73 and 74 are very diverse years. I read somewhere recently that 1974, specifically, seemed to be a very confusing mix in the music world. Pop music took over the air waves, 60's bands were disappearing and disco was making its debut. As the Hippies began to fade into society music changed as well. The Top 40 of the day was getting very, uh... strange... Check out these very popular tunes - Kung Fu Fighting, Waterloo, Seasons In The Sun, Billy Dont Be A Hero ... you get the idea. What was happening to Rock and Roll?
But first, lets take a further peak into the confusion with some wiki-facts - as a;ways these bullet points are sponsored by JonsMindO'Pedia...
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Thank you! Well, if you got it. The joke, I mean.
Whew, BTO was very close to being the AOTW.
I had a sneaking suspicion that you might post something from that album for '74. So I picked something that, with some reasoning, had a better chance of not being included in your list (yep, I'm going with something from '74 this week).
Crime Of The Century is an awesome album. My favorite Supertramp-album by far.
I think, 1974 was the year, where I realized, that rock-music was what I liked. A pitty, that it was a "POP-year", then. I remember seeing ABBA winning EMC, and yes, I had an ABBA-poster on my wall. Probably in late 1974, "Not Fragile", "Slayed" and Sweet's "Fanny Adams" were played a lot in our house. It wasn't my albums, but my sisters. To this day, listening to "you ain't seen nothing yet" reminds me of a safe time, probably me sitting reading a donald Duck-comicbook while eating a cookie. While I found out, that I loved the heavy rock-sound from that Sweet-album, my sister found out, that she didn't, and eventually gave me the album a few years later. It was/is still one of my absolute favorite-albums from 1974 (along with COTC).
COTC is pretty flawless, but if I had to choose 1 Supertramp album, I'm going with Breakfast In America. Ive been browsing through the 1975 releases in prep for next week and I realized that 75 may be the year for me! If it doesn't turn out that way, I'd be surprised! Strong year!!!
In 1974, one of my favorite-tunes was Sparks "This Town Aint big Enough For both Of Us", and together with "Fanny Adams" it planted the "I love great riffs"-seed in me.
I'm glad, that I became interested in Rock around 1974, because only 1 or 2 years earlier, I remember singing this song to my mom, thinking, that I'd be a pop-star in the future. Her reaction wasn't what I'd expected, so that dream was over pretty early on:
There are no birthdays today
Norma Jean Fox
(11/30/1945-9/7/2010)
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