Music: Best Albums of the Year Series: 1970's Vote-Off

Select your 3 (of fewer) favourite albums from the 1970's winners


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Pranzo Oltranzista

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This is so tough....

1. Serge Gainsbourg – L'homme à tête de chou (1976)
2. Dreamies – Auralgraphic Entertainment (1974)
3. John Lennon – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
4. Residents – Meet the Residents (1974)
5. The Beatles – Let It Be (1970)
6. Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)
7. Alice Cooper – Love It to Death (1971)
8. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1970)
9. George Harrison – All Things Must Pass (1970)
10. Smegma – Glamour Girl 1941 (1979)
11. Alice Cooper – Easy Action (1970)
12. The Mothers of Invention – Weasels Ripped My Flesh (1970)
13. Don Bradshaw-Leather – Distance Between Us (1972)

From the poll, I went with Led Zep, which was 7th for me in 1971 only!
 
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Mescaleroman

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Southern Shore
Genesis - The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
John Otway - Deep and Meaningless
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
801 - Listen Now
the Jam - All Mod Cons
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
the Stranglers - Black and White
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material


HM'S -
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Sparks - Kimono My House
the Jam - In the City
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
 

Teemu

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Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
Gram Parsons – Grevious Angel (1974)
Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (1979)
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon (1976)
The Who - Who's Next (1971)
Steely Dan - Aja (1977)
Willie Nelson - Stardust (1978)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
 

Chili

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Jun 10, 2004
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Super tough

from the poll:

Crime of the Century
Led Zeppelin IV
Harvest
(also would have voted for Dark Side of the Moon, Rumours & The Cars album)

Other favorites from the decade (one per band/artist):

Van Morrison-Moondance(1970) *amended*
Genesis-Live (1973)
Alice Cooper-Welcome to my Nightmare (1975)
Bruce Springsteen-Born to Run (1975)
Queen-A Night at the Opera (1975)
Styx-Equinox (1975)
Steve Miller-Fly Like an Eagle (1976)
Dire Straits-Dire Straits (1978)
Al Stewart-Time Passages(1978)
The Police-Regatta de Blanc (1979)
Christopher Cross-Christopher Cross (1979)
 
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Oxbow Lakes

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Can - Future Days
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
The Stooges - Fun House
The B-52s - The B-52s
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo’s Factory
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
Kollaa kestää - Jäähyväiset aseille
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power

Rumours is the best from poll options.
 

kihei

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John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band
The Clash: London Calling
David Bowie: Low
Neil Young: On the Beach
Led Zeppelin: IV
Neil Young: After the Goldrush
Pink Floyd: Animals
Genesis: Selling England by the Pound
Yes: Close to the Edge
Bruce Cockburn: Lord of the Starfields
 

Shareefruck

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Probably my pick for most stacked decade for music.

1. Lick My Decals Off Baby by Captain Beefheart
2. Tago Mago by Can
3. Here Comes the Warm Jets by Brian Eno
4. Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
5. Future Days by Can
6. B*tches Brew by Miles Davis
7. Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.
8. Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
9. Opposite People by Fela Kuti
10. Faust IV by Faust

11. Shiny Beast/Bat Chain Puller by Captain Beefheart
12. Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy by Brian Eno
13. Another Green World by Brian Eno
14. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown by Augustus Pablo
15. Marquee Moon by Television
16. Outside the Dream Syndicate by Tony Conrad & Faust
17. Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich
18. The Return of the Durutti Column by The Durutti Column
19. Neu! by Neu!
20. The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu
21. Faust by Faust

22. Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
23. Animals by Pink Floyd
24. Ege Bamyasi by Can
25. Low by David Bowie
26. Hosianna Mantra by Popol Vuh
27. Third by Soft Machine
28. Entertainment! by Gang of Four
29. Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
30. Neu!75 by Neu!
 
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Ouroboros

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Tangerine Dream - Zeit [1972] [Ambient/Space Ambient]
John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice) [1973] [American Primitivism]
Iannis Xenakis - Persepolis [Groupe de Recherches Musicales] [1971] [Electroacoustic/Drone]
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality [1971] [Metal]
Popul Vuh - In Den Gärten Pharaos [1971] [Ambient]

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra [1974] [Ambient/Space Ambient]
Harry Partch - Delusion Of The Fury [Ensemble Of Unique Instruments/Mitchell] [1971] [Modern Classical]
Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 [1972] [Metal]
John Fahey - America [1971] [American Primitivism]
Olivier Messiaen - Quatuor Pour La Fin Du Temps [Tashi] [1976] [Modern Classical]
Franz Liszt - Late Piano Music [Ernő Szegedi] [1978] [Compilation] [Romantic-era Classical]

Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel [1971] [Krautrock/Psych Rock]
Bernard Parmegiani - De Natura Sonorum [1978] [Musique Concrète/Electroacoustic/Drone]
Vincent le Masne and Bertarnd Porquet - Guitares Dérive [1976] [Avant-Folk/Minimalism]
Ștefan Niculescu - Ison I; Echos; Ison II [Ars Nova/Taranu] [1978] [Spectralism]
Per Nørgård - Iris; Voyage Into The Golden Screen [DR Symfoniorkestret/Blomstedt] [1973] [Spectralism]

Lino Capra Vaccina - Antico Adagio [1978] [Minimalism]
Black Sabbath - Sabotage [1975] [Metal]
Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri [1971] [Ambient/Space Ambient]
Tangerine Dream - Rubycon [1975] [Ambient/Space Ambient]
Erik Satie - Vexations [Reinbert de Leeuw] [1976] [Modern Classical/Minimalism]
Television - Marquee Moon [1977] [Punk/Post-Punk]
Robbie Basho - Visions Of The Country [1978] [American Primitivism/Avant-Folk]
King Crimson - Red [1974] [Prog Rock]
Black Sabbath - Paranoid [1970] [Metal]
 

frisco

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I'll list ten by I can't put them in order:

Day At The Races-Queen
News Of The World-Queen
The Pretender-Jackson Browne
Double Vision-Foreigner
L.A. Woman-The Doors
Darkness On The Edge Of Town-Bruce Springsteen
Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)-Elvis Presley
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack-Bee Gees and various
Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes-Jimmy Buffett
Parallel Lines-Blondie

My Best-Carey
 

Puck

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Still a crime that Carole King's Tapestry (1971) never made the list.

(so many good choices in the list that made it though, hard to pick 3)
 
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MakeTheGoalsLarger

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1. NEVERMIND THE BOLLOCKS HERE'S THE sex PisTOLs
2. Styx - The Grand Illusion
3.The Who - Who's Next
4. David Bowie - ...Ziggy Stardust...
5.Queen - The Game
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
 

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