The Soapbox Top Albums Of The 70s

Good work Barnacle, this might be the toughest decade for me I think..

Did this list a while back but just re-edited it as I've come across quite a few soul records I really like since.

01: Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
02: The Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St,
03: The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
04: Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
05: The Clash - TCOTU Calling
06: Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy In Sweden
07: Neil Young - On The Beach
08: Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Clear Spot
09: The Stooges - Raw Power
10: T. Rex - The Slider

11: Iggy Pop - The Idiot
12: Al Green - Call Me
13: New York Dolls - New York Dolls
14: Neil Young - Zuma
15: Lee Hazlewood - Requiem for an Almost Lady
16: Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
17: The Clash - The Clash
18: The Jam - All Mod Cons
19: Iggy Pop - Lust for Life
20: Curtis Mayfield - Superfly

21: Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
22: The Jam - Setting Sons
23: Big Star - #1 Record
24: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
25: Ramones - Rocket To Russia
26: Al Green - Al Green Gets Next to You
27: Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
28: Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can
29: T. Rex - Electric Warrior
30: Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War ina Babylon

31: Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
32: The Rolling Stones - Goats Head Soup
33: John Lennon - Imagine
34: Ann Peebles - I Can't Stand the Rain
35: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Catch A Fire
36: Ramones - Ramones
37: Neil Young - Comes a Time
38: Curtis Mayfield - Roots
39: Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves
40: Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars

41: Al Green - Let's Stay Together
42: Otis Redding - Tell the Truth
43: Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony
44: David Bowie - "Heroes"
45: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Burnin'
46: James Brown - There It Is
47: The Undertones - The Undertones
48: Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
49: Neil Young - Harvest
50: The Velvet Underground - Loaded

51-100 In some kind of order.

Sex Pistols - Nevermind The Bollocks
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Toots and the Maytals - Funky Kingston
Toots and the Maytals - In the Dark
The Who - Quadrophenia
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Aretha Franklin - Spirit in the Dark
Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
Willie Hutch - Foxy Brown
John Cale - Fear
Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
Fela Kuti - Zombie
James Brown - The Payback
Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters - Super Ape
Patti Smith - Horses
Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
Neil Young - Time Fades Away
Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
Big Star - Radio City
Allen Toussaint - Southern Nights
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs
Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Johnny Cash - Ragged Old Flag
Johnny Thunders - So Alone
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Flamin' Groovies - Teenage Head
John Lennon - John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band
Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Magazine - Real Life
Can - Tago Mago
Lee "Scratch" Perry - Roast Fish, Collie Weed & Corn Bread
Suicide - Suicide
The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue
The Specials - The Specials
Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 7
Television - Adventure
Ramones - Leave Home
The Fall - Dragnet
Joni Mitchell - Blue
Curtis Mayfield - Back to the World
Al Green - The Belle Album
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Neil Young - Tonight's The Night
Gil Scott-Heron - Pieces of a Man
Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia

FINALLY BARNY

been working on my list for months but still got some lps i want to refresh myself with. got a week off work next week so hoping to post my final list by the end of it

What's happened Karl?!? I though On The Beach was your no.1 Neil album?!?!

I've changed my mind about those two on quite a few occasions. I tend to lean towards Goldrush though. It's a special album for me & record of Neil's I've listened to by far the most.

4 of my top 5 havent been featured at all in the 2 lists so far ffs

Thats because you are such an individual JP.

Or maybe because you've not realised that the Modern Lovers album isn't that good

haha spot on with my number one right there

I reckon I could guess the other three but I won't ruin your big moment of publishing the list.

Well yeah, maybe you're more into the obscure 70's stuff..but I'll settle for the obvious ones.

Still, your list should prove some Entertainment! just don't expect me to wave any pink flags at Robert Wyatt's wheelchair. BRB, off to watch Transformers.

1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
2. Sly & The Family Stone - There's a Riot Going On
3. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5. Stevie Wonder - Innervisions
6. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
7. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
8. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
9. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
10. John Lennon - Imagine
11. The Clash - TCOTU Calling
12. Paul McCartney - McCartney
13. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
14. Blondie - Parallel Lines
15. James Brown - Hell
16. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
17. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
18. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
19. Elton John - Elton John
20. James Brown - The Payback
21. The Beatles - Let It Be
22. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
23. Nick Drake - Bryter Later
24. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
25. Joni Mitchell - Blue
26. Crosby, Stills, Nash, & Young - Deja Vu
27. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
28. Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills
29. Television - Marquee Moon
30. Iggy & The Stooges - Raw Power
31. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
32. The Who - Who's Next
33. Ramones - Ramones
34. David Bowie - The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
35. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
36. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
37. Lou Reed - Transformer
38. Roberta Flack - Killing Me Softly
39. Wings - Band on the Run
40. Creedence Clearwater Revivial - Pendulum
41. Prince - Prince
42. Carole King - Tapestry
43. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
44. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
45. Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
46. John Lennon - Walls and Bridges
47. Santana - Abraxas
48. Curtis Mayfield - Super Fly
49. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
50. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus

good stuff here

It's a fuckin' big decade and I will probably struggle to sort my list, but some of my assured top5 choices aren't getting much reconition either

Oh man I am going to own this thread in a day or two. Great lists so far guys.

01. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
02. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
03. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
04. Paul Simon - Paul Simon
05. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
06. Tim Buckley - Lorca
07. The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround (Part One)
08. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
09. Little Feat - Sailin' Shoes
10. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

11. Willie Nelson - Shotgun Willie
12. Joni Mitchell - Blue
13. Laura Nyro - Christmas and the Beads of Sweat
14. Captain Beefheart - Mirror Man
15. Gram Parsons - Grievous Angel
16. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
17. Van Halen - Van Halen
18. Franco Battiato - Fetus
19. Gene Clark - Gene Clark [White Light]
20. Karen Dalton - In My Own Time

21. Bob Dylan - Desire
22. Neil Young - On the Beach
23. David Blue - Stories
24. Paul Simon - There Goes Rhymin' Simon
25. Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
26. Television - Marquee Moon
27. Rino Gaetano - Mio fratello è figlio unico
28. Patti Smith - Easter
29. Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
30. Eric Andersen - Blue River

31. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
32. Little Feat - Little Feat
33. Carole King - Tapestry
34. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
35. J.J. Cale - Naturally
36. Emitt Rhodes - Emitt Rhodes
37. Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages
38. Captain Beefheart - Clear Spot
39. Tim Buckley - Starsailor
40. Bob Dylan - Planet Waves

41. Jandek - Ready for the House
42. Lucio Battisti - Io Tu Noi Tutti
43. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
44. Caetano Veloso - Transa
45. Can - Ege Bamyasi
46. Os Mutantes - A Divina Comédia ou Ando Meio Desligado
47. Aerosmith - Rocks
48. Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
49. Willie Nelson - Phases and Stages
50. Nick Drake - Pink Moon

Ok I deleted my post cause I'm going to sit on this until I hear Bryter Layter...and I need to fix the order.