Absolute Essentials - Pop Albums - 1970s
Submitted by lbangs on Fri, 08/19/2005 - 05:51
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- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo’s Factory (1970)
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu (1970)
- Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (1970)
- The Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead (1970)
- The Grateful Dead - American Beauty (1970)
- George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (1970)
- John Lennon - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band (1970)
- Van Morrison - Moondance (1970)
- Santana - Abraxas (1970)
- Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
- The Stooges - Fun House (1970)
- James Taylor - Sweet Baby James (1970)
- The Velvet Underground - Loaded (1970)
- The Who - Live at Leeds (1970)
- Neil Young - After the Gold Rush (1970)
- The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East (1971)
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1971)
- David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
- Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On (1971)
- Carole King - Tapestry (1971)
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
- Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971)
- John Prine - John Prine (1971)
- The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
- Sly & the Family Stone - There’s a Riot Goin’ On (1971)
- Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story (1971)
- T. Rex - Electric Warrior (1971)
- The Who - Who’s Next (1971)
- David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust (1972)
- Nick Drake - Pink Moon (1972)
- Aretha Franklin - Amazing Grace (1972)
- Curtis Mayfield - Superfly (1972)
- Van Morrison - Saint Dominic’s Preview (1972)
- Randy Newman - Sail Away (1972)
- The O’Jays - Back Stabbers (1972)
- Original Soundtrack - The Harder They Come (1972)
- The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St. (1972)
- Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything? (1972)
- Paul Simon - Paul Simon (1972)
- The Spinners - Spinners (1972)
- Stevie Wonder - Talking Book (1972)
- David Bowie - Aladdin Sane (1973)
- Marvin Gaye - Let’s Get It On (1973)
- Al Green - Call Me (1973)
- Bob Marley & The Wailers - Burnin’ (1973)
- Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon (1973)
- Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure (1973)
- Stevie Wonder - Innervisions (1973)
- Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky (1974)
- Bob Marley & The Wailers - Natty Dread (1974)
- Joni Mitchell - Court and Spark (1974)
- Linda Ronstadt - Heart Like a Wheel (1974)
- Steely Dan - Pretzel Logic (1974)
- Aerosmith - Toys in the Attic (1975)
- Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks (1975)
- Bob Dylan & the Band - The Basement Tapes (1975)
- Eno - Another Green World (1975)
- Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975)
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (1975)
- Roxy Music - Siren (1975)
- Patti Smith - Horses (1975)
- The Spinners - Pick of the Litter (1975)
- Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run (1975)
- Neil Young - Tonight’s the Night (1975)
- Aerosmith - Rocks (1976)
- David Bowie - Station to Station (1976)
- The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers (1976)
- Parliament - Mothership Connection (1976)
- Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves (1976)
- Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life (1976)
- Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon (1976)
- David Bowie - Low (1977)
- The Clash - The Clash (1977)
- Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True (1977)
- Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors (1977)
- Original Soundtrack - Saturday Night Fever (1977)
- Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (1977)
- The Ramones - Rocket to Russia (1977)
- The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols (1977)
- Television - Marquee Moon (1977)
- Wire - Pink Flag (1977)
- Big Star - Third/Sister Lovers (1978)
- Willi Colón & Rubén Blades - Siembra (1978)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions - This Year’s Model (1978)
- Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove (1978)
- The Rolling Stones - Some Girls (1978)
- Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978)
- Talking Heads - More Songs About Building and Food (1978)
- Van Halen - Van Halen (1978)
- X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents (1978)
- AC/DC - Highway to Hell (1979)
- The Clash - London Calling (1979)
- Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces (1979)
- Gang of Four - Entertainment! (1979)
- Joe Jackson - Look Sharp! (1979)
- Michael Jackson - Off the Wall (1979)
- Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
- The Specials - The Specials (1979)
For pop, read rock, pop, rap, R&B, hip-hop, and soul, including any music from other genres that played a huge influence on the development of the other styles listed. The rules are pretty simple. An album must be in print (as defined by being available new from Amazon at the time this list was created), and it must be an actual album, not a compilation (there is another list for those).