Giuseppe Zangara Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 Probably Tonight's the Night.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted December 25, 2005 Author Report Posted December 25, 2005 Speaking of Neil Young, "Will to Love" is his worst pre-80s song.
snuffbox Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 I have no idea what else was released in '75 off the top o' my head but 'Tonights the Night' gets my aggreement regardless.
The Amazing Rando Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 Born To Run (Bruce), Physical Graffiti (Zep), Wish You Were Here (Floyd), Blood On The Tracks (Dylan), Horses (Patti Smith), Alive! (Kiss), Night At The Opera (Queen), to name a few.
Paul Stanley Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 I second Alive! and Wish You Were Here
Edwin MacPhisto Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 A Kiss album can not be the best album of any year. I'll say Blood on the Tracks. Heartbreaking. The last really great thing he did, I think.
Paul Stanley Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 and Fandango! by ZZ Top. That is one of the greats.
The Amazing Rando Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 I wasn't naming albums I thought were all the "best", I was just picking out some of the more known choices from that year. WYWH wins from me.
Copper Feel Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 The best album I have heard from 1975 is Physical Graffiti by Led Zeppelin. An extremely distant second would be Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted December 25, 2005 Author Report Posted December 25, 2005 fastnbulbous.com had a really great, comprehensive list of every album that came out ever within the last 40 years, but the site is no longer up.
Hank Kingsley Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 (edited) I'll say Blood on the Tracks. Heartbreaking. The last really great thing he did, I think. Desire from '76 was really good though. "Hurricane" is good despite the STRONGPOLITICALMESSAGE!1 and "Isis" and "Mozambique" are top-notch. "Sara" sounds like it would belong on Blood on the Tracks, but it's great either way. The middle of the album is kinda dull, but I can look past it for the ultrastrong beginning and end. Edited December 25, 2005 by The Superstar
Gary Floyd Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 Led Zeppelin-Physical Graffiti Pink Floyd-Wish You Where Here Kraftwek-Radio-Activity Brian Eno-Another Green World Tangerine Dream-Rubycon
k thx Posted December 25, 2005 Report Posted December 25, 2005 Best list I could find It scares me that Bohemian Rhapsody and Wish You Were Here were released in the same year as Walk This Way and Personality Crisis. Good year for songs and a start to musical change, a bad year for albums.
Edwin MacPhisto Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 I'll say Blood on the Tracks. Heartbreaking. The last really great thing he did, I think. Desire from '76 was really good though. "Hurricane" is good despite the STRONGPOLITICALMESSAGE!1 and "Isis" and "Mozambique" are top-notch. "Sara" sounds like it would belong on Blood on the Tracks, but it's great either way. The middle of the album is kinda dull, but I can look past it for the ultrastrong beginning and end. Yeah, lots of good songs on that. Not a full album of 'em, though. Blood on the Tracks is.
Annabelle Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 blood on the tracks is probably the last great thing dylan did. but the album is overated. he claims its not even about what everyone thinks its about. edit i love bob mostly because he made intentionally bad music so people would leave him alone. how easily could have he reverted back to the music that made him popular in the 60's? becoming a born again christian when he's jewish? a succession of christian rock albums would ruin anyones career. i think somewhere in the mid 90's he's recreated the fire he once had. it shows in all of the retrospective documentaries, autobiographies, scrapbooks show he is on willing to look back at his career. blood on the tracks is a rare album from after 1966 where he actually did well in spite of not wanting to.
Guest RadioBurning Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 (edited) Tonight's the Night has to trump anything else released, regardless of what it is. Edited December 26, 2005 by RadioBurning
Annabelle Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Tonight's the Night has to trump anything else released, regardless of what it is. why?
Guest RadioBurning Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Tonight's the Night has to trump anything else released, regardless of what it is. why? Personally, there is no album that I recall as being from that time period as much as Tonight's the Night. If somebody mentions one, I might change my mind, but without doing any research I'll operate on that assumption. If you're asking why specifically I like the album, I'm not in the mood to elaborate right now.
Annabelle Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 you said it HAS to trump anything else. thats a strong inclination that you'd believe strongly in an album. by believing strongly i though you'd be able to elaborate further. i am not necessarily disagreeing with you.
Guest RadioBurning Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 That's cool. As a whole, I really enjoy the album, especially singing along in my car. The guitar work, especially the solo on the second track (starts with "I went to a movie", I don't usually pay attention to song titles), is quite good, and the sloppy parts just make it more endearing to me. The vocals are catchy, as well as the country-ish harmonies, which are one of the main reasons I listen to Flatt & Scruggs, etc. The only things that bother me are when Neil can't reach the note he's trying to sing, and the second rendition of "Tonight's the Night" that closes the album is mediocre in a coked-up sort of way. Honestly, a big part of it is probably the fact that all my other old rock records are on vinyl, so I never listen to them, and I grow to love most any album I play over and over. I have 7 or so Young albums, but Ragged Glory is the only other one I have on CD.
snuffbox Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Ill keep my 'Tonights the Night' pick. Tonight is just so raw, vital, and true...the songs might be outclassed (even by many of the oher releases that year) but I don't know if anything more passionate has ever been recorded. There were alot of great albums that year apparently and 'Tonights the Night' (and maybe one or 2 others ever) would I consider to be stronger than 'Born to Run' and 'Blood on the Tracks'.
Your Paragon of Virtue Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 I agree with Dylan. For Superstar, why is a strong political message a bad thing?
Hank Kingsley Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Not saying it's necessarily a bad thing, just that some of it seems kind of forced. But I do really like the song, so it's not a big deal.
Giuseppe Zangara Posted December 26, 2005 Author Report Posted December 26, 2005 Neil Young was never a great lyricist. I've long known that, but if you read the lyrics from Tonight's the Night without the context of the music and its performances, it offers proof that eloquence isn't necessary when expressing grief. It's how you say it, not what you say. Clunky pen be damned.
Failed Bridge Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Fly By Night by Rush was another very good album released in 1975. It doesn't beat WYWH though in my opinion. That was the best of the year.
snuffbox Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 Neil Young was never a great lyricist. I've long known that, but if you read the lyrics from Tonight's the Night without the context of the music and its performances, it offers proof that eloquence isn't necessary when expressing grief. It's how you say it, not what you say. Clunky pen be damned. Outside of a few great exceptions Neil wasn't near the lyricist of a Bob Dylan. Plenty of people (fans included) have complained about Neil's lack of singing abilities as well(though hes far superior to Dylan there and, imo, probably the vocal equal of a Roger Waters). There was just this huge intangible about the passion and honesty in Neil's songs. Neil was never more honest than with 'Tonights the Night'
Guest Agent of Oblivion Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 I agree with Dylan. For Superstar, why is a strong political message a bad thing? My most frequent complaint about political themes is that it's nearly a guarantee that the music will sound dated at some point.
Annabelle Posted December 26, 2005 Report Posted December 26, 2005 dylans master of war doesnt sound dated now
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