3/29 -- Starless and Bible Black
8/19 -- Welcome Back My Friends
10/8 -- Red
11/18 -- The Lamb Lies Down
11/28 -- Relayer
45 years ago -- Maybe not the best year, but a good one...........
3/29 -- Starless and Bible Black
8/19 -- Welcome Back My Friends
10/8 -- Red
11/18 -- The Lamb Lies Down
11/28 -- Relayer
45 years ago -- Maybe not the best year, but a good one...........
One of the last good ones.
The peak of prog!
https://strawberrybricks.com/guide/r...ll/1974-Albums
"Always ready with the ray of sunshine"
Hatfield and the North
Definitely an important year. Also saw the Kansas debut, Queen II and Sheer Heart Attack, Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets and Taking Tiger Mountain, Bowie's Diamond Dogs, and I'm sure many others important to those around these parts.
David
Happy with what I have to be happy with.
Mirage
Crime Of The Century
L'isola di Niente
Kansas
Kayak
Contrappunti
Red Queen To Gryphon Three
Il Tempo Delle Gioia
Todd Rundgren's Utopia
Illusions On A Double Dimple
Io Sono Murple
The Prog Corner
Gong - You
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
Mike Oldfield - Hergest Ridge
Camel - Mirage
Seventh Wave - Things To Come
Fabulous year.
This band set the standard not for "British prog" but for what was even thinkable in 'serious' rock composition at large:
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
- that automatically makes it one of the best years for progOriginally Posted by rcarlberg
Peter Hammill released Silent corner, empty stage and In Camera. Two carreer highlights.
And arguably one of the greatest pieces achieved by any 'rock' project:
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Riff Raff - Original Man
Wally - Wally
Argent - Nexus
Sundance – Chuffer
Beckett - Beckett
Captain Marryat - Captain Marryat
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^ Not least!
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Roxy Music - Country Life
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
Good year, some favourites of mine:
Faithful Breath - Fading Beauty
Le Orme - Contrappunti
Miles Davis - Big Fun / Get Up With It
Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner / In Camera
Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
CAN - Soon Over Babaluma
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Renaissance - Turn Of The Cards
Rick Wakeman - Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Fantasy - Beyond the Beyond plus...
Focus - Hamburger Concerto
Banzai - Hora Nata
1974 was the year I got hooked.
My sister played Brain salad Surgery and Close to the Edge a lot, and that's where I was headed after my Black Sabbath obsession.
That was also the year California Jam was broadcast on network TV.
Seeing Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and ELP on television was a gift from God in those days.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
I'll second that!
Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno, Nico, Mike Oldfield, Robert Wyatt and Ollie Halsall, among others - June 1, 1974
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-- Aristotle
Nostalgia, you know, ain't what it used to be. Furthermore, they tells me, it never was.
“A Man Who Does Not Read Has No Appreciable Advantage Over the Man Who Cannot Read” - Mark Twain
^ Not least!
^ Yeah, but that one wasn't a) recorded formally (as in a studio) or b) released officially except for 1991. I should know, I'm related to one of the Hades guys.
"Gullkrona" is by far the best track on that (short) record, I think. I played cover on it with my then-band in Bergen, Great Space. Lyrics always got folks laughin'.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Agree!
Pura Vida!.
There are two kinds of music. Good music, and the other kind. ∞
Duke Ellington.
Indeed a splendid year
Gentle Giant - The Power and the Glory
Area - Caution radiation area
Gong - You
Jack Bruce - Out of the storm
Jan Hammer & Jerry Goodman - Like Children
RTF - Where have I known you before
PFM - Cook
Todd Rundgreen - Utopia
Rypdal - Whenever I seem to be far away
YES - Relayer
Soft Machine - Seven
Zappa - Apostrophe
Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere
Abercrombie - Timeless
Weather Report - Mysterious traveller
Pekka Pohjola - Harakka Bialoipokku
Passport - Cross-collateral
Kraan - Andy Nogger
Magma - Tristan et Iseult
KC - Un reve sans consequences speciale
Hancock, Herbie - Thrust
Miles Davis - Get up with it
Strawbs - Hero and Heroine
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
I think it was the best music year ever. More that came out then:
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
PFM -L'Isola d'Niente
Gryphon - Midnight Mushrumps
Caravan - Caravan and the New Symphonia
Eloy - Floating
Hawkwind - Hall of the Mountain Grill
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Jethro Tull - War Child
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
George Duke - both Faces in Reflection and Feel
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Billy Joel - Streetlife Serenade
Traffic -When the Eagle Flies
Elton John - Caribou
Steeleye Span - Now We Are Six
Rush - S/T
Blue Oyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Deep Purple - both Burn and Stormbringer
Santana - both Lotus and Borboletta
Mahogany Rush - Child of the Novelty
David Bowie - David Live
ELO - Eldorado
Gary Burton -Ring, Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber Orchestra, In the Public Interest
Billy Cobham - both Crosswinds and Total Eclipse
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Apocalypse
Larry Coryell: Introducing Eleventh House
Stanley Clarke - S/T
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