1971 a great year of music

As a sophomore in high school in 1971
I now like a lot of the "mellow" music of 1971 as much as the hard rock of deep purple etc etc.

 

Cluster, s/t

 

A '71 fave:

 

'71, best year in music, if I had to pick one.

 

I bought this also in 1971 and it's a great one! Also bought the T. Rex album that came out prior to this one, it was pretty good too.

 

My favorite Albums of 1971

1. Who’s Next
2. Imagine
3. Sticky Fingers
4. LA Woman
5. Led Zeppelin IV
6. Fragile
7. Nilsson Schmilsson
8. Ram
9. Master of Reality
10. Meddle

Bonus: There’s A Riot Goin On.

 

He should take more years off. This guy has too many blah albums.

 

God's Potato's there is some high quality on that list.

 

One record I discovered in February 1971 was this famous one by Marvin Gaye (who I hadn't heard of until then). Was turned on to it by a teenage record store clerk (a girl) who was just a couple years older than me.

 

Eric Clapton was MIA in 1971 except for his appearance at The Concert for Bangladesh

 

apart from all the obvious classic albums already listed here's a few slightly more obscure classics that really need to be heard:
Alan Stivell - Renaissance of The Celtic Harp
Allan Taylor - Sometimes
Allan Taylor - The Lady
Autumn - Comes
Bert Jansch - Rosemary Lane
Bert Sommer - Bert Sommer
Bill Fay - Time of The Last Persecution
Brewer & Shipley - Shake Off The Demon
Bridget St John - Songs For The Gentle Man
Brinsley Schwarz - Silver Pistol
Bruce Cockburn - High Winds, White Sky
Chip Taylor - Gasoline
Cowboy - 5'll Getcha Ten
Danny O'Keefe - Danny O'Keefe
David Wiffen - David Wiffen
Donovan - HMS Donovan
Dory Previn - Mythical Kings
Dory Previn - Reflections in a Mud Puddle
Ernie Graham - Ernie Graham
Fairport Convention - Babbacombe Lee
Gordon Haskell - It is and it Isn't
Grin - Grin
Ian Matthews - If You Saw Thro' My Eyes
Jim Post - Colorado Exile
Jimmie Spheeris - Isle of View
John David Souther - John David Souther
Jonathan Edwards - Jonathan Edwards
JSD Band - Country of The Blind
Judee Sill - Judee Sill
Livingston Taylor - Liv
Magna Carta - Songs From Wasties Orchard
Marvin Welch & Farrar - Second Opinion
Michael Chapman - Window
Murray McLauchlan - Songs From The Street
Nilsson - The Point
Paul Kantner & Grace Slick - Sunfighter
Pearls Before Swine - Beautiful Lies You Could Live in
Ralph McTell - You, Well Meaning, Brought Me Here
Steeleye Span - Please To See The King
Steve Tilston - An Acoustic Confusion
The Byrds - Farther Along
The Dependables - Klatu Berrada Niktu
The Strawbs - From The Witchwood
Tir Na Nog - Tir Na Nog
Tony Kosinec - Bad Girl Songs
Wishbone Ash - Pilgrimage

 

I remember looking up hills and down dales for this in the spring of 1971 and couldn't find it...Redbone, "Witch Queen of New Orleans".

 

No idea what you’ve posted and you didn’t label it.

 

Another cool tune from the same time period, love the wry lyrics...Seatrain, "13 Questions".

"Deep in the darkest hour
of a very heavy week
the earthmen did confront me
and I could hardly speak!"

 

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It was more than great, at least based on the albums from 1971 I own (as far as you judge my music taste good enough). I have my collection written down by triplicate, ordered in 3 different ways: by year, alphabetical and by genre/subgenre, so the reply that follows was already written even before the question was made

(L) = Live recording, (ST) = Soundtrack

ROCK AND POP:

Al Kooper – New York City (You're a Woman)
Alice Cooper – Love It to Death
Alice Cooper – Killer
The Allman Brothers Band – At Fillmore East (L)
The Allman Brothers Band – Eat a Peach
Amon Düül II – Tanz der Lemminge
Aretha Franklin – Live At Fillmore West (L)
Argent – Ring of Hands
Arthur Brown's Kingdom Come – Galactic Zoo Dossier
Ash Ra Tempel – Ash Ra Tempel
Atomic Rooster – In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
Badfinger – Straight Up
The Band - Cahoots
The Beach Boys – Surf's Up
Beggars Opera – Waters of Change
Big Sleep – Bluebell Wood
Bill Withers – Just as I Am
Billy Joel – Cold Spring Harbor
Birth Control - Operation
Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
Bonnie Raitt – Bonnie Raitt
Bruce Cockburn – High Winds White Sky
Bruce Cockburn – Sunwheel Dance
Budgie - Budgie
Cactus – One Way … Or Another
Can – Tago Mago
Caravan – In the Land of the Grey and Pink
Carole King – Tapestry
Cat Stevens – Teaser and the Firecat
Chicago – Chicago III
Chicago – At Carnegie Hall (L)
Chicken Shack – Imagination Lady
Clouds – Watercolour Days
Cluster – Cluster '71
Colosseum – Live (L)
Comus – First Utterance
Crazy Horse – Crazy Horse
Cressida - Asylum
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – 4 Way Street (L)
Curtis Mayfield – Curtis - Live! (L)
Curtis Mayfield – Roots
Curved Air – Second Album
David Bowie – Hunky Dory
David Crosby – If I Could Only Remember My Name
Deep Purple – Fireball
Don McLean – American Pie
The Doobie Brothers – The Doobie Brothers
The Doors – L.A. Woman
Dust - Dust
The Edgar Broughton Band – Edgar Broughton Band
Edgar Winter's White Trash - Edgar Winter's White Trash
Egg – The Polite Force
Elton John – Madman Across the Water
Elvis Presley - Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Pictures at an Exhibition (L)
The Faces – Long Player
The Faces – A Nod's As Good As a Wink to a Blind Horse
Family – Fearless
Faust - Faust
Fields - Fields
Flamin' Groovies – Teenage Head
Fleetwood Mac – Future Games
Focus – Moving Waves (aka Focus II)
Frank Zappa - 200 Motels (ST)
Frank Zappa & The Mothers – Fillmore East – June 71 (L)
Free – Free Live! (L)
Funkadelic – Maggot Brain
Fuzzy Duck – Fuzzy Duck
Gene Clark – White Light
Genesis – Nursery Cryme
Gentle Giant – Acquiring the Taste
George Harrison – Concert for Bangladesh (L)
Gil Scott-Heron – Pieces of a Man
Golden Earring – Seven Tears
Gong – Camembert Electrique
Gordon Lightfoot – Summer Side of Life
Gracious – This Is … Gracious!
Graham Nash – Songs For Beginners
Grand Funk – Live Album (L)
Grand Funk – Survival
Grand Funk – E Pluribus Funk
Grateful Dead – Grateful Dead (Skull & Roses) (L)
The Groundhogs – Split
The Guess Who – So Long, Bannatyne
Guru Guru - Hinten
Hawkwind – In Search Of Space
Hot Tuna – First Pull Up, Then Pull Down
Humble Pie – Performance: Rockin' The Fillmore (L)
Humble Pie – Rock On
Indian Summer – Indian Summer
Isaac Hayes – Shaft (ST)
Isaac Hayes - Black Moses
J.J. Cale - Naturally
Jack Bruce – Harmony Row
Jade Warrior – Jade Warrior
Jade Warrior – Released
The James Gang – Thirds
The James Gang – Live in Concert (L)
Janis Joplin – Pearl
Jeff Beck Group – Rough & Ready
Jethro Tull – Aqualung
Joe South – Joe South
John Lennon - Imagine
John Martyn – Bless the Weather
John Mayall – Back to the Roots
Johnny Winter And – Johhny Winter And Live (L)
Joni Mitchell – Blue
Karen Dalton – In My Own Time
Keef Hartley Band – Overdog
Keef Hartley Band – Little Big Band (L)
King Crimson - Islands
The Kinks – Percy
The Kinks – Muswell Hillbillies
Le Orme - Collage
Leaf Hound – Growers of Mushroom
Led Zeppelin – IV
Leon Russell – Leon Russell & The Shelter People
Leonard Cohen – Songs of Love and Hate
Linda Ronstadt - Linda Ronstadt
Lindisfarne – Fog of the Tyne
Little Feat – Little Feat
Man – Man
Man - Do You Like It Here Now, Are You Settling In?
Marvin Gaye – What's Going On
May Blitz – The 2nd of May
MC5 – High Time
The Moody Blues – Every Good Boy Deserves Favour
Mott The Hoople – Brain Capers
Mountain – Nantucket Sleighride
Mountain - Flowers of Evil
The Move – Message from the Country
Nektar – Journey to the Centre of the Eye
New Riders Of The Purple Sage - New Riders Of The Purple Sage
The New Trolls – Concerto Grosso per i New Trolls
The Nice - Elegy
Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
Osanna - L'Uomo
Paladin - Paladin
Patto – Hold Your Fire
Paul & Linda McCartney - Ram
Peter Hammill – Fool's Mate
The Pink Fairies - Neverneverland
Pink Floyd – Meddle
Pink Floyd - Relics
Poco – From the Inside
Popol Vuh – In den Gärten Pharaos
Procol Harum – Broken Barricadas
Raw Material – Time Is ...
Renaissance – Illusion
Rod Stewart – Every Picture Tells a Story
The Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
Rory Gallagher – Rory Gallagher
Rory Gallagher - Deuce
Roy Harper – Stormcock
Samurai - Samurai
Sandy Denny – The North Star Grassman and the Ravens
Santana – Santana III
Savoy Brown – Street Corner Talking
Sir Lord Baltimore – Sir Lord Baltimore
Sixto Rodríguez – Coming From Reality
Sly & The Family Stone – There's a Riot Goin' On
Soft Machine – Fourth
Spring - Spring
Status Quo – Dog of Two Heads
Stephen Stills – Stephen Stills 2
Steppenwolf – For Ladies Only
Stone the Crows – Teenage Licks
Supersister – To the Highest Bidder
T. Rex – Electric Warrior
Tangerine Dream – Alpha Centauri
Taste – Live at the Isle of Wight (L)
Ten Years After – A Space in Time
Thin Lizzy – Thin Lizzy
Traffic – Welcome to the Canteen (L)
Traffic – The Low Spark of the High-Heeled Boys
Uriah Heep – Salisbury
Uriah Heep - Look At Yourself
Van der Graaf Generator – Pawn Hearts
Van Morrison – Tupelo Honey
The Who – Who's Next
Wishbone Ash – Pilgrimage
Yes – The Yes Album
Yes - Fragile
ZZ Top – ZZ Top's First Album

SOME BLUES:

Albert King – Lovejoy
B.B. King – Live in Cook County Jail (L)
Freddie King – Getting Ready
Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers - Hound Dog Taylor & The House Rockers
John Lee Hooker - Endless Boogie
John Lee Hooker - Any Where-Any Time-Any Place. 1948 - 1952
John Lee Hooker & Canned Heat – Hooker'n'Heat
Mississippi John Hurt – 1928 Sessions
Muddy Waters – Muddy Waters Live (L)
Taj Mahal – The Real Thing (L)
Taj Majhal - Happy Just to Be Like I Am

SOME FUSION:

Larry Coryell – Barefoot Boy
John McLaughlin – My Goal's Beyond
Mahavishnu Orchestra – The Inner Mounting Flame
Nucleus – We'll Talk About It Later
The Tony Williams Lifetime – Ego
Weather Report – Weather Report

 

Not all videos are available to the world so it just says video not available…that’s why people label videos, to at least know what was posted.

 

I usually do it but I thought I'd let people listen to the music for a change.

 

Can you just tell me what you posted? I can’t see anything but a blank screen and I can’t push play like many others I suppose. This is what everyone in the US is seeing.

 

OK, keep yer wig on. Can, "Oh Yeah".

 

Here begins a period of time when the album charts were of far more interest to me than the singles charts. This would continue through most of the 1970s. Several times I have perused a singles chart from this time period and thought "Strange, I remember the music of this year as being better than that. Then I look at the album chart for the same time, and the mystery falls into place.

Obviously people were still buying singles, but I'm not sure who, because none of my friends or work colleagues with whom I discussed music ever bothered with singles, except on the rare occasion that they liked a certain track and the rest of the album turned out to be a dud. Or if there was no accompanying album, though that seemed rare.

 

You ever try it ? You've gotta be about a hundred pounds lighter than I.

 

The Sound of Music - 299 weeks on the chart.
The one album I know backwards and forwards without once playing it voluntarily.

 

First full year in college and working in a record store - yep, it was a mighty fine year.

 

My Top 10:
Who's Next
What's Going On
Blue
Hunky Dory
Sticky Fingers
LZ IV
Tapestry
Imagine
Fragile
tL.A. Woman
Aqualung