I choose the best of the best of the year (in my opinion)
seriously, have you listened to the albums of 1971 of the bands I've mentioned above?
Pink Floyd did Meddle which is one of their best works; the albums deserves attention just for the epic Echoes.
Yes did Fragile which again is a solid album, one of the best progressive rock albums like... ever!
Genesis welcomed guitarist Steve Hackett and drummer Phil Collins and released an amazing album - Nursery Cryme; songs like The Music Box, Fountain of Salmacis, Seven Stones, The Return of the Giant Hogweed are some of the best songs in the catalogue.
King Crimson released Islands, a very good album, again different than their previous works, a successful musical experiment to say the least.
UFO experimented with space rock/prog on their second album, a huge step forward from their debut album; the band was still looking for their sound, their 1971 album - Flying was an interesting experiment.
Written by [user id=130727] on 16.12.2012 at 11:57
How about The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers ? I know it's not metal
it's not about albums being metal that this list is about, but about good albums of that year, and yes, that Rolling Stones album you've just mentioned is one of them.
Well, JohnDoe has already mentioned most of my favourites - Meddle, Fragile, Nursery Cryme, Islands. And Sticky Fingers is probably the Rolling Stones' best album.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer came out with both Tarkus and Pictures at an Exhibition.
Van der Graaf Generator released the monumental Pawn Hearts.
Man you people are so misled! Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love and Hate, and Joni Mitchell's Blue. Both the best albums by some of the best singer-songwriters of all time. Then there's Sandy Denny's The North Star Grassman and the Ravens, and awesome piece of folk rock. And Popol Vuh's In den Gärten Pharaos, I guess.
If we're talking about metal or harder forms of rock, I guess Master of Reality gets my vote.
Caravan - In The Land Of Grey And Pink
UFO - UFO 2 Flying
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Argent - Ring Of Hands
The Jeff Back Group - Rough And Ready
Frumpy - Frumpy 2
Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage
Magna Carta - Songs From Wasties Orchard
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
I forgot about Caravan, VDGG (but then again I did not want to annoy people with more prog ), Gentle Giant, Birth Control, Procol Harum, all did great in 1971.
Nice to see Wishbone Ash mentioned here.
I agree with the bands, great .if i choose all of the albums then the top list has no point
MY LIST IS TOP ALBUMS OF 1971 (TOP)
IF I CHOOSE ALL THIS I WILL MAKE A LIST OF 1971 ALBUMS, YOU CAN GO TO WIKIPEDIA
I agree with the bands, great .if i choose all of the albums then the top list has no point
MY LIST IS TOP ALBUMS OF 1971 (TOP)
IF I CHOOSE ALL THIS I WILL MAKE A LIST OF 1971 ALBUMS, YOU CAN GO TO WIKIPEDIA
Don't send people to wiki, everybody just mentioned the albums they know.
I guess the discussion quickly turned to people mentioning their favourites from 1971 instead of commenting on the list, and there are plenty of great albums on it: Master of Reality, Led Zeppelin IV, Fireball, Aqualung...
I guess the discussion quickly turned to people mentioning their favourites from 1971 instead of commenting on the list, and there are plenty of great albums on it: Master of Reality, Led Zeppelin IV, Fireball, Aqualung...