Your favourite albums by decade: the 70s

[Beachwood Mac]

Wow. Why does it seem like yesterday...

other than Fleetwood Mac...

Boston - Boston
The Cars - The Cars
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmos Factory
Doobie Brothers - Minute by Minute
Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Eagles - Hotel California
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Genesis - Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
Heart - Little Queen
Jethro Tull - Aqualung (first concert ever)
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Carole King - Tapestry
Led Zeppelin - IV
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Steely Dan - Aja
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions

[Miss Vicky]

I don't know that I can properly respond to this thread. When it comes to most artists from the 60s, 70s, and even 80s, I don't own or listen to actual "albums." I buy "greatest hits" and "best of" packages. Only if I find myself really in love with the music of the artist will I move on from compilations to actual albums. Thusly, my favorite 70's albums all come from a select and very predictable few.


Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (gee, what a surprise!)
Fundamental Roll - Walter Egan (Now there's a real shocker!)
Bombs Away Dream Babies - John Stewart (I wonder what curly-headed guitarist could've prompted my interest in this one...)

[GateandGarden]

Aside from FM and Buckingham Nicks-

Carly Simon Playing Possum
Reba McEntire Reba McEntire

Well, the bulk of my 70s CDs are FM.

[GypsySorcerer]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

Reba McEntire Reba McEntire

I didn't realize she first appeared in the 70s. The first I recall from her was "Whoever's in New England."

[face of glass]

Abba: The Album
The Beach Boys: Love You
J.J. Cale: Okie
Can: Future Days
The Carpenters: The Carpenters (YES!)
Cockney Rebel: The Human Menagerie
Bob Dylan: Desire
Brian Eno: Before And After Science
Genesis: Selling England By The Pound
Gong: Camembert Electrique
Elton John: Tumbleweed Connection
Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
King Crimson: Larks' Tongues In Aspic
John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band
Paul McCartney: Ram
Lou Reed: Coney Island Baby
Sly & The Family Stone: There's A Riot Goin' On
Steely Dan: Countdown To Ecstasy
Suicide: Suicide
T.Rex: Electric Warrior
Tom Waits: Small Change
The Who: Quadrophenia
Dennis Wilson: Pacific Ocean Blue
Wire: 154
Roy Wood: Boulders
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom
Yes: Close To The Edge
Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps

There, now I'm looking forward to the '80s poll.

[face of glass]

Originally Posted by ryan8472

It was January of 1980. It's cutting it close. Maybe we can cut him a break with this one.

It's tricky with The Clash's London Calling too, it was released in 1979 in the UK but in 1980 in the USA, which explains why it made its way to Rolling Stone's best albums of the '80s list.

[Wild_Heart03]

Originally Posted by Moony

I don't own many albums from the 70's besides Mac...

Ditto for me, but regardless there are a few that I absolutely love.

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Elton John
Heart Like A Wheel, Linda Ronstadt
No Secrets, Carly Simon
Tapestry, Carole King
Siren, Roxy Music

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

I didn't realize she first appeared in the 70s. The first I recall from her was "Whoever's in New England."

Yup, Reba's first album was on Mercury Records in 1977. As I recall she actually had a couple of #1 hits on Mercury, but it wasn't until her move to MCA Records in 1984 that she started getting mainstream attention.

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by David

Mother's Finest? No ****?

You probably know this, but did you know that the bass player in Mother's Finest played bass for Stevie on the greatest tour she ever did? I always wanted to track down Mother's Finest albums but never did.

yeah, i own everything they ever released. I did not know that Wyzzard played bass with stevie. On what tour? He's a MONSTER. If you like Red Hot Chili Peppers and/or Living Colour you should listen to their amazing come-back album "Black Radio Won't Play This Record". The best soul-metal-album ever made. Their live-album "Subluxation" kicks ass too.

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by face of glass

Cockney Rebel: The Human Menagerie

What a choice.
Ever heard their live-double-album Face-to-Face?

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

I didn't realize she first appeared in the 70s. The first I recall from her was "Whoever's in New England."

She got her record deal in '75 and her first single, "I Don't Want to be a One Night Stand" came out in '76. Her first #1 was "Can't Even Get the Blues No More" in '82, I believe. But I guess you could say she wasn't a household name until "Whoever's in New England." The dawn of the video era helped her out a lot.

EDIT: Oh, I just noticed what Nick said. True, of course. The first single was '76 and the first album was '77.

[face of glass]

Originally Posted by shackin'up

What a choice.
Ever heard their live-double-album Face-to-Face?

Yeah, I have it. Not the best live album ever like you seem to think (that award goes to that little piece of plastic called Live At Leeds), but worth having for sure. A priceless rendition of "Sebastian", a drunken singalong in "The Best Years Of Our Lives", and some other goodies.

[TheBlueLamp]

Kate Bush -The Kick Inside & Lionheart
Tina Turner - Acid Queen
Carly Simon - Playing Possum
Blondie - Parallel Lines & Plastic Letters
Soundtrack -Rocky Horror Picture Show

[shackin'up]

Originally Posted by face of glass

Yeah, I have it. Not the best live album ever like you seem to think (that award goes to that little piece of plastic called Live At Leeds), but worth having for sure. A priceless rendition of "Sebastian", a drunken singalong in "The Best Years Of Our Lives", and some other goodies.

Oh I understand evryone who disagrees with me on that one. It's the whole atmosphere of that album, the guts-on-the-street-singing-like-a-crow
and the loose but serving bandperformance...It touches deep everytime I hear it. For me it's a unity, not a collection.

[irishgrl]

Originally Posted by dissention

It certainly does. Her performances are insanely intense on that record. Listening to it has the same impact on you that watching it does, imo. That one will get me lunging throughout my apartment and screaming at the top of my lungs along to it. Love the fact that it was recorded at actual live rock shows that she put on. I traded for some audience recordings of the shows that a guy had, but he burned me and I never got 'em. Asshole.

I nevert bought the soundtrack, but I will agree that Bette's performance in that movie was STELLAR She very accurately caught the whole meteoric rise and abysmal fall of many a rock star, most notably Janis (I heard the movie was loosely based on her life) good call!

[trackaghost]

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

I don't know that I can properly respond to this thread. When it comes to most artists from the 60s, 70s, and even 80s, I don't own or listen to actual "albums." I buy "greatest hits" and "best of" packages. Only if I find myself really in love with the music of the artist will I move on from compilations to actual albums. Thusly, my favorite 70's albums all come from a select and very predictable few.

I'm exactly the opposite, I prefer to hear a song in the context of a full-length album, with the mood and feel exactly as an artist intended it. I do enjoy the shuffle option on my iPod though, but I prefer hearing the songs in their original setting first. I've never been a fan of compilations (unless I make them myself), I'd prefer to own Purple Rain for instance, than an album of Prince's greatest hits. I guess that's why I'd consider myself a bonafide muso!
Often I find an artist's most popular tunes (or hits) aren't necessarily an indiction of their best work. Tusk is a perfect example of that - that album only really had two proper hits, Sara and Tusk, and yet as an album its utter perfection.