Your top five 70s albums?

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London Calling

Heroes

...I think

Peter Gabriel 2 ('scratch')

Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail (though 'Lamb' comes close)

King Crimson - Red

Cluster - Sowiesoso

I was gonna include Close To The Edge but there's too much prog in this list already, but I dunno what else I'd include

most of the ones I was going to write were released in 1980 (Duke, Drama, Remain In Light)

I'm going to cheat and pick six:

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (1970)

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1970)

Wishbone Ash - Argus (1972)

Black Sabbath - Vol. 4 (1972)

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971)

Black Sabbath - Sabbath Bloody Sabbath (1973)

Arthur Verocai - Arthur Verocai

Dave Gruisin - Mountain Dance

Donald Byrd - Places & Spaces

Led Zeppelin - Zeppelin III

The Beginning Of The End - Funky Nassau

Hmmm... prob all three big star albums, Zep III, at least one ABBA album, at least one Kinks album, Michael Jackson - Off the Wall, Queen - A Night at the Opera, maybe Yes - Time and a World, maybe Joni Mitchel - Blue... oh shit almost every Parliament album! Something by kraftwerk, something by Devo, something by Talking Heads... I've got to go through almost all the aforementioned discographies again before i can answer this. 70's was a pretty fucking cool era.

I heard so little from those days really... Of what I've heard (in no particular order):

Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (1979)

(^ - Dat bassline)

Brian Eno - Before And After Science (1977)

Luciano Cillo - Dell'Universo Asente (1978)

Suicide - Suicide (1977) (Thanks Zephyr for the introduction to this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2vUk7dJFvg

Philip Glass - Einstein On The Beach (1978)

There's so much I haven't heard though, as I said...

Yeah that Frankie Teardrop song off the Suicide record is something else. The world becomes a darker place after you've heard it. It would definitely make my top 10 song recordings of the 70's.

good thread! but I find 5 album very hard for me. I'll name the incontournable to me

Gil scott- Pieces of a man or winter in america to me, those two albums are some of the best music every created. and would be my first pick.

Zappa- joe's garage or waka jawaka/the grand wazoo

jimi- the cry of love

Grant green- live at the lighthouse

Miles Davis- On the corner

Nick Drake- Pink moon

of course, there joni mitchel, the stones, genesis, elton john, led zep, bob dylan, Bowie, ect

can't pick top 5.

and of course

  On 5/22/2015 at 1:03 AM, doublename said:

Entertainment!

  On 5/22/2015 at 1:13 AM, modey said:

King Crimson - Red

crime not to post the covers in these sorts of threads imo

some good ones so far -

my thoughts

herbie hancock - thrust

philip glass - music in 12 parts

eno - another green world (flawless, genius, astounding)

kraftwerk - radioactivity (best kw album of the 70s, fight me)

AC/DC - high voltage

steely dan - aja (come on guys - no one has said this... for shame!!)

talking heads - more songs about buildings and food

Aphrodite's Child - 666

Goblin - Roller

Museo Rosenbach - Zarathustra

Can - Soundtracks

Hiroshi Suzuki - Cat

I could probably include more jap jazz albums in there but they are about the hardest thing for me to find in my music folder lol.

Hmm

this is tough

Be back in 30 minutes

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Boyd Rice - Boyd Rice

Ryuichi Sakamoto - Thousand Knives Of

Kraftwerk - Autobahn

Tangerine Dream - Phaedra

@lopez: herbie hancock - thrust Id agree its his best effort imo. the song butterfly is one of the best jazz track of the 70's!

yeah! and actual proof IS the best jazz track of the 70s

top-5 is tough..... really tough,

in no particular order and tomorrow could produce another list:

Can - Tago Mago

The Mighty Upsetter - Kung Fu Meets the Dragon

Walter Wegmuller - Tarot

Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Hawkwind - Hawkwind or In Search of Space

fuck

Weather Report - Black Market..... the title track is a vision of heaven

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother, Meddle or Obscured By Clouds or all of em

c'est impossible

Damn, I completely forgot to put a Kraftwerk jawn on my list. I'd probably replace "Heroes" with Trans-Europa Express or Man-Machine, but this is really difficult.

Gal Costa - India

(more than 5 but c'mon now that's impossible)

black sabbath

paranoid

master of reality

vol4

sabbath bloody sabbath

dark side of the moon

Derek & Clive (Live), simply for "This Bloke Came Up To Me"

John Cooper Clarke - Disguise In Love

everything by Sabbath too

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Gotta scratch off that Beginning Of The End for that album. Totally forgot about that album. Fuckin' classic.