Blood on the Tracks
1975
Dylan finished it, then rerecorded half the songs in Minneapolis with local musicians his brother rounded up, days before it was due out.
★ 9.5
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Showing 12 albums from 1975
Born to Run
1975
Springsteen spent six months on the title track alone and hated the finished record so much he wanted to throw it in a swimming pool.
★ 8.7
Physical Graffiti
1975
They did not have enough songs for a double album, so they raided outtakes from three earlier records to fill it out.
★ 8.5
A Night at the Opera
1975
The most expensive record ever made at the time, and they layered the Bohemian Rhapsody vocals until the tape went nearly transparent.
★ 8.2
Horses
1975
It opens by announcing that Jesus died for somebody's sins but not hers. Robert Mapplethorpe took the cover photograph in a friend's apartment.
★ 7.6
Red Headed Stranger
1975
Columbia thought the tapes were demos because it cost twenty thousand dollars and had almost nothing on it but guitar and voice.
★ 7.5
Another Green World
1975
Eno arrived at the studio with nothing written and worked from a deck of cards printed with instructions. Only five tracks ended up with words.
★ 7.1
Toys in the Attic
1975
The title of Walk This Way came from a line in Young Frankenstein, which the band went to see during a break in the sessions.
★ 6.7
Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
1975
The songs run in order through the years Elton John and Bernie Taupin spent failing. It was the first album ever to enter at number one.
★ 5.1
Discreet Music
1975
Eno was bedridden after a car accident with a harp record playing too quietly to hear properly, and got the idea for ambient music.
★ 4.4
Pieces of the Sky
1975
Harris wrote Boulder to Birmingham about Gram Parsons's death, which she was still not over. Everything else on it is somebody else's song.
★ 4.3
Alive!
1975
It is billed as a live album but a good deal of it was rebuilt in the studio afterward. It saved the record label from bankruptcy.
★ 2.9