Best Albums of 1971
Listed below are the best albums of 1971 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 59,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 2 hours ago).
"Alice Cooper are (and is) my all time favourite band, and this is my favourite Alice Cooper album. I also wore out several copies of this album on vinyl. For me there isnt a track below 9/10 on this opus, I love it to death...so to speak !" Reply
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Myke1 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"A superb song cycle that relies on feel as much as structure, if I could only remember my name, is easily David Crosby's greatest solo LP. Every track is wonderfully inventive, Crosby gives us something that's probably more from the heart than the head. The album includes the epic, cowboy movie, ..." [+] Reply
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"I much prefer this album to 'Pictures at an Exibition'. It is a more melodic and cohesive affair. I particularly like 'Battlefield' which give 'Yes' and 'Genesis' a run for their money. I am not so keen on the way Keith Emerson chose to play his Moog, for example 'Aquatarkus' is a very 'plinky pl..." [+] Reply
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"Great album. Very under rated. All MK II albums are all on very level par (as in all fucking great) and this is up there with them. That is what defines Deep Purple as one of the all time greatest rock acts to emerge, the amount of legendary albums to come out in a short time span. MK II that is,..." [+] Reply
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"I generall agree with y'all commenters, except daftpunter's assertion that Sgt. Pepper is "tripe". That just seems excessively revisionist. Sgt. Pepper is a remarkable work of art, though it's hard to listen to it with "fresh ears." But yeah this is one of the most underrated albums I've ever enc..." [+] Reply
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"FOLK ROCK FOR MARSHALL STACKS Stormcock stands alone. No other folk rock album rocks quite as hard as Stormcock. Any of these four songs could pop up on the classic rock radio station of my youth, and I would never even batted an eye. It is totally of its time (i.e. early 70s) - epic and grandios..." [+] Reply
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Repo | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"A fantastic, laid back, a cool album for any possible listening situations: on the porch, in the sun, in the sunset or for late nite sittings with a glass of wine or a jar of scotch. Fantastic, criminally underrated in BEA" Reply
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Jboy56 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Before giving this album a proper whirl, I was of a similar opinion to several reviewers here - other than the title track and Vincent, a little insipid. But when I gave it a proper chance, I came to realise that it's actually a brilliant listen. I found myself thinking it was tailing off a littl..." [+] Reply
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"Starts with three punk metal tracks (anticipating the hair metal 80s), then comes a 10 minute Doors-style jam, while tracks 6 & 7 do a Jethro Tull thing for some reason, and I don't even know what track 9 is. Dang it, why can't albums today be this lovably random?" Reply
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poppmusic | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"I grew up listening to Santana and Abraxas, and they have both pretty much always been on my mind when listing the best albums made. For some reason I never got around to getting Santana III though, and the first time I heard it was just a year or two ago. From the first time I put it on through ..." [+] Reply
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Bork | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 5 of 100
Best Albums of 1971 composition
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| Various Artists | 11 | 1% | |
| Elvis Presley | 5 | 1% | |
| The Rolling Stones | 4 | 0% | |
| Ennio Morricone | 3 | 0% | |
| Fleetwood Mac | 3 | 0% | |
| Elton John | 3 | 0% | |
| Ravi Shankar | 3 | 0% | |
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391 | 39% | |
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245 | 25% | |
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51 | 5% | |
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44 | 4% | |
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29 | 3% | |
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26 | 3% | |
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21 | 2% | |
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