and the Adverts-One Chord Wonders is my favorite track of the 70s, I just think its so perfect, Loud Surf-y guitars, amazing vocals, very unique for a Punk band. Their first record is all amazing, but damn, what an amazing track.

1. Tim Buckley - Starsailor
2. Neil Young - Tonight's the night
3. Television - Marquee moon
4. The Stooges - Fun house
5. The Rolling Stones - Sticky fingers
6. Neil Young - On the beach
7. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
8. David Bowie - Hunky dory
9. Pink Floyd - Meddle
10. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust never sleeps
11. Can - Future days
12. Iggy Pop - The idiot
13. David Bowie - Low
14. Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia
15. Roxy Music - Stranded
16. Joy Division - Unknown pleasures
17. Françoise Hardy - La question
18. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - My aim is true
19. Nick Drake - Pink moon
20. Tom Waits - Small Change
21. Leonard Cohen - Songs of love and hate
22. Marvin Gaye - What's going on
23. Bob Dylan - Desire
24. Bob Dylan - Blood on the tracks
25. The Beach Boys - Sunflower

(EDITED)

Tusk - Fleetwood Mac

End of discussion.

Live/Evil

can anyone guess who number 1 will be? i think it'll either be a can album, funhouse or marquee moon.

probably Marquee Moon

I forgot Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell, I'm going to have to redo this list.

Here it goes.....

1. Alice Cooper – Love It To Death
2. Suicide – 1st album
3. Rolling Stones – Sticky Fingers
4. Big Star - #1 Record
5. The Stooges – Funhouse
6. The Ramones – Ramones
7. Black Sabbath – Master of Reality
8. Kiss – Destroyer
9. Alice Cooper – Easy Action
10. Kiss – Hotter Than Hell
11. CCR – Cosmos Factory
12. Blue Oyster Cult – Self Titled
13. Kiss – Kiss
14. Roxy Music – Roxy Music
15. Kiss – Love Gun
16. Neil Young – After the Goldrush
17. Cheap Trick – In Color
18. Neil Young – On The Beach
19. Big Star – Radio City
20. Neu – Neu
21. Dead Boys – Young Loud and Snotty
22. Custer - Soweisoso
23. Black Sabbath – Vol.4
24. The Modern Lovers – The Modern Lovers
25. Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express

I think there are too many (younger) people on here who have been to too many 70s themed parties.

Alice Cooper? For fuck's sake.

There was good music around in the 70s.

And stop raiding your dad's record collections.

Too much great jazz/funk/soul music to incorporate into a top 25 all time of the 70's. One almost needs 4 lists. Rock, Jazz, Funk/Soul, Punk/No Wave. I think its fair to say there are more than enough great albums to produce 25 for each of these types of music.

I look back at mine on the first page and there are so many things left out.

uh.. dunno, my dad used to be into david bowie and pink floyd when he was my age and still loves them deeply, so i've known about them ever since i was little kid.. and this music simply does it for me. i've heard hundreds of records from the 70's ever since, but nothing compares (except for a few)..

The very best soul and funk was produced in the late 60s and 70s.

And taking punk into account as well, there really is no need to include any shitty novelty rock bands (Alice Cooper? Kiss? For fuck's sake).

never REALLY got into soul/funk for some reason, maybe i haven't listened to the right artists..

For instance Zeppelin, Floyd, Stones all made great albums during the 70's. Regardless of personal taste, it is a fact that these bands put out good music deserving of a top 25 mention. Throw in some, Bowie, Beefheart, Can, Iggy Pop, Lour Reed or VU, Televison, etc... and you have almost no room for other great types of music....such a difficult list.

I will make a top 25 soul/funk/r&b list that you might want to check out

thanks :)

If I had made this sort of list 18/19 years ago I would have probably included many of the albums mentioned on these lists, so in a way I can understand their presence on many of the youngsters' lists. What I don't get is why people download/buy so much 'obscure' music which apparently blows them away, and then end up having the same records on these top whatever over and over again. I'm not criticising the personal choices of anyone, I just don't get what the point of looking for new music is for many posters.

Never been to a 70's themed party. My Dad owned a total of 1 of the records I listed. Just asking, have you ever heard the first three Alice Cooper albums? At this period in time I can't see how they were any more of a novelty rock band than David Bowie, Roxy Music, Ian Dury or the MC5.

Might not be as sexy as some forgotten krautrock group or pioneering minimalist composer but to me this is good music.
http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=QRHFIVJtqpc

It's because decent music peaked in precisely 1976. Didn't you know that?

More seriously though, there are a lot of records that time has failed to forget. Tago Mago is still amazing; Amun Duul (who I've neglected) are still amazing; David Bowie is still amazing (although I'm sure everyone knows my actual feelings on Dame Dave). I'd be very surprised if anyone who didn't live through the 90s (which I did, for part of it) would consider that Urusei Yatsura were amazing, but they'd certainly know the Bends. History makes the oblique question of how good something is seem easier. Is Fun House one of the greatest records ever? Personally, I'd say no, but in terms of how many bands lifted from it, it's absurdly influential.

I think the more recent polls (80s & 90s) are showing up a lot more 'personal choices' because a lot of people were semi-functional adults at the time. Thinking Fellers whatsit - they wouldn't appear in a 90s list in 10-15 years.