Late for the Sky
Artist: Jackson Browne
Community Score: 10.00

On his third album, Jackson Browne returned to the themes of his debut record (love, loss, identity, apocalypse) and, amazingly, delved even deeper into them. "For a Dancer," a meditation on death like the first album's "Song for Adam," is a more eloquent eulogy; "Farther On" extends the "moving on" point of "Looking Into You"; "Before the... Read More

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits, Vol. 2
Artist: Bob Dylan
Community Score: 7.00
Greatest Hits
Artist: Joe South
A Gathering of Flowers
Artist: The Mamas & the Papas

One of the best anthologies of the Mamas and the Papas, A Gathering of Flowers was put together immediately after the group's demise, and gives the listener an excellent overview of one of the most revolutionary and appealing groups to emerge from the folk-rock era. Although it may seem slim at first, with only 20 tracks spread out over two LPs,... Read More

Outlaw Superman
Artist: Kim Fowley

Even if the name Kim Fowley doesn't immediately ring a bell, the average listener has probably heard his most popular early productions -- "Alley Oop" by the Hollywood Argyles, and "Nut Rocker" by B. Bumble and the Stingers. Outlaw Superman is a sampling of some of the bizarre singles Fowley has released on small labels over the years. If the... Read More

Charity Ball
Artist: Fanny
Community Score: 10.00

With guitar and piano riffs buoyed by a pulsing bassline, the "Charity Ball" title track opens this second Reprise disc for the Millington sisters June and Jean, along with their bandmates, keyboard/vocalist Nickey Barclay and drummer Alice de Buhr. Produced by Richard Perry, who would hit later with the Pointer Sister's "I'm So Excited" and... Read More

Déjà Vu
Artist: Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Community Score: 8.85

One of the most hotly awaited second albums in history -- right up there with those by the Beatles and the Band -- Déjà Vu lived up to its expectations and rose to number one on the charts. Those achievements are all the more astonishing given the fact that the group barely held together through the estimated 800 hours it took to record Déjà Vu... Read More

Greatest Hits - 1974
Artist: Sonny & Cher

This 16-track compilation brings together all the hits and important tracks from the second stage of success from the careers of Sonny and Cher. In signing with Kapp Records in 1970, Bono finally allowed an outside producer, in this case hitmaker "Snuff" Garrett, to assume the creative reigns. In doing so, he also got the duo back on the charts... Read More

Greatest Hits
Artist: Simon & Garfunkel
Community Score: 7.80

This album was released within weeks of the duo getting back together for a benefit concert at Madison Square Garden on behalf of George McGovern's 1972 presidential campaign. Simon & Garfunkel's work had never been compiled before, but their albums were still selling so well as catalog items that this record should have been superfluous.... Read More

Songs for Beginners
Artist: Graham Nash
Community Score: 10.00

This wonderful album, recorded with help from an all-star crew including David Crosby, Neil Young, Dave Mason, and Rita Coolidge, may not be the best solo record to come out of the CSNY orbit (Neil Young has it beat), but it is the most charming and genial. Like Graham Nash's "Marakesh Express" and "Teach Your Children," it inevitably brings a... Read More

Tupelo Honey
Artist: Van Morrison
Community Score: 8.85

Tupelo Honey is typical of Van Morrison's early-'70s work in both sound and structure; after dispensing with the requisite hit -- here, the buoyant, R&B-inflected "Wild Night" -- he truly gets down to business, settling into a luminously pastoral drift typified by the nostalgic "Old Old Woodstock." At the heart of the record are a pair of... Read More

Ladies of the Canyon
Artist: Joni Mitchell
Community Score: 7.38
Gather Me
Artist: Melanie
Community Score: 10.00

Melanie's most accomplished and best produced studio album, containing the hits "Brand New Key" and "Ring the Living Bell." ~ Bruce Eder, All Music Guide Read More

Take Me Home, Country Roads & Other Hits
Artist: John Denver
So Far
Artist: Crosby, Stills & Nash
Community Score: 5.67

Unbeknown to most fans, So Far was a stopgap release, undertaken by Atlantic Records in the absence of a new Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young album to accompany the reunited quartet's summer 1974 tour. At the time, the members thought it was ridiculous to release a greatest-hits/best-of compilation distilled down from two in-print LPs plus the... Read More

I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties
Artist: Walter Cronkite

A double-CD of sound bites from speeches, press conferences, broadcasts and the like from the 1960s, narrated by famed newscaster Walter Cronkite (who wrote and edited the album with Fred Friendly). Note that the history documented on I Can Hear It Now/The Sixties is very much that of the 1960s in the United States. There's some coverage of... Read More