Top 100 Music Albums of 1971
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- Chart updated: 12/22/2025 13:45
- (Created: 08/24/2013 19:02).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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The first L.P. I ever owned. I still play it today a great album every track is good. Best tracks are Get It, On Life's A Gas and Jeepster the closing track Rip Off and the opening track Mambo Sun would have been great singles.
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1971
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Another great Bowie album from the 70's (1971) this was the album before Ziggy and contains the standards Life On Mars, Changes & Oh You Pretty Things/ But the album is more than that it shows Bowie progressing as a singer & songwriter Quicksand & The Bewlay Brothers are brilliant tracks and along with Queen Bitch & Andy Warhol make this a must have album.
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1971
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19,365
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This is my favourite Stones album quickly followed by Exile On Main St. Sticky Fingers is a great album but songs such as Sister Morphine, Bitch & Wild Horses along with Brown sugar deserve a special mention.
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1971
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16,924
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1971
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19,011
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1971
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1971
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16,140
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1971
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9,006
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1971
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1,662
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1971
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Fleetwood Mac | 2 | 2% | |
| Ann Peebles | 2 | 2% | |
| Dory Previn | 2 | 2% | |
| Gladys Knight & The Pips | 2 | 2% | |
| Carole King | 2 | 2% | |
| Isaac Hayes | 2 | 2% | |
| Elton John | 2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1971 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 3 from 26th to 23rd Imagine by John Lennon |
| Up 1 from 39th to 38th Gonna Take A Miracle by Laura Nyro & Labelle |
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| Down 1 from 23rd to 24th Quiet Fire by Roberta Flack |
| Down 1 from 24th to 25th Here Comes The Sun by Nina Simone |
| Down 1 from 25th to 26th Al Green Gets Next To You by Al Green |
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Chart ratings | Avg. chart rating |
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| ! | 12/15/2025 11:27 | Exist-en-ciel | 145 | 98/100 |
| ! | 03/20/2020 04:15 | DJENNY | 4,365 | 100/100 |
| ! | 02/26/2020 05:39 |  Rhyner | 1,457 | 99/100 |
| ! | 01/14/2017 09:19 |  bobbyb5 | 725 | 90/100 |
| ! | 02/01/2014 15:30 | PauloPaz | 1,759 | 89/100 |
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From bobbyb5 02/18/2017 11:10 | #185896
bobbyb5 02/18/2017 11:10 | #185896
Awesome. I never had 47 in common with someone.
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