Best Albums 1970-1974
 

Okay since the 80s was very hard to narrow down Seltzer and I decided we'd split the decades in half and see how that goes. If it doesn't work out we'll just merge the two. So nominate your favorite albums from 1970-74!

My Nominations:
The Beach Boys "Sunflower"
The Beatles "Let It Be"
Big Star "#1 Record"
Big Star "Radio City"
Bob Dylan "New Morning"
George Harrison "All Things Must Pass"
Joni Mitchell "Blue"
Linda Perhacs "Parallelograms"
Nick Drake "Bryter Layter"
Nick Drake "Pink Moon"
Vashti Bunyan "Just Another Diamond Day"

David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust/ The Man Who Sold The World.
Pink Floyd-Meddle.
Barclay James Harvest-Once again.
Marvin ***e-What's Going On?
Stevie Wonder-Innervisions.
Tangerine Dream-Phaedra.
Faust-IV.
Jethro Tull-Aqualung.
Frank Zappa-Weasels Ripped My Flesh.
Fela Kuti-Shakara.
John Martyn-Solid Air.

Can - Tago Mago
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Can - Future Days
The Stooges - Funhouse
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Frank Zappa - Weasel's Ripped My Flesh
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Faust - IV
Neu! - s/t
Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
Amon Duul II - Yeti
Flower Travellin' Band - Satori (original release)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Soft Machine - Third
Henry Cow - Unrest
Ash Ra Temple - Schwingungen
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Brainticket - Psychonaut
The Residents - Meet The Residents
Herbie Hanco'ck - Head Hunters
King Crimson - Starless and Bible Black

^^
Wish You Were Here was 1975 fella, but how could I forget Sabbath? Good call.

I think Wish You Were Here is from 1975...
Anyway my list is:

Derek and the Dominos-Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
Led Zeppelin-III
Led Zeppelin-IV
The Doors-LA Woman
The Who-Who's Next
Pink Floyd-The Dark Side of the Moon
Lynyrd Skynyrd-(pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
Bruce Springsteen-The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle
Neil Young-After the Gold Rush
Pink Floyd-Meddle

James Brown - Super Bad
Curtis Mayfield - Roots / Superfly
T-Rex - Electric Warrior
Mountain - Flowers of Evil
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
Hawkwind - In Search Of Space / Space Ritual
Sly & The Family Stone - There's A Riot Goin On / Fresh
New York Dolls - S/T
Alice Cooper - Love It To Death / Billion Dollar Babies
Roxy Music - S/T / For Your Pleasure
Miles Davis - Live-Evil
John Cale - Paris 1919
Stevie Wonder - Talking Book / Innervisions
Kraftwerk - Autobahn
Sparks - Kimono My House
Rolling Stones - Get Yer YaYa's Out / Exile On Main Street

MB's Top 100 Albums of the 70-74 - Rate Your Music

There's the list for those of you that want to keep tabs on the progress. I've added everything so far and through on a few others as well.

This is sad guys.

Red-King Crimson

Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash
King Crimson - Lizard
Led Zeppelin - III
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Led Zeppelin - IV
Comus - First Utterance (everyone needs to listen to this, PM me ;) )
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jethro Tull - Thick as A Brick
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Capability Brown - From Scratch (Again PM)
Genesis - Foxtrot
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Capability Brown - Voice (PM Again)
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Magma - Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (with all the symbols right)
Camel - Camel
Frank Zappa - ' (Apostrophe)
Queen - Sheer Heart Attack

Why can't more of you be like Comus guys


EDIT: Or Urban or GravitySlips or Jackhammer.

What the hell, page must not have fully loaded, never saw the rest of the posts, would have edited out some of the albums already mentioned.

EDIT: You have Henry Cow's unrest there but not their masterpiece Leg End from 1973?

err Ziggy Stardust anyone??????????????

It's already there.

Also, just discovered First Utterance is overall 13th for 1971 on RYM.

I added it now.

errrr no it isnt

aladdin sane is

Look at number 12.

#12

Beat me to it Crowquill.

no i meant no one here mentioned it on their replies

i dotn give a toss about the article link u posted

It was the first album jackhammer mentioned.

See it now?

EDIT: again beat me to it.

This is a good post CQ !
 

I like to hear all of the different responses from people that live in different parts of the U.S, Britian, Canada, etc. Being asked the same question over, What their favorie album, song, etc. Is? (From a cetain era & style in music history). A few of my picks would be.. 'Bad Company'- 'Good Lovin Gone Bad'. all of Yes's, individual artists solos. Anderson, Wakeman, Squire. And of course, originals by the band 'YES' itself. Rush's 2112, etc. Was a major contribution to that era of music. But Rush's ('Caress Of Steel') was by far, My favorite Rush Album. 70s Soul music was an era of Funk! at its best. The progression from the 60s to 70s soul produced some of the great bassist of today.'Undeniable Respect'. Which resulted with a decade of pure Soul/Funk, -[In my personal opinion]-. (Sorry to get off the main subject, Album & Artist. A habit with the ability to perform two things at the same time). Other picks of mine, would be.(Queen, Steely Dan, ZZ Top's - Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers, & Waitin On The Bus. Led Zep, Aerosmith-('Get Your Wings'), Earth,Wind & Fire's - 'The Way Of The World', The Jackson Five, & so many more... Was 'Frampton Live' released between, 70 & 74.? Not sure how many bands metioned, Actually fall within the yrs. of, 70 & 74?_______(From 1972...Turn The Page-Bob Seger).

ah yeah, that should've been on mine but i forgot. great album.

I second:
Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
Led Zeppelin III
Black Sabbath - paranoid
King Krimson - Red
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust

And add

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
Yes - Fragile
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon

Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire De Melody Nelson (1971)

Y'all must add this. Great album.

Updated, c'mon everyone else! I know we all know more albums than this.

EDIT: I added 25 albums to the end of the list.

Yes - The Yes Album

nice.

I've got to hear Leg End by Henry Cow...if it's better than Unrest then it's gonna be sweet as.

want it upped?

yeah that'd be sweet, thanks.

Upping now.

I would have voted for this if I had it *cough*

http://www.avantfolk.org/view/img/reviews/disco167.jpg

MB's Top 100 Albums of the 70-74 - Rate Your Music

EDIT: Okay, now Seltzer, Wayfarer and I are going to start editing it.

Haha, I have many to add. This is just my first list:

Camel - Mirage
Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
Caravan - For Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night
Gentle Giant - In A Glass House
Genesis - Selling England By the Pound
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
David Bowie - Hunky Dory

EDIT: Second list:

Gong - You
Gong - Angel's Egg
Yes - Close to the Edge
Pentangle - Cruel Sister
Deep Purple - In Rock
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Between Nothingness and Eternity
Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock - Thrust



There should probably be some Van Morrison up there because I've heard nothing but stellar comments about his early 70s material. But I haven't listened to the albums myself, so I'm not suggesting them yet. Just putting it out there... maybe someone has listened to them?

EDIT 2: Got rid of some unknown albums like Fuzzy Duck's S/T and the doubles.

I put some of his up there and I've listened to them. I doubt they'll all make it on the final list but I think Veedon Fleece is top 100 worthy.

Not enough prog, also *puts up hand* I wanna help editing the list :D?

Let me add you to MSN now and invite you into the chat.

Ok, we have it down to 116 unordered albums. We're going to look at getting rid of some krautrock because we have loads on there... 2 Can albums, Amon Duul, Faust, Neu!, Ash Ra Tempel, Cluster, Kraftwerk... Might shave off a couple of other prog albums too.

Long as you keep the Serge Gainsbourg album in there somewhere, I'm a happy man!

Damn it, MSN doesn't work on Macs! Ah well. Moondance?