Best Albums of the 70's

[discostu]

What are you doin' breakin' into my record collection?

Guess now we know why we always get along.

[RonPaulLives]

okay, okay, folks. I am spending the majority of my time on the 80's music thread, because that is my cup of tea. However, we've been through eighty posts on this thread and no JAMES TAYLOR ???

[Cultural Jihad]

http://www.janakkerman.nl/

[boris]

Well, now you make me list MIKE OLDFIELD'S albums from the 1970s:

Tubular Bells, 1973
Hergest Ridge, 1974
The Orchestral Tubular Bells, 1975
Ommadawn, 1975
Boxed, 1976
Incantations, 1978
Exposed, 1979
Platinum, 1979
Impressions, 1979

--Boris

[wordsofearnest]

Anything by Steely Dan.

[Eye 4 TRUTH]

Excellent post. I must add Meatloaf "Bat out of Hell" unless someone beat me to it.

[majordivit]

1970

Beatles - Let it Be
Who - Live at Leeds
Guess Who - American Woman
CCR - Cosmo's Factory
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
Crosby Still Nash Young - Deja Vu
Chicago - Chicago II
Moody Blues - A Question of Balance
Andrew Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band

1971

Allman Brothers Band - Live at the Fillmore East
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat
Yes - The Yes Album
Paul McCartney - Ram
Crosby Stills Nash and Young - Four Way Street
The Who - Who's Next
Elton John - Madman Across the Water
Led Zeppelin - IV
John Lennon - Imagine
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Tarkus
Doors - LA Woman

1972

Yes - Fragile
Uriah Heep - Demons and Wizards
Deep Purple - Machine Head
Jethro Tull - Thick as a Brick
Loggins & Messina - Sittin' In
Loggins & Messina - Loggins & Messina
Elton John - Honky Chateau
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Genesis - Foxtrot
Eagles - Eagles
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill

1973

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Bruce Springsteen - Greetings from Asbury Park
Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, Innocent and the E Street
Allman Brothers - Brothers and Sisters
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Pronounced
Billy Joel - Piano Man
Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Who - Quadrophenia
Paul McCartney - Band on the Run

1974

Electric Light Orchestra - Eldorado
Brian Eno - Here Comes the Warm Jets
Aerosmith - Get Your Wings
Marshall Tucker Band - Where We All Belong
Bad Company - Bad Company
Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Procol Harum - Exotic Birds and Fruit
Bachman Turner Overdrive - Not Fragile
Eric Clapton - 461 Ocean Boulevard
Frank Zappa - Roxy & Elsewhere

1975

Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Elton John - Captain Fantastic
Foghat - Fool For the City
Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
Bob Seger - Night Moves
The Outlaws - Outlaws
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Marshall Tucker Band - Searchin' For a Rainbow
Paul McCartney - Venus and Mars
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Steely Dan - Katy Lied
Eagles - One of These Nights
Nazareth - Hair of the Dog
Eric Clapton - EC was Here
Electric Light Orchestra - Face the Music
Queen - A Night at the Opera

1976

David Bowie - Station to Station
Bad Company - Runnin With the Pack
Kansas - Leftoverture
Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
Heart - Dreamboat Annie
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
J Geils Band - Blow Your Face Out (Live)
AC/DC - High Voltage
Billy Joel - Turnstiles
Boston - Boston
Doobie Brothers - Takin' It to the Streets
Gentle Giant - The official Live: Playing the Fool
Abba - Arrival
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record

1977

David Bowie - Low
Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
Pink Floyd - Animals
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Foreigner - Foreigner
Kansas - Point of No Return
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
Firefall - Luna Sea
Heart - Little Queen
Bob Marley - Exodus
Styx - The Grand Illusion
Abba - The Album
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Eric Clapton - Slowhand
Deep Purple - Powerhouse
Gong - Gong est Mort
Gryphon - Treason

1978

Paul McCartney - London Town
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
Joe Walsh - But Seriously Folks
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell
Gerry Rafferty - City to City
Van Halen - Van Halen
Molly Hatchet - Molly Hatchet
REO Speedwagon - You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fish
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Styx - Pieces of Eight
Foreigner - Double Vision
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute
Bob Seger - Stranger in Town
The Cars - The Cars
Who - Who Are You
Journey - Infinity
Dire Straights - Dire Straights
Police - Outlandos D'Amour
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Queen - Jazz
Jethro Tull - Live Bursting Out

1979

Bob Dylan - At Budokan
Who - The Kids are Allright
Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' With Disaster
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Van Halen - Van Halen II
Bad Company - Desolation Angels
Emerson Lake and Palmer - Works Live
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Police - Regatta De Blanc
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
AC/DC - Highway to Hell

[dakine]

The BusBoys - Minimum Wage Rock & Roll, could be 1980, but who can remember...

[StoneColdGOP]

LOL, well you know what they say about great minds. No, not that they think alike, they are just similarly corrupted! :-)

[majordivit]

dakine,

Yes..That busboys album was released in 1980..

Minimum Wage Rock & Roll

Damn.. I forgot to add Blondies 1978 album 'Parallel Lines' and Pat Benatar's 1979 record 'In the Heat of the Night'...

[Blunderfromdownunder]

Stand Up by Tull was 1969. Its my fav

[musicman]

Ronnie Montrose was Edgar Winter's guitar player on "They Only Come Out At Night",(the album with "Free Ride" and "Frankenstein" on it.)....also,the lead singer was some new guy that I hadn't heard of before.......Sammy Hagar...

Also one of the car commercials on TV,(Nissan???)is using "Space Station #5"as it's music background. The album is a REAL GOOD ROCKER,and still sounds great!!

[Huck]

Steely Dan, Royal Scam was a cool album. And call me a dork, but the self-titled Bad Co. album was a rocker.

[musicman]

My first REAL concert that I attended,was at Jennison Field House,on the MSU campus in Lansing,Michigan on November 7th, 1970.My friend, who I was playing music with at the time,talked me into going(a 2 hr drive btw..)The tickets were Bob Uecker seats,and only cost $2.50.I was expecting a so-so evening ,as I had never heard of either of the 2 groups that were to perform;a 3 pc group(kinda like the group "Mountain",) called "Catfish",and some English group called "Jethro Tull"...

It was an evening to remember...and having never heard them before,the first song they played,"Nothing is Easy",still to this day brings back the memories of that awesome night..

[rokkhound]

I would have thought someone would put The Police up here!

[rokkhound]

Good one

[DB]

And on the mellower side...

Al Stewart, Year of the Cat
Ambrosia, Ambrosia
Firefall, Firefall
Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
Heart, Dreamboat Annie
Heart, Little Queen
Renaissance, Novella

And some notables...

Michael Franks, The Art of Tea
Nilsson, All-time Greatest Hits
Lene Lovich, Flex...Plus
King Crimson, In the Court of the Crimson King

There are many more, just the ones that came to mind...

[brewcrew]

"If you feel your life's too hard, just go have a talk with God."

There are so many great songs on that album:

Sir Duke
I Wish
Knocks Me Off My Feet
Pastime Paradise
Isn't She Lovely
As
Another Star

Stevie's creative genius was truly guided by the hand of God when he made that album.

[FLAMING DEATH]

Genesis - "Selling England By The Pound"

This was before Peter Gabriel left and the rest of them decided to change the band's format from concept rock to...

...let's see, what was it?

Oh yeah. Crap.