Best Albums of The Seventies

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1970

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9/10

  1. Tim Buckley: Lorca (Elektra)
  2. Third Ear Band: self-titled (Harvest)
  3. Soft Machine: 3 (CBS)

    4. 8.5/10

  4. Tim Buckley: Starsailor (Straight)
  5. Syd Barrett: Barrett (Harvest)
  6. Van Morrison: Moondance (Warner)

    7. 8/10

  7. Amon Duul II: Yeti (Liberty)
  8. Peter Green: End Of The Game (Reprise)
  9. Aphrodite's Child: 666 (Vertigo)
  10. JeanLuc Ponty: King Kong (Pacific)
  11. Frank Zappa: Burnt Weeny Sandwich (Bizarre)
  12. Robert Wyatt: End Of An Ear (CBS)
  13. Kevin Ayers: Shooting At The Moon (Harvest)
  14. Frank Zappa: Weasels Ripped My Flesh (Bizarre)

    15. 7.5/10

  15. Syd Barrett: Madcap Laughs (Harvest)
  16. Randy Newman: Twelve Songs (Reprise)
  17. Mick Farren: Carnivorous Circus (Mona) (Transatlantic)
  18. Van Der Graaf Generator: H To He (Charisma)
  19. Creedence Clearwater Revival: Cosmo's Factory (Fantasy)

7/10
  1. Captain Beefheart: Lick My Decals Off (Straight)
  2. Sandy Bull: E Pluribus Unum (Vanguard)
  3. Kraftwerk: 1 (Philips)
  4. John Twink: Think Pink (Polydor)
  5. Stooges: Fun House (Elektra)
  6. Traffic: John Barleycorn Must Die (Island)
  7. High Tide: High Tide II (Liberty)
  8. Jefferson Starship: Blows Against The Empire (RCA)
  9. Larry Fischer: An Evening With Wild Man Fischer (Reprise)
  10. Janis Joplin: Pearl (CBS)
  11. Beaver & Krause: In A Wild Sanctuary (Warner)
  12. Pink Floyd: Atom Heart Mother (Harvest)
  13. MC5: Back In The USA (Atlantic)
  14. Black Widow: Sacrifice (CBS)
  15. Doors: Absolutely Live (Elektra)
  16. Pentangle: Cruel Sister (Transatlantic)
  17. Vashti Bunyan: Just Another Diamond Day (Islands)
  18. Grateful Dead: Workingman's Dead (Warner)
  19. Quatermass: self-titled (Harvest)
  20. Simon And Garfunkel: Bridge Over Trouble Water (CBS)
  21. Chicago: II (CBS)
  22. Egg: Egg (Deram)
  23. Gordon Lightfoot: If You Could Read My Mind (Reprise)
  24. Genesis: Trespass (Charisma)
  25. Van Der Graaf Generator: The Least We Can Do (Charisma)
  26. Spooky Tooth: Ceremony (Island)
  27. James Taylor: Sweet Baby James (Warner)
  28. Joni Mitchell: Ladies Of The Canyon (Reprise)
  29. Embryo: Opal (Ohr)
  30. Shawn Phillips: Second Contribution (A&M)
  31. Amboy Dukes: Marriage Of The Rocks (Polydor)
  32. Nick Drake: Bryter Layter (Island)
  33. Neil Young: After The Goldrush (Reprise)
  34. John Mayall: Turning Point (Polydor)
  35. Nucleus: We'll Talk About It Later (Vertigo)
  36. Fairport Convention: Full House (Island)
  37. Magma: self-titled (Philips)
  38. Rod Stewart: Gasoline Alley (Vertigo)
  39. Flamin Groovies: Flamingo (Kama Sutra)
  40. Crosby Stills Nash & Young: Deja` Vu (Atlantic)
  41. Jimi Hendrix: Band Of Gypsys (Capitol)
  42. James Gang: Rides Again (MCA)
  43. David Axelrod: Earth Rot (Capitol)
  44. Shawn Phillips: Contribution (A&M)
  45. Roy Harper: Flat Baroque And Beserk (Harvest)
  46. Wailers: Soul Rebels (Trojan)

 

1971

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9/10

  1. Faust: Faust (Polydor)
  2. Nico: Desert Shore (Reprise)

    3. 8/10

  3. John Fahey: America (Takoma)
  4. Captain Beefheart: Mirror Man (Buddah)
  5. Can: Tago Mago (Spoon)
  6. Amon Duul II: Tanz der Lemminge (Liberty)
  7. Robbie Basho: Song of The Stallion (Takoma)
  8. Joni Mitchell: Blue (Reprise)
  9. David Crosby: If I Could Only Remember My Name (Atlantic)
  10. Van Der Graaf Generator: Pawn Hearts (Charisma)
  11. Hampton Grease Band: Music To Eat (Columbia)

    12. 7.5/10

  12. Tangerine Dream: Alpha Centauri (Ohr)
  13. Allman Brothers: Live at Fillmore East (Capricorn)
  14. Kraftwerk: 2 (Philips)
  15. Yes: Fragile (Atlantic)
  16. Roy Harper: Stormcock (Harvest)
  17. Family: Fearless (UA)

    18. 7/10

  18. Bruce Palmer: Cycle Is Complete (Verve)
  19. Paul Kantner: Sunfighter (Grunt)
  20. Tonto's Expanding Head Band: Zero Time (Embryo)
  21. Led Zeppelin: IV (Atlantic)
  22. Popol Vuh: Affenstunde (Liberty)
  23. Cluster: Cluster (Philips)
  24. Mort Garson: Lucifer - Black Mass (United Artists)
  25. Mu: Mu (RTV)
  26. Flower Traveling Band: Satori (1971)
  27. Marvin Gaye: What's Going On (Motown)
  28. Jethro Tull: Aqualung (Chrysalis)
  29. Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers (RollingStones)
  30. Doors: LA Woman (Elektra)
  31. Taj Mahal: Real Thing (CBS)
  32. King Crimson: Islands (Island)
  33. Beaver & Krause: Gandharva (Warner)
  34. Georg Deuter: D (Kuckuck)
  35. Leonard Cohen: Songs Of Love And Hate (CBS)
  36. Joy Of Cooking: self-titled (Capitol)
  37. Genesis: Nursery Crime (Charisma)
  38. Mountain: Flowers Of Evil (Windfall)
  39. Mark-Almond: Mark-Almond (Harvest)
  40. Gong: Camembert Electrique (Caroline)
  41. Egg: The Polite Force (Deram)
  42. Centipede: Septober Energy (Neon)
  43. Mountain: Nantucket Sleighride (Windfall)
  44. New Riders Of The Purple Sage: New Riders Of The Purple Sage (CBS)
  45. Chicago: III (CBS)
  46. Carole King: Tapestry (Ode)
  47. Pink Fairies: Never Never Land (Polydor)
  48. Samla Mammas Manna: Samla Mammas Manna (Silente)
  49. Black Sabbath: Master Of Reality (Vertigo)
  50. Emerson Lake & Palmer: Tarkus (Island)
  51. Spirit: The Twelve Dreams Of Dr Sardonicus (Epic)
  52. Black Sabbath: Paranoid (Vertigo)
  53. Caravan: In The Land Of Grey And Pink (Decca)
  54. Soft Machine: 4 (CBS)
  55. Comus: First Utterance (Dawn)
  56. Alice Cooper: Love It To Death (Warner)
  57. Who: Who's Next (Track)
  58. Yes: The Yes Album (Atlantic)
  59. Anthony Moore: Pieces From The Cloudland Ballroom (Polydor)
  60. Annette Peacock: Dual Unity (Freedom)
  61. Grand Funk Railroad: E Pluribus Funk (Capitol)
  62. Faces: A Nod's As Good As A Wink (Warner)
  63. Funkadelic: Maggot Brain (Westbound)
  64. John Martyn: Bless The Weather (Islad)
  65. T. Rex: Electric Warrior (Fly)
  66. Hawkwind: In Search Of Space
  67. Gene Clark: White Light (A&M)
  68. Annette Peacock: Improvisie (America)
  69. Keith Tippett: Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening (Vertigo)
  70. Alan Stivell: Renaissance De L'Harpe Celtique (Fontana)
  71. John Hartford: Aereo-plain (Warner)
  72. Commander Cody: Lost In The Ozone (Paramount)
  73. John Prine: John Prine (Atlantic)
  74. J.J. Cale: Naturally (Shelter)
  75. Cat Stevens: Teaser & The Firecat (Island)
  76. Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells A Story (Vertigo)

 

1972

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9/10

  1. Klaus Schulze: Irrlicht (Brain)

    2. 8.5/10

  2. Popol Vuh: In Den Gaerten Pharaos (Pilz)

    3. 8/10

  3. Tangerine Dream: Zeit (Ohr)
  4. Rolling Stones: Exile On Main Street (RollingStones)
  5. Roxy Music: self-titled (UK)
  6. Nick Drake: Pink Moon (Island)
  7. Taj-Mahal Travellers: Taj-Mahal Travellers (Sony)
  8. Yes: Close To The Edge (Atlantic)

    9. 7.5/10

  9. Cluster: Cluster II (Brain)
  10. Matching Mole: self-titled (CBS)
  11. Joni Mitchell: For The Roses (Asylum)
  12. Leo Kottke: 6 & 12 String Guitar (Takoma)
  13. Allman Brothers: Eat A Peach (Capricorn)
  14. Todd Rudgren: Something/Anything (Bearsville)
  15. Frank Zappa: Grand Wazoo (Bizarre)
  16. Hawkwind: Doremi Fasol Latido (One Way)

    17. 7/10

  17. Neil Young: Harvest (Reprise)
  18. Jerry Garcia: Garcia (Warner)
  19. David Ackles: American Gothic (Elektra)
  20. Georg Deuter: Aum (Kuckuck)
  21. Gentle Giant: Three Friends (Columbia)
  22. Nucleus: Belladonna (Vertigo)
  23. John Cale: Academy In Peril (Reprise)
  24. Can: Ege Bamyasi (Spoon)
  25. Townes Van Zandt: The Late Great Townes Van Zandt (Poppy)
  26. Hot Tuna: Burgers (Grunt)
  27. Little Feat: Sailin' Shoes (Warner)
  28. Leo Kottke: Greenhouse (Takoma)
  29. Ash Ra Tempel: Schwingungen (Ohr)
  30. VanDyke Parks: Discover America (Warner)
  31. Caravan: Waterloo Lily (Decca)
  32. Annette Peacock: I'm The One (RCA)
  33. Matching Mole: Little Red Record (CBS)
  34. Third Ear Band: Macbeth (Harvest)
  35. Strawbs: Grave New World (A&M)
  36. Faust: So Far (Polydor)
  37. Blue Oyster Cult: Blue Oyster Cult (CBS)
  38. Randy Newman: Sail Away (Reprise)
  39. Jackson Browne: Jackson Browne (Asylum)
  40. Algarnas Tradgard: Framtiden Ar Ett Svavande Skepp Forankrat I Forntiden
  41. Deep Purple: Machine Head (Harvest)
  42. Family: Bandstand (UA)
  43. Eagles: Desperado (Asylum)
  44. Taj Mahal: Recycling The Blues (CBS)
  45. Eric Andersen: Blue River (Columbia)
  46. Frank Zappa: Waka/Jawaka (Bizarre)
  47. Peter Michael Hamel: Aura (Music Factory)
  48. Agitation Free: Malesch (Vertigo)
  49. Soft Machine: 6 (CBS)
  50. Back Door: Back Door (Blakey)
  51. Jade Warrior: Last Autumn's Dream (Vertigo)
  52. Milton Nascimento: Clube Da Esquina (1972)
  53. Stevie Wonder: Talking Book (Tamla)
  54. Curved Air: Phantasmagoria (Warner)
  55. Doobie Brothers: Toulouse Street (Warner)
  56. Focus: Moving Waves (IRS)
  57. Gram Parsons: G.P. (Reprise)
  58. Cat Stevens: Catch Bull At Four (Island)
  59. Mark-Almond: mark Almond II (Harvest)
  60. Bonnie Raitt: Give It Up (Warner)
  61. Loudon Wainwright III: Album III (Columbia)
  62. Wish Bone Ash: Argus (MCA)

 

1973

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9/10

  1. Popol Vuh: Hosianna Mantra (Pilz)
  2. John Fahey: Fare Forward Voyagers (Takoma)
  3. Neu: Neu (Brain)

    4. 8.5/10

  4. Gong: Flying Teapot (Virgin)
  5. Klaus Schulze: Cyborg (Brain)

    6. 8/10

  6. Mike Oldfield: Tubular Bells (Virgin)
  7. New York Dolls: self-titled (Mercury)
  8. Can: Future Days (UA)
  9. Magma: Mekanik Destruktiw Kommandoh (Philips)
  10. Faust: IV (Virgin)
  11. Kevin Coyne: Marjory Razorblade (Virgon)
  12. John Martyn: Inside Out (Islad)

    13. 7.5/10

  13. Neu 2 (UA)
  14. Tangerine Dream: Atem (Ohr)
  15. Mother Mallard's: Portable Masterpiece Company (Earthquake)
  16. Area: Arbeit Macht Frei (Cramps)
  17. Eberhard Schoener: Meditation (Schoener)
  18. John Martyn: Solid Air (Islad)
  19. Bruce Springsteen: The Wild The Innocent & The E Street Shuffle (CBS)
  20. Vangelis: L'Apocalypse Des Animaux (Polydor)
  21. Frank Zappa: Grand Wazoo (Bizarre)
  22. Gram Parsons: G.P. (Reprise)

    23. 7/10

  23. Paul Kantner: Baron Von Tollbooth (Grunt)
  24. Faust: Tapes (Polydor)
  25. Kraftwerk: Ralf & Florian (Vertigo)
  26. Henry Cow: Legend (Virgin)
  27. Who: Quadrophenia (Track)
  28. Hugh Hopper: 1984 (CBS)
  29. Roxy Music: For Your Pleasure (UK)
  30. Leo Kottke: My Feet Are Smiling (Capitol)
  31. Stooges: Raw Power (CBS)
  32. Brian Eno & Robert Fripp: No Pussyfooting (EGrecords)
  33. Gong: Angel's Egg (Virgin)
  34. Todd Rundgren: A Wizard A True Star (Bearsville)
  35. Family: It's Only a Movie (Raft)
  36. Blue Oyster Cult: Tyranny And Mutation (CBS)
  37. Roxy Music: Stranded (UK)
  38. Little Feat: Dixie Chicken (Warner)
  39. Gentle Giant: In A Glass House (Columbia)
  40. Slapp Happy: Acnalbasac Noom (Polydor)
  41. Pete Hammill: Chameleon in the Shadow of the Night (Virgin)
  42. ZZ Top: Tres Hombres (London)
  43. King Crimson: Lark's Tongues In Aspic (Island)
  44. Lou Reed: Berlin (RCA)
  45. Stevie Wonder: Innervisions (Tamla)
  46. Klaus Schulze: Picture Music (Brain)
  47. Elliott Murphy: Aquashow (Polydor)
  48. Electric Light Orchestra: II (Warner)
  49. Mott The Hoople: Mott (CBS)
  50. Jackson Browne: For Everyman (Asylum)
  51. Milton Nascimento: Milagre Dos Peixes (1973)
  52. Franco Battiato: Pollution
  53. Steely Dan: Countdown To Ecstasy (ABC)
  54. Conrad Schnitzler: Rot (KS)
  55. Dyzan: Time Machine (Bellaphon)
  56. Jimmy Buffett: A White Sport Coat And a Pink Crustacean (Dunhill)
  57. Montrose: Montrose (Warner)
  58. Dr John: In The Right Place (Atco)
  • Banco del Mutuo Soccorso: Io Sono Nato Libero

     

    1974

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    9/10

    1. Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom (Virgin)

      2. 8/10

    2. Residents: Meet The Residents (Ralph)
    3. Brian Eno: Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy (Island)
    4. Henry Cow: Unrest (Virgin
    5. Velvet Underground: Live (Mercury)

      6. 7.5/10

    6. John Cale: Fear (Island)
    7. Kraftwerk: Autobahn (Vertigo)
    8. Richard Thompson: I Want To See The Bright Lights (Island)
    9. Jackson Browne: Late For The Sky (Asylum)
    10. King Crimson: Red (Atlantic)
    11. Randy Newman: Good Old Boys (Reprise)
    12. Todd Rundgren: Todd (Bearsville)

      13. 7/10

    13. Taj-Mahal Travelers: August 1974
    14. Yahowa 13: Penetration (Higher Key)
    15. Clearlight: Clearlight Symphony (Virgin)
    16. Tangerine Dream: Phaedra (Ohr)
    17. Van Morrison: Veedon Fleece (Warner)
    18. Magma: Kohnstarkosz (Vertigo)
    19. Popol Vuh: Einsjaeger & Siebenjaeger (Kosmische Musik)
    20. Cluster: Zuckerzeit (Brain)
    21. Hatfield And The North: self-titled (Virgin)
    22. Area: Caution Radiation Area (Cramps),
    23. Henry Cow: Desperate Straight (Virgin)
    24. Joni Mitchell: Court And Spark (Asylum)
    25. Ry Cooder: Paradise And Lunch (Reprise)
    26. Harmonia: Musik Von Harmonia (Brain)
    27. Muleskinner: Muleskinner (Warner)
    28. Ivor Cutler: Dandruff (Virgin)
    29. Klaus Schulze: Blackdance (Brain)
    30. Nico: The End (Island)
    31. Robert Calvert: Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters (UA)
    32. Big Star: Radio City (Ardent)
    33. Frank Zappa: Roxy And Elsewhere (Discreet)
    34. Norman Blake: Fields of November (Flying Fish)
    35. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Second Helping (MCA)
    36. Little Feat: Feats Don't Fail Me Now (Warner)
    37. Cosmic Jokers: self-titled (Metronome)
    38. Kevin Ayers: The Confessions Of Dr. Dream (Island)
    39. Heldon: Electronique Guerilla (Urus)
    40. Neil Young: On The Beach (Reprise)
    41. Egg: The Civil Surface (Caroline)
    42. Santana: Lotus (CBS)
    43. Kiss: self-titled (Casablanca)
    44. Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge (Virgin)
    45. Gruppe Between: Dharana (Vertigo)
    46. Edgar Froese: Aqua (Brain)
    47. Pink Fairies: Kings Of Oblivion (Polydor)
    48. Henry Cow: Desperate Straights (Virgin)
    49. Utopia: self-titled (Bearsville)
    50. Sparks: Kimono My House (Island)
    51. Kansas: Kansas (Kirshner)
    52. Bachmann Turner Overdrive: Not Fragile (Mercury)
    53. Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic (ABC)

     

    1975

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    8/10

    1. Neil Young: Tonight's The Night (Reprise)
    2. Henry Cow: In Praise Of Learning (Virgin)

      3. 7.5/10

    3. Richard Thompson: Pour Down Like Silver (Island)
    4. Jade Warrior: Waves (Island)
    5. Klaus Schulze: Timewind (Brain)
    6. Vangelis: Heaven And Hell (RCA)
    7. Unholy Modal Rounders: Have Moicy (Rounder)

      8. 7/10

    8. Brian Eno: Discreet Music (Obscure)
    9. Patti Smith: Horses (Arista)
    10. Dictators: Go Girl Crazy (Epic)
    11. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here (CBS)
    12. Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music (RCA)
    13. Synergy: Electronic Realizations For Rock Orchestra (Passport)
    14. Bola Sete: Ocean (Takoma)
    15. Jeff Beck: Blow By Blow (Epic)
    16. Bruce Springsteen: Born To Run (CBS)
    17. Journey: Journey (CBS)
    18. Brian Eno: Another Green World (Island)
    19. Eugene Chadbourne: Solo Acoustic Guitar (Parachute)
    20. Peter Hammill: Nadir's Big Chance (Charisma)
    21. Guy Clark: Old Number 1 (RCA)
    22. John Martyn: Sunday's Child (Island)
    23. Queen: A Night At The Opera (EMI)
    24. Tangerine Dream: Rubycon (Ohr)
    25. Heldon: It's Always Rock And Roll (Urus)
    26. Neu: Neu! 75 (Brain)
    27. Popol Vuh: Das Hohelieds Salomons ((UA)
    28. Electric Light Orchestra: Eldorado (Warner)
    29. Split Enz: Mental Notes (Mushroom)
    30. Bob Seger: Beautiful Losers (CBS)
    31. 10cc: The Original Soundtrack (Mercury)
    32. Aerosmith: Toys In The Attic (Columbia)
    33. Neil Young: Zuma (Reprise)
    34. Terry Garthwaite: Terry (Arista)
    35. Manuel Gottsching: Inventions For Electric Guitar (Kosmische Musik)
    36. Robert Calvert: Lucky Leif and the Longships (UA)

     

    1976

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    8/10

    1. Patti Smith: Radio Ethiopia (Arista)
    2. Penguin Cafe` Orchestra: Music From The Penguin Cafe (Obscure)
    3. Warren Zevon: self-titled (Asylum)
    4. Joni Mitchell: Hejira (Asylum)

      5. 7.5/10

    5. Tom Petty: Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (Island)
    6. LA Dusseldorf: LA Dusseldorf (Nova)

      7. 7/10

    7. Modern Lovers: Modern Lovers (Beserkley)
    8. Bob Dylan: Desire (CBS)
    9. John Hartford: Mark Twang (Flying Fish)
    10. Ramones: Ramones (Sire)
    11. Saints: I'm Stranded (Harvest)
    12. Jackson Browne: Pretender (Asylum)
    13. Finch: Beyond Expression (Belle Antique)
    14. Diga Rhythm Band: Diga (Round)
    15. Parliamentc: Clones of Dr. Funkestein (Casablanca)
    16. Boston: Bostons (Epic)
    17. Joan Armatrading: Joan Armatrading (A&M)
    18. Popol Vuh: Letzte Tage Letzte Naechte (UA)
    19. Bruce Cockburn: In The Falling Dark (True North)
    20. Roger McGuinn: Cardiff Rose (CBS)
    21. Kate And Anna McGarrigle: Kate And Anna McGarrigle (Warner)
    22. August Darnell: Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (RCA)
    23. Heldon: Agneta Nilsson (Urus)
    24. Residents: Finger Price (Ralph)
    25. Stevie Wonder: Songs In The Key of Life (Tamla)
    26. Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune (Columbia)
    27. Aerosmith: Rocks (Columbia)
    28. Jade Warrior: Kites (Island)
    29. Eagles: Hotel California (Asylum)
    30. Godley & Creme: Consequences (Mercury)
    31. Steve Hillage: L (Virgin)
    32. Brand X: Unorthodox Behaviour (Passport)
    33. Alan Parsons Project: Tales Of Mystery And Imagination (Charisma)
    34. Parliament: Mothership Connection (Casablanca)
    35. Peter Blegvad & John Greaves: Kew Rone (Europa)
    36. Tom Waits: Small Change (Asylum)
    37. Michael Hurley: Long Journey (Rounder)
    38. Meters: Wild Tchoupitoulas (Sundazed)
    39. Strange: Raw Power (Outer Galaxy)
    40. Judas Priest: Sad Wings Of Destiny (Gull)
    41. Jean-Michel Jarre: Oxygene (Disques Dreyfus)
    42. Tangerine Dream: Ricochet (Ohr)
    43. Peter Baumann: Romance '76 (Virgin)
    44. Go: self-titled (Island)
    45. Rush: 2112 (Mercury)
    46. AC/DC: Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap (Atco)

     

    1977

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    9/10

    1. Suicide: self-titled (Bronze)

      2. 8.5/10

    2. Jon Hassell: Vernal Equinox (Lovely)

      3. 8/10

    3. Television: Marquee Moon (Elektra)
    4. Ramones: Rocket to Russia (Sire)
    5. Clash: self-titled (CBS)
    6. Talking Heads: 77 (Sire)
    7. Throbbing Gristle: Second Annual Report (Industrial)
    8. Brian Eno: Before And After Science (Island)
    9. Stephan Micus: Implosions (Japo)

      10. 7.5/10

    10. Heartbreakers: LAMF (Track)
    11. Ultravox: self-titled (Island)
    12. David Bowie: Heroes (RCA)
    13. Parliament: Funkentelechy Vs The Placebo Syndrome (Casablanca)

      14. 7/10

    14. Richard Hell: Blank Generation (Stiff)
    15. Sex Pistols: Never Mind The Bollocks (Virgin)
    16. Chrome: Alien Soundtracks (Siren)
    17. Radio Birdman: Radios Appear (Trafalgar)
    18. Giorgio Moroder: From Here to Eternity (Casablanca)
    19. Meat Loaf: Bat Out Of Hell (Cleveland)
    20. Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Warner)
    21. Jeffrey Frederick: Spiders In The Moonlight (Rounder)
    22. Tom Waits: Foreign Affairs (Asylum)
    23. Shoes: Black Vynil Shoes (Black Vynil)
    24. David Bowie: Low (RCA)
    25. Jonathan Richmand: And The Modern Lovers (Beserkley)
    26. Dead Boys: Young Loud And Snotty (Sire)
    27. Bill Bruford: Feels Good To Me (Polydor)
    28. Kate And Anna McGarrigle: Dancer With bruised Knees (Warner)
    29. Vibrators: Pure Mania (Columbia)
    30. Styx: The Grand Illusion (A&M)
    31. Wire: Pink Flag (Harvest)
    32. Ultravox: Ha Ha Ha (Island)
    33. Eloy: Ocean (EMI)
    34. Brand X: Moroccan Roll (Passport)
    35. The David Grisman Quintet (Kaleidoscope)
    36. William Ackerman: It Takes A Year (Windham Hill)
    37. Lynyrd Skynyrd: Street Survivors (MCA)
    38. J. Geils Band: Monkey Island (Atlantic)
    39. Bob Seger: Night Moves (CBS)
    40. Rick Danko: Rick Danko (Arista)
    41. Happy The Man: Happy The Man (One Way)
    42. Camel: Rain Dances(Decca)
    43. Alan Parsons Project: I Robot (Arista)

     

    1978

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    9/10

    1. Pere Ubu: Modern Dance (Blank)
    2. Residents: Not Available (Ralph)

      3. 8/10

    3. Michael Hoenig: Departure From The Northern Wasteland (Warner Brothers)
    4. Brian Eno: Music For Airports (Ambient)
    5. Klaus Schulze: X (Gramavision)

      6. 7.5/10

    6. Muffins: Manna/Mirage (RandomRadar)
    7. Talking Heads: More Songs About Building And Food (Sire)
    8. Art Bears: Winter Songs (Re)
    9. XTC: White Music (Virgin)
    10. Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum)
    11. Jean-Michel Jarre: Equinoxe (Disques Dreyfus)

      12. 7/10

    12. Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (Chrysalis)
    13. Devo: Are We Not Men (Warner)
    14. Television: Adventure (Elektra)
    15. Patti Smith: Easter (Arista)
    16. Wire: Chairs Missing (Harvest)
    17. National Health: Of Queues And Cures (Charly)
    18. Univers Zero: 1313 (Cryonic)
    19. Brian Eno: Music For Films (Polydor)
    20. X-Ray Spex: Germ Free Adolescents (EMI)
    21. Tom Waits: Blue Valentine (Asylum)
    22. Saints: Eternally Yours (Harvest)
    23. Cabaret Voltaire: Mix-up (RoughTrade)
    24. Lou Reed: Street Hassle (Arista)
    25. Big Star: Third (PVC)
    26. Public Image Ltd: First Issue (Virgin)
    27. Throbbing Gristle: DOA (Industrial)
    28. Tom Petty: You're Gonna Get It (Island)
    29. Funkadelic: One Nation Under A Groove (Warner)
    30. Captain Beefheart: Shiny Beast (Warner)
    31. Elvis Costello: This Year's Model (Radar)
    32. Bob Dylan: Street Legal (CBS)
    33. Van Halen: self-titled (Warner)
    34. UK: self-titled (Polydor)
    35. Paul Winter: Common Ground (A&M)
    36. Nick Lowe: Jesus Of Cool (Radar)
    37. Clearlight: Visions (Polydor)
    38. Joe Ely: Honky Tonk Masquerade (MCA)
    39. National Health: self-titled (Affinity)
    40. Jon Hassell: Earthquake Island (Tomato)
    41. Generation X: self-titled (Chrysalis)
    42. Synergy: Cords (Passport)
    43. Siouxsee Sioux & The Banshees: Scream (Polydor)
    44. Real Kids: Real Kids (Redstar)
    45. Butch Hancock: West Texas Waltzes & Dust-Blown Tractor Tunes (Rainlight)
    46. Jade Warrior: Way Of The Sun (Island)
    47. Kate Bush: The Kick Inside (EMI)
    48. Georg Deuter: Haleakala Mystery (Kuckuck)
    49. Dixie Dregs: What If (Capricorn)
    50. Damned Damned Damned Damned (1977)
    51. Rodney Crowell: Ain't Living Long Like This (Warner)
    52. Foreigner: Double Vision (Atlantic)
    53. Jasun Martz: The Pillory (Neoteric)
    54. Urban Sax: Urban Sax I (1978)
    55. Caetano Veloso: Muito (1978)

     

    1979

    TM, ®, Copyright © 1998 Piero Scaruffi


    9/10

    1. Pop Group: Y (Radar)

      2. 8.5/10

    2. Chrome: Half Machine Lips Move (Siren)

      3. 8/10

    3. Pere Ubu: New Picnic Time (Chrysalis)
    4. Public Image Ltd: Second Edition (Virgin)
    5. Germs: GI (Slash)
    6. Contortions: Buy (Ze)
    7. This Heat: This Heat (Piano)
    8. Rickie Lee Jones: self-titled (Warner)
    9. Residents: Eskimo (Ralph)
    10. Wire: 154 (Harvest)

      11. 7.5/10

    11. Talking Heads: Fear Of Music (Sire)
    12. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (Factory)
    13. Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material (RoughTrade)
    14. Tom Petty: Damn The Torpedoes (Backstreet)
    15. Red Krayola: Soldier Talk (Radar)

      16. 7/10

    16. B52's: I (Island)
    17. Fripp Robert: Exposure (Polydor)
    18. Swell Maps: Trip To Marineville (Rough Trade)
    19. Zoogz Rift: Idiots On The Miniature Golf Course (Snout)
    20. Gang Of Four: Entertainment (Warner)
    21. Raincoats: Raincoats (Rough Trade)
    22. Anthony Moore: Flying Doesn't Help (Quango)
    23. James White: Off White (Ze)
    24. Univers Zero: Heresie (Cryonic)
    25. Art Bears: Hopes And Fears (Re)
    26. Van Morrison: Into The Music (Mercury)
    27. John Hiatt: Slug Line (MCA)
    28. Clash: London Calling (CBS)
    29. Cure: Three Imaginary Boys (Fiction)
    30. Shoes: Present Tense (Elektra)
    31. Dickies: Dawn (A&M)
    32. Heldon: Stand By (Egg)
    33. Cluster: Grosses Wasser (Sky)
    34. Frank Zappa: Orchestral Favourites (Discreet)
    35. Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Industrial)
    36. Fall: Live At Witch Trials (StepForward)
    37. Marianne Faithful: Broken English (Island)
    38. Elvis Costello: Armed Forces (Radar)
    39. Richard Lloyd: Alchemy (Elektra)
    40. Roches: Roches (Warner)
    41. Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise)
    42. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (Warner)
    43. Fall: Dragnet (RoughTrade)
    44. Supertramp: Breakfast In America (Island)
    45. Roy Loney: Out After Dark (Solid Smoke)
    46. Terry Allen: Lubbock (Fate)
    47. Georg Deuter: Ecstasy (Kuckuck)
    48. Mekons: The Quality Of Mercy (Virgin)
    49. Yellow Magic Orchestra: Solid State Survivor (Alfa)
    50. Joe Jackson: Look Sharp (A&M)
    51. Graham Parker: Squeezing Out Sparks (Mercury)