#290 Steely Dan – Countdown to Ecstasy

Steely Dan‘s Countdown to Ecstasy is their second album and their second album on the list of 1001 albums. This album is new for me. It was recorded at Caribou Ranch in Nederland, Colorado, which is not far from where I live. This album has Donald Fagan singing all the songs, since leader singer David Palmer left the […]

#292 Pink Floyd – Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd‘s Dark Side of the Moon is one of the most iconic albums ever. The album remained in the Billboard album chart for 741 weeks from 1973 to 1988. It returned to the charts later giving it over 900 weeks total. I will not get into the reasons why is it never goes away and […]

#289 Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Bernie Taupin and Elton John were the perfect team of lyricist and musician. John would never have been as famous without Taupin. That can be proved by the brief period in the late 70s and early 80s until Too Low for Zero when he worked with other writers and his album sales slumped. I did not […]

#288 Todd Rundgren – A Wizard, A True Star

A Wizard, A True Star is the second album by Todd Rundgren on this list. I did not know that he had so much of an influence on music. I only know one song from him. This album was after he experimented with psychedelic drugs. Side one of the album is terrible. The songs sound like […]

#287 Mike Oldfield – Tubular Bells

Tubular Bells from Mike Oldfield is something I have heard, but I have never heard the actual album. I know of it from other artists. It was extremely popular for Oldfield because he made two more and a live version. Talk about overkill. In 1973, a small film was released and the music was used from […]

#286 Mott The Hoople – Mott

I have never heard any songs from Mott The Hoople so I have never heard of their album Mott. They sound like David Bowie, but there is a reason for that; Bowie produced their last album All the Young Dudes. Bowie even wrote a song for them to sing. Basically, he saved their career because they were […]

#285 Herbie Hancock – Head Hunters

Head Hunters is Herbie Hancock’s twelfth studio album and his only album in the list of 1001 Albums… The only thing I knew about Hancock was that he had a hot song in the 80s titled “Rockit“. I hated it. I never listened to him again. This is a jazz funk/fusion album. I have not written […]

#284 Faust – Faust IV

Original line-up of the German krautrock group Faust released their last album Faust IV in 1973. They are not well known in the USA. What is Krautrock? According to Wikipedia it “is a broad genre of experimental rock that developed in Germany in the late 1960s among bands drawing on diverse sources such as psychedelic […]

#283 Roxy Music – For Your Pleasure

Roxy Music‘s second album on the list is For Your Pleasure. It is Brian Eno‘s last album with the band. He will have a bright future as a solo artist and as a collaborator with other artists. Bryan Ferry wrote this album. Unfortunately, I do think any one song stuck out for me. I will […]

#282 John Martyn – Solid Air

John Martyn is not an artist I am familiar with at all. I guess it might be the fact that he was mostly a folk artist. Solid Air is one of two albums on this list. I guess I will get to know him. This is strange for folk music, but I guess it is […]