1973

The following 115 records from 1973 are reviewed on this site:

January

Aerosmith, Aerosmith [9]

Beach Boys, Holland [11]

Bee Gees, Life In A Tin Can [6]

Deep Purple, Who Do We Think We Are [7]

Elton John, Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player [10]

Family, BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert [12]

Premiata Forneria Marconi, Photos Of Ghosts [12]

Traffic, Shoot Out At The Fantasy Factory [7]

February

Camel, Camel [10]

Electric Light Orchestra, E.L.O. II [9]

Soft Machine, Six [9]

March

ABBA, Ring Ring [5]

Alice Cooper, Billion Dollar Babies [12]

Allman Brothers Band, Brothers And Sisters [13]

Fleetwood Mac, Penguin [9]

King Crimson, Larks' Tongues In Aspic [13]

Led Zeppelin, Houses Of The Holy [10]

Pink Floyd, Dark Side Of The Moon [13]

Procol Harum, Grand Hotel [12]

Roxy Music, For Your Pleasure [12]

T. Rex, [Left Hand Luke: The Alternate Tanx] [11]

T. Rex, Tanx [12]

Wizzard, Wizzard Brew [10]

April

Ash Ra Tempel, Join Inn [9]

Bob Marley, Catch A Fire [13]

Curved Air, Air Cut [10]

David Bowie, Aladdin Sane [11]

Eagles, Desperado [9]

Faces, Ooh La La [10]

John Fogerty, Blue Ridge Rangers [11]

Paul McCartney, Red Rose Speedway [12]

Roger Daltrey, Daltrey [7]

May

George Harrison, Living In The Material World [12]

Gong, Flying Teapot [12]

Yes, Yessongs [12]

June

Ten Years After, Recorded Live [11]

July

10CC, 10CC [13]

Al Green, Call Me [12]

Bob Dylan, Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid [11]

Grateful Dead, History Of The Grateful Dead Vol. 1 (Bear's Choice) [9]

Jethro Tull, A Passion Play [9]

Lou Reed, Berlin [10]

Mott The Hoople, Mott [11]

Queen, Queen [11]

Roy Wood, Boulders [13]

Steely Dan, Countdown To Ecstasy [13]

August

Genesis, Genesis Live [13]

Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd [12]

Rolling Stones, Goats' Head Soup [12]

Stevie Wonder, Innervisions [13]

Genesis, Genesis Live [13]

September

Bruce Springsteen, The Wild, The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle [12]

Can, Future Days [12]

David Bowie, Pin Ups [9]

Eric Clapton, Rainbow Concert [11]

Family, It's Only A Movie [10]

Faust, Faust IV [10]

Frank Zappa, Overnite Sensation [11]

Genesis, Selling England By The Pound [14]

Neil Young, Time Fades Away [11]

Thin Lizzy, Vagabonds Of The Western World [12]

October

Bryan Ferry, These Foolish Things [10]

Caravan, For Girls Who Grow Plump In The Night [12]

Elton John, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road [11]

Fleetwood Mac, Mystery To Me [11]

Fruupp, Future Legends [9]

Renaissance, Ashes Are Burning [13]

Soft Machine, Seven [9]

November

Badfinger, Ass [9]

Beach Boys, In Concert [10]

Black Sabbath, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath [9]

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Brain Salad Surgery [11]

Fripp/Eno, No Pussyfooting [-]

Grateful Dead, Wake Of The Flood [10]

John Lennon, Mind Games [11]

King Crimson, [The Night Watch] [9]

Kinks, Preservation Act I [8]

Ringo Starr, Ringo [11]

Roxy Music, Stranded [13]

Who, Quadrophenia [15]

December

Creedence Clearwater Revival, Live In Europe [10]

Electric Light Orchestra, On The Third Day [12]

Gentle Giant, In A Glass House [11]

Gong, Angel's Egg [11]

Magma, Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh [12]

Paul McCartney, Band On The Run [14]

Queen, [At The BBC] [9]

[Month unknown:]

Amon Düül II, Utopia [11]

Amon Düül II, Vive La Trance [11]

Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar (Movie Soundtrack) [12]

Argent, In Deep [9]

Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come, Journey [12]

Ash Ra Tempel, Starring Rosi [9]

Atomic Rooster, Nice 'n' Greasy [8]

Budgie, Never Turn Your Back On A Friend [12]

Byrds, Byrds [11]

Clannad, Clannad [11]

Cockney Rebel, The Human Menagerie [13]

Eloy, Inside [9]

Faust, The Faust Tapes [11]

Focus, Live At The Rainbow [9]

Geordie, Hope You Like It [11]

Gravy Train, Second Birth [8]

Gryphon, Gryphon [11]

Henry Cow, Legend [8]

James Gang, Bang [11]

John Entwistle, Rigor Mortis Sets In [10]

Kayak, See See The Sun [12]

New York Dolls, New York Dolls [11]

Residents, Meet The Residents [11]

Robin Trower, Twice Removed From Yesterday [11]

Roger McGuinn, Roger McGuinn [10]

Spooky Tooth, You Broke My Heart... [9]

Spooky Tooth, Witness [10]

Tom Waits, Closing Time [12]


The following 27 albums in MP3 from 1973 are reviewed on this site:

The Carpenters: Now And Then

Grand Funk: We're An American Band

Hawkwind: Space Ritual

Klaus Schulze: Cyborg

Klaus Schulze: Picture Music

Kraftwerk: Ralf & Florian

Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Messin'

Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Solar Fire

Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells

Nazareth: Razamanaz

Nazareth: BBC Radio 1 Live In Concert

Nazareth: Loud 'n' Proud

Paul Simon: There Goes Rhymin' Simon

Peter Hammill: Chameleon In The Shadow Of The Night

Rick Wakeman: The Six Wives Of Henry VIII

Rory Gallagher: Blueprint

Rory Gallagher: Tattoo

Santana: Welcome

Santana & McLaughlin: Love Devotion Surrender

Styx: Styx II

Styx: The Serpent Is Rising

Tangerine Dream: Atem

Tangerine Dream: Green Desert

Uriah Heep: Live

Uriah Heep: Sweet Freedom

Vangelis: L'Apocalypse Des Animaux

Vangelis: Earth

ZZ Top: Tres Hombres


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