Music that will be 50 years old this year

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30 Albums Turning 50 This Year!
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Tonight’s The Night – Neil Young
Blues For Allah – The Grateful Dead
Venus and Mars – Wings
Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon
Why Can’t We Be Friends? – War
Young Americans – David Bowie
A Night At The Opera – Queen
Horses – Patti Smith
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
Welcome to My Nightmare – Alice Cooper
Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy – Elton John
Blood On The Tracks – Bob Dylan
Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin
Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
Come Taste the Band – Deep Purple
One Of These Nights – The Eagles
Another Green World – Brian Eno
Alive! – Kiss
Toys In The Attic – Aerosmith
Love to Love You Baby – Donna Summer
Fandango! – ZZ Top
Sabotage – Black Sabbath
A Quiet Storm – Smokey Robinson
The Hissing of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell
Spirit of the Boogie – Kool & The Gang
Mothership Connection – Parliament
Live! – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Gratitude – Earth, Wind & Fire
Darryl Hall & John Oates – Hall & Oates
 

I just took a look at the Billboard top 50 singles for 1975 and remember probably about half of them. I was 27 that year, recently married, no kids yet, starting my adult career. I likely didn't focus much on the latest hits.

I take your point though . . . it hardly feels like 50 years!!! :unsure:
 
That was definitely a great year for music! I remember most of those songs.

This is also the 50th anniversary of my high school graduation. They'll no doubt have another reunion that I won't attend, like all the others. My high school was turned into art studios when they built a new, much larger high school.

I'll have to Google it to see what's going on there.
 
For any youngsters that were never adults during the 1970s decade Classic Rock peak era, and argue about this or that band, musician, and song being the greatest, one only needs to watch the below live version and then read the YouTube comments to understand what we actual folks and AOR FM rock station jocks that lived those times in hard core Counterculture regions unanimously felt.

This powerful nearly 9 minute hypnotic trance-like song with hallucinogenic spacey lyrics that grows gradually in intensity, is a favorite song in loop mode I dance to. Especially love Bonham's intense drumming near the end while this is arguable Plant's most impressively captured live performance.


Led Zeppelin perform their epic song 'Kashmir' at Knebworth in 1979. 'Kashmir' was released in 1975 on the album 'Physical Graffiti' and became a concert staple, being performed by the band at almost every concert since.

Oh, let the sun beat down upon my face
With stars to fill my dreams
I am a traveler of both time and space
To be where I have been
Sit with elders of the gentle race
This world has seldom seen
Talk of days for which they sit and wait
All will be revealed

Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace
Whose sounds caress my ear
But not a word I heard could I relate
The story was quite clear
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

Ooh, baby, I been flying
No yeah, mama, there ain't no denying
Oh, ooh, yeah I've been flying
Mama, mama, ain't no denying, no denying

Oh, all I see turns to brown
As the sun burns the ground
And my eyes fill with sand
As I scan this wasted land
Trying to find, trying to find, where I've been

Oh, pilot of the storm who leaves no trace
Like thoughts inside a dream
Here is the path that led me to that place
Yellow desert stream
My Shangri-La beneath the summer moon
I will return again
Sure as the dust that floats high in June
When moving through Kashmir

Oh, father of the four winds, fill my sails
Across the sea of years
With no provision but an open face
Along the straits of fear
Oh, oh
Oh, oh

Ooh

Oh, when I'm on, when I'm on my way, yeah
When I see, when I see the way, you stay-yeah
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, when I'm down
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, but I'm down, so down
Ooh, my baby, ooh, my baby, let me take you there
Oh come on, oh, let me take you there... let me take you there
Ooh, yeah-yeah, ooh, yeah-yeah, let me take you there... let me take you there
 
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There's got to be some Rolling Stones and Beatles in there somewhere..

The White album, Meet The Beatles + more
Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers + more
 
MACKTEXAS said:
It was not my personal favorite, but "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille was the number one song of 1975 per Billboard magazine.
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is:
the number one song of 1975
should be:
the number one singles song of 1975

So that is somewhat misleading because Classic Rock groups that dominated AOR FM radio, the 800 pound music gorilla in that decade, produced ALBUMS and very few singles that is why if one looks at the Billboard listing is almost all pop that one only heard on AM radio. Actually Elton John had the #1 single listed because he was popular in both AM and FM radio. Although it took till 1978 for FM radio to surpass AM radio in terms of pure numbers, FM AOR surpassed AM much earlier in terms of music only stations, especially in large urban regions and in young adult and youth culture.
 
David777 said:
is:
the number one song of 1975
should be:
the number one singles song of 1975

So that is somewhat misleading because Classic Rock groups that dominated AOR FM radio, the 800 pound music gorilla in that decade, produced ALBUMS and very few singles that is why if one looks at the Billboard listing is almost all pop that one only heard on AM radio. Actually Elton John had the #1 single listed because he was popular in both AM and FM radio. Although it took till 1978 for FM radio to surpass AM radio in terms of pure numbers, FM AOR surpassed AM much earlier in terms of music only stations, especially in large urban regions and in young adult and youth culture.
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I knew I could count on you to catch every word, David. ;) I hesitated to make my post regarding just one song (or single as you prefer), since the OP refers to albums. I was just curious as to what the number one song was for 1975, so I Googled it and this is what I got:
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Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks is one of my favorite albums of all time, so it's my favorite from 1975. Every song on that album is great! :)

Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here is pretty damn good, also, but some of it is "head music," so you have to be in the right state of mind. (y)
 
The below webpage has a more accurate Rock album listing. On the OP's list, I only bought 4 but probably heard the others on FM radio though don't recognize some of the song titles. A few 1975 Rock vinyls I bought now collecting dust. Mid decade, attended and d at frequent touring live rock concerts in SF at Winterland and Cow Palace, especially any with hard rock.

https://www.albumoftheyear.org/1975/releases/?genre=7&page=1

Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti
Aerosmith Toys in the Attic
Bad Company Straight Shooter
Montrose Montrose
ZZ Top Fandango
Journey Journey
Heart Dreamboat Annie
Jefferson Starship Red Octopus
Outlaws The Outlaws
Gary Wright Dream Weaver
 
Rich said:
Hard to imagine...
30 Albums Turning 50 This Year!
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd
Tonight’s The Night – Neil Young
Blues For Allah – The Grateful Dead
Venus and Mars – Wings
Still Crazy After All These Years – Paul Simon
Why Can’t We Be Friends? – War
Young Americans – David Bowie
A Night At The Opera – Queen
Horses – Patti Smith
Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac
Welcome to My Nightmare – Alice Cooper
Captain Fantastic & The Brown Dirt Cowboy – Elton John
Blood On The Tracks – Bob Dylan
Physical Graffiti – Led Zeppelin
Born To Run – Bruce Springsteen
Come Taste the Band – Deep Purple
One Of These Nights – The Eagles
Another Green World – Brian Eno
Alive! – Kiss
Toys In The Attic – Aerosmith
Love to Love You Baby – Donna Summer
Fandango! – ZZ Top
Sabotage – Black Sabbath
A Quiet Storm – Smokey Robinson
The Hissing of Summer Lawns – Joni Mitchell
Spirit of the Boogie – Kool & The Gang
Mothership Connection – Parliament
Live! – Bob Marley & The Wailers
Gratitude – Earth, Wind & Fire
Darryl Hall & John Oates – Hall & Oates
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yes it is and still listening to it nothing today is even close
 
Well little skinny me is set as I type for cold outdoors. 3 layer bundled including goose down mids and double balaclava head gear, gloves, now at 6:40pm PST to go outside here in Santa Clara County urban concrete for fun in public with the evening temperatures this January 23, 2025 now at 53F and dropping from 67 early sunny afternoon. And since it isn't on the long playlist I used with my MP3 player earlier today in street fun after visiting an urban creek. So will now put the MP3 player on loop for the 9 minute long very stony hypnotic Kashmir.
 
Jeff Beck's Blow By Blow should be on that list! Great album! Also, The Marshall Tucker Band's Searchin' For A Rainbow.

Also, Ted Nugent's Ted Nugent had two great songs on it.
 

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