Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1970

not a top 50 pick perhaps but a good one nonetheless:

Allman Brothers - Idlewild South

Early 70s really do seem to be a golden era and I hate cliches of how older eras/music was better but you cant really argue with the actual amount of albums when you see them placed right before your eyes.

Hopefully these polls will help others hear new to them music and I can hear albums recommended in here that I haven't heard.

For the artists who were on the '69 list, these most feel like a step down from their '69 offerings (Stooges being the biggest exception)

I mean this era predates me and I didn't even discover most of this music until relatively recently so nostalgia doesn't factor in at all when I assert (as I know I have before 'round these parts) that the qualitative average of popular music was never higher than when Nixon occupied the WH.

CCR
Curtis
Neil

Bendy, you think Bitches Brew and Cosmo's Factory are a atep down?

and Yeti?

Agree with the Colonel on the omission of...

Can - Soundtracks
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby

I mean, "Electronic Meditation", amusing little album though it is, is not on the same planet as "Soundtracks".

... also I've never heard of T2, "It'll All Work Out in Boomland"!

Then you should!

Try this majestic song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg1i6Y-ybTw

My #1 would probably be one of the 2 Grateful Dead albums from this year, neither of which are here!?!

Just Another Diamond Day.

OMG, Minnie Riperton's first album was released this year, too. Stop, 1970, you're killing me rn.

JFC, I hate to be all "music was better back then" but there are 10-15 albums on this list that are better than anything that came out in 2018. In fact, there are albums that widely made 2018 top ten lists that are worse than every single record on this list.

This poll is doing my head in, I can't vote in it.

2018 wasn't that bad. Maybe in 50 years time all the ignored music from 2018 will be mined

Tom did you listen to that T2 song?

Not yet. I'll probably go for "Fun House".

everyone else will vote for that.

In the absence of the Beatles, possibly, though I imagine everyone is sooooo over "Fun House" by now.

more like Dumb House amirite

no way Fun House wont win this poll

You're aware you have a 0% success rate in predicting the winners of these polls so far?

can’t imagine what it would feel like to be “over” “fun house”

nothing unusual there but I'm convinced I'm right on this one

2018 wasn't that bad. Maybe in 50 years time all the ignored music from 2018 will be mined

― Friedrich B. Neechy (Oor Neechy), Thursday, February 7, 2019 12:15 PM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You'll want to check my albums' ballots for some of these ;)

I've listened to the entire Fun House sessions just to confirm that it's a total snooze. Don't waste your time, kids!

Fun House would be the clear + easy winner when plopped amongst many other random conglomerations of albums but it's in for brutal fight in this particular poll.

Col. Poo has already mentioned most of my 1970 favourites (Can, Beefheart, Deep Purple, Mutantes) but there are still a couple there yet untold:

Randy Holden - Population II
Twink - Think Pink
James Gang - Rides Again

Have not heard at least 15 of these.

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

just over

Freddie Hubbard - Red Clay

I was 11 and 12 years old in 1970, and couldn't afford many albums. Although I had friends who owned Zep, Sabbath, Hendrix, Santana, etc. I only ever had one on this list and played it to death: CCR.

Been listening to my 'best of 1970' playlist throughout the morning. Yeah, I could probably be satisfied with just this set of songs for a solid year or so.

HOLY SHIT, I just realized Plastic Ono Band (Yoko's volume is what I'm specifically referring to here) is 1970, as well!

very easy, Band O Gypsies

I see Curtis Mayfield in a poll, I click Curtis Mayfield in a poll

defo my fave of his

I've actually never heard of T2 before. Will have to check it out now based on its company on this list

It's a great album

Abraxas for me, astounding sonic earth magic

i think i would have made room for "all things must pass"

going to vote for "loaded" which i think might win

Psst, I hate to spoil the ending for u but

Man, it's been a minute since I listened to Curtis, forgot how hard it cooks.

This poll is hard, possibly too hard.

XXXpost: Bitches Brew falls far short of Silent Way for me. But as for CCR, those first few are like Ramones, all identically solid. Loaded is lovely, but is missing most of what I want from the Velvets.

idgi xp

he means Fun House will walk this poll

yes curtis is a perfect album. both it and fun house are probably on my short short list of favorite albums, but i was in a down-and-dirty fun house mood this morning and voted for it.

As I progress through my playlist I'm reminded that not only was this an era of absolutely epochal albums but also of so many deliciously frothy AM gold confections.

Seriously, though, mainlining this stuff is...a little overwhelming. Like it's almost too good to take in all at once.

When I was 1st getting into that era of Miles, all you heard about was Bitches Brew. Could be wrong but feel like I just stumbled onto Silent Way on my own. Guess it's generational change in tastes/values from Boomer rockers to Gen X/Millenials?

Loaded, slightly ahead of Zep III.

Voted for Band of Gypsys ahead of Zep III and Fun House.

Oh, Bitches Brew is up there too, obv, probably Third next.

I thought you would have voted Bitches Brew

It's either Paranoid or Fun House for me.

Fun House just ahead of the Groundhogs for me.

went Live at Leeds, that record is a monster

Yet a few more unmentionwd notables and personal touchstones (not that I'd necessarily vote for any of these.) 1970 was just that massive.

Alice Cooper - Easy Action
Amboy Dukes - Marriage on the Rocks/Rock Bottom (fuck Ted Nugent, obviously)
Hackamore Brick - One Kiss Leads To Another
High Tide
Last Poets
Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon
Rustic Hinge - Replicas
Bob Seger - Mongrel
Woody Shaw - Blackstone Legacy
Alan Shorter - Orgasm
The Stark Reality - Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop

Bicycles on CCR album covers are nice, but only one of these 50 has an actual functioning wheel included. So Zep III gets my vote.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

BRYTER LAYTER MOTHER FUCKER

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

oh i didn't know there were so many iggy pop fans around here...

0 votes to Les Stances à Sophie !
Lots of dads here.

stooges was always going to walk an ilm poll.

I'll start 1971 in a few

Thanks to the 100+ who voted again!

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1971