The 70 Best Albums of the 1970s
by Paste (2012)

Founded in 2002 and based in Atlanta, GA, USA, Paste (PasteMagazine.com) is an online culture magazine that covers music, movies, TV, comedy, games, books, comics, drinks and politics. These are their best albums of 1970s.
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70.

The Harder They Come 
Soundtrack compilation

 Various Artists

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Year of Release:

1972

Appears in:

215 charts

Rank Score:

1,125

Rank in 1972:

29

Rank in 1970s:

292

Overall Rank:

1,517

Average Rating:

 80 (198 votes)

Comments:

13

Total albums: 1. Page 1 of 1

The 70 Best Albums of the 1970s composition

Country	Albums	%
	32	46%
	25	36%
	5	7%
	5	7%
	2	3%
	1	1%

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Rating	Date updated	Member	Chart ratings	Avg. chart rating
70/100  !	10/20/2025 15:16	Goliath	351	86/100
90/100  !	11/24/2024 14:30	Johnnyo	2,557	80/100
80/100  !	03/31/2023 06:00	V1LL	7	83/100
65/100  !	12/11/2020 08:01	pjohnsongolf	272	89/100
80/100  !	11/11/2020 13:07	Larcx13	1,145	86/100

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This chart has a Bayesian average rating of 83.6/100, a mean average of 82.3/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 82.8/100. The standard deviation for this chart is 12.0.

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From AMEIER 01/19/2015 15:52 | #131946

I'll give my applause for Blood on the Tracks on te TOP. Cheers!

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From GandalfORiley345 05/02/2014 02:46 | #110550

this list is really decent, nice and no repetitive artists

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From tgarritsen 10/16/2013 23:52 | #88544

Really good list. They didn't want to focus on any particular artists since there's no artists with more then two albums on this list.

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From nutso42 09/10/2013 15:08 | #85643

Aside from the glaring lack of London Calling, this is an excellent chart.

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