Best Albums of the 1970s
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"If you're looking for Cat's sweet melodies and tenderly contemplative lyrics, look elsewhere. This one is dark, brooding, biting, and challenging. That said, I find it to be far away his greatest, and most compelling album. He loads this one with overpowering dramatic impact and the natural grave..." Reply
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"Laura Nyro should be more widely appreciated - she did not produce one but string of great albums in the late 60s Her vocal gymnastics sometimes go to far but that's what makes her always differnt and always interseting" Reply
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"So far in my first listen to Thin Lizzy's discography, this is short of Jailbreak, but not by much. Loved this record, I still don't get how they weren't one of the biggest rock bands in the world. "For Those Who Love to Live," "Suicide," "Wild One," "Spirit Slips Away" and the amazing "Freedom S..." Reply
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"Easy and fun, good" Reply
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"such a great album. My roommate at music school was a jazz trumpeter, he played this all the time and I grew to like it. One of the first fusion albums. with stanley clarke, Flora purim." Reply
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"Packs a wallop. What a record." Reply
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"Willie right in the midst of his outlaw stage. So much better than the Nudie suit crap of his time." Reply
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"Excellent album from this German progressive band. This is rarely seen on vinyl so happy to have picked up a near mint copy at a antiques fair. The vocals are more spoken on this particular album but made up for with the top notch instrumentation." Reply
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"Good album!! Some of the songs are great (Getting closer, Arrow through me) some weaker, but still not an average album just a bit inconsistent." Reply
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Best Albums of the 1970s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1970 | 111 | 11% | |
| 1971 | 100 | 10% | |
| 1972 | 97 | 10% | |
| 1973 | 113 | 11% | |
| 1974 | 96 | 10% | |
| 1975 | 96 | 10% | |
| 1976 | 89 | 9% | |
| 1977 | 91 | 9% | |
| 1978 | 103 | 10% | |
| 1979 | 104 | 10% |
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| Frank Zappa | 11 | 1% | |
| Neil Young | 11 | 1% | |
| David Bowie | 11 | 1% | |
| Bob Marley | 9 | 1% | |
| Paul McCartney | 9 | 1% | |
| Yes | 9 | 1% | |
| Elton John | 9 | 1% | |
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375 | 38% | |
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38 | 4% | |
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Best Albums of the 1970s chart changes
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Down 2 from 73rd to 75th |
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