Here's Classic Rock's laughable Top Real 10 Greatest Albums of the 70s. They had 3 rules compiling this list 1) One album per band- really? Lame! 2) Don't pick the most famous album. Well they're the most famous for a reason! 3) Justify- sorry with those first two lame rules there's no way you can justify it.
10) Queen's "News Of The World": No, just no. The Queen purists will probably hate me, but oh well, but my favorite Queen CD is 1980's "The Game".
9) Sex Pistols "Spunk": Along with The Ramones a very overrated band.
8) Rush's "A Farewell To Kings" "Closer To The Heart" is a good song.
7) Rolling Stones "Some Girls" Yes, this is the best CD on the list.
6) Pink Floyd's "Meddle" Seriously, this is nowhere even close in quality to "The Wall" or "Dark Side of The Moon".
5) David Bowie's "Station to Station": When Bowie died earlier this year I worked through all of his CDs. I'd read this was an amazing CD. The only way is it amazing is it's amazingly boring. Obviously not even in the same league as "Ziggy Stardust".
4) Led Zeppelin's "Live On Blueberry Hill" Um, since there's no way to listen to this CD. My three favorite Zep 70's CDs are "3", "4" (aka the greatest CD ever) and "Houses of the Holy".
Well it looks like there's a way to listen to this CD, I haven't had a chance yet:
3) The Who's "Quadrophenia" I listened to this today, meh. I'll take "Who's Next" please.
2) Black Sabbath "Sabotage": Putting this CD at #2 is sabotaging this list.
1) AC/DC "Powerade" Not even AC/DC's best 1970's CD. Their 3 best 70's CDs are "Highway To Hell", "High Voltage" and "Dirty Deed Done Dirt Cheap". I listened to "High Voltage" again today, now there's solid. Their reputation is all their songs sound alike, but this CD has a much more varied sound.
I'm compiling a top 20 70s CD list now, some of the artists on it with multiple CDs include Zep, Pink Floyd, ELO (yes, really), Steely Dan, AC/DC, and The Rolling Stones. And single CDs by bands like The Cars, Fleetwood Mac, Boston, Cheap Trick, The Knack, The Clash, Van Halen, Meat Loaf, Styx, Supertramp and Carole King. Also the soundtracks to "Saturday Night Fever" and "Grease". And as I do I'm sure I'll discover a few others along the way.
CDs for consideration, from the below CDs so far, 1979 was a great year for music.
1) The Bee Gees 1979 CD "Spirits Have Flown". Highlights include the amazing "Tragedy", "Too Much Heaven", "Love You Inside" and "Spirits (Having Flown)".
2) The Cars self-titled 1979 CD. Excellent songs from this CD are "Good Times Roll", "My Best Friends Girl", "Just What I Needed", "You're All I Got Tonight", "Bye Bye Love" and "Moving In Stereo". "Moving In Stereo" is a lesser known song, but just as good as the other hits on this CD.
3) Fleetwood Mac's self-titled 1975 CD. This CD has 5 standout songs: "Monday Morning", "Rhiannon", "Over My Head", "Say You Love Me" and "Landslide".
4) Fleetwood Mac "Rumors"- a CD I've written about multiple times already.
5) Carole King's 1971 classic "Tapestry". Highlights include "I Feel The Earth Move", "So Far Away", "It's Too Late", "You've Got A Friend", "Will You Love Me Tomorrow", the absolutely beautiful "Tapestry", "Out In The Cold" and"(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman".
6) The Scorpions 1979 CD "Lovedrive". It's best songs are "Loving You Sunday Morning", "Another Piece of Meat", "Coast To Coast" (which is an instrumental), "Can't Get Enough", "Lovedrive" and "Holiday".
7) Steely Dan's debut 1972 CD "Can't Buy A Thrill". Highlights include "Do It Again", "Dirty Work", "Only A Fool Would Say That", "Reelin' In The Years", "Fire In The Hole" and "Turn That Heartbeat Over Again".
8) Steely Dan's 1977 CD "Aja". Highlights include "Black Cow", "Aja", "Deacon Blues", "Peg", "Home At Last" and "Josie". Although even "I Got The News" is a decent song. The only thing holding this CD back is that it only has 7 songs, although it's nearly 40 minutes of pretty good music.
9) Neil Young's "Harvest", his 1972 classic. Highlights include "Out On The Weekend", "Harvest", "Old Man", "Heart of Gold", "Alabama" and "The Needle and The Damage Done".
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