The Top Albums from 1970

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	44	Neil Young	After the Gold Rush		Listen
2	68	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
3	75	Derek and The Dominos	Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs		Listen
4	83	The Stooges	Fun House		Listen
5	88	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew		Listen
6	94	Van Morrison	Moondance		Listen
7	118	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water		Listen
8	135	Black Sabbath	Paranoid		Listen
9	160	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	Déjà Vu		Listen
10	195	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cosmo's Factory		Listen
11	210	Santana	Abraxas
12	211	The Velvet Underground	Loaded		Listen
13	225	Nick Drake	Bryter Layter		Listen
14	291	The Who	Live at Leeds
15	324	George Harrison	All Things Must Pass		Listen
16	337	Grateful Dead	American Beauty		Listen
17	356	Deep Purple	Deep Purple in Rock		Listen
18	361	James Brown	Sex Machine		Listen
19	386	Randy Newman	12 Songs		Listen
20	392	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin III		Listen
21	408	Grateful Dead	Workingman's Dead		Listen
22	411	James Taylor	Sweet Baby James		Listen
23	461	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath		Listen
24	471	Curtis Mayfield	Curtis		Listen
25	504	Traffic	John Barleycorn Must Die		Listen
26	524	The Rolling Stones	Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!		Listen
27	604	Tim Buckley	Starsailor
28	615	The Beatles	Let It Be
29	632	Cat Stevens	Tea for the Tillerman		Listen
30	650	The Soft Machine	Third		Listen
31	664	Jimi Hendrix	Band of Gypsys		Listen
32	685	MC5	Back in the USA		Listen
33	687	Free	Fire and Water		Listen
34	731	Various Artists	Woodstock
35	791	Syd Barrett	The Madcap Laughs		Listen
36	1023	Joe Cocker	Mad Dogs and Englishmen		Listen
37	1067	Spirit	Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus		Listen
38	1095	Rod Stewart	Gasoline Alley		Listen
39	1101	The Last Poets	The Last Poets
40	1109	The Beach Boys	Sunflower		Listen
41	1115	Joni Mitchell	Ladies of the Canyon		Listen
42	1160	The Doors	Morrison Hotel		Listen
43	1354	Aretha Franklin	Spirit in the Dark		Listen
44	1391	The Meters	Look-Ka Py Py		Listen
45	1403	Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival		Listen
46	1492	Vashti Bunyan	Just Another Diamond Day		Listen
47	1515	The Kinks	Lola versus Powerman and The Moneygoround, Part One		Listen
48	1538	The Original London Concept Recording	Jesus Christ Superstar		Listen
49	1629	Brigitte Fontaine & Art Ensemble of Chicago	Comme à la Radio
50	1641	Elton John	Tumbleweed Connection		Listen
51	1802	Third Ear Band	Third Ear Band
52	1809	Kris Kristofferson	Kristofferson/Me and Bobby McGee		Listen
53	1818	The Doors	Absolutely Live		Listen
54	1838	Amon Düül II	Yeti
55	1846	David Bowie	The Man Who Sold the World
56	1852	John Phillips	John Phillips (John the Wolfking of L.A.)		Listen
57	1885	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Lick My Decals Off, Baby
58	1910	Jesse Winchester	Jesse Winchester
59	1952	Stephen Stills	Stephen Stills		Listen
60	1963	Pink Floyd	Atom Heart Mother		Listen
61	2091	The Temptations	Psychedelic Shack
62	2114	Delaney & Bonnie	Delaney & Bonnie & Friends On Tour with Eric Clapton		Listen
63	2179	The Band	Stage Fright		Listen
64	2205	Charles Mingus	The Great Concert of Charles Mingus		Listen
65	2215	Elton John	Elton John		Listen
66	2237	Funkadelic	Funkadelic		Listen
67	2246	Peter Green	The End of the Game
68	2277	Swamp Dogg	Total Destruction to Your Mind
69	2294	Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra		Listen
70	2307	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Les Stances a Sophie
71	2309	Van Morrison	His Band and The Street Choir		Listen
72	2322	Nico	Desertshore		Listen
73	2328	U-Roy	Version Galore		Listen
74	2390	The Guess Who	American Woman		Listen
75	2481	Carpenters	Close to You		Listen
76	2564	Donny Hathaway	Everything Is Everything		Listen
77	2602	Eric Burdon & War	Eric Burdon Declares War		Listen
78	2626	The Move	Shazam
79	2671	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Emerson, Lake & Palmer		Listen
80	2798	Jackson 5	ABC		Listen
81	2885	Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship	Blows Against the Empire		Listen
82	2921	Bob Dylan	New Morning		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Bill Fay	Bill Fay		Listen
		Syd Barrett	Barrett		Listen
		Hot Tuna	Hot Tuna		Listen
		The Byrds	(Untitled)		Listen
		B.B. King	Indianola Mississippi Seeds		Listen
		James Gang	Rides Again		Listen
		Bob Marley and The Wailers	Soul Rebels
		The Maytals	Monkey Man		Listen
		Freddie Hubbard	Red Clay		Listen
		The Mothers of Invention	Weasels Ripped My Flesh		Listen
		Ornette Coleman	The Art of the Improvisers		Listen
		Fairport Convention	Full House		Listen
		The Mothers of Invention	Burnt Weeny Sandwich		Listen
		Willie Dixon	I Am the Blues		Listen
		Van der Graaf Generator	H to He: Who Am the Only One		Listen
		John McLaughlin	Devotion		Listen
		Dusty Springfield	From Dusty ... with Love/A Brand New Me		Listen
		The Flying Burrito Bros	Burrito Deluxe		Listen
		Creedence Clearwater Revival	Pendulum		Listen
		The Allman Brothers Band	Idlewild South		Listen
		The Cables	What Kind of World		Listen
		Funkadelic	Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
		Johnny Winter	Johnny Winter and
		Frank Zappa	Chunga's Revenge		Listen
		Lindisfarne	Nicely out of Tune
		Shirley & Dolly Collins	Love, Death & the Lady
		Mountain	Climbing!		Listen
		The Pretty Things	Parachute		Listen
		Badfinger	No Dice		Listen
		The J. Geils Band	The J. Geils Band		Listen
		High Tide	High Tide		Listen
		Stevie Wonder	Signed, Sealed & Delivered
		Alice Coltrane	Ptah, the El Daoud		Listen
		Linda Perhacs	Parallelograms		Listen
		Emitt Rhodes	Emitt Rhodes		Listen
		Yoko Ono	Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band		Listen
		Essra Mohawk	Primordial Lovers
		Townes Van Zandt	Townes Van Zandt		Listen
		John Coltrane	Transition		Listen
		King Crimson	In the Wake of Poseidon		Listen
		John Cale	Vintage Violence		Listen
		Michael Nesmith	Magnetic South

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