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

Zep is one of my favorite bands and I've occasionally thought that III might be my favorite of their albums but I don't think it even quite creeps into my top 10 for 1970.

could have gone with Paranoid or Yeti but voted for Fun House

I think either Paranoid, Ptah or Loaded. Although I do bloody love Fire and Water.

Had to cut a few things to make 50

xps

I feel like Bitches Brew gets a bit taken for granted at the moment, somehow. No underdog by any means but it could warrant a wee boost.

― *there's (Noel Emits), Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:14 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Probably as Fun House always wins 1970 polls?

Zep III
Fun House
Vintage Violence (not here!)

Jesus Christ Superstar!

After the Gold Rush just over Bitches Brew, loads of great stuff again but maybe not quite as strong a year as '71? Favourite 1970 record not listed here: Parallelograms by Linda Perhacs

Holy shit, no Mwandishi even!

(I understand the limitations of the format, Neechy. I'm just in awe that the number of wholly valid options in this instance far exceeds 50.)

Oh, wait. Mwandishi is '71, mea culpa.

My birth year and I always marvel at the output. As much as I love both the Sabbath records, I gotta go with Cosmos Factory. A lot of these records are the ones I'd play for space aliens to school them on what is Rock.

fave 15 albums not on here:

Can - Soundtracks
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Chi-Lites - I Like Your Lovin' (Do You Like Mine)
David Bowie - The Man Who Sold The World
Deep Purple - In Rock
Edwin Starr - War & Peace
Flamin' Groovies - Flamingo
Freda Payne - Band Of Gold
Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can
Lee Hazlewood - Cowboy In Sweden
Lost Nation - Paradise Lost
Medicine Head - New Bottles Old Medicine
Os Mutantes - A Divina Comedia Ou Ando Meio Desligado
Pretty Things - Parachute
Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

only 50 optiona

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

it's "cosmo's factory"

look it's got a bicycle on the cover

"fun house" is nice as well but it does not have a bicycle on the cover

seems fair

it's really hard to believe that all this stuff is only ten years on from the 1950s

Yeti vs. Cosmo's vs. Fun House is impossible, jeez

Out of the list, I would probably go for Third, Yeti, Curtis or even Bryter Layter (which has shot up in my esteem).
Some of my own favorites are probably Força Bruta, Is it Because I'm Black and Moondance. Also Ladies of the Canyon.
And three other Brazilian records: Cantiga de longe (Lôbô), September 17, 1969 (A. Gilberto), Orfeo novo (Gismonti).

Bryter Layter is my favourite Nick Drake album.

after the goldrush. such a perfect album. not sure if it is neil's best, on the beach is more to the bone, harvest is more sentimental. but after the goldrush is amazing as it anticipates the hangover after flower power. and i am still intrigued about that movie.

I didnt vote in the ‘69 one but it would probably would have been King Crimson.

This one is Curtis or Nick Drake

(Grateful Dead is sorely missing)

Not a fan, sorry.

Fat Albert Rotunda is '69, I believe.

Gil Scott-Heron's debut was in '70. Not as good as what came after but pretty damn noteworthy nonetheless.

― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch)

sigh. so instead of my tags i go off rym and they're wrong too. time is an illusion y'all.

"small talk at 125th and lenox"? track a6, hard pass on that one

I dunno if that's the source for wrong year tags in jazz albums, but AMG used to date jazz albums by the year they were recorded instead of the release year, so Mwandishi for example was a 1970 album according to them. Why they did that, I have no idea.

Rodriguez - Cold Fact (album with ‘Sugar Man’) is quite a pleasant folk rock album from ‘70

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