[Music] Greatest 70’s Albums

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Some rilliant selections especially from [MENTION=263]zefarelly[/MENTION], [MENTION=12935]GT49er[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2318]Peteinblack[/MENTION]

I'll add a few that (hopefully) haven't been listed

Caravan - For girls who grow plump in the night (and many more)
Sopwith Camel - The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon
Family - Bandstand
Peter Hammill - Chameleon in the shadow of the night (and many more)
Michael Chapman - Wrecked Again (he's still alive I just found out)
Todd Rundgren - Initiation (and others)
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
David Bowie - Low
Black Sabbath - volume 4
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club
Robert Wyatt - Ruth is stranger than Richard
Matching Mole - Matching Mole
Wishbone Ash - Live Dates
Steely Dan - Royal Scam (and others)
John Cale- Slow Dazzle
Captain Beefhart - Ice cream for crow
The Soft Boys - Underwater moonlight
The Beach Boys - Surf's up
Wigwam - Nuclear Nightclub
Gong - Gazeuse
Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Focus - Hocus Pocus
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and me
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
The Cure - three imaginary boys
Wire - Pink Flag
The Birthday Party - Prayers on fire
The Fall - live at the witch trials
Slade - Slade Alive
T Rex - T Rex
Dillinger - Bionic Dread
The Doctors of Madness - Late Night Movies All Night Brainstorms
Strictly Rockers in a Dread Land (compilation)


That's off the top of my head. Plenty more.

Edit

Ultravox - Ha!-Ha!-Ha!
Average white band - AWB
Soft Machine - Bundles
Toots and the Maytals - In the Dark
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74
Genesis - Trespass
Iggy Pop - Raw Power
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life - **** me that is still an amazing album.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

!972 Foxtrot tour was at the Assembly Hall. The one I remember (because I couldn't get in!) was the 1971 Nursey Cryme tour (support band for Lindisfarne!)

I saw the Foxtrot tour at the Dome. I was 14. Must have been early 73. Probably went with [MENTION=37530]monty uk[/MENTION] who probably has a ticket stub (I don't sadly).

Have these instead.

 

[Machiavelli]

Genuinely impossible for me to limit this but in addition to those already named I’ll start with...



He was 22!

Followed by



and that’s before you get to Fulfillingness and Songs in The Key

They've got to certainly be in my list. The sheer quantity and quality of his output is quite something. Not so sure that anyone can match it.

 

[Machiavelli]

I probably have more albums for this decade than any other

In chronological order
What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
Tago Mago - Can
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
Live - Bob Marley and the Wailers
Horses - Patti Smith
Trans-Europe Express - Kraftwerk
Low - David Bowie
Marquee Moon - Television
London's Calling - The Clash

I've included one by each artist. And I've still managed to miss out some great albums. It was a fabulous decade

There are some great artists and albums on that list

 

[Machiavelli]

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Wire - Pink Flag
Big Star - #1 Record
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Soft Boys - A Can of Bees
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food

Could've included any Steely Dan album released in the 70s in fairness, they're all brilliant.

Congrats for being the first to mention Big Star and Talking Heads

 

[Machiavelli]

So many, mostly earlier in the decade that most mentioned so far and trying to avoid too many repeats of great albums already mentioned

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, Meddle and Wish You Were Here
Jackson Browne - For Everyman, Late For The Sky and Running On Empty
Van Morrison - Moodance, Too Late To Stop Now and His Band And The Street Choir
The Eagles - Desperado and Hotel California
Neil Young - After The Goldrush, Harvest, Rust Never Sleeps and Comes A Time
Crosby Stills and Nash
CSNY - Deja Vu
Wishbone Ash - Argus
Dylan - Desire and Before The Flood
The Band - The Band
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Stones - Exile On Main St
Bowie - Hunky Dory
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
Poco - Rose of Cimarron
Beach Boys - Holland
Santana - Abraxas, Santana 111
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound

And it took four pages before someone mentioned Neil Young. I knew you'd be on there doing it Icy, but surprised it took so long. I think you're the first to mention Exile on Main Street too, which is another one of my faves.

 

[Peteinblack]

Some rilliant selections especially from [MENTION=263]zefarelly[/MENTION], [MENTION=12935]GT49er[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2318]Peteinblack[/MENTION]

I'll add a few that (hopefully) haven't been listed

Caravan - For girls who grow plump in the night (and many more)
Sopwith Camel - The Miraculous Hump Returns from the Moon
Family - Bandstand
Peter Hammill - Chameleon in the shadow of the night (and many more)
Michael Chapman - Wrecked Again (he's still alive I just found out)
Todd Rundgren - Initiation (and others)
Robin Trower - Bridge of Sighs
David Bowie - Low
Black Sabbath - volume 4
Gentle Giant - Octopus
Hatfield and the North - The Rotters' Club
Robert Wyatt - Ruth is stranger than Richard
Matching Mole - Matching Mole
Wishbone Ash - Live Dates
Steely Dan - Royal Scam (and others)
John Cale- Slow Dazzle
Captain Beefhart - Ice cream for crow
The Soft Boys - Underwater moonlight
The Beach Boys - Surf's up
Wigwam - Nuclear Nightclub
Gong - Gazeuse
Frank Zappa - Waka/Jawaka
Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
Focus - Hocus Pocus
The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and me
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire
The Cure - three imaginary boys
Wire - Pink Flag
The Birthday Party - Prayers on fire
The Fall - live at the witch trials
Slade - Slade Alive
T Rex - T Rex
Dillinger - Bionic Dread
The Doctors of Madness - Late Night Movies All Night Brainstorms
Strictly Rockers in a Dread Land (compilation)


That's off the top of my head. Plenty more.

Edit

Ultravox - Ha!-Ha!-Ha!
Average white band - AWB
Soft Machine - Bundles
Toots and the Maytals - In the Dark
Rory Gallagher - Irish Tour 74
Genesis - Trespass
Iggy Pop - Raw Power
King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
Van Der Graaf Generator - Still Life - **** me that is still an amazing album.

Black Sabbath's Vol 4 album probably got me through an unhappy adolescence (bullied at school, parents either fighting or not speaking to other; I actually asked them to get divorced or put me up for adoption!), especially the track 'Wheels of Confusion' which I felt could had been written for me by Ozzy Osborne - I played that album to death when I was feeling down, although obviously that might have made me feel even more depressed!

 

[Bedsex]

When I saw them at The Ricoh Arena a few years ago they played the whole of the album as part of the concert - new album out imminently - he undoubtedly still has ‘it’ but for me BTR evokes so many memories of an era it’s my fave.

I was at that same gig, wasn’t really a Springsteen fan at the time, but took my Dad as he is a big fan. I was so impressed, 3 hours without stopping and he sounded great. I’ve just put Born to Run on now for some Friday evening listening.

 

[Machiavelli]

I'm quite excited by this thread, and I refuse selecting certain albums when so much of the output in this decade was sublime, so here's a list of the artists I think were in their pomp in the 70s (if I'm being picky, I think 68-74 is the apex of pop output but if we're selecting a decade then it's difficult to argue with the 70s):

Kraftwerk
Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
Stones
Led Zep
Bowie
Big Star
Can
Marvin Gaye
Al Green
Nina Simone
Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures warrants naming
Captain Beefheart
Neu!
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

and probably a fair few more once someone jogs my memory

 

[RossyG]

Germfree Adolescents - X-Ray Spex

Who’s Next - The Who

Desolation Boulevard - The Sweet

Arrival - ABBA

Nightflight to Venus - Boney M

Songs From the Wood - Jethro Tull

Parcel of Rogues - Steeleye Span

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

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[Harry Wilson's tackle]

swell maps - a trip to marineville
Can - Soon Over Babaluma

 

[lawros left foot]

I'm quite excited by this thread, and I refuse selecting certain albums when so much of the output in this decade was sublime, so here's a list of the artists I think were in their pomp in the 70s (if I'm being picky, I think 68-74 is the apex of pop output but if we're selecting a decade then it's difficult to argue with the 70s):

Kraftwerk
Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
Stones
Led Zep
Bowie
Big Star
Can

Marvin Gaye
Al Green
Nina Simone
Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures warrants naming
Captain Beefheart
Neu!
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes




and probably a fair few more once someone jogs my memory

Elton John up to and including Yellow brick road, and Alice Cooper in that time frame were great.

 

[vegster]

Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Wire - Pink Flag
Big Star - #1 Record
Grateful Dead - American Beauty
The Soft Boys - A Can of Bees
Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food

Could've included any Steely Dan album released in the 70s in fairness, they're all brilliant.

TBH honest I think Aja was about their worst album as it was almost TOO smooth and a tad self indulgent, I would replace it with the excellent Katie Lied or A Countdown To Ecstasy .. but that's just about moving the sunloungers on the QE2.

 

[lawros left foot]

I stand corrected, it seems Worthing used to have plenty of up and coming bands playing there back in the day. Not the old “going through the motions” shite that seems to have been the case since I moved nearby

https://hereandnowmag.co.uk/the-worthing-gig-scene-1966-1972/

My oldest sister saw both the Stones and the Who at the Assembly halls

 

[Pevenseagull]

Bowie 'Lodger'
Gene Clark 'No Other'
Brian Eno 'Here Come The Warm Jets'
Dylan, 'Blood On The Tracks'
Carole King 'Tapestry'
Nick Drake 'Bryter Layer'
Talking Heads 'Fear Of Music'
John Cale 'Paris 1919'
Roxy Music 'For Your Pleasure'
Big Star '#1 Record'


does 'Singles Going Steady' count?

 

[vegster]

Elton John up to and including Yellow brick road, and Alice Cooper in that time frame were great.

Elton John's GBYBR IS a classic album, Bernie Taupin's Lyrics paint vivid pictures and every song tells a story. This from Wikipedia shows the huge talents that both of them brought to their partnership...." Under the working titles of Vodka and Tonics and Silent Movies, Talking Pictures, Bernie Taupin wrote the lyrics in two and a half weeks, with John composing most of the music in three days while staying at the Pink Flamingo Hotel in Kingston Jamaica. "

Still love Roy Rogers..... worryingly it's almost about me now.

 

[Icy Gull]

I'm quite excited by this thread, and I refuse selecting certain albums when so much of the output in this decade was sublime, so here's a list of the artists I think were in their pomp in the 70s (if I'm being picky, I think 68-74 is the apex of pop output but if we're selecting a decade then it's difficult to argue with the 70s):

Kraftwerk
Stevie Wonder
Neil Young
Stones
Led Zep
Bowie
Big Star
Can
Marvin Gaye
Al Green
Nina Simone
Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures warrants naming
Captain Beefheart
Neu!
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes

and probably a fair few more once someone jogs my memory

Some great choices there, particularly Harold Melvin

 

[marlowe]

Avoiding repetition I'll add this which I don't believe has been mentioned. Of its time but definitely a guilty pleasure which I still give the occasional listen to when feeling nostalgic..

Yes: Close to the Edge

 

[studio150]

To me, the 70s are a far better decade for music and I have been spending the afternoon deciding what to list. Started in 1979 and worked backwards and have reached 1973. The list is slightly lengthy and may look at 72-70 over the weekend.

London Calling - The Clash
Fear Of Music - Talking Heads
Armed Forces - Elvis Costello And The Attractions
Setting Sons - The Jam
The B-52s - The B-52s
Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson
Drums And Wires - XTC
One Step beyond... - Madness
Black Rose (A Rock Legend) - Thin Lizzy
Eat To The Beat - Blondie
Squeezing Out Sparks - Graham Parker & The Rumour
The Raven - The Stranglers
This Year's Model - Elvis Costello
Parallel Lines - Blondie
The Kick Inside - Kate Bush
All Mod Cons - The Jam
Easter - Patti Smith Group
Jesus Of Cool - Nick Lowe
The Scream - Siouxsie And The Banshees
Live And Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Stranger In Town - Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band
Babylon Bus - Bob Marley & The Wailers
Adventure - Television
Black And White - The Stranglers
The Parkerilla - Graham Parker And the Rumour
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
Power In The Darkness - TRB
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Blondie - Blondie
Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
Animals - Pink Floyd
The Clash - The Clash
Exodus - Bob Marley & The Wailers
My Aim Is True - Elvis Costello
77 - Talking Heads
Leave Home - Ramones
Even In The Quietest Moments - Supertramp
Peter Gabriel- Peter Gabriel
Stranglers IV (Rattus Norvegicus) - The Stranglers
New Boots And Panties!! - Ian Dury
Bad Reputation - Thin Lizzy
Songs In the Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder
Station To Station - David Bowie
Hotel Californis - Eagles
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
Night Moves - Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band
New England - Wishbone Ash
L - Steve Hillage
Heat Treatment - Graham Parker And The Rumour
Live! - Bob Marley And The Wailers
Young Americans - David Bowie
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
The Who By Numbers - The Who
Horses - Patti Smith
Rock 'n' Roll - John Lennon
Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
A Night at The Opera - Queen
Ommadawn - Mike Oldfield
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
Crime Of The Century - Supertramp
461 Ocean Boulevard - Eric Clapton
Diamond Dogs - David Bowie
Bad Company - Bad Company
Walls And Bridges - John Lennon
The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd
Band On The Run - Paul McCarney And Wings
Tubular Bells - Mike Oldfield
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Billion Dollar Babies - Alic Cooper
Selling England By The Pound - Genesis
Brain Salad Surgery - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Space Ritual - Hawkwind
Hello - Status Quo
Moontan - Golden Earring