Top 41 Music Albums of 1971
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Onater 
My Top 10 songs of 1971:
10. Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat (Songs Of Love And Hate)
9. Leonard Cohen - Sing Another Song, Boys (Songs Of Love And Hate)
8. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (Maggot Brain)
7. Carla Bley & Paul Haines - Hotel Overture (Escalator Over The Hill)
6. Can - Halleluwah (Tago Mago)
5. Joni Mitchell - Blue (Blue)
4. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (What's Going On)
3. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (What's Going On)
2. David Bowie - Life On Mars (Hunky Dory)
1. Joni Mitchell - The Last Time I Saw Richard (Blue)
- Chart updated: 01/25/2020 06:45
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:06).
- Chart size: 41 albums.
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"You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes me kind. The crumbs of love that you offer me, they're the crumbs I've left behind."
Favourite Tracks: Sing Another Song Boys, Famous Blue Raincoat, Avalanche, Joan Of Arc, Last Year's Man [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Sing Another Song Boys, Famous Blue Raincoat, Avalanche, Joan Of Arc, Last Year's Man [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Year of Release:
1971
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"Richard, you haven't really changed, I said, it's just that now you're romanticizing some pain that's in your head, you got tombs in your eyes, but the songs you punched are dreaming, listen, they sing of love so sweet."
Favourite Tracks: The Last Time I Saw Richard, Blue, River, A Case Of You, All I Want [First added to this chart: 03/18/2017]
Favourite Tracks: The Last Time I Saw Richard, Blue, River, A Case Of You, All I Want [First added to this chart: 03/18/2017]
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1971
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"SEARCHING FOR MY BLACK DOPE, HALELELELELELUWAH!"
Side 1 is a bunch of cool, trippy, kinda spooky prog rock tracks. Side 2 is a massive, repetitive, hypnotic jam that grows in insanity throughout. Suddenly, the repetition and hypnotic rhythms of the first disc disappear on side 3 in favour of 17 minutes of scary, ambient, dissonant noise. The first half of side 4 is just ridiculous, and the second half returns to the style of the first few tracks. It's quite a journey to listen to, and not an easy one at that. But it is so hypnotic and weird, there aren't a lot of albums that can compare.
Favourite Tracks: Halleluwah, Oh Yeah, Paperhouse [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Side 1 is a bunch of cool, trippy, kinda spooky prog rock tracks. Side 2 is a massive, repetitive, hypnotic jam that grows in insanity throughout. Suddenly, the repetition and hypnotic rhythms of the first disc disappear on side 3 in favour of 17 minutes of scary, ambient, dissonant noise. The first half of side 4 is just ridiculous, and the second half returns to the style of the first few tracks. It's quite a journey to listen to, and not an easy one at that. But it is so hypnotic and weird, there aren't a lot of albums that can compare.
Favourite Tracks: Halleluwah, Oh Yeah, Paperhouse [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
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1971
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"You see, war is not the answer, for only love can conquer hate."
This is the sound of a man who took his sadness and turned it into hope. Rather than moping about his problems, as many musicians have, Gaye did all he could to bring love and joy to as many people as he could. Call it corny and idealistic, but this is some of the most sincere and beautiful music ever written.
Favourite Tracks: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), What's Going On, Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), What's Happening Brother [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
This is the sound of a man who took his sadness and turned it into hope. Rather than moping about his problems, as many musicians have, Gaye did all he could to bring love and joy to as many people as he could. Call it corny and idealistic, but this is some of the most sincere and beautiful music ever written.
Favourite Tracks: Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology), What's Going On, Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler), What's Happening Brother [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Year of Release:
1971
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"They check her flavor by sticking straws into her eyes."
Favourite Tracks: Hotel Overture, Escalator Over The Hill, Why, Rawalpindi Blues, End Of Rawalpindi [First added to this chart: 07/07/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Hotel Overture, Escalator Over The Hill, Why, Rawalpindi Blues, End Of Rawalpindi [First added to this chart: 07/07/2018]
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"You can't cry cause you'll look broke down, but you're cryin' anyway cause you're all broke down."
Favourite Tracks: Luv N' Haight, Family Affair, Runnin' Away, Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa [First added to this chart: 09/05/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Luv N' Haight, Family Affair, Runnin' Away, Thank You For Talkin' To Me Africa [First added to this chart: 09/05/2017]
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1971
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Favourite Tracks: Amen, Dearly Beloved, Attaining
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"Mother Earth is pregnant for the third time, for y'all have knocked her up. I have tasted the maggots in the mind of the universe. I was not offended, for I knew I had to rise above it all, or drown in my own shit."
Favourite Tracks: Maggot Brain, Can You Get To That, Hit It And Quit It, Wars Of Armageddon [First added to this chart: 08/28/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Maggot Brain, Can You Get To That, Hit It And Quit It, Wars Of Armageddon [First added to this chart: 08/28/2017]
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1971
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4,454
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"Pela mulher carpideira pra nos louvar e cuspir, e pelas moscas bicheiras a nos beijar e cobrir, e pela paz derradeira que enfim vai nos redimir, Deus lhe pague."
Favourite Tracks: Construção, Deus lhe pague, Desalento, Samba de Orly [First added to this chart: 01/25/2020]
Favourite Tracks: Construção, Deus lhe pague, Desalento, Samba de Orly [First added to this chart: 01/25/2020]
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1971
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2,027
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"Hymen hunter, hands of steel, crack you open and your red flesh peel."
Favourite Tracks: Diana, Drip Drip, The Herald [First added to this chart: 07/06/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Diana, Drip Drip, The Herald [First added to this chart: 07/06/2018]
Year of Release:
1971
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Top 41 Music Albums of 1971 composition
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| Yes | 2 | 5% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 5% | |
| Miles Davis | 2 | 5% | |
| Pharoah Sanders | 2 | 5% | |
| Sly & The Family Stone | 1 | 2% | |
| Faust | 1 | 2% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 1 | 2% | |
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16 | 39% | |
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14 | 34% | |
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3 | 7% | |
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2 | 5% | |
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Top 41 Music Albums of 1971 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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 Up 6 from 27th to 21stLive-Evil by Miles Davis |
| Up 3 from 11th to 8th Maggot Brain by Funkadelic |
| Up 2 from 19th to 17th Faust by Faust |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 3 from 7th to 10th First Utterance by Comus |
| Down 3 from 21st to 24th Aqualung by Jethro Tull |
| Down 3 from 22nd to 25th Jack Johnson (Original Soundtrack Recording) by Miles Davis |
| New entries |
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 Javanese Court Gamelan From The Pura Paku Alaman, Jogyakartaby K.R.T. Wasitodipuro |
| Dez Anos Depois by Nara Leão |
| Caetano Veloso (1971) by Caetano Veloso |
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