The Dark Side of the Moon
1973
They asked people around the studio questions on cue cards and used the answers. It then stayed on the American chart for fourteen years.
★ 9.5
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Showing 18 albums from 1973
Innervisions
1973
Wonder played almost every instrument on it himself. Days after it came out a car crash put him in a coma for four days.
★ 8.3
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1973
They tried to record it in Jamaica, gave up, and made the whole double album in about two weeks in a French château instead.
★ 8.1
Houses of the Holy
1973
The song called Houses of the Holy is not on Houses of the Holy. The cover children were photographed at the Giant's Causeway.
★ 7.6
In the Court of the Crimson King
1973
The Mellotron carries most of it, a keyboard that plays back tapes of a real orchestra instead of synthesizing the sound.
★ 7.6
Let's Get It On
1973
The title song began as a political lyric someone else wrote, and Gaye rewrote it into a seduction before the tape rolled.
★ 7.6
Catch a Fire
1973
Island Records boss Chris Blackwell added rock guitar and keyboards to make it travel, and packaged it in a sleeve shaped like a Zippo lighter.
★ 7.0
Raw Power
1973
David Bowie mixed it and everyone including Iggy Pop hated the result. Iggy remixed the whole thing himself twenty-four years later.
★ 6.4
Fresh
1973
The drums land just behind the beat all the way through. Miles Davis is said to have played one track over and over for his band.
★ 6.0
Grievous Angel
1973
Parsons died before it came out, and his road manager stole the body from the airport and burned it in Joshua Tree, as promised.
★ 6.0
Original Soundtrack (The Harder They Come)
1973
Jimmy Cliff starred in the film as well as singing on it, and for years this was the only reggae record most Americans owned.
★ 6.0
Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd
1973
The band named themselves after a gym teacher who kept sending them home over their hair. Free Bird's guitar outro runs five minutes.
★ 5.9
Selling England by the Pound
1973
Gabriel performed these songs in costume, sometimes as a flower. John Lennon mentioned on the radio that he rather liked the band.
★ 5.9
The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
1973
It sold almost nothing and Columbia nearly dropped him. Rosalita runs past seven minutes and closed his concerts for years afterwards.
★ 5.8
Honky Tonk Heroes
1973
Jennings won the right to use his own road band instead of Nashville session men, and gave nine of the ten songs to one unknown writer.
★ 5.0
New York Dolls
1973
Todd Rundgren produced it in about a week and nobody was happy with how it sounded. It sold almost nothing and changed everything.
★ 5.0
Shotgun Willie
1973
Nelson's house had burned down and he had moved to Austin. He wrote the title song on the wrapper of a sanitary napkin.
★ 4.3
Lonesome On'ry and Mean
1973
Jennings had just torn up his contract and renegotiated it, winning the right to record his own way. You can hear him testing that.
★ 3.6