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

I don't think I'll be surprising anyone here with my vote for Maggot Brain

Tago Mago, honourable mentions for Sabbath, Funkadelic, Groundhogs, Sly, Isaac Hayes (though i thought you didn't like that one?), Stones, Who, Beach Boys...

I'm not a great fan of the shaft soundtrack but I still own it, and I couldn't be arsed with the shouts of where's shaft you motherfucker so..

hah fair enough. I think it's good!

the title song is the greatest

has there ever been a 70s tracks poll?

proper voting form poll i mean

Zeppelin IV and it isn’t even close. Come the fuck on.

Blue
then MoR
then Zep IV

Way to blow my expectations of your obvious number one out of the water, there, Joan.

What's Going On may be seen as a middle-of-the road answer, but it's perfect.
Right behind it: Tago Mago, Blue, Roots, Master of Reality, Journey in Satchidananda, First Utterance, Pawn Hearts (what a year).
Not on the list: Dez anos depois(if that counts), Songs of Love and Hate, Construção

There's a Riot Goin' On, followed closely by Blue

So many good albums! Unfortunately for all the others, Pawn Hearts is one of them

Hey, 1971 is also the year of Soul Revolution !
And Palmieri's Vamonos pa'l monte
And Live at Massey Hall
And Bless the Weather
And Nation Time !!!
and Noel por Noel

I don't think this year was a good as '70 tbh.

In fact, no doubt about it. Also seems to be full of a lot of cult albums that have never impressed me much.

tago mago

I think I'd agree that it's not as epic a year as '70 but there are still a good number of epic albums here that I cannot choose between.

Shouldn't "Electric Warrior" be on there? "Hunky Dory"? As opposed to Gila's 1st album, for instance?

Gut says Faust, head says Sly, heart says Zep, I think my spleen is suggesting Gil, endocrine system definitely rooting for Herbie.

Mirror Man

Tago Maggot. Riot. One of those three.

Went Ptah in the last one and probably Satchidananda here.

In Den Garten Pharaos, Tago, Satori all colossi of the pantheon but Alice / Pharoah combo is moida.

I went Ptah, too. Probably Sly this time. Or Shirley, Sabbath or Herbie.

Right now, though, Imma go listen to the Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys.

i went gut and went with bill fay, lots of other good stuff around tho

i could do a list of lesser known albums but there's a great mixcloud from last year of 24 hours of music from 1971, i think that pretty much covers everything

I don't think this year was a good as '70 tbh.

― Wee boats wobble but they don't fall down (Tom D.),

It's one of my fave years ever. An amazing year.

"Blue"

Easiest year to decide yet!

If Maggot Brain hadn't been there I would have struggled to choose .
My fave albums by MC5, Groundhogs, Can, Ash Ra Tempel, Genesis , Serge, Fela, sly, Faces, Caravan, Flower Travellin' Band, Stones, Marvin, and Joni

then you have brilliant albums by Zep, Sabbath, Herbie, VDGG, miles, beach boys etc

See, now I'd say this is the most epic year yet. AR Machines, Gainsbourg, Funkadelic, Can, both Alice Coltrane records are tied for first for me, and only thin the field because I've worn out the Stones, Who, Zep, Sabbath, Traffic and Beefheart.

Missing:
Judee Sill - s/t
Alice Cooper - Love It to Death

Of these, Stones then Funkadelic and Groundhogs.

One of my favourite Parmegiani pieces debuted this year.

Actually the very same day as this poster did.

https://youtu.be/x8AQGOL5cRk

Roots!

bloody

A Tribute To Jack Johnson is my gut: the shifting focus never wavers, incl. trumpet-guitar-keys-and back, also perceived-long-before=officially-disclosed from Cobham to DeJohnette and from McL. to Sharrock, accruing tunefulness x groove momentum. But of course Top Ten incl Funkadelic Beefheart Joni Zep

before-officially, that is

Man, this year meant business.

Sticky Fingers

Serious list of albums there. Pieces of a Man is the one I go back to the most + gets my vote.

Couple big ones not mentioned in list or comments:

Rod Stewart--Every Picture Tells a Story
Kinks--Muswell Hillbillies
Yes--The Yes Album and Fragile
Al Green--Al Green Gets Next To You
Van Morrison--Tupelo Honey
Harry Nilsson--Nilsson Schmillson
Mott The Hoople--Brain Capers
B.B. King--In London

sly

this was the easiest one yet, not much beats Journey In Satchidananda in my world

Alice Cooper - Love It to Death

OMG

Hah, you wont find any Yes on my lists im afraid

What, no Beach Boys?

Genesis it is then.

Surf's Up is there, Geir.

Welcome back btw

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

I wonder if we will get 100+ voters again

Love it to Death and Brain Capers are probably my two favorite classic rock albums at this point, since I didn't hear them and wear them out as a kid.

don't think any of these have been mentioned:

Ann Peebles - Straight From The Heart
Al Green - Let's Stay Together
Fontella Bass - Free
Gong - Camembert Electrique
James Brown - Hot Pants
Hawkwind - In Search of Space
Pink Fairies - Never-Neverland

damn i wouldve had the al green and pink fairies in, hot pants too

its between Tago Mago and Pawn Hearts for me. I'll probably wind up voting Tago Mago though - even the big knock against it (all the fucking around on the second LP) is forgivable in context, since they're 2 separate LPs that (I gather) were not really meant to be listened to straight through the way you do on CD. I was thinking about that in regards to ELP's Tarkus (also released in '71) - did that album come off better back then because of the implication of "you don't really need to flip the LP"?

Long albums always sound better on LP's as there's a break while flipping the records. Yes it can be a hassle with double and triple LP's but it definitely helps with the listening.

i would have gone for tago mago, jaki liebezeit at the top of his skills. but there is an album on that list that beats about every album in the world. i could drink a case of joni and i'd still be on my feet...

gonna vote for who's next cause YEAAAAAAAHHHH

Tanz der Lemminge is such a wild panoply of psychedelic 'looks' that I can't not vote for it. Faust is a close second. Riot an equally close third. I fucking love this year.

3 really great albums not on the list: Fragile (Yes), Acquiring the Taste (Gentle Giant), and Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren

that last one really gets overlooked in Rundgren's catalogue, it's not really experimental and none of the songs are well known but it might actually be his most consistent album overall

Runt is good

Is there a term for the practice of alphabetizing under "T" bands whose names start with "The"?

wrongness

At this point, Master of Reality is the only album on the list that I feel like listening to.

the rockist in me says, "it's been a long time since I did the stroll"

this was the easiest one yet, not much beats Journey In Satchidananda in my world

cosign

How could you forget "Fragile"!? My favourite Yes album

Missing from that list:

Jan Garbarek Quartet - Afric Pepperbird
Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Yes - Fragile

Have you heard of the band Yes? They released a couple of good albums that year. You might want to look into them.

no i dont

I voted for Zep IV just because it is the one I have listened to the most in my life. The Miles, Mahavishnu, and VdGG are all really great.

I thought you would have voted Mahavishnu for sure

^^haha I was thinking the same

Middle school vs grad school

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Master of Reality

Master of Reality

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.