Top 41 Music Albums of 1971 by 
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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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"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]
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1971
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"Well you can lead a horse to water, but you're never gonna make him drink. And you can lead a man to slaughter, but you're never gonna make him think."
Favourite Tracks: Me And My Woman, The Same Old Rock [First added to this chart: 05/11/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Me And My Woman, The Same Old Rock [First added to this chart: 05/11/2019]
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1971
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848
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"If songs were lines in a conversation, the situation would be fine."
I'm not sure why but for some reason this is on both my 1970 chart and my 1971 chart.
Favourite Tracks: Northern Sky, One Of These Things First, Hazey Jane II, Hazey Jane I [First added to this chart: 03/04/2018]
I'm not sure why but for some reason this is on both my 1970 chart and my 1971 chart.
Favourite Tracks: Northern Sky, One Of These Things First, Hazey Jane II, Hazey Jane I [First added to this chart: 03/04/2018]
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1971
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6,242
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"Camps of panoply and majesty, what is freedom of choice? Where do I stand in the pageantry? Whose is my voice?"
Favourite Tracks: A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, Lemmings [First added to this chart: 03/11/2018]
Favourite Tracks: A Plague Of Lighthouse Keepers, Lemmings [First added to this chart: 03/11/2018]
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1971
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1,580
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"And no one sings me lullabies, and no one makes me close my eyes, so I throw the windows wide, and call to you across the sky."
Favourite tracks: Echoes, A Pillow Of Winds, Fearless, One Of These Days [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Favourite tracks: Echoes, A Pillow Of Winds, Fearless, One Of These Days [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
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1971
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10,250
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"And later on the golf course after drinking tea, it started raining golf balls and she protected me."
Favourite Tracks: Nine Feet Underground, Golf Girl [First added to this chart: 07/06/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Nine Feet Underground, Golf Girl [First added to this chart: 07/06/2018]
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1971
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1,998
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"How do you dare tell me that I'm my father's son when that was just an accident of birth? I'd rather look around me, compose a better song, 'cos that's the honest measure of my worth."
Favourite Tracks: Wind Up, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, Mother Goose, Cross-Eyed Mary [First added to this chart: 03/11/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Wind Up, Aqualung, Locomotive Breath, Mother Goose, Cross-Eyed Mary [First added to this chart: 03/11/2018]
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1971
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5,639
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"Take a look at the lawman, beating up the wrong guy. Oh man, wonder if he'll ever know, he's in the best selling show."
Favourite Tracks: Life On Mars, The Bewlay Brothers, Quicksand, Oh! You Pretty Things [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Life On Mars, The Bewlay Brothers, Quicksand, Oh! You Pretty Things [First added to this chart: 03/07/2017]
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1971
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"Faith has been broken, tears must be cried. Let's do some living after we die."
Favourite Tracks: Wild Horses, Brown Sugar, Dead Flowers, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile [First added to this chart: 07/24/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Wild Horses, Brown Sugar, Dead Flowers, Sister Morphine, Moonlight Mile [First added to this chart: 07/24/2017]
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1971
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"Speak to me of summer, long winters longer than time can remember."
Favourite Tracks: Starship Trooper, I've Seen All Good People, Yours Is No Disgrace, Perpetual Change [First added to this chart: 09/05/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Starship Trooper, I've Seen All Good People, Yours Is No Disgrace, Perpetual Change [First added to this chart: 09/05/2017]
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Top 41 Music Albums of 1971 composition
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| Pharoah Sanders | 2 | 5% | |
| Yes | 2 | 5% | |
| Pink Floyd | 2 | 5% | |
| Miles Davis | 2 | 5% | |
| Serge Gainsbourg | 1 | 2% | |
| Caravan | 1 | 2% | |
| Leonard Cohen | 1 | 2% | |
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16 | 39% | |
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13 | 32% | |
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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 |
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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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