Best Albums of the 1970s
Explore the best albums of the 1970s, based on over 2 million album rankings across 59,000 charts.
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"Queen’s most famous album and really it’s a mixture of lots of styles and influences. Can’t deny that Paul McCartney would be jealous of such compositions as Lazing on A Sunday Afternoon & Seaside Rendezvous. I’m in love With My Car totally reminds me of Have A Cigar by Pink Floyd. Death on two l..." [+] Reply
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1975
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11,569
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"I remember one summer when when I was a kid, I came home to my family, who were outside by the barn shucking corn. It was one of those balmy, late summer afternoons in south Georgia. After helping out for a while, I walked into our hundred year old house and got some iced tea. I walked upstairs a..." [+] Reply
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1973
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11,117
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"The most important and influential punk album ever, and also one of the most perfect debut LP's. Off course at the time hype and notoriety came hand in hand with this record but now all that original hoopla has died down we are now left with the reality of a great punchy rock'n'roll album. Full o..." [+] Reply
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1977
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10,374
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"The opening of this album must be one of my favorites, "Can you tell me where my country lies" and the following 2 minutes or so, just beautiful. This album is probably the most coherent of all early Genesis albums, although I prefer Foxtrot and Lamb. The music is great with some wonderful passag..." [+] Reply
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1973
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10,234
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"The bookend to the other side of the great purple patch of King Crimson albums in the mid seventies. ITCOTCK and this must be the finest output by the band, despite the flashes of brilliance in between. This is the culmination of the experimental King Crimson Wetton-Bruford-Fripp combination and ..." [+] Reply
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1974
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9,590
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"An absolute classic, an essential seventies album. Lou Reed always had a pop mentality even in his most inaccessible moments, and, transformer, with production help from David Bowie, helps to mold Reed's songs into a tight rock/pop album. It's full of that camp seventies New York attitude, and fe..." [+] Reply
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1972
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9,329
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"One of the great albums of the seventies, and that's saying something. Aja, is super slick, but it's a fantastic record of great songs featuring all the wit and bite you would expect from Steely Dan. Great songs abound here; black cow, peg, and the title track are all amazing. In fact, there's no..." [+] Reply
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1977
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9,048
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"You either get it or you don't... With no concession towards expectations, this is an absolutely introspective confessional from Lennon." Reply
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~SMiLE~ | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1970
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9,045
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"The first half of the album draws you in with catchy studio jamming, cradling your brain in its fun and cerebral jam-oriented accessibility, just in time for the second half to take your now cradled brain and clamp down on it with a cestus filled with 24-karrot gold dust. It returns to recognizab..." [+] Reply
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1971
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8,947
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"One of the best jazz albums out there. Basically everyone here has that one album that got them into jazz, and it usually holds a dear position in their mind. I see for a lot of people that that album is Kind of Blue, and sometimes A Love Supreme. They're good albums, but when I listned to them b..." [+] Reply
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JulianR | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +7 votes (7 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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1970
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 4 of 100
Best Albums of the 1970s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1970 | 111 | 11% | |
| 1971 | 101 | 10% | |
| 1972 | 97 | 10% | |
| 1973 | 111 | 11% | |
| 1974 | 93 | 9% | |
| 1975 | 97 | 10% | |
| 1976 | 91 | 9% | |
| 1977 | 91 | 9% | |
| 1978 | 106 | 11% | |
| 1979 | 103 | 10% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Neil Young | 11 | 1% | |
| David Bowie | 11 | 1% | |
| Frank Zappa | 11 | 1% | |
| Bob Marley | 9 | 1% | |
| Paul McCartney | 9 | 1% | |
| Yes | 9 | 1% | |
| Genesis | 9 | 1% | |
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385 | 38% | |
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376 | 38% | |
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42 | 4% | |
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39 | 4% | |
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38 | 4% | |
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22 | 2% | |
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20 | 2% | |
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