GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1970

[Sophii]

1.) King Crimson - Lizard
2.) Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
3.) Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
4.) CCR - Cosmo's Factory
5.) Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
6.) Magma - Magma
7.) Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do is Wave At Each Other
8.) Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson
9.) Moody Blues - Question of Balance
10.) The Meters - Struttin'


Theres a lot of prog rock this year.
God I went back to that Kristofferson album and goddamn if it ain't one of the most intelligent country albums I've heard.

 

[CiG]

Deep Purple in Rock is one of the first heavy metal albums ya dumb cunts.

Yeah you're right, editing my list.

 

[jimmy101]

Deep Purple in Rock is one of the first heavy metal albums ya dumb cunts.

No way.

 

[CiG]

I'd be inclined to run with the heavy metal tag Kingdom Come has as primary on RYM, but maybe as a personal choice thing rather than outright exclusion. When we did 1972, some users listed Machine Head, while some left it out along with a couple of others. But we left things out because they have enough metal elements to be used in a 70s poll, not because they're "unambiguously metal".

Think @no country for old wainds or someone floated the idea that we'd do a top 20 metal albums of the 70s. There are plenty of choices for that in my books.

I was looking over my ratings and it looks like even if we do a game for the entire 70's, I think 1979 has enough metal to have its own game. Thoughts anybody?

 

[zabu of nΩd]

1. Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
2. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
4. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
   
5. Magma - Magma
   
6. Andrew Lloyd Webber - Jesus Christ Superstar
7. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
8. Bloodrock - Bloodrock
9. Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
10. The Doors - Morrison Hotel

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

have we done 2001 yet?

 

[CiG]

Nope!

 

[challenge_everything]

Good to see the love for King Crimson's Lizard. Their most underrated album IMO. It will be at or near the top of my list too.

 

[jimmy101]

Good to see the love for King Crimson's Lizard. Their most underrated album IMO. It will be at or near the top of my list too.

Damn right. Circus & Indoor Games are stellar numbers.

 

[challenge_everything]

Not to mention the title track.

 

[challenge_everything]

1. King Crimson - Lizard
2. Amon Düül II - Yeti
3. Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash
4. High Tide - High Tide
5. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
6. Nico - Desertshore
7. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
8. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
9. T2 - It'll All Work Out in Boomland
10. The Beatles - Let It Be

 

[Caecius]

1. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
2. The Stooges - Fun House
3. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
4. James Gang - Rides Again
5. Crosby, Stills, Nash, Young - Deja Vu
6. Stray - Self-Titled
7. Emerson, Lake, Palmer - Self-Titled
8. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
9. Elton John - Self-Titled
10. Amon Duul II - Yeti

Honorable Mentions:
The Guess Who - American Woman
The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
Free - Fire and Water
Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection

I guess I need to listen to King Crimson.

 

[CiG]

have we done 2001 yet?

Just realised we actually haven't done 2001 for metal either.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

have we done 2001 yet?

Nope!

After doing 2002, there was a general agreement that we should just stick to the pre-2000 years, specifically '67-'99. It would be kinda nice to do 2001, though, because there are definitely some choice albums from that year.

 

[Bloopy]

1. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
2. The Stooges - Fun House
3. Black Widow - Sacrifice
4. Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk
5. The Human Instinct - Stoned Guitar
6. Bloodrock - Bloodrock
7. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
8. Uriah Heep - ...Very 'eavy ...Very 'umble
9. Randy Holden - Population II
10. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III

HM:
Atomic Rooster - Atomic Roooster
Josefus - Dead Man

I was looking over my ratings and it looks like even if we do a game for the entire 70's, I think 1979 has enough metal to have its own game. Thoughts anybody?

I dunno. Kinda mucks up the niceness of doing the decade as a whole. I might be able to do some listening and scrape 10 together for '79, but the pickings are very slim so it's not as if the year would dominate the decade too much.

 

[jimmy101]

Oh man, forgot about Allman Bros & Capt. Beefheart. Wouldn't have cracked my top 10 though.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I will keep this open till the 11th.

 

[Somethingface]

1. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
2. The Stooges - Fun House
3. Amon Duul II - Yeti
4. Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Gain, I'd Do It All Over You
5. Nico - Desertshore
6. Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come****
7. Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am The Only One
8. Stray - Stray
9. T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
10. Soft Machine - Third

*** If Sir Lord Baltimore doesn't count shift everything else up one spot and put Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby at 10

 

[crimsonfloyd]

Without relistening to anything

1. Joni Mitchell- Ladies of the Canyon
2. Curtis Mayfield- Curtis
3. Miles Davis- Bitches Brew
4. King Crimson- Lizard
5. Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother
6. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer- S/T
7. Cat Stevens- Tea for the Tillerman
8. Led Zeppelin- Led Zeppelin III
9. Funkadelic- Funkadelic
10. Deep Purple- Deep Purple in Rock

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
2. The Stooges - Fun House
3. Amon Duul II - Yeti
4. Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Gain, I'd Do It All Over You
5. Nico - Desertshore
6. Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come****
7. Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am The Only One
8. Stray - Stray
9. T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland
10. Soft Machine - Third

*** If Sir Lord Baltimore doesn't count shift everything else up one spot and put Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby at 10

I'm excluding it from my own list, so make of that what you will.