Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s by Onater

My Top 10 songs of the 70s:
10. Bruce Springsteen - Jungleland (Born To Run, 1975)
9. David Bowie - Young Americans (Young Americans, 1975)
8. Bob Dylan - Tangled Up In Blue (Blood On The Tracks, 1975)
7. Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard (Blue, 1971)
6. Kermit - The Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie, 1979)
5. Tim Buckley - Song To The Siren (Starsailor, 1970)
4. Television - Marquee Moon (Marquee Moon, 1977)
3. Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (Born To Run, 1975)
2. Gordon Lightfoot - If You Could Read My Mind (If You Could Read My Mind, 1970)
1. David Bowie - "Heroes" ("Heroes", 1977)

• Chart updated: 01/24/2019 10:15
• (Created: 10/08/2016 20:08).
• Chart size: 100 albums.

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1. (3) 2

Songs Of Love And Hate 

 Leonard Cohen

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"You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes me kind. The crumbs of love that you offer me, they're the crumbs I've left behind."

Favourite Tracks: Sing Another Song Boys, Famous Blue Raincoat, Avalanche, Joan Of Arc, Last Year's Man [First added to this chart: 11/23/2016]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

507 charts

Rank Score:

3,845

Rank in 1971:

21

Rank in 1970s:

108

Overall Rank:

467

Average Rating:

 83 (600 votes)

Comments:

21

2. (1) 1

Pink Moon 

 Nick Drake

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"And now we rise, and we are everywhere."

Favourite Tracks: From The Morning, Pink Moon, Place To Be, Road, Which Will [First added to this chart: 07/24/2017]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

1,506 charts

Rank Score:

20,128

Rank in 1972:

3

Rank in 1970s:

15

Overall Rank:

51

Average Rating:

 87 (1,811 votes)

Comments:

142

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Blue 

 Joni Mitchell

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"Richard, you haven't really changed, I said, it's just that now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head, you got tombs in your eyes, but the songs you punched are dreaming, listen, they sing of love so sweet."

Favourite Tracks: The Last Time I Saw Richard, Blue, River, A Case Of You, All I Want [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,333 charts

Rank Score:

17,309

Rank in 1971:

6

Rank in 1970s:

20

Overall Rank:

70

Average Rating:

 85 (1,456 votes)

Comments:

110

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Music For 18 Musicians 

 Steve Reich

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I'm hesitant about calling this an album, but it is one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard. [First added to this chart: 07/24/2017]

Year of Release:

1978

Appears in:

272 charts

Rank Score:

3,056

Rank in 1978:

9

Rank in 1970s:

138

Overall Rank:

578

Average Rating:

 83 (308 votes)

Comments:

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Thick As A Brick 

 Jethro Tull

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"I may make you feel, but I can't make you think. Your sperm's in the gutter, your love's in the sink."

In an attempt to make fun of the genre of prog rock, Jethro Tull ended up accidentally making the greatest prog rock album of all time. It's like what I imagine it would sound like if Monty Python wrote a progressive rock album. Favourite tracks-wise, I'm using the named sections from the 40th anniversary edition.

Favourite Tracks: Really Don't Mind, Childhood Heroes, Tales Of Your Life, Childhood Heroes Reprise, The Poet And The Painter [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

622 charts

Rank Score:

6,134

Rank in 1972:

8

Rank in 1970s:

73

Overall Rank:

290

Average Rating:

 83 (824 votes)

Comments:

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Born To Run 

 Bruce Springsteen

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"You can hide beneath your covers and study your pain, make crosses from your lovers, throw roses in the rain. Waste your summers praying in vain for a savior to rise from these streets."

Favourite tracks: Thunder Road, Jungleland, Born To Run, Backstreets [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1975

Appears in:

1,555 charts

Rank Score:

17,199

Rank in 1975:

3

Rank in 1970s:

21

Overall Rank:

72

Average Rating:

 83 (1,933 votes)

Comments:

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What's Going On 

 Marvin Gaye

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"You see, war is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate."

This is the sound of a man who took his sadness and turned it into hope. Rather than moping about his problems, as many musicians have, Gaye did all he could to bring love and joy to as many people as he could. Call it corny and idealistic, but this is some of the most sincere and beautiful music ever written.

Favourite Tracks: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), What's Going On, Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), What's Happening Brother [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

1,568 charts

Rank Score:

19,685

Rank in 1971:

4

Rank in 1970s:

16

Overall Rank:

53

Average Rating:

 85 (1,894 votes)

Comments:

143

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Unknown Pleasures 

 Joy Division

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"A loaded gun won't set you free. So you say."

Favourite Tracks: Disorder, New Dawn Fades, Shadowplay, Day Of The Lords [First added to this chart: 10/10/2016]

Year of Release:

1979

Appears in:

1,917 charts

Rank Score:

24,813

Rank in 1979:

3

Rank in 1970s:

9

Overall Rank:

37

Average Rating:

 86 (2,281 votes)

Comments:

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Tago Mago 

 Can

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"SEARCHING FOR MY BLACK DOPE, HALELELELELELUWAH!"

Side 1 is a bunch of cool, trippy, kinda spooky prog rock tracks. Side 2 is a massive, repetitive, hypnotic jam that grows in insanity throughout. Suddenly, the repetition and hypnotic rhythms of the first disc disappear on side 3 in favour of 17 minutes of scary, ambient, dissonant noise. The first half of side 4 is just ridiculous, and the second half returns to the style of the first few tracks. It's quite a journey to listen to, and not an easy one at that. But it is so hypnotic and weird, there aren't a lot of albums that can compare.

Favourite Tracks: Halleluwah, Oh Yeah, Paperhouse [First added to this chart: 10/27/2016]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

905 charts

Rank Score:

10,253

Rank in 1971:

8

Rank in 1970s:

39

Overall Rank:

149

Average Rating:

 83 (1,021 votes)

Comments:

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Escalator Over The Hill 

 Carla Bley / Paul Haines

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"They check her flavor by sticking straws into her eyes."

Favourite Tracks: Hotel Overture, Escalator Over The Hill, Doctor Why, Why, Rawalpindi Blues, End Of Rawalpindi [First added to this chart: 07/08/2018]

Year of Release:

1971

Appears in:

67 charts

Rank Score:

506

Rank in 1971:

60

Rank in 1970s:

533

Overall Rank:

2,978

Average Rating:

 73 (67 votes)

Comments:

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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s composition

Year	Albums	%
1970	14	14%
1971	20	20%
1972	9	9%
1973	10	10%
1974	9	9%
1975	8	8%
1976	4	4%
1977	11	11%
1978	6	6%
1979	9	9%

Artist	Albums	%
David Bowie	7	7%
Pink Floyd	5	5%
Neil Young	3	3%
Kraftwerk	3	3%
Black Sabbath	3	3%
Brian Eno	3	3%
Joni Mitchell	3	3%
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Country	Albums	%
	42	42%
	36	36%
	10	10%
	5	5%
	4	4%
	1	1%
	1	1%
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 21 from 40th to 19th Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
Up 7 from 23rd to 16th The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway by Genesis
Up 4 from 22nd to 18th Sun Ship by John Coltrane

Biggest fallers
Down 4 from 16th to 20th Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd
Down 4 from 17th to 21st The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd
Down 4 from 19th to 23rd Marquee Moon by Television

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95/100	04/26/2018 22:56	PaperVinnie	452	81/100
95/100	09/15/2017 09:58	TheSmiths82-87	1,839	83/100
90/100	09/14/2017 07:37	nitomano	82	78/100
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From PaperVinnie 04/26/2018 22:57

Great chart

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From nitomano 09/14/2017 07:38

nice chart

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From LedZep 03/04/2017 23:31

Gotta listen to Supertramp! Great chart, and really tough choice that Thick as a Brick song.

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