joe's 100 Fav Albums From 1970

[joe]

I decided to do a year to year compilation of my fav albums from the 70's. To do a list from the whole decade seemed such an overwhelming and daunting task. In some ways this easier but on the other hand more work and time is required. But hey, time is one thing I have a lot of.


1.Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
2.Stray-Stray
3.Paranoid-Black Sabbath
4.May Blitz-May Blitz(UK hard rock/heavy psych/prog)
5.Emerson, Lake And Palmer-Emerson, Lake And Palmer
6.Kingdom Come-Sir Lord Baltimore
7.Thank Christ For The Bomb-Groundhogs
8.Lucifer's Friend-Lucifer's Friend(Ger. hard rock/heavy psych)
9.Death Walks Behind You-Atomic Rooster
10.Twelve Dreams Of Dr. Sardonicus-Spirit
11.Parachute-The Pretty Things
12.III-Led Zeppelin
13.It'll All Work Out In Boomland-T2(UK heavy prog/hard rock)
14.Cactus-Cactus
15.Third-Soft Machine
16.Abraxas-Santana
17.Fire And Water-Free
18.In The Wake Of Posieden-King Crimson
19.Warpig-Warpig(Can. hard rock/heavypsych)
20.Cricklewood Green-Ten Years After
21.Mountains-Steamhammer
22.Dead Man-Josefus(US hard rock/blues)
23.Atomic Rooster-Atomic Rooster
24.Dragonfly-Dragonfly(US hard rock/heavy psych/prog)
25.On The Boards-Taste
26.Fun House-The Stooges
27.After The Gold Rush-Neil Young
28.In Rock-Deep Purple
29.Lie Back and Enjoy It-Juicy Lucy
30.Affinity-Affinity(UK psych/prog)
31.Morrison Hotel-The Doors
32.Clear Blue Sky-Clear Blue Sky(UK hard rock/prog)
33.Layla-Derek And The Dominoes
34.Woman And Children First-Ancient Grease(UK hard rock/heavy psych)
35.Heavy Equipment-Euclid(US hard roch/psych)
36.All Things Must Pass-George Harrison
37.Moondance-Van Morrison
38.Elastic Rock-Nucleus(UK jazz rock)
39.Warhorse-Warhorse(UK hard rock/prog)
40.Lizard-King Crimson
41.The Last Puff-Spooky Tooth
42.Getting To This-Blodwyn Pig
43.Let It Be-The Beatles
44.As Your Mind Flies By-Rare Bird(UK prog)
45.Stone The Crows-Stone The Crows(UK blues rock/prog)
46.Wishbone Ash-Wishbone Ash
47.Deja vu-Crosby, Stills And Nash
48.Closer To Home-Grand Funk Railroad
49.Accept-Chicken Shack(UK blues rock)
50.Idlewood South-Allman Brothers
51.Gentle Giant-Gentle Giant
52.Josefus-Josefus
53.Burning Plague-Burning Plague(Belgium blues rock)
54.Time And A Word-Yes
55.Yeti-Amon Duul II
56.Sugarloaf-Sugarloaf
57.Loaded -Velvet Underground
58.Cosmo's Factory-CCR
59.Shazam-The Move
60.Patto-Patto(UK prog/blues rock)
61.Bitches Brew-Miles Davis
62.Barbed Wire Sandwich-Black Cat Bones(UK blues rock)
63.Johnny Winter And-Johnny Winter
64.Meduasa-Trapeze(UK hard rock)
65.If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It all Over You-Caravan
66.Mad Dogs And Englishman-Joe Cocker
67.Horse-Horse(UK hard rock)
68.Blue Mountain Eagle-Blue Mountain Eagle(US heavy psych)
69.Crabby Appleton-Crabby Appleton(US westcoast rock)
70.Cressida-Cressida(UK prog)
71.Eyes-Hairy Chapter(krautrock)
72.Benefit-Jethro Tull
73.Gravy Train-Gravy Train(UK prog)
74.Watt-Ten Years After
75.Gasoline Alley-Rod Stewart
76.American Woman-The Guess Who
77.Stoned Guitar-Human Instinct(NZ hard rock/heavy psych)
78.Stage Fright-The Band
79.Ode To John Law-Stone The Crows
80.Snafu-East Of Eden(UK prog)
81.Air Conditioning-Curved Air(UK prog/psych)
82.H To He Who Am The Only One-Van Der Graaf Generator
83.Bridge Over Troubled Water-Simon And Garfunkel
84.Just A Poke-Sweet Smoke(US prog/psych)
85.Rides Again-James Gang
86.Grand Funk-Grand Funk Railroad
87.Future Blues-Canned Heat
88.Forms And Feelings-Love Sculpture(UK blues rock)
89.Climbing!-Mountain
90.Demian-Demian(US hard rock)
91.Out Of Uranus-Killing Floor(UK blues rock)
92.John Barleycorn Must Die-Traffic
93.High Tide-High Tide(UK psych/prog)
94.Aardvark-Aardvark(UK prog/psych)
95.The Polite Force-Egg(Canterbury prog)
96.Struttin'-The Meters(US funk)
97.Buttocks-Charlies(Finnish hard rock)
98.Drive It!-Lincoln St Exit(US hard rock/heavy psych)
99.Ma Kelley's Greasy Spoon-Status Quo
100.Golden Earring-Golden Earring

 

[LG]

Putting my bookmark in Joe's latest Magnum Opus...looks like you are in for a lot of typing Joe...

 

[joe]

I crank up the stereo and listen to some of the music from that year while I did this. Actually I enjoyed it. I came up with 136 albums from 1970. The first 25 are the hardest to place in order. I must admit it's been a while since I've listened to some of these albums.

 

[LG]

I can't do it Joe, I could draw up a list and then I would never stop editing it or changing the order...I'll just sit back and let you do the leg work and enjoy the results...

 

[Magic]

1970 was a super busy year for music. Props to you joe for making a list such as this, it is very difficult to even begin ranking albums from this era. I once did a music timeline beginning with 1969 *woodstock* and the work was almost overwhelming. I think I made it to 1985 in the timeline then quit........

 

[hawk11]

Very impressive list Joe and I thought I had a pretty good knowledge of obscure bands, though you certainly could run circles around me .

 

[DaKillerWolf]

Interesting list ,Joe

 

[joe]

Thanx for the comments everybody.

My plan is to make it to 2010. A long way away yet. I do enjoy doing it and it's something I've always wanted to do. I plan on doing 1971 today and posting tomorrow.