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    Posted: June 01 2021 at 08:26
This was the hardest year so far to narrow it down to just ten favourite albums, but here goes:-

Audience - The House on the Hill
Cressida - Asylum
Dom - Edge of Time
Gila - Free Electric Sound
Gravy Train - A Ballad of a Peaceful Man
Nektar - Journey to the Centre of the Eye
Out of Focus - Out of Focus
Spring - Spring
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Many great ones that year...you could simply pick the top ten here at PA....
I have all those you named (except for Dom and Gila)....love the Spring and Cressida....but there were better lp's around then.

Yes-Fragile /Yes
Tull-Aqualung
KC-Islands
Genesis-Cryme
Caravan-Grey and Pink
GG-Acquiring the Taste
VDGG-Pawn hearts
Floyd-Meddle
ELP-Tarkus
Mahavishnu O-Inner Mounting Flame

Honorable mention:
Comus, Traffic, Egg, Santana 3





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VDGG - Pawn Hearts
Roy Harper - Stormcock
CAN - Tago Mago
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey & Pink
Comus - First Utterance
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Amon Duul II - Tanz der Lemminge
Egg - The Polite Force
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice & Rats In The Loft
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Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Traffic - Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
Yes - The Yes Album
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Yes - Fragile
Procol Harum - Broken Barricades
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition
Moody Blues - Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
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Gonna have to make some predictable choices here...
1. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
2. Egg - The Polite Force
3. Electric Light Orchestra - The Electric Light Orchestra
4. Yes - Fragile
5. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Tarkus
6. Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
7. Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
8. Van Der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
9. Can - Tago Mago
10. Miles Davis - Live-Evil

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- Centipede - Septober Energy
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Pictures At An Exhibition
- The Nice - Elegy
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  1. The Yes Album - Yes
  2. Fragile - Yes
  3. The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
  4. Who's Next -The Who
  5. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
  6. Tarkus - ELP
  7. Meddle - Pink Floyd
  8. Nursery Chyme - Genesis
  9. Pictures at an Exhibition -ELP
  10. Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic
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Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Many great ones that year...you could simply pick the top ten here at PA....
I have all those you named (except for Dom and Gila)....love the Spring and Cressida....but there were better lp's around then.

You're making me jealous now because I don't have any of the albums in my list, although it's some consolation that I own half of the albums in your list. Smile
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1. EGG The Polite Force
2. YES Fragile
3. NUCLEUS We'll Talk About It Later
4. GENESIS Nursery Cryme
5. FOCUS Moving Waves
6. CARAVAN In the Land of Pink and Grey
7. SUPERSISTER To the Highest Bidder
8. THE ORIGINAL CAST Jesus Christ Superstar
9. NEKTAR Journey to the Centre of the Eye
10. ROY HARPER Stormcock

11. HERBIE HANCOCK Mwandishi
12. SPIROGYRA St. Radigunds
13. ALICE COLTRANE Universal Consciousness
14. GENTLE GIANT Acquiring the Taste 
15. ASH RA TEMPEL Ash Ra Tempel
16. FOTHERINGAY Fotheringay
17. OSIBISA Osibisa
18. WIGWAM Fairyport
19. ALICE COLTRANE Journey in Satchidinanda
20. TERJE RYPDAL Terje Rypdal
21. THE WOODS BAND The Woods Band
22. FUCHSIA Fuchsia
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1- Pawn Hearts
2- Tarkus
3- Fragile
4- Nursery Cryme
5- Aqualung
6- Meddle
7- The Inner Mounting Flame
8- Tago Mago
9- Pictures at an Exhibition
10- In the Land of Grey and Pink

Really strong year, and some great releases in other genres too. Roy Harper, Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Rolling Stones, The Who, Zeppelin, Sly & the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, etc.
I shook my head and smiled a whisper knowing all about the place
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Originally posted by TheLionOfPrague TheLionOfPrague wrote:

1- Pawn Hearts
2- Tarkus
3- Fragile
4- Nursery Cryme
5- Aqualung
6- Meddle
7- The Inner Mounting Flame
8- Tago Mago
9- Pictures at an Exhibition
10- In the Land of Grey and Pink

Really strong year, and some great releases in other genres too. Roy Harper, Joni Mitchell, Herbie Hancock, Rolling Stones, The Who, Zeppelin, Sly & the Family Stone, Marvin Gaye, etc.
I know eight of the albums on your list just from the album name alone. As for the other two albums, I Can take a guess that Tago Mago is by a well-known Krautrock band, but The Inner Mounting Flame had me completely stumped, until Google came to the rescue. Smile
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in no particular order



14           Caravan               In the Land of Grey and Pink  
14           Nucleus               We'll Talk About It Later
14           Out of Focus      Out of Focus      
13           Atomic Rooster                In Hearing Of   
13           Comus  First Utterance               
13           Genesis               Nursery Cryme                                
13           Hoelderlin          Hoelderlin's Traum
13           Jan Dukes de Grey         Mice and Rats in the Loft
13           Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame
13           Spedding, Chris                Songs Without Words                   
13           Tangerine Dream            Alpha Centauri                 
13           Traffic   The Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys     
13           Yes         The Yes Album
12           Audience            House on the Hill           
12           Bröselmaschine               Bröselmaschine
12           Byrd, Donald     Ethiopian Knights          
12           Can        Tago Mago
12           Coryell, Larry     Barefoot Boy
12           Davis, Miles       A Tribute to Jack Johnson
12           Doors         L.A.Woman     
12           Harper, Roy       Stormcock        
12           Hedayat, Dashiell            Obsolete
12           Jethro Tull          Aqualung
12           Pink Floyd           Meddle
12           Santana               Santana (aka III)
12           Spirogyra            St. Radigunds      
12           Strawbs               From the Witchwood       
12           Tippett Group  - Dedicated To You But You Weren't Listening         
12           Van der Graaf Generator            Pawn Hearts                     
12           Weather Report              Weather Report                              
12           Who, The            Who's Next





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I guess this. Pretty confident in my first four. The remaining could be interchanged.

1. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
2. VDGG - Pawn Hearts
3. Yes - Fragile
4. Pink Floyd - Meddle
5. ELP - Tarkus
6. Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
7. Egg - The Polite Force
8. Can - Tago Mago
9. Yes - The Yes Album
10. Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste

Honorable mentions:
Beggars Opera - Waters of Change
Earth & Fire - Song of the Marching Children
ELO - No Answer
Focus - Moving Waves
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Genesis - Nursery Crime
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey & Pink
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
The Who - Who´s Next
Samurai - Samurai
Soft Machine - 4
Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
VDGG - Pawn Hearts
Comus - Firts Utterance
Pink Floyd - Meddle

Honorable mentions:

Out of Focus - Out Of Focus
ELP - Tarkus
Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste
Eiliff - Eiliff
Yes - Fragile
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Aqualung - Jethro Tull
The Yes Album - Yes
Meddle - Pink Floyd
Tarkus - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Nursery Cryme - Genesis
The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
Focus II (Moving Waves) - Focus
Pawn Hearts - Van der Graaf Generator
Fragile - Yes
In the Land of Grey and Pink - Caravan
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Originally posted by Argo2112 Argo2112 wrote:

  1. The Yes Album - Yes
  2. Fragile - Yes
  3. The Inner Mounting Flame - Mahavishnu Orchestra
  4. Who's Next -The Who
  5. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
  6. Tarkus - ELP
  7. Meddle - Pink Floyd
  8. Nursery Chyme - Genesis
  9. Pictures at an Exhibition -ELP
  10. Low Spark of High Heeled Boys - Traffic

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Here are some 10 albums from '71 I find particularly intriguing:
Jethro Tull - 'Aqualung'
Yes - 'Fragile'
Deep Purple - 'Fireball'
Gong - 'Camembert Electrique'
David Bowie - 'Hunky Dory'
Comus - 'First Utterance'
Van der Graaf Generator - 'Pawn Hearts'
Genesis - 'Nursery Cryme'
Pink Floyd - 'Meddle'
Led Zeppelin - 'Led Zeppelin IV'

A few honorable mentions:
ELP - 'Tarkus'
King Crimson - 'Islands'
Soft Machine - 'Fourth'
Herbie Hancock - 'Crossings'
Barcaly James Harvest - 'Once Again'
Caravan - 'In the Land of Grey and Pink'
Centipede - 'Septober Energy'


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Must be something like this:

1. Pink Floyd - Meddle
2. Genesis - Nursery Cryme
3. Yes - Fragile
4. King Crimson - Islands
5. Supersister - To the Highest Bidder
6. Focus - Focus II (aka Moving Waves)
7. Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
8. Yes - The Yes Album
9. Golden Earring - Seven Tears
X. Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

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Nico - Desertshore*
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste
Roy Harper - Stormcock
Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft
Jethro Tull - Aqualung

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1: Yes - Fragile
2: Genesis - Nursery Cryme
3: Jethro Tull - Aqualung
4: Caravan - In the Land of Grey and Pink
5: Yes - The Yes Album
6: Pink Floyd - Meddle
7: Uriah Heep - Look at Yourself
8: Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
9: Egg - The Polite Force
10: Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys



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1. Pawn Hearts - VDGG
2. Fragile - Yes
3. Meddle - Pink Floyd
4. Tarkus - ELP
5. Who's Next - The Who
6. Nursery Cryme - Genesis
7. Acquiring The Taste - Gentle Giant
8. Pictures At An Exhibition - ELP
9. The Yes Album - Yes
10. Aqualung - Jethro Tull
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Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage
Focus - Moving Waves
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Santana - Santana 3
Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Uriah Heep - Salisbury
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
Traffic - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys
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