Forty Favorite Songs of 1973

1. Stevie Wonder Higher Ground  
2. Lynyrd Skynyrd Free Bird  
3. Roberta Flack Killing Me Softly  
4. The Stooges Search and Destroy  
5. Aerosmith Dream On  
6. Jim Croce Bad, Bad Leroy Brown  
7. Little Feat Dixie Chicken  
8. Led Zeppelin D’yer Mak’er 
   
9. Bob Marley & The Wailers Stir It Up  
10. Kool & the Gang Jungle Boogie  
11. Marvin Gaye Let’s Get In On  
12. School House Rock Three is a Magic Number  
13. Tom Waits Ol’ 55  
14. Willie Nelson Whiskey River  
15. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road  
16. Pink Floyd Breathe  
17. Paul Simon Kodachrome  
18. The Allman Brothers Band Ramblin’ Man  
19. T. Rex Born to Boogie  
20. Billy Joel Piano Man  
21. Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band Blinded By the Light  
22. Paul McCartney & Wings Live and Let Die  
23. Steve Miller Band The Joker  
24. Gladys Knight & the Pips Midnight Train to Georgia  
25. Queen Keep Yourself Alive  
26. The Who Cut My Hair  
27. The Isley Brothers Who’s That Lady  
28. Grand Funk Railroad We’re an American Band  
29. Jimmy Buffett Why Don’t We Get Drunk and Screw  
30. Eagles Tequila Sunrise  
31. Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath  
32. Grateful Dead Mississippi Half-step Uptown Toodeloo  
33. Gram Parsons Streets of Baltimore  
34. Bachman-Turner Overdrive Takin’ Care of Business
35. John Prine Sweet Revenge  
36. School House Rock Conjunction Junction  
37. Lou Reed How Do You Think It Feels  
38. ZZ Top La Grange
39. Styx Lady  
40. Tony Orlando and Dawn Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree

Forty Favorite Albums Released in 1973

Believe it or not I've actually heard most of these...

1. Little Feat Dixie Chicken
2. Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy
3. Pink Floyd The Dark Side of the Moon
4. Aerosmith Aerosmith
5. The Who Quadrophenia
6. Tom Waits Closing Time
7. The Allman Brothers Band Brothers and Sisters
8. John Denver John Denver’s Greatest Hits
9. Paul Simon There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
10. Stevie Wonder Innervisions
11. Elton John Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
12. Grateful Dead Wake of the Flood
13. Billy Joel Piano Man
14. Black Sabbath Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
15. T. Rex Tanx
16. Steve Miller Band The Joker 
17. Eagles Desperado 
18. Roxy Music For Your Pleasure
19. Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
20. Bruce Springsteen & the E-Street Band Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J.
21. John Prine Sweet Revenge
22. Gram Parsons GP
23. Willie Nelson Shotgun Willie
24. Foghat Foghat
25. Waylon Jennings Honky Tonk Heroes
26. Lou Reed Berlin
27. Jesus Christ Superstar soundtrack
28. ZZ Top Tres Hombres
29. The Stooges Raw Power
30. Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run 
31. Mike Oldfield Tubular Bells
32. New York Dolls The New York Dolls
33. Genesis Selling England by the Pound
34. Dolly Parton My Tennessee Mountain Home
35. Diana Ross Touch Me in the Morning
36. Neil Diamond Jonathan Livingston Seagull soundtrack
37. Ravi Shankar Ragas
38. Faces Ooh La La
39. Bachman-Turner Overdrive Bachman-Turner Overdrive
40. Ringo Starr Ringo Starr