson.

Re: HOA: 1974 eligibles list

1. BOB MARLEY AND THE WAILERS. A slam dunk. Yes, I’m not always in the mood for ol’ Bob, but he can’t be beat for combining an immeasurable influence with being just a whole lot of fun.
2. ZAPPA/MOTHERS. There’s a group of about six artists (including Lennon and the Doors) who have been hanging around on the fringes of the serious contenders for a few years now…this is still my pick out of that group. There’s nobody like Frank.
3. ROXY MUSIC. There you go, Moonbeam. They just had their annus mirabilis, and they tower over most other acts of this era for wit and flair. They’re also writing some brilliantly quirky songs.
4. PINK FLOYD. I’m more ambivalent about them than many here, but Dark Side is terrific if one can forget how many times one has heard it…actually, that’s probably why I prefer Wish You Were Here.

[Completely irrelevant sidebar: last week, I accidentally went to see the Coldplay concert here (yes, accidentally…it’s a long story) and a friend of mine came out comparing them to Pink Floyd live. At first I thought he was off his meds, but I’ve heard the same thing from a couple of other people in the last week. I’ve never seen Floyd live, and Coldplay still sounds to me like U2 phoning it in (though the show wasn’t terrible); can someone tell me who’s crazy here?]

[Back to my ballot…]

5. T. REX. This is the last year of Marc Bolan’s AM-relevant career.
6. AL GREEN
7. PATSY CLINE
8. BLACK SABBATH
9. MOTT THE HOOPLE
10. FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS. I think this is my farewell to them; I really think they should be in, but I doubt their candidacy has any legs anymore (if it ever did).

(I’m surprising myself a bit by not putting Lou Reed on my ballot so far. Yes, the fact that he’s already in the Hall as a part of VU has something to do with it.)

Same old for backstage:
1. JANN WENNER
2. LESTER BANGS
3. ANDY WARHOL