Here they are, in order of year, and order of personal preference within each year. My utterly favourite songs from pre-1980 classics, rendered in my never-really-humble opinion, as everything should be.

Yes, that last bit may have been a touch of sarcasm. But this isn't. With few exceptions, every song on each album that made the list rocks - that's why I've rated them 9 or 10 - but these are my absolute favourites:

[Expect to see [a] Taste record[s] from around the same time make an appearance at some point in the future; Judas Priest and more Cream... we'll see] (if I were to expand the list by half-a-dozen right now, yes it's safe (almost certain) to say they'd be all the second albums not already mentioned, put out by those whom did 4/5/6/9/10/20 on the list, or either Taste or Priest)

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Syk | 12.01.2012

	1.	Deep Purple - Shades Of Deep Purple 1968 - Prelude: Happiness/I'm So Glad, Mandrake Root, Help!, Hey Joe
	2.	Neil Young - Neil Young 1968 - The Loner, I've Been Waiting for You, What Did You Do to My Life, Last Trip to Tulsa
	3.	Jethro Tull - This Was 1968 - My Sunday Feeling, Serenade to a Cuckoo, Dharma for One, Cat's Squirrel, One for John Gee
	4.	Cream - Wheels of Fire 1968 - White Room, Those Were the Days, Crossroads (live at Winterland ? not Fillmore!)
	5.	The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Electric Ladyland 1968 - Crosstown Traffic, Little Miss Strange, Gypsy Eyes and the last three songs
	6.	Deep Purple - Deep Purple 1969 - Chasing Shadows, Blind, Fault Line/The Painter, April
	7.	Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere 1969 - Cinnamon Girl, Down by the River, Running Dry (Requiem for The Rockets), Cowgirl in the Sand
	8.	Jethro Tull - Stand Up 1969 - A New Day Yesterday, Nothing Is Easy, We Used to Know, For a Thousand Mothers
	9.	Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin 1969 - Babe I'm Gonna Leave You, Dazed and Confused, I Can't Quit You Baby, How Many More Times
	10.	Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath 1970 - Black Sabbath, The Wizard, N.I.B, The Warning
	11.	Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III 1970 - Immigrant Song, Friends, Celebration Day, Since I've Been Loving You, Tangerine
	12.	Jethro Tull - Benefit 1970 - With You There to Help Me, To Cry You a Song, Play in Time, Singing All Day, Just Trying to Be
	13.	Deep Purple - Fireball 1971 - Fireball, Demon's Eye, Fools, No One Came, I'm Alone, Freedom, Slow Train
	14.	Jethro Tull - Aqualung 1971 - Aqualung, Cheap Day Return, Up to Me, My God, Locomotive Breath, Wind Up [Quad version]
	15.	Neil Young - Harvest 1972 - everything 3-10
	16.	Jethro Tull - Thick As A Brick 1972
	17.	Jethro Tull - A Passion Play 1973 - The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles, Overseer Overture, Magus Perde
	18.	Led Zeppelin - Houses Of The Holy 1973 - The Rain Song, Over the Hills and Far Away, No Quarter, The Ocean
	19.	Neil Young - On the Beach 1974 - Walk On, Revolution Blues, For the Turnstiles, On the Beach
	20.	Rory Gallagher - Against the Grain 1975 - I'd almost say there are no missteps here, though song 4 or 5 can wear a bit too easily for some reason
	21.	Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Zuma 1975 - Danger Bird, Pardon My Heart, Cortez the Killer, Through My Sails (that last one = CSN&Y)
	22.	Black Sabbath - We Sold Our Soul For Rock N' Roll 1975 - War Pigs, others from BS/P + those whose titles begin with S or C
	23.	Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti 1975 - In My Time of Dying, Kashmir, In the Light, Bron-Yr-Aur, Down by the Seaside, Ten Years Gone
	24.	Rush - 2112 1976 - 2112, A Passage to Bangkok, Lessons, Something for Nothing
	25.	Neil Young - Decade (compilation) 1977 - Southern Man, Ohio (CSN&Y again), Love Is a Rose, Campaigner
	26.	Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust (live) 1979 - When You Dance I Can Really Love, The Loner, Cortez the Killer + first three + last three tracks