A day researching 1974...

Playlist

Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties

Hatfield & The North - Hatfield And The North

Roxy Music - Country Life

Freddie Hubbard - First Light

Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before

Sharks - Jab It In Yore Eye

Keith Hudson - Pick a Dub

Randy Pie - Sightseeing Tour

Deep Purple - Stormbringer

Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different

Gryphon - Red Queen To Gryphon Three

Duncan Mackay - Chimera

Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets (Original Masters)

Ten Years After - Positive Vibrations

Kiss - Hotter Than Hell

Uriah Heep - Wonderworld

Nazareth - Rampant

Barclay James Harvest - Everyone Is Everybody Else

Shamek Farrah - First Impressions

Andy MacKay - In Search Of Eddie Riff

Deep Purple - Burn

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe(')

Bach, J S - Glenn Gould - Bach Three Sonatas for Viola da Gamba and Harpsichord

Isaac Hayes - Truck Turner Soundtrack

King Crimson - Red

Peter Hammill - In Camera

King Crimson - Starless And Bible Black

The Rolling Stones - It's Only Rock 'N Roll

Jo Jo Gunne - So...Where's The Show?

Captain Beefheart - Unconditionally Guaranteed

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Secos E Molhados - Secos E Molhados (1974)

David Bowie - Diamond Dogs

Premiata Forneria Marconi - L'Isola Di Niente

Mick Ronson - Slaughter On 10th Avenue

Tiger B Smith - We're the Tiger Bunch

John Lennon - Walls And Bridges

Eddie Harris - E.H. In The U.K.

Jack Bruce - Out of the Storm

Strawbs - Ghosts

Wizzard - Introducing Eddy and the Falcons

Premiata Forneria Marconi - The World Became The World

Bad Company - Bad Company

Miles Davis - Big Fun

Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom

Parliament - Up For The Down Stroke

Argent - Nexus

Wayne Shorter - Moto Grosso Feio

Billy Cobham - Total Eclipse

Al Green - Al Green Explores Your Mind

Robert Berry - The Rules Have Changed

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Auden

Average White Band - Average White Band

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Accidental Happiness (Auden Demos)

A day off...

...from this...

Although I did do some compression work on yesterday's vocal recordings, on the advice of Edward Spark...

The results were not entirely successful but it's a start...

For most of the day though, I was looking at the music of 1974...

In the actual period, these were the only 1974 releases I acquired (according to my diary)...

However, a wee game I like to play when looking at these years for the Twitter, is asking, had I had unlimited cash but only been allowed to buy LPs that entered the charts for the first time in 1974, what would I have bought...

Here's the list... 

...and the LPs in question...

The first 7 were released pre 1974 but made their first chart appearance in '74...

By close of play, I'd compiled a huge list of nominations, 232 in all...

Here they are (for posterity)...

Of course, quite a few of them only entered the collection today...

This is how a whole day can easily disappear...

Oh, this and also sorting out alarm and insurance issues...

More "The Black List" at lunch time and in the evening...

Highlight of the Day : Researching 1974...

Today's new music:-