Your favorite albums from the 70s

brianlux
brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
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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-Roberto Benigni

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  • GB281198
    GB281198 Virginia Posts: 631
    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.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    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!
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • GB281198
    GB281198 Virginia Posts: 631
    A lot of great albums from the 70s. Born to Run would have be included for me.
  • GB281198
    GB281198 Virginia Posts: 631
    Allman Brothers At Fillmore East is another great one. I'll have to make a list 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    GB281198 said:
    Allman Brothers At Fillmore East is another great one. I'll have to make a list 

    Another good call, GB!
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • BrainofBGA
    BrainofBGA Australia Posts: 4,558

    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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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    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!
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,812
    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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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    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:
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • pjhawks
    pjhawks Posts: 12,913
    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

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    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!
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • Johnny Abruzzo
    Johnny Abruzzo Philly Posts: 12,363
    1. Zep's 4th album
    2. LZ III
    3. Presence
    4. Physical Graffiti
    5. Houses of the Holy
    6. Dark Side of the Moon
    7. Wish You Were Here
    8. Rust Never Sleeps
    9. What's Going On
    10. Al Green Greatest Hits
    11. Zuma
    12. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
    13. Born to Run
    14. After the Gold Rush
    15. Songs in the Key of Life
    16. LA Woman
    17. Animals
    18. Who's Next
    19. Rumours
    20. Sticky Fingers
    21. Meddle
    22. Exile on Main St.
    23. Band of Gypsies
    24. Bad Co.
    25. Machine Head
    26. Unknown Pleasures
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    1. Zep's 4th album
    2. LZ III
    3. Presence
    4. Physical Graffiti
    5. Houses of the Holy
    6. Dark Side of the Moon
    7. Wish You Were Here
    8. Rust Never Sleeps
    9. What's Going On
    10. Al Green Greatest Hits
    11. Zuma
    12. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
    13. Born to Run
    14. After the Gold Rush
    15. Songs in the Key of Life
    16. LA Woman
    17. Animals
    18. Who's Next
    19. Rumours
    20. Sticky Fingers
    21. Meddle
    22. Exile on Main St.
    23. Band of Gypsies
    24. Bad Co.
    25. Machine Head
    26. Unknown Pleasures

    Nice seeing mention of Al Green.  What an amazing vocalist! 
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,003
    For me Bowie dominated the 70s (looking at this retroactively since I was born mid-80s).  

    Hunky Dory
    Ziggy Stardust
    Aladdin Sane
    Station to Station
    Low
    "Heroes"
    Lodger


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  • cutz
    cutz Posts: 12,235
    Johnny Abruzzo said:
    1. Zep's 4th album
    2. LZ III
    3. Presence
    4. Physical Graffiti
    5. Houses of the Holy
    6. Dark Side of the Moon
    7. Wish You Were Here
    8. Rust Never Sleeps
    9. What's Going On
    10. Al Green Greatest Hits
    11. Zuma
    12. Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
    13. Born to Run
    14. After the Gold Rush
    15. Songs in the Key of Life
    16. LA Woman
    17. Animals
    18. Who's Next
    19. Rumours
    20. Sticky Fingers
    21. Meddle
    22. Exile on Main St.
    23. Band of Gypsies
    24. Bad Co.
    25. Machine Head
    26. Unknown Pleasures
    Man, Johnny, I'm impressed with that list and you're a BIG Led Zeppelin fan as I am and I would have those albums listed too.

    But what I'm really impressed with is you have Band Of Gypsies on your list. What I'm NOT impressed with is, you have Band Of Gypsies way too low on your list=HAHA. That one might be on top of my list. I'll list some of mine when I get the time.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    SVRDhand13 said:
    For me Bowie dominated the 70s (looking at this retroactively since I was born mid-80s).  

    Hunky Dory
    Ziggy Stardust
    Aladdin Sane
    Station to Station
    Low
    "Heroes"
    Lodger



    You could almost say Bowie's 70s output was some of the best 80s music of it's time.  He was definitely ahead of the times then.  Oddly enough (to me anyway), in the 80s, I think he was too much stuck in that decade.  But he sure went out with class making Blackstar.
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • GB281198
    GB281198 Virginia Posts: 631
    A few more I thought of:

    Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger 
    Van Morrison - Moondance
    Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel 
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    GB281198 said:
    A few more I thought of:

    Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger 
    Van Morrison - Moondance
    Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel 

    Three fine picks there!  
    Red Headed Stranger is one of my very favorite country LPs.
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • ekwipt
    ekwipt Vancouver Posts: 1,038
    Some unmentioned personal favs:
    Lee Moses - Time and Place
    Terry Reid - Seed of Memory
    Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah
    Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of
    the Apocalypse 
    Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat

  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    ekwipt said:
    Some unmentioned personal favs:
    Lee Moses - Time and Place
    Terry Reid - Seed of Memory
    Pharoah Sanders - Pharoah
    Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes of
    the Apocalypse 
    Cat Stevens - Teaser and the Firecat


    Terry Reid!  You don't hear that name often, which is a shame.  Reid made some great records.  But I only have his self-titles second LP and the third one, River.  I'll have to check out Seed of Memory.

    And how very cool to see Pharoah Sanders mentioned!  I have an even half dozen of Sanders' records and really love them, but I don't have either of his albums titled Pharoah, his first from 1965 (also called Pharoah's First) or the 1977 Pharoah album.  More good stuff to check out!   

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    -Roberto Benigni

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