Our 1970 top 10s in & out of PA (share & comment

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



Edited by The Dark Elf - 6 hours 48 minutes ago at 13:23

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.

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.

Jared wrote: 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.

Guldbamsen wrote: The Stooges - Fun House

This one could definitely be on my list too.

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?

1) KC: Lizard
2) Caravan: If I Could
3) Genesis: Trespass
4) VDGG: H to He
5) Floyd: AHM
6) ELP: ELP
7) Beggar's Opera: Act One
8) GG: Gentle Giant
9) Tull: Benefit
10) Moodies: Question Balance

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11) VDGG: Least We Can Do
12) KC: Wake Poseidon
13) Colosseum: Daughter Of Time
14) Curved Air: Air Conditioning
15) Focus: F Plays Focus
16) Hawkwind: Hawkwind
17) TD: Electronic Med
18) Yes: Time Word
19) Cressida: Cressida
20) BJH: BJH

Deja Vu, John Barleycorn and Lorca aren't listed with their correct year in my machine (in two cases because I never digitised them), so they weren't on my radar. Another three albums to love!

Edited by Lewian - Yesterday at 04:30

^Bryter Layter wasn't released until 1971 though. Otherwise it would have been featured among my own picks.

1. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
2. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu
3. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
4. Tim Buckley - Lorca
5. Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am The Only One
6. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
7. The Pentangle - Cruel Sister
8. Nico - Desertshore
9. Machine - s/t
X. Emerson, Lake & Palmer - s/t


Edited by someone_else - Yesterday at 02:08

Looking at the list that are already there, I have no originality to offer, all is already listed, and it's pretty much all prog. Here's 12 (can't decide which two to kick out):

Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other
Amon Düül II - Yeti
Miles Davis – Bitches Brew
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
King Crimson – Lizard
Magma - Kobaïa
Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One
The Soft Machine - Third
Linda Perhacs – Parallelograms
Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Can - Soundtracks
Tangerine Dream – Electronic Meditation

Oh actually... Nico - Desertshore is very good, and not yet listed as far as I can see.

I wonder whether we ever had a "H to He" vs. "The Least We Can Do" poll - there are obviously different preferences between these two.

Edited by Lewian - May 16 2025 at 17:48