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

'yeti' just squeezes out 'third' for me

Only one album destroys all

... and it makes your ass follow.

What a lovely load of albums! I had hoped to shun this grand indulgence but instead I'll vote Third

Haha Kerr if you and I ever have a row, I propose we do it in this thread:

Battle of 1970: "Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow" vs "Funhouse"

Have your heard this one?

https://www.waxpend.com/uploads/item_image/image/68908/main_4fbd1424-5462-4c1d-9223-3795672af124.jpg

If you like those Pharoah Sanders and Alice Coltrane albums, I'm sure you'd appreciate it too. (Phaorah doesn't play on it like he did on Thomas's previous album, but it's still very much in the same mood, and obviously "Pharoah's Tune" was co-written by him.)

I might go with the first on the list. I listen to Ptah all of the time, it's effing magical. Some epic contenders, though, for sure.

Like I was just literally wishing yesterday that I had a t-shirt of that album cover.

Curtis, Kraftwerk 1 and Third would all make my top 20 albums of all time

Tuomas,I think I have actually as you recommended it to me

xps

Man, totally missed that Red Clay was on here, too. And just noticed that there's no Kofi! Such a monumental year for jazz (and for music in general).

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.

wanted to go with Curtis but I love that VdGG album so much (H to He, not The Least We Can Do)

I mean...pretty much every album on this list that I've heard is worthy of the Best of '70 mantle. That's crazy. Even Clapton was able to put out something non-shit!

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

wanted to go with Curtis but I love that VdGG album so much (H to He, not The Least We Can Do)

― frogbs, Thursday, 7 February 2019 13:33 (twenty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I...slightly prefer The Least We Can Do... :/ haha

Incredible year. Layla over Sex Machine and After the Gold Rush

I'm torn between Cosmo's Factory, Curtis, Free Your Mind..., Bitches Brew, and Fun House.

Paranoid, Curtis, either of the Funkadelic LPs, Thank Christ for the Bomb, Led Zeppelin III, After the Gold Rush, Fun House, Live at Leeds. Possibly even tougher than 1969!

fun house

Eugene McDaniels and Swamp Dogg didn't make the ballot but are v worthy of inclusion imo.

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

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

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