Diamonds and rust - Joan Baez (1975)

Nothing JB ever wrote was as inspired as this. Especially strong knowing that this is about Bob Dylan. The opening guitar intro has a really special tone and the opening line 'Well I'll be damned here comes your ghost again' hooked me immediately. I never heard this until many years after it's release and I wonder sometimes what else is as good as this and is out there undiscovered.  “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” and this is both.

Sister Golden Hair - America (1975)

America does pop to my great surprise at the time and sure I wasn't ready for the altar but women certainly were friends of mine. Often too I was depressed and would get up only to go back to bed but not on Sunday though usually on a Monday. And yes my sister had golden hair but that was no surprise and any way I don't know what that had to do with it. 

Wildfire - Michael Murphey (1975)

I wish there was a way of describing music phrases. I can hear it in my head, its the bit that goes like ...oh damn! there are no words!...it's like an echoing call in the wild. If you know this song you know it. Well, the first time I heard this song it sucked me in and I was hooked. Then after that I realised it was about a horse, a bit of a come down (not that there is anything wrong with horses, lol). Not entirely of course, as the image someone running in the night in the wild looking for a horse still captivates.

Bohemian rhapsody - Queen (1975)

This is the closest I'll come to liking opera. Stunning arrangement (I'll allow myself this superlative), with Freddy's voice in great form. The drama of the young boy and his mother losing his son closely contoured by the wailing guitar and then Freddy declaring that 'nothing really matters...at all' is something to choke with. The original video clip was pretty good too.

At Seventeen - Janis Ian (1975)

On the other hand...

Could this chick really be ugly? She thought so when she wrote 'Seventeen' and I thought that was the coolest thing I ever heard. At seventeen (or thereabouts) myself I immediately secretly drew designs on her, the knight in armour who didn't think she was ugly. And she could play a mean guitar to boot! What a dream!.