Featuring titans of 50 years ago like Barry White, Linda Ronstadt, and the Ohio Players, Paste has ranked the 30 greatest albums of 1974.
Though 1974 remains one of the, on paper, weaker years of its decade, it still was able to provide some of the very greatest records of its time and era. The first American Music Awards ceremony happened just weeks before the Grammys; Led Zeppelin started their own record label; the Ramones and AC/DC played their first-ever gigs; Buckingham and Nicks joined Fleetwood Mac on New Year’s Eve.
brought violas, mandolins, banjos, guitars and drums of all sorts to exist beside Cohen’s achy warble. Sure, the record’s themes and sounds can get exquisitely bleak at times, but musically the project presents itself as a counterpoint of hope. “Chelsea Hotel #2” oscillates between desire and abnegation, as Cohen sings “I need you / I don’t need you,” but it finds some of the love it seeks through music. “We are ugly,” he croons, “but we have the music.
Showing her mettle as a titan arranger and producer, it also marked the most defiant shedding of Mitchell delicate songbird image listeners had seen to date, sticking rollicking, playful gems like “Raised on Robbery” or “Free Man in Paris” alongside the razor-sharp character studies of “People’s Parties” and “Down to You.
“On the Beach,” however, is the record’s emotional core. A grievous portrayal of loneliness and media scrutiny after tumbling into celebrity, Young pulls no punches and sets the record straight: “He is mad at, unsatisfied with and alienated by his place in the world. “I went to the radio interview, but I ended up alone at the microphone,” he sings. “Now I’m livin’ out here on the beach, but those seagulls are still out of reach.
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