Thursday, January 9, 2025

1975

 I read some album or another was having its fiftieth anniversary this year. I decided to look up albums released in 1975. This would have been a year or two before I started buying records for myself.

The results surprised me. Here are albums from 1975 that I have in some format or another (many of them inexpensive used CDs) in my personal collection, presently. Not even things I might have sold off over the years.

Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks

Led Zeppelin: Physical Graffiti

Parliament: Mothership Connection; Chocolate City

Frank Zappa: One Size Fits All

Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music

Brian Eno: Discreet Music

Fripp & Eno: Evening Star

Keith Jarrett: The Köln Concert

Tangerine Dream: Rubycon

Tom Waits: Nighthawks at the Diner

Henry Cow: In Praise of Learning

Zappa/Beefheart: Bongo Fury

Funkadelic: Let’s Take It to the Stage

Anthony Braxton: New York, Fall 1974; Five Pieces 1975; Dona Lee; Trio and Duet

King Crimson: USA

Robert Wyatt: Ruth is Stranger Than Richard

Charles Mingus: Change One; Changes Two; Mingus at Carnegie Hall

Kansas: Song for America

Area: Crac!; Are(A)zone

Slapp Happy/Henry Cow: Desperate Straits

Le Mysterie Des Voix Bulgares: Le Mysterie Des Voix Bulgares

Yes: Yesterdays

Felt Kuti & Africa 70: Everything Scatter

Arnold Schoenberg: Piano Music (Nonesuch)

Rudy Ray Moore: Dolemite soundtrack

Mike Mantler/Carla Bley: 13, 3/4

Monty Python’s Flying Circus: The Album of the Soundtrack of Trailer of the Film of Monty Python and the Holy Grail

Chick Corea: Circling In

Krzysztof Penderecki: Magnificat

Alan Braufman: Valley of Search

Derek Bailey: Improvisation

Paul Bley/John Gilmore/Paul Motian/Gary Peacock: Turning Point

Leo Ornstein: Quintette/Three Moods


I'm sure that says a lot about me, including all the time I've spent in used record stores hunting down interesting finds. What does it say about the state of music fifty years ago? Seems like a pretty adventurous time, and this was pre-punk rock and the independent label boom of the early 80s.





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