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

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?

It does seem that Bitches Brew has, like Sgt. Peppers, been brought down a notch to part of a great run rather than a unique breakthrough.

i don't really get that sense

here's some more 1970 that i really dig:

hawkwind - hawkwind
eugene mcdaniels - outlaw
the beatles - let it be
jorge ben - força bruta
sunny murray - an even break (never give a sucker)
bob dylan - self portrait
frank wright - uhuru na umoja
sonny sharrock - monkey-pockie-boo
the kinks - lola
mccartney - mccartney
john cale - vintage violence
brötzmann / van hove / bennink - balls
marcus - marcus
allen toussaint - toussaint
bob & the wailers - soul rebel
jon appleton & don cherry - human music
van morrison - moondance
sun ra - my brother the wind
novos baianos - é ferro na boneca

There were just a ridiculous amount of good LPs that came out in this period of time.

CSNY- Deja Vu
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Mountain - Climbing
the Doors - Morrison Hotel
Grand Funk Railroad - Closer to Home & Live Album
Rolling Stones- Get Your Ya Ya's Out
Jethro Tull- Benefit
the Faces- First Step
Badfinger- Magic Christian Music & No Dice

perhaps a bit more obscure...

Bloodrock 1 & 2
Canned Heat- Future Blues
Uriah Heep- Very 'Eavy Very 'Umble
Johnny Winter And - s/t
Atomic Rooster- Death Walks Behind You
Mott the Hoople- Mad Shadows
Frank Zappa - Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Burnt Weeny Sandwich & Chunga's Revenge

Deep Purple - In Rock

Bee OK what was the results of your old poll for 70?

yes, lets see what happened from a few years back pfunkboy (BTW, this place misses you!):

Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1970 poll

4 The Stooges - Fun House 17
1 Neil Young - After the Gold Rush 11
25 Curtis Mayfield - Curtis 10
5 Miles Davis - Bitches Brew 9
8 Black Sabbath - Paranoid 6
11 The Velvet Underground - Loaded 5
3 Derek and The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 4
19 Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead 4

rushomancy, do you have a list ?

Paranoid FTW.

This was a little easier than the 1969 poll. Loaded is the pop art art pop peak, even without the outcat ventures of other VU LPs (just as satisfying in its way).

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

here are some other suggestions since budo jeru asked :)

aretha franklin - spirit in the dark
big grunt - peel session
bruce haack - the electric lucifer
bwana - s/t
captain beefheart - lick my decals off baby
chico buarque & ennio morricone - per un pugno di samba
clifford thornton - the panther and the lash
the cowsills - on my side
david axelrod - earth rot
don everly - s/t
egisto macchi - voix
electric funeral - the wild performance
emergency - homage to peace
exuma - s/t
fotheringay - s/t (SERIOUSLY YES THIS IS GOOD)
the four tops - still waters run deep
the fourth way - werwolf
free action inc. - plays eddy korsche
g.f. fitzgerald - mouseproof
gay & terry woods - top gear session (w/mcdonald & giles)
george harrison - all things must pass (DUH)
gracious! - s/t
the grodeck whipperjenny - s/t
herbie hancock - mwandishi
horse - for twisted minds only
i.d. company - s/t
iron claw - s/t
jards macale - so morto
joe mcphee - sound on sound
john mclaughlin - devotion
john surman - how many clouds can you see?
kevin ayers - shooting at the moon
leo ferre - amour anarchie
live experience band - voodoo child, live experience 69-70
louis armstrong - and his friends (he does "the creator has a master plan", come on)
lyd - s/t
mal waldron - spanish bitch
masabumi kikuchi sextet - re-confirmation
michael nesmith - magnetic south
procol harum - home (super fucking underrated)
pucho & the latin soul brothers - jungle fire
ron geesin & roger waters - music from the body
roy brooks - the free slave
sandro brugolini - overground
segun okeji - i like woman
sphere - inside ourselves
sproton layer - with magnetice fields disrupted
tangerine dream - electronic meditation
unknown fibers "odd-lots" - laguna beach happening christmas 1970
wizz jones - the legendary me

"home" is a CONCEPT ALBUM ABOUT DEATH what more do you need

"barnyard story" breaks my fucking heart every time

i do not give a shit if matthew fisher had quit, who fucking even needs two keyboard players in one band

thaat’s the stuff !

also, nearly forgot tomasz stańko’s “music for k”

This one was easy. Black Sabbath.

mwandishi was 71, no?

yeah i go off my tags, which are frequently wrong. sub in "fat albert rotunda" if you like even though that one isn't quite as good

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.

yeah I think it is '69

Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath,
Black Sabbath - Paranoid

If you're gonna invent heavy metal, may as well put out a second album the same year to show everyone you mean business.

Funkadelic - Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
Funkadelic - Funkadelic
Parliament - Osmium

Meanwhile, George Clinton says "Two albums? Weak sauce, Tony..."

And then there's these:

Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
MC5 - Back In The Usa
Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
The Stooges - Fun House
The Velvet Underground - Loaded

This is a tough choice. I am going to go with Paranoid for the simple reason I likely played it more than any of the other albums.

After The Gold Rush

It could easily have been Paranoid or Fun House too

& Sunflower & Loaded!

Fairport, "Full House" + Steeleye, "Hark! the Village Wait" btw... oh and "Nilsson Sings Newman" and "12 Songs" by Randy Newman.

did you buy them when they came out?

Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House
Moody Blues - A Question of Balance

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