Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1970

The Top Albums from 1970
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	45	Neil Young	After the Gold Rush		Listen
2	66	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band	John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
3	72	Derek and The Dominos	Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs		Listen
4	82	The Stooges	Fun House		Listen
5	90	Miles Davis	Bitches Brew		Listen
6	92	Van Morrison	Moondance		Listen
7	120	Simon and Garfunkel	Bridge Over Troubled Water		Listen
8	139	Black Sabbath	Paranoid		Listen
9	155	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	D�j� Vu		Listen
10	187	Creedence Clearwater Revival	Cosmo's Factory		Listen
11	195	Santana	Abraxas
12	206	The Velvet Underground	Loaded		Listen
13	220	Nick Drake	Bryter Layter		Listen
14	275	The Who	Live at Leeds
15	312	George Harrison	All Things Must Pass		Listen
16	320	Grateful Dead	American Beauty		Listen
17	344	James Brown	Sex Machine		Listen
18	352	Deep Purple	Deep Purple in Rock		Listen
19	358	Randy Newman	12 Songs		Listen
20	362	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin III		Listen
21	381	Grateful Dead	Workingman's Dead		Listen
22	382	James Taylor	Sweet Baby James		Listen
23	429	Curtis Mayfield	Curtis		Listen
24	432	Black Sabbath	Black Sabbath		Listen
25	476	Traffic	John Barleycorn Must Die		Listen
26	490	The Rolling Stones	Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!		Listen
27	580	Tim Buckley	Starsailor
28	583	The Beatles	Let It Be
29	619	Jimi Hendrix	Band of Gypsys		Listen
30	633	The Soft Machine	Third		Listen
31	636	MC5	Back in the USA		Listen
32	653	Cat Stevens	Tea for the Tillerman		Listen
33	662	Free	Fire and Water		Listen
34	683	Various Artists	Woodstock
35	733	Syd Barrett	The Madcap Laughs		Listen
36	947	Joe Cocker	Mad Dogs and Englishmen		Listen
37	994	Spirit	Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus		Listen
38	1009	Rod Stewart	Gasoline Alley		Listen
39	1030	The Beach Boys	Sunflower		Listen
40	1033	Joni Mitchell	Ladies of the Canyon		Listen
41	1070	The Last Poets	The Last Poets
42	1077	The Doors	Morrison Hotel		Listen
43	1266	Aretha Franklin	Spirit in the Dark		Listen
44	1294	Otis Redding/The Jimi Hendrix Experience	Historic Performances Recorded at the Monterey International Pop Festival		Listen
45	1304	The Meters	Look-Ka Py Py		Listen
46	1416	The Kinks	Lola versus Powerman and The Moneygoround, Part One		Listen
47	1431	The Original London Concept Recording	Jesus Christ Superstar		Listen
48	1487	Vashti Bunyan	Just Another Diamond Day		Listen
49	1540	Elton John	Tumbleweed Connection		Listen
50	1549	Brigitte Fontaine & Art Ensemble of Chicago	Comme � la Radio
51	1650	Kris Kristofferson	Kristofferson/Me and Bobby McGee		Listen
52	1670	The Doors	Absolutely Live		Listen
53	1721	David Bowie	The Man Who Sold the World
54	1734	John Phillips	John Phillips (John the Wolfking of L.A.)		Listen
55	1751	Amon D��l II	Yeti
56	1799	Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Lick My Decals Off, Baby
57	1807	Jesse Winchester	Jesse Winchester
58	1845	Stephen Stills	Stephen Stills		Listen
59	1863	Pink Floyd	Atom Heart Mother		Listen
60	1867	Third Ear Band	Third Ear Band
61	1977	The Temptations	Psychedelic Shack
62	2001	Delaney & Bonnie	Delaney & Bonnie & Friends On Tour with Eric Clapton		Listen
63	2009	The Band	Stage Fright		Listen
64	2064	Elton John	Elton John		Listen
65	2091	Funkadelic	Funkadelic		Listen
66	2114	Swamp Dogg	Total Destruction to Your Mind
67	2125	Charlie Haden	Liberation Music Orchestra		Listen
68	2136	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Les Stances a Sophie
69	2149	U-Roy	Version Galore		Listen
70	2156	Van Morrison	His Band and The Street Choir		Listen
71	2182	Nico	Desertshore		Listen
72	2185	Charles Mingus	The Great Concert of Charles Mingus		Listen
73	2317	The Guess Who	American Woman		Listen
74	2322	Carpenters	Close to You		Listen
75	2342	Peter Green	The End of the Game
76	2411	Donny Hathaway	Everything Is Everything		Listen
77	2453	Eric Burdon & War	Eric Burdon Declares War		Listen
78	2502	The Move	Shazam
79	2529	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Emerson, Lake & Palmer		Listen
80	2618	Jackson 5	ABC		Listen
81	2774	Bob Dylan	New Morning		Listen
82	2890	Bill Fay	Bill Fay		Listen
83	2897	Hot Tuna	Hot Tuna		Listen
84	2908	The Byrds	(Untitled)		Listen
85	2916	B.B. King	Indianola Mississippi Seeds		Listen
86	2928	James Gang	Rides Again		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Bob Marley and The Wailers	Soul Rebels
		Paul Kantner & Jefferson Starship	Blows Against the Empire		Listen
		Freddie Hubbard	Red Clay		Listen
		The Maytals	Monkey Man		Listen
		The Mothers of Invention	Weasels Ripped My Flesh		Listen
		Syd Barrett	Barrett		Listen
		Fairport Convention	Full House		Listen
		The Mothers of Invention	Burnt Weeny Sandwich		Listen
		Willie Dixon	I Am the Blues		Listen
		Ornette Coleman	The Art of the Improvisers		Listen
		Dusty Springfield	From Dusty ... with Love/A Brand New Me		Listen
		Van der Graaf Generator	H to He: Who Am the Only One		Listen
		John McLaughlin	Devotion		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
		The J. Geils Band	The J. Geils Band		Listen
		Mountain	Climbing!		Listen
		Shirley & Dolly Collins	Love, Death & the Lady
		Lindisfarne	Nicely out of Tune
		Badfinger	No Dice		Listen
		The Pretty Things	Parachute		Listen
		Stevie Wonder	Signed, Sealed & Delivered
		High Tide	High Tide		Listen
		Emitt Rhodes	Emitt Rhodes		Listen
		Linda Perhacs	Parallelograms		Listen
		Alice Coltrane	Ptah, the El Daoud		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