Top Albums of 1974

1 Bob Marley and The Wailers Natty Dread 2 Joni Mitchell Court and Spark 3 Gram Parsons Grievous Angel 4 Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom 5 Steely Dan Pretzel Logic 6 Kraftwerk Autobahn 7 Richard and Linda Thompson I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight 8 Big Star Radio City 9 Jackson Browne Late for the Sky 10 Eric Clapton 461 Ocean Boulevard 11 Randy Newman Good Old Boys 12 Genesis The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway 13 Neil Young On the Beach 14 Van Morrison It's Too Late To Stop Now 15 Ry Cooder Paradise and Lunch 16 King Crimson Red 17 The Velvet Underground 1969: The Velvet Underground Live with Lou Reed 18 Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping 19 Van Morrison Veedon Fleece 20 Linda Ronstadt Heart Like a Wheel 21 Roxy Music Country Life 22 New York Dolls Too Much Too Soon 23 Tangerine Dream Phaedra 24 Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness First Finale 25 The Sparks Kimono My House 26 Gene Clark No Other 27 Average White Band AWB 28 Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) 29 Lou Reed Rock'n'Roll Animal 30 Bad Company Bad Co. 31 Little Feat Feats Don't Fail Me Now 32 David Bowie Diamond Dogs 33 Bob Dylan/The Band Before the Flood 34 James Brown The Payback 35 Queen Sheer Heart Attack 36 Millie Jackson Caught Up 37 Willie Nelson Phases and Stages 38 Supertramp Crime of the Century 39 John Cale Fear 40 Can Soon over Babaluma 41 Barry White Can't Get Enough 42 The Meters Rejuvenation 43 Blue Oyster Cult Secret Treaties 44 Cecil Taylor Silent Tongues 45 LaBelle Nightbirds 46 Ann Peebles I Can't Stand the Rain 47 The Rolling Stones It's Only Rock'n'Roll 48 Rory Gallagher Irish Tour 49 Bob Dylan Planet Waves 50 Fenton Robinson Somebody Loan Me a Dime 51 Fela Kuti Confusion 52 Keith Jarrett Belonging 53 Todd Rundgren Todd 54 Tom Waits The Heart of Saturday Night 55 The Residents Meet The Residents 56 Dr. Feelgood Down by the Jetty 57 John Coltrane Interstellar Space 58 Frank Zappa Apostrophe (') 59 Electric Light Orchestra Eldorado 60 Modern Jazz Quartet Last Concert 61 Woody Shaw Moontrane 62 Wayne Shorter Native Dancer 63 Santana Lotus 64 10 CC Sheet Music 65 Sweet Desolation Boulevard 66 Leonard Cohen New Skin for the Old Ceremony 67 Mott the Hoople The Hoople 68 Steve Reich Drumming 69 The Raspberries Starting Over 70 Keith Hudson Flesh of My Skin 71 Keith Hudson Pick a Dub 72 Al Green Al Green Explores Your Mind 73 Bachman-Turner Overdrive Not Fragile 74 Zappa/Mothers Roxy & Elsewhere 75 Parliament Up for the Down Stroke 76 Ralph Towner Diary 77 Phil Woods Musique du Bois