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Unashamedly nostalgic thread. I was reading an article in Mojo yesterday about John Martyn's two great albums of 1973 - 'Solid Air' and 'Inside Out' and it listed a few of the classic rock albums of that year. Quadrophenia - The Who Catch a Fire - Bob Marley Innervisions - Stevie Wonder A Wizard - ? A True Star - ? Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield Dixie Chicken - Little Feet Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd Band on the Run - Wings Berlin - Lou Reed For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music Let's Get it On - Marvin Gaye Coundown to Ecstasy - Steely Dan Only the Floyd and Oldfield records were on my radar (though Band on the Run was everywhere in the halls of residence I joined as I started Uni in the September). The other ones that dominate my memories were Larks Tongues in Aspic - King Crimson Bananamour - Kevin Ayers Birds of Fire - Mahavishnu Nine - Fairport Convention (their return to form) Selling England By the Pound - Genesis (which I didn't much like at the time) Tales of Topographic Oceans - which I loved whilst the British music press really got its pre-punk knives out. All of this is so subjective, but looking back it's almost like the last year when there was a wave of rock music that spoke to me. Some marvellous albums did follow but by 1975 I was getting less from it and everything seemed to be stiffening and becoming more produced. Totally as seen from my perspective then - I would later hear other records from that year that would become favourites (e.g. the Steely Dan and John Martyns), including many from genres like jazz, folk (classical!) that I was only dimly aware of then. So, regardless of genre, what was 1973 like musically for you? (apologies to those not yet born!) And was it really 40 years ago?