Robert Christgau: Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1973

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Consumer Guide Index by Release Year: 1973

Listing for 315 records from 1973 (selected by release date), sorted by grade.

A+	Al Green: *Call Me* [Hi] New York Dolls: *New York Dolls* [Mercury]
A	Jimmy Cliff et al.: *The Harder They Come* [Mango] Coulson, Dean, McGuiness, Flint: *Lo and Behold* [Sire] Al Green: *Livin' for You* [Hi] Janis Joplin: *Janis Joplin's Greatest Hits* [Columbia] Lynyrd Skynyrd: *Pronounced Leh'-nerd Skin'-nerd* [Sounds of the South/MCA] Wilson Pickett: *Wilson Pickett's Greatest Hits* [Atlantic] John Prine: *Sweet Revenge* [Atlantic] Sly & the Family Stone: *Fresh* [Epic] Steely Dan: *Countdown to Ecstasy* [ABC] Stevie Wonder: *Innervisions* [Tamla] Neil Young: *Time Fades Away* [Reprise] *Africa Dances* [Authentic]
A-	The Allman Brothers Band: *Brothers and Sisters* [Capricorn] Asleep at the Wheel: *Comin' Right at Ya* [United Artists] Gato Barbieri: *Bolivia* [Flying Dutchman] Charles Bevel: *Meet "Mississippi Charles" Bevel* [A&M] James Brown: *Soul Classics Volume II* [Polydor] Roy Brown: *Hard Times* [BluesWay] The Credibility Gap: *A Great Gift Idea* [Reprise] Miles Davis: *Miles Davis in Concert* [Columbia] Derek and the Dominos: *Derek and the Dominos in Concert* [Polydor] Swamp Dogg: *Gag a Maggott* [Stone Dogg] John Fahey: *After the Ball* [Reprise] Marvin Gaye: *Let's Get It On* [Tamla] Tom T. Hall: *The Rhymer and Other Five and Dimers* [Mercury] The Hollies: *The Hollies' Greatest Hits* [Epic] Keith Jarrett: *Fort Yawuh* [Impulse] B.B. King: *The Best of B.B. King* [ABC] The Kinks: *The Great Lost Kinks Album* [Reprise] Led Zeppelin: *Houses of the Holy* [Atlantic] Laura Lee: *The Best of Laura Lee* [Hot Wax] Taj Mahal: *Ooh So Good 'n Blues* [Columbia] Mahavishnu Orchestra: *Birds of Fire* [Columbia] Manfred Mann's Earth Band: *Get Your Rocks Off* [Polydor] Mott the Hoople: *Mott* [Columbia] The Move: *Split Ends* [United Artists] Elliott Murphy: *Aquashow* [Polydor] Esther Phillips: *Black-Eyed Blues* [Kudu] Bonnie Raitt: *Takin' My Time* [Warner Bros.] Frederic Rzewski: *Coming Together/Attica/Moutons de Panurge* [Opus One] Mike Seeger: *The Second Annual Farewell Reunion* [Mercury] Slade: *Slayed?* [Polydor] Spinners: *Spinners* [Atlantic] Bruce Springsteen: *The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle* [Columbia] Marlo Thomas and Friends: *Free to Be . . . You and Me* [Bell] Loudon Wainwright III: *Attempted Mustache* [Columbia] The Who: *Quadrophenia* [MCA] Bill Withers: *Bill Withers Live at Carnegie Hall* [Sussex] Howlin' Wolf: *The Back Door Wolf* [Chess] Roy Wood: *Boulders* [United Artists]
B+	Average White Band: *Show Your Hand* [MCA] Bachman-Turner Overdrive: *Bachman-Turner Overdrive* [Mercury] Bachman-Turner Overdrive: *Bachman-Turner Overdrive II* [Mercury] The Band: *Moondog Matinee* [Capitol] Blue Oyster Cult: *Tyranny and Mutation* [Columbia] The Blue Ridge Rangers: *The Blue Ridge Rangers* [Fantasy] David Bowie: *Aladdin Sane* [RCA Victor] David Bromberg: *Wanted Dead or Alive* [Columbia] James Brown: *The Payback* [Polydor] Paul Butterfield's Better Days: *It All Comes Back* [Bearsville] Roy C.: *Sex and Soul* [Mercury] John Cale: *Paris 1919* [Reprise] Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: *Mirror Man* [Buddah] Clarence Carter: *Sixty Minutes With Clarence Carter* [Fame] Leonard Cohen: *Live Songs* [Columbia] King Curtis and Champion Jack Dupree: *Blues at Montreux* [Atlantic] Blossom Dearie: *Blossom Dearie Sings* [Daffodil] Dr. John: *In the Right Place* [Atco] The Family: *It's Only a Movie* [United Artists] Fleetwood Mac: *Mystery to Me* [Reprise] Dizzy Gillespie: *The Giant* [Prestige] John Herald: *John Herald* [Paramount] Iggy and the Stooges: *Raw Power* [Columbia] The Isley Brothers: *3 + 3* [T-Neck] Garland Jeffreys: *Garland Jeffreys* [Atlantic] Jerry Lee Lewis: *The Session* [Mercury] Little Feat: *Dixie Chicken* [Warner Bros.] Mahavishnu Orchestra: *Between Nothingness and Eternity* [Columbia] Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: *Black and Blue* [Philadelphia International] Lee Michaels: *Tailface* [Columbia] Bette Midler: *Bette Midler* [Atlantic] Jackie Moore: *Sweet Charlie Babe* [Atlantic] Maria Muldaur: *Maria Muldaur* [Reprise] Willie Nelson: *Shotgun Willie* [Atlantic] Gilbert O'Sullivan: *Back to Front* [MAM] Gram Parsons: GP [Reprise] Dolly Parton: *My Tennessee Mountain Home* [RCA Victor] Roger Powell: *Cosmic Furnace* [Atlantic] Procol Harum: *The Best of Procol Harum* [A&M] Diana Ross & Marvin Gaye: *Diana & Marvin* [Motown] Doug Sahm: *Rough Edges* [Mercury] Santana: *Welcome* [Columbia] Judee Sill: *Heart Food* [Asylum] Paul Simon: *There Goes Rhymin' Simon* [Columbia] The Sir Douglas Band: *Texas Tornado* [Atlantic] Slade: *Sladest* [Reprise] Spirit: *The Best of Spirit* [Epic] Bruce Springsteen: *Greetings from Asbury Park NJ* [Columbia] Rod Stewart: *Sing It Again Rod* [Mercury] Stories: *About Us* [Kama Sutra] 10cc: *10cc* [UK] Ike & Tina Turner: *Nutbush City Limits* [United Artists] Tom Waits: *Closing Time* [Asylum] War: *Deliver the Word* [United Artists] Muddy Waters: *Can't Get No Grindin'* [Chess] Johnny Winter: *Still Alive and Well* [Columbia] Paul Winter Consort: *Icarus* [Epic]
B	Gregg Allman: *Laid Back* [Capricorn] Bobby Bland: *His California Album* [ABC/Dunhill] Blue Ash: *No More, No Less* [Mercury] Bread: *The Best of Bread* [Elektra] Toni Brown & Terry Garthwaite: *Cross Country* [Capitol] Jackson Browne: *For Everyman* [Asylum] Jimmy Buffett: *A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean* [ABC/Dunhill] Alice Cooper: *Billion Dollar Babies* [Warner Bros.] Creedence Clearwater Revival: *More Creedence Gold* [Fantasy] Dick Curless: *Live at the Wheeling Truck Drivers Jamboree* [Capitol] Cymande: *Second Time Around* [Janus] Spencer Davis Group: *Gluggo* [Vertigo] Detroit Emeralds: *I'm in Love With You* [Westbound] The Doors: *The Best of the Doors* [Elektra] Faces: *Ooh La La* [Warner Bros.] The First Choice: *Armed and Extremely Dangerous* [Philly Groove] Fleetwood Mac: *Penguin* [Reprise] Kinky Friedman: *Sold American* [Vanguard] Funkadelic: *Cosmic Slop* [Westbound] The J. Geils Band: *Ladies Invited* [Atlantic] Genesis: *Selling England by the Pound* [Charisma] Arlo Guthrie: *Last of the Brooklyn Cowboys* [Reprise] Merle Haggard and the Strangers: *It's Not Love (But It's Not Bad)* [Capitol] Henry Cow: *The Henry Cow Legend* [Virgin] Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks: *Last Train to Hicksville* [Blue Thumb] The Intruders: *Intruders Super Hits* [Gamble] Millie Jackson: *It Hurts So Good* [Spring] Etta James: *Etta James* [Chess] The J.B.'s: *Doing It to Death* [People] Waylon Jennings: *Lonesome, On'ry and Mean* [RCA Victor] Elton John: *Goodbye Yellow Brick Road* [MCA] Syl Johnson: *Back for a Taste of Your Love* [Hi] Carole King: *Fantasy* [Ode] Robert Klein: *Child of the 50's* [Brut] Gladys Knight & the Pips: *Imagination* [Budah] Labelle: *Pressure Cookin'* [RCA Victor] Denise LaSalle: *On the Loose* [Westbound] Roger McGuinn: *Roger McGuinn* [Columbia] Augie Meyers: *You Ain't Rollin Your Roll Rite* [Paramount] NRBQ: *Workshop* [Kama Sutra] The O'Jays: *Ship Ahoy* [Philadelphia International] Dolly Parton: *Bubbling Over* [RCA Victor] The Persuasions: *We Still Ain't Got No Band* [MCA] Pink Floyd: *The Dark Side of the Moon* [Harvest] The Pointer Sisters: *The Pointer Sisters* [Blue Thumb] Elvis Presley: *A Legendary Performer* [RCA Victor] The Raspberries: *Side 3* [Capitol] Clarence Reid: *Running Water* [Alston] Return to Forever Featuring Chick Corea: *Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy* [Polydor] Smokey Robinson: *Smokey* [Tamla] The Rolling Stones: *Goats Head Soup* [Rolling Stones] Roxy Music: *For Your Pleasure* [Reprise] The Son Seals Blues Band: *The Son Seals Blues Band* [Alligator] Bob Seger: *Back in '72* [Palladium/Reprise] Billy Joe Shaver: *Old Five and Dimers Like Me* [Monument] Dusty Springfield: *Cameo* [ABC] Staple Singers: *Be What You Are* [Stax] Sylvia: *Pillow Talk* [Vibration] Tower of Power: *Tower of Power* [Warner Bros.] Ike Turner: *Bad Dreams* [United Artists] Weather Report: *Sweetnighter* [Columbia] Barry White: *I've Got So Much to Give* [20th Century]
B-	The Bonzo Dog Band: *The History of the Bonzos* [United Artists] David Bowie: *Pin-Ups* [RCA Victor] Jimmy Cliff: *Unlimited* [Reprise] Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen: *Country Casanova* [Paramount] Larry Coryell: *The Real Great Escape* [Vanguard] Dennis Coulson: *Dennis Coulson* [Elektra] Charlie Daniels: *Honey in the Rock* [Kama Sutra] Betty Davis: *Betty Davis* [Just Sunshine] The Dells: *The Dells* [Cadet] John Denver: *John Denver's Greatest Hits* [RCA Victor] Earth, Wind & Fire: *Head to the Sky* [Columbia] Frampton's Camel: *Frampton's Camel* [A&M] Aretha Franklin: *Hey Now Hey (the Other Side of the Sky)* [Atlantic] Grand Funk: *We're an American Band* [Capitol] Grateful Dead: *Wake of the Flood* [Arista] Dobie Gray: *Drift Away* [Decca] Grin: *Gone Crazy* [A&M] Daryl Hall & John Oates: *Abandoned Luncheonette* [Atlantic] Isaac Hayes: *Live at the Sahara* [Enterprise] J.B. Hutto & the Hawks: *Slidewinder* [Delmark] Imus in the Morning: *One Sacred Chicken to Go* [RCA Victor] The Isley Brothers: *The Isleys Live* [T-Neck] Michael Jackson: *Music and Me* [Motown] Jo Jo Gunne: *Jumpin' the Gunne* [Asylum] B.B. King: *To Know You Is to Love You* [ABC] King Crimson: *Lark's Tongues in Aspic* [Atlantic] Bonnie Koloc: *Bonnie Koloc* [Ovation] Linda Lewis: *Lark* [Reprise] The Steve Miller Band: *The Joker* [Capitol] Van Morrison: *Hard Nose the Highway* [Warner Bros.] Billy Paul: *360 Degrees of Billy Paul* [Philadelphia International] PG&E: *The Best of PG&E* [Columbia] Alan Price: *O Lucky Man!* [Warner Bros.] Charlie Rich: *Behind Closed Doors* [Epic] Todd Rundgren: *A Wizard/A True Star* [Bearsville] Doug Sahm and Band: *Doug Sahm and Band* [Atlantic] Carlos Santana/Mahavishnu John McLaughlin: *Love Devotion Surrender* [Columbia] Leo Sayer: *Silverbird* [Warner Bros.] Soft Machine: *Six* [Columbia] Ringo Starr: *Ringo* [Apple] The Sweet: *The Sweet* [Bell] Sylvester and the Hot Band: *Sylvester and the Hot Band* [Blue Thumb] Johnnie Taylor: *Taylored in Silk* [Stax] Wendy Waldman: *Love Has Got Me* [Warner Bros.] T-Bone Walker: *Very Rare* [Reprise] Dionne Warwick: *Just Being Myself* [Warner Bros.]
C+	The Atlanta Rhythm Section: *Back Up Against the Wall* [Decca] Bobby Bare: *Lullabys, Legends and Lies* [RCA Victor] Bee Gees: *Best of Bee Gees Vol. 2* [RSO] Bloodstone: *Natural High* [London] Bonnie Bramlett: *Sweet Bonnie Bramlett* [Columbia] The Carpenters: *The Singles 1969-1973* [A&M] Billy Cobham: *Spectrum* [Atlantic] Jim Croce: *I Got a Name* [ABC] Willie Dixon: *Catalyst* [Ovation] Bob Dylan: *Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid* [Columbia] Electric Light Orchestra: *Electric Light Orchestra II* [United Artists] John Entwistle: *John Entwistle's Rigor Mortis Sets In* [Track] Fanny: *Mother's Pride* [Reprise] Free: *Heartbreaker* [Island] The J. Geils Band: *Bloodshot* [Atlantic] Grateful Dead: *Bear's Choice: History of the Grateful Dead (Vol. 1)* [Warner Bros.] Jimi Hendrix: *Sound Track Recordings from the Film "Jimi Hendrix"* [Reprise] The Kinks: *Preservation Act I* [RCA Victor] John Lennon: *Mind Games* [Apple] Matching Mole: *Matching Mole's Little Red Record* [Columbia] Paul McCartney: *Band on the Run* [Apple] Mountain: *The Best of Mountain* [Windfall] Anne Murray: *Danny's Song* [Capitol] Tracy Nelson/Mother Earth: *Poor Man's Paradise* [Columbia] Orleans: *Orleans* [ABC] Quicksilver Messenger Service: *Anthology* [Capitol] Dewey Redman: *The Ear of the Behearer* [Impulse] Jimmy Reed: *I Ain't from Chicago* [Bluesway] Linda Ronstadt: *Don't Cry Now* [Asylum] Space Opera: *Space Opera* [Epic] Spinners: *The Best of the Spinners* [Motown] Status Quo: *Piledriver* [A&M] Stealers Wheel: *Ferguslie Park* [A&M] B.W. Stevenson: *My Maria* [RCA Victor] The Stylistics: *Rockin' Roll Baby* [Avco] The Temptations: *Masterpiece* [Gordy] Neil Young: *Journey Through the Past* [Reprise]
C	Ashford & Simpson: *Gimme Something Real* [Warner Bros.] Beck, Bogert and Appice: *Beck, Bogert and Appice* [Epic] James Brown: *Slaughter's Big Rip-Off* [Polydor] Chicago: *Chicago VI* [Columbia] Gene Clark, Chris Hillman, David Crosby, Roger McGuinn, Michael Clarke: *Byrds* [Asylum] Alice Cooper: *Muscle of Love* [Warner Bros.] Roger Daltrey: *Daltrey* [Track] Ned Doheny: *Ned Doheny* [Asylum] The Eagles: *Desperado* [Asylum] Roberta Flack: *Killing Me Softly* [Atlantic] Garfunkel: *Angel Clare* [Columbia] Merle Haggard and the Strangers: *I Love Dixie Blues* [Capitol] George Harrison: *Living in the Material World* [Apple] Hot Tuna: *The Phosphorescent Rat* [Grunt] Billy Joel: *Piano Man* [Columbia] Sarah Kernochan: *House of Pain* [RCA Victor] The Main Ingredient: *Greatest Hits* [RCA Victor] Dave Mason: *It's Like You Never Left* [Columbia] Curtis Mayfield: *Back to the World* [Curtom] The Mothers: *Over-Nite Sensation* [DiscReet] Andy Pratt: *Andy Pratt* [Columbia] Procol Harum: *Grand Hotel* [Chrysalis] Helen Reddy: *Long Hard Climb* [Capitol] Lou Reed: *Berlin* [RCA Victor] Diana Ross: *Touch Me in the Morning* [Motown] Spooky Tooth: *You Broke My Heart So I Busted Your Jaw* [A&M] Sylvester and the Hot Band: *Bazaar* [Blue Thumb] Chip Taylor: *Last Chance* [Warner Bros.] Livingston Taylor: *Over the Rainbow* [Capricorn] Traffic: *Shoot Out at the Fantasy Factory* [Island]
C-	Art Ensemble of Chicago: *Bap-Tizum* [Atlantic] David Blue: *Nice Baby and the Angel* [Asylum] Capital City Rockets: *Capital City Rockets* [Elektra] Eric Clapton: *Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert* [RSO] Donovan: *Cosmic Wheels* [Epic] Emerson, Lake & Palmer: *Brain Salad Surgery* [Manticore] Dobie Gray: *Loving Arms* [MCA] Dave Mason: *Dave Mason Is Alive* [Blue Thumb] New Riders of the Purple Sage: *The Adventures of Panama Red* [Columbia] Nilsson: *A Little Touch of Schmilsson in the Night* [RCA Victor] Jerry Reed: *Lord, Mr. Ford* [RCA Victor] Seals and Crofts: *Diamond Girl* [Reprise] Rod Stewart/Faces: *Live: Coast to Coast/Overture and Beginners* [Mercury] The Temptations: *1990* [Gordy] Barry White: *Stone Gon'* [20th Century]
D+	Chuck Berry: *Bio* [Chess] Delaney Bramlett: *Some Things Coming* [Columbia] James Brown: *Black Caesar* [Polydor] Harry Chapin: *Short Stories* [Elektra] Bo Diddley: *The London Bo Diddley Sessions* [Chess] Paul McCartney & Wings: *Red Rose Speedway* [Apple] Johnny Nash: *My Merry-Go-Round* [Epic]
D	Cross Country: *Cross Country* [Atco] Cass Elliott: *Don't Call Me Mama Anymore* [RCA Victor] David Frye: *Richard Nixon: A Fantasy* [Buddah] Dory Previn: *Mary C. Brown and the Hollywood Sign* [United Artists] Al Wilson: *Show and Tell* [Bell]
D-	Roger Miller: *Dear Folks Sorry I Haven't Written Lately* [Columbia]
E+	Congress of Wonders: *Sophmoric* [Fantasy] Burt Reynolds: *Ask Me What I Am* [Mercury]
E	Bob Dylan: *Dylan* [Columbia]

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