It’s time for the 1975 election, and some (minor) shuffling of artists to reflect Henrik’s great new update!

The Doors become the first artist to hold the top spot in two consecutive years; they lead this field by a wide margin, even as their chances of induction seem to be slipping.

You should check out the 1974 results on the results thread if you haven’t done so yet.

Post your ballots on the 1975 voting thread.


HALL OF ACCLAIM: TOP 50 CANDIDATES FOR 1975 ELECTION

Only releases through December 31, 1974 included.

1974 releases indicated with an asterisk.

1. THE DOORS
ALBUMS: The Doors (20); Strange Days (605); Waiting for the Sun (1809), Morrison Hotel (931); Absolutely Live (1904); L.A. Woman (214).
SONGS: Break on Through (To the Other Side) (1089); Light My Fire (34); The End (564); People Are Strange (1136); Hello, I Love You (1660); Riders on the Storm (458).

2. LOU REED
ALBUMS: Transformer (76); Berlin (197); Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal (977)*.
SONGS: Walk on the Wild Side (54); Perfect Day (849); Satellite of Love (1293); Sweet Jane (live) (1418)*.

3. AL GREEN
ALBUMS: Al Green Gets Next to You (1956); Let’s Stay Together (671); I’m Still in Love with You (520); Call Me (255); Livin’ for You (2718).
SONGS: Tired of Being Alone (350); Let’s Stay Together (63); I’m Still in Love with You (1873); Call Me (1413); Love and Happiness (1873); Take Me to the River (589)*.

4. ROXY MUSIC
ALBUMS: Roxy Music (206); For Your Pleasure (94); Stranded (593); Country Life (827)*.
SONGS: Virginia Plain (155); A Song for Europe (2607); Pyjamarama (2707); Do the Strand (2744).

5. FRANK ZAPPA/THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
ALBUMS: Freak Out! (279); Absolutely Free (1054); We’re Only in It for the Money (166); Uncle Meat (718); Hot Rats (191); Over-Nite Sensation (2239).
SONG: Willie the Pimp (Parts I and II) (2796).

6. GRATEFUL DEAD
ALBUMS: Anthem of the Sun (2397); Live/Dead (347); Aoxomoxoa (1818); Workingman’s Dead (357); American Beauty (305).
SONGS: Dark Star (684); Uncle John’s Band (1217); Box of Rain (651).

7. T. REX
ALBUMS: Electric Warrior (182); The Slider (695).
SONGS: Get It On (Bang a Gong) (110); Jeepster (2240); Telegram Sam (603); Children of the Revolution (569); 20th Century Boy (570).

8. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND
ALBUMS: Safe as Milk (415); Trout Mask Replica (53); Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1594); Clear Spot (566); The Spotlight Kid (2051).
SONG: Big Eyed Beans from Venus (1448).

9. ELTON JOHN
ALBUMS: Elton John (2981); Tumbleweed Connection (1757); Honky Chateau (1199); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (141).
SONGS: Your Song (306); Tiny Dancer (1061); Rocket Man (1632); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (540); Candle in the Wind (1093); Bennie and the Jets (1257).

10. STEELY DAN
ALBUMS: Can’t Buy a Thrill (425); Countdown to Ecstasy (385); Pretzel Logic (284)*.
SONGS: Do It Again (1303); Reeling in the Years (449); The Boston Rag (2830); Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (927)*.

11. CREAM
ALBUMS: Fresh Cream (1129); Disraeli Gears (183); Wheels of Fire (428).
SONGS: I Feel Free (1560); Sunshine of Your Love (461); White Room (2395); Crossroads (1296); Badge (1711).

12. CROSBY, STILLS, NASH (& YOUNG)
ALBUMS: Crosby, Stills and Nash (315); Dèjá Vu (151); Four-Way Street (1287).
SONGS: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (1331); Helpless (1552); Ohio (547).

13. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
ALBUMS: Surrealistic Pillow (164); After Bathing at Baxter’s (1277); Crown of Creation (2083); Volunteers (926).
SONGS: Somebody to Love (476); White Rabbit (223).

14. DEEP PURPLE
ALBUMS: In Rock (348); Machine Head (242); Made in Japan (407).
SONGS: Highway Star (2098); Smoke on the Water (509).

15. ROD STEWART
ALBUMS: The Rod Stewart Album (2085); Gasoline Alley (816); Every Picture Tells a Story (154); Never a Dull Moment (1621).
SONGS: Maggie May (107); You Wear It Well (1867).

16. JANIS JOPLIN/BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY
ALBUMS: Cheap Thrills (227); Pearl (193).
SONGS: Piece of My Heart (753); Me and Bobby McGee (372).

17. CURTIS MAYFIELD
ALBUMS: Curtis (507); Curtis/Live (1515); Superfly (155).
SONGS: (Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go (2508); We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue (1935); Move On Up (643); Freddie’s Dead (1333); Superfly (1993).

18. SONNY ROLLINS
ALBUMS: Tenor Madness (1049); Saxophone Colossus (332); Way Out West (904); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (965); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (1088); The Bridge (1133).
SONG: St. Thomas (2627).

19. THE SUPREMES
ALBUMS: Where Did Our Love Go (1881); The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland (1907).
SONGS: Where Did Our Love Go (219); Baby Love (737); Stop! In the Name of Love (142); You Can’t Hurry Love (415); You Keep Me Hangin’ On (867).

20. ORNETTE COLEMAN
ALBUMS: Something Else!!! (1843); The Shape of Jazz to Come (293); Change of the Century (763); Free Jazz (473); This Is Our Music (1674); At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1 (1586).
SONGS: none.

21. DEREK AND THE DOMINOS
ALBUM: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (69).
SONG: Layla (47).

22. RANDY NEWMAN
ALBUMS: 12 Songs (336); Sail Away (384); Good Old Boys (424)*.
SONG: Sail Away (701).

23. LOVE
ALBUMS: Love (2529); Da Capo (1700); Forever Changes (50).
SONG: Alone Again Or (221).

24. CAROLE KING
ALBUM: Tapestry (59).
SONGS: Home Again (2507); It’s Too Late (349); I Feel the Earth Move (1344); You’ve Got a Friend (997).

25. CAN
ALBUMS: Monster Movie (1529); Tago Mago (258); Ege Bamyasi (684); Future Days (631); Soon Over Babaluma (1661)*.
SONGS: none.

26. TIM BUCKLEY
ALBUMS: Goodbye and Hello (1171); Happy Sad (440); Blue Afternoon (2172); Starsailor (557); Greetings from L.A. (1202).
SONG: Song to the Siren (869).

27. KING CRIMSON
ALBUMS: In the Court of the Crimson King (135); Islands (2717); Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1579); Red (562)*.
SONG: 21st Century Schizoid Man (1102).

28. SANTANA
ALBUMS: Santana (1256); Abraxas (168), III (2454); Caravanserai (1411); Lotus (2655)*.
SONGS: Black Magic Woman (722); Oye Como Va (1353).

29. NICO
ALBUMS: The Velvet Underground & Nico (4); Chelsea Girl (2511); The Marble Index (1402); Desertshore (2571).
SONGS: All Tomorrow’s Parties (1305); Femme Fatale (2075); These Days (1145).

30. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
ALBUMS: Idlewild South (2941); At Fillmore East (101); Eat a Peach (1446); Brothers and Sisters (1852).
SONGS: Whipping Post (1384); Ramblin’ Man (1374); Jessica (1567).

31. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: A Girl Called Dusty (2878); Dusty in Memphis (95).
SONGS: I Only Want to Be with You (2959); You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (1103); Son of a Preacher Man (205).

32. JIMMY CLIFF
ALBUM: The Harder They Come (194).
SONGS: Many Rivers to Cross (167); Vietnam (2105); The Harder They Come (429).

33. LYNYRD SKYNYRD
ALBUMS: (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd) (576); Second Helping (626)*.
SONGS: Free Bird (258); Sweet Home Alabama (418)*.

34 GRAM PARSONS
ALBUMS: G.P. (398); Grievous Angel (130)*.
SONGS: Return of the Grievous Angel (1624)*; Hickory Wind (2749)*.

35. THE FOUR TOPS
ALBUM: Second Album (2673); Reach Out (1462).
SONGS: Baby I Need Your Loving (845); I Can’t Help Myself (1466); It’s the Same Old Song (1642); Reach Out (I’ll Be There) (36); Standing in the Shadows of Love (1626); Bernadette (2692).

36. BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: Buffalo Springfield (1459); Buffalo Springfield Again (326).
SONGS: For What It’s Worth (99); Expecting to Fly (1115).

37. HERBIE HANCOCK
ALBUMS: Takin’ Off (1503); Empyrean Isles (1500); Maiden Voyage (459); Mwandishi (1748); Sextant (2238); Head Hunters (524).
SONGS: none.

38. STAN GETZ
ALBUMS: Hamp & Getz (2194); Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (2742); Focus (1668); Jazz Samba (804); Getz/Gilberto (372); Stan Getz and Bill Evans (2501).
SONGS: The Girl from Ipanema (553); Corcovado (2516).

39. MC5
ALBUMS: Kick Out the Jams (212); Back in the USA (624).
SONG: Kick Out the Jams (368).

40. FAIRPORT CONVENTION
ALBUMS: Fairport Convention (2508); What We Did on Our Holidays (2391); Unhalfbricking (498); Liege and Lief (399).
SONGS: Who Knows Where the Time Goes (401); A Sailor’s Life (2490).

41. NEW YORK DOLLS
ALBUMS: New York Dolls (139); Too Much Too Soon (844)*.
SONG: Personality Crisis (577).

42. BILL EVANS
ALBUMS: Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1659); Portrait in Jazz (1707); Explorations (2281); Sunday at the Village Vanguard (455); Waltz for Debby (475); Undercurrent (2208).
SONG: Waltz for Debby (2760).

43. COUNT BASIE
ALBUMS: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (1268); April in Paris (975); At Newport (1439); The Atomic Mr. Basie (594).
SONGS: One O’Clock Jump (911); Lester Leaps In (2346); April in Paris (1338).

44. BIG STAR
ALBUMS: #1 Record (485); Radio City (346)*.
SONGS: Thirteen (2544); September Gurls (384)*.

45. TODD RUNDGREN
ALBUMS: Something/Anything? (262); A Wizard, a True Star (658); Todd (2206)*.
SONG: I Saw the Light (704).

46. ALICE COOPER
ALBUMS: Love It to Death (1379); Killer (957); School’s Out (1298); Billion Dollar Babies (1246).
SONGS: I’m Eighteen (1386); School’s Out (396).

47. TRAFFIC
ALBUMS: Mr. Fantasy (488); Traffic (966); John Barleycorn Must Die (504); The Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys (2557).
SONGS: Paper Sun (2926); Dear Mr. Fantasy (2225).

48. DIZZY GILLESPIE
ALBUMS: Bird & Diz (1548); Jazz at Massey Hall (494); Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge (1526); Groovin’ High (1463); At Newport (2176); Gillespiana (2221).
SONGS: Groovin’ High (2795); A Night in Tunisia (2603); Manteca (1219).

49. IKE AND TINA TURNER
ALBUM: River Deep Mountain High (893).
SONGS: A Fool in Love (2646); It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (2085); River Deep Mountain High (22).

50. ISAAC HAYES
ALBUMS: Hot Buttered Soul (358); Shaft (1152).
SONGS: Walk On By (2664); By the Time I Get to Phoenix (1975); Theme from Shaft (247).

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MOVING UP: Lou Reed, Roxy Music, Steely Dan, Randy Newman, Can, Santana.

NEW TO THE LIST: King Crimson, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Gram Parsons, New York Dolls, Big Star, Todd Rundgren.

(Also, some artists moved up as a result of Henrik’s new rankings: Sonny Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Derek and the Dominos, Tim Buckley, Herbie Hancock, MC5, and Isaac Hayes. And Dizzy Gillespie pops back up onto the list.)

FELL OFF THE LIST: The Isley Brothers, The Ronettes, The Drifters.

BUBBLING UNDER: Genesis, Mott the Hoople, Paul McCartney, Yes, Little Feat.