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Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Welcome to the second part of the '70s acclaimed music forum poll. This month we will deal with 1975.

Please submit at least 5 songs and/or albums, preferably but not necessarily with ranking, lists without ranking will get an average score of 10 points per album. The deadline is midnight on the 30th of July. For the scoring, rules and other details check here

You should have a look at the 1975 album and song lists before voting (but you can of course vote for songs and albums not in the AM list)


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Albums

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
3. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
4. Eno - Another Green World
5. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
7. Fleetwood Mac - s/t
8. Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
9. Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert
10. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
11. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live!
12. Dion - Born to Be with You
13. Rod Stewart - Atlantic Crossing
14. Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Zuma
15. Gary Stewart - Out of Hand
16. James Talley - Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got a Lot of Love
17. U-Roy - Dread in a Babylon
18. Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
19. Dave Edmunds - Subtle as a Flying Mallet
20. Fela Kuti - Confusion

21. Tony Bennett/Bill Evans - The Tony Bennett Bill Evans Album
22. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
23. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
24. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
25. John Cale - Slow Dazzle
26. Parliament - Mothership Connection
27. Richard & Linda Thompson - Hokey Pokey
28. Black Sabbath - Sabotage
29. Fela Kuti - He Miss Road
30. Guy Clark - Old No. 1
31. Roxy Music - Siren
32. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
33. Hank Williams, Jr. - Hank Williams, Jr. & Friends
34. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
35. Nils Lofgren - s/t
36. Bee Gees - Main Course
37. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
38. John Cale - Helen of Troy
39. Smokey Robinson - A Quiet Storm
40. Clifton Chenier - Bogalusa Boogie

Songs

1. Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Cortez the Killer
2. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
3. Neil Young - Albuquerque
4. Eno - St. Elmo's Fire
5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
6. Led Zeppelin - The Rover
7. Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
8. Bruce Springsteen - Backstreets
9. The Eagles - Lyin' Eyes
10. Steely Dan - Bad Sneakers
11. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
12. Dion - Make the Woman Love Me
13. Jeff Beck - Cause We Ended as Lovers
14. Fela Kuti - Confusion
15. Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert, Part I
16. The Outlaws - Green Grass & High Tides
17. Black Sabbath - Hole in the Sky
18. Rod Stewart - I Don't Want to Talk About It
19. John Cale - (I Keep a) Close Watch
20. Gary Stewart - I See the Want To in Your Eyes

21. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child)
22. Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
23. The Marshall Tucker Band - Searchin' for a Rainbow
24. Bob Dylan - You're Gonna Make Me Lonesome When You Go
25. Emmylou Harris - Boulder to Birmingham
26. Grateful Dead - Help on the Way/Slipknot!
27. Guy Clark - Desperadoes Waiting for a Train
28. Ian Hunter - Once Bitten Twice Shy
29. Richard & Linda Thompson - Hokey Pokey
30. Waylon Jennings - Bob Wills is Still the King
31. James Talley - To Get Back Home
32. Roxy Music - Love is the Drug
33. Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow - Man on the Silver Mountain
34. Joni Mitchell - Edith and the Kingpin
35. Elton John - Writing
36. Emmylou Harris - Wheels
37. Neu - Isi
38. David Bowie - Can You Hear Me?
39. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
40. Queen - '39

Movies

1. Kings of the Road (Wenders)
2. Nashville (Altman)
3. Fox and His Friends (Fassbinder)
4. The Passenger (Antonioni)
5. Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (Akerman)
6. Hard Times (Hill)
7. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser (Herzog)
8. Night Moves (Penn)
9. Jaws (Spielberg)
10. Dog Day Afternoon (Lumet)
11. Mother Kusters Goes to Heaven (Fassbinder)
12. Shivers (Cronenberg)
13. A Boy and His Dog (Jones)
14. The French Connection II (Frankenheimer)
15. Picnic at Hanging Rock (Weir)
16. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Forman)
17. Barry Lyndon (Kubrick)
18. Race with the Devil (Starrett)
19. Dersu Uzala (Kurosawa)
20. Deep Red (Argento)

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Awesome, awesome song year.

1. Frank Zappa - Inca Roads
2. Neil Young - Borrowed Tune
3. Bob Dylan - Buckets of Rain
4. The Who - Blue, Red, and Grey
5. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
6. The Who - Dreaming From the Waist
7. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
8. Neil Young - Albuquerque
9. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
10. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
11. The Who - In a Hand or Face
12. The Who - How Many Friends
13. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
14. Bruce Springsteen - Night
15. Bob Dylan - If You See Her, Say Hello
16. Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction, Double Feature
17. Head East - Never Been Any Reason (please no one forget about this song! the true 'more cowbell' song!)
18. Rocky Horror Picture Show - Over At the Frankenstein Place
19. Television - Little Johnny Jewel
20. Frank Zappa - Carolina Hard-core Ecstasy

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ALBUMS

1. JONI MITCHELL ~ THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS
2. LED ZEPPELIN ~ PHYSICAL GRAFFITI
3. DONALD BYRD ~ PLACES AND SPACES
4. STEELY DAN ~ KATY LIED
5. CORTEX ~ TROUPEAU BLEU
6. JOHNNY HAMMOND ~ GEARS
7. BOB JAMES ~ TWO
8. ENO ~ ANOTHER GREEN WORLD
9. LEROY HUTSON ~ HUTSON
10. JEFF BECK ~ BLOW BY BLOW
11. THE BLACKBYRDS ~ CITY LIFE
12. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN ~ BORN TO RUN
13. THE J.B.'s ~ HUSTLE WITH SPEED
14. BOBBI HUMPHREY ~ FANCY DANCER
15. HERB GELLER OCTET ~ RHYME & REASON
16. PINK FLOYD ~ WISH YOU WERE HERE
17. MINNIE RIPERTON ~ ADVENTURES IN PARADISE
18. DONALD BYRD ~ STEPPING INTO TOMORROW
19. STANLEY CLARKE ~ JOURNEY TO LOVE
20. BOBBY HUTCHERSON ~ MONTARA
21. CAROLE KING ~ REALLY ROSIE
22. EARTH, WIND & FIRE ~ THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD
23. AZIMUTH ~ LINHA DO HORIZONTE
24. PATTI SMITH ~ HORSES
25. MANOELLA TORRES ~ MANOELLA

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Cheesy year, 1975. Two of my favourite songs (any day of the week) saw the light of day this year, though.


Albums:

1. Steely Dan – Katy Lied
2. Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue
3. Neil Young – Tonight’s The Night
4. David Bowie – Young Americans
5. Frank Zappa – One Size Fits All
6. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
7. Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
8. Led Zeppelin – Physical Grafitti
9. Bruce Springsteen – Born To Run
10. ABBA - ABBA

Songs:

1. Steely Dan – Doctor Wu
2. Walker Brothers – No Regrets
3. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Bob Dylan – Tangled Up In Blue
5. Steely Dan – Bad Sneakers
6. Neil Young - Tired Eyes
7. Neu! – Hero
8. Fleetwood Mac – Monday Morning
9. Frank Zappa – Muffin Man
10. Joan Baez – Diamonds And Rust
11. Frank Zappa – Sofa No. 2
12. David Bowie – Can You Hear Me
13. Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamonds I-VII
14. Steve Hackett – Shadow Of The Hierophant
15. Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
16. Frank Zappa – Inca Roads
17. Led Zeppelin – In My Time Of Dying
18. Marvin Gaye – I Want You
19. Outlaws – Green Grass And High Tides
20. ABBA – S.O.S.
21. Bob Dylan – If You See Her, Say Hello
22. Neil Young - Borrowed Tune
23. Cortex - Troupeau Bleu
24. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
25. Al Green – L-O-V-E (Love)
26. David Bowie – Win
27. Magnus Uggla – Hallå
28. Electric Light Orchestra – Fire On High
29. Carol Douglas – Doctor’s Orders
30. Curtis Mayfield – So In Love
31. Neil Young – Albuquerque
32. Nazareth – Silver Dollar Forger (Parts 1 & 2)
33. Lou Reed – Coney Island Baby
34. Bob Dylan – Idiot Wind
35. Joan Baez – Children And All That Jazz
36. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
37. Waylon Jennings – Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way
38. John Lennon – Slippin’ And Slidin’
39. Earth, Wind & Fire – That’s The Way Of The World
40. Billy Paul – Billy’s Back Home

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my ongoing list can be seen here

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Songs

1 Idiot Wind Bob Dylan
2 S.O.S. Abba
3 I'm Not In Love 10cc
4 Roadrunner Johnathon Richman
5 Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pink Floyd
6 Cortez The Killer Neil Young
7 Another Green World Brian Eno
8 Kashmir Led Zeppelin
9 The Big Ship Brian Eno
10 Love Is Drug Roxy Music
11 Jive Talkin' Bee Gees, The
12 Make Me Smile (Come and See Me) Steve Harley and Cockney Rebel
13 Tangled Up In Blue Bob Dylan
14 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover Paul Simon
15 Why Can't We Be Friends War
16 Thunder Road Bruce Springsteen
17 Custard Pie Led Zeppelin
18 Isi Neu!
19 Hurricane Bob Dylan
20 Albuquerque Neil Young
21 Shelter From The Storm Bob Dylan
22 St. Elmo's Fire Brian Eno
23 Fame David Bowie
24 Wish You Were Here Pink Floyd
25 Young Americans David Bowie
26 Gloria Patti Smith
27 Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances /La Mer (de) Patti Smith
28 Love To Love You Baby Donna Summer
29 Tonight's The Night Neil Young
30 The Jungle Line Joni Mitchell
31 Born To Run Bruce Springsteen
32 Ten Years Gone Led Zeppelin
33 Radioactivity Kraftwerk
34 Simple Twist of Fate Bob Dylan
35 Rhinestone Cowboy Glen Campbell
36 18 With A Bullet Pete Wingfield
37 Little Johnny Jewel Television
38 Kimberly Patti Smith
39 30 Seconds over Tokyo Pere Ubu
40 January Pilot

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((A))
01. Nasty Gal. Betty Davis
02. Horses. Patti Smith
03. Lewis Furey. Lewis Furey
04. Sunset Glow. Julie Tippetts
05. Paêbirú. Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho
06. There’s No Place Like America Today. Curtis Mayfield
07. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns. Joni Mitchell
08. White Noise 2 – Concerto For Synthesizer. White Noise
09. Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard. Robert Wyatt
10. Neu! 75. Neu!
11. The Show Must Go On. Sam Dees
12. Steppin’. The Pointer Sisters
13. Nadir’s Big Chance. Peter Hammill
14. Di Melo. Di Melo
15. Action Speaks Louder Than Words. Chocolate Milk
16. Ready Natty Dreadie. Dillinger
17. Tropical Dandy. Haruomi Hosono
18. Vibes Of Truth. 3 Pieces
19. Directs The Only Chrome Waterfall Orchestra. Mike Gibbs
20. Strange Love Action. The Johanna Group

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A great year.

Albums
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
3. Patti Smith - Horses
4. David Bowie - Young Americans
5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
6. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffity
7. Eno - Another Green World
8. Bob Marley - Live!
9. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
10. Parliament - Mothership Connection

I wonder who'll take first this year; Bruce or Bob. Both albums are incredible, but I've got to give the nod to Bruce. Born to Run might be a little less consistently good as Blood on the Tracks, but the two singles are a deal breaker.

Songs
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
3. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
4. David Bowie - Fame
5. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
6. Patti Smith - Gloria
7. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
8. David Bowie - Young Americans
9. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
10. Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind

Not too much to say. The year is a little weak on singles, but the album cuts are brilliant.

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This year of changeover is much better than its reputation. Offers a very coulerful mix of Glam, Pre-Punk, Disco, World Vibes and the final chords of Classic Soul. The songs:

1. Ananda Shankar - Streets Of Calcutta
2, Funk Factory - Rien Ne Va Plus
3. Roxy Music - Both Ends Burning
4. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
5. Ananda Shankar - Dancing Drums
6. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Visionary Mountains
7. Rocket From The Tombs - Ain't It Fun
8. Andrea True Connection - More More More
9. Moussa Doumbia - Keleya
10. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Spirits In The Night
11. Bob Dylan - Tangeled Up In Blue
12. Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire
13. Airto Moreira - Encounter (Encontro No Bar)
14. Camille Yarbrough - Take Yo' Praise
15. Bob Dylan - Tiny Montgomery
16. Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
17. Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben - Nega
18. Henry Flynt - Double Spindizzy
19. Selda - Bülbül
20. Jonathan Richman - Roadrunner
21. The Tubes - White Punks On Dope
22. Mike Heron - Singing The Dolphin
23. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
24. Van Der Graaf Generator - The Undercover Man
25. Curtis Mayfield - Billy Jack
26. Kilburn and the High Roads - Rough Kids
27. Pablo Moses - I Man A Grasshopper
28. The Dictators - The Next Big Thing
29. Ozark Mountain Daredevils - Jackie Blue
30. Oneness Of Juju - African Rhythms
31. Rocket From The Tombs - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
32. Embryo - Klondyke Netti
33. Mahmoud Ahmed - Aynotché Tèrabu
34. Doug Carn - Chant
35. Kraan - Bandits In the Woods
37. Electric Eels - Agitated
38. Moments & Whatnauts - Girls
39. Pete Wingfield - Eighteen With a Bullet
40. Muluqèn Mèllèsè - Aynotché Tèrabu
41. Osibisa - Sunshine Day
42. Milton Wright - Keep It Up
43. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
44. Idris Muhammad - Hard to Face the Music
45. Leon Haywood - I Want' A Do Something Freaky To You
46. Rocky Horror Picture Show - Science Fiction, Double Feature
47. Steely Dan - Bad Sneakers
48. Mombasa - Nairobi
49. Peter Frampton - Show Me The Way
50. Queen - 39

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Looks like I need to check out both White Noise 2 – Concerto For Synthesizer and Ananda Shankar. I'm ALWAYS behind!

Albums:

1. Brian Eno - Another Green World
2. Parliament - Mothership Connection
3. Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho - Paêbirú
4. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
5. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
6. Neu! - Neu! 75
7. Bob Dylan - Blood on The Tracks
8. Harmonia - Deluxe
9. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
10. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
11. Patti Smith - Horses
12. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
13. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
14. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
15. Gavin Bryars - The Sinking of The Titanic
16. Betty Davis - Nasty Gal
17. Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
18. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
19. Milton Nascimento - Minas
20. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
21. Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
22. Gil Scott-Heron - From South Carolina To South Africa
23. Ralph Towner - Solstice
24. Cecil Taylor - Silent Tongues
25. Emmylou Harris - Pieces of the Sky
26. Miles Davis - Agharta
27. Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben - Ogum Xangô
28. Bob Marley and The Wailers - Live!
29. Minnie Riperton - Adventures In Paradise
30. Funkadelic - Let's Take It To The Stage


Songs:

1. Brian Eno - The Big Ship
2. Mahmoud Ahmed - Erè mèla mèla
3. Fela Kuti - Water No Get Enemy
4. Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone
5. Neu! - Isi
6. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
7. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child)
8. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
9. Lula Côrtes e Zé Ramalho - Nas Paredes da Pedra Encantada
10. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert, Part II-c
11. Harmonia - Deluxe (Immer Wieder)
12. Elton John - Someone Saved My Life Tonight
13. Henry Cow - Beautiful as The Moon/Terrible as an Army with Banners
14. Joni Mitchell - In France They Kiss on Main Street
15. Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire
16. Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
17. Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Crying In The Rain
18. Emmylou Harris - Boulder To Birmingham
19. Gavin Bryars - Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet
20. Patti Smith - Birdland
21. Gil Scott-Heron - Winter In America
22. Milton Nascimento - Fe Cega, Faca Amolada
23. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
24. ABBA - S.O.S.
25. Neil Young - Albuquerque
26. John Cale - (I Keep a) Close Watch
27. Bob Dylan - Simple Twist of Fate
28. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
29. Ralph Towner - Nimbus
30. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
31. Brian Eno - Everything Merges With The Night
32. Earth, Wind & Fire - Shining Star
33. Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben - Nega
34. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
35. Betty Davis - Dedicated To The Press
36. Ohio Players - Love Rollercoaster
37. Led Zeppelin - The Rover
38. Neil Young - Mellow My Mind
39. Black Sabbath - Symptom of The Universe
40. Parliament - P-Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)
41. Burning Spear - Slavery Days
42. Harmonia - Monza (Rauf Und Runter)
43. Curtis Mayfield - Hard Times
44. Carla Whitney - War
45. Bee Gees - Nights on Broadway
46. Patti Smith - Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (de)
47. Steely Dan - Doctor Wu
48. Queen - '39
49. Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
50. Neil Young - Cortez The Killer
51. Bob Dylan - Idiot Wind
52. Who - Blue, Red, and Grey
53. Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
54. Parliament - Tear The Roof Off The Sucker (Give Up The Funk)
55. Willie Nelson - Time of The Preacher
56. Gil Scott-Heron - Johannesburg
57. G.C. Cameron - It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday
58. 10cc - I'm Not in Love
59. Television - Little Johnny Jewel
60. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
61. Fleetwood Mac - Landslide
62. Joni Mitchell - Edith and The Kingpin
63. Elton John - Bitter Fingers
64. Captain and Tennille - Love Will Keep Us Together
65. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
66. Isley Brothers - Fight The Power (pts. 1 & 2)
67. Van McCoy - The Hustle
68. Electric Light Orchestra - Fire on High
69. Glen Campbell - Rhinestone Cowboy
70. KC and The Sunshine Band - Get Down Tonight

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1. Patti Smith - Horses 87.20
2. Neil Young - Tonight's The Night 64.56
3. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns 61.03
4. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 52.37
5. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks 45.12
6. Bob Dylan The Basement Tapes* 44.82
7. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here 42.21
8. Brian Eno - Another Green World 32.17
9. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run 25.10
10. Neil Young - Zuma 6.27
11. Roxy Music - Siren 0.00

*I don't consider Basement Tapes a 1975 album, and I don't consider the 1975 release to be the canonical (Or the BEST) version of the album. The best version is the bootleg version.

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Here are the lyrics to my no. 1 song entry :

STEELY DAN - DR WU

Katy tried
I was halfway crucified
I was on the other side
Of no tomorrow
You walked in
And my life began again
Just when I'd spent the last piaster
I could borrow
All night long
We would sing that stupid song
And every word we sang
I knew was true
Are you with me Doctor Wu
Are you really just a shadow
Of the man that I once knew
Are you crazy are you high
Or just an ordinary guy
Have you done all you can do
Are you with me Doctor

Don't seem right
I've been strung out here all night
I've been waiting for the taste
You said you'd bring to me
Biscayne Bay
Where the Cuban gentlemen sleep all day
I went searching for the song
You used to sing to me
Katy lies
You could see it in her eyes
But imagine my surprise
When I saw you

Are you with me Doctor Wu
Are you really just a shadow
Of the man that I once knew
She is lovely yes she's sly
And you're an ordinary guy
Has she finally got to you
Can you hear me Doctor


The lyrics MAY be about a man coming to peace with himself. And that true love lies within.

Steely Dan are interresting psychologically! On the next couple of albums they took rock as far as possible when it comes to one aspect of narcissism, lifelessness...even if the songs "Aja" or "Gaucho" or "Third World Man" (those songs all have non-western themes) did the best it could to prevent that. "Here At The Western World" is another song with a similar theme. Anyway, they feel like outsiders, looking in through the window of western life or life in general...just like me. Took a while to find out.

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1. Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
2. Blood on the Tracks- Bob Dylan
3. Basement Tapes- Bob Dylan and the Band
4. Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
5. Horses- Patti Smith

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Albums:

1. MAHMOUD AHMED-Ere mela mela
2. CAMEL-The snow goose
3. DON CHERRY-Don Cherry a.k.a Brown rice
4. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-Godbluff
5. BETTY DAVIS-Nasty gal
6. NEIL YOUNG-Tonight's the night
7. JOHN CALE-Helen of Troy
8. PETER HAMMILL-Nadir's big chance
9. BE BOP DELUXE-Futurama
10. ZZ TOP-Fandango!
11. KEITH JARRETT-The Köln concert
12. MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA-Visions of the emerald beyond
13. PINK FLOYD-Wish you were here
14. SLAPP HAPPY/HENRY COW-Desperate straights
15. GILBERTO GIL & JORGE BEN-Ogum Xango
16. BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS-Live
17. TANGERINE DREAM-Ricochet
18. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-Born to run
19. HARMONIA-Deluxe
20. BRASS CONSTRUCTION-Brass construction
21. KLAUS SCHULZE-Time wind
22. EARTH, WIND & FIRE-That's the way of the world
23. TOM ZÉ-Estudando o Samba
24. TED NUGENT-Ted Nugent
25. BONGA-Raízes
26. JOHN FOGERTY-John Fogerty
27. BOTHY BAND-Bothy band
28. BRIAN ENO-Another green world
29. KISS-Alive
30. MILES DAVIS-Agartha


Songs:

1. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-Born to run (from Born to run-Pop/Rock)
2. MULUQEN MELLESSE-TENESH KELBE LAY (single-World/Africa/Ethiopia)
3. JOHN FOGERTY-ALMOST SATURDAY NIGHT (from John Fogerty-Pop/Rock)
4. AUGUSTUS PABLO-THUNDER CLAP (single-Reggae)
5. GILBERTO GIL & JORGE BEN-TAJ MAHAL (from Ogum Xango-World/Latin/Brazil)
6. PATTI SMITH-FREE MONEY (from Horses-Punk/Wave)
7. QUEEN-BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY (from A night at the opera-Pop/Rock)
8. DORIS MÜLLER-CHUM SA SA SA (from Jodel echo-World/Europe/Germany)
9. BETTY DAVIS-TALKIN' TRASH (from Nasty gal-Soul/Funk)
10. DON CHERRY-DEGI DEGI (from Brown rice-Fusion/Jazz)

11. TUBES-WHITE PUNKS ON DOPE (from Tubes-Pop/Rock)
12. EARTH, WIND & FIRE-SHINING STAR (from That's the way of the world-Soul/Funk)
13. GRUPO FOLKLORICO Y EXPERIMENTAL NUEVA YORQUINO-ANABACOA (from Concepts in unity-World/Latin)
14. NEIL YOUNG-TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT (from Tonight's the night-Pop/Rock)
15. TAVARES-IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE (from In the city-Disco/Soul)
16. LIEVE HUGO-EEN POT MET BONEN (from Wang piepel, wang nation-World/Latin/Suriname)
17. JOHN CALE-I KEEP A CLOSE WATCH (from Helen of Troy-Pop/Rock)
18. BOOGALOO JOE JONES-CONFUSION (from Sweetback-Fusion)
19. PETER HAMMILL-NOBODY'S BUSINESS (from Nadir's big chance-Prog)
20. LED ZEPPELIN-KASHMIR (from Physical graffiti-Metal/Hardrock)

21. SALEH IBI AL MADIA-MA 'ALI (World/Africa/Sudan)
22. K.C. & THE SUNSHINE BAND-THAT'S THE WAY I LIKE IT (from K.C. & the sunshine band-Disco/Soul)
23. LENIS GUESS-SOME WOMAN'S BEDROOM (single-Soul/Funk)
24. PINK FLOYD-WELCOME TO THE MACHINE (from Wish you were here-Prog)
25. BRASS CONSTRUCTION-CHANGIN' (from Brass construction-Soul/Funk)
26. JAMBO-HARRAMBEE (single-Soul/Funk)
27. BOB MARLEY & THE WAILERS-TRENCHTOWN ROCK (LIVE) (from Live-Reggae)
28. ROCKET FROM THE TOMBS-AIN'T IT FUN (Life stinks-Punk/Wave) ur-punk band, feat. future members of Pere Ubu and Dead boys.
29. HARMONIA-WALKY TALKY (from Deluxe-Krautrock)
30. TOM ZÉ-A FELICIDADE (from Estudando o Samba-World/Latin/Brazil)

31. KAYAK-CHANCE FOR A LIFETIME (from Royal red bouncer-Dutch prog)
32. ROY AYERS-EBONY BLAZE (from A tear to a smile-Fusion/Funk)
33. BONGA-NO SPEED LIMIT (from Raízes-World/Africa/Angola)
34. ZZ TOP-HEARD IT ON THE X (from Fandango!-Pop/Rock)
35. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-THE SLEEPWALKERS (from Godbluff-Prog)
36. MAHMOUD AHMED-ERE MELA MELA (from Ere mela mela-World-Africa/Ethiopia)
37. BEE GEES-NIGHTS ON BROADWAY (from Main course-Disco/Pop)
38. LULA CÔRTES & ZÉ RAMALHO-Trilha de Sumé (from Paêbirú-World/Latin/Brazil)
39. BRIAN ENO-ST. ELMO'S FIRE (from Another green world-Avantrock)
40. HEART-CRAZY ON YOU (from Makin' magic-Pop/Rock) first released late '75 in Canada.

41. GOBLIN-PROFONDO ROSSO (from Profondo Rosso-Soundtrack/Italian prog)
42. BE BOP DELUXE-STAGE WHISPERS (from Futurama-Pop/Rock)
43. ALEX CHILTON-WALKING DEAD (from Lost decade-Pop/Rock)
44. NILS LOFGREN-KEITH DON'T GO (from Nils Lofgren-Pop/Rock)
45. CHRIS SPEDDING-MOTORBIKIN' (single-Pop/Rock)
46. BOHANNON-FOOT STOMPIN' MUSIC (from Insides out-Soul/Funk)
47. 10 CC-I'M NOT IN LOVE (from The original soundtrack-Pop/Rock)
48. ORCHESTRE POLY RYTHMO-AVOUN DOUPOU ME DOUGA (World/Africa/Benin)
49. ROBERT WYATT-SONG FOR CHE (from Ruth is stranger than Richard-Avantrock)
50. JOHN FOGERTY-ROCKIN' ALL OVER THE WORLD (from John Fogerty-Pop/Rock)

51. MILLIE JACKSON-LEFTOVERS (from Still caught up-Soul/Funk)
52. MAHOGANY RUSH-LAND OF 1000 NIGHTS (from Strange universe-Metal/Hardrock)
53. DON CHERRY-BROWN RICE (from Brown rice-Fusion/Jazz)
54. ABBA-S.O.S. (from Abba-Pop/Rock)
55. GUY CLARK-DESPERADOS WAITING FOR A TRAIN (from Old No.1-Pop/Country)
56. KLAUS SCHULZE-BAYREUTH RETURN (from Time wind-Krautrock)
57. YVONNE FAIR-IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ME (from The bitch is back-Soul/Funk)
58. AEROSMITH-WALK THIS WAY (from Toys in the attic-Metal/Hardrock)
59. PAVLOV'S DOG-SONG DANCE (from Pampered menial-Prog)
60. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-BACKSTREETS (from Born to run-Pop/Rock)

61. ALCEU VALENÇA-PUNHAL DE PRATA (LIVE) (from Vivo!-World/Latin/Brazil)
62. STRETCH-WHY DID YOU DO IT ? (from Elastique-Pop/Rock)
63. RENAISSANCE-TRIP TO THE FAIR (From Sheherazade and other stories-Prog)
64. HERBIE HANCOCK-HANG UP YOUR HANG UPS (from Man child-Fusion)
65. ALEMAYEHU ESHETE-ETE HOY (World/Africa/Ethiopia)
66. TED NUGENT-STRANGLEHOLD (from Ted Nugent-Metal/Hardrock)
67. AUGUSTUS PABLO-KING TUBBY MEETS ROCKERS UPTOWN (single-Reggae)
68. DWIGHT TWILLEY BAND-I'M ON FIRE (single-Pop/Rock)
79. ROY HARPER-WHEN AN OLD CRICKETER LEAVES THE CREASE (from H.Q.-Singer/songwriter)
70. GLORIA GAYNOR-NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE (EXTENDED ALBUM VERSION) (from Never can say goodbye-Disco/Soul)

71. ANANDA SHANKAR-STREETS OF CALCUTTA (from Ananda Shankar & his music-World/Asia/India)
72. JETHRO TULL-MINSTREL IN THE GALLERY (from Minstrel in the gallery-Prog)
73. JORGE BEN-CUIDADO COM O BULLDOG (from Solta o pavão-World/Latin/Brazil)
74. PARLIAMENT-LET ME BE (from Chocolate City-Soul/Funk)
75. BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE-LOOKING OUT FOR No.1 (from Head on-Pop/Rock)
76. KEITH JARRETT-Part II C (from The Köln concert-Fusion/Jazz)
77. BAOBAB-ADUNA JARUL NAAWO (from Aduna jarul naawo-World/Africa/Senegal)
78. ROXY MUSIC-LOVE IS THE DRUG (from Siren-Glam)
79. SLAPP HAPPY/HENRY COW-A WORM IS AT WORK (from Desperate straights-Avantgarde)
80. BOB DYLAN-HURRICANE (from Desire-Singer/songwriter)

81. KEVIN COYNE-SAVIOUR (LIVE) (from Over the Rainbow-Singer/songwriter)
82. KISS-ROCK AND ROLL ALL NITE (LIVE) (from Alive-Metal/Hardrock)
83. ALQUIN-WHEELCHAIR GROUPIE (from Nobody can wait forever-Dutch prog)
84. MOUSSA DOUMBIA-KELEYA (from Keleya-World/Africa/Mali)
85. GIL SCOTT-HERON & BRIAN JACKSON-JOHANNESBURG (from From South Africa to South Carolina-Soul/Funk)
86. HAWKWIND-MOTORHEAD (single-Pop/Rock) of course, song title later used by Lemmy for his new crew.
87. ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-Evil woman (from Face the music-Pop/Rock)
88. ASHANTIS-EVERYBODY'S GROOVE (from Let's stay together-Soul/Funk)
89. BURNING SPEAR-DAYS OF SLAVERY (from Marcus Garvey-Reggae)
90. RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON-BEAT THE RETREAT (from Pour down like silver-Folk)

91. CAMEL-DUNKIRK (from The snow goose-Prog)
92. TANGERINE DREAM-RICOCHET (from Ricochet-Krautrock)
93. MILES DAVIS-PRELUDE pts. 1 & 2 (from Agartha-Fusion/Jazz)
94. BAD COMPANY-FEEL LIKE MAKIN' LOVE (from Straight shooter-Pop/Rock)
95. The UNDISPUTED TRUTH-GOT TO GET MY HANDS ON SOME LOVIN' (from Cosmic truth-Soul/Funk)
96. SOLUTION-WHIRLIGIG (from Cordon bleu-Fusion/Prog)
97. PETER FRAMPTON-BABY, I LOVE YOUR WAY (from Frampton-Pop/Rock)
98. DENNIS BROWN-BLOOD SUN (from If I didn't love you-Reggae)
99. EMMYLOU HARRIS-IF I COULD ONLY WIN YOUR LOVE (from Pieces of the sky-Pop/Country)
100. ROKY ERICKSON-TWO HEADED DOG (SINGLE VERSION) (single-Garage rock)

101. FLEEDWOOD MAC-RHIANNON (from Fleedwood Mac-Pop/Rock)
102. WILLIE NELSON-TIME OF THE PREACHER (from Red headed stranger-Country)
103. MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA-ETERNITY'S BREATH pts. 1 & 2 (from Visions of the emerald beyond-Fusion)
104. DUBLINERS-THE LIFEBOAT MONA (from Now-Folk)
105. HUGH MUNDELL-AFRICA MUST BE FREE BY 1983 (from Africa must be free by 1983-Reggae) 13-year old protegé of Augustus Pablo.
106. TODD RUNDGREN-THE DEATH OF ROCK & ROLL (from Initiation-Pop/Rock)
107. ECONOMICS ROCK & ROLL BAND-UNDERSTANDING MARX (Pop/Rock) odd pro-Marxism/communism song from American combo.
108. TED NUGENT-MOTORCITY MADHOUSE (from Ted Nugent-Metal/Hardrock)
109. KRAFTWERK-ANTENNA (from Radio activity-Krautrock)
110. GILBERTO GIL-REFAZENDA (from Refazenda-World/Latin/Brazil)

111. PINK FLOYD-SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND (from Wish you were here-Prog)
112. MOMBASA-NAIROBI (from African rhythms & blues-Fusion)
113. MAGMA-HHAÏ (LIVE) (from Live-Prog)
114. HAROLD MELVIN & THE BLUE NOTES-WAKE UP EVERYBODY (from Wake up everybody-Soul/Funk)
115. NAZARETH-BEGGARS DAY (from Hair of the dog-Metal/Hardrock)
116. BOB DYLAN-SIMPLE TWIST OF FATE (from Blood on the tracks-Singer/songwriter)
117. CROWN HEIGHTS AFFAIR-FOXEY LADY (from Dreaming a dream-Disco/Soul)
118. VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR-ARROW (from Godbluff-Prog)
119. BOTHY BAND-The green groves of Erin/Flowers of Red Hill (from Bothy band-Folk)

120. MAX ROMEO-A QUARTER POUND OF I' CENSE (from Revelation time-Reggae)
121. STEVE HACKETT-STAR OF SIRIUS (from Voyage of the acolyte-Prog)
122. PARLIAMENT-P Funk (from Mothership connection-Soul/Funk)
123. LARRY YOUNG'S FUEL-TURN OFF THE LIGHTS (from Fuel-Fusion)
124. FREDDY FENDER-BEFORE THE NEXT TEARDROP FALLS (from Before the next teardrop falls-Pop/Country)
125. PAUL McCARTNEY & WINGS-CALL ME BACK AGAIN (from Venus and Mars-Pop/Rock)
126. HENRY COW-BEAUTIFUL AS THE MOON/TERRIBLE AS AN ARMY WITH BANNERS (from In praise of learning-Avantgarde)
127. MALLARD-Road to Morocco (from Mallard-Pop/Rock) group made up of ex-Beefheart's Magic Band members.
128. BORUK GLASGOW-EDDIE MY LOVE (from Blackhole boogie-Pop/Rock) the weird, weird world of private pressings.
129. JONI MITCHELL-THE JUNGLE LINE (from The hissing of summer lawns-Singer/songwriter)
130. MULUQEN MELLESSE-ETE ENDENESH GEDAWO (single-World/Africa/Ethiopia)

131. BRECKER BROTHERS-ROCKS (from Brecker brothers-Fusion)
132. LYN COLLINS-ROCK ME AGAIN & AGAIN & AGAIN (from Check me out if you don't know me by now-Soul/Funk)
133. PAUL SIMON-STILL CRAZY AFTER ALL THESE YEARS (from Still crazy after all these years-Pop/Rock)
134. DICTATORS-MASTER RACE ROCK (from Go girl crazy!-Punk/Wave)
135. ALLEN TOUSSAINT-SOUTHERN NIGHTS (from Southern nights-Soul/Funk)
136. The ALEXANDER REVIEW-A CHANGE HAD BETTER COME (from The Alexander review-Soul/Funk)
137. ELTON JOHN-MEAL TICKET (from Captain Fantastic & the brown dirt cowboy-Pop/Rock)
138. HOLLYWOOD BRATS-SICK ON YOU (from Grown up wrong-Glam) Britain's answer to the NY Dolls.
139. LEON REDBONE-MY WALKING STICK (from On the track-Singer/songwriter)
140. NEIL YOUNG-TIRED EYES (from Tonight's the night-Pop/Rock)

142. FELA KUTI-WATER NO GET ENEMY (from Expensive shit-World/Africa/Nigeria)
142. DR. FEELGOOD-BACK IN THE NIGHT (from Malpractice-Pop/Rock)
143. JEFF BECK-SCATTERBRAIN (from Blow by blow-Pop/Rock)
144. GOLDEN EARRING-KILL ME (CE SOIR) (from Switch-Pop/Rock)
145. TANGERINE DREAM-Rubycon pt. 1 (from Rubycon-Krautrock)
146. TELEVISION-LITTLE JOHNNY JEWEL (single-Punk/Wave)
147. GABBY PAHINUI-Ka manini (from Hawaiian band vol. 1-World/Hawaii) cameo appearance by Ry Cooder.
148. FRANKIE MILLER-I KNOW WHY THE SUN DON'T SHINE (from The rock-Pop/Rock)
149. KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE-KISS AND SAY GOODBYE (from Kate & Anna Mcgarrigle-Singer/songwriter/Folk)
150. LOU REED-METAL MACHINE MUSIC pt. 1 (from Metal machine music-Avantrock)

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Songs

I had a really tough time ranking 3-5.

1.) Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
2.) Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
3.) Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
4.) Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
5.) Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
6.) Bob Dylan - Hurricane
7.) Led Zeppelin - Trampled Under Foot
8.) Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
9.) Kiss - Rock 'n' Roll All Nite
10.) Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
11.) Bruce Springsteen - 10th Avenue Freezeout
12.) David Bowie - Young Americans
13.) The Eagles - One of These Nights
14.) War - Low Rider
15.) Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
16.) Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
17.) Jonathan Richmond - Roadrunner
18.) Aerosmith - Walk This Way
19.) Donna Summer - Love to Love You Babe
20.) Led Zeppelin - Ten Years Gone

Fun Fact: M.I.A. samples "Roadrunner" in "Bambo Banga", and I think that's the only reason I like that song.

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Fun Fact: M.I.A. samples "Roadrunner" in "Bambo Banga", and I think that's the only reason I like that song.[/quote]

Talking 'bout Roadrunner, Jonathan Richman released his best known (and best) song on single in 1975, but it is a significantly different version than the more familiar Roadrunner version you'll find on the Modern Lovers album (1976-the one with the rolling organ sound). Therefore, I think it is legitimate that Roadrunner can be included in the '75 poll as well as the '76 poll.

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Albums:

1. Dylan - Blood on the tracks
2. Neil Young - Zuma
3. Springsteen - Born to run
4. Patti Smith - Horses
5. Bob Marley - Live
6. Paul Simon - Still crazy after all these years
7. Gasolin’ - Gas 5
8. Tom Waits – Nighthawks at the Diner
9. Willie Nelson - Red headed stranger
10. Pink Floyd - Wish you were here
11. Richard & Linda Thompson – Pour Down like Silver

Honorable mention: Basement Tapes, but honestly CBS left too many excellent tracks off it.

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Mahmoud Ahmeds "Era Mèla Mèla" appears on a certain number of lists. It is my #3 song of 1975 (you will easily guess the first 2 if you know me)

For those who haven't given their lists yet, consider that beautiful piece of Ethiopian music : a real outsider from the third world with chances to get to the final round

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Albums
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
3. Parliment - Mothership Connection
4. Fleetwood Mac - S/T
5. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
6. Elton John - Captain Fantastic
7. Led Zeppelin - Psychical Graffiti

Songs
1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Bruce Springsteen - Meeting Across the River
3. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
4. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
5. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
6. War - Low Rider
7. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
8. War - Why Can't We Be Friends
9. Patti Smith - Gloria

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ALBUMS
1. Bob Dylan, BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
2. Bruce Springsteen, BORN TO RUN
3. Steely Dan, KATY LIED
4. Eno, ANOTHER GREEN WORLD
5. Roxy Music, SIREN
6. Patti Smith, HORSES
7. Neil Young, TONIGHT’S THE NIGHT
8. Bob Dylan and The Band, THE BASEMENT TAPES
9. Led Zeppelin, PHYSICAL GRAFFITI
10. Aerosmith, TOYS IN THE ATTIC
11. The Dictators, GO GIRL CRAZY!
12. THE WHO BY NUMBERS
13. Bob Marley and the Wailers, LIVE!
14. FLEETWOOD MAC
15. Joni Mitchell, THE HISSING OF SUMMER LAWNS
16. Queen, A NIGHT AT THE OPERA
17. Pink Floyd, WISH YOU WERE HERE
18. Parliament, MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION
19. KATE & ANNA MCGARRIGLE
20. James Talley, GOT NO MILK, NO BREAD, NO MONEY, BUT WE SURE GOT A LOT OF LOVE

SONGS
1. Bob Dylan, “Tangled Up in Blue”
2. Patti Smith, “Gloria”
3. Bruce Springsteen, “Born to Run”
4. Roxy Music, “Love is the Drug”
5. Bob Dylan, “If You See Her, Say Hello”
6. Queen, “Bohemian Rhapsody”
7. Neil Young, “Cortez the Killer”
8. Bruce Springsteen, “Jungleland”
9. Bob Dylan, “Idiot Wind”
10. David Bowie, “Golden Years”
11. The Modern Lovers, “Roadrunner”
12. Led Zeppelin, “Ten Years Gone”
13. Steely Dan, “Doctor Wu”
14. Roxy Music, “Could It Happen to Me”
15. Patti Smith, “Free Money”
16. Neil Young, “Tonight’s the Night” [version 1]
17. Bruce Springsteen, “Backstreets”
18. Led Zeppelin, “Kashmir”
19. Eno, “I’ll Come Running”
20. Aerosmith, “Sweet Emotion”
21. Bob Dylan and The Band, “This Wheel’s on Fire”
22. Steely Dan, “Any World (That I’m Welcome To)”
23. Bruce Springsteen, “Thunder Road”
24. Patti Smith, “Land”
25. Roxy Music, “End of the Line”
26. Aerosmith, “Walk This Way”
27. Pink Floyd, “Wish You Were Here”
28. Bob Dylan and The Band, “Tears of Rage”
29. Neil Young, “Tired Eyes”
30. Roxy Music, “Just Another High”
31. Led Zeppelin, “In the Light”
32. Steely Dan, “Bad Sneakers”
33. Aerosmith, “Toys in the Attic”
34. Bob Dylan, “Simple Twist of Fate”
35. Bruce Springsteen, “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out”
36. Eno, “St. Elmo’s Fire”
37. Roxy Music, “Both Ends Burning”
38. 10cc, “I’m Not in Love”
39. David Bowie, “Fame”
40. Paul Simon, “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover”

A question: "Golden Years" is listed on the site as a 1975 release, because that's when the single initially came out. Are people leaving it off their ballots because they automatically (and logically, to me) think of it as 1976? Just wondering...

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20. That's the Way (I Like It)- KC and the Sunshine Band
19. Make me Smile (Come u and See Me)Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel
18. Golden Years- David Bowie
17. Rock n' Roll all Nite- Kiss
16. Sweet Emotion- Aerosmith
15. I'm Not in Love- 10cc
14. Rhiannon- Fleetwood Mac
13. Fame- David Bowie
12. Love is the Drug- Roxy Music
11. One of These Nights- Eagles
10. Gloria- Patti Smith
9. Young Americans- David Bowie
8. Walk This Way- Aerosmith
7. Roadrunner- The Modern Lovers
6. Thunder Road- Bruce Springsteen
5. Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
4. Kashmir- Led Zeppelin
3. Tangled up in Blue- Bob Dylan
2. Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
1. Bohemian Rhapsody- Queen

10. Tonight's the Night- Neil Young
9. Mothership Connection- Parliament/Funkadelic
8. The Basement Tapes- Bob Dylan and The Band
7. Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
6. Another Green World- Brian Eno
5. A Night at the Opera- Queen
4. Physical Graffiti- Led Zeppelin
3. Horses- Patti Smith
2. Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
1. Blood on the Tracks- Bob Dylan

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Albums

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
3. Bob Marley - Live!
4. Neil Young - Zuma
5. Neil Young – Tonight's The Night
6. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
7. Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti
8. Mahmoud Ahmed - Erè mèla mèla
9. Gérard Manset - Y'a une route
10. Robert Wyatt - Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
11. Fela Kuti - Confusion
12. Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
13. Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben - Gil e Jorge (Ogum Xango)
14. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
15. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
16. Guy Clark - Old No 1
17. Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
18. Queen - A Night At The Opera
19. Gabby Pahinui – Hawaiian Band
20. Wild Magnolias - They Call Us Wild

21. Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn
22. Brian Eno - Another Green World
23. Patti Smith – Horses
24. Tom Waits – Nighthawks At The Diner
25. David Bowie – Young Americans

The Eno album is interesting, but just interesting, so it doesn't make my top 20. And, yes, it is ambient 15 years before and new wave 5 y before, but what then ?


Songs

1. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
2. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
3. Mahmoud Ahmed - Erè mèla mèla
4. Neil Young - Cortez The Killer
5. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
6. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
7. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
8. Ed Bruce - Mamas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
9. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
10. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
11. Paul Simon - 50 ways to leave your lover
12. The Dubliners - Lord of The Dance
13. Gérard Manset - Il voyage en solitaire
14. Robert Wyatt - Muddy Mouse
15. Aerosmith - Walk This Way
16. Patti Smith - Gloria
17. Keith Jarrett - Köln Concert, part 2B
18. David Bowie - Young Americans
19. Willie Nelson - Blue Eyes Cryin' In The Rain
20. The Heptones - Country Boy

21. Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug
22. Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
23. Pink Floyd - Welcome to the Machine
24. Augustus Pablo - King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown

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The Albums:

1. Ananda Shankar - Ananda Shankar And His Music
2. Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Nightingales And Bombers
3. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
4. Idris Muhammad - House Of The Rising Sun
5. Roxy Music - Siren
6. Brian Eno - Another Green World
7. Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
8. Mahmoud Ahmed - Erè Mèla Mèla
9. Ton Steine Scherben - Wenn die Nacht am tiefsten
10. The Lyman Woodard Organization - Saturday Night Special
11. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
12. The Dictators - Go Girly Crazy

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Albums

1. JONI MITCHELL: The Hissing of Summer Lawns
2. NEIL YOUNG: Tonight’s the Night
3. NEIL YOUNG WITH CRAZY HORSE: Zuma
4. PINK FLOYD: Wish you Were Here
5. BOB DYLAN & THE BAND: The Basement Tapes
6. BRIAN ENO: Another Green World
7. ROBERTA FLACK: Feel Like Makin' Love
8. FLEETWOOD MAC: Fleetwood Mac
9. PAUL SIMON: Still Crazy After All These Years
10. RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON: Pour Down Like Silver
11. RICHARD & LINDA THOMPSON: Hokey Pokey
12. BOB DYLAN: Blood on the Tracks
13. JOAN BAEZ: Diamonds and Rust
14. STEELY DAN: Katy Lied
15. HELEN REDDY: Ain't No Way to Treat a Lady
16. THE WHO: The Who by Numbers
17. WILLIE NELSON: Read Head Strange
18. ALBERT HAMMOND: 99 Miles from L.A.
19. LEON REDBONE: On the Track
20. DAVID BOWIE: Young Americans

21. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: Born to Run
22. PATTI SMITH: Horses
23. ASTOR PIAZOLLA: Suite Troileana
24. PAUL McCARTNEY: Venus and Mars
25. LED ZEPPELIN: Physical Graffiti


Songs

1. JONI MITCHELL: Shades of Scarlett Conquering
2. JONI MITCHELL: Edith and the Kingpin
3. NEIL YOUNG: Let’s Go Downtown
4. NEIL YOUNG: Don’t Cry No Tears
5. PATTI SMITH: Gloria
6. JONI MITCHELL: The Jungle Line
7. HOT CHOCOLATE: You Sexy Thing
8. BOB DYLAN & THE BAND: Bessie Smith
9. JONI MITCHELL: Sweet Bird
10. PAUL SIMON: 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
11. PINK FLOYD: Wish You Were Here
12. PAUL SIMON: Still Crazy After All These Years
13. PINK FLOYD: Shine On You Crazy Diamond
14. NEIL YOUNG: Borrowed Tune
15. ROBERTA FLACK: Feel Like Makin’ Love
16. NEIL YOUNG: Cortez the Killer
17. JONI MITCHELL: Shadows and Light
18. BOB DYLAN: Hurricane
19. BRIAN ENO: St. Elmo’s Fire
20. JONI MITCHELL: Don't Interrupt the Sorrow


Spanish albums

1. CECILIA: Un ramito de violetas
2. SISA: Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol
3. LLUIS LLACH: Viatge a Itaca
4. FORMULA V: Carolina
5. MOCEDADES: La otra España
6. TRIANA: El Patio
7. AGAMENÓN: Todos ríen de mi
8. VICTOR MANUEL: Cómicos
9. JOAN MANUEL SERRAT: Para piel de manzana
10. HILARIO CAMACHO: De paso


Films

1. The Man Who Would Be King - John Huston
2. Yakuza – Sydney Pollack
3. Barry Lyndon - Stanley Kubrick
4. Dersu Uzala - Akira Kurosawa
5. Jaws - Steven Spielberg
6. Dog Day Afternoon - Sidney Lumet
7. Love and Death – Woody Allen
8. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Milos Forman
9. Les innocents aux mains sales (Innocents With Dirty Hands) – Claude Chabrol
10. Galileo – Joseph Losey

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Albums:

1 - Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
2 - Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live!
3 - Patti Smith - Horses
4 - Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
5 - Bob Dylan & The Dead - The Basement Tapes
6 - Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
7 - Harmonia - Deluxe
8 - Neil Young - Zuma
9 - Brian Eno - Another Green World
10 - Burning Spear - Marcus Garvey
11 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
12 - Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
13 - Steely Dan - Katy Lied
14 - John Cale - Helen Of Troy
15 - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
16 - Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
17 - Janis Ian - Between The Lines
18 - Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
19 - Roxy Music - Siren
20 - Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Albums:
1. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2. Patti Smith - Horses
3. Serge Gainsbourg - Rock Around the Bunker
4. Brian Eno - Another Green World
5. Fela Kuti - Expensive Shit
6. Fela Kuti - Confusion
7. Roxy Music - Siren
8. Kraftwerk - Radio-Aktivität
9. John Cale - Slow Dazzle
10. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
11. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks

Songs:
1. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
2. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3. Patti Smith - Gloria
4. Pere Ubu - Heart of Darkness
5. Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
6. Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug
7. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
8. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
9. Patti Smith - Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (de)
10. Pink Floyd – Welcome to the Machine
11. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
12. Nino Ferrer - Le Sud
13. Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire
14. David Bowie - Fame
15. David Bowie - Golden Years
16. Television - Little Johnny Jewel
17. The Tubes - White Punks On Dope
18. Kraftwerk – Radioactivity
19. Led Zeppelin - Trampled Underfoot
20. Murray Head - Say it Ain't so Joe

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

SONGS
1. HERB GELLER OCTET ~ THE POWER OF A SMILE
2. DONALD BYRD ~ THINK TWICE
3. THE BLACKBYRDS ~ WALKING IN RHYTHM
4. DONALD BYRD ~ WIND PARADE
5. STEELY DAN ~ DOCTOR WU
6. TOM SCOTT & THE L.A. EXPRESS ~ LOVE POEM
7. LINDA LEWIS ~ BEST TO IMPRESS
8. JONI MITCHELL ~ SHADES OF SCARLETT CONQUERING
9. HAMILTON, JOE FRANK & REYNOLDS ~ FALLIN' IN LOVE
10. DAVID BOWIE ~ RIGHT
11. ROBERTA FLACK ~ FEEL LIKE MAKING LOVE
12. FRANK ZAPPA ~ INCA ROADS
13. BOBBY HUTCHERSON ~ MOUNTAIN CARAVAN
14. GARY BARTZ ~ LOVE TONES
15. JEFF BECK ~ SCATTERBRAIN
16. UPP ~ GIVE IT TO YOU
17. BOB JAMES ~ TAKE ME TO THE MARDI GRAS
18. JOHNNY HAMMOND ~ FANTASY
19. TELEVISION ~ LITTLE JOHNNY JEWEL
20. CORTEX ~ TROUPEAU BLEU
QUEEN ~ BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY
LEROY HUTSON ~ LUCKY FELLOW
STANLEY CLARKE ~ CONCERTO FOR JAZZ ROCK ORCHESTRA
DAVID AXELROD ~ KEN RUSSELL
VAN McCOY ~ THE HUSTLE
AVERAGE WHITE BAND ~ IF I EVER LOSE THIS HEAVEN
LED ZEPPELIN ~ TEN YEARS GONE
PARLIAMENT ~ MOTHERSHIP CONNECTION (STAR CHILD)
MINNIE RIPERTON ~ BABY, THIS LOVE I HAVE
PINK FLOYD ~ SHINE ON YOU CRAZY DIAMOND
SOPHIA ROTARU ~ ONLY YOU
ROY AYERS UBIQUITY ~ TIME & SPACE
SERGE GAINSBOURG ~ NAZI ROCK
NEIL YOUNG ~ TIRED EYES
THE CRUSADERS ~ HALLUCINATE
PAUL McCARTNEY ~ LISTEN TO WHAT THE MAN SAID
CARPENTERS ~ ONLY YESTERDAY
MILTON NASCIMENTO ~ LEILA
TODD RUNDGREN ~ A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE
LABI SIFFRE ~ I GOT THE
MARC MOULIN ~ TOHUBOHU (part 1)
EARTH, WIND & FIRE ~ REASONS
KC & THE SUNSHINE BAND ~ THAT'S THE WAY (I LIKE IT)
CAPTAIN & TENNILLE ~ LOVE WILL KEEP US TOGETHER
AMBROSIA ~ HOLDIN' ON TO YESTERDAY
3 PIECES ~ I NEED YOU GIRL

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Albums
1. Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
2. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
3. Queen – A Night at the Opera
4. Patti Smith - Horses
5. David Bowie – Young Americans
6. Roxy Music - Siren
7. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
8. Led Zeppelin – Physical Graffiti
9. Parliament – Mothership Connection
10. The Dictators – The Dictators Go Girl Crazy
11. Steely Dan – Katy Lied
12. Aerosmith – Toys in the Attic
13. Neu! - Neu! 75
14. Van der Graff Generator - Godbluff
15. Eno – Another Green World

Songs
1. Bruce Springsteen – Born to Run
2. Bruce Springsteen – Thunder Road
3. Bob Dylan – Tangled Up in Blue
4. Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
5. Bruce Springsteen – Jungleland
6. David Bowie – Young Americans
7. Roxy Music – Love Is the Drug
8. Led Zeppelin – Kashmir
9. Bruce Springsteen – Meeting Across the River
10. Bob Dylan – Simple Twist of Fate
11. ABBA – S.O.S
12. Led Zeppelin – The Rover
13. Queen – You're My Best Friend
14. David Bowie – Golden Years
15. Patti Smith – Gloria
16. Neil Young – Borrowed Tune
17. David Bowie – Fame
18. Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
19. Queen – The Prophet's Song
20. Roxy Music – She Sells

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Trying to cram in more listening before the 31st..may submit a revised list if I can find time to do that.

ALBUMS (preliminary):

ALBUMS
ELTON JOHN Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here
FLEETWOOD MAC Fleetwood Mac
PAUL SIMON Still Crazy After All These Years ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Face the Music
BOB DYLAN Blood on the Tracks
LED ZEPPELIN Physical Graffiti
STEELY DAN Katy Lied
WILLIE NELSON Red Headed Stranger
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born to Run

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Trying to cram in more listening before the 31st..may submit a revised list if I can find time to do that.

SONGS (Note: I did not "self-edit" to make this look "cooler"...I chose the songs I'm most likely to leave on if they come on the radio...or add to my Windows Media Player at work):

1) FLEETWOOD MAC Landslide
2) THE EAGLES Lyin’ Eyes
3) PAUL SIMON Still Crazy After All These Years
4) QUEEN Bohemian Rhapsody
5) 10CC I’m Not in Love
6) THE EAGLES Take it To the Limit
7) PINK FLOYD Wish You Were Here
8) PAUL SIMON 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
9) HOT CHOCOLATE You Sexy Thing
10) BARRY MANILOW Mandy
11) SAMMY JOHNS Chevy Van
12) STEELY DAN Black Friday
13) OHIO PLAYERS Love Rollercoaster
14) WAR Low Rider
15) JOE COCKER You are So Beautiful
16) AMERICA Sister Golden Hair
17) BEE GEES Jive Talkin’
18) WILLIE NELSON Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
19) ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Fire on High
20) AMERICA Lonely People
21) LED ZEPPELIN Kashmir
22) HEAD EAST Never Been Any Reason
23) DAVID BOWIE Fame
24) MICHAEL MARTIN MURPHEY Wildfire
25) ELTON JOHN Someone Saved my Life Tonight
26) CHARLIE DANIELS BAND South’s Gonna Do it Again
27) KISS Rock ‘n’ Roll All Nite
28) JIGSAW Sky High
29) EARTH, WIND AND FIRE Shining Star
30) NEIL SEDAKA Laughter in the Rain
31) THE WHO Squeeze Box
32) BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN Born to Run
33) AEROSMITH Walk this Way
34) PAUL McCARTNEY Listen to What the Man Said
35) GLEN CAMPBELL Rhinestone Cowboy
36) JUDY COLLINS Send in the Clowns
37) JANIS IAN At Seventeen
38) OZARK MOUNTAIN DAREDEVILS Jackie Blue
39) CAPTAIN AND TENNILLE Love Will Keep Us Together
40) PINK FLOYD Welcome to the Machine
41) JEFFERSON STARSHIP Miracles
42) STEELY DAN Bad Sneakers
43) ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA Strange Magic
44) PINK FLOYD Shine on You Crazy Diamond
45) FLEETWOOD MAC Monday Morning
46) LED ZEPPELIN Custard Pie
47) BOB DYLAN Tangled Up in Blue
48) NEIL SEDAKA Bad Blood
49) CONWAY TWITTY This Time I Hurt Her More than She Loves Me
50) B.W. McCALL Convoy

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

ALBUMS

1. The Who - The Who By Numbers
2. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
3. Bob Dylan - Blood On the Tracks
4. Frank Zappa / Mothers of Invention - One Size Fits All
5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
6. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
7. Frank Zappa / Mothers of Invention - Bongo Fury
8. Brian Eno - Another Green World
9. Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack
10. Keith Jarrett - The Koln Concert

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Only 3 days left to vote, I'm on time this month so you won't have any additional time to vote !

7 albums seems already qualified but 8 albums are still fighting for the 3 places left.
Votes are much more spread for songs so everything seems still possible (even though 4 songs seems already out of reachà

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Great year for Spanish music. In fact, a great year for Spain in general. Franco died and democracy came at last.

ALBUMS:

1. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Born to Run" (#18 in my all-time list)
2. PINK FLOYD "Wish You Were Here" (#59)
3. NEIL YOUNG "Tonight's the Night"
4. BOB DYLAN "Blood on the Tracks"
5. PATTI SMITH "Horses"
6. BRIAN ENO "Another Green World"
7. QUEEN "A Night at the Opera"
8. LED ZEPPELIN "Physical Graffiti"
9. THE ROLLING STONES "Metamorphosis" *
10. LLUÍS LLACH "Viatge a Itaca"
11. SISA "Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol"
12. CAMEL "The Snow Goose"
13. BOB DYLAN & THE BAND "The Basement Tapes"
14. NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE "Zuma"
15. THE WHO "The Who By Numbers"
16. PAUL SIMON "Still Crazy After All These Years"
17. JONI MITCHELL "The Hissing of Summer Lawns"
18. PARLIAMENT "Mothership Connection"
19. EARTH, WIND & FIRE "That’s the Way of the World"
20. DAVID BOWIE "Young Americans"
21. TRIANA "El patio"
22. LOLE Y MANUEL "Nuevo día"
23. FLEETWOOD MAC "Fleetwood Mac"
24. EMMYLOU HARRIS "Pieces of the Sky"
25. BRIAN ENO "Discreet Music"

* I don’t know why everyone considers this a compilation and albums like “The Basement tapes” or “VU” not. All the songs in “Metamorphosis” were demos for other artists or outtakes previously unreleased. And it’s a beloved album for me, the very first one Stones albums I bought when I was 12-years old (the ones who know the album can imagine that I got a “wrong” first perception of what the Stones were).


SONGS:

1. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Born to Run" (#5 in my all-time list)
2. SISA "Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol" (#76)
3. NEIL YOUNG "Tired Eyes" (#89)
4. PINK FLOYD "Wish You Were Here" (#119)
5. DAVID BOWIE "Golden Years" (#163)
6. LLUÍS LLACH "Abril 74" (#216)
7. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Thunder Road"
8. PATTI SMITH "Gloria: In Excelsis Deo/Gloria (Van Morrison Version)"
9. BOB DYLAN "Hurricane"
10. THE WHO "Blue, Red and Grey"
11. DAVID BOWIE "Young Americans"
12. 10CC "I’m Not in Love"
13. PINK FLOYD "Shine on Your Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5"
14. QUEEN "Bohemian Rhapsody"
15. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Jungleland"
16. BOB DYLAN "Tangled Up in Blue"
17. PAUL SIMON "Still Crazy After All These Years"
18. THE ROLLING STONES "Family"
19. BOB DYLAN "Simple Twist of Fate"
20. NEIL YOUNG "Albuquerque"
21. FLEETWOOD MAC "Rhiannon"
22. ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA "Strange Magic"
23. BRIAN ENO "St. Elmo's Fire"
24. STEELY DAN "Doctor Wu"
25. DAVID BOWIE "Fame"
26. EARTH, WIND & FIRE "Shining Star"
27. THE BEE GEES "Nights on Broadway"
28. PARLIAMENT "Give Up the Funk (Tear the Roof Off the Sucker)"
29. LED ZEPPELIN "Trampled Under Foot"
30. NEIL YOUNG & CRAZY HORSE "Cortez the Killer"
31. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN "Backstreets"
32. PATTI SMITH "Free Money"
33. BOB DYLAN & THE BAND "Tears of Rage"
34. NEIL YOUNG "Mellow My Mind"
35. EMMYLOU HARRIS "Boulder to Birmingham"
36. WILLIE NELSON "Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain"
37. AUGUSTUS PABLO "King Tubby Meets the Rockers Uptown"
38. BURNING SPEAR "Marcus Garvey"
39. MAHMOUD AHMED "Erè mèla mèla"
40. LED ZEPPELIN "Kashmir"
41. QUEEN "The Prophet's Song"
42. TRIANA "Sé de un lugar"
43. LOLE Y MANUEL "Todo es de color"
44. JOAN MANUEL SERRAT "Caminito de la obra (historia por rumbas)"
45. SISA "El setè cel"
46. CAMEL "Rhayader"
47. BOB DYLAN "If You See Her, Say Hello"
48. PAUL SIMON "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover"
49. THE ROLLING STONES "We're Wastin' Time"
50. QUEEN "Seaside Rendezvous"

FAVOURITE COMPILATION: ELVIS PRESLEY "The Sun Collection" (#19 in my all-time list)

My favourite Spanish song of 1975: Sisa's "Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol"

As I told in my comments for 1974, the nova cançó (“new song”) was a music movement raised in Catalonia that used the Catalan tongue instead the Castilian and had a strong protest content during the dark years of Franco’s dictatorship. But Jaume Sisa was always an outsider within that movement. His alignment was more with stateless individualism than with left-wing nationalism. In Vázquez Montalbán words, Sisa’s work supposed “a precarious affirmation of a fragile me amidst an insufficient we” in times when “nobody design paradises on earth but individual shelters”. And his music background was different too, half underground (he was part of the seminal band Música Dispersa that released an experimental album in 1970 completely ignored at the time and now a minor cult album) and half popular (with influences of pre-rock styles like cabaret, traditional folk and Latin styles like bolero). He defined himself his particular and bizarre style as “cabaret galáctic” (no need to translate this, isn’t it?). “Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol” (“Any Night the Sun Could Rise”), his second album, released in 1975 a few months before the dictator’s death, is still considered his masterpiece.
The title song is a kind of lullaby, a children’s song, in which all of us are invited to a party whose guests are the childhood heroes of the singer. Cradled by a sweet arrangement of piano, violin, triangle and vocals (and champagne) the guests are entering one by one in Sisa’s party. You can meet there guests coming from literature (Grimm and Perrault classic characters like Cinderella but also terrifying characters as Count Dracula or Moby Dick!), from the movies (Disney characters -of course- like Bambi or Peter Pan), from the TV (Popeye, Tom & Jerry) or from the comics (being American -Snoopy-, European –Obelix- or Spanish –Capitán Trueno-). But let me point to the most likable of these characters, the Caganer (shitter). During the Christmas period on every Spanish home the families make a representation with figures of Jesus birth that is called Belén (nativity scene, literally Bethlehem). And among the figures of the shepherds that come to adore Jesus there was the Caganer, a squatting child having a shit that, no need to say it, it was the favourite of every child. Another interesting character on the dark side is l’home del sac (Bogeyman), a fictional character used by the parents as a threat (if you’re not good the bogeyman will come to take you), but it seems that Sisa considered him as another child hero too.
Sisa invites us to his home (with the gentle anarchist touch “if there’s anybody’s homes”), a place where “time doesn’t matter, neither space”, where “any night the sun could rise”. And the result is a song that more than 30 years from its release still floats as a bubble ahead of time or space, “turning sadness into smoke”.


QUALSEVOL NIT POT SORTIR EL SOL
Composer and performer: SISA
First release: 1975 ("Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol"album)
Length: 6’50”


Fa una nit clara i tranquil•la,
hi ha la lluna que fa llum.
Els convidats van arribant
i van omplint tota la casa
de colors i de perfums.

Heus aquí la Blancaneus,
en Pulgarcito, els Tres Porquets,
el gos Snoopy i el seu secretari Emili
i en Simbad,
l’Ali Babà i en Gulliver.

¡Oh, benvinguts! Passeu, passeu,
de les tristors en farem fum.
Que casa meva es casa vostra,
si es que hi ha cases d’algú.

Hola Jaimito i Doña Urraca,
en Carpanta i Barba Azul,
Frankenstein i l’Home Llop,
el Comte Dràcula i Tarzan,
la mona Xita i Peter Pan.

La senyoreta Marieta
de l’Ull Viu ve amb un soldat,
els Reis d’Orient, Papa Noel,
el Pato Donald i en Pasqual,
la Pepa Maca i Superman.

¡Oh, benvinguts! Passeu, passeu,
de les tristors en farem fum.
Que casa meva es casa vostra,
si es que hi ha cases d’algú.

Bona nit senyor King Kong,
senyor Astérix i en Taxi Key,
Roberto Alcázar i Pedrín,
l’Home del sac i en Patufet,
senyor Charlot, senyor Obélix.

En Pinotxo ve amb la Monyos
agafada del bracet.
Hi ha la dona que ven globus,
la familia Ulises
i el Capitán Trueno en patinet.

¡Oh, benvinguts! Passeu, passeu,
de les tristors en farem fum.
Que casa meva es casa vostra,
si es que hi ha cases d’algú.

I a les dotze han arribat
la Fada Bona i Ventafocs,
en Tom i Jerry,
la Bruixa Calixta,
Bambi i Moby Dick
i l’Emperadriu Sissi.

Mortadelo i Filemón
i Guillem Brown i Guillem Tell,
la Caputxeta Vermelleta,
el LLop Ferotge i el Caganer,
en Cocoliso i en Popeye.

¡Oh, benvinguts! Passeu, passeu,
ara ja no hi falta ningú.
O potser sí, ja me n’adono
que tan sols
hi faltes tu…
També pots venir si vols.
T’esperem, hi ha lloc per tots.
El temps no conta, ni l’espai…
Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol.


ANY NIGHT THE SUN COULD RISE

It’s a night calm and clear,
there’s the moon that shines.
The guests are coming
and fill the house
with colours and perfumes.

Here they are, Snow White,
Tom Thumb, the Three Little Pigs,
Snoopy Dog and his secretary Woodstock
and Sinbad,
Ali Baba and Gulliver.

Oh, welcome! Come in, come in,
we will turn sadness into smoke.
My home is your home,
if there’s anybody’s homes.

Hello Jaimito and Doña Urraca,
Carpanta and Bluebeard,
Frankenstein and the Wolf Man,
the Count Dracula and Tarzan,
Cheetah and Peter Pan.

Lady Marieta de l’Ull Viu
comes with a soldier,
the Three Kings, Santa Claus,
Donald Duck and Pasqual,
Pepa Maca and Superman.

Oh, welcome! Come in, come in,
we will turn sadness into smoke.
My home is your home,
if there’s anybody’s homes.

Good evening, Mr. King Kong,
Mr. Asterix and Taxi Key,
Roberto Alcázar and Pedrín,
the Bogeyman and Patufet,
Mr. Charlot, Mr. Obelix.

Pinocchio comes with La Monyos
holding his arm.
There’s the woman who sells balloons,
the Ulises Family
and the Captain Trueno in a scooter.

Oh, welcome! Come in, come in,
we will turn sadness into smoke.
My home is your home,
if there’s anybody’s homes.

And at twelve they have arrived
the Fairy Godmother and Cinderella,
Tom and Jerry,
Calixta Witch,
Bambi and Moby Dick,
and Sissi the Empress.

Mortadelo and Filemón
and William Brown and William Tell,
Little Red Ridding Hood,
the Big Bad Wolf and the Caganer,
Swee’ Pea and Popeye.

Oh, welcome! Come in, come in,
now there’s no one left.
Or maybe yes, I’ve just noticed
that the only one that’s left
it’s you…
You can come also if you want to.
We’ll wait for you, there’s room for everyone.
Time doesn’t matter, neither space…
Any night the sun could rise.


Fortunately this time there’s a (fabulous) You Tube amateur video-clip of the song. Please please please see (and listen) to it…

Re: My favourite Spanish song of 1975: Sisa's "Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol"

Albums
1. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
3. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
4. Brian Eno - Another Green World
5. Kraftwerk - Radioaktivität
6. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
7. Queen - A Night at the Opera
8. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert
9. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Live!
10. Parliament - Mothership Connection
11. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
12. Harmonium - Si on avait besoin d'une cinquième saison
13. 10cc - The Original Soundtrack
14. Minnie Riperton - Adventures in Paradise
15. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
16. Triana - El patio
17. Roxy Music - Siren
18. Patti Smith - Horses
19. Earth, Wind & Fire - That's the Way of the World
20. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle

Songs
1. Kraftwerk - Radioaktivität
2. Curtis Mayfield - So in Love
3. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
4. Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond
5. Brian Eno - Golden Hours
6. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
7. Bruce Springsteen - Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out
8. 10cc - I'm Not in Love
9. Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert, Part I
10. Roxy Music - Love Is the Drug
11. Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust
12. Bruce Springsteen - She's the One
13. Bruce Springsteen - Meeting Across the River
14. Eagles - One of These Nights
15. Paul Simon - 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover
16. Parliament - Mothership Connection (Star Child)
17. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
18. Sisa - Qualsevol nit pot sortir el sol ( Honorio)
19. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
20. Fleetwood Mac - I'm So Afraid

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Biggest regrets: Not getting around to the Miles and Kate and Anna McGarrigle albums, though there are probably other very worthy albums that I should have gotten to as well. It's astonishing how many great albums there were in '75 and so few--unless I just don't know them yet--in '76. But maybe next month's listening will change my mind about '76. But now, on to celebrating '75:

1) Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2) Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
3) Roxy Music - Siren
4) Patti Smith - Horses
5) Steely Dan - Katy Lied
6) Tony Bennett and Bill Evans - The Tony Bennett/Bill Evans Album
7) Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
8) Nils Lofgren - Nils Lofgren
9) Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
10) Neil Young - Zuma
11) Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All These Years
12) Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
13) Joni Mitchell - Hissing of the Summer Lawns
14) Gary Stewart - Out of Hand
15) Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
16) Bob Dylan and the Band - Basement Tapes
17) Eno - Another Green World
18) Parliament - Mothership Connection
19) Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
20) Keith Jarrett - The Köln Concert

And I regret not having room in my top 20 for such albums as Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here (which I prefer to Dark Side of the Moon), John Fogerty's self-titled, the Spinners' Pick of the Litter (which would be near the top of my list if all the songs were anywhere near as good as the underrated "They Just Can't Stop It (Games People Play)"), and Lynyrd Skynyrd's better-than-most-people-say Nuthin' Fancy.

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Albums:

1. Patti Smith- Horses
2. Parliament- Mothership Connection
3. Roxy Music- Siren
4. David Bowie- Young Americans
5. Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
6. Parliament- Chocolate City
7. Sparks- Indiscreet
8. Kraftwerk- Radioactivity

Songs:

1. David Bowie- "Fascination"
2. Patti Smith- "Land"
3. David Bowie- "Fame"
4. Patti Smith- "Birdland"
5. Parliament- "Mothership Connection (Star Child)"
6. Patti Smith- "Gloria"
7. Roxy Music- "Both Ends Burning"
8. Fleetwood Mac- "Rhiannon"
9. David Bowie- "Win"
10. Parliament- "Up for the Down Stroke"

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

I hope you don't mind Nassim, but I might be a little late on this one (one day at the most).

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Where has this month gone? Quick lists:

Albums
1)Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
2)Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
3)Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
4)Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
5)Bob Dylan & The Band - Basement Tapes
6)Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
7)Queen - A Night At The Opera
8)Patti Smith - Horses
9)David Bowie - Young Americans
10)Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic

Songs
1)Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
2)Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland
3)Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
4)10cc - I'm Not In Love
5)Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
6)Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
7)Michael Martin Murphey - Wildfire
8)David Bowie - Young Americans
9)Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
10)Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
11)Earth,Wind & Fire - That's The Way Of The World
12)Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
13)Bob Dylan - Hurricane
14)Modern Lovers - Roadrunner
15)Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon

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Songs:

1 - John Cale - (I Keep A) Close Watch
2 - Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
3 - Patti Smith - Gloria
4 - Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
5 - David Bowie - Fame
6 - Television - Little Johnny Jewel
7 - Pere Ubu - 30 Seconds Over Tokyo
8 - Janis Ian - At Seventeen
9 - Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue
10 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
11 - 10cc - I'm Not In Love
12 - Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
13 - Paul Simon - Still Crazy After All Those Years
14 - Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic
15 - Bob Dylan - Hurricane
16 - Stretch - Why Did You Do It
17 - Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
18 - Steely Dan - Bad Sneakers
19 - Aerosmith - Walk This Way
20 - Rod Stewart - Sailing

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Albums
1. Brian Eno - Another Green World
2. Neu! - Neu!75
3. Patti Smith - Horses
4. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

Songs
1. Brian Eno - St. Elmo's Fire
2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
3. Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
4. Kraftwerk - Radioaktivität
5. Neu! - Isi
6. Brian Eno - Golden Hours
7. Brian Eno - The Big Ship
8. Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamonds Parts(I-V)
9. ABBA - S.O.S.
10. Patti Smith - Gloria
11. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
12. Patti Smith - Free Money
13. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
14. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
15. Brian Eno - Becalmed
16. Brian Eno - Another Green World
17. Aerosmith - No More No More
18. Aerosmith - Walk This Way
19. Queen - You're My Best Friend
20. Patti Smith - Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer (De)

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

My no. 2 album entry should be "Blood On The Tracks". Nothing else...

Btw...we have 66-69 LEFT! And 1978 :)

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Hon,

the Sisa song is beautiful !

And when I come to Spain, I'll have to buy a Caganer or two : one for me, one for my bro in law who's Spanish and has a big Belen but no shitter

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Many thanks, Nicolas. And Henrik. I’m glad to see both Triana and Sisa on your list. Btw my 00s votes will have for sure a strong Swedish content. Two-way influence!

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

1. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
2. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
3. Steely Dan - Katy Lied
4. Patti Smith - Horses
5. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
6. Kate and Anna McGarrigle - s/t
7. Eno - Another Green World
8. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
9. Bob Dylan and the Band - The Basement Tapes
10. Neil Young - Zuma

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Albums

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
3. Parliament - Mothership Connection
4. Patti Smith - Horses
5. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
7. Bob Marley - Live!
8. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Songs

1. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2. Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
3. Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
4. Bob Marley - No Woman, No Cry
5. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
6. Led Zeppelin - Trampled Underfoot
7. Parliament - Tear the Roof off the Sucker
8. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
9. ABBA - SOS
10. Patti Smith - Gloria
11. Earth Wind & Fire - Shining Star
12. David Bowie - Golden Years
13. Aerosmith - Walk This Way
14. Bob Dylan - Shelter from the Storm
15. Bruce Springsteen - Meeting Across the River
16. Bob Dylan - Hurricane
17. Led Zeppelin - The Wanton Song
18. Fleetwood Mac - Rhiannon
19. David Bowie - Fame
20. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

nicolas
And when I come to Spain, I'll have to buy a Caganer or two

I'm not sure if you can buy Caganers outside the Christmas period, but maybe. Anyway looking for images on Internet I've found that modernity came to Caganers world too. Today you can find images of Obama or The Pope as caganers.

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

And here are the results :

Songs :
1 - Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2 - Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
3 - Bob Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue
4 - Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road
5 - Patti Smith - Gloria
6 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
7 - Bob Dylan - Hurricane
8 - Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
9 - Roxy Music - Love Is The Drug
10 - Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland

Albums :

1 - Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
2 - Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
3 - Patti Smith - Horses
4 - Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5 - Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
6 - Eno - Another Green World
7 - Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
8 - Steely Dan - Katy Lied
9 - Parliament - Mothership Connection
10 - Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes

Alex D late vote made Parliament gain 2 spots and eliminated Joni Mitchell, sorry Georgie and Miguel !

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Missed the deadline but it probably wouldn't have changed much.

1. Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
2. Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
3. Mothership Connection - Parliament
4. Tonight's The Night - Neil Young
5. Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
6. Horses - Patti Smith
7. Live! - Bob Marley & The Wailers
8. The Basement Tapes - Bob Dylan/The Band
9. Young Americans - David Bowie
10. Marcus Garvey - Burning Spear

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Nassim, do you have spreadsheets of 73-75?
I'd love to see them (and I guess I'm not the only one).

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

Here's the spreadsheet for 1975: http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Forum/Poll_1975.xls

Re: Forum Poll: The Best Albums and Songs of 1975

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