Top Ten Albums of 1970s

1979 Albums
1. Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Armed Forces
2. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. The Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
5. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
6. Pink Floyd - The Wall
7. Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
8. XTC - Drums and Wires
9. Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
10. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures


1978 Albums
1. Television - Adventure
2. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
3. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
4. Patti Smith Group - Easter
5. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
6. Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers
7. The Jam - All Mod Cons
8. Rolling Stones - Some Girls
9. Funkadelic - One Nation Under the Groove
10. Kate Bush - Lionheart


1977 Albums
1. Television - Marquee Moon
2. The Clash - The Clash
3. David Bowie - Low
4. Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
5. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
6. Wire - Pink Flag
7. Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
8. Pink Floyd - Animals
9. Talking Heads - 77
10. The Aggrovators - Kaya Dub



1976 Albums
1. Augustus Pablo/King Tubby - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
2. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
3. Jeff Beck - Wired
4. Michael Hurley/ The Unholdy Modal Rounders/ Jeffrey Fredericks & The Clamtones - Have Moicy!
5. David Bowie - Station to Station
6. Jackson Browne - The Pretender
7. Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
8. Tom Waits - Small Change
9. Ramones - Ramones
10. Bob Dylan - Desire


1975 Albums
1. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
2. Brian Eno - Another Green World
3. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
4. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
5. Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
6. Neil Young - Zuma
7. Patti Smith - Horses
8. Jeff Beck - Blow By Blow
9. Roxy Music - Siren
10. Bob Dylan and The Band - The Basement Tapes


1974 Albums
1. Jackson Browne - Late For the Sky
2. Leonard Cohen - New Skin For the Old Ceremony
3. Roxy Music - Country Life
4. Neil Young - On the Beach
5. Big Star - Radio City
6. The Grateful Dead - From the Mars Hotel
7. Tom Waits - The Heart of a Saturday Night
8. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
9. Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark
10. Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)


1973 Albums
1. Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
2. Lou Reed - Berlin
3. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
4. Led Zeppelin - Houses of the Holy
5. Judee Sill - Heart Food
6. Bob Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid
7. James Brown - The Payback
8. Claudia Lennear - Phew
9. The Who - Quadrophenia
10. Jackson Browne - For Everyman


1972 Albums
1. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
2. Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
3. Neil Young - Harvest
4. Lou Reed - Transformer
5. Miles Davis - On the Corner
6. David Ackles - American Gothic
7. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
8. Big Star - #1 Record
9. Jackson Browne - Jackson Browne
10. Van Morrison - Saint Dominic's Preview


1971 Albums
1. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
2. Joni Mitchell - Blue
3. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
4. Judee Sill - Judee Sill
5. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
6. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
7. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
8. Roy Harper - Stormcock
9. John Lennon - Imagine
10. The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies


1970 Albums
1. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
2. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
3. Alvin Lucier - I Am Sitting In A Room
4. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
5. David Ackles - Subway to the Country
6. Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie
7. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
8. Van Morrison - Moondance
9. Roy Harper - Flat Baroque and Berserk
10. Neil Young - After the Goldrush