Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1973
The Top Albums from 1973





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1 19 Pink Floyd
The Dark Side of the Moon
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2 41 Stevie Wonder
Innervisions
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3 98 Roxy Music
For Your Pleasure
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4 102 Iggy and The Stooges
Raw Power
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5 144 New York Dolls
New York Dolls
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6 147 The Wailers
Catch a Fire
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7 155 Elton John
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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8 170 Marvin Gaye
Let's Get It On
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9 219 Lou Reed
Berlin
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10 260 Al Green
Call Me
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11 296 Mike Oldfield
Tubular Bells
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12 368 Eno
Here Come the Warm Jets
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13 372 Steely Dan
Countdown to Ecstasy
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14 384 John Cale
Paris 1919
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15 397 Paul McCartney and Wings
Band on the Run

16 407 Gram Parsons
G.P.
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17 409 The Who
Quadrophenia
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18 420 Led Zeppelin
Houses of the Holy
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19 434 The Wailers
Burnin'
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20 441 David Bowie
Aladdin Sane
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21 492 Mott the Hoople
Mott
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22 522 Little Feat
Dixie Chicken
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23 523 Herbie Hancock
Head Hunters
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24 529 John Martyn
Solid Air
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25 553 Sly and the Family Stone
Fresh
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26 578 Roxy Music
Stranded
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27 625 Bruce Springsteen
The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
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28 627 Can
Future Days
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29 636 Lynyrd Skynyrd
(Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd)
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30 733 Todd Rundgren
A Wizard, a True Star
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31 779 Paul Simon
There Goes Rhymin' Simon
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32 790 Genesis
Selling England by the Pound
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33 887 The Isley Brothers
3+3
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34 898 Toots and The Maytals
Funky Kingston
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35 1018 The Eagles
Desperado
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36 1206 ZZ Top
Tres Hombres
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37 1236 Alice Cooper
Billion Dollar Babies
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38 1286 Waylon Jennings
Honky Tonk Heroes
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39 1338 The Spinners
The Spinners
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40 1397 Tom Waits
Closing Time
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41 1440 Bruce Springsteen
Greetings from Asbury Park N.J.
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42 1524 McCoy Tyner
Enlightenment
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43 1595 Lee Perry
Blackboard Jungle Dub

44 1663 Kevin Coyne
Marjory Razorblade

45 1683 Jackson Browne
For Everyman
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46 1733 Black Sabbath
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
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47 1758 The O'Jays
Ship Ahoy
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48 1766 Hawkwind
Space Ritual

49 1777 Bryan Ferry
These Foolish Things
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50 1782 Faust
The Faust Tapes

51 1790 Chick Corea & Return to Forever
Light as a Feather
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52 1804 King Crimson
Larks' Tongues in Aspic
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53 1858 The Allman Brothers Band
Brothers and Sisters
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54 1879 Keith Jarrett
Solo Concerts: Bremen and Lausanne
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55 1910 Joe Pass
Virtuoso
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56 1923 Sun Ra
Space Is the Place
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57 1943 Big Youth
Screaming Target
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58 1963 The Art Ensemble of Chicago
Fanfare for the Warriors
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59 1993 Faust
IV
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60 2017 Elliott Murphy
Aquashow

61 2051 Planxty
The Well Below the Valley
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62 2101 Herbie Hancock
Sextant
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63 2218 The Doobie Brothers
The Captain and Me
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64 2236 Frank Zappa/The Mothers
Over-Nite Sensation
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65 2331 Blue Oyster Cult
Tyranny & Mutation
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66 2367 The Chieftains
4
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67 2408 Grand Funk Railroad
We're an American Band
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68 2418 Fela Kuti
Gentleman
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69 2427 Funkadelic
Cosmic Slop
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70 2428 Gladys Knight and The Pips
Imagination

71 2472 Neu!
Neu! 2
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72 2478 Al Green
Livin' for You

73 2516 The Beach Boys
Holland
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74 2517 John Fahey
Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)

75 2535 Gong
The Flying Teapot (Radio Gnome Invisible Part I)

76 2553 Donny Hathaway
Extension of a Man
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77 2566 Rahsaan Roland Kirk
Bright Moments
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78 2644 U-Roy
Version Galore
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79 2687 Neil Young
Time Fades Away

80 2704 Maria Muldaur
Maria Muldaur

81 2723 Sam Rivers
Streams

82 2795 Ringo Starr
Ringo
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83 2924 Gil Scott-Heron
Pieces of a Man
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84 2945 Charlie Rich
Behind Closed Doors
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85 2964 I-Roy
Presenting I-Roy

86 2991 Hugh Hopper
1984
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Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Robert Fripp & Brian Eno
No Pussyfooting

Chick Corea & Return to Forever
Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy

The Rolling Stones
Goats Head Soup
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Duke Ellington
The Great Paris Concert

Paul Winter
Icarus
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Brain Salad Surgery
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The Sensational Alex Harvey Band
Next

Kool and The Gang
Wild and Peaceful

Van Morrison
Hard Nose the Highway
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John Lennon
Mind Games

The Band
Moondog Matinee
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Elton John
Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player
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Udo Lindenberg
Alles Klar Auf der Andrea Doria

Rick Wakeman
The Six Wives of Henry VIII

Dan Penn
Nobody's Fool



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