1973 Songs: The Beginning of a New Era

You could probably pick any year and see a pattern in the new music that appeared...but against the backdrop of eternal significance, I'd still recommend the year I graduated from high school--1973--as the most meaningful.

Feel free to disagree but here are the songs you're up against that released during the later part of my senior year in high school, up there in the innocence of upstate New York:

Freebird  Lynard Sknyrd
Money  Pink Floyd
Angie   Rolling Stones
Desperado  Eagles and Glen Fry RIP
Piano Man   Billy Joel
Kodachrome   Paul Simon
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road--Elton John
Knocking on Heaven's Door  Bob Dylan

And wait...the new world beginning...Rosalita   Bruce Springsteen

Rambling Man   Allman Brothers
Killing Me Softly   Roberta Flack
Smoke on the Water (late '72)  Deep Purple
Walk on the Wild Side (late 72)   Lou Reed

This was also the year that hosted Roe v Wade, the first fuel crisis, and the kickoff for Watergate.   Change was in the air--and perhaps that's why my friends and I launched into the larger world in June 1973 with a feeling anything was possible.   We certainly had the soundtrack for it...