1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
2. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
5. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
6. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
7. Stevie Wonder - Innervisons
8. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
9. The Who - Who's Next
10. Joni Mitchell - Blue
11. Ramones - Ramones
12. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
13. Carole King - Tapestry
14. Eagles - Hotel California
15. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
16. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
17. Patti Smith - Horses
18. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
19. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
20. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
21. Van Morrison - Moondance
22. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
23. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
24. Billy Joel - The Stranger
25. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
26. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
27. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
28. John Lennon - Imagine
29. The Clash - The Clash
30. Neil Young - Harvest
31. Pink Floyd - The Wall
32. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
33. Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
34. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
35. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
36. Sly & the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
37. James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
38. Ramones - Rocket to Russia
39. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
40. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
41. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
42. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
43. Jimmy Cliff - The Harder They Come
44. Janis Joplin - Pearl
45. Bob Marley - Catch a Fire
46. The Stooges - Raw Power
47. Television - Marquee Moon
48. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
49. Bruce Springsteen - The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle
50. The Meters - Rejuvenation
Continued below
Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best 70s albums. Your thoughts?
51. Blondie - Parallel Lines
52. Steely Dan - Aja
53. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
54. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
55. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
56. The B-52s - The B-52s
57. Elton John - Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirty Cowboy
58. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
59. Marvin Gaye - Let's Get It On
60. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
61. Bob Marley - Exodus
62. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
63. Todd Rundgren - Something / Anything?
64. Bob Dylan - Desire
65. Carpenters - Close to You
66. Aerosmith - Rocks
67. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
68. Bob Marley - Natty Dread
69. Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac
70. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
71. Sly & the Family Stone - Fresh
72. The Stooges - Fun House
73. Lou Reed - Transformer
74. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
75. Santana - Abraxas
76. Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
77. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
78. New York Dolls - New York Dolls
79. The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py
80. Professor Longhair - New Orleans Piano
81. Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic
82. Queen - A Night at the Opera
83. Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill
84. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
85. David Bowie - Low
86. Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
87. Willie Nelson - Stardust
88. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
89. Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
90. The Who - Quadrophenia
91. Paul Simon - Paul Simon
92. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
93. LaBelle - Night Birds
94. Parliament - Mothership Connection
95. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
96. Barry White - Can't Get Enough
97. The Cars - The Cars
98. Stevie Wonder - Music of my Mind
99. Al Green - I'm Still In Love With You
100. Al Green - Call Me
>ctrl+f Supertramp
>zero results
Into the trash it goes
>Marquee Moon is 47
>Low is 85
Yeah they got shit taste. At least Blood on The Tracks is high.
this is the most dad rock list on earth, absolute trash
>no Yes
Lmao, what!?
Except for a few ranking mistakes, I think they nailed it.
wild that all of the 'best' albums were made in america or england
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road one place above Bitches Brew tells you everything.
I see several from Canada and Jamaica
Elton is overrated as hell
>Pink Floyds entire 70s output not included in the top 20
>mfw
out of all the pink floyd albums from the 70s they choose dsotm? jesus fuck at least choose something good like atom heart mother
loaded wasn't a very good album for tvu and i've already had my gripes but what else would i expect from rolling stone?
i would be intrigued if i saw any punk on here like 77 or marquee moon, on the topic of prog again no yes, no supertramp, no good shit? not even 2112?
fuck rolling stone
Nothing by Throbbing Gristle, but two albums by the Grateful Dead. Randomly selected albums by black artists dropped in at intervals so you won't - correctly - think that classic rock devolved into a KKK cracker sensibility. Horses, an embarrassingly bad, empty hype with a good cover photo, outranks Songs in the Key of Life. A *Billy Joel* albums massively outranks There's a Riot Goin' On. Fuck off.
*album
Songs in the Key of Life is way better than Innervisions as an album.
grateful dead are ass too*
>best 70s albums
>dad rock
yes who could have guessed you retarded zoomer
Hows marvin gay and the rolling stones better than the clash
Critics aren't supposed to just legitimize the mediocrity of what the industry shoves down the mass craw, though.
>15. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
What the fuck?
Zeppelin fairly underrepresented on this list considering they were the band of the decade,also no LA Woman
there's more interesting 70s music out there than dad rock retard
>82. Queen - A Night at the Opera
...
>85. David Bowie - Low
>86. Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
Nah, this isn't even provocative bullshit, it's just turboplebbery.
Never Mind the Bollocks, Who's Next, Hotel California are all Objectively worse than DSOTM.
>No PiL
>No Faust
>No Throbbing Gristle
>No Pere Ubu
>No Yes
>No Camel
>No King Crimson
At least they got Jimmy Cliff
PiL Second Edition is on the 80s list
have sex you contrarian virgins
lmao you probably fucks to dad rock
It’s another “Yea Forums pretends DSOTM isn’t amazing” episode.
honestly cringe
>Nothing by Throbbing Gristle
Meme garbage, I don’t care how important they are. They make shit
>two albums by the Grateful Dead.
American Beauty should be higher
>Randomly selected albums by black artists dropped in at intervals so you won't - correctly - think that classic rock devolved into a KKK cracker sensibility
>Horses, an embarrassingly bad, empty hype with a good cover photo, outranks Songs in the Key of Life.
You’ll never understand.
The only one you got correct is Joel outranking Sly.
But you’re a literal yikes in a can.
Pink Moon isn't first so this is bad.
Lots of rockist shit with some great picks here and there as usual. Don't really understand why they would put What's Going On as number one though.
>1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Correct and that's the only thing that matters.
>Don't really understand why they would put What's Going On as number one though.
Imagine not understanding What’s Going On.
I love that album and it's definitely top pick. Stuff like Songs In The Key Of Life, Superfly and There's A Riot Goin' On are just better.
That’s fair.
Suicide?
Joy Division?
Can?
Wire?
Neu?
>no Siouxsie
WHAT THE FUCK!?
literal shite that you lot here love for the sake of being contrarians
I'd have London Calling top
>no Station To Station
Laughable
1,2,3,5,7,12,18,19,21,22,23,29,34,36,39,47,48.
These are good, the rest range from meh to not for me. They’re missing some of the best from the 70’s though.
>he rates bowie
>He doesn't rate Bowie
Marvin Gaye? More like Marvin Gay.
Rolling Stones? More like Rolling Stoners
The Clash? More like the Trash
Bob Dylan? More like Throb Dildo
The Who? No really
based
>NO Big Star
Garbage
>nevermind the bollocks lower than ramones
Fucking amerifags
>scruffi and Fantano told me experimental boring shit is better than 70s dad rock, lmao i'm so patrician
Where the FUCK is ROXY MUSIC???
Nailed it
(I'm not actually OP)
I AM OP
OP here. Just wanted to say that Never Mind the Bollocks is objectively superior to DSOTM and Aja in every conceivable way, and if you disagree you're a loser hipster
3 Bowie albums worse than station to station. Smh fan baka
>accessible top list made for the general public
>in arguably the most eclectic decade for music
Yeah, shouldn't expect this list to be anything but trash.
based
Ramones are actually good
>two grateful dead albums
>marvin gay on top
>no Close to the Edge
BASED
>No krautrock
Into the trash can (no pun intended) it goes
Maybe because your experimental shit wasn’t good. Retard.
Exile should have won those idiots.
songs in the key of life is bloated and full of clunkers, like most double albums
You mean "wasn't accessible". The problem isn't that experimental shit can't make the list for commercial reasons. The problem is being retarded enough to use this top list as a definitive list in THE peak decade of non commercial music.
Also, why so salty that this decade has so much music to offer?
>1. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On?
Nice album / ranked WAY too high.
>2. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St.
Basically a typical Stones album in that time period. #2 is too high for it.
>3. The Clash - London Calling
Too high.
>4. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
Good album, but Desire was better.
>5. Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
Okay.
>6. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
Okay
>7. Stevie Wonder - Innervisons
A little overrated, but okay.
>8. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Okay.
>9. The Who - Who's Next
My personal #1 of the 70s.
>10. Joni Mitchell - Blue
Get her acoustic jazz ass out of here!
>11. Ramones - Ramones
Love the album, but #11? Too high.
>12. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
Not familiar with it to render a review.
>13. Carole King - Tapestry
Good album / suckily produced.
>14. Eagles - Hotel California
Okay.
>15. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Okay.
>16. Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
I'd push it to around #9 or #10.
>17. Patti Smith - Horses
Not familiar with it.
>18. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Should be in Top 10.
>19. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Not familiar with it.
>20. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
Okay.
>Literally “you don’t get it”
>Literally “experimental = better”
Yeah honestly, was suprised to see that on here, and that high up..
>Elton is overrated as hell
Not Elton in the Don't Shoot Me through Captain Fantastic era. He was firing on all cylinders then. Both as a singles and album artist. He was The Beatles of 1972 - 1975.
>17. Patti Smith - Horses
>19. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
>Not familiar with it.
They’re both the best album on that list.
. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
>What the fuck?
I hate ambiguous WTFs...
Is he WTFing because #15 is too low for it, or is he WTFing because he hates the album altogether? A great, unsolved mystery.
>>nevermind the bollocks lower than ramones
>Fucking amerifags
...And I have The Great Rock and Roll Swindle above BOTH LPs.
Sorry. I don't have them. I have several Stevie Wonder albums, but not that one. I thought it was fair to state that I wasn't familiar enough with it to give an opinion. This board is full of people who give opinions on albums they never heard.
> 1. Tapestry
Is the only correct answer.
I don't get why you fags are hating on experimental music. You do realize that without artists exploring new sounds, compostions techniques, etc, music would be a stagnant art right? Long live Pere Ubu, Throbbing Gristle and Neu for creating the new wave, industrial and post-rock respectively.
Or you know, people have different tastes and don't only listen to the most popular classic rock, soul, singer-songwriter and funk albums. I can't believe you are too retarded to not even realize that. Did you even know this decade alone solidified the electronic music genre as a whole? It's all thanks to experimental music that new musical styles are developed. Commercial music would never progress if experimental music didn't make the pioneering first steps for it.
Because most experimental music is just trying to be new or different without actually making anything worth while. Doesn’t help only a handful of them are ACTUALLY innovative and listenable.
Tapestry Weaknesses
- Poorly produced/engineered.
- Same sound -- like SAME EXACT SOUND -- for every song. No variety.
- Nasally/whiny vocal.
- Whole thing comes across like a demo.
Tapestry Strengths
- Great songs.
To me, it's a wash. This album is way too big for its britches.
Have big is your collection?
I probably have over 1000 albums, 75% of which are from the 70s and 60s.
Right? Where's all the rap music? Fucking racist boomers
>All non commercial music is avant garde
>You should only like popular music
Fucking retard, why is your view of music so narrow minded?
Based, did you grow up on those music or do you just really like that era?
Rap didn't get big till the 80s nigga
>Right? Where's all the rap music? Fucking racist boomers
By most conventional wisdom, rap hadn't quite been invented by the close of the 1970s, though its time was getting close. Certainly, as of 12/31/79, there were no rar/hip hop charts, no rap radio stations, and no rap category in the Grammies or any other popular music awards.
Now, go back and study up on the topic before ranting and raving against something you know precious little about.
I'm an oldfag.
I come to /mu a lot because the 60s and 70s stuff is still respected and talked about here.
>poor engineering
The album sounds a lot like a couple people just playing instruments. Which is something I like about the album. It’s overproduced like a lot of stuff and has a rawer sound.
>sounds use a lot of the same instruments but there are variations in the lyrics and in her singing. It’s subtle but it’s there.
>vocals
Her singing is absolutely 10/10 Jesus Christ you pleb. She’s not a great technical singer. She just sounds like a woman singing. It adds a lot to the authenticity and rawness of the album. God damn
All correct except about Don't Shoot Me through Captain Fantastic. Tumbleweed Connection through Honky Chateau was his true zenith (including the Friends soundtrack and 17/11/70). GYBR is grossly overrated. It's about half great songs and half goofy pointless filler. The notion that it's Elton's magnum opus or that it belongs anywhere on a list of the best 70s albums is a joke. It could've been fantastic as a single-disc album though.
Even as a normie list this is embarrassing.
Two albums by The Meters?
Never heard of em
Funk was never popular on Yea Forums cause everyones just into rap instead.
>muh Throbbing Gristle!
>muh Suicide
I love both those bands, they were innovative and incredible and influential, but they weren't that good , honestly. They opened doors and showed the way for other artists, but they were like a first draft, what followed was more polished and better in an all around sense
>muh Yes
Almost by definition, genre bands aren't gonna place in all around lists. What makes a genre band great is focusing on the extremes of that genre and doing it well (fast as fuck for metal, angry as hell for punk, crazy technical and lridiculously long songs for prog...)
The quality fans love in them are the same qualities that mean they shouldn't be on these lists
I've found some good artists here but Whether Yea Forums is into an artist or not has next to nothing to do with if I've heard of them
I just googled them, still don't see why they got two spots, seems like blatant fanboy-ism (or quota filling) on someone's part
I enjoy DSOTM, but I prefer Animals and WYWH
bad list
stop posting this shit, shill
I don't care but am amused by your irritation
>no ELO
No one cares prog boy
By any metric that isn't 'albumd you personally enjoy', maybe, ELO is mid tier at best.
If you think they are worthy in a top 100 of the decade list... You should move to Cleveland and work for the R&RHOF they love to call every band that ever charted (and some that didn't) the BEST EVAH
i haven't taken rolling stone seriously since they trashed on soup by blind melon in the late nineties, the review is from issue 716 if you care about finding it, im sure it's probably been mentioned a couple times on forums for blind melon.
Holy shit.
Imagine being this much of a fan boy for Blind Melon. (or even liking Blind Melon really)
Just because one reviewer trashed your favorite bands new release doesn't mean a publication sucks.
It's fucking hysterical that after completely ignoring everything that wasn't top 40 in the 80s, then being completely lost as fuck in the 90s because even the top 40 bands then were descended from the 80s underground/independent/alternative artists Rolling Stone was clueless about... That after all that irrelevance, it took a bad review of BLIND MELON to lose you?
(No I'm not going to check, even though remembering the issue number is the sweetest icing on your butthurt cake, but I'll bet that bad review was a classic illustration of even a broken clock being right once a day)