The Top Albums from 1970

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	44	Neil Young	After the Goldrush		Listen
2	58	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
3	70	Derek and The Dominos	Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs		Listen
4	80	Van Morrison	Moondance		Listen
5	90	The Stooges	Fun House		Listen
6	97	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew		Listen
7	101	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water		Listen
8	161	Black Sabbath	Paranoid		Listen
9	166	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Déjà Vu		Listen
10	177	Santana	Abraxas
11	180	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cosmo's Factory		Listen
12	183	The Velvet Underground	Loaded		Listen
13	218	Nick Drake	Bryter Layter		Listen
14	287	Grateful Dead	American Beauty		Listen
15	289	The Who	Live at Leeds
16	325	James Taylor	Sweet Baby James		Listen
17	331	Randy Newman	12 Songs		Listen
18	338	Grateful Dead	Workingman's Dead		Listen
19	346	George Harrison	All Things Must Pass		Listen
20	383	Deep Purple	In Rock		Listen
21	391	Led Zeppelin	III		Listen
22	415	James Brown	Sex Machine		Listen
23	471	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath		Listen
24	475	The Rolling Stones	Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out		Listen
25	513	Curtis Mayfield	Curtis		Listen
26	516	Traffic	John Barleycorn Must Die		Listen
27	566	Tim Buckley	Starsailor
28	629	Various Artists	Woodstock
29	648	The Beatles	Let It Be
30	669	MC5	Back in the USA		Listen
31	686	Free	Fire and Water		Listen
32	689	Cat Stevens	Tea for the Tillerman		Listen
33	761	The Soft Machine	Third		Listen
34	787	Rod Stewart	Gasoline Alley		Listen
35	806	Jimi Hendrix	Band of Gypsys		Listen
36	861	Spirit	Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus		Listen
37	877	The Beach Boys	Sunflower		Listen
38	883	Syd Barrett	The Madcap Laughs		Listen
39	903	The Doors	Morrison Hotel		Listen
40	1033	Joe Cocker	Mad Dogs and Englishmen		Listen
41	1099	Joni Mitchell	Ladies of the Canyon		Listen
42	1115	Aretha Franklin	Spirit in the Dark		Listen
43	1193	The Last Poets	The Last Poets
44	1213	Otis Redding & Jimi Hendrix	Monterey International Pop Festival		Listen
45	1484	David Bowie	The Man Who Sold the World
46	1518	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Lick My Decals Off, Baby
47	1559	Stephen Stills	Stephen Stills		Listen
48	1573	Delaney & Bonnie	Delaney & Bonnie & Friends On Tour with Eric Clapton		Listen
49	1618	The Meters	Look-Ka Py Py		Listen
50	1655	The Original London Concept Recording	Jesus Christ Superstar		Listen
51	1722	Elton John	Tumbleweed Connection		Listen
52	1774	The Band	Stage Fright		Listen
53	1825	Jesse Winchester	Jesse Winchester
54	1885	The Art Ensemble of Chicago	Les Stances a Sophie
55	1903	The Doors	Absolutely Live		Listen
56	1921	Van Morrison	His Band and The Street Choir		Listen
57	1964	Swamp Dogg	Total Destruction to Your Mind
58	1966	John Phillips	John Phillips/The Wolfking of L.A.		Listen
59	1973	Funkadelic	Funkadelic		Listen
60	2011	The Kinks	Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Part One		Listen
61	2105	Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra		Listen
62	2112	Vashti Bunyan	Just Another Diamond Day		Listen
63	2127	Eric Burdon & War	Eric Burdon Declares War		Listen
64	2133	The Carpenters	Close to You		Listen
65	2136	Kris Kristofferson	Kristofferson/Me and Bobby McGee		Listen
66	2141	Tim Buckley	Blue Afternoon
67	2193	The Temptations	Psychedelic Shack
68	2319	James Gang	James Gang Rides Again		Listen
69	2332	Third Ear Band	Third Ear Band
70	2419	Bob Dylan	New Morning