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

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

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.

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BRYTER LAYTER MOTHER FUCKER

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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