1973

[humprof]

Well, the 1972 thread I started last year has been active again lately, so I thought maybe we should have a similar one for the new year. I haven't seen any new thinkpieces yet, but UMe already blew its own horn a year or so ago and Wikipedia is always a good starting point. (I'm sure we can still name plenty of oversights.) If you asked me to declare whether 1972 or 1973 was the more influential year in pop & rock, though, I'd throw up my hands.

I also don't know if 1973 was "peak quad," but it must have been pretty far up the mountain, yeah? Amazing to see just how many of the albums named below have already been revisited in 5.1 or Atmos (or re-released in a high-res quad format). Thanks to @rtbluray's list, we already know about quite a few things to expect in 2023. But maybe this year we'll also get surprise Golden Anniversary immersive remixes of Countdown to Ecstasy or Innervisions--or Houses of the Holy; Here Come the Warm Jets; A Wizard, A True Star; Betty Davis; [insert your dream 1973 surround album here]. . . .

https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-1973-albums/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_in_music#Januaryhttps://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/6-highest-rated/1973/1https://www.vulture.com/2016/02/vinyl-20-albums-that-defined-1973.html

 

[jsulzinger]

This article was in the Parade magazine included with Sundays newspaper

https://parade.com/entertainment/best-songs-of-1973

 

[rtbluray]

yep, most likely surround releases for 2023 from the year 1973:
-Pink Floyd "Dark Side of the Moon" (New 50th anniversary Dolby Atmos mix)
-Elton John "Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player" and "Goodbye Yellow Brick Road" (50th anniversary box sets of both albums highly likely, the former would be the first ever release in surround sound of the album)
-Frank Zappa (likely box set centered around the 1973 album "Over-nite sensation" possibly paired with the follow-up album "Apostrophe")

thankfully as already mentioned, we already have lots of great albums from this year already released in surround that we can enjoy
but what's the #1 album I still want from 1973 in surround sound? Why Roxy Music's "For Your Pleasure" of course!

 

[privateuniverse]

'73 was an incredible year for music. And fortunately we have surround mixes of some of the year's best (Dark Side of the Moon, Quadrophenia, Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Tubular Bells...). The top of my wish list for a 50th anniversary surround mix would be Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star. So many layers to this album it could make for an insane mix. (And Steven Wilson is a fan. )

Runners up for me would certainly include:

Electric Light Orchestra - ELO II & On the Third Day
Lindsey Buckingham & Stevie Nicks - Buckingham Nicks
Procol Harum - Grand Hotel
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Queen - Queen
Steely Dan - Countdown to Ecstacy
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Raspberries - Side 3
Lou Reed - Berlin
Ringo Starr - Ringo
Hall & Oates - Abandoned Luncheonette
Robin Trower - Twice Removed From Yesterday
Tom Waits - Closing Time

...and how about some 50th anniversary quads from DV:

Billy Joel - Piano Man
Dave Mason - It's Like You Never Left

 

[humprof]

As for jazz, the lists above focus on fusion with good reason. And there were loads of great fusion quads from 1973 that we've already seen reissued--by Billy Cobham, Donald Byrd, Herbie Hancock, Mahavishnu, etc.

But how about some love for all those QS LPs on Impulse!? 1973 was also a good year for those--and for free/spiritual/soul jazz in general. Baker Bigsby's approach to quad mixing maybe wasn't so adventurous--no disrespect--but the music sure was, and it's amazing that any of these albums got the quad treatment at all: Gato Barbieri's Chapter One: Latin America, Marion Brown's Geechee Recollections, Dewey Redman's Ear of the Behearer, Jarrett's Fort Yahwuh, Sam Rivers's Streams. (There must be others I'm forgetting. Most of them had CD reissues with the QS encoding intact.)

Also--on Milestone--McCoy Tyner's Song of the New World and Enlightenment. Plus: a whole slew of Black Jazz titles by the likes of Gene Russell, Walter Bishop Jr., and Doug Carn. Hoo-wee!

 

[jefe1]

Amen to Roxy Music For Your Pleasure!

And this time can they include all the Eno era B sides?
Pyjamarama anyone?

 

[marpow]

I graduated from Westmoor High School 1973 in Daly City, good times.

 

[Quad Linda]

1973
fun thread!
After over a decade owning 2ch, I got into buying Quad gear. Q8, CD-4, SQ, QS. CR-80DSS & 4DD5

I walked into a hi-fi store and inquired about a sales position. Got hired because of a word! "Why should we hire you?" Because I'm an audiophile! Hired.

Height of Quad era. Sold home and fi. It wasn't work! Began a lifetime career. Just as in the Circus, Sawdust in My Veins...

Had over 100 Q8's by year's end.
Some of my most played Quads were both released on 2ch and Quad in '73:

Full Sail
Rhymin' Simon
Countdown to Ecstacy
Intergalactic Trot - Stardrive
I Got a Name
Best of Doors (Quad only comp)
Overnight Sensation
Jarrett
Klemmer
Angel Clare
Deliver the Word
Bartok: Concierto
Why Don'tcha
Headhunters
Live/Evil
Dark Side of the Moon
Bonnie Koloc
Double Dirty Mother- Roosevelt Sykes
Santana/McLaughlin
Welcome
Chapter VII - Buddy Miles
Head to the Sky
Between Nothingness

2ch:
Innervisions
Band on the Run (Q in '74)
Excursions- Eddie Harris
El Chicano
Yellow Brick Rd
Wovoka
Soaring - Don Ellis
Evolution- Malo
Quadrophenia
Bright Moments - Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Much more as I have time.

 

[humprof]

Steven Wilson & Tim Bowness's choices:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/berg...st-by-steven-wilson-and-tim-bowness-no-man/2/

 

[Doug G.]

1973
fun thread!
After over a decade owning 2ch, I got into buying Quad gear. Q8, CD-4, SQ, QS. CR-80DSS & 4DD5

I walked into a hi-fi store and inquired about a sales position. Got hired because of a word! "Why should we hire you?" Because I'm an audiophile! Hired.

Height of Quad era. Sold home and fi. It wasn't work! Began a lifetime career. Just as in the Circus, Sawdust in My Veins...

Had over 100 Q8's by year's end.
Some of my most played Quads were both released on 2ch and Quad in '73:

Full Sail
Rhymin' Simon
Countdown to Ecstacy
Intergalactic Trot - Stardrive
I Got a Name
Best of Doors (Quad only comp)
Overnight Sensation
Jarrett
Klemmer
Angel Clare
Deliver the Word
Bartok: Concierto
Why Don'tcha
Headhunters
Live/Evil
Bonnie Koloc
Double Dirty Mother- Roosevelt Sykes
Santana/McLaughlin
Welcome
Chapter VII - Buddy Miles
Head to the Sky
Between Nothingness

2ch:
Innervisions
Band on the Run (Q in '74)
Excursions- Eddie Harris
El Chicano
Yellow Brick Rd
Wovoka
Soaring - Don Ellis
Evolution- Malo
Quadrophenia
Bright Moments - Rahsaan Roland Kirk

Much more as I have time.

Except it was bits of vinyl in YOUR veins.

Plastically Souly Yours.,

Doug

 

[Petr Kropotkin]

1973 was when I first saw YES in concert (Adelaide, March 21) during their "Close To The Edge" tour of Oz (I was 13 at the time). Yessongs came out a few months later, a triple-live vinyl with amazing gatefold artwork by Roger Dean. Still my favourite album to this day, pretty much three studio albums on one release, showing they could play those songs live (if not better in many cases). Alas, the overall sound recording itself was rather poor, but it remains an amazing document of a band at the peak of their creative powers during a period that, in retrospect 50 years later, turned out to be the best years for progressive rock.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

https://www.discogs.com/release/2530547-Gladys-Knight-The-Pips-Imagination
https://www.discogs.com/release/8203091-Carole-King-Fantasy
https://www.discogs.com/release/8547062-Steely-Dan-Countdown-To-Ecstasy
https://www.discogs.com/release/9104613-ZZ-Top-Tres-Hombres
https://www.discogs.com/release/2411217-Al-Green-Call-Me
https://www.discogs.com/release/5697009-Joe-Walsh-The-Smoker-You-DrinkPlayer-You-Get

 

[mandrix]

Steven Wilson & Tim Bowness's choices:

https://rateyourmusic.com/list/berg...st-by-steven-wilson-and-tim-bowness-no-man/2/

Oh. I think I missed that Lonnie Liston Smith. Would like to give that a listen!

 

[mandrix]

1973. Finally out of the Army and working my tail off to catch up. Now More FM stations in the stretch from Tampa to Orlando coming online, more good music on the radio.
Quad system set up and running. CD-4 tuning episodes aside, all sounding good. Got some SQ and CD-4 LP's, Q8's, and life is good.
No friends impressed with Quad, but doesn't dampen my enthusiasm down one bit. Got those Infinity 1001's cranking with a big 45w/ch. lol.

 

[peterzach]

This is a fun thread and here's the ones I wish would come out.
Elton John is the only one on my wish list that I can see coming out almost for sure but I hope to be proven wrong on the others.

Queen 1
ELO-2
ELO-On the Third Day
Roxy Music-For Your Pleasure
Roxy Music-Stranded
John Cale-Paris 1919
10cc-10cc
Elton John -Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player
Procal Harum-Grand Hotel
Aerosmith-Aerosmith
Eagles-Desperado
David Bowie-Aladdin Sane
David Bowie-Pin Ups
Steve Miller Band-The Joker
Styx-2

 

[soesbeout]

In 73 I was still in uncle sam's yacht club and heard DSOTM in quad for the first time picked up my first system from the Navy Exchange after that.

 

[J. PUPSTER]

don't forget the Quads folks - just touching a few more from 1973 (and this is only the tip of the iceberg.)
- some of these are the sort of titles Dutton Vocalion may be mining; they have a long runway ahead!
did I break the website yet

https://www.discogs.com/release/10847116-Elvis-Aloha-From-Hawaii-Via-Satellite
https://www.discogs.com/release/24145205-Various-Live-And-Let-Die-Original-Motion-Picture-Soundtrack
https://www.discogs.com/release/8308129-Frank-Sinatra-Ol-Blue-Eyes-Is-Back
https://www.discogs.com/release/1862679-Isaac-Hayes-Joy
https://www.discogs.com/release/8203098-Isaac-Hayes-Live-At-The-Sahara-Tahoe
https://www.discogs.com/release/3777251-The-Jackson-5-In-Japan
https://www.discogs.com/release/8203130-The-Staple-Singers-Be-What-You-Are
https://www.discogs.com/release/5736035-Roberta-Flack-Killing-Me-Softly
https://www.discogs.com/release/2435146-Spinners-Spinners
https://www.discogs.com/release/2708266-The-Supremes-In-Japan-
https://www.discogs.com/release/2869038-Willie-Dixon-Catalyst
https://www.discogs.com/release/7096608-The-Four-Tops-Main-Street-People
https://www.discogs.com/release/2428855-Quincy-Jones-Youve-Got-It-Bad-Girl
https://www.discogs.com/release/9138298-Bobby-Womack-Facts-Of-Life
https://www.discogs.com/release/2428868-Al-Green-Livin-For-You
https://www.discogs.com/release/2530547-Gladys-Knight-The-Pips-Imagination
https://www.discogs.com/release/8718077-Donny-Hathaway-Extension-Of-A-Man
https://www.discogs.com/release/2411217-Al-Green-Call-Me
https://www.discogs.com/release/2667286-José-Feliciano-Compartments
https://www.discogs.com/release/9133377-The-Chi-Lites-Chi-Lites
https://www.discogs.com/release/1979450-Curtis-Mayfield-Back-To-The-World
https://www.discogs.com/release/2868995-Syl-Johnson-Back-For-A-Taste-Of-Your-Love
https://www.discogs.com/release/5736022-Cat-Stevens-Foreigner
https://www.discogs.com/release/18186358-Jim-Croce-I-Got-A-Name
https://www.discogs.com/release/2417624-Tom-Jones-The-Body-And-Soul-Of-Tom-Jones
https://www.discogs.com/release/8129251-Lee-Michaels-Nice-Day-For-Something
https://www.discogs.com/release/8533509-Seals-Crofts-Diamond-Girl
https://www.discogs.com/release/8718166-Black-Oak-Arkansas-Raunch-N-Roll-Live
https://www.discogs.com/release/2868373-Stanley-Turrentine-Dont-Mess-With-Mister-T
https://www.discogs.com/release/10845564-BB-King-The-Best-Of-BB-King

 

[Owen Smith]

I was 7 years old in 1973. I'm too young, I missed the best years of quad.

 

[mandrix]

I was 7 years old in 1973. I'm too young, I missed the best years of quad.

Well I can't say I amassed a huge number of titles back then, but I enjoyed what I had.
But, Owen, look at all the surround we're getting these days. It's made a resurgence in recent years when many of us were about to believe it dying again.

 

[par4ken]

In 1973 I was mainly listening to albums from 1972 and 1971. Here are some that as far as I can remember I was listening to that were released in 1973 and owned/played in 1973.

A Foot In Coldwater "The Second Foot In Coldwater"
April Wine "Electric Jewels"
The Bells "Pisces Rising"
Cheech & Chong "Los Cochinos"
Edward Bear "Edward Bear"
The Five Man Electrical Band "Sweet Paradise"
Grand Funk "We're An American Band"
Joe Walsh "The Smoker You Drink, The Player You Get"
Joey Gregorash "Tell The People"
Led Zeppelin "Houses Of The Holy"
Nazareth "Loud N Proud"
The Rolling Stones "Goats Head Soup"
Susan Jacks "I Thought Of You Again"

I don't think that I had any quad records yet but I was listening via the DynaQuad speaker matrix, and reading everything I could about quad!