You all know I'm an avid listmaker. I've been working on a new list of my all-time favorite albums, and I've arranged my favorite 70s albums. Doing so makes me realize just how great the 70s were. There was so much out there in so many genres. I have barely scratched the surface of so many.

So here's my top 25 albums of the 70s:

1. Stevie Wonder- Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
2. Blondie- Eat to the Beat (1979)
3. David Bowie- Aladdin Sane (1973)
4. Lou Reed- Berlin (1973)
5. David Bowie- Low (1977)
6. Blondie- Blondie (1976)
7. David Bowie- Ziggy Stardust (1972)
8. Roxy Music- For Your Pleasure (1973)
9. The Doors- L.A. Woman (1971)
10. Patti Smith- Horses (1975)

11. Blondie- Parallel Lines (1978)
12. Lou Reed- Transformer (1972)
13. Roxy Music- Roxy Music (1972)
14. David Bowie- Station to Station (1976)
15. Joy Division- Unknown Pleasures (1979)
16. Kraftwerk- The Man Machine (1978)
17. Television- Marquee Moon (1977)
18. Roxy Music- Stranded (1973)
19. David Bowie- Lodger (1979)
20. David Bowie- "Heroes" (1977)

21. The Ramones- The Ramones (1976)
22. David Bowie- Hunky Dory (1971)
23. Prince- Prince (1979)
24. Michael Jackson- Off the Wall (1979)
25. Parliament- Mothership Connection (1975)

I agree with your Number One choice but where is 'Saturday Night Fever'?

DavidEye said:

I've never heard the full album, although I've seen the movie and heard several of the cuts on compilations.

Moonbeam said:

perhaps soundtracks shouldn't be included anyway.Did you like any of Donna Summer's albums from the 70s?

DavidEye said:

Bad Girls is number 28.

I would add all Curtis Mayfield 70s albums to that list.
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Your list is good!

BUT: I do miss Trans Europe Express (Kraftwerk), Another Green World (and/or before and after sciene) by Brian Eno, ... hm, ...

CURTIS MAYFIELD! You should not miss him!!!

What's Going On by Marvin Gaye comes to my mind, too.

Just saw Unknown Pleasures on your list.

With love from Vienna,
Sod
[Edited 5/22/06 3:44am]

You can never have too many list threads.


1 John Cale – Paris 1919
2 Wire – Pink Flags
3 Rolling Stones – Exile On Main Street
4 Can – Future Days
5 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
6 Television – Marquee Moon
7 Gene Clark – No Other
8 Brian Eno – Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy
9 Neu – Neu
10 Wire – 154
11 Can – Tago Mago
12 John Lennon – Plastic Ono Band
13 Jackson Browne – Late For The Sky (embarrassing, but it belongs here if I'm going to be honest)
14 Pere Ubu – The Modern Dance
15 Robert Wyatt – Ruth is Stranger than Richard
16 Richard & Linda Thompson – I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
17 Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
18 Brian Eno – Before and After Science
19 The Fall – Live at the Witch Trials
20 Brian Eno – Here Come The Warm Jets
21 Ian Dury – New Boots and Panties
22 The Flatlanders – More a Legend Than a Band
23 Nick Lowe – Labour of Lust
24 PiL – Metal Box
25 Undertones – s/t

well, i figured out 20....i coulda made it 25, but it would have included more bowie albums than it already does.


1. Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (72)
2. Stooges - Raw Power (73)
3. Lou Reed - Berlin (73)
4. Residents - Meet the Residents (74)
5. Joni Mitchell - Hissing of Summer Lawns (75)
6. Ramones - Ramones (76)
7. Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express (77)
8. Bowie - Low (77)
9. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks (77)
10. ELO - Out of the Blue (77)
11. Residents - Duck Stab (78)
12. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food (78)
13. Blondie - Parallel Lines (78)
14. Queen - Jazz (78)
15. B-52s - The B-52s (79)
16. Talking Heads - Fear of Music (79)
17. Donna Summer - On the Radio (79)*
18. Prince - Prince (79)
19. Sylvester - Living Proof (79)
20. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti (79)



* (technically a greatest hits release, but i consider it "original" for the remixing of the entire album and the alternate vocals on some of the tracks)
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one album per artist.


1. Sticky Fingers – The Rolling Stones
2. Aladdin Sane – David Bowie
3. Dark Side of the Moon – Pink Floyd
4. Zuma – Neil Young & Crazy Horse
5. Plastic Ono Band – John Lennon
6. I Am the Cosmos – Chris Bell
7. Horses – Patti Smith
8. Pink Moon – Nick Drake
9. Don’t Shoot Me I’m Only The Piano Player – Elton John
10. Led Zeppelin IV
11. All Things Must Pass – George Harrison
12. Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
13. Blood on the Tracks – Bob Dylan
14. Fear of Music – Talking Heads
15. Band on the Run – Paul McCartney & Wings
16. Tusk – Fleetwood Mac
17. A Trick of the Tail – Genesis
18. Abraxas – Santana
19. Cosmos Factory – CCR
20. A Night At The Opera – Queen
21. Approximately Infinite Universe – Yoko Ono
22. Raw Power – The Stooges
23. Desperado – The Eagles
24. The Pretenders
25. Transformer – Lou Reed



I did this quickly, so I hope I'm not forgetting something
[Edited 5/22/06 7:36am]

Here's 20!


1. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
2. Boston - Boston
3. Funkadelic - Standing On The Verge Of Getting It On
4. Led Zeppelin - 4
5. ACDC - Let There Be Rock
6. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
7. MC5 - Back In The USA
8. Aerosmith - Rocks
9. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
10. Ramones - Leave Home
11. Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
12. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
13. Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy
14. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
15. Steely Dan - Aja
16. James Brown - Sex Machine
17. ZZ Top - Tres Hombre
18. ACDC - Powerage
19. The JBs - Breakin' Bread
20. The Cars - The Cars

I can give you TOP5 and a few selected ones...

1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
3. Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
4. David Bowie - Low
5. Brian Eno - Another Green World

... Kraftwerk - The man Machine, Brian Eno - Before And After Sciene, Talking Heads - Fear Music (or is it Fear of Music?), Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life, Marvin Gaye - Whats Going On, David Bowie - Station To Station

For the FZ case I would add these: Burnt Weeny Sandwich (maybe that one was released in 69), Weasels Ripped My Flesh

and still I forgot a lot... to be continued.
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[Edited 5/22/06 9:27am]

Not necessarily in order:

1. David Bowie - Station to Station
2. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
3. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
4. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
5. Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
6. David Bowie - Low
7. David Bowie - "Heroes"
8. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
9. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
10. Pink Floyd - The Wall
11. The Clash - London Calling
12. The Police - Regatta de Blanc
13. The B-52's - The B-52's
14. The Beatles - Let It Be
15. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
16. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
17. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
18. The Who - Who's Next
19. Simon and Garfunkle - Bridge Over Troubled Water
20. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
21. Elton John - Madman Across the Water
22. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
23. Pink Floyd - Animals
24. Led Zeppelin - III
25. Paul McCartney and Wings - Band on the Run

blackbob said:

Wow,,,,I dig that cover alot.

SenseOfDoubt said:

Trans Europe Express comes in at number 44 and I've just gotten around to buying What's Going On but haven't listened yet. I don't have any Brian Eno to my shame...

to be honest, i like eno's instrumental albums more than i like his "pop" albums...and of his albums with vocals, i like his most recent one the best.

but i can be weird about what i like sometimes.

Moonbeam said:

VoicesCarry said:

Man, I'm not sure I can limit it to 25....maybe 30....there was just so much goin' on....I dunno!

off the top o' the head:






see, this is the problem.. I'm thinking of at least 25 more now....


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paligap said:

as usual, pali delivers

What's up with leaving off Fulfillingness' First Finale? That album gets no respect.
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AlexdeParis said:

Innervisions is my number 30 and Fulfillingness' First Finale is number 54.

Geez Ian, why did you have to go and make me think.

GangstaFam said:

Do it! Do it! Do it!

Moonbeam said:

Low
Ziggy Stardust
"Heroes"
Lodger
Station To Station
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
Hunky Dory
.....

GangstaFam said:

Unknown Pleasures?
Blondie?
Ramones?

Moonbeam said:

I was just being silly and simplistic. I'm no good at these.