[After losing what little progress in functioning I've made in the last week with the Abraxas post,] I'll be blunt: if there aren't at least links to tunes off of albums, I don't have the functioning to go looking for nominees. So for those not embedding either YouTube, or a link to an audio-only source, if I haven't heard what you are nominating yet, I won't before voting.
I suspect there are others who, for different reasons, won't bother looking if not presented with
SOMEthing as a sample. [Which is why I went back and figured out the problem I was having with the embedding for
Abraxas on the first page.]
But please present some deep tracks from your selections. Everyone knows the hits, it is the deeper stuff that makes these albums (mine at least in particular) classics.
I agree with the sentiment on "deep tracks", as I often think the 'non-hits' are the better music on albums. And, if the 'non-hits' are thought worthless by the listener, basically the album is also.
However I disagree with the "Everyone knows the hits"; I've gone out of my way to not listen to 'Top 20' stations, or even mainstream radio since I was probably 13 or so. [WXRT in the 70s and early 80s (when it still played the unusual) in Chicago, WDET in the late 80s-to-whenever-Ann-Delisi-left in the Detroit area.] My musical taste seldom crosses paths with mainstream music. So for many artists I've never heard the 'hits'; for quite a few, I've never heard anything by them.