The Best Rock Albums of the 1970's

Appendix to my book "A History of Rock Music"
Selected by piero scaruffi
and revised in 2010 by Jakub Krawczynski
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1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
Best of the 1960's Best of the 1970's Best of the 1980's Best of the 1990's Best of the 2000's Best of the 2010's
TM, ®, Copyright © 1998 Piero Scaruffi
If you know the recording (NOT release) dates of these albums, please send them to me. It is ridiculous that rock music uses the release date instead of the recording or composition dates.

The greatest bands of the 1970s

  1. Pere Ubu
  2. John Fahey
  3. Klaus Schulze
  4. Robert Wyatt
  5. Popol Vuh
  6. Faust
  7. Neil Young
  8. Nico
  9. Gong
  10. Kraftwerk
  11. Neu
  12. Suicide
  13. Residents
  14. Pop Group
  15. Can
  16. Chrome
  17. Syd Barrett
  18. Patti Smith
  19. Joni Mitchell
  20. Third Ear Band
  21. Kevin Ayers
  22. Television
  23. Talking Heads
  24. Ramones
  25. Clash
  26. Henry Cow

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