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Your favorite albums from the 70s

brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,517
edited July 7 in Other Music
Picking up on Nowhere Man's 80s music thread, what are you favorite albums from the 70's?

This is an interesting topic to me because I was such a huge fan of music in the 60's starting with the Beach Boys in the early 60s, loving the British Invasion (Beatles, Stone, et al), being blown away and having the doors of rock blown wide open in 1965 when Bob Dylan came out with "Like a Rolling Stone", British blues-rock (Cream, John Mayall, etc.), and on into amazing bands like Jefferson Airplane, The Who, Hendrix, etc.  
And then the 70s came along and for a few years, I felt like like it had all turned into some kind of generic sludge.  But later in that decade, some amazing things happened when new bands broke the mold by rejecting the endless noodling of weak prog rock (though there was some great prog, for sure), and the generic bland commercial rock that began filling the airwaves.  
Ten of the records that, to my mind, shine the brightest in the 70s:

Neil Young and Crazy Horse: Zuma
Television:  Marquee Moon
Talking Heads: '77
Wire: Pink Flag
The Ramones: self-titled
New York Dolls: self-titled
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks
The Clash: London Calling
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
Kraftwerk: Autobahn 
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  • GB281198GB281198 Virginia Posts: 619
    This would be on my list.  I had never noticed "and the" was missing until I read Mike Campbell's book. If the band didn't work out the album would be called Heartbreakers. Fortunately it worked out.
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,517
    GB281198 said:
    This would be on my list.  I had never noticed "and the" was missing until I read Mike Campbell's book. If the band didn't work out the album would be called Heartbreakers. Fortunately it worked out.

    Good call!  TP's Damn the Torpedoes from Oct '79 squeaks in there and could easily have gone on my list!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • GB281198GB281198 Virginia Posts: 619
    A lot of great albums from the 70s. Born to Run would have be included for me.
  • GB281198GB281198 Virginia Posts: 619
    Allman Brothers At Fillmore East is another great one. I'll have to make a list 
  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,517
    GB281198 said:
    Allman Brothers At Fillmore East is another great one. I'll have to make a list 

    Another good call, GB!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • BrainofBGABrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,545

    This is one of my favourite eras of music. I was born in ’79, so it wasn’t during my prime years of listening or attending concerts. But looking back, I really love this time in music—big, heavy rock! I’ll have to check the release dates of some of my favourite albums, because I’m sure there’s some crossover between the ’60s and the ’80s.


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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,517
    BrainofBGA said:

    This is one of my favourite eras of music. I was born in ’79, so it wasn’t during my prime years of listening or attending concerts. But looking back, I really love this time in music—big, heavy rock! I’ll have to check the release dates of some of my favourite albums, because I’m sure there’s some crossover between the ’60s and the ’80s.



    Looking forward to seeing what your list looks like, BGA!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • F Me In The BrainF Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,758
    Always tough to think of a top list.
    I feel like these are all sorta obvious to people of a certain age
    Picked one from each band, although I could pick others by same bands.

    ZZ Tops - Tres Hombres
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Led Zeppelin- IV
    Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
    Acdc - Highway to Hell
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side

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  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,517
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Always tough to think of a top list.
    I feel like these are all sorta obvious to people of a certain age
    Picked one from each band, although I could pick others by same bands.

    ZZ Tops - Tres Hombres
    Black Sabbath - Paranoid
    Led Zeppelin- IV
    Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
    Acdc - Highway to Hell
    Pink Floyd - Dark Side


    Classic sides, all.  :plus_one:
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











  • pjhawkspjhawks Posts: 12,899
    Born to Run
    Dark Side of the Moon
    Who's Next
    Breakfast in America (just squeezing in with 1979 release)
    Van Halen 1
    The Stranger - Billy Joel
    Rumours
    Songs in the Key of Life
    The Cars

  • brianluxbrianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,517
    pjhawks said:
    Born to Run
    Dark Side of the Moon
    Who's Next
    Breakfast in America (just squeezing in with 1979 release)
    Van Halen 1
    The Stranger - Billy Joel
    Rumours
    Songs in the Key of Life
    The Cars


    Impressive list!
    What's not impressive is my memory, haha.  I would have sworn a few of these well 80s LPS.  All 70s, good job/great list, pjh!
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni











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