Best Albums of 1970

Sort by

• Overall Rank
• Num. Charts
• Avg. Rating
• Num. Ratings
• Release Date
• Title
• Artist

11.

Let It Be 

 The Beatles

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"The fact that LET IT BE is considered a fiasco, says rather a lot about what standards we're accustomed to by the Beatles."  Reply

- swhaze | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +13 votes (13 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

1,094 charts

Rank Score:

7,230

Rank in 1970:

11

Rank in 1970s:

52

Overall Rank:

215

Average Rating:

 80 (2,182 votes)

Comments:

129

12.

Black Sabbath 

 Black Sabbath

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"Play this album at night (preferably with a thunderstorm outside), turn all the lights out, light only candles, turn it up loud and this will be on your top 100 (or 10). The song suite leading up to and including N.I.B. will blow your head off!! I play this every Halloween at parties & it's a sma...""Play this album at night (preferably with a thunderstorm outside), turn all the lights out, light only candles, turn it up loud and this will be on your top 100 (or 10). The song suite leading up to and including N.I.B. will blow your head off!! I play this every Halloween at parties & it's a smash! Heavy metal starts here folks."  [+]  Reply

- jchurd601 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +11 votes (11 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

849 charts

Rank Score:

6,469

Rank in 1970:

12

Rank in 1970s:

58

Overall Rank:

248

Average Rating:

 83 (1,185 votes)

Comments:

60

13.

Loaded 

 The Velvet Underground

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"This is the VU's worst album (not counting Squeeze, of course), which means it is also one of the best albums of all-time."  Reply

- HyperBully | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (10 helpful | 1 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

871 charts

Rank Score:

6,129

Rank in 1970:

13

Rank in 1970s:

66

Overall Rank:

264

Average Rating:

 82 (1,259 votes)

Comments:

68

14.

Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs 

 Derek & The Dominos

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"Great band cutting loose, recorded badly but what can you do. Even if you're sick of the title song, the first three sides are great for just hearing Clapton and Jim Gordon and all these guys doing their thing. Bobby Whitlock, of course, is the piano player and second singer on this album. If you...""Great band cutting loose, recorded badly but what can you do. Even if you're sick of the title song, the first three sides are great for just hearing Clapton and Jim Gordon and all these guys doing their thing. Bobby Whitlock, of course, is the piano player and second singer on this album. If you go to YouTube and find his channel, he has in the last few months been doing a bunch of little talks sitting at a table with his wife, reminiscing about this album and All Things Must Pass especially, and his encounters with other rock stars, everybody from Keith Moon to Elvis. He has many, many stories and thoughts about this album, he's been putting up a video nearly every day recently; highly recommended. He responds to comments sometimes, but I don't have the guts to ask him how he feels about the sound quality of the thing. The legendary producer Tom Dowd gets lots of respect, deservedly so for much of his other work. But this is a great album for the playing, not for the sound, which is famously bad. One thing Whitlock did take exception to was Dowd saying in his memoirs that they had run dry of inspiration after the first three songs and then Duane Allman came in and energized everything. Whitlock said that was totally false and is angry that Dowd wrote it and made it history. Anyway, in addition to being a natural born musician, he's a good storyteller and you might want to check out his channel. "  [+]  Reply

- | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

790 charts

Rank Score:

5,495

Rank in 1970:

14

Rank in 1970s:

73

Overall Rank:

305

Average Rating:

 81 (971 votes)

Comments:

65

15.

Déjà Vu 

 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"Crosby, Stills & Nash released their first album very succesful in 1969, and in 1970 with the addition of Neil Young they were ready to release a second album, "Deja Vu". The three original members were all experienced songwriters and great singers, and with Neil Young on top of the hat, it could...""Crosby, Stills & Nash released their first album very succesful in 1969, and in 1970 with the addition of Neil Young they were ready to release a second album, "Deja Vu". The three original members were all experienced songwriters and great singers, and with Neil Young on top of the hat, it could hardly go wrong; and It did not. All four members contribute two songs each. Moreover, the two old friends from Buffalo Springfield, Stills and Young together wrote the finale number, "Everybody I Love You". Finall they recorded a cover-version of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock" . The Woodstock Festival was an event the four members took an active part in. There is a lot to go for on this album, not least the beautiful harmony vocal arrangements. The songwriting is also of very high class. Both Nash's contributions are among the best he has written, "Our House" is great and "Teach Your Children" has probably already become a classic, covered by several other artists Both Neil Young's songs are also very fine - in particular the very moving to "Helpless". Still's upbeat "Carry On" is a perfect opening number. A complex composition that shows many different facets of the group. His quiet acoustic "4 and 20" is a sweet little song and one of the simplest on the album. I've always had it a bit difficult with David Crosby's songs. They often seem somewhat convoluted. "Almost Cut My Hair" is a blues-like number, very well arranged, but with corny hippie-like lyrics. The titletrack is more unconventional - again with a somewhat pretentious lyrics. The closing-track "Everybody I Love You" - sounds much like a Steve Stills number, almost as good as the opening-track. "Woodstock" is probably the most rocking song on the album - strong but perhaps not as interesting as the group's own original songs."  [+]  Reply

- Rovers | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

784 charts

Rank Score:

5,133

Rank in 1970:

15

Rank in 1970s:

80

Overall Rank:

328

Average Rating:

 83 (906 votes)

Comments:

58

16.

American Beauty 

 Grateful Dead

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"This album really ought to be in the top 100. I'm realizing how hard I'm finding it to write accurate description of these albums, rather, why I like them. I like them because the underlying music is good. That's all there is too it."  Reply

- revolver94 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

607 charts

Rank Score:

4,295

Rank in 1970:

16

Rank in 1970s:

95

Overall Rank:

388

Average Rating:

 80 (817 votes)

Comments:

57

17.

Deep Purple In Rock 

 Deep Purple

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"This album is part of my personal Album top 100 (I was tempted to put "Deepest Purple: the very best of Deep Purple" in this top 100 because there are so many fantistic Deep Purple songs which don't appear on this album like "Highway Star" and many others, but I chose this one because it does sta...""This album is part of my personal Album top 100 (I was tempted to put "Deepest Purple: the very best of Deep Purple" in this top 100 because there are so many fantistic Deep Purple songs which don't appear on this album like "Highway Star" and many others, but I chose this one because it does stand out) which you can check out by clicking on m link. It contains one song that has been my absolute favourite song for a very long time: "Child in Time". It is not my favourite song anymore but still a stand-out with the fantastic voice of Ian Gillan and the incredible build-up of the song (two times) to the shredding of the guitar solos. The other great tracks on this album are "Speed King" and "Flight of the Rat". "  [+]  Reply

- dihansse | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

547 charts

Rank Score:

3,538

Rank in 1970:

17

Rank in 1970s:

107

Overall Rank:

482

Average Rating:

 81 (694 votes)

Comments:

36

18.

Safe Mode: On Certain images on this site may contain sensitive content and are flagged as 'unsafe'. BestEverAlbums.com does not display these images by default, but you may choose to show or hide these images from your profile page. If you choose to hide these images, you'll see an image with a warning message instead of the actual image. If you choose to show them, you'll see these images no differently than regular (safe) images.

Abraxas 

 Santana

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"One of my favorite albums of all time, not a weak track to avoid. Carlos is at his creative peak and the percussion is measured and not over indulging. Would love the release of an official live document from that period. It would be all downhill from there. Santana III is all over the place and ...""One of my favorite albums of all time, not a weak track to avoid. Carlos is at his creative peak and the percussion is measured and not over indulging. Would love the release of an official live document from that period. It would be all downhill from there. Santana III is all over the place and then Rolie and Schon left and Santana never had a decent vocalist again. I know that Carlos is an icon and he deserves the recognition, but Abraxas remains his master piece."  [+]  Reply

- | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

617 charts

Rank Score:

3,526

Rank in 1970:

18

Rank in 1970s:

108

Overall Rank:

484

Average Rating:

 80 (683 votes)

Comments:

39

19.

Tea For The Tillerman 

 Cat Stevens

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"Someone here commented "A gospel choir has to cover this entire album at my funeral", really without exaggeration, this album seems to be spiritual, it's like a compilation due to the quantity of great songs, with a difference, it's a portrait of a specific moment, without the coldness of a colle...""Someone here commented "A gospel choir has to cover this entire album at my funeral", really without exaggeration, this album seems to be spiritual, it's like a compilation due to the quantity of great songs, with a difference, it's a portrait of a specific moment, without the coldness of a collection of songs, is full of dynamics and depth, masterpiece."  [+]  Reply

- CollectorNoName | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +4 votes (4 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

545 charts

Rank Score:

3,005

Rank in 1970:

19

Rank in 1970s:

127

Overall Rank:

568

Average Rating:

 81 (694 votes)

Comments:

37

20.

Morrison Hotel 

 The Doors

Buy album

• EBAY
• APPLE MUSIC
• SPOTIFY
• AMAZON (US)
• #Sponsored

"Solid album all the way through; lots of blues-rock goodness with Morrison's iconic vocals and lyrics. Roadhouse Blues, Waiting for the Sun, and Peace Frog are the highlights, but I also quite like You Make Me Real. Everything else is enjoyable."  Reply

- MetaKoopa99 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful) A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.

Year of Release:

1970

Appears in:

536 charts

Rank Score:

2,999

Rank in 1970:

20

Rank in 1970s:

128

Overall Rank:

570

Average Rating:

 79 (889 votes)

Comments:

40

• « prev
• 1
• 2
• 3
• 4
• ...
• 99
• 100
• next »
• Goto Page: 

Total albums: 1,000. Page 2 of 100

Best Albums of 1970 composition

Top 1,000 Top 500 Top 250 Top 100

Artist	Albums	%
Various Artists	9	1%
Elvis Presley	7	1%
The Beatles	4	0%
Johnny Cash	4	0%
Matthews' Southern Comfort	4	0%
James Brown	4	0%
The Beach Boys	3	0%
Show all

Country	Albums	%
	446	45%
	259	26%
	36	4%
	36	4%
	33	3%
	23	2%
	18	2%
Show all

Compilation?	Albums	%
No	950	95%
Yes	50	5%

Live?	Albums	%
No	968	97%
Yes	32	3%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	990	99%
Yes	10	1%