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

Master of Reality

popol vuh just slightly ahead of “journey” and sly

the hardest one yet imo !

calstars you seem unsure who to vote for

surf's up is the best album that's 50% bullshit

― the scientology of mountains (rushomancy), Wednesday, February 13, 2019 6:39 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Haaaaa, I love the album and that's actually very otm.

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

Herbie Hancock - Mwandishi , 0

Hey! I wasn't the only who voted for Curtis! Internet fist bump to you, stranger with impeccable taste!

The pressure's on Ege Bamyasi now.

Luckily nothing else good came out in '72.

let's see how this compares, Top 5 or so:

Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1971 poll

14 Can - Tago Mago 9
5 Joni Mitchell - Blue 9
3 The Who - Who's Next 6
2 Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV 5
6 Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On 5
11 Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story 5

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1972

Haaaaa, I love the album and that's actually very otm.

― A functioning gazebo made of Candlebox cassingles (Old Lunch)

it's frustrating because i put together a version containing only songs written by people with the last name "wilson" and it's consistently great in a way none of their albums except "pet sounds" are

These polls are just going to me endlessly rotating between Nick Drake, Can, King Crimson and Beefheart

What a damn year, that so many all-time classics could possibly wind up with zero votes!

I think I'd like Pawn Hearts a lot more if I had a better sounding version. The 2005 CD I've got actually sent me off to the Hoffman forums to see if it was derided over and sure enough it gets slated for being very compressed. Prog is often so badly served by remasters.

I think I'd like Pawn Hearts a lot more if I had a better sounding version. The 2005 CD I've got actually sent me off to the Hoffman forums to see if it was derided over and sure enough it gets slated for being very compressed. Prog is often so badly served by remasters.

― *there's (Noel Emits)

yeah, the 2005 remasters are pretty awful unfortunately. this was before steven wilson came along (god it'd be great if he did pawn hearts)

the Pawn Hearts one has some good bonus tracks on it at least. the one that really disappoints me is Least We Can Do b/c the original master sounds pretty bad to me, but the 2005 version is brickwalled to the point where it's kinda painful to listen to.

I've been listening to a playlist of albums that came out in October 1971 (pretty great moment, including the inexplicably left-out-of-this-poll Electric Warrior) and am really getting into Heron- Twice as Nice & Half the Price, a pretty loose folk rock double album where the singers routinely make each other crack up and the guitars sometimes remind me of Pavement. Like on "Big A":

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjAs42G7YThAhUN0IMKHf4iDY0QtwIIKjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DsbdCyyy6_J4&usg=AOvVaw2lsOyzw8zaWnfZaG8mkv-R

Il n'y a pas vraiment deep question

There are a number of "1971 album" threads to choose to revive.
I was reading a website this morning that suggested that Nektar's Journey to the Centre of the Eye was the best debut of 1971. I can neither confirm nor deny, but I started thinking that there are relatively few canonical debuts from that year - it's like there was a period of consolidation after the rush of innovation over the previous half-decade or so.

The following debut albums from this year are ranked on Acclaimed Music. Crosby and Blunstone, and perhaps John McLaughlin, were of course veteran artists making a solo or group debut:

The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
John Prine
David Crosby - If I Could Only Remember My Name
Bill Withers - Just As I Am
Faust
Comus - First Utterance
Judee Sill
Colin Blunstone - One Year
Hound Dog Taylor and the HouseRockers

Anyway, my choice for debut album of the year is Halfnelson AKA Sparks, which stands out of time as much as any proto-punk record of the year you might name.

Allman Brothers "At Fillmore East" seems a pretty big record to be missing here thus far from '71.

Rory Gallagher's "Duece" is another good LP from '71. Probably not my favorite from the year, but it is my favorite of his studio albums. His debut solo record also came out in '71.

ZZ Top's "First Album", Little Feat and Thin Lizzy were a few other notable debuts in '71.

A few more notables from '71...

Jeff Beck Group "Rough and Ready"
Humble Pie "Performance: Rockin' the Fillmore"
Jimi Hendrix "The Cry of Love"
Jethro Tull "Aqualung"
Freddie King "Getting Ready"
John Lennon "Imagine"
Grateful Dead "Skull and Roses"
Grand Funk Railroad "E Plurbius Funk"
Badfinger "Straight Up"
James Brown "Revolution of the Mind"

Just a crazy good year for LPs...

ZZ Top's "First Album", Little Feat and Thin Lizzy were a few other notable debuts in '71.

These bands are usually regarded as peaking several albums later, although I was surprised how much Phil Lynott was already himself on that first Lizzy record; I was expecting a more run-of-the-mill heavy approach.

Allman Brothers "At Fillmore East" seems a pretty big record to be missing here thus far from '71.

Not if you live outside the USA.

Did the Allman Brothers never tour outside the US?

It struck me that the first albums by Faust and Sparks beat Roxy Music by a year in terms of introducing post-modernism to rock...unless you think Zappa got there before any of them.

My favorite album of 1971 would also be my favorite debut of 1971, Judee Sill

As would mine. Gilbert's Himself.

Others besides O'Sullivan that I love but haven't been mentioned

The Scratch Orchestra - The Great Learning
Paul and Linda McCartney - Ram
Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (now officially 71 not 70)
Lou Christie Sacco - Paint America Love
The Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening
Freddie Hubbard and İlhan Mimaroğlu - Sing Me a Song of Songmy
Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka
TONTO's Expanding Head Band - Zero Time
The Stylistics
Carla Bley and Paul Haines - Escalator Over the Hill
Beau - Creation
Kingdom Come - Galactic Zoo Disaster
Edgar Broughton Band
Osibisa

"Did the Allman Brothers never tour outside the US?"

Got kind of curious about that myself after the question was posed. I did not figure the original band ever did as they were really only getting pretty popular with Duane Allman died. They don't appear to have played much in the 70s in Europe, but I found some notices that they headlined a festival at Knebworth in 1974.

Later on, I got to figure some of Greg Allman's arrest issues might have made it hard for him to get visas and it was probably just more profitable for them to keep playing in the US.

I did find note that Greg Allman and Cher did some dates together in Japan and Europe. Of course this tour from what is reads was also what done in the marriage for good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_the_Hard_Way_Tour

It looks like they played Montreal a couple of months before Duane died.