Category: 1973

Matthew Fisher’s album really is a gem for anyone into the 70’s style. Pure pop music in the classic style…

‘Silverbird’ is the debut album for Leo Sayer, it has a very strong classical vibe working within a pop context…

Does the Loggins And Messina ‘Full Sail’ album measure up enough to be added in your collection? Indeed, if you…

Another forgotten album it seems from the band Shoot, yet ‘On The Frontier’ is one of the better ‘one-offs’ related…

Musically, there is a load of BTO references, but Painter are high on melody and vocal harmonies, which leans this…

This is a solid record from Poco that few albums from the country genre can hold up to it, it’s…

This is the debut from leather clad rocker Suzi Quatro, containing the hit dingles ’48 Crash’ and ‘Can The Can’.

Liverpool Echo were not a tribute band, the songs while steeped in the Merseybeat tradition have a bit of that…

There is nothing on Scrubbaloe Caine’s ‘Round One’ album that would hint at the melodic rock sound to come.

Scottish band Blue were a fusion of The Beatles circa ‘Let It Be’, Badfinger and Bread, an interesting mix.

Climax Blues Band offer up one helluva performance in what was originally a live radio broadcast thanks to New York…

Produced by Eddie Kramer, this isn’t your average glam rock album, as Jobriath’s vocals are very similar to Mick Jagger…

This Sherbet album is a very down to earth, yet at the same time showing some real progressiveness.

Considering Hudson Ford’s Strawbs background and with former band mate Rick Wakeman’s appearance you’d expect ‘Nickelodeon’ to be a prog…

This album from Gentle Giant is impossible to grasp, the complexity is often baffling.

American hard rock and metal finally found an identity with Montrose’s debut, undoubtedly the most influential North American album of…

This album is a superb example of when a power-pop band heavily influenced by The Beatles decides to get heavier…

Styx’s third record ‘The Serpent Is Rising’ is the strongest of the Wooden Nickel era albums with its trademark mix…

Maybe ‘Styx II’ got overlooked because its follow-up was only 3 months later, not enough time to sink into the…

HOTH is quite different from earlier Led Zeppelin albums, more interested in their own material, and moving away from their…