A rather abitrary list of 70s albums in PA

Please vote for three (or more or less if you wish to). And feel free to vote with very limited familiarity.

By the way, I remember one member at PA who would complain about making sport of art and was treating such polls as contests, which he felt inane and doing disservice to art. I don;t treat these as contests, I don;t treat these as sport. I do treat these as appreciation threads and think of the poll as something of an accessory to conversation and commentary. It is a way to share some music that has been meaningful to me and connect with others. I also am interested to hear about what people don't like or what albums they would rather see from the acts in the list (I still feel tempted to go with Meddle from Floyd, but I so love the AHM suite). I had a longer list which I did cut down, sadly leaving out various of my absolute favourites. Heck, not even Bowie here, and I adore Bowie (mind you, I wanted this to be more Prog), and I left out some fave JRF albums (notably Hancock and Davis, which I love, as well as my beloved Message, Kraftwerk, and others).

Please try to vote for at least three and would like to hear about what you like and/or don't like from the list. And again, feel free to vote without knowing most options.

Area - Caution Radiation Area (1974)
Brave New World - Impressions on Reading Aldous Huxley (1972)
Bubu - Anabelas (1978)
Can - Ege Bamyası (1972)
Clivage - Mixtus Orbis (1978)
Comus - First Utterance (1971)
Cos - Viva Boma (1976)
Dom - Edge of Time (1972)
Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971)
Gentle Giant - Acquiring the Taste (1971)
Gong - You (1974)
Peter Hammill - The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage (1974)
Henry Cow - Western Culture (1979)
Jan Dukes de Grey - Mice and Rats in the Loft (1971)
King Crimson - Lizard (1971)
Magma - Kobaïa (1970)
National Health - National Health (1978)
Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo (1976)
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother (1970)
Soft Machine - Third (1970)
Spirogyra - Bells, Boots and Shambles (1973)
Tangerine Dream - Phaedra (1974)
Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts (1971)
Jean-Claude Vannier - L'enfant assassin des mouches (1972)
Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom (1974)

My ears dig National Health.

Gentle Giant - Acquiring The Taste

Tangerine Dream's Phaedra is a milestone (they were great with those milestones).

Then Lizard, then Ege Bamyasi.

King Crimson - Lizard

At this moment, my votes went to Bubu, Gong, and Magma.

Probably only Pawn Hearts would be in my list of best 70's albums if I did one. I also voted for King Crimson and Robert Wyatt. I only love Tangerine Dream from Ricochet onwards and Pink Floyd is a 5 album deal.

None of those albums really do a lot for me, I'm afraid and there are several I actively hate.

Tangerine Dream  (my favourite of theirs), Soft Machine (Third is so much better than the first two SM) and Van der Graaf Generator (my fave of theirs)