Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s
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Honorable mentions:

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - Devo | Remember The Future - Nektar
Ashes Are Burning - Renaissance | Moonmadness - Camel | Horses - Patti Smith
Pink Flag - Wire | 2nd - Agitation Free | The Man-Machine - Kraftwerk
Raw Power - The Stooges | Innervisions - Stevie Wonder | Zuckerzeit - Cluster
Tapestry - Carole King | Force It - UFO | Cold Fact - Rodriguez | Neu! - Neu!
Déjà Vu - Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young | Jailbreak - Thin lizzy | Faust IV - Faust
Future Days - Can | Fear of Music - Talking Heads | Workingman's Dead - Grateful Dead
Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Part One - The Kinks | Blue - Joni Mitchell
Here Come the Warm Jets - Brian Eno | Songs of Love And Hate - Leonard Cohen
The Madcap Laugh - Syd Barrett | Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus - Spirit
Just Another Diamond Day - Vashti Bunyan | Exodus - Bob Marley and The Wailers
For Your Pleasure - Roxy Music | Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers
Band on The Run - Paul McCartney & Wings | Can't Buy a Thrill - Steely Dan
Hero and Heroine - Strawbs | Third - Soft Machine | Fear - John Cale

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[First added to this chart: 09/03/2015]
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1972
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1970
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1976
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1978
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1979
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s composition

Year Albums %


1970 17 17%
1971 14 14%
1972 13 13%
1973 6 6%
1974 6 6%
1975 8 8%
1976 8 8%
1977 13 13%
1978 8 8%
1979 7 7%
Artist Albums %


Pink Floyd 5 5%
Led Zeppelin 5 5%
Black Sabbath 3 3%
David Bowie 3 3%
Deep Purple 2 2%
Jethro Tull 2 2%
Ramones 2 2%
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Country Albums %


United Kingdom 59 59%
United States 27 27%
Canada 5 5%
Germany 4 4%
Mixed Nationality 4 4%
France 1 1%
Live? Albums %
No 99 99%
Yes 1 1%

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41 albums in common. Good chart. Enjoyed it. Top quality. My favourite decade for music. Great to see so many of my favourite albums. Particularly good to see I Want To See The Bright Lights Tonight by Richard and Linda Thompson. Amazing record. I'd forgotten about that one. Good 70s list.
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