Best Albums of the 70's

[Dan from Michigan]

We had the 90's and 80's. Time for the 70's. In no order

Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers, Some Girls
Beatles - Let it Be(69 or 70)
Grand Funk - Closer to Home, We're An American Band
AC/DC - High Voltage, Let There be Rock, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Highway to Hell,
Allman Brothers - Allman Brothers Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird : The Movie(anything actually)
Aerosmith - Get your Wings, Toys in the Attic
Bad Company - Burnin Sky, Bad Company
Deep Purple - MAchine Head
Montrose - Montrose
Van Halen - Van Halen, Van Halen II(79 or 80)
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Boston - Boston, Don't Look Back
Led Zepplin - Physical Graffiti, IV(or anything)
KISS - Alive
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent, Free for All, Cat Scratch Fever, DOUBLE LIVE GONZO!!!!
Ted Nugent's Amboy Dukes - Tooth Fang and Claw(Don't have it, but the original version of Great White Buffalo is on it)
Pink Floyd - Dark side of the Moon, The Wall
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies Doors - LA Woman
The Who - Who's Next, Who are You, Quadrophenia
Humble Pie - Smokin'

[Gumption]

I don't know anything about that.......

Oh yeah, you coach HS football now don't ya? Message received.

[jwfiv]

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (debut album, 1978)

Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Dylan)

Exile On Main Street (Stones)

All Things Must Pass (George)

Dark Side of the Moon (Floyd)

Surf's Up (Beach Boys)

Live At Leeds (The Ooo)

Fleetwood Mac (self titled)

Space Oddity (Bowie) (for MelC)

Pyramid (Alan Parsons)

Even In The Quietest Moments (Supertramp)

Brave new World (Stevie Guitar Miller)

Question of Balance (Moody Blues)

Smiler (Rod Stewart)

Agents of Fortune (Blue Oyster Cult)

After the Gold Rush (Neil Young)

[Gumption]

No way, Spirit of Radio was their first hit (I think) but definitely 70's.

[Blunderfromdownunder]

Alot of what Jethro Tull released that decade

Living in the Past
Aqualung
Thick as a Brick
Passion Play
Songs from the Wood

to name a few

[Cultural Jihad]

No mention of Peter Frampton? Or Yes? Or the Incredible String Band?

[DCBurgess58]

Red Barchetta is a great song. Spirit of the Radio is from the album Perminent Waves, another outstanding album by Rush

[Gumption]

Iron Maiden, Judas Priest.

Can the moderator please delete post #5 please.

(just kiddin')

[stilts]

Hard to pick a best P-Funk 70's album. You also left James Brown off your 70's soul list. Also, Kool and the Gang could get an honorable mention.

As for Barry White, Rick James, George Duke, AWB, and Isaac Hayes, I will give you that they each had classic songs but I would argue that none of them had an album that could make a discussion of "best albums" of the 70's.

Talking Heads is another band that would make my list. Bob Marley and the Wailers had several (Burnin, Catch a Fire, Natty Dread, Exodus).

Grateful Dead "Workingman's Dead" is another possible.

[cartoonistx]

Allman Bros.' Eat A Peach

[Gumption]

Thanks. (Spirit of THE Radio ... got it)

[musicman]

David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust
Montrose-Montrose(first album)
Edgar Winter Group-They Only Come Out At Night
Jethro Tull-Stand Up Johnny Winter-Still Alive and Well
Bad Company-Bad Company
Free-All Right Now
Leon Russell-Leon Russell and the Shelter People
Neil Young-After the Gold Rush

A few additions to the list....Thanks for startin' this thread Dan!!....OBTW....(...grew up in Berrien County...the one that border's Indiana and right on Lake Michigan...in Florida now..)

[Cultural Jihad]

Yessongs, 1973

Hamburger Concerto, 1974

[Uncle Meat]

Everything on your list is fine with me.Can I add Nazareth-Hair of the Dog,BTO-Not Fragile,Rory Gallagher-Top Priority,Head East-Flat as a Pancake,and Foghat-Fool for the City,Alice Cooper-School's Out?

[ppaul]

Intro. Sweet Jane
Best darned rockin' guitar solo ever.
Recorded LIVE in 1973.

[Uncle Meat]

By the way,I have both Tooth,Claw and Fang and Call of the Wild on CD.They're out there.You gotta look for 'em.

[StoneColdGOP]

AC/DC - "High Voltage", "Highway to Hell" (pretty much everything)

Led Zeppelin - "Led Zeppelin II", "Led Zeppelin III", the 4th album (whatever you want to call it), "Physical Graffiti"

Black Sabbath - "Black Sabbath", "Paranoid", "Master of Reality", "Volume 4", "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath"

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - "Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers", "Damn the Torpedoes"

Lynyrd Skynyrd - "Pronounced Leh'-nerd Skin'-nerd"

Aerosmith - "Toys in the Attic", "Aeromsith"

Frank Sinatra - "Ol' Blue Eyes is Back", "The Main Event", "Trilogy", "Empty Tables" (if you ever hear only one Frank song... I could suggest this one!)

[dakine]

Dude, did you steal all my 8-tracks?...good list

[muggs]

and Jukebox Hero and Dirty White Boy are two Foreigner classics.

Don't forget Hot Blooded, Head Games, and Feels Like The First Time. I'm on my way out the door now with a tape of Foreigner to listen to while at the gym.

[kjam22]

You listed lots of good albums. Especially Dark Side Of The Moon. But your list left off a big one... Meatloaf Bat Out Of Hell.

[RightOnline]

What an excellent list! You are to be commended. I'll think of a few dozen more during the day, I'm sure.:)