Music: Name your Top 10 Seventies Albums by 10 different Artists

[Elvis P]

Name your Top 10 Seventies Albums. Please make them by 10 different Artists.

1. (tie) Amazing Grace - Aretha Franklin. An amazing gospel album. I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You) is amazing also, but it's from 67.
1. (tie) Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
3. Exile on Main St - Stones. Sticky Fingers is my 2nd choice by them.
4. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
5. Blue - Joni Mitchell
6. Born to Run - Bruce Springsteen
7. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
8. Aja - Steely Dan
9. Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young
10. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

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[Teemu]

1. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
2. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
3. Pink Floyd - The Wall
4. Television - Marquee Moon
5. Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
6. Steely Dan - Aja
7. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
8. The Who - Quadrophenia
9. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
10. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

 

[reckoning]

1. Blue - Joni Mitchell
2. Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
3. Darkness On The Edge Of Town - Bruce Springsteen
4. Exile On Main Street - Rolling Stones
5. Dreamboat Annie - Heart
6. Blood On The Tracks - Bob Dylan
7. The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
8. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
9. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
10. The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust.... - David Bowie

 

[The Nuge]

Quick list. I’ve got to figure out an order

Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols - Sex Pistols
Bat Out of Hell - Meatloaf
A Night at the Opera - Queen
Raw Power - The Stooges
Machine Head - Deep Purple
Van Halen - Van Halen
Paranoid - Black Sabath
Highway to Hell - AC/DC
Toys in the Attic - Aerosmith
LA Woman - The Doors

 

[Fantomas]

I have probably forgotten a few.

Bitches Brew - Miles Davis
Fun House - Stooges
Honky Chateau - Elton John
Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh - Magma
Red - King Crimson
Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Alien Soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith
Western Culture - Henry Cow
The Man-Machine - Kraftwerk

 

[Shareefruck]

1. Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno
2. Lick My Decals Off Baby by Captain Beefheart
3. Tago Mago by Can
4. Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
5. Marquee Moon by Television
6. Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.
7. Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
8. Music For 18 Musicians by Steve Reich
9. Third by Soft Machine
10. Animals by Pink Floyd

 

[kihei]

Yikes

John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band
The Clash: London Calling
David Bowie: Low
Led Zeppelin: IV
Neil Young: On the Beach
Mick Taylor: Mick Taylor
Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow
Yes: Close to the Edge
Wishbone Ash: New England
Bruce Cockburn: Lord of the Starfields

 

[Gordon Lightfoot]

1. Public Image Limited - Metal Box
2. Willie Nelson - Phases & Stages
3. Television - Marquee Moon
4. Ramones - Leave Home
5. King Crimson - Red
6. The Fall - Dragnet
7. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
8. Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
9. Can - Tago Mago
10. T Rex - The Slider

HM: Any of the first three Wire albums, first Devo album, Black Sabbath’s Paranoid or Master of Reality, any of the Eno “pop” albums, couple Gordon Lightfoot albums.

 

[davemess]

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Bob Dylan - Desire
Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
The Band - The Last Waltz
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes

 

[Mimsy]

The Beatles -- Let it Be (feels like cheating with this choice, as it was a late release. Technically, it's a 70s album)

Cat Stevens -- Teaser and the Firecat (toss up with Tea for the Tillerman)

The Cure -- Three Imaginary Boys

Linda Ronstadt -- Silk Purse (HM: Heart Like a Wheel)

The Police -- Reggatta de Blanc

Pink Floyd -- The Wall

John Lennon -- Imagine

Tom Waits -- Closing Time

David Bowie -- Hunky Dory

Led Zeppelin -- Houses of the Holy

HM: Star Wars score (not now, but back in the day), Queen, Rush, Grease soundtrack (never sat through the film)

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

In no particular order...

Boston - Boston

Bowie - Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust

Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti

The Clash - London Calling

Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

 

[Bubba Thudd]

Nearly impossible...but here's albums that came out in the 70s that I probably listened to the most, back in the '70s
(in no particular order)

Led Zeppelin -- IV
Black Sabbath -- Paranoid, Master of Reality
Pink Floyd -- The Wall, Dark Side of the Moon, Animals
Rush -- 2112, Fly By Night, Caress of Steel
Judas Priest -- Sad Wings Of Destiny, Sin After Sin
Van Halen -- Van Halen
Fleetwood Mac -- Rumours, "The White Album"
The Who -- Quadrophenia
Aerosmith -- Toys in the Attic, Rocks, Get Your Wings
KISS -- Destroyer, Rock & Roll Over

 

[Jack Straw]

Not in order:

Europe '72 (Grateful Dead)
Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
The Wall (Pink Floyd)
Seventh Sojourn (Moody Blues)
London Calling (The Clash)
Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan)
Who's Next (The Who)
Excitable Boy (Warren Zevon)
At Fillmore East (Allman Brothers)
Born to Run (Springsteen)

Honorable mention: Scheherazade and Other Stories (Renaissance), Late for the Sky (Jackson Browne)

 

[Mikeaveli]

1. CAN - Tago Mago
2. Eno - Another Green World
3. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
4. Herbie Hancock - Sextant
5. David Bowie - "Heroes"
6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
7. John Lennon - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
8. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
9. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
10. Sun Ra - Lanquidity

 

[Elvis P]

Your lists were simply amazing. By the time I read the 3rd post after mine and saw some of The Nuge's great picks such as Van Halen - Van Halen, Paranoid - Black Sabbath, and Highway to Hell - AC/DC, I had to give up. There's no way I can fit all the great 70s albums into a top 10 list. Thanks for posting!

 

[The Nuge]

Your lists were simply amazing. By the time I read the 3rd post after mine and saw some of The Nuge's great picks such as Van Halen - Van Halen, Paranoid - Black Sabbath, and Highway to Hell - AC/DC, I had to give up. There's no way I can fit all the great 70s albums into a top 10 list. Thanks for posting!

That’s the tough part about top 10 lists. I listen to rock and rap, so I know the 70s music I like isn’t necessarily what’s going to make most top 10 lists, and I had a hard enough time trying to narrow mine down to 10, let alone trying to factor in other top albums

 

[Bubba Thudd]

Your lists were simply amazing. By the time I read the 3rd post after mine and saw some of The Nuge's great picks such as Van Halen - Van Halen, Paranoid - Black Sabbath, and Highway to Hell - AC/DC, I had to give up. There's no way I can fit all the great 70s albums into a top 10 list. Thanks for posting!

Ah hells bells, I forgot AC/DC & Ted Nugent. I wore some of their albums out!

 

[Belieber]

I just do Exile on Main Street on repeat 10 times

LA Woman and Rumours are incredible though.

 

[frisco]

Not in order:

The World Of Johnny Cash-Johnny Cash
L.A. Woman-The Doors
Darkness On The Edge Of Town-Bruce Springsteen
Infinity-Journey
Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes-Jimmy Buffett
Double Vision-Foreigner
The Pretender-Jackson Browne
A Day At The Races-Queen
Main Course-Bee Gees
Hotel California-Eagles

My Best-Carey

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

This has been pretty tough, except for #1, no contest for me.

1) L'homme à la tête de chou - Serge Gainsbourg
2) John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
3) If Looks Could Kill - Jim French with Galas & Kaiser
4) Easy Action - Alice Cooper (this one's pretty tough, a couple of great little known albums to choose from)
5) Weasels Ripped my Flesh - The Mothers of Invention
6) Aerial Pandemonium Ballet - Harry Nilsson
7) All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
8) Maggot Brain - Funkadelic
9) The Faust Tapes - Faust
10) Ram - Paul McCartney

Kind of a Beatles fan, yeah. I guess the only way #1 could have been taken down is by an ultimate Beatles album including the best songs from #2-7-10. Songs of Love and Hate by Leonard Cohen would probably be #11. Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass is an album I have huge respect for but that I really couldn't listen to much...

Alice Cooper is probably the most underrated american musician. I guess his hard rock kitsch from the mid-80s and so on cast an unfavourable shadow on his amazing early work.

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome
Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
Sly and the Family Stone - Fresh
Fela Kuti - Opposite People
Yabby You - Conquering Lion
Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out
Augustus Pablo - King Tubby's Meets Rockers Uptown
Iggy and the Stooges - Raw Power
John Coltrane - Interstellar Space

 

[Dipsy Doodle]

Lick My Decals Off Baby by Captain Beefheart

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby

 

[Hockey Outsider]

Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Camel - Mirage
Deep Purple - Machine Head
King Crimson - Red
Led Zeppelin - IV
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Pink Floyd - Animals
The Who - Quadrophenia
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Yes - Close to the Edge

If live albums count, Thin Lizzy's "Live and Dangerous" probably makes the top ten.

 

[peate]

I went through the thread and almost everyone picked at least one of my favorites. There's too many others for me to remember, but throw in a few Québecois albums and that's about it.

Led Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin

Fleetwood Mac -- Rumours

Steely Dan - Aja

The Kick Inside - Kate Bush

A Night at the Opera - Queen

Jeff Beck: Blow by Blow

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon

John Lennon -- Imagine

At Fillmore East (Allman Brothers)

L.A. Woman-The Doors

 

[Sombastate]

10. The Talking Heads- Fear of Music
09. The Rolling Stones- Some Girls
08. Paul McCartney and Wings- Band on the Run
07. The Clash- London Calling
06. Bruce Springsteen- Born To Run
05. Elton John- Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
04. Michael Jackson- Off the Wall
03. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
02. Billy Joel- The Stranger
01. David Bowie- Young Americans