Best 70's albums

[captainofbeef]

List your top 10 albums of the 70's.

[satantangofan]

In no particular order & from the top of my head:

Never Mind the Bollocks here's the Sex Pistols (the Pistols)
Dark Side of the Moon (The Floyd)
Wish you were here (The Floyd)
Secondhand Daylight (Magazine)
Closing Time (Tom Waits)
Small Change (Tom Waits)
Blood on the Tracks (Dylan)
Taxi Driver OST (Bernard Hermann)
Chairs Missing (Wire)
Return of the Durutti Column (Durutti Column)

There's a shitload more of course.

[captainofbeef]

I cant even think about making this list yet.

[captainofbeef]

My top 10
1. Born to Run- Bruce Springsteen
2. Darkside of the Moon- Pink Floyd
3. Led Zeppelin IV
4. Who's Next- The Who
5. Physical Graffitti- Led Zeppelin
6. Wish You Were Here- Pink Floyd
7. Exile on Main Street- The Rolling Stones
8. Let it Be- The Beatles
9. Paranoid- Black Sabbath
10. A Night at the Opera- Queen

[agentknight]

These lists have made me want to expand my music taste a lot. I only have two albums from the '70s, The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. Not good!

[PTAhole]

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1. The Clash- London Calling
2. The Beatles- Let it Be
3. Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy
4. Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run
5. The Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bullocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

[captainofbeef]

I think I'll do this for every decade:
1970
1. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin III
2. The Who- Live at Leeds
3. Black Sabbath- Paranoid
4. Creedence Clearwater Revival- Cosmo's Factory
5. Neil Young- After the Gold Rush
6. Band of Gypsys- Band of Gypsys
7. Miles Davis- Bitches Brew
8. John Lennon- Plastic Ono Band
9. Derek and the Dominoes- Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
10. Black Sabbath- Black Sabbath

1971
1. The Who- Who's Next
2. The Allman Brothers Band- At Fillmore East
3. David Bowie- Hunky Dory
4. Marvin Gaye- What's Goin' On
5. Pink Floyd- Meddle
6. The Rolling Stones- Sticky Fingers
7. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
8. Yes- Fragile
9. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin IV
10. Jethro Tull- Aqualung

1972
1. The Rolling Stones- Exile On Mainstreet
2. The Allman Brothers Band- Eat A Peach
3. David Bowie- The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
4. Frank Zappa- The Grand Wazoo
5. Steely Dan- Can't Buy A Thrill
6, Deep Purple- Machine Head
7. Neil Young- Harvest
8. Stevie Wonder- Talking Book
9. Frank Zappa- Waka/Jawaka
10. Nick Drake- Pink Moon

1973
1. Pink Floyd- Dark Side of the Moon
2. Led Zeppelin- Houses of the Holy
3. Bruce Springsteen- The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle
4. The Who- Quadrophenia
5. Frank Zappa- Over-nite Sensation
6. Marvin Gaye- Let's Get It On
7. King Crimson- Larks Tongues in Aspic
8. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- Brain Salad Surgery
9. Stevie Wonder- Innervisions
10. The Stooges- Raw Power

1974
1. Queen- Sheer Heart Attack
2. Frank Zappa- Apostrophe(')
3. King Crimson- Red
4. Gram Parsons- Grievous Angel
5. Frank Zappa- Roxy & Elsewhere
6. Steely Dan- Pretzel Logic
7. Stevie Wonder- Fulfillingness' First Finale
8. John Coltrane- Interstellar Space
9. Joni Mitchell- Court and Spark
10. Queen- Queen II

1975
1. Bruce Springsteen- Born to Run
2. Pink Floyd- Wish You Were Here
3. Led Zeppelin- Physical Graffiti
4. Neil Young- Tonight's the Night
5. Aerosmith- Toys in the Attic
6. Bob Dylan- Blood on the Tracks
7. Queen- A Night at the Opera
8. Bob Dylan and the Band- The Basement Tapes
9. Neil Young- Zuma
10. Jeff Beck- Blow by Blow

1976
1. Rush-2112
2. Bob Dylan- Desire
3. Aerosmith- Rocks
4. The Eagles- Hotel California
5. Ramones- Ramones
6. Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life
7. Boston- Boston
8. David Bowie- Station to Station
9. Warren Zevon- Warren Zevon
10. Led Zeppelin- Presence

1977
1. Pink Floyd- Animals
2. Bob Marley- Exodus
3. Television- Marquee Moon
4. Rush- A Farewell to Kings
5. Sex Pistols- Never Mind the Bollocks...Here's the Sex Pistols
6. David Bowie- "Heroes"
7. Ramones- Rocket to Russia
8. Steely Dan- Aja
9. Fleetwood Mac- Rumours
10. Miles Davis- Dark Magus

1978
1. Rush- Hemispheres
2. Bruce Springsteen- Darkness on the Edge of Town
3. Van Halen- Van Halen
4. Warren Zevon- Excitable Boy
5. Funkadelic- One Nation Under A Groove
6. The Band- The Last Waltz
7. Ramones- Road to Ruin
8. Little Feat- Waiting for Columbus
9. Blondie- Parallel Lines
10. Kraftwerk- Die Mensch-Maschine

1979
1. Neil Young- Rust Never Sleeps
2. The Clash- London Calling
3. Pink Floyd- The Wall
4. Tom Petty- Damn the Torpedoes
5. Frank Zappa- Joe's Garage
6. The Police- Reggatta de Blanc
7. Neil Young- Live Rust
8. Cheap Trick- At Budokan
9. Frank Zappa- Sheik Yerbouti
10. Van Morrison- Into the Music

[ie]

It's an interesting constraint isn't it? Oh, and you're a gentleman and a scholar for actually taking me up on this challenge. The shit I said about you? Wasn't me.

1970
1. The Beatles - Let It Be
2. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
4. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
5. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
6. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
7. John Lennon - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
8. The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
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1971
1. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
2. The Concert for Bangladesh
3. Isaac Hayes - Shaft OST
4. The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
5. The Who - Who's Next
6. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
7. Paul McCartney - Ram
8. Pink Floyd - Meddle
9. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
10. Led Zeppelin - ? ? ? ? (#4)

1972 ...
1. Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Blacknuss
2. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
3. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
4. Deep Purple - Machine Head
5. Yes - Close to the Edge
6. Dust - Hard Attack
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1973
1. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
2. Lalo Schifrin - Enter the Dragon OST (close second place)
3. ZZ Top - Tres Hombres
4. Lynyrd Skynyrd - (pronounced 'lĕh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
5. Bob Marley (& the Wailers) - Catch a Fire
6. Yes - Tales From Topographic Oceans
7. Wings - Band on the Run
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1974
1. David Bowie - David Live
2. Herbie Hancock - Death Wish OST
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1975
1. Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All
2. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
3. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
4. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
5. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
6. Neu! - Neu!
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1976
1. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
2. Woody Guthrie - Struggle (posthumous release)
3. Eagles - Hotel California
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1977
1. Bob Marley (& the Wailers) - Exodus
2. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
3. Television - Marquee Moon
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1978
1. Goblin - Dawn of the Dead OST
2. The Blues Brothers - Briefcase Full of Blues
3. Van Halen - Van Halen
4. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
5. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
6. Bob Dylan - Street-Legal
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1979
1. The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
2. The Clash - London Calling
3. Queen - Live Killers
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A slightly better showing this time around, but still not great. I'm going to work on this one a little bit more after my 80s list doesn't look so horrible.

[captainofbeef]

No problem, anything to keep my mind of off the SAT's tomorrow morning

[ie]

May 2, 2008 15:28:47 GMT -5 captainofbeef said:

No problem, anything to keep my mind of off the SAT's tomorrow morning

Good luck with that, even though my SAT scores had absolutely NO influence what so ever on my life as it is now. I went the community college to four year college route, and I was part of the transitional phase where tests like the WASL were done but not recorded, so I took no interest in them.

Currently, I'm waiting on a call from a company concerning whether I get employment or not. Day of interview, it looked like an 80% chance, now it's looking more like a 40% chance.

[captainofbeef]

^Eh, that sucks. Maybe you'll still get the job. Even if you don't, there are plenty of jobs out there...

[ie]

Took the conversation elsewhere. The 70s had too much good music to talk about anything else.

[PTAhole]

1. London Calling by The Clash
2. Blood on the Tracks by Bob Dylan
3. Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin
4. Who's Next by The Who
5. Rocket to Russia by Ramones