Top Albums of 1973





Rank All Time Rank Artist Album Genres
1
21
Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon Art Rock, Progressive Rock
2
48
Stevie Wonder Innervisions Soul
3
126
Iggy and The Stooges Raw Power Garage Rock, Hard Rock, Proto-Punk
4
137
Roxy Music For Your Pleasure Art Rock, Glam Rock
5
150
Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Piano Rock
6
156
Bob Marley and The Wailers Catch a Fire Roots Reggae
7
180
New York Dolls New York Dolls Glam Rock, Proto-Punk
8
215
Marvin Gaye Let's Get It On Smooth Soul
9
255
Lou Reed Berlin Art Rock
10
338
Al Green Call Me Southern Soul
11
376
John Cale Paris 1919 Baroque Pop
12
397
Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells Symphonic Prog
13
443
Paul McCartney and Wings Band on the Run Pop Rock
14
467
The Who Quadrophenia Hard Rock, Rock Opera
15
494
Herbie Hancock Head Hunters Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Funk
16
510
The Wailers Burnin' Roots Reggae
17
526
Gram Parsons GP Country, Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter
18
539
Lynyrd Skynyrd (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd) Southern Rock
19
550
Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy Hard Rock
20
569
David Bowie Aladdin Sane Art Rock, Glam Rock, Pop Rock
21
633
Mott the Hoople Mott Glam Rock
22
643
John Martyn Solid Air British Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
23
662
Steely Dan Countdown to Ecstasy Pop Rock
24
726
Bruce Springsteen The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle Heartland Rock
25
779
Sly and the Family Stone Fresh Funk, Psychedelic Soul
26
782
Can Future Days Krautrock
27
807
Todd Rundgren A Wizard, a True Star Art Pop, Experimental Rock, Pop Rock
28
810
ZZ Top Tres Hombres Blues Rock, Southern Rock
29
849
Roxy Music Stranded Art Rock, Glam Rock
30
874
Genesis Selling England by the Pound Progressive Rock
31
951
Little Feat Dixie Chicken Boogie Rock, Southern Rock
32
1025
The Isley Brothers 3+3 Funk, Psychedelic Soul
33
1174
Tom Waits Closing Time Singer/Songwriter
34
1189
Toots and The Maytals Funky Kingston Roots Reggae
35
1227
Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin' Simon Folk Pop, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
36
1272
Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies Glam Rock, Hard Rock
37
1312
James Brown The Payback Funk, Soul
38
1333
Mahavishnu Orchestra Birds of Fire Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock
39
1401
Upsetters Blackboard Jungle Dub Dub
40
1403
Eagles Desperado Country Rock
41
1415
Hawkwind Space Ritual Space Rock
42
1446
Kevin Coyne Marjory Razorblade Singer/Songwriter
43
1584
Dave Holland Conference of the Birds Avant-Garde Jazz
44
1612
Bruce Springsteen Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. Heartland Rock
45
1750
Frank Zappa/The Mothers Over-Nite Sensation Art Rock, Experimental Rock
46
1763
Waylon Jennings Honky Tonk Heroes Outlaw Country
47
1794
Faust The Faust Tapes Krautrock
48
1868
Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
49
1896
Planxty Planxty Irish Folk Music
50
1903
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Brain Salad Surgery Progressive Rock
51
1936
Donny Hathaway Extension of a Man Soul
52
2022
João Gilberto João Gilberto Bossa Nova
53
2215
Chick Corea & Return to Forever Light As a Feather Jazz Fusion
54
2229
King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic Progressive Rock
55
2233
The O'Jays Ship Ahoy Philly Soul
56
2249
Faust IV Krautrock
57
2281
Magma Mëkanïk Dëstruktï? Kömmandöh Zeuhl
58
2334
The Beach Boys Holland Pop Rock
59
2351
Sun Ra Space Is the Place Free Jazz
60
2381
Herbie Hancock Sextant Jazz Fusion
61
2471
Yes Tales from Topographic Oceans Symphonic Prog
62
2487
Jackson Browne For Everyman Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
63
2668
The Rolling Stones Goats Head Soup Rock
64
2866
Gong Radio Gnome Invisible Part I: Flying Teapot Canterbury Scene, Space Rock
65
2907
The Chieftains The Chieftains 4 Irish Folk Music
66
2955
Neu! Neu! 2 Krautrock
67
2956
Planxty The Well Below the Valley Irish Folk Music
68
2967
Secos & Molhados Secos & Molhados Art Pop, Folk Pop, Progressive Pop
69
2977
The Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters Southern Rock

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Spinners The Spinners Philly Soul, Smooth Soul
The Sensational Alex Harvey Band Next Glam Rock, Hard Rock
Fripp & Eno (No Pussyfooting) Ambient, Drone
Art Ensemble of Chicago Fanfare for the Warriors Free Jazz
Gladys Knight and The Pips Imagination Soul
Bryan Ferry These Foolish Things Glam Rock, Pop Rock
Blue Öyster Cult Tyranny & Mutation Hard Rock
Keith Jarrett Solo Concerts: Bremen and Lausanne ECM Style Jazz
Dan Penn Nobody's Fool Country Rock, Country Soul
Area Arbeit macht frei Avant-Prog
Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly Soul
Maria Muldaur Maria Muldaur Folk Pop
Udo Lindenberg Alles Klar Auf der Andrea Doria Deutschrock
Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 Gentleman Afrobeat
Neil Young Time Fades Away Country Rock
Willie Nelson Shotgun Willie Outlaw Country
Elliott Murphy Aquashow Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Funkadelic Cosmic Slop Funk, Psychedelic Soul
Vainica Doble Heliotropo Folk Pop, Psychedelic Pop
Charlie Rich Behind Closed Doors Nashville Sound
Al Green Livin' for You Smooth Soul, Southern Soul
Stan Getz and Bill Evans Stan Getz and Bill Evans Jazz
Rick Wakeman The Six Wives of Henry VIII Symphonic Prog
Hugh Hopper 1984 Avant-Garde Jazz, Canterbury Scene
Van Morrison Hard Nose the Highway Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
John Lennon Mind Games Pop Rock
Kool & The Gang Wild and Peaceful Funk
Grand Funk Railroad We're an American Band Hard Rock
John Fahey Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) American Primitivism
Elton John Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player Piano Rock
Ringo Starr Ringo Pop Rock
Gong Angel's Egg (Radio Gnome Invisible Part II) Canterbury Scene, Space Rock
The Doobie Brothers The Captain and Me Pop Rock
10cc 10cc Art Pop, Comedy Rock, Pop Rock, Progressive Pop
Sam Rivers Streams Free Jazz
Duke Ellington The Great Paris Concert Big Band
Ralph Towner Diary Jazz Fusion
Judee Sill Heart Food Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Return to Forever feat. Chick Corea Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock
Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas Country Rock, Western Swing
I-Roy Presenting I-Roy Deejay
Leo Kottke My Feet Are Smiling American Primitivism
The Band Moondog Matinee Folk Rock, Pop Rock, Roots Rock