Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s by 
Romanelli 
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- (Created: 12/04/2011 20:35).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Produced by Fleetwood Mac, Ken Cailat & Richard Dashut. This album gets a lot of dislike on this site, but the power of Rumours should not be denied. Blessed with one of rock's best rhythm sections and three excellent songwriters, he first two albums from this lineup set the bar high above where everyone else was in the late 70's. Stevie Nicks was a unique voice: Lindsey Buckingham a stunning guitarist, and everything together, for two whole albums, really worked. Rumours is a masterpiece.
[First added to this chart: 12/07/2011]
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1977
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Produced by Neil Young, Elliot Mazer, Henry Lewy & Jack Nitzsche. Say what you will about Harvest. "It's too pop". "It's too mellow". I say pah. Harvest is stunning and beautiful. Just because it has "Heart Of Gold" and "Old Man", and just because you've heard them a million times doesn't mean they are bad. Neil has made several masterpieces, and this is most definitely one of them. Not a weak track...not even the ones buried in strings. Ten tracks of perfection from one of the best of all time.
[First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]
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1972
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13,242
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Produced by Tom Dowd. What should have been the grand entrance of The Allman Brothers Band as superstars became a sad monument to Brother Duane. He died while the album was being recorded, and while his guitar can be heard on several tracks, it's his spirit that allows the album to be a triumph. The band carried on for him, and the result is a beautiful headstone for one of the greatest guitarsists of all time. Eat A Peach is a great, emotional album, and the pinnacle of what Southern rock was meant to be.
[First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]
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1972
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Produced by Roy Thomas Baker. This album may sound squeaky clean and spotless, but The Cars is a great debut album filled with great songs. The real secret weapon here is Elliot Easton with what are easily the greatest guitar licks of the New Wave era. Ric Ocasek and Benjamin Orr split the lead vocal duties, and Ocasek's songwriting is flawless. This is one of the top albums of New Wave, and a staggering debut effort. This album still sounds great today, and my collection would be naked without it.
[First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]
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1978
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6,083
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Produced by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Neil Young was very much the strongest of these four, and his presence pushed the songwriting of the other three to a new level. Not the there weren't fine songs without him on the previous album, but Crosby ("Almost Cut My Hair", Stills ("Carry On") and Nash ("Teach Your Children")reach new heights with Young, who pushes the trio to greatness. Without him, they quickly digressed into the world of beach rock...not pretty at all.
[First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]
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1970
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5,546
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Produced by Al Kooper. Say what you want about "Free Bird". You don't really hear it all the time on the radio, and the truth is, it's a great song. And this is an excellent debut album. "Simple Man", "Tuesday's Gone", "Gimme Three Steps", "I Ain't The One", AND "Free Bird"...all on one glorious disc. Skynyrd picked up Southern rock from the ashes of the Allmans and carried it proudly until they suffered their own tragedy. But they were great for awhile, and their debut album is powerful stuff.
[First added to this chart: 02/20/2012]
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1973
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Produced by Pink Floyd. A moving, stunning piece of art. This album flows together like no other, and the entire mood and atmosphere is consistent throughout. Not just lyrically...this is musically as sound a concept album as there is. It still sells a gazillion copies to this day, and is revered for good reason. This is a sonic masterpiece that has yet to be even close to duplicated over what is now 40 years plus. Perfect in every way, pleasing to every sense, beautiful in the rarest of ways.
[First added to this chart: 12/04/2011]
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1973
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71,063
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[First added to this chart: 05/09/2013]
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1976
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6,194
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Produced by Jimmy Miller. The best years of The Rolling Stones were the years that Mick Taylor was the lead guitarist. Sticky Fingers is the best of that period, the best album of the Stones career. And that's saying a lot. "Brown Sugar", "Bitch", "Sway", "Dead Flowers", "Sister Morphine"...this album has it all. It's got a variety of sounds, it rocks, and outside of the ill-conceived jazzy end of "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'", it's absolutely perfect. Sticky Fingers is why The Stones are called the greatest band in the world. They do not disappoint.
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1971
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Produced by John Fogerty. The worst album cover of all time hides one of the best rock and roll albums ever made. The height of everything that was great about Creedence, Cosmo's Factory contains a bunch of Fogerty's greatest songs, along with some nice classic covers, including a full 11 minutes of the glorious "I Heard It Through The Grapevine". At the sixties end and the dawn of the seventies, this was maybe the greatest band on earth. This album is living proof that they really were on the same level as The Beatles & Stones...for awhile.
[First added to this chart: 12/23/2011]
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1970
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1970 | 18 | 18% | |
| 1971 | 11 | 11% | |
| 1972 | 8 | 8% | |
| 1973 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1974 | 5 | 5% | |
| 1975 | 8 | 8% | |
| 1976 | 6 | 6% | |
| 1977 | 11 | 11% | |
| 1978 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1979 | 13 | 13% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Led Zeppelin | 5 | 5% | |
| The Allman Brothers Band | 4 | 4% | |
| Electric Light Orchestra | 3 | 3% | |
| Neil Young | 3 | 3% | |
| Queen | 3 | 3% | |
| Pink Floyd | 3 | 3% | |
| Eagles | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 2 from 12th to 10th Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 1 from 10th to 11th The Last Waltz by The Band |
| Down 1 from 11th to 12th Out Of The Blue by Electric Light Orchestra |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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 100/100  | 04/24/2024 01:21 |  HoldenM | | 95/100 |
| 90/100 | 04/23/2024 09:39 | Moondance | | 85/100 |
| 90/100 | 09/20/2023 19:55 | MetalMan67 | | 90/100 |
| 75/100 | 01/23/2022 16:11 |  IlMala | | 95/100 |
| 95/100 | 04/04/2021 11:42 | MasterOfPuppets | | 91/100 |
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From HoldenM 04/24/2024 01:21
HoldenM 04/24/2024 01:21
Hell yeah.
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90/100
From Moondance 04/23/2024 09:39
Very solid chart. Would have liked to have seen a bit more international diversity.
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90/100
From MetalMan67 09/20/2023 19:56
Very well done. I enjoyed reading the commentary and your thoughts about certain albums.
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Larcx13 10/06/2020 10:16
Larcx13 10/06/2020 10:16
Sick top 10!
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85/100
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Boltzmann 04/24/2018 22:26
Boltzmann 04/24/2018 22:26
Interesting chart with lot of personality.
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90/100
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Cardboardfolder 04/24/2018 12:59
Cardboardfolder 04/24/2018 12:59
For some reason, this chart just makes me feel good. A lot of albums on here just bring back a lot of memories!
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95/100
From Ulf 04/24/2018 08:18
Very nice chart be sure to fix the comments jazz and moondance they seem to fit the wrong album
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80/100
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ForegroundNoise 04/24/2018 08:14
ForegroundNoise 04/24/2018 08:14
Too much emphasis on classic rock for a higher rating than 80 sorry. Not a single German album in a decade that was defining for the German music scene??
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90/100
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bobbyb5 08/20/2017 23:32
bobbyb5 08/20/2017 23:32
Isn't it weird how you never see Allman Brothers' Brothers and Sisters and Laid Back ever?
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95/100
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RoundTheBend 02/02/2017 03:58
RoundTheBend 02/02/2017 03:58
36 in common.
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