Top 86 Music Albums of the 1970s by Mother Nature's Son

My favourite albums of the 1970s.

A weird error seems to have happened with this chart, so I'll have to extend it to 100 albums again later.

• Chart updated: 01/31/2019 01:45
• (Created: 08/31/2013 18:34).
• Chart size: 86 albums.

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Love You 

 The Beach Boys

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Fills me with joy like no other album. Very uplifting and synth-heavy, extremely unpretentious, but underneath is hidden an earnestness and a glimpse of the troubled Brian Wilson's honest personality. I love you too, The Beach Boys!

Favourite tracks: "Let Us Go on This Way" & "I'll Bet He's Nice" [First added to this chart: 09/02/2013]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

78 charts

Rank Score:

242

Rank in 1977:

84

Rank in 1970s:

922

Overall Rank:

5,487

Average Rating:

 72 (154 votes)

Comments:

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Out Of The Blue 

 Electric Light Orchestra

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Jeff Lynne's creative burst. 70 minutes full of ELO quality including the interesting "Concerto for a Rainy Day"-suite based on weather and how it affects mood change. Lovely album to get lost in.

Favourite tracks: "Turn to Stone", "Sweet Talkin' Woman" & "Wild West Hero" [First added to this chart: 09/02/2013]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

479 charts

Rank Score:

3,646

Rank in 1977:

14

Rank in 1970s:

115

Overall Rank:

492

Average Rating:

 79 (593 votes)

Comments:

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Low 

 David Bowie

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A new career in a new town for David Bowie. Very different from previous albums, it's building up from silly, weird David Bowie pop to profoundly sad and eerie ambient (Berlin) walls of sound. Emotionally exhausting!

Favourite tracks: "Warszawa" & "Art Decade" [First added to this chart: 09/02/2013]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

1,486 charts

Rank Score:

19,348

Rank in 1977:

4

Rank in 1970s:

17

Overall Rank:

55

Average Rating:

 86 (2,028 votes)

Comments:

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Pacific Ocean Blue 

 Dennis Wilson

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Wow! Where did this come from? Dennis Wilson, the drummer kept relatively in the background, suddenly came up with the greatest Beach Boys solo album. Highly orchestrated and walls of sound backed with strongly emotional power, it's an album to blow your mind. "Thoughts of You" is one of the most haunting beautiful experiences I've ever had. So sad to think about his tragic death and the follow-up that he never finished.

Favourite tracks: "Moonshine" & "Thoughts of You" [First added to this chart: 09/02/2013]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

170 charts

Rank Score:

770

Rank in 1977:

40

Rank in 1970s:

411

Overall Rank:

2,131

Average Rating:

 78 (191 votes)

Comments:

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Animals 

 Pink Floyd

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We're all just animals! There's a really pessimistic, bitter tone to the album, but also loads of instrumental beauty with occasional singing. It can really suck you in and leave you drained for hope. Powerful stuff!

Favourite tracks: "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" & "Sheep" [First added to this chart: 09/02/2013]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

1,711 charts

Rank Score:

25,516

Rank in 1977:

2

Rank in 1970s:

8

Overall Rank:

36

Average Rating:

 88 (2,722 votes)

Comments:

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Rumours 

 Fleetwood Mac

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Relatively light pop rock, but what a track list! Rumours say that this isn't a cool album. Those rumours are false!

Favourite track: "Never Going Back Again" & "Go Your Own Way" [First added to this chart: 09/22/2013]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

2,195 charts

Rank Score:

33,997

Rank in 1977:

1

Rank in 1970s:

6

Overall Rank:

21

Average Rating:

 87 (2,538 votes)

Comments:

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News Of The World 

 Queen

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Queen will rock you, to the extent that you might get a sheer heart attack! I'm not very crazy about the high use of "We Will Rock You" and "We Are the Champions" as sports anthems, but it only proves further that Queen are the champions of music!

Favourite tracks: "We Are the Champions", "Spread Your Wings" & "It's Late" [First added to this chart: 11/03/2013]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

353 charts

Rank Score:

1,885

Rank in 1977:

23

Rank in 1970s:

204

Overall Rank:

954

Average Rating:

 77 (630 votes)

Comments:

47

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Marquee Moon 

 Television

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Wow! This so-called "art punk" is so much better than what I normally like to refer to as "pure punk" (Sex Pistols, Ramones, Wire, etc.). These guitar riffs and textures are indeed pure art, a guiding light of an album!

Favourite tracks: "Marquee Moon" & "Torn Curtain" [First added to this chart: 03/11/2014]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

1,724 charts

Rank Score:

21,692

Rank in 1977:

3

Rank in 1970s:

14

Overall Rank:

47

Average Rating:

 86 (1,832 votes)

Comments:

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"Heroes" 

 David Bowie

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The second heroic album in the Berlin trilogy. Starts out with a set of cacophonic songs with one hit in between, before it turns ambient and ends with the not so great "The Secret Life of Arabia". Again easy to sense a sense of doubt!

Favourite tracks: "'Heroes'" & "Neuköln" [First added to this chart: 01/22/2014]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

845 charts

Rank Score:

6,727

Rank in 1977:

8

Rank in 1970s:

64

Overall Rank:

263

Average Rating:

 83 (1,447 votes)

Comments:

79

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Talking Heads: 77 

 Talking Heads

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There's a new wave of new feelings coming with the psycho killers of Talking Heads. Quite insane, very energetic and SO much fun!

Favourite tracks: "Tentative Decisions" & "Psycho Killer" [First added to this chart: 01/25/2014]

Year of Release:

1977

Appears in:

581 charts

Rank Score:

3,582

Rank in 1977:

15

Rank in 1970s:

116

Overall Rank:

501

Average Rating:

 82 (833 votes)

Comments:

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Top 86 Music Albums of the 1970s composition

Year	Albums	%
1970	12	14%
1971	12	14%
1972	8	9%
1973	8	9%
1974	7	8%
1975	5	6%
1976	7	8%
1977	13	15%
1978	6	7%
1979	8	9%

Artist	Albums	%
The Beach Boys	8	9%
David Bowie	6	7%
Pink Floyd	5	6%
Queen	5	6%
Van Morrison	4	5%
John Lennon	4	5%
George Harrison	4	5%
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Country	Albums	%
	52	60%
	27	31%
	3	3%
	3	3%
	1	1%

Top 86 Music Albums of the 1970s chart changes

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80/100	07/18/2014 08:48	greatson	888	80/100
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95/100	11/14/2013 22:50	Antonio-Pedro	566	90/100

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From vancevisuals 10/29/2015 02:03

Any chart with this much Beatles and Floyd is a good one...

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From Mother Nature's Son 12/09/2013 21:00

Ooops! Actually thought I had added "A New World Record" already. "On the Third Day" and "Face the Music" should be here as well since they're both better than the first two ELO albums. The way I'm building up charts currently doesn't necessarily make much sense if any!

Also, I expect Supertramp and Alan Parsons to be here someday, if not, they'll at least end up somewhere just outside the decade chart.

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From Bleebop 12/09/2013 02:51

Surprising to see this much ELO listed without including "A New World Record". Also would expect to see some Supertramp or Alan Parsons.

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From Antonio-Pedro 11/14/2013 22:52

Now with who is next! :-)
Ps Great to see that you picked slayed it is a great album and just some few peoples that i know like it very nice pick

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From Mother Nature's Son 10/26/2013 21:04

Oh, yeah. No "Who's Next" is a mistake. It used to be on my overall chart. I'll probably add it tomorrow!

Btw, my chart's currently not finished (other essential albums missing)!

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From Antonio-Pedro 10/26/2013 20:21

Bro I enjoy others tastes of muaics but achart of the 70 Without Whos next?

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