TIGHTEN UP
A list again; another year-end clearance. Not really a Ten Best List because that sounds more authoritative and hard-nosed definitive than I care to be. These are, in junior high terms, just records I liked a lot in 1973, listed in no particular order because that didn't seem important this year.
TIGHTEN UP
by
Vine Aletti
So Glad We Made It! Here's How.
A list again; another year-end clearance. Not really a Ten Best List because that sounds more authoritative and hard-nosed definitive than I care to be. These are, in junior high terms, just records I liked a lot in 1973, listed in no particular order because that didn't seem important this year. Following the first ten, an overflow second ten and a few singles as obsessive footnotes. Very thorough this year.
Innervisions (Stevie Wonder) Wonder's most accomplished and ambitious work to date. Pardon me while I throw around the word "genius." Teach, Stevie.
Fresh (Sly and the Family Stone) God knows what Sly is getting at these days, but he's shaken off some of the heaviness of There's a Riot Goin" On and danced a few steps back from the abyss. In concert, he still seems to be preparing for the final leap, but here he's surprisingly frisky.