I was at prime that year and I have no idea who most of those groups are.

it's to do a list when you've only heard about 5-6 albums on the list. i'll play when i know a majority of the records on the list.

1. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
2. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
3. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
4. Joni Mitchell - Blue
5. The Who - Who's Next
6. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
7. Al Green - Let's Stay Together
8. Donny Hathaway - Donny Hathaway
9. Bill Withers - Just As I am
10. Kraftwerk 1
11. Pink Floyd - Meddle
12. MC5 - High Time

My top 20:

1. The Rolling Stones * Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
2. Alice Cooper * Love It To Death (WB)
3. John Lennon * Imagine (Apple)
4. The Flamin' Groovies * Teenage Head (Big Beat)
5. Mott The Hoople * Brain Capers (Atlantic)
6. T Rex * Electric Warrior (Reprise)
7. Rod Stewart * Every Picture Tells A Story (Mercury)
8. The Faces * A Nod Is A Wink . . . To A Blind Horse (WB)
9. Sly & the Family Stone * There's A Riot Going On (Epic)
10. David Bowie * Hunky Dory (RCA)
11. Gil Scott-Heron * Pieces Of A Man (RCA)
12. Funkadelic * Maggot Brain (Westbound)
13. Harry Nilsson * Nilsson Schmilsson (RCA)
14. Van Morrison * Tupelo Honey (WB)
15. Alice Cooper * Killer (WB)
16. Marvin Gaye * What's Going On (Tamla)
17. MC5 * High Time (Rhino/Atlantic)

And a bottom three that weren't on the list:

18. Brinsley Schwartz * Despite It All
19. Lee Michaels * 5th
20. REO Speedwagon * REO Speedwagon

The Top Albums from 1971

http://acclaimedmusic.net/

Some not mentioned yet (I think):
18 432 The Beach Boys
Surf's Up (on the Pitchfork 70s list)
24 651 The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Inner Mounting Flame
28 825 Miles Davis
A Tribute to Jack Johnson
32 994 Miles Davis
Live Evil
49 1613 Tom T. Hall
In Search of a Song

Not on Acclaimed list:
The Move - Message From The Country (reissue w/ bonus cuts California Man, Do Ya and more recently added to BMG)

Rank All
Time Artist Album Buy at
Amazon Song
Samples
1 9 Marvin Gaye
What's Going On
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2 31 Led Zeppelin
IV
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3 40 The Who
Who's Next
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4 43 Joni Mitchell
Blue
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5 49 The Rolling Stones
Sticky Fingers
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6 52 Sly and the Family Stone
There's a Riot Goin' On
Listen

7 60 David Bowie
Hunky Dory


8 61 Carole King
Tapestry
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9 81 John Lennon
Imagine


10 110 The Allman Brothers Band
At Fillmore East
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11 145 Rod Stewart
Every Picture Tells a Story
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12 185 T. Rex
Electric Warrior
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13 199 Janis Joplin
Pearl
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14 237 The Doors
L.A. Woman
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15 271 Can
Tago Mago
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16 358 Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate
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17 415 Funkadelic
Maggot Brain
Listen

18 432 The Beach Boys
Surf's Up
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19 477 Jethro Tull
Aqualung


20 574 Serge Gainsbourg
Histoire de Melody Nelson


21 591 John Prine
John Prine
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22 596 Yes
Fragile
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23 648 Neu!
Neu!
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24 651 The Mahavishnu Orchestra
Inner Mounting Flame
Listen

25 694 David Crosby
If I Could Only Remember My Name
Listen

26 773 Bob Marley and The Wailers
Soul Revolution/African Herbsman
Listen

27 799 The Flamin' Groovies
Teenage Head
Listen

28 825 Miles Davis
A Tribute to Jack Johnson
Listen

29 844 Yes
The Yes Album
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30 944 Van Morrison
Tupelo Honey
Listen

31 976 Nilsson
Nilsson Schmilsson
Listen

32 994 Miles Davis
Live Evil
Listen

33 1050 Alice Cooper
Killer
Listen

34 1088 The Faces
A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse
Listen

35 1105 The Kinks
Muswell Hillbillies
Listen

36 1120 Black Sabbath
Master of Reality
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37 1167 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Four-Way Street
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38 1205 Alice Cooper
Love It to Death
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39 1328 Dolly Parton
Coat of Many Colors
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40 1353 Al Green
Al Green Gets Next to You
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41 1434 Pink Floyd
Meddle
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42 1435 Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Pictures at an Exhibition
Listen

43 1463 Cat Stevens
Teaser and the Firecat
Listen

44 1474 Herbie Hancock
Mwandishi


45 1500 Van der Graaf Generator
Pawn Hearts
Listen

46 1549 Elvis Presley
Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
Listen

47 1560 Charles Mingus
Let My Children Hear Music
Listen

48 1586 Isaac Hayes
Shaft
Listen

49 1613 Tom T. Hall
In Search of a Song


50 1698 B.B. King
Live in Cook County Jail
Listen

51 1699 Paul and Linda McCartney
Ram
Listen

52 1797 War
All Day Music
Listen

53 1847 Various Artists
The Concert for Bangladesh
Listen

54 1870 Curtis Mayfield
Curtis/Live
Listen

55 1918 Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers
Hound Dog Taylor & The Houserockers
Listen

56 1919 Traffic
The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Listen

57 2088 Bill Withers
Just as I Am
Listen

58 2117 The Maytals
Monkey Man
Listen

59 2118 Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Tarkus
Listen

60 2130 Michel Polnareff
Polnareff's


61 2278 Laura Nyro and Labelle
Gonna Take a Miracle
Listen

62 2284 Alice Coltrane
Universal Consciousness
Listen

63 2335 Master Musicians of Jajouka
Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Jajouka


64 2350 Jimi Hendrix
Cry of Love


65 2401 The Faces
Long Player
Listen

66 2441 Don McLean
American Pie
Listen

67 2445 Roy Harper
Stormcock

wtf kind of post is that

anyway i'm not going to do this because i am going to be doing a lot of these in due time

he just copied what is posted on the acclaimed site, i love that kind of stuff.

now i read this post, i thought it was bumped from last time. i will try and figure out my list, hope i have the time

If the first Neu! album is considered as a 71 release, it should probably be in my top three. Everything that I have seen says it was recorded in 71 and released in 72.

Neu! is 1972.

That's what I thought, but then the long post said it wasn't so I thought my cd and the website I checked out might be wrong.

1. The Rolling Stones * Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
2. Marvin Gaye * What's Going On (Tamla)
3. Joni Mitchell * Blue (Reprise)
4. The Who * Who's Next (MCA)
5. Popol Vuh * In Den Garten Pharaos (Tempel/Spalax)
6. David Bowie * Hunky Dory (RCA)
7. John Lennon * Imagine (Apple)
8. Can * Tago Mago (Mute)
9. The Kinks * Muswell Hillbillies (RCA/Rhino)
10. Al Green * Let's Stay Together (Hi)

1. Joni Mitchell - Blue
2. Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat

1. T. Rex – Electric Warrior (Reprise)
2. The Who – Who's Next (Decca)
3. The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
4. Pink Floyd – Meddle (Capitol)
5. The Faces – A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...To a Blind Horse (Warner Bros.)
6. Joni Mitchell – Blue (Reprise)
7. John Lennon – Imagine (Apple)
8. Led Zeppelin – IV (aka "ZOSO") (Atlantic)
9. Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story (Mercury)
10. Sly and the Family Stone – There's a Riot Goin' On (Epic)

edit: The year belongs to Rod Stewart (IMO) because in addition to these two he also put out the Faces Long Player.

four songs from Bill Fay "Time of the Last Persecution"



three songs from Gil Scott Heron "Pieces of a Man":

1. The Who * Who's Next (MCA)
2. Nilsson * Nilsson Schmilsson (RCA)
3. The Rolling Stones * Sticky Fingers (Rolling Stones)
4. Led Zeppelin * Led Zeppelin IV (Atlantic)
5. Al Green * Let's Stay Together (Hi)
6. Jethro Tull * Aqualung (Chrysalis)
7. Marvin Gaye * What's Going On (Tamla)
8. Van Morrison * Tupelo Honey (WB)
9. War * All Day Music (Avenue/Ryko)
10. The Doors * L.A. Woman (Elektra)

Some great lists so far

I'm going to take everyone's top 10 and make an aggregate top 20 tomorrow.

I think I'm going to do this series at a much slower clip than the last one, probably 1 or 2 per week.

Not trying to be a dick or speak for everyone but I don't think that would really add anything so I'd save yourself the time and effort. To me at least, the individual lists are more interesting than the cumulative rankings and if we want to see cumulative favorites we already have the threads from last year.

four songs from Bill Fay "Time of the Last Persecution"



three songs from Gil Scott Heron "Pieces of a Man":

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thanks bg.

damn i gots a lot of stuff to d/l when i get home.

I'm gonna be awesome when we do 1978-1987 and I have one for each year.

It might add something as to what the board views aggregately as essential listening from that year.

Trouble with just referencing last year's polls is that those are just #1's, and say hypothetically they all split the #1's but everyone's #2 is "Electric Warrior". You get the idea.

I do agree that the individual lists are in fact much more interesting than the aggregate though.

if it's a big pain in the ass, I just won't do it.

my top 2:
01) "hunky dory" david bowie
02) "nursery cryme" genesis

maybe john lennon's "imagine" #3. i don't care after that.

you should, you're missing out on some good music.

there's some stuff i'd like to try, some stuff i know i like and some i know i don't... i just meant, i don't care to rank 'em after #3. nothing that i've heard that i like enough.