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Originally posted by Guldbamsen Guldbamsen wrote:

The Stooges - Fun House

This one could definitely be on my list too.
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My top five
ELP - Emerson,Lake and Palmer
The Moody Blues - Question Of Balance
Deep Purple - In Rock
Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Not the best year for me with a lot of great prog bands just getting going. I don't bother with folk music generally and I'm guessing that would figure strongly in this year.

My full list of 24 albums that I know ranked here
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 hours 41 minutes ago at 09:41
I've wondered before if two Davids from Copenhagen come into contact, will the Davids be annihilated much like matter and anti-matter? It's only if both are vikings as the vikings had a talent for getting annihilated on mead and mead before wrecking the town.

Incidentally, I'm Scandinavian enough to complain when I go to Ikea here in Vancouver that the staff can't speak Swedish. Tacks for nothing.

I like all of the Guldbamsen David from Demamrk's list, but not in my top 20, Funkadelic's is the one I;d most like to play right now. And I very much like Parliament's Osmium form that year.

Originally posted by Jared Jared wrote:

Originally posted by Logan Logan wrote:



^ Thank, Jared. I love most of your top twenty. It's way easier for me to comment on what I don't know from lists than do. I don't think I've ever heard that beggar's Opera, barely listened to BJH, and definitely don't know that Moodies album.


Beggar's Opera: Their first 3 albums are among early 70's UK prog's best kept secrets... hugely enjoyable stuff.

BJH: Their debut and by their own standards, sub-par tbh. I think they'd be too MOR for you personally, but I've loved them since a teen.

Moody Blues: I'm shocked, horrified and appalled quite frankly. Call your self an Admin?


I was chosen because all the good candidates were unavailable, of course. Beggar's can be Opera's, but not Choosers apparently. I only know the 60s The Moody Blues albums plus Seventh Sojourn well.

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Here is Rate Your Music's top two highest rated albums for 1970: Black Sabbath's Paranoid and Miles Davis' Bitches Brew.

PA's top two highest rated albums for 1970: VdGG's H to He... and ELP's self-titled.

Album of the Year's top two highest-rated albums for 1970: Grateful Dead's American Beauty and Santana's Abraxas.

Awesome Prog's top two albums according to its "polls": King Crimson's Lizard and VdGG's H to He...

And Loudersound's "Greatest, Most Essential, Not to Mention the Very Best of the Very Best" Heavy Metal for 1970: Johnny Mathis' Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head and The Monkees' Changes.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote Logan Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12 hours 24 minutes ago at 09:58
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

My top five
ELP - Emerson,Lake and Palmer
The Moody Blues - Question Of Balance
Deep Purple - In Rock
Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant
Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Not the best year for me with a lot of great prog bands just getting going. I don't bother with folk music generally and I'm guessing that would figure strongly in this year.

My full list of 24 albums that I know ranked here
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I have not listened to Layla in ages, I have loved that album and song. Gentle Giant is one of my faves, and a great debut to me. And that ELP debut is my favourite album by ELP.

Not saying it would be your thing, but in 1970 Magma released one of the greatest and most exciting debuts for me. And I think kicking off with such an out-there double-album is audacious. To me Magma never bettered it. For me 1970 is a great year, and for two big names in Prog circles, it's a terrific year for King Crimson and Van der Graaf Generator to me. It was a great year for jazz-rock or fusion with Miles Davis and Soft Machine's Third, a great year for funk with the the P-Funk releases etc. And great year for heavy metal with Black Sabbath. It's an exciting year for me for many releases of different progressive persuasions.

That said, I did in part choose this year as I recall, say, 1972 and 1973 as generally considered to be bigger in Prog circles and I thought this year might be interesting not to see some of the most usual suspects from people with the most "mainstream" Prog album interests.

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Originally posted by MikeEnRegalia MikeEnRegalia wrote:

King Crimson - In The Wake Of Poseidon
Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
If I allowed myself to include two albums by the same band, these would have have been included in my top 11-20.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote David_D Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 9 hours 38 minutes ago at 12:44

The vikings ain't what they have been.
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Hmmm...1970, you say? Well, here goes...

Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
Jethro Tull - Benefit
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
CSN&Y - Déjà Vu
Derek & The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

Also worthy of consideration...

Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
The Beatles - Let It Be
The Who - Live at Leeds
James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
The Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb
Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
King Crimson - Lizard
Allman Brothers - Idlewild South
Van Morrison - Moondance



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