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Song of the Day #5,423: ‘Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)’ – Pink Floyd

Continuing my look at 1975, first by counting down my own top albums of that year.

#2 – Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here

It might be nostalgia that has this album so high on this list, but who am I to argue with nostalgia? After all, as Mad Men‘s Don Draper famously said, nostalgia is a “twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone.”

Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here is the album I most associate with my high school years. And like Draper’s slide carousel, the album is a time machine. It teleports me back into the body of a 16-year-old kid bonding with new friends over old music.

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Song of the Day #5,422: ‘Landslide’ – Fleetwood Mac

Continuing my look at 1975, first by counting down my own top albums of that year.

#3 – Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac

Fleetwood Mac’s self-titled album was the band’s tenth release but the first with the legendary lineup that would propel them to superstardom.

Lindsay Buckingham and Stevie Nicks joined current band members Mick Fleetwood and John and Christine McVie, bringing along some great compositions (‘Rhiannon,’ ‘I’m So Afraid,’ ‘Monday Morning’) and their prodigious guitar/vocal skills.

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Song of the Day #5,421: ‘Gone at Last’ – Paul Simon

Continuing my look at 1975, first by counting down my own top albums of that year.

#4 – Paul Simon – Still Crazy After All These Years

Paul Simon’s fourth solo album, and third since the breakup of Simon & Garfunkel, was the highpoint of the 15 years following the duo’s split.

Coming on the heels of 1973’s excellent There Goes Rhymin’ Simon, Still Crazy gave Simon his first (and only) #1 album as a soloist and produced two of his most enduring classics: the title track and ’50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.’

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Song of the Day #5,420: ‘Thunder Road’ – Bruce Springsteen

Grab your tie-dye and bell bottoms because we’ll be spending the next month exploring the albums of 1975, in the latest installment of the Decades series. I’ve covered the first five years of the 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s and now I’m wrapping back around to focus on the middle year of each decade.

As usual, I’ll start by counting down my personal favorite albums from the year then highlight some of the critically and commercially popular releases with which I’m less familiar.

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