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HolyMoly 
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:48 |
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While we were grooving to prog, the rest of the world was buying these albums. These were the best selling in the USA according to Billboard. I'd say all of these are pretty good. Which one do you like best?
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HolyMoly
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:49 |
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Fleetwood for me.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 13:50 |
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Frampton
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 14:04 |
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Have to go with Simon and Garfield. That album has some of my all time fav tracks. Rumors is also excellent.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 14:05 |
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 14:08 |
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if Saturday Night Fever ost gets a vote, I'm gonna ROFLMAO
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 14:15 |
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 14:41 |
I could've picked any of these except Elton's greatest hits, only because I don't like those kinds of compilations.
Decided to go with War just over my boy Frampton.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 14:53 |
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Could have went with Frampton or Fleetwood Mac as I still have those, but I went with War - World is a Ghetto. It at times flirts with trippy/psych moments and also a bit of free-form jazz. Still have it also.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 15:04 |
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The rest of the world mostly bought different albums, of course.
Here in the UK, only 1970 and 1978 had the same albums at the top.
I'm voting for Simon & Garfunkel, which was the top-selling album in the UK in 1970 and also in 1971.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 15:40 |
Bridge Over Troubled Water This is an outstanding album with some of the best songs S & G did in their career. It has to be listened to more than once in order to find some of the "sleepers" that you didn't pick up on the first time.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 16:14 |
 Cristi wrote:
if Saturday Night Fever ost gets a vote, I'm gonna ROFLMAO
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you got saved... number 2 on my list of those listed. It is a great frickin album. topped only by perhaps the greatest rock album ever made. Rumours 
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 16:27 |
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Rumours is hardly a rock album. But anyway gets my vote as well perfect pop album really.
It gets it for sentimental reasons as it was one of the few albums that me and my mum would listen to and both enjoy equally.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 16:29 |
akamaisondufromage wrote:
Rumours is hardly a rock album. But anyway gets my vote as well perfect pop album really.
It gets it for sentimental reasons as it was one of the few albums that me and my mum would listen to and both enjoy equally.
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rock.. pop... come on.. it wasn't a damn Carpenters or Captain and Tennille album man.. it could and did rock.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 16:29 |
^I tried to bang my head in time to The Chain. It didn't work too well! 
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 17:21 |
Stool Man wrote:
The rest of the world mostly bought different albums, of course.
Here in the UK, only 1970 and 1978 had the same albums at the top.
I'm voting for Simon & Garfunkel, which was the top-selling album in the UK in 1970 and also in 1971.
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Interesting you should say that -- I first tried to search for the top UK albums rather than US, because I grew up in the US and was interested to see what the UK was up to during that time. But the search took me more than 10 seconds, so being a short-attention-span Yank, I settled for the readily available US data. So yeah, by "the world", I was just taking rhetorically.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 17:22 |
micky wrote:
akamaisondufromage wrote:
Rumours is hardly a rock album. But anyway gets my vote as well perfect pop album really.
It gets it for sentimental reasons as it was one of the few albums that me and my mum would listen to and both enjoy equally.
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rock.. pop... come on.. it wasn't a damn Carpenters or Captain and Tennille album man.. it could and did rock.
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Fleetwood Mac rocked like crazy. There's some serious sweat and energy in those tracks.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 17:23 |
SteveG wrote:
^I tried to bang my head in time to The Chain. It didn't work too well! |
Try it at 45 RPM next time. OH LORDY
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 18:04 |
Some big faves of mine in this list  ! My vote, however, goes to one of the soundtracks of my pre-teen years - the wonderful Jesus Christ Superstar. I still know most of the lyrics by heart, and some of my very first attempts to translate from English into Italian date back from that time.
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Posted: January 29 2015 at 18:08 |
Raff wrote:
Some big faves of mine in this list! My vote, however, goes to one of the soundtracks of my pre-teen years - the wonderful Jesus Christ Superstar. I still know most of the lyrics by heart, and some of my very first attempts to translate from English into Italian date back from that time.
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That is a great album. It transcends the "Musical" idiom previously guarded by stuff like West Side Story. It's got that "rock edge" to it that you didn't really see in musicals much.
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