Top 45 Music Albums of the 1970s
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Medelsvensson 
Just starting out with this chart. WIll add albums in increments of 5.
One album per artist.
- Chart updated: 04/17/2020 23:15
- (Created: 04/11/2020 11:15).
- Chart size: 45 albums.
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There are many an album on this list, the authors of which deserve more than one album in any top 100. I could task myself to write a list of the greatest gardenhoses of all time, and I'd be hard pressed not to include Pink Floyd somewhere. This, eventhough I was a late commer to the fruits of their labor. Some music just fell through my cracks before I had humbled myself to the point where I was ready to give anything its proper due. Once I did give into Floyd's cosmic pull I immersed myself in it to the point where I had to completely change genres for months just to get back to business as usual. This lead to my discovery of hip-hop music, which I just like Floyd, had been opposed to prior.
"The big four" of Pink Floyd albums are of course Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and Animals - with The Wall being my personal favorite - possibly due to my appreciation of musicals. Honorable mentions for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets, which both are groundbreaking, brilliant albums in their own right, but just can't compete with the otherworldly standard the band's body of work establishes. In an unprescedented exception to my own rule, Piper is included further down this list because of the glaring omission of Syd Barret had this list not included him.
Picking a single Pink Floyd album and lifiting it into superiority is a task I hadn't envied even before I got into this one-album-per-artist nonsense, and I can confidently report that after putting myself in said position I couldn't recommend it any less. My conclusion is however that Dark Side of the Moon, as an album, is slightly better than Wish You Were Here. It is more of a conventionally structured album than the other, with shorter songs and tighter patterns. Also, I would say, it is the uttermost realized vision ever concieved in music, with every note chiming in concurrence with the others in a way I have never heard before or since. Turn up Any Colour You Like and you'll know it.
Strange as it might sound, there are infact detractors of this album lurking in the shadows, whose main gripes are consistenyly the synthezised proto-electronic masterpiece On The Run, and The Great Gig in the Sky. And I'll give the classic rock people On The Run, I get that they dont' get it. Too soundscapey for some. How you don't like Gig in the Sky on the other hand, is beyond all fathomable reality.
Some Pink Floyd diehards are strange in that way, I've even seen comments dissing Another Brick in the Wall. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2020]
"The big four" of Pink Floyd albums are of course Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, The Wall, and Animals - with The Wall being my personal favorite - possibly due to my appreciation of musicals. Honorable mentions for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets, which both are groundbreaking, brilliant albums in their own right, but just can't compete with the otherworldly standard the band's body of work establishes. In an unprescedented exception to my own rule, Piper is included further down this list because of the glaring omission of Syd Barret had this list not included him.
Picking a single Pink Floyd album and lifiting it into superiority is a task I hadn't envied even before I got into this one-album-per-artist nonsense, and I can confidently report that after putting myself in said position I couldn't recommend it any less. My conclusion is however that Dark Side of the Moon, as an album, is slightly better than Wish You Were Here. It is more of a conventionally structured album than the other, with shorter songs and tighter patterns. Also, I would say, it is the uttermost realized vision ever concieved in music, with every note chiming in concurrence with the others in a way I have never heard before or since. Turn up Any Colour You Like and you'll know it.
Strange as it might sound, there are infact detractors of this album lurking in the shadows, whose main gripes are consistenyly the synthezised proto-electronic masterpiece On The Run, and The Great Gig in the Sky. And I'll give the classic rock people On The Run, I get that they dont' get it. Too soundscapey for some. How you don't like Gig in the Sky on the other hand, is beyond all fathomable reality.
Some Pink Floyd diehards are strange in that way, I've even seen comments dissing Another Brick in the Wall. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2020]
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1973
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1972
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40,500
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1975
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2,031
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1973
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3,314
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1971
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35,991
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1979
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28,852
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1977
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18,441
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1972
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711
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1970
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18,273
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1974
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9,540
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Top 45 Music Albums of the 1970s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1970 | 12 | 27% | |
| 1971 | 8 | 18% | |
| 1972 | 7 | 16% | |
| 1973 | 5 | 11% | |
| 1974 | 2 | 4% | |
| 1975 | 4 | 9% | |
| 1976 | 1 | 2% | |
| 1977 | 3 | 7% | |
| 1978 | 0 | 0% | |
| 1979 | 3 | 7% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Billy Cobham | 1 | 2% | |
| Black Sabbath | 1 | 2% | |
| Frank Zappa | 1 | 2% | |
| Brian Eno | 1 | 2% | |
| Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice | 1 | 2% | |
| King Crimson | 1 | 2% | |
| Syd Barrett | 1 | 2% | |
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