Again, I'm gonna stick with 1 album/artist or else half my list would be Bowie probably.

But that just simplifies things for me. Y'all do it however works for you.

Off the top of my head...

David Bowie - Low
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
Roxy Music - Roxy Music
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main Street
Brain Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
Joni Mitchell - Court & Spark
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
James Brown - Sex Machine
Jimi Hendrix - Band Of Gypsies
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
The Ramones - The Ramones
Donna Summer - A Love Trilogy
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Can - Ege Bamyasi
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Blondie - Blondie
Willie Nelson - Stardust
Suicide - Suicide
Parliament - Mothership Connection
Prince - Prince
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (I can't help it!)

1 Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
2 John Cale - Paris 1919
3 Can - Future Days
4 Gene Clark - No Other
5 Yes - Fragile
6 Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
7 Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
8 Soft Machine - Third
9 Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
10 Neu - Neu 75
11 Wire - Pink Flag
12 Can - Tago Mago
13 John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
14 Merle Haggard - Hag
15 Robert Wyatt - Ruth is Stranger than Richard
16 Brian Eno - Before and After Science
17 Bob Dylan - Desire
18 The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
19 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
20 Flatlanders - More a Legend Than a Band
21 Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
22 Faust - IV
23 Wire - Chairs Missing
24 Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy The Kid
25 Wire - 154

I don't know that many 70's albums but the ones I Do love are:

Jacksons-Destiny
Jacksons-Goin Places
Jackson 5-Get It Together
Jackson 5-Dancing Machine
Jackson 5-Moving Violation
Jackson 5-Diana Ross Presents the J5
Jackson 5-ABC
Stevie Wonder-Songs in the Key of Life
Stevie Wonder-Talking Book
Stevie Wonder-Innervisions
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Blondie
Prince-For You
Prince

damosuzuki said:

How did I know you would be first?

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This is still hard, narrowing it down to just 25....I think I could give you about 25 alternates, too!




Donny Hathaway - Extension Of A Man

Marvin Gaye - I Want You

Stevie Wonder - Talking Book

Narada Michael Walden - Awakening

Earth Wind And Fire - All n' All

Steely Dan - Aja

Weather Report - Heavy Weather

Rufus w/ Chaka Khan - Rufusized

Rotary Connection - Hey Love

Marvin Gaye - What's Going On

Isley Brothers - The Heat Is On

Joni Mitchell - Hissing Of The Summer Lawns

Parliament - Funkentelechy vs The Placebo Syndrome

Tower of Power - Back To Oakland

Brenda Russell - Brenda Russell

Todd Rundgren - The Hermit Of Mink Hollow

Frank Zappa - Apostrophe

Quincy Jones -Sounds...And Stuff Like That

Brothers Johnson - Right On Time

Stylistics - Stylistics

Three Dog Night - It Ain't Easy

Jon Lucien - Rashida

Sergio Mendes - Home Cookin'

Crusaders - Free As The Wind

Caldera - Caldera




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yeesh, this is going to be hard, because my instinct is to keep it one per artist, but almost all of them would really be by 3 or 4 different acts.

here's a random stab at it....


Bowie - Station To Station
Stevie - Songs In The Key Of Life
Elton - Madman Across The Water
Stones - Sticky Fingers
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Prince - Prince
Elvis - Back In Memphis
James Brown - The Payback
Bee Gees, et. al. - Saturday Night Fever
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
Al Green - Call Me
Ike & Tina - Nutbush City Limits
Cher - Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves
Beatles - Let It Be (i guess)
The Muppet Movie Soundtrack
Jacksons - Destiny
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
Willie Nelson - Stardust
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Johnny Cash - America (why this one, I'm not sure - it's just neat)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
[Edited 12/9/08 20:17pm]

I'll, again, pick my FAVORITES, in scattered order, and, considering Stevie Wonder's rock solid Deed of Trust on 1970's Music, I will limit myself to one selection from him.

1 Talking Book -- Stevie Wonder
2 What's Goin' On -- Marvin Gaye
3 Aja -- Steely Dan
4 I'm Still In Love With You -- Al Green
5 Outlandos D'Amour -- The Police
6 Live At Carnegie Hall -- Bill Withers
7 Let's Get It On -- Marvin Gaye
8 Craps -- Richard Pryor
9 That Nigger's Crazy -- Richard Pryor
10 Roots (Sdtk) -- Quincy Jones
11 Prince -- Prince
12 Minute By Minute -- The Doobie Brothers
13 Off The Wall -- Michael Jackson
14 Shaft -- Isaac Hayes
15 There's A Riot Goin' On -- Sly and the Family Stone
16 Saturday Night Fever (sdtk) -- Various Artists
17 Chic -- Chic
18 Gratitude -- Earth, Wind & Fire
19 All In All -- Earth, Wind & Fire
20 Jaco Pastorius -- Jaco Pastorius
21 Regatta D'Blanc -- The Police
22 Rumours -- Fleetwood Mac
23 Blue -- Joni Mitchell
24 A Motown Christmas -- Various Artists
25 For You -- Prince

My list is as follows:

1. Songs In The Key Of Life-Stevie Wonder
2. That's The Way Of The World-Earth, Wind & Fire
3. Off The Wall-Michael Jackson
4. Come Get It-Rick James
5. The Heat Is On-The Isley Brothers
6. Innervisions-Stevie Wonder
7. Prince-Prince
8. Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack-Various Artists
9. What's Going On?-Marvin Gaye
10. Mothership Connection-Parliament
11. Destiny-The Jacksons
12. Superfly-Curtis Mayfield
13. Car Wash-Rose Royce
14. Go For Your Guns-The Isley Brothers
15. Whatcha See Is Whatcha Get-The Dramatics
16. Let's Get It On-Marvin Gaye
17. Physical Graffiti-Led Zeppelin
18. 4(Zoso)-Led Zeppelin
19. Fulfillingness First Finale-Stevie Wonder
20. Honey-The Ohio Players
21. Ship Ahoy-The O'Jays
22. Family Reunion-The O'Jays
23. Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome-Parliament
24. The Commodores-The Commodores
25. Black Caesar Soundtrack-James Brown