i love the 90s but the 70s is the era i love most although i wassent around

some of my top picks
stevie wonder songs in the key of life( one of his best not if his best)
stevie wonder talking book ( plain old stevie funk with songs like superstion)
marvin gaye whats going on ( classic)
marvin gaye lets get it on another great album great soul
michael jackson off the wall ( set standards for what an R&B album should be like)
the jacksons destiny ( i think its their most best work under the name jacksons)


im sure i forgot a favorite il get back on it later on

best of the era songs in the key of life

The list would go on and on, because most of my favorite albums are from the 70s.

Stevie Wonder -- Talking Book

Marvin Gaye -- What's Goin' On

Michael Jackson -- Off The Wall

Steely Dan -- Aja

Sly and the Family Stone -- There's A Riot Goin' On

Rufus feat. Chaka Khan -- Ask Rufus

Prince -- Prince

Al Green -- I'm Still In Love With You

The Police -- Outlandos D'Amour

Earth, Wind and Fire -- All 'N All

Various -- Saturday Night Fever

For starters.

*"How in the blue hell could I have forgotten about What's Goin' On?" edit*
[Edited 2/13/07 9:48am]

wow... let's see

Marvin Here, My Dear
Aretha YOU
Natalie Cole Unpredictable & Live!
Curtis Mayfield Curtis
Sly & The Family Stone There's A Riot Goin' On
all things P-Funk
Prince (1979)
Rufus ft. Chaka Khan the PINK album
Chaka (1978)
EW+F All N All
Emotions Rejoice
Deniece Williams This Is Niecy & Songbird
Minnie Riperton Adventures In Paradise & Stay In Love
all things Stevie (including Syreeta's 1st 2 albums, & Minnie's Perfect Angel)
Ohio Players Pleasure & Contradiction
Willie Hutch The Mack & Foxy Brown
Bobbi Humphrey Satin Doll
James Brown The Payback
Wah Wah Watson Elementary
Styx Pieces Of Eight
Steely Dan Aja
Foreigner (1977)
Joe Sample Rainbow Seeker
Joni Mitchell The Hissing... & Don Juan's...
Roy Ayers Fever & Everybody Loves...
Maynard Ferguson Carnival & Conquistador
Hubert Laws Land Of Passion & Family
Earl Klugh Living Inside Your Love
Patrice Rushen Patrice
A Taste Of Honey
Angela Bofill Angie & Angel Of The Night
MAZE ft. Frankie Beverly self-titled & Inspiration
Led Zeppelin I & II
all things Millie Jackson (esp Feelin' Bitchy)
Labelle Chameleon
The Jones Girls
Jean Carn self-titled & Happy To Be With You
The Isley Brothers The Heat Is On


now THAT's the creme de la creme of my collection
[Edited 2/12/07 10:26am]

Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key Of Life, Innervisions, Talking Book, Fulfillingness First Finale, Music Of My Mind

Marvin Gaye: What's Going On, Here My Dear, I Want You, Let's Get It On

Steely Dan: Aja

Rufus: Ask Rufus, Rufusized

Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On, Fresh

Michael Jackson: Off The Wall

Herbie Hancock: Headhunters

Parliament/Funkadelic: One Nation Under A Groove, Maggot Brain, Mothership Connection, Motor Booty Affair

Joni Mitchell: Court & Spark

Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

James Brown: Hell, The Payback

Bootsy Collins: Ahh...The Name Is Bootsy Baby

The Isley Brothers: 3+3, The Heat Is On

Aretha Franklin: Young Gifted & Black, Amazing Grace, Sparkle

Curtis Mayfield: Curtis, Curtis/Live!, Superfly

Earth, Wind, & Fire: All 'N All

Just 2 Name A Few!
[Edited 2/12/07 10:25am]

The 70s is my favorite era so I could be here all day,compiling a list I'll start with these,in no particular order:

'Songs In The Key Of Life' by Stevie Wonder (1976)
'Let's Get It On' by Marvin Gaye (1973)
'I Am' by Earth Wind and Fire (1979)
'So Full Of Love' by the Ojays (1978)
'Perfect Angel' by Minnie Riperton (1974)
'Tapestry' by Carole King (1971)
'Fleetwood Mac' by Fleetwood Mac (1975)
'Off The Wall' by Michael Jackson (1979)
'Breezin' by George Benson (1976)
'Rufus Featuring Chaka Khan' Rufus and Chaka Khan (1975)
'Spirit' by Earth Wind and Fire (1976)
'Family Reunion' by the Ojays (1975)
'Bad Girls' by Donna Summer (1979)
'Love In All Flavors' by Ronnie Dyson (1977)
'Goodbye Yellow Brick Road' by Elton John (1973)
'Breakfast In America' by Supertramp (1979)
'Saturday Night Fever' soundtrack (1977)
'Minute By Minute' by the Doobie Brothers (1979)
'Grease' soundtrack (1978)
'Sounds...and Stuff Like That' by Quincy Jones (1978)
'Innervisions' by Stevie Wonder (1973)
'Talking Book' by Stevie Wonder (1972)
'Head To The Sky' by Earth Wind and Fire (1973)
'Frampton Comes Alive' by Peter Frampton (1976)
'I Remember Yesterday' by Donna Summer (1977)
'Wake Up Everybody' by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes (1975)
'Life Is A Song Worth Singing' by Teddy Pendergrass (1978)
'Borboletta' by Santana (1974)
'Superfly' soundtrack (1972)
'C'est Chic' by Chic (1978)
'We Are Family' by Sister Sledge (1979)
'Bustin' Out Of L7' by Rick James (1979)
'Children Of The Night' by the Bee Gees (1976)
'Al Green Gets Next To You' by Al Green (1971)
'The Commodores' The Commodores (1977)
'Mothership Connection' by Parliament (1976)
'Live At Budokan' by Cheap Trick (1979)
'All N' All' by Earth Wind and Fire (1977)
'Rumours' by Fleetwood Mac (1977)
'One Of These Nights' by the Eagles (1975)
'Silk Degrees' by Boz Scaggs (1976)


and about a million more albums

To avoid going on for ages, I restricted it to a top 10...

The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971)
Led Zeppelin - Untitled (1971)
David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973)
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On (1973)
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
The Jacksons - Destiny (1978)
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall (1979)
Prince - Prince (1979)
[Edited 2/13/07 1:24am]

I did a personal top 10 list on my blog a few weeks ago:
http://deadsouls.twoday.n...s/3244361/

SenseOfDoubt said:

This could take ages
Ah well, here we go...

Ohio Players

- Fire
- Skin Tight
- Honey

Slave

- Slave
- Hardness Of The World

The Brothers Johnson

- Look Out For #1
- Blam!!
- Right On Time

Bar-Kays

- Too Hot To Stop
- Flying High On Your Love
- Injoy
- Light Of Life

Graham Central Station

- Ain't No Bout-A-Doubt It
- Mirror

Instant Funk

- Witch Doctor

Bootsy Collins/Bootsy's Rubber Band

- Ahh... The Name Is Bootsy, Baby
- Bootsy? Player Of The Year
- Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber Band

Parliament

- Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome
- Clones Of Dr. Funkenstein
- Mothership Connection

Sly & The Family Stone

- There's A Riot Goin' On
- Fresh

Rick James

- Come Get It
- Bustin' Out Of L Seven
- Fire It Up

Earth, Wind & Fire

- That's The Way Of The World

Commodores

- Hot On The Tracks
- Caught In The Act
- Machine Gun
- Commodores

Lakeside

- Shot Of Love

Marvin Gaye

- What's Going On
- Let's Get It On

Johnny 'Guitar Watson

- Ain't That A Bitch

Average White Band

- AWB

The Jacksons

- Destiny

Kool & The Gang

- Spirit Of The Boogie

Prince

- For You

Sun

- Sunburn

Fatback Band

- People Music

Con Funk Shun

- Secrets

Gap Band

- Gap Band II

Off the top of my head...

So many to name...

Three of my all-time favorites were at their prime in the '70s: Stevie, Marvin, and the Brothers Isley! I'll make a list soon, but I didn't want this thread to be buried.

something like this, probably...

1) John Cale - Paris 1919
2) Wire - Pink Flag
3) Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
4) Can - Future Days
5) Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
6) Gene Clark - No Other
7) Can - Tago Mago
8) Television - Marquee Moon
9) Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
10) Undertones - Undertones
11) John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
12) Wire - Chairs Missing
13) Neu - Neu
14) Merle Haggard - Hag
15) Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
16) Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain
17) The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
18) Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
19) Suicide - Suicide
20) Flatlanders - More a Legend Than a Band

...

There's just Too Many!!!!





...
[Edited 2/16/07 8:12am]

I'm just going to list one because, to my mind, it's the only one that matters.

Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns.

1. Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life
2. Blondie- Eat to the Beat
3. David Bowie- Aladdin Sane
4. Lou Reed- Berlin
5. David Bowie- Low
6. Blondie- Blondie
7. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust
8. Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure
9. The Doors- L.A. Woman
10. Patti Smith- Horses
11. Blondie- Parallel Lines
12. Lou Reed- Transformer
13. Roxy Music- Roxy Music
14. David Bowie- Station to Station
15. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures
16. Kraftwerk- The Man Machine
17. Television- Marquee Moon
18. Roxy Music- Stranded
19. David Bowie- Lodger
20. David Bowie- Heroes

Moonbeam said:

tight

paligap said:

I love your choices. It's nice how you have choosen early MJ and J5 albums rather than the usual Off The Wall.

1. David Bowie - Heroes - 1977
2. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions - 1973
3. David Bowie - The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust - 1972
4. David Bowie - Young Americans - 1975
5. Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments - 1977
6. David Bowie - Low - 1977
7. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book - 1972
8. Supertramp - Crime Of The Century - 1974
9. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band - 1970
10. Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns - 1975
11. Parliament - Mothership Connection - 1975
12. Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On - 1974
13. Parliament - Up For The Down Stroke - 1974
14. David Bowie - Hunky Dory - 1971
15. Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon - 1973
16. Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life - 1976
17. Roxy Music - Stranded - 1973
18. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here - 1975
19. Sly & The Family Stone - There’s A Riot Goin’ On - 1971
20. Brian Eno - Another Green World - 1975

Took quite some time to compile...

1. Prince - Prince
2. Central Heating - Heatwave
3. Mothership Connection - Parliament
4. Rastaman Vibration - Bob Marley & the Wailers
5. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
6. Innervisions - Stevie Wonder
7. Gratitude - Earth, Wind & Fire
8. Blam! - Brothers Johnson
9. Come Get It - Rick James
10. Switch II - Switch

motownlover said:

Marvin - What's Going On !!!!!

I think this is THE perfect soul record. Seems like this isn't just music, but a message somehow. Anyway, kinda tough to not mention all those Isley Bros, Sly Stone, Stevie and Bowie albums but this would be my #1 choice.

calldapplwondery83 said:

I say the same thing about Talking Book.

namepeace said:

Me too.

DirtyChris said:

Those were released in the 60s.

calldapplwondery83 said:

Talking Book is the perfect soul record. What's Goin' On is one of those few albums, at least to me, that transcends music itself.

paligap said: