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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1975
Showing 98 works across all media from 1975
Born to RunBruce Springsteen
Born to Run
1975 · From Born to Run
Months of wall-of-sound overdubs poured into one getaway car, and every word still sounds like escape.
★ 9.4
Jaws
Directed by Steven Spielberg
1975
Summer blockbusters start here: the mechanical shark kept breaking, so Spielberg hid it, and accidentally proved that what you cannot see is worse than what you can.
★ 9.2
Bohemian Rhapsody
1975 · From A Night at the Opera
Six minutes with no chorus and so many vocal overdubs the tape wore transparent. Still nothing else like it.
★ 9.1
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Directed by Milos Forman
1975
Nicholson against Nurse Ratched is the great screen battle of wills: a convict fakes insanity to serve his time in a hospital, and finds the ward already has a ruler.
★ 9.0
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
Kashmir
1975 · From Physical Graffiti
Page tuned to DADGAD, Plant wrote it driving through southern Morocco, and none of them had seen Kashmir.
★ 8.6
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
Barry Lyndon
Directed by Stanley Kubrick
1975
Cinematographers still study every frame: Kubrick lit interiors by candlelight alone using lenses built for NASA, and the result looks like walking through a gallery of paintings.
★ 8.4
Thunder Road
1975 · From Born to Run
Bittan's piano, a harmonica, and a screen door slamming; Springsteen lifted the title from a Robert Mitchum film poster.
★ 8.3
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
Tangled Up in Blue
1975 · From Blood on the Tracks
Dylan recut it in Minneapolis with his brother producing, then spent decades rewriting a story already told out of order.
★ 8.2
Dog Day Afternoon
Directed by Sidney Lumet
1975
Pacino turned a real 1972 Brooklyn robbery into the most electric performance of the seventies: a bank job collapses in ten minutes and becomes a street carnival.
★ 8.0
Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
1975 · From Wish You Were Here
Gilmour's twelve-string comes through a recorded car radio, and Grappelli's violin sits buried near the very end.
★ 8.0
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Directed by Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
1975 · United Kingdom
No comedy has been quoted more relentlessly for fifty years: the Pythons could not afford horses, banged coconuts instead, and turned the budget problem into the joke.
★ 7.9
Discipline and Punish
The Birth of the Prison
1975 · 333 pages
Punishment stopped tearing bodies apart in public and became timetables and cells. Foucault explains why: constant watching disciplines better than pain, and the same technique now runs schools and factories.
★ 7.8
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)Fleetwood Mac
Landslide (Fleetwood Mac)
1975 · From Fleetwood Mac
Aspen in 1974, Nicks weighing whether to quit music, and Buckingham Travis-picking a Martin D-18 underneath.
★ 7.8
Give Up the FunkParliament
Give Up the Funk
1975
Bootsy Collins on bass, Fred Wesley and Maceo Parker newly arrived from James Brown, and Parliament's first gold single.
★ 7.7
Walk This Way (Aerosmith)
1975 · From Toys in the Attic
Perry built the riff at a Honolulu soundcheck; Tyler wrote the words on a Record Plant stairwell wall.
★ 7.7
Shine on You Crazy DiamondPink Floyd
Shine on You Crazy Diamond
1975 · From Wish You Were Here
Four notes known as Syd's theme, and Barrett himself turning up at Abbey Road mid-session, unrecognized by the band.
★ 7.6
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
Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)Fleetwood Mac
Rhiannon (Will You Ever Win)
1975 · From Fleetwood Mac
A novel called Triad set Nicks going; years later she learned she had described a Welsh goddess exactly.
★ 7.6
Nashville
Directed by Robert Altman
1975
Altman's method arrives here fully formed: twenty-four characters, overlapping microphones, and five days of country music and politics that add up to a portrait of the whole country.
★ 7.5
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
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
1975 · From Red Headed Stranger
Fred Rose wrote it in the forties; Nelson's Texas version had Columbia's boss asking why he'd sent a demo.
★ 7.3
Cortez the Killer
1975 · From Zuma
Young's tone in double drop D, a blown console that erased the last verse, and a Franco-era Spanish ban.
★ 7.2
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
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975
Sweet Emotion
1975 · From Toys in the Attic
Three sounds in that intro: Hamilton's bass riff, Perry's talk box, a bass marimba. Aerosmith's first Top 40 single.
★ 7.1
American Slavery, American Freedom
The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia
1975 · 480 pages
Virginia's planters learned from the uprising of 1676 that poor whites and enslaved Africans might combine against them, and answered by writing racial contempt into law. Morgan makes freedom and slavery one story.
★ 6.8
Shining Star (Earth, Wind and Fire)
1975
A night walk at Caribou Ranch gave White the title, and the band their only Hot 100 number one.
★ 6.8
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
Rock and Roll All Nite
1975 · From Dressed to Kill
Casablanca's Neil Bogart asked for a party song; Stanley wrote the chorus, and the live take beat the studio single.
★ 6.4
The Great War and Modern Memory
1975 · 431 pages
The trenches taught the century to speak in irony, Fussell argues, reading Sassoon, Graves, and Owen against the language they inherited. Historians have argued with him for fifty years inside his frame.
★ 6.3
December, 1963 (Oh What a Night)
1975
Gaudio first wrote it about Prohibition's repeal, then Judy Parker rewrote the lyric and drummer Gerry Polci sang lead.
★ 6.2
The Man Who Would Be King
Directed by John Huston
1975
Huston tried to make this for twenty years and finally got Connery and Caine: two British soldiers walk into Kafiristan intending to be crowned as gods, and the joke gets serious slowly.
★ 6.1
Fatelessness
1975 · 262 pages
György Köves is fourteen when he is taken from Budapest to Auschwitz, and he reports each stage as it arrives, without hindsight. Back home he tries to explain the camps' happiness.
★ 6.1
It Makes No DifferenceThe Band
It Makes No Difference
1975 · From Northern Lights - Southern Cross
Robertson wrote it expressly for Danko's voice, and at their own Shangri-La studio the Band gave loss room to breathe.
★ 6.1
That's The Way (I Like It)
1975
Casey and Finch's call-and-response chant for TK in Hialeah topped the Hot 100 in two separate runs.
★ 6.0
Get Down Tonight
1975
A guitar solo recorded slow and played back at double speed opens KC's first American number one.
★ 5.8
P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)Parliament
P-Funk (Wants to Get Funked Up)
1975
Mothership Connection opens as a pirate broadcast from space, with Maceo Parker and Fred Wesley newly defected from James Brown.
★ 5.7
Love RollercoasterOhio Players
Love Rollercoaster
1975
Number one in January 1976, and the murder rumor attached to that shriek was only Billy Beck reaching high.
★ 5.6
We gotta get out while we're young 'Cause tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.
Born to Run (song) · 1975
Acadian Driftwood
1975 · From Northern Lights - Southern Cross
Manuel, Helm and Danko trade verses on Robertson's account of the 1755 Acadian expulsion, Byron Berline's fiddle overdubbed above.
★ 5.3
Play That Funky Music
1975
A club patron asked the band's drummer for funky music; Parissi wrote the answer on an order pad.
★ 5.2
Mystery Train
1975 · 528 pages
Still the sharpest book written about rock and roll. Marcus treats Elvis, Robert Johnson, and Sly Stone as American artists on the scale of Melville, reading their records for what America is.
★ 5.1
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
The Painted Word
1975 · 106 pages
Modern painting had become an illustration of theory, Wolfe argued, invisible without the words. He named the three critics who ruled taste in New York, and the art world came after him howling.
★ 5.1
Someone Saved My Life Tonight
1975 · From Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
Baldry talked Elton out of a wedding in 1968, and Taupin wrote him into the chorus as Sugar Bear.
★ 5.0
An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris
1975 · 72 pages
For three days in October 1974, Perec sat in cafes on the Place Saint-Sulpice and wrote down every bus, pigeon, and passerby. Look long enough, he shows, and nothing is background.
★ 5.0
Gypsies
1975 · 240 pages
For a decade the Czech photographer Josef Koudelka lived among Roma families in Slovakia, waiting for his subjects to present themselves. The portraits are grave, formal, and free of pity.
★ 5.0
Baby I Love Your Way
1975
Stalled at 43 as a studio single until the live version on Frampton Comes Alive! reached the top twelve.
★ 4.7
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
1975
Cut live at C. W. Post College in 1975, shelved six years, then loosed on every December radio playlist since.
★ 4.7
Love Hurts
1975
A 1960 Boudleaux Bryant song the Everly Brothers cut first, remade by McCafferty's rasp into the version everyone knows.
★ 4.6
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
A Pirate Looks at 40
1975
Buffett was twenty-seven when he wrote it, about a Chart Room regular in Key West and a life at sea.
★ 4.2
How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You) (James Taylor)
1975 · From Gorilla
Carly Simon sings harmony behind her husband, David Sanborn takes the sax, and Holland-Dozier-Holland's Motown tune turns Californian.
★ 4.1
Cooley High
Directed by Michael Schultz
1975
The Black American Graffiti, and better: Chicago teenagers in 1964 with a wall-to-wall Motown soundtrack, and Michael Schultz films a few days of hanging around as if nothing mattered more.
★ 4.1
Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B & Back Again) · 1975
Danny, the Champion of the World · 1975