Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s by 
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Since the '70s were dominated by a small group of legendary bands that released more than one great record, I decided that on this chart there would be only one album per artist because equally good works were released by people outside this elite and they deserve place here. So, even though pieces like The Doors' "Morrison Hotel", The Stooges' "Raw Power" or David Bowie's "Ziggy" were hugely influential and totally badass, they were cut out in favour of diversity. They can still be seen here before 26/07/2015 with that retrospective feature, though.
- Chart updated: 08/21/2020 19:45
- (Created: 01/05/2014 17:17).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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The parallel between this album and Sgt. Pepper's is inevitable. Both made use of orchestral elements with a rock base and both influenced everyone that came after them. But Milton and Lô had something that The Beatles never could've had: the tropical poetic sensibility in music. The abuse of allegorical elements in the lyrics and the Brazilian historical references represent a delicate but very powerful music statement with repercussions that goes until the present times and that surpasses Brazil's borders.
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1972
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Product of a suicidal man's hopeless and suffering look at life, it's just unique. It's at the same time pop and avant-garde, simple and pretentious, well-thought and sincere. It's lyricism and experimentalism influenced pretty much everyone, and in such a strong way that music history is best divided in 'before' and 'after Unknown Pleasures'.
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1979
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24,936
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It's an utterly impossible task to pick one best phase of Jorge Ben's discography: in the course of his career, the guy explored every possibility of his sound.
Thirteen years after his debut, though, his sound would reach a maturity that is captured in its pinnacle in África Brasil. The funky rhythms, product mainly of a research on African-Brazilian traditional music, create the perfect background for the imagistic, naive lyrics -- the themes vary as much as occultism from soccer and historical characters like Xica da Silva and Zumbi dos Palmares are evoked, placing the last brick in the construction of a lyrical and musical universe all of Jorge's own. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
Thirteen years after his debut, though, his sound would reach a maturity that is captured in its pinnacle in África Brasil. The funky rhythms, product mainly of a research on African-Brazilian traditional music, create the perfect background for the imagistic, naive lyrics -- the themes vary as much as occultism from soccer and historical characters like Xica da Silva and Zumbi dos Palmares are evoked, placing the last brick in the construction of a lyrical and musical universe all of Jorge's own. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
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1976
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1,686
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[First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
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1977
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21,719
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[First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
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1972
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With so much going on at the time both in the world and in his personal life, John decided to take the Primal Scream idea heavily seriously. Critic of everything and everyone, this is undoubtedly the most visceral record ever made. It contains so much anguish that listening to it is at the same time agonizing and sanative. You feel the pain, you identify with it, you project yourself on it and, most importantly, you feel the urge to do something about it. And that's the beauty of the thing. It has the power of showing the most deep and obscure parts of human soul but for people to be authentic, to go and try to make things better.
Very few people acknowledge the influence this album had to the development of punk rock. John's forthright lyrics and singing voice as well as some minimalist melodies and arranges are as powerful and raw as in any Velvet Underground album. 'I Found Out' is punk and 'Well Well Well' is very punk. When he says "the dream is over", he is declaring the failure of the hippie movement... and, consequently, the beginning of what comes as a response to it. Let's please give John Lennon his rightful place amongst the proto-punks. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
Very few people acknowledge the influence this album had to the development of punk rock. John's forthright lyrics and singing voice as well as some minimalist melodies and arranges are as powerful and raw as in any Velvet Underground album. 'I Found Out' is punk and 'Well Well Well' is very punk. When he says "the dream is over", he is declaring the failure of the hippie movement... and, consequently, the beginning of what comes as a response to it. Let's please give John Lennon his rightful place amongst the proto-punks. [First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
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1970
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Big dreams turned out like big disappointment. The band of those who had everything to be the rockers of the generation ended up with one less genius, a lot less money and approaching the end of the line. Nevertheless, it is in moments like this that bitterness and desperation gives birth to brilliance.
The personal chaos of Alex Chilton is translated into the language of irony ("Thank You Friends"), a general farewell ("Take Care") and sheer horror ("Holocaust"). The connection that the singer and Chris Bell developed in the form of a friendship/rivalry haunts one of the saddest songs ever, "Big Black Car", in which the first frightfully foresees the accident that killed the latter and unadvisingly shares his position.
The greatest of the great songs of this masterpiece must be "Kangaroo", a pseudo-religious description of a gamechanging encounter and the openness of heart it creates and demands, a theme gorgeously represented by the blissful mess of the instrumentation. When what appears to be contigent failures that can be overcome in another try, like the distribution and booking problems that the band faced, finally show themselves as an unescapable necessity, this end-of-the-line experience may result either in immobility and incapability to reinvent life or coming against it and doing a cool jerk. [First added to this chart: 11/11/2014]
The personal chaos of Alex Chilton is translated into the language of irony ("Thank You Friends"), a general farewell ("Take Care") and sheer horror ("Holocaust"). The connection that the singer and Chris Bell developed in the form of a friendship/rivalry haunts one of the saddest songs ever, "Big Black Car", in which the first frightfully foresees the accident that killed the latter and unadvisingly shares his position.
The greatest of the great songs of this masterpiece must be "Kangaroo", a pseudo-religious description of a gamechanging encounter and the openness of heart it creates and demands, a theme gorgeously represented by the blissful mess of the instrumentation. When what appears to be contigent failures that can be overcome in another try, like the distribution and booking problems that the band faced, finally show themselves as an unescapable necessity, this end-of-the-line experience may result either in immobility and incapability to reinvent life or coming against it and doing a cool jerk. [First added to this chart: 11/11/2014]
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1978
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[First added to this chart: 06/07/2014]
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1971
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5,107
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[First added to this chart: 01/05/2014]
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1971
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s composition
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| 1970 | 9 | 9% | |
| 1971 | 14 | 14% | |
| 1972 | 13 | 13% | |
| 1973 | 7 | 7% | |
| 1974 | 9 | 9% | |
| 1975 | 9 | 9% | |
| 1976 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1977 | 11 | 11% | |
| 1978 | 11 | 11% | |
| 1979 | 7 | 7% |
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| Various Artists | 2 | 2% | |
| Fela Kuti & Africa 70 | 1 | 1% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 1 | 1% | |
| Miles Davis | 1 | 1% | |
| Vashti Bunyan | 1 | 1% | |
| Víctor Jara | 1 | 1% | |
| Ramones | 1 | 1% | |
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32 | 32% | |
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31 | 31% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s chart changes
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| Down 1 from 63rd to 64th A Barca Do Sol by A Barca Do Sol |
| Down 1 from 64th to 65th Blank Generation by Richard Hell & The Voidoids |
| Down 1 from 65th to 66th Radio-Aktivität [Radio-Activity] by Kraftwerk |
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 Kimono My Houseby Sparks |
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| 100/100 | 09/30/2016 02:53 |  Bristoc | | 89/100 |
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From Jbalbinolr 08/28/2018 02:10
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I can´t believe someone else knows Simon Diaz!!!
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Decurso 10/22/2014 16:53
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Great source of recomendations for older Brazilian music!
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tgarritsen 01/06/2014 00:19
I really like the inclusion of Blank Generation, especially because this chart has a lot of punk in general on it.
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