The '70s Album Awards!

Post what you think were the best albums of the '70s, year by year, or whatever. It doesn't have to be the top 5 of each year, just however many you want


1970
1)The Move ~ Shazam
2)The Pretty Things ~ Parachute
3)Amon Düül II ~ Yeti
4)Syd Barrett ~ The Madcap Laughs
5)The Beach Boys ~ Sunflower

1971
1)The Beach Boys ~ Surf's Up
2)The Rolling Stones ~ Sticky Fingers
3)Yoko Ono ~ Fly
4)Paul & Linda McCartney ~ RAM
5)Led Zeppelin ~ Led Zeppelin IV

1972
1)The Rolling Stones ~ Exile on Main Street
2)Lou Reed ~ Transformer
3)Al Green ~ Let's Stay Together
4)Jimi Hendrix ~ Hendrix in the West
5)The Temptations ~ All Directions

1973
1)Ringo Starr ~ Ringo
2)The Stooges ~ Raw Power
3)Paul McCartney & Wings ~ Band on the Run
4)Pink Floyd ~ Dark Side of the Moon
5)Roxy Music ~ For Your Pleasure

1974
1)Nico ~ The End
2)New York Dolls ~ Too Much Too Soon
3)Brian Eno ~ Here Come the Warm Jets
4)Brian Eno ~ Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
5)Ringo Starr ~ Goodnight Vienna

1975
1)Brian Eno ~ Another Green World
2)Bob Dylan & The Band ~ The Basement Tapes
3)Bob Dylan ~ Blood on the Tracks
4)Patti Smith ~ Horses
5)The Grateful Dead ~ Blues for Allah


1976
1)Lou Reed ~ Coney Island Baby
2)Bob Dylan ~ Desire
3)Frank Zappa ~ Zoot Allures
4)Joni Mitchell ~ Hejira
5)Jerry Garcia ~ Reflections

1977
1)Iggy Pop ~ Lust For Life
2)Brian Eno ~ Before and After Science
3)Iggy Pop ~ The Idiot
4)David Bowie ~ Low
5)Pink Floyd ~ Animals

1978
1)The Rolling Stones ~ Some Girls
2)Marvin Gaye ~ Here, My Dear
3)Captain Beefheart ~ Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
4)Wings ~ London Town
5)Jerry Garcia ~ Cats Under the Stars

1979
1)David Bowie ~ Lodger
2)Pink Floyd ~ The Wall
3)Iggy Pop ~ New Values
4)Frank Zappa ~ Sheik Yerbouti
5)Lou Reed ~ The Bells

 

Steely Dan should be in there somewhere, and my personal favorite Mott the Hoople, but that's a lost cause.

 

...Steely Dan?


This is an opinion thread, by the way.

 

grrrrr...i forget when hot rats came out...if it was in the 70's id put it in there, but may of been in the 60's (**too lazy to find cd case)

 

hmm off the top of my head id say your list is missing a few essentail bands (ill come up with my own list tomarrow). I would add (once again off the top of my ehad) another david boiew album, one or two more dylan albums, a talking heads album, a clash album, some queen, some YES has gotta be on there, JOhn Lennon should b on there, some more dead, maybe (dare i say it) a doors album, and i dno wat else but this is a great thread ill definatley have my own list soon.

 

nice list soulyboy.

it has syd barrett in it so it has to be good.

 

I really wanted to include Syd, it's such an underrated album..

Ha tell me about it

 

i dont know what it is but something about syd barrett is just so great..

maybe it's the mental illness caused by drugs, maybe it's the fact that some of his family died at a young age, who knows....

 

It's his lyrics and his overall coolness for me :H

And I thought only his dad died when he was young 14, or around that age somewhere...

 

i wasnt sure who it was so i just said they all died to stay covered.

i think the best thing by him is possible corporal clegg. although it's hard to decide.

 

Lately, I've been listening to "Effervescing Elephant" over and over and over and over....


My favorite's probably "Apples and Oranges"


Oh oops, it's called Barrett, not Syd....

 

i haven't heard much of his solo stuff. can you reccomend an album or two?

i just love sorcerful of secrets there's something about that is crazily good.

 

Check out The Madcap Laughs and Barrett. Both are simply amazing... I think like 'em both more than PatGoD.
Those are his only two official solo albums.

If you really, really, really enjoy him, I highly suggest the Wouldn't You Miss Me? collection... it contains every single recording Syd ever did that was not committed to tape on his first 3 albums and the studio version of "Jugband Blues". I've yet to find all the songs tho...
17 cd's worth of stuff ... I'll find you the link for it


I just found out that Syd wrote "Elephant" when he was 16

 

wow. see that's true talent.

 

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/madcapslaughing/

When you join, they'll email you ms word documents of the tracklist and how you can get the collection... it's all free! but you have to send somebody 34 blank cdr's and they'll mail you the complete set back... i don't like the sound of that, so I'm downloading them all

 

heh. does syd actually know about this whole thing? doesn't he care even slightly?

 

I doubt he cares one bit

His nephew posts sometimes on their messsage board.

 

that's cool. very cool.

 

You mean the Have You Got It Yet collection? Yeah, great stuff. You can download the whole collection from soulseek, it's easy.

more info here: http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/hygiy/

 

Here is my top-5 of each year

1970
1. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
2. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
3. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
4. The Beatles - Let It Be
5. Amon Duul II - Yeti

1971
1. Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Love And Hate
2. Gong - Camembert Electrique
3. Can - Tago Mago
4. The Doors - L.A. Woman
5. T Rex - Electric Warrior

1972
1. The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
2. Lou Reed - Transformer
3. Ash Ra Tempel - Schwingungen
4. Neu - Neu
5. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

1973
1. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
2. Neu - Neu 2
3. The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
4. Can - Future Days
5. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon

1974
1. Leonard Cohen - New Skin For The Old Ceremony
2. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
3. Cluster - Zuckerzeit
4. Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
5. Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets

1975
1. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
2. Bob Dylan - The Basement Tapes
3. Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity
4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5. The Dictators - The Dictators Go Girl Crazy

1976
1. Bob Dylan - Desire
2. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
3. The Ramones - The Ramones
4. Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
5. Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby

1977
1. Pink Floyd - Animals
2. Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
3. Suicide - Suicide
4. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
5. Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies Man

1978
1. Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
2. Brian Eno - Music For Airports
3. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
4. Wire - Chairs Missing
5. The Jam - All Mod Cons

1979
1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. The Clash - London Calling
3. Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
4. The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
5. Pink Floyd - The Wall