Maybe money grab was a bit harsh
No…it was accurate…don’t back down now 
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I will have a crack at the 70’s one, only because theres not enough early Alice Cooper.
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I’ve just finished listening to The Beast of Alice Cooper.
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Man, I cant whittle all that down.
Check out 1975, zztop, cooper, zeppelin, queen, floyd, sabbath, elton john, aerosmith, jeff beck, zappa, acdc’s classic…
Fark, cant do it.
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Sure you can…do it desert island style…you have a record player and you’re only allowed to have three albums from 1975…what are they?
@swoodley
Seventies is not my wheelhouse.
I’m only going to give votes to albums I genuinely know and like, is that okay?
1970
3 Rolling Stones - Get Your Ya-Ya’s Out.
1971
3 Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
2 John Lennon - Imagine
1972
3 David Bowie - The Rise And Fall of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars
2 Neil Diamond - Hot August Night
1973
3 Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon
2 Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
1974
3 Living In The Seventies - Skyhooks
2 Supertramp - Crime Of The Century
1975
3 Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
2 Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
1 Alive! - KISS
1976
3 The Eagles - Hotel California
2 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
1 ABBA - Arrival
HM (yay!) Destroyer and DDDDC.
1977
3 Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks
2 Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
1 Billy Joel - The Stranger
1978
3 Jeff Wayne - Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds
2 The Angels - Face To Face
1979
3 Pink Floyd - The Wall
2 Sex Pistols (technically) - Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle
1 Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Bumped to HM…AC/DC - Highway To Hell
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Yeah…that’s fine.
It surprises me how many music lovers on Blitz haven’t explored the 70s.
Some of the greatest albums of all time came from that era.
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It’s got a few distinct eras within the decade though, I definitely know 77-79 very very well, mid-70s hardly at all.
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That album was released in 1971
That’s well said.
Early 70s was rock, rock and more rock…mid 70s and along came Punk and Disco…late 70s New Wave and a real growth in Oz Rock.
There was a lot more happening besides that, but those are the three areas I’ve always broken the 70s down into.
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I always just google it…it brings up the album and release date.
Some of the Jazz movements of that era are my favourites. I felt almost heart broken not to include Alice Coletranes “Journey in Satchidananda” in my list (that openeing bass line, then in floats the cosmic goodness…whoa…)
Then the funk stuff that stretches into the Blacksploitation soundttack era…man. The first 4 years of that decade has something for everyone.
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Alright, settle down Harry Bosch.
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At my age “classic rock” was a dirty word and it wasn’t until well well later that I started even vaguely listening to some of that stuff, and by then time was limited…
On the plus side I still have millions of great albums to listen to and discover.
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Yep…you lucky bugger…you still have the chance to listen to some classic albums for the first time.
(and some crap ones as well …when I start listening to an album for the first time, I listen to the whole thing…good or bad…and some are very bad )
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I found this a bit more challenging, as its before my time. browsing through albums by year on wikipedia, saw lots of artists I know, and songs I know, not many whole albums i’ve listened to. so this is really a list of albums i’ve heard and liked (or if I haven’t listened to the whole album, at least I recognise a number of the songs on it). there are others that i came across that i will have to check out (eg, i don’t think i’ve ever actually listened to Split Enz).
1970
3 - Beatles - Let it be
2 - Creedence Clearwater - Cosmo’s factory
1 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
1971
3 - ELO - ELO
2 - Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
1 - Don McLean - American Pie
(not much from 71 that I’m familiar with)
1972
3 - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
2 - Neil Diamond - Hot august night
1 - Neil Young - Harvest
1973
3 - Queen - Queen
2 - Pink Floyd - Dark side of the moon
1 - Bill Joel - Piano Man
1974
3 - Queen - Queen II
2 - Queen - Sheer heart attack
1 - Skyhooks - Living in the 70s
1975
3 - Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood mac
2 - Bruce Springsteen - Born to run
1 - Queen - night at the opera
1976
3 - neil diamond - beautiful noise
2 - ramones - ramones
1 - Queen - A Day at the races
1977
3 - the clash - the clash
2 - fleetwood mac - rumours
1 - the angels - the angels
1978
3 - cold chisel - cold chisel
2 - eternally yours - the saints
1 - the police - Outlandos d’Amour
1979
3 - cold chisel breakfast at sweethearts
2- the clash - london calling
1 - the b52s - the b52s
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“a real growth in Oz Rock”
So true, early chisel and all skyhooks especially for me.
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No 3 voter so I will just move ELO to 3 and Led Zep to 2 (unless you still mulling over the 3 voter)
Single was released in '76 but album didn’t come out until '77…please amend your '76 votes