Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1974

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1974

Listing for 326 records from 1974 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	New York Dolls: *In Too Much, Too Soon* [Mercury] Steely Dan: *Pretzel Logic* [ABC]
A	Big Star: *Radio City* [Ardent] Eric Clapton: *461 Ocean Boulevard* [RSO] John Coltrane: *The Africa Brass Sessions, Vol. 2* [Impulse] John Coltrane: *Africa Brass, Vol. II* [Impulse] Bob Dylan/The Band: *Before the Flood* [Asylum] Eno: *Here Come the Warm Jets* [Island] Thomas Jefferson Kaye: *First Grade* [ABC/Dunhill] Andy Fairweather Low: *Spider Jiving* [A&M] Joni Mitchell: *Court and Spark* [Asylum] Van Morrison: *It's Too Late to Stop Now* [Warner Bros.] Randy Newman: *Good Old Boys* [Reprise] Gram Parsons: *Grievous Angel* [Reprise] Richard Pryor: *That Nigger's Crazy* [Partee] Richard & Linda Thompson: *Hokey Pokey* [Island] The Wailers: *Burnin'* [Island]
A-	Average White Band: *Average White Band* [Atlantic] Moe Bandy: *I Just Started Hatin' Cheatin' Songs Today* [GRC] Shirley Brown: *Woman to Woman* [Truth] John Cale: *Fear* [Island] Leonard Cohen: *New Skin for Old Ceremony* [Columbia] John Coltrane: *Interstellar Space* [Impulse] Ry Cooder: *Paradise and Lunch* [Reprise] Alice Cooper: *Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits* [Warner Bros.] Miles Davis: *Big Fun* [Columbia] Miles Davis: *Get Up With It* [Columbia] Bob Dylan: *Planet Waves* [Asylum] Earth, Wind & Fire: *Open Our Eyes* [Columbia] Bryan Ferry: *"These Foolish Things"* [Atlantic] W.C. Fields: *The Further Adventures of Larson E. Whipsnade and Other Taradiddles* [Columbia] Firesign Theatre: *Everything You Know Is Wrong* [Columbia] Millie Jackson: *Caught Up* [Spring] King Crimson: *Red* [Atlantic] Robert Klein: *New Teeth* [Epic] Gladys Knight & the Pips: *Claudine* [Buddah] Labelle: *Nightbirds* [Epic] Loretta Lynn: *Loretta Lynn's Greatest Hits Vol. II* [MCA] Lynyrd Skynyrd: *Second Helping* [Sounds of the South/MCA] Mary McCaslin: *Way Out West* [Philo] Mighty Clouds of Joy: *It's Time* [Dunhill] Willie Nelson: *Phases and Stages* [Atlantic] Nilsson: *Pussy Cats* [RCA Victor] Parliament: *Up for the Down Stroke* [Casablanca] The Raspberries: *Starting Over* [Capitol] Lou Reed: *Rock n Roll Animal* [RCA Victor] Linda Ronstadt: *Heart Like a Wheel* [Capitol] Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers: *Natural Boogie* [Alligator] The Velvet Underground: *1969 Velvet Underground Live* [Mercury] The Wild Magnolias: *The Wild Magnolias* [Polydor] Stevie Wonder: *Fulfillingness' First Finale* [Tamla] Betty Wright: *Danger High Voltage* [Alston] Neil Young: *On the Beach* [Reprise]
B+	Moe Bandy: *It Was Always So Easy (to Find an Unhappy Woman)* [GRC] Bobby Bland: *Dreamer* [ABC/Dunhill] Blue Magic: *Blue Magic* [Atco] Cher: *Greatest Hits* [MCA] Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: *Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas* [Paramount] Commodores: *Machine Gun* [Motown] Larry Coryell: *The 11th House* [Vanguard] Kevin Coyne: *Marjory Razor Blade* [Virgin] Jim Croce: *Photographs and Memories* [ABC] Manu Dibango: *Makossa Man* [Atlantic] Dr. John: *Desitively Bonnaroo* [Atco] Ducks Deluxe: *Ducks Deluxe* [RCA Victor] The Eagles: *On the Border* [Asylum] Freddy Fender: *Fuera de Alcance/Out of Reach* [Starflite] Bryan Ferry: *Another Time, Another Place* [Atlantic] Sonny Fortune: *Long Before Our Mothers Cried* [Strata-East] Aretha Franklin: *Let Me in Your Life* [Atlantic] Aretha Franklin: *With Everything I Feel in Me* [Atlantic] Funkadelic: *Standing on the Verge of Getting It On* [Westbound] Al Green: *Al Green Explores Your Mind* [Hi] Arlo Guthrie: *Arlo Guthrie* [Reprise] Merle Haggard: *Presents His 30th Album* [Capitol] Hot Chocolate: *Cicero Park* [Big Tree] The Independents: *Discs of Gold* [Wand] Jackson 5: *Dancing Machine* [Motown] Elton John: *Caribou* [MCA] Elton John: *Greatest Hits* [MCA] K.C. & the Sunshine Band: *Do It Good* [T.K.] B.B. King & Bobby Bland: *Together for the First Time . . . Live* [ABC/Dunhill] King Biscuit Boy: *King Biscuit Boy* [Epic] Gladys Knight & the Pips: *I Feel a Song* [Buddah] Latimore: *More More More Latimore* [Glades] Jimmy Lewis: *Totally Involved* [Hotlanta] Little Beaver: *Party Down* [Cat] Love: *Reel to Real* [RSO] Love Unlimited: *In Heat* [20th Century] Taj Mahal: *Mo' Roots* [Columbia] Man: *Rhinos, Winos and Lunatics* [United Artists] Man: *Slow Motion* [United Artists] The Meters: *Rejuvenation* [Reprise] Frankie Miller: *Frankie Miller's Highlife* [Chrysalis] James Moody: *Feelin' It Together* [Muse] Van Morrison: *Veedon Fleece* [Warner Bros.] Mott the Hoople: *Rock and Roll Queen* [Atlantic] Anne Murray: *Highly Prized Possession* [Capitol] Ann Peebles: *I Can't Stand the Rain* [Hi] Esther Phillips: *Performance* [Kudu] Lou Reed: *Sally Can't Dance* [RCA Victor] Fenton Robinson: *Somebody Loan Me a Dime* [Alligator] Roxy Music: *Country Life* [Atco] Roxy Music: *Stranded* [Atco] Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan: *Rufusized* [ABC] Doug Sahm: *Groover's Paradise* [Warner Bros.] Gil Scott-Heron: *The Revolution Will Not Be Televised* [Flying Dutchman] Neil Sedaka: *Sedaka's Back* [Rocket] Bob Seger: *Seven* [Palladium/Reprise] Phoebe Snow: *Phoebe Snow* [Shelter] Spinners: *Mighty Love* [Atlantic] Jim Stafford: *Jim Stafford* [MGM] Staple Singers: *City in the Sky* [Stax] Billy Swan: *I Can Help* [Monument] Three Dog Night: *Joy to the World--Their Greatest Hits* [ABC] Tower of Power: *Urban Renewal* [Warner Bros.] McCoy Tyner: *Sama Layuca* [Milestone] Randy Weston: *Carnival* [Arista/Freedom] Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys: *For the Last Time* [United Artists] Bill Withers: *+ 'Justments* [Sussex] Robert Wyatt: *Rock Bottom* [Caroline] *June 1, 1974* [Island]
B	Asleep at the Wheel: *Asleep at the Wheel* [Epic] Bachman-Turner Overdrive: *Not Fragile* [Mercury] Syd Barrett: *The Madcap Laughs/Barrett* [Harvest] David Barretto: *David Barretto* [Mercury] Blue Oyster Cult: *Secret Treaties* [Columbia] James Brown: *Hell* [Polydor] Ray Charles: *Come Live With Me* [Crossover] Clifton Chenier: *Out West* [Arhoolie] The Counts: *Funk Pump* [Aware] Flash Cadillac and the Continental Kids: *There's No Face Like Chrome* [Epic] Grand Funk: *Shinin' On* [Capitol] Henry Gross: *Henry Gross* [A&M] Steven Grossman: *Caravan Tonight* [Mercury] Merle Haggard and the Strangers: *If We Make It Through December* [Capitol] John Hiatt: *Hangin' Around the Observatory* [Epic] The Isley Brothers: *Live It Up* [T-Neck] Keith Jarrett: *Treasure Island* [Impulse] Jefferson Airplane: *Early Flight* [Grunt] King Crimson: *Starless and Bible Black* [Atlantic] Deke Leonard: *Iceberg* [United Artists] Little Feat: *Feats Don't Fail Me Now* [Warner Bros.] The Marshall Tucker Band: *A New Life* [Capricorn] George McCrae: *Rock Your Baby* [T.K.] Mott the Hoople: *The Hoople* [Columbia] The Move: *The Best of the Move* [A&M] Anne Murray: *Country* [Capitol] Anne Murray: *Love Song* [Capitol] Ohio Players: *Fire* [Mercury] Ohio Players: *Skin Tight* [Mercury] Dolly Parton: *Love Is Like a Butterfly* [RCA Victor] Alan Price: *Between Today and Yesterday* [Warner Bros.] Suzi Quatro: *Suzi Quatro* [Bell] Bonnie Raitt: *Streetlights* [Warner Bros.] Minnie Riperton: *Perfect Angel* [Epic] The Rolling Stones: *It's Only Rock 'n' Roll* [Rolling Stones] Sonny Rollins: *The Cutting Edge* [Milestone] Rufus: *Rags to Rufus* [ABC] Bunny Sigler: *Keep Smilin'* [Philadelphia International] Slade: *Stomp Your Hands, Clap Your Feet* [Reprise] Spinners: *New and Improved* [Atlantic] Cecil Taylor: *Silent Tongues* [Arista/Freedom] Johnnie Taylor: *Super Taylor* [Stax] 10cc: *Sheet Music* [UK] Ron Turner: *Ron Turner* [Folkways] Weather Report: *Mysterious Traveler* [Columbia] The Who: *Odds and Sods* [MCA] Johnny Winter: *Saints and Sinners* [Columbia]
B-	Aerosmith: *Get Your Wings* [Columbia] Bad Company: *Bad Co.* [Swan Song] James Brown: *Reality* [Polydor] Jackson Browne: *Late for the Sky* [Asylum] Jimmy Buffett: *A1A* [ABC/Dunhill] Jimmy Buffett: *Living and Dying in 3/4 Time* [ABC/Dunhill] J.J. Cale: *Okie* [Shelter] Can: *Soon Over Babaluma* [United Artists] Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: *Bluejeans and Moonbeams* [Mercury] Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: *Unconditionally Guaranteed* [Mercury] The Eleventh House Featuring Larry Coryell: *The Eleventh House Featuring Larry Coryell* [Vanguard] Lorraine Ellison: *Lorraine Ellison* [Warner Bros.] Fleetwood Mac: *Heroes Are Hard to Find* [Reprise] The Flying Burrito Brothers: *Close Up the Honky Tonks* [A&M] Foghat: *Energized* [Bearsville] Jerry Garcia: *Garcia* [Round] Genesis: *The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway* [Atco] Grateful Dead: *From the Mars Hotel* [Grateful Dead] The Hollies: *Hollies* [Epic] Honk: *Honk* [Epic] Millie Jackson: *Millie* [Spring] Etta James: *Come a Little Closer* [Chess] Syl Johnson: *Diamond in the Rough* [Hi] The Kinks: *Preservation Act II* [RCA Victor] Gladys Knight & the Pips: *Knight Time* [Soul] Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge: *Breakaway* [Monument] Alvin Lee: *In Flight* [Columbia] Laura Lee: *I Can't Make It Alone* [Invictus] John Lennon: *Walls and Bridges* [Apple] Deke Leonard: *Kamikaze* [United Artists] Gordon Lightfoot: *Sundown* [Reprise] Manfred Mann's Earth Band: *The Good Earth* [Polydor] Terry Melcher: *Terry Melcher* [Reprise] Joni Mitchell: *Miles of Aisles* [Asylum] Dolly Parton: *Jolene* [RCA Victor] The Persuasions: *I Just Want to Sing With My Friends* [A&M] Elvis Presley: *Good Times* [RCA Victor] Billy Preston: *The Kids and Me* [A&M] Suzi Quatro: *Quatro* [Bell] Helen Reddy: *Love Song for Jeffrey* [Capitol] Linda Ronstadt: *Different Drum* [Capitol] Santana: *Santana's Greatest Hits* [Columbia] Boz Scaggs: *Slow Dancer* [Columbia] The Earl Scruggs Revue: *Rockin' Cross the Country* [Columbia] Ringo Starr: *Goodnight Vienna* [Apple] Rod Stewart: *Smiler* [Mercury] Barbra Streisand: *The Way We Were* [Columbia] Tanya Tucker: *Would You Lay With Me (in a Field of Stone)* [Columbia] Barry White: *Can't Get Enough* [20th Century] Paul Williams: *Here Comes Inspiration* [A&M] Jesse Winchester: *Learn to Love It* [Bearsville] Roy Wood's Wizzard: *Introducing Eddy and the Falcons* [United Artists] Frank Zappa: *Apostrophe (')* [DiscReet]
C+	Maggie Bell: *Queen of the Night* [Atlantic] Blue Magic: *The Magic of the Blue* [Atco] David Bowie: *Diamond Dogs* [RCA Victor] Browning Bryant: *Browning Bryant* [Reprise] B.T. Express: *Do It ('Til You're Satisfied)* [Scepter/Roadshow] George Carlin: *Toledo Window Box* [Little David] Kiki Dee: *Lovin' and Free* [Rocket] Deep Purple: *Burn* [Warner Bros.] Sandy Denny: *Like an Old Fashioned Waltz* [Island] John Denver: *Back Home Again* [RCA Victor] Ecstasy, Passion & Pain: *Ecstasy, Passion & Pain* [Roulette] Fancy: *Wild Thing* [Big Tree] Donna Fargo: *All About a Feeling* [Dot] Marvin Gaye: *Live* [Tamla] The J. Geils Band: *Nightmares . . . and Other Tales from the Vinyl Jungle* [Atlantic] Golden Earring: *Moontan* [Track] Henry Gross: *Plug Me Into Something* [A&M] Herbie Hancock: *Thrust* [Columbia] Emmylou Harris: *Pieces of the Sky* [Reprise] The J.B.'s: *Damn Right I Am Somebody* [People] Jefferson Starship: *Dragon Fly* [Grunt] Manfred Mann's Earth Band: *Solar Fire* [Polydor] Ian Matthews: *Some Days You Eat the Bear, and Some Days the Bear Eats You* [Elektra] Roger McGuinn: *Peace on You* [Columbia] Maria Muldaur: *Waitress in a Donut Shop* [Reprise] Mike Oldfield: *Tubular Bells* [Virgin] Johnny Paycheck: *Greatest Hits* [Epic] Martha Reeves: *Martha Reeves* [MCA] Smokey Robinson: *Pure Smokey* [Tamla] Santana: *Borboletta* [Columbia] Gil Scott-Heron/Brian Jackson: *Winter in America* [Strata-East] Paul Simon: *Paul Simon in Concert: Live Rhymin'* [Columbia] Lonnie Liston Smith and the Cosmic Echoes: *Expansions* [Flying Dutchman] Soft Machine: *"7"* [Columbia] Souther-Hillman-Furay Band: *The Souther, Hillman, Furay Band* [Asylum] Stackridge: *Pinafore Days* [Sire] Supertramp: *Crime of the Century* [A&M] Booker T: *Evergreen* [Epic] Tower of Power: *Back to Oakland* [Warner Bros.] Tom Waits: *The Heart of a Saturday Night* [Asylum] Wendy Waldman: *Gypsy Symphony* [Warner Bros.] Joe Walsh: *So What* [ABC] War: *War Live* [United Artists] The Edgar Winter Group: *Shock Treatment* [Epic] Johnny Winter: *John Dawson Winter III* [Blue Sky] Ron Wood: *I've Got My Own Album to Do* [Warner Bros.] Frank Zappa/Mothers: *Roxy and Elsewhere* [DiscReet] *This Is Reggae Music* [Island]
C	Eric Burdon Band: *Sun Secrets* [Capitol] Jimmy Cliff: *Music Maker* [Reprise] Joe Cocker: *I Can Stand a Little Rain* [A&M] The Guess Who: *Flavours* [RCA Victor] Hudson-Ford: *Nickelodeon* [A&M] The Hues Corporation: *Freedom for the Stallion* [RCA Victor] Billy Joel: *Streetlife Serenade* [Columbia] B.B. King: *Friends* [ABC] Carole King: *Wrap Around Joy* [Ode] Mahavishnu Orchestra: *Apocalypse* [Columbia] Barry Manilow: *Manilow II* [Bell] Curtis Mayfield: *Sweet Exorcist* [Curtom] Nico: *The End* [Island] Flora Purim: *Stories to Tell* [Milestone] Todd Rundgren: *Todd* [Bearsville] Carly Simon: *Hotcakes* [Elektra] Grace Slick: *Manhole* [Grunt] Sly & the Family Stone: *Small Talk* [Epic] The Stylistics: *Heavy* [Avco] B.J. Thomas: *The Very Best of B.J. Thomas* [United Artists] Yes: *Tales from Topographic Oceans* [Atlantic]
C-	Paul Anka: *Anka* [United Artists] Toni Brown: *Good for You, Too* [MCA] The Doobie Brothers: *What Were Once Vices Are Now Habits* [Reprise] Flo & Eddie: *Illegal, Immoral and Fattening* [Columbia] Dan Fogelberg: *Souvenirs* [Epic] Good Rats: *Tasty* [Warner Bros.] George Harrison: *Dark Horse* [Apple] Becky Hobbs: *Becky Hobbs* [MCA] Eddie Kendricks: *Eddie Kendricks* [Tamla] Dave Mason: *The Best of Dave Mason* [Blue Thumb] O.B. McClinton: *If You Loved Her That Way* [Enterprise] Miami: *The Party Freaks* [Drive] Graham Nash: *Wild Tales* [Atlantic] Tracy Nelson: *Tracy Nelson* [Atlantic] P.F.M.: *Cook* [Manticore] Queen: *Queen II* [Elektra] Ross: *Ross* [RSO] Devadip Carlos Santana/Turiya Alice Coltrane: *Illuminations* [Columbia] John Sebastian: *The Tarzana Kid* [Reprise] The Sensational Alex Harvey Band: *The Impossible Dream* [Vertigo] Stanley Silverman: *Elephant Steps* [Columbia] Cat Stevens: *Buddha and the Chocolate Box* [A&M] Duke Williams and the Extremes: *Fantastic Fedora* [Capricorn]
D+	Martin Mull: *Normal* [Capricorn] Charlie Rich: *Very Special Love Songs* [Epic] Leon Russell: *Stop All That Jazz* [Shelter] Wishbone Ash: *There's the Rub* [MCA]
D	Black Oak Arkansas: *High on the Hog* [Atlantic] Isis: *Isis* [Buddah] Richie Lecea: *Magic* [Wooden Nickel] Essra Mohawk: *Essra Mohawk* [Asylum] Bill Wyman: *Monkey Grip* [Rolling Stones]
D-	Seals and Crofts: *Unborn Child* [Warner Bros.] Cybill Shepherd: *Cybill Does It . . . to Cole Porter* [Paramount]
E+	Carmen: *Fandangos in Space* [ABC]

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