Essential Films of 1973

Favorites

American Graffiti
Enter the Dragon
Mean Streets
Soylent Green
The Sting

Honorable mention

The Exorcist

A special category of one

The Wicker Man - I have nightmares. Absolutely terrifying.

All ages-ish

Robin Hood
The World’s Greatest Athlete

To see:

Charlotte’s Web

Guilty pleasures

coming soon

Holiday

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Want to see

Amarcord
Andrei Rublev
Badlands
Day for Night
Day of the Jackal
Don’t Look Now
Enter the Dragon
High Plains Drifter
The Last Detail
The Long Goodbye
My Name is Nobody (Il mid nome e Nessuno)
The Paper Chase
Paper Moon
Papillon
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Serpico
Sleeper
Westworld
Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars

Not worth the time

coming soon

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Essential music of 1973

Albums

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Honorable mention

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The songs you gotta hear

  1. Candle in the Wind - Elton John

  2. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

  3. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

  4. The Joker - Steve Miller

  5. Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting - Elton John

Overrated and/or underwhelming

coming soon

1973 Playlists by month

January

  1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John

February

  1. Yesterday Once More - the Carpenters

March

  1. Bennie and the Jets - Elton John

  2. Dirty Little Girl - Elton John

April

  1. Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting - Elton John

May

  1. Free Bird - Lynyrd Skynyrd

  2. The Joker - Steve Miller

June

  1. Crocodile Rock - Elton John

  2. Your Sister Can’t Twist (But She Can Rock ‘n’ Roll) - Elton John

July

  1. Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin

  2. Ramblin’ Man - The Allman Brothers Band

August

September

  1. Candle in the Wind - Elton John

October

  1. coming soon

November

  1. coming soon

December

  1. coming soon

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