1973 ROCK & POLL

1973 ROCK & POLL

Well, 1973's had it. Your ballots are in. You say you didn't like anything. What we're wondering is how come you had to send in nearly twice as many ballots as last year just to let us know that 1973 was not worth remembering. Like last year, you saw fit to voice your ambivalence: New York Dolls — Best New Group and Worst Group; Iggy Pop — Hero and Most Pathetic; Watergate — Drug and Rip-Off of the Year. All of which means that you are a diversified crowd, and don't let nobody tell you no different.

Look what's happened since we first asked your opinion a year ago. The Rolling Stones couldn't make a best album, but their single tops the list in a year when there were a lot of heavy bullets on the charts. The lists for three top singles (including R & B) were longer than the list for the top three

albums, and one balloter even complaibed this year that because of the gas shortage, he couldn't listen to his car radio more often. (Guess he could have sat in his car wearing out the battery if he wanted, though.)

We made a couple of changes this year over last; we drew out of the running temporarily Punk of the Year, and dropped Best Festival altogether. (We figure by next year you oughta be ready for "Most Decadent Concert Hall" in place of that). But, in line with our own sentiments, we wanted your lists of the Most Pathetic and the Biggest Disappointment. And Hero of the Year, (that should have been Heroine too) because we sure need one. True to form, you threw the same apple at both targets. So here's what splattered, including some of your own comments. Thanks for sending them our way. TOP ALBUMS (3 choices)

Calling'Em As You Heard 'Em; or, It’s Got o Good Drone, You Con Nod To It.

1.Mott (Mott the Hoople)

2.Quadrophenia (Who)

3.Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (Elton John)

4.Goat’s Head Soup (Rolling Stones)

5.New York Dolls

6.Dark Side Of The Moon (Pink Floyd)

7.Brothers & Sisters (Allman Brothers)

8.Houses of The Holy (Led Zeppelin)

9.Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper)

10.Raw Power (Stooges)

11.Tyranny & Mutation (Blue Oyster Cult)

12.Aladdin Sane (David Bowie)

13.Band On The Run (McCartney & Wings)

14.Brain Salad Surgery (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

1$. A Wizard, A True Star (Todd Rundgren)

16.Yessongs (Yes)

17.There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (Paul. Simon)

18.Pin-Ups (David Bowie)

19.Bloodshot (J. Geils Band)

20.Passion Play (Jethro Tull)

TOP SINGLES (2 choices)

1.Angie (Rolling Stones)

2.Saturday Night’s Alright For Fighting (Elton John)

3.Ramblin’ Man (Allman Brothers)

4.We’re An American Band (Grand Funk)

5.Brother Louie (Stories)

6.All The Way From Memphis (Mott the Hoople)

7.Frankenstein (Edgar Winter Group.)

8.Money (Pink Floyd)

9.Reelin’ In The Years (Steely Dan)

lO.Hello It’s Me (Todd Rundgren)

BEST R & B ALBUM

ljnnervisions (Stevie Wonder)

2.Let’s Get It On (Marvin Gaye)

3.Bloodshot (J.Geils Band)

4.Fresh (Sly & Family Stone)

5.Deliver The Word (War)

6.The Spinners

7.Call Me (A1 Green)

8.The Harder They Come (soundtrack)

9. Ship Ahoy (O’Jays)

10.Brothers & Sisters (Allman Brothers)

BEST R & B SINGLE

1.Let’s Get It On (Marvin Gaye)

2.Livin’ For The City (Stevie Wonder)

3.That Lady (Isley Brothers)

4.Midnight Train To Georgia (Gladys Knight & Pips)

5.Keep On Truckin’ (Eddie Kendricks)

6.Love Train (O’Jays).

7 .Give It To Me (J. Geils Band)

8.Higher Ground (Stevie Wonder)

9.1f You Want Me To Stay (Sly & Family Stone)

10.1 Can’t Stand The Rain (Ann Peebles)

BEST REISSUE

1.Holly wood Dream (Thunderclap Newman)

2.Beginnings (Allman Brothers)

3.Beatles ’67 — ’70

4 .Something/Any thing (Todd Rundgren)

5.American Graffiti (soundtrack)

6.A Nice Pair (Pink Floyd)

7.Beatles ’63 — ’66

8.Best of Spirit

9.Buffalo Springfield

10.Split Ends (The Move)

BEST JAZZ ALBUM

1.Birds of Fire (Mahavishnu Orchestra)

2.Spectrum (Billy Cobham)

3.Sweetnighter. (Weather Report)

■ 4.Return To Forever (Chick Corea)

5.Prelude (Deodato)

6.Fort Yahweh (Keith Jarrett)

7.Latin America (Gato Barbieri)

8.Love Devotion Surrender (Santana & McLaughlin)

9.Deodato II

10.Real Great Escape (Larry Coryell)

TOP GROUPS (3 choices)

1.Mott the Hoople

2. The Who

3.Allman Brothers

4.Rolling Stones

5.Led Zeppelin

6.New York Dolls

7.Alice Cooper

8.Pink Floyd

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10.The Stooges

11.Bowie & the Spiders

12.J. Geils Band

13. Yes

14.McCartney & Wings

15.Emerson, Lake & Palmer

16.Jethro Tull

17.Grand Funk

18.The Edgar Winter Group

19.Beach Boys

20.The Kinks

TOP LIVE GROUPS (3 choices)

l.The Who

2 A. lice Cooper

3. The J. Geils hand

4.New York Dolls

5. Alim an Brothers

6.The Stooges

7.Mott the Hoople

8. Led Zeppelin

9.Pink Floyd

10. Rolling Stones

11.Blue Oyster Cult

12.Emerson, Lake & Palmer

13.Yes

14.The Edgar Winter Group

15.Jethro Tull

16.Slade

17.Faces

18.Bowie & Spiders

19.Black Oak Arkansas

20. Humble Pie

BEST MALE SINGER

1.David Bowie

2.Elton John

3.Mick Jagger

4.Roger Daltrey

5.Ian Hunter

6.Robert Plant

6.Robert Plant 7.Alice Cooper

Cooper 8.Paul McCartney

9.Rod Stewart

10.Greg Allman

BEST FEMALE SINGER

1.Bette Midler

2.Carly Simon

3.Joni Mitchell

4.Linda Ronstadt

5.Bonnie Raitt

6.Maria Muldaur

7.Gladys Knight

8.Grace Slick

9.David Bowie

10.Aretha Franklin

BEST R & B SINGER

l.Stevie Wonder

2.A1 Green

3.Marvin Gaye

4.Gladys Knight

5.B.B. King

6.Peter Wolf

7.Aretha Franklin

8. Diana Ross

9.James Brown

lO.Curtis Mayfield 1.War

BEST R & B GROUP

2.J. Geils Band

3.The Spinners

4.Gladys Knight & Pips

5.The O’Jays

6.Sly & Family Stone

7.The Temptations

8.The Isley Bros.

9.The Stylistics

lO.The Rolling Stones

BEST GUITARIST

1. Jimmy Page

2.Mick Ronson

3.Richard Betts

4.Pete Townshend

5.James Williamson

6.Keith Richard

7.John McLaughlin

8 Jeff Beck

9. Johnny Winter

lO.Buck Dharma

BEST KEYBOARD

1. Keith Emerson

2.Rick Wakeman

3.Elton John

4.Nicky Hopkins

5.Billy Preston

6Jon Lord

7.Mike Garson

8.Edgar Winter

9.Gregg Allman

lO.Stevie Wonder

“Ever notice, the older Joni Mitchell gets, the more she looks like Dr. Joyce Brothers?**

WORST GROUP

l.New York Dolls

2.0smonds . 3.Grand Funk

3.Grand Funk

4.Slade

5.Dawn 6.Black

6.Black Oak Arkansas 7.DeFranco

Family 8. Dr. Hook & Medicine

8. Dr. Hook & Medicine Show 9.The Stooges

9.The Stooges Stones

10.Rolling

BEST SONGWRITER

1.John/Taupin

2.David Bowie 3.Pete Townshend

4.1an Hunter

4.1an Hunter

5.Todd Rundgren 6 Jackson Browne

7. Stevie Wonder

7. Stevie Wonder 8. Jagger/Richard

8. Jagger/Richard 9.Paul Simon

9.Paul Simon

10.Lou Reed

BEST BASSIST

ISaul McCartney

2John Entwistle

3.Chris Squire

4.0verend Watts

5.Bill Wyman

6 Jack Bruce

7 .Tim Bogert

8.Klaus Voorman

9.Arthur Kane

lO.Dennis Dunaway

BEST DRUMMER

1.Keith Moon

2.Billy Cobham

3.Aynsley Dunbar

4.Neal Smith

5.Charlie Watts

6.Carl Palmer

7.Nigel Olsson

8 John Bonham

9.Ringo Starr

lO.Buffin

BEST HORN MAN

1. Bobby Keyes

2.Andrew Mackay

3.Miles Davis

4.Edgar Winter

5.David Bowie

6 Jim Horn

7Jim Price

8.John Entwistle

9.Roland Kirk

lO.Ian Underwood

BEST NEW GROUP

^JJfew York Dolls

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'“j.Aerosmith

4.Lynyrd Skynyrd

5.Marshall Tucker Band

6.10CC

7.Pointer Sisters

8.The Sweet

9 Joe Walsh & Barnstorm

10.Montrose

MISC. INSTR.

1.Magic Dick (harp)

2.1an Anderson (flute)

3.Todd Rundgren (studio)

4.Mike Oldfield (everything)

5.Pete Townshend (moog)

6.Stevie Wonder (moog)

7. Roy Wood (spector)

8.Eno (tapes)

9.Paul Butterfield (harp)

10.Keith Emerson (moog)

BEST PRODUCER

1.Todd Rundgren

2. Richard Perry

3.Bob Ezrin

4.David Bowie

5.Rick Derringer

6.Bill Szymczyk

7 Jimmy Miller

8.Pete Townshend

9.A1 Kooper

10.Thom Bell

DISAPPOINTMENT

1.Stones/Goat’s Head Soup

2.Bowie retirement

3.Lou Reed/Berlin

4.New York Dolls

5 Jethro Tull/Passion Play

6.Alice Cooper/Muscle of Love

7.No impeachment/assassination

8.Who/Quadrophenia

9.Bowie/Pin-Ups

10.Kohoutek Comet

MOST PATHETIC

1.Richard Nixon

2.Lou Reed

3.New York Dolls

4.Marc Bolan

5.David Bowie

5.David Bowie 6.1ggy Pop

7.Rolling Stones

8.United States

9.DeFranco Family

10. Alice Cooper

DRUG

1.Marijuana

2. Alcohol

3.Quaalude

4.Beer

5.Cocaine

6.Television

7.Valium

8.Watergate

9.Tequila

10. Aspirin

HERO

1.Elton John

2. Sam Ervin

3.Todd Rundgren

4.Ian Hunter

5.1ggy Pop

6.Ringo Starr

7.David Bowie

8.Alice Cooper

9.Keith Richard

lO.Pete Townshend

COMEBACK

'l.The Stooges

2.Paul McCartney

3 Johnny Winter

4.Bob Dylan

5.Grand Funk

6.Charlie Rich

7.The 1950s

8.Ringo Starr

9.The Who

lO.Todd Rundgren

RIP-OFF

1.Richard Nixon

2.Watergate

3.Record Prices

4 J)ylan Tour

5.Stones/Goat’s Head Soup

6.Concert Prices

7.Energy Crisis

8.Dylan (Columbia album)

9. David Bowie

lO.Gas Prices

“How about more music and less jive; either that or more jive music, you know what I mean. . . ”

MOST VALUABLE PLAYER

lJMick Ronson s

2.Todd Rundgren

3.Pete Townshend

4.1an Hunter

5.Rick Derringer

6.Keith Richard

7 Jimmy Page

8. Ian Anderson

9.Elton John

lO.Frank Zappa

CRITIC

1.Lester Bangs

2.Robert Christgau

3.R. Meltzer

4 Jon Landau

5.Dave Marsh

6.Greg Shaw

7.Robot Hull

8.Ben Edmonds

9.Jaan Uhelszki

lO.Ed Ward

FAD

1.Glitter

2.The 1950s

3.Homosexuality

4.Watergate

5.New York Dolls

6. Decadence

7.Energy Crisis

8.Platform shoes

9.The Beatles

lO.Sex

ALBUM COVER

1.Brain Salad Surgery (EL &P/Manticore)

2.New York Dolls (Mercury)

3.Billion Dollar Babies (Alice Cooper/Warners)

4.For Your Pleasure (Roxy Music/Warners)

5.Pin-Ups (David Bowie/RCA)

6.A Wizard, A True Star (Todd Rundgren/Bearsville)

7.Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin/Atlantic)

8.Quadrophenia (The Who/MCA)

9.Yessongs (Yes/Atlantic)

lO.Muscle of Love (Alice Cooper/Warners)

BEST R & R MOVIE

1 ^American Graffiti

2Jimi Hendrix

3.The Harder They Come

4. Let The Good Times Roll

5.Live & Let Die

6.Pink Flamingos

7.The Exorcist

8 Jesus Christ Superstar

9.Walking Tall

9.Walking Tall lO.That’U Be The Day

“Overall: B plus. ”