1973 - Very few years can match what this year gave us!

[Johnny Vinyl]

Prog rock, hard rock, R&B/Soul, rock, glam rock, pop rock, punk rock......what a Top 10!

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1973&f=&fv=&orderby=InfoRankScore&sortdir=desc&page=1

Along with 1967 and 1971 this year rounds out what I believe to be years that likely will never be duplicated.

My 1973 stats:
Top 10 - 9
Top 25 - 17
Top 50 - 29
Top 100 - 48

[JCOConnell]

7 of top 10, still never listened to the three I don't have.

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Who makes these list up , and where do they get the data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_1973

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/8-all-music-highest-rated/1973/1

http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Current/1973a.htm

http://www.theuncool.com/2012/01/12/top-albums-of-1973/

http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/vinyl...ined-1973.html etc etc.

[Johnny Vinyl]

Who makes these list up , and where do they get the data

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_1973

http://www.albumoftheyear.org/ratings/8-all-music-highest-rated/1973/1

http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/Current/1973a.htm

http://www.theuncool.com/2012/01/12/top-albums-of-1973/

http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/vinyl...ined-1973.html etc etc.

Sometimes they'll mention up front how they arrived at the list, but more often than not they leave you guessing and many of them are purely opinion pieces. I don't give any of them much credence, but they can be fun to look at.

[MylesBAstor]

'73 was freshman year in college and I don't know anyone who played the Iggy Pop album. Brain Salad Surgery, Goats Head Soup, Brothers and Sisters (!), There Goes Rhymin Simon, etc. In fact, no one played Skynyrd or Genesis either. Maybe it was a NY thing.

Hell I played Bowie's Pinups to death. Perhaps though a bunch of covers, the most unappreciated Bowie album ever. What a collection of great songs!!!! 2-4-6-7-9-11-12 were spectacular with "See Emily Play, I Can't Explain and Where Have All The Good Times Gone" being my favorites.
Track listing[edit]

1.	"Rosalyn" (Originally recorded by The Pretty Things)	Jimmy Duncan, Bill Farley	2:27
2.	"Here Comes the Night" (Notably recorded by Them)	Bert Berns	3:09
3.	"I Wish You Would" (Notably recorded by The Yardbirds)	Billy Boy Arnold	2:40
4.	"See Emily Play" (Originally recorded by Pink Floyd)	Syd Barrett	4:03
5.	"Everything's Alright" (Originally recorded by The Mojos)	Nicky Crouch, John Konrad, Simon Stavely, Stuart James, Keith Karlson	2:26
6.	"I Can't Explain" (Originally recorded by The Who)	Pete Townshend	2:07

7.	"Friday on My Mind" (Originally recorded by The Easybeats)	George Young, Harry Vanda	3:18
8.	"Sorrow" (Notably recorded by The Merseys)	Bob Feldman, Jerry Goldstein, Richard Gottehrer	2:48
9.	"Don't Bring Me Down" (Originally recorded by The Pretty Things)	Johnnie Dee	2:01
10.	"Shapes of Things" (Originally recorded by The Yardbirds)	Paul Samwell-Smith, Jim McCarty, Keith Relf	2:47
11.	"Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere" (Originally recorded by The Who)	Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend	3:04
12.	"Where Have All the Good Times Gone" (Originally recorded by The Kinks)	Ray Davies	2:35

[Johnny Vinyl]

I was living in Montreal then and Prog was extremely popular there, as it still is. We were early adopters of Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP and the like, and there wasn't a Prog band that didn't play in the city. Skynyrd, ZZ Top, Steely Dan, etc. were popular, but not nearly to the same degree. Much like your experience in NY I think there are many other examples throughout the US & Canada.