singer-songwriting with fine, detailed lyricsJONI MITCHELL: Hejira (1976) Classic
set to open-tuned guitars and the fretlessbass of Jaco Pastorius.(1974) Music as melting ice cream. If MORTHE CARPENTERS: The Singles 1969-73
songwriting is your aim, these people wrotethe textbook on smooth production.QUEEN: Queen II (1974) Their second albumshows the progressive champs of multi-track
overdubbing madness hitting their stride andstretching song structures. The level of
astonishing. And who else but Mercuryarrangement detail on this record is
could have made so quintessentially Englisha rock song as 'The Fairy Feller's Master
Stroke', named after a Victorian painting?