Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s
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lancashirearab 
If an album is in my Top 100 Greatest Music Albums of all time, it will not re-appear in this one. I first started buying records in the early seventies. Not many of my earliest purchases feature in the chart, but you have to start somewhere.
- Chart updated: 05/26/2012 09:46
- (Created: 04/09/2012 11:58).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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I love the piano by Mike Garson on this album. The solo on Aladdin Sane was done in one take!
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Year of Release:
1973
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5,363
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I used to have a C90 cassette with this album on one side and Dragnet on the other. I taped it from a mate and was devastated when it got chewwed up in a cheap tape recorder.
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Year of Release:
1979
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534
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What a great second album. It has so many powerful songs on it. Ron Ashton is on top form.
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Year of Release:
1970
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7,489
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This album has the best album cover ever. The music lives up to it as well. I can remember carrying this album around without a poly bag, just so that people could see me with it.
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Year of Release:
1979
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20,445
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Eno's influence is all over this album. They must have been like aliens for anybody watching Top of the Pops.
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Year of Release:
1972
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1,785
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1, 2, 3, 4...
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Year of Release:
1976
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6,860
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Morrison leaves the doors on a high. I thought this was one of the early doors albums for a long time.
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1971
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7,685
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Lydon proves there was more to him than just the Sex Pistols. This is a marker for what came next.
[First added to this chart: 04/09/2012]
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1978
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483
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Magazine are one of the greatest post-punk bands ever. Howard Devoto's lyrics working around that great sound was amazing.
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1978
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1,567
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Pissing in the River just has to be listened to. She is a great songwriter. This is probably better than Horses, but misses out on my big chart because Horses means more to me.
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1976
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Total albums: 100. Page 1 of 10
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1970s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1970 | 8 | 8% | |
| 1971 | 5 | 5% | |
| 1972 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1973 | 8 | 8% | |
| 1974 | 11 | 11% | |
| 1975 | 5 | 5% | |
| 1976 | 7 | 7% | |
| 1977 | 11 | 11% | |
| 1978 | 16 | 16% | |
| 1979 | 18 | 18% |
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| David Bowie | 7 | 7% | |
| Roxy Music | 5 | 5% | |
| Can | 4 | 4% | |
| Ramones | 3 | 3% | |
| Patti Smith | 3 | 3% | |
| Talking Heads | 3 | 3% | |
| Brian Eno | 3 | 3% | |
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33 | 33% | |
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greatson 01/27/2016 08:39 | #157887
Great pre-punk, alternative chart!
Missing a lot of the clasical 60´s artists(Beatles etc...)
It has became pretty personal and I love it the way it is!
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Extra marks for The Saints being in there. Some brilliant choices in here and some I really need to listen to.
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