Jim's Gems: The best of albums from 1975

Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks and David Bowie's Young Americans are two of Jim Comet's 1975 gems.
If 1965 was a landmark year musically and culturally, fast forward 10 years and it’s a dramatically different and bleaker landscape.
That original optimism and hope of the ’60s was a distant memory. The civil rights movement had failed, and the fall of Saigon put the spotlight on the utter futility of the Vietnam war; while, closer to home, the Monasterevin siege dominated the news headlines.