Music: What are your favorite Seventies Albums?

[Bourque]

What's Goin' On
Blue
Songs in the Key of Life
Rumours
Blood on the Tracks
Exile on Main St
London Calling
Born to Run
Tapestry
Horses
Innervisions
Remain in Light
Ziggy Stardust
Ramones - self-titled
Exodus
The Great Twenty-Eight

I don't expect people to post a mandatory number of albums. If you feel like posting one that's fine.

 

[koyvoo]

Physical Graffiti

 

[Teemu]

Led Zeppelin - IV
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Television - Marquee Moon
Steely Dan - Aja
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Willie Nelson - Stardust
The Who - Quadrophenia

 

[Bourque]

Led Zeppelin - IV
Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Television - Marquee Moon
Steely Dan - Aja ...
Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Willie Nelson - Stardust
The Who - Quadrophenia

As always, a great post from @Teemu

 

[reckoning]

1. Joni Mitchell - Blue
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
4. Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
5. Heart - Dreamboat Annie
6. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
7. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
8. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
9. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
10. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

HMs: Moondance, Ziggy Stardust, Marquee Moon, London Calling

 

[Bourque]

1. Joni Mitchell - Blue
2. Led Zeppelin - IV
3. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
4. Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St.
5. Heart - Dreamboat Annie
6. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
7. Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
8. Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks
9. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
10. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here

HMs: Moondance, Ziggy Stardust, Marquee Moon, London Calling

As always, a great post from @reckoning

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality

Black Sabbath - Volume 4

Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy

Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks

 

[Chairman Maouth]

You guys all have some great picks. There really isn't a stinker in any of your picks. I'm onboard with Steely Dan, Stevie Wonder, Dylan, Stones, Carole King, Pink Floyd, The Who, Joni, and the Boss.

I would add:

Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love
Bad Company - Bad Company
Badfinger - Straight Up
Bob Seger - Stranger in Town
Dave Mason - Alone Together
The Eagles - The Long Run
Gerry Rafferty - City to City
Golden Earring - Moontan
Gordon Lightfoot - Summer Side of Life
Jeff Beck - Blow by Blow
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
Joan Baez - Diamonds & Rust
Leon Russell - Carney
Jethro Tull - Living in the Past
Nazareth - Razamanaz
Paul Simon - Paul Simon
Deep Purple - Made in Japan & Machine Head
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour '74
Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
Van Morrison - Tupelo Honey
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Blue Öyster Cult - Secret Treaties
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - 4-Way Street
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
The Band + Guests - The Last Waltz
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

 

[frisco]

Limiting One Per Artist:
Jackson Browne-The Pretender
Queen-Day At The Races
Bruce Springsteen-Darkness On The Edge Of Town
Journey-Infinity
Bee Gees-Main Course
Elvis Presley-Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
Johnny Cash-Man In Black
Abba-Arrival
Parallel Lines-Blondie
John Denver-Rocky Mountain High

My Best-Carey

 

[Hippasus]

Brian Eno - Ambient I-IV
Brian Eno - Another Green World
Can - Tago Mago
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Can - Ege Bamyasi
New York Dolls - New York Dolls
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Ramones - Ramones
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra
Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)

 

[PANARIN BREAD FAN]

who-who's next
led zep-physical graffiti & the song remains the same
police-reggatta de blanc
rolling stones-some girls
saturday night fever soundtrack
acdc-highway to hell
black sabbath-masters of reality and vol.4
the cars
queen-news of the world

 

[Chairman Maouth]

who-who's next
led zep-physical graffiti & the song remains the same
police-reggatta de blanc
rolling stones-some girls
saturday night fever soundtrack
acdc-highway to hell
black sabbath-masters of reality and vol.4
the cars
queen-news of the world

I don't know how I forgot Who's Next.

 

[Behn Wilson]

I limiited to studio albums only / no greatest hits here. Kind of dominated by the holy trinity of hard rock from back then, Sabbath, Purple & Zeppelin, though my favorite band is UFO.:

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath, Paranoid, Master of Reality, Volume IV, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, Sabotage
Deep Purple - In Rock, Machine Head
Led Zeppelin - III, IV, Houses Of The Holy, Physical Graffiti

AC/DC - Highway To Hell
Aerosmith - Toys In The Attic, Rocks
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune
Rory Gallagher Top Priority
Judas Priest-Stained Class, Hell Bent For Leather
Motorhead - Motorhead. Overkill, Bomber
Nazareth - Hair Of the Dog
Ted Nugent - Ted Nugent, Cat Scratch Fever
Queen - News Of The WOrld
Rainbow - Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow, Rising, Long Live Rock & Roll
Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells A Story
Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Rush -2112
Ten Years After - A Space In Time
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Robin Trower - Bridge Of Sighs
Scorpions - Virgin Killer, Lovedrive
UFO - Phenomenom, Force It, No Heavy Petting, Lights Out, Obsession
Uriah Heep - The Wizard
Van Halen - Van Halen

 

[VMBM]

Neil Young—After the Gold Rush
The Who—Who's Next
Genesis—A Trick of the Tail
Little Feat—Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Stevie Wonder—Innervisions
Marvin Gaye—What's Going On
Steely Dan—Countdown to Ecstasy
Black Sabbath—Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Alice Cooper—Killer
Ramones—Ramones

HMs: Dr. John's Gumbo, Santana—Abraxas, Cheap Trick—In Color, ABBA: the Album, King Crimson—Red, Todd Rundgren—A Wizard, a True Star, Led Zeppelin—Houses of the Holy, Gentle Giant—Three Friends, Nick Drake—Bryter Layter, AC/DC—Highway to Hell, Creedence Clearwater Revival—Cosmo's Factory... and on and on and on...

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Alice Cooper - Muscle of Love

Happy to see Alice make a list, but mystified by your album choice! From the 70s, I think I'd rank only Lace and Whiskey lower than Muscle of Love. It does have two amazing songs (Crazy Little Child and Teenage Lament '74), but I'm not a big fan of the whole thing. Still, you have my favorite list just for having him (them) in there!

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

As for me - from 70 to 79:

John Lennon – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
The Beatles – Let It Be
Alice Cooper – Easy Action
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Lick My Decals Off, Baby
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
The Mothers of Invention – Weasels Ripped My Flesh
The Mothers of Invention – Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
Alice Cooper – Love It to Death
Yoko Ono – Fly
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
Don Bradshaw-Leather – Distance Between Us
Ornette Coleman – Science Fiction
Le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec – 1973
Dreamies – Auralgraphic Entertainment
Residents – Meet the Residents
Harry Nilsson – p***y Cats
Faust – Faust IV
Slapp Happy & Henry Cow – Desperate Straights
Henry Cow – In Praise of Learning
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
Serge Gainsbourg – L'homme à tête de chou
Abdul Wadud – By Myself
Klaatu – Hope
Conventum – À l'affut d'un complot
Smegma – Glamour Girl 1941
Jim French – If Looks Could Kill

 

[Shareefruck]

1. Tago Mago by Can
2. Here Come the Warm Jets by Brian Eno
3. Closer by Joy Division
4. Future Days by Can
5. Lick My Decals Off Baby by Captain Beefheart
6. Marquee Moon by Television
7. Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy by Brian Eno
8. Ege Bamyasi by Can
9. Rock Bottom by Robert Wyatt
10. B*tches Brew by Miles Davis
11. Opposite People by Fela Kuti
12. Metal Box by Public Image Ltd.
13. Interstellar Space by John Coltrane
14. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown by Augustus Pablo
15. Faust IV by Faust
16. Expensive People by Fela Kuti
17. Neu! by Neu!
18. Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon
19. Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division
20. Animals by Pink Floyd

 

[phrenssoa]

My personal top 10:

Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
The Beatles - Let It Be
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Boston - Boston
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Queen - A Night at the Opera
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Happy to see Alice make a list, but mystified by your album choice! From the 70s, I think I'd rank only Lace and Whiskey lower than Muscle of Love. It does have two amazing songs (Crazy Little Child and Teenage Lament '74), but I'm not a big fan of the whole thing. Still, you have my favorite list just for having him (them) in there!

Your post threw me off a little. Did I have the right album? Was I thinking of Billion Dollar Babies?

No, I got it right. Every Cooper album from the '70s has at least a couple of songs I love. Muscle of Love contains four of my all-time favourites: "Big Apple Dreamin'", "Never Been Sold Before", "Hard Hearted Alice" and "Teenage Lament". But having just looked at Billion Dollar Babies, I could have picked that album as easily. "Hello Hooray", "Elected" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" are all still favourites of mine.

I mean, Killer and School's Out and Love It to Death are good too, but I kind of grew out of the shock rock, teen angst and macabre bent the band was putting on songs earlier in their career.

Alice Cooper is a bit of an anomaly for me. I hate bands that use gimmicks to sell themselves. I want artists to stand on their talent, not on face make-up or because some guy in ridiculous boots spits fake blood onto the audience. Alice Cooper had the gimmicks, but they also had the songs and the talent to overcome their gimmicks, whereas bands like Kiss, in my opinion, did not. There are no gimmicks when you put a record on the turntable. There is only the music.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

As for me - from 70 to 79:

John Lennon – John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
The Beatles – Let It Be
Alice Cooper – Easy Action
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band – Lick My Decals Off, Baby
George Harrison – All Things Must Pass
The Mothers of Invention – Weasels Ripped My Flesh
The Mothers of Invention – Burnt Weeny Sandwich
Serge Gainsbourg – Histoire de Melody Nelson
Alice Cooper – Love It to Death
Yoko Ono – Fly
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
Don Bradshaw-Leather – Distance Between Us
Ornette Coleman – Science Fiction
Le Quatuor de jazz libre du Québec – 1973
Dreamies – Auralgraphic Entertainment
Residents – Meet the Residents
Harry Nilsson – p***y Cats
Faust – Faust IV
Slapp Happy & Henry Cow – Desperate Straights
Henry Cow – In Praise of Learning
Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
Serge Gainsbourg – L'homme à tête de chou
Abdul Wadud – By Myself
Klaatu – Hope
Conventum – À l'affut d'un complot
Smegma – Glamour Girl 1941
Jim French – If Looks Could Kill

Zappa, Ono, Nilsson, Klaatu, Funkadelic. Now that's an eclectic list.

 

[Rodgerwilco]

I don't expect people to post a mandatory number of albums. If you feel like posting one that's fine.

I was born in '91 and really was not introduced to a whole lot of 70s music growing up, but my favorite album I can think of from the 70's was:



Such a great album... Almost hypnotic.

 

[Chairman Maouth]

Neil Young—After the Gold Rush
The Who—Who's Next
Genesis—A Trick of the Tail
Little Feat—Feats Don't Fail Me Now
Stevie Wonder—Innervisions
Marvin Gaye—What's Going On
Steely Dan—Countdown to Ecstasy
Black Sabbath—Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Alice Cooper—Killer
Ramones—Ramones

HMs: Dr. John's Gumbo, Santana—Abraxas, Cheap Trick—In Color, ABBA: the Album, King Crimson—Red, Todd Rundgren—A Wizard, a True Star, Led Zeppelin—Houses of the Holy, Gentle Giant—Three Friends, Nick Drake—Bryter Layter, AC/DC—Highway to Hell, Creedence Clearwater Revival—Cosmo's Factory... and on and on and on...

I used to fill in on sound for a band called Pacific Disturbance in the Comox Valley when their regular tech couldn't make it. Richie Hayward, the drummer for Little Feat, had retired to the Comox Valley and along with Jerry Doucette, would sit in with the band, usually at the Mex Pub in Courtenay. Richie died from liver cancer about 15 years ago. Cancer also took Jerry away a couple of years ago.

Further reading: Love from the Music World - Little Feat's Richie Hayward

Pacific Disturbance with Richie Hayward on drums and Jerry Doucette front and centre at the Mex Pub.



Little Feat with Richie on Vancouver Island in his final live performance. He died one month later. Rest in peace, Richie.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Boston - Boston
Van Halen - Van Halen
Stones - Sticky Fingers
Average White Band - Cut The Cake
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Billy Joel - The Stranger
Bob Seger - Stranger In Town
Gerry Rafferty - City to City
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
ELO - Out of the Blue

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Your post threw me off a little. Did I have the right album? Was I thinking of Billion Dollar Babies?

No, I got it right. Every Cooper album from the '70s has at least a couple of songs I love. Muscle of Love contains four of my all-time favourites: "Big Apple Dreamin'", "Never Been Sold Before", "Hard Hearted Alice" and "Teenage Lament". But having just looked at Billion Dollar Babies, I could have picked that album as easily. "Hello Hooray", "Elected" and "No More Mr. Nice Guy" are all still favourites of mine.

I mean, Killer and School's Out and Love It to Death are good too, but I kind of grew out of the shock rock, teen angst and macabre bent the band was putting on songs earlier in their career.

Alice Cooper is a bit of an anomaly for me. I hate bands that use gimmicks to sell themselves. I want artists to stand on their talent, not on face make-up or because some guy in ridiculous boots spits fake blood onto the audience. Alice Cooper had the gimmicks, but they also had the songs and the talent to overcome their gimmicks, whereas bands like Kiss, in my opinion, did not. There are no gimmicks when you put a record on the turntable. There is only the music.

I don't care about the shlock either and absolutely love Alice (band and solo)'s early stuff. You got me to go back to Muscle of Love too, but these 3 songs don't do much for me. Also funny that your favorite from Billion Dollar Babies are not close to mine (I like No More Mr. Nice Guy a lot, but to me it's miles away from Generation Landslide.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Zappa, Ono, Nilsson, Klaatu, Funkadelic. Now that's an eclectic list.

Try Don Bradshaw-Leather and Dreamies!