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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