The Top Albums from 1970

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	43	Neil Young	After the Goldrush		Listen
2	57	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
3	69	Derek and The Dominos	Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs		Listen
4	81	Van Morrison	Moondance		Listen
5	87	The Stooges	Fun House		Listen
6	92	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew		Listen
7	98	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water		Listen
8	146	Black Sabbath	Paranoid		Listen
9	159	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Déjà Vu		Listen
10	171	Santana	Abraxas
11	178	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cosmo's Factory		Listen
12	192	The Velvet Underground	Loaded		Listen
13	229	Nick Drake	Bryter Layter		Listen
14	292	The Who	Live at Leeds
15	301	Grateful Dead	American Beauty		Listen
16	310	George Harrison	All Things Must Pass		Listen
17	342	James Taylor	Sweet Baby James		Listen
18	346	Deep Purple	In Rock		Listen
19	349	Randy Newman	12 Songs		Listen
20	362	Grateful Dead	Workingman's Dead		Listen
21	375	Led Zeppelin	III		Listen
22	388	James Brown	Sex Machine		Listen
23	440	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath		Listen
24	488	The Rolling Stones	Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out		Listen
25	515	Traffic	John Barleycorn Must Die		Listen
26	524	Curtis Mayfield	Curtis		Listen
27	579	Tim Buckley	Starsailor
28	603	Various Artists	Woodstock
29	627	The Beatles	Let It Be
30	628	MC5	Back in the USA		Listen
31	636	Free	Fire and Water		Listen
32	667	Cat Stevens	Tea for the Tillerman		Listen
33	746	Jimi Hendrix	Band of Gypsys		Listen
34	750	The Soft Machine	Third		Listen
35	802	Rod Stewart	Gasoline Alley		Listen
36	867	Spirit	Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus		Listen
37	871	Syd Barrett	The Madcap Laughs		Listen
38	918	The Beach Boys	Sunflower		Listen
39	922	The Doors	Morrison Hotel		Listen
40	1027	Joe Cocker	Mad Dogs and Englishmen		Listen
41	1101	Joni Mitchell	Ladies of the Canyon		Listen
42	1172	Aretha Franklin	Spirit in the Dark		Listen
43	1182	The Last Poets	The Last Poets
44	1279	Otis Redding & Jimi Hendrix	Monterey International Pop Festival		Listen
45	1517	David Bowie	The Man Who Sold the World
46	1563	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Lick My Decals Off, Baby
47	1571	Stephen Stills	Stephen Stills		Listen
48	1610	Delaney & Bonnie	Delaney & Bonnie & Friends On Tour with Eric Clapton		Listen
49	1642	The Meters	Look-Ka Py Py		Listen
50	1682	The Kinks	Lola vs. the Powerman & the Money-Go-Round, Part One		Listen
51	1758	The Original London Concept Recording	Jesus Christ Superstar		Listen
52	1772	The Band	Stage Fright		Listen
53	1780	Elton John	Tumbleweed Connection		Listen
54	1829	Jesse Winchester	Jesse Winchester
55	1868	Swamp Dogg	Total Destruction to Your Mind
56	1892	The Art Ensemble of Chicago	Les Stances a Sophie
57	1895	Amon Düül II	Yeti
58	1907	The Doors	Absolutely Live		Listen
59	1990	John Phillips	John Phillips/The Wolfking of L.A.		Listen
60	1997	Van Morrison	His Band and The Street Choir		Listen
61	2065	Funkadelic	Funkadelic		Listen
62	2079	Kris Kristofferson	Kristofferson/Me and Bobby McGee		Listen
63	2111	Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra		Listen
64	2112	Third Ear Band	Third Ear Band
65	2115	Vashti Bunyan	Just Another Diamond Day		Listen
66	2134	Eric Burdon & War	Eric Burdon Declares War		Listen
67	2163	Tim Buckley	Blue Afternoon
68	2176	The Carpenters	Close to You		Listen
69	2216	The Temptations	Psychedelic Shack
70	2361	James Gang	James Gang Rides Again