A single vote can still change the results ! And with only 9 points separating #11 and #14, every point may count !
Now, with the sudden rise of an album which white quite low in the list, 8 albums since already qualified... 2 places remain !

What a great year:

1) John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
2) Derek and the Dominoes - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
3) Aretha Franklin - Spirit in the Dark
4) Neil Young - After the Goldrush
5) Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
6) Led Zeppelin - III
7) Van Morrison - Moondance
8) Grateful Dead - American Beauty
9) The Beatles - Let It Be
10) Bob Dylan - New Morning
11) Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
12) Randy Newman - 12 Songs
13) Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
14) Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
15) Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
16) Velvet Underground - Loaded
17) The Stooges - Fun House
18) Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
19) Santana - Abraxas
20) The Byrds - (untitled)

I hate having to leave off many albums that I greatly enjoy (e.g., Pendulum, All Things Must Pass, Sex Machine, Morrison Hotel, and the two Black Sabbath albums, both of which I'm rather ambivalent about, but both of which have undeniable power); I also regret that, after nearly four decades, there are some potentially excellent albums that I still haven't heard (e.g., Duke Ellington's New Orleans Suite).

1970 was the year of my birth.
No wonder it's one of the best years ever (if not THE best) in rock : 15 songs in my all time top 200

ALBUMS

1. Neil Young - After the Goldrush (5 overall)
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's factory (15)
3. Van Morrison - Moondance (32)
4. James Brown - Sex Machine (35)
5. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis (61)
6. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu (66)
7. The Beatles – Let It Be (68)
8. The Who - Live At Leeds (91)
9. The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman & The Moneygoround (121)
10. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band (122)
11. Various Artists - Woodstock (130)
12. Derek & the Dominos - Layla & Other Assorted Love Songs (140)
13. Demon Fuzz - Afreaka! (161)
14. The Stooges - Fun House (172)
15. Soft Machine - Third (196)
16. Paul McCartney - McCartney
17. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
18. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
19. Toots & The Maytals - Monkey Man
20. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
21. Santana - Abraxas
22 Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
23. Ike & Tina Turner - Workin' Together
24. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
25. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsies
26. Led Zeppelin - III
27. The Byrds - (Untitled)
28. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum
29. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
30. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
31. Chicago - Chicago (II)
32. Black Sabbath - s/t
33. Kris Kristofferson - s/t
34. Doors - Morrison Hotel
35. Barbara - L'Aigle NOir
36. James Taylor - Sweet baby James
37. Randy Newman - 12 Songs
38. Syl JOhnson - Is It Because I'm Black
39. Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Stances à sophie
40. Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman

SONGS

1. Neil Young - After The Goldrush
2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out my Back Door
3. Curtis Mayfield - Move on Up
4. James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A Sex Machine)
5. Neil Young - Don't Let It Bring You Down
6. Van Morrison - And It Stoned Me
7. Neil Young - Southern Man
8. The Byrds - Chestnut Mare
9. Derek & the Dominos - Layla
10. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Travelin' Band
11. Jimi Hendrix - Star Spangled Banneer / Purple Haze & Instrumental Solo (Woodstock)
12. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
13. Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4
14. Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
15. Paul McCartney - Maybe I'm Amazed
16. Toots & The Maytals - Pressure Drop
17. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children Well
18. The Kinks - Apeman
19. The Beatles - Let It Be
20. The Doors - Roadhouse Blues
21. George Harrison - My Sweet Lord
22. John Lennon - Working Class Hero
23. The Melodians - Rivers Of Babylon
24. The Who - Summertime Blues (live at Leeds)
25. Barbara - L'Aigle noir
26. Demon Fuzz - Disillusioned
27. The Velvet Underground - Rock And Roll
28. Santana - Oye Como Va
29 The Stooges - Loose
30 Soft Machine - Moon In June
31 Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Theme de Yo-Yo
32 Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother Suite
33. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Soul Rebel
34. Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black ?
35. Nick Drake - Hazey Jane 2
36. Elton John - Your Song
37. James Taylor - Fire And Rain
38. Randy Newman - Have You Seen My Baby ?
39. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
40. Antonio Carlos Jobim - Brazil


Nassim forgive me it os 00 : 03

Since 1970 was such a great song year I want to give an honorable mention shout-out to All I Wanna Do by the Beach Boys, and Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time by the Delfonics. I went back and forth between these two and the end of the list. It was a very close margin.

Albums

1. Neil Young - After the Goldrush
2. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band
3. Derek and The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
4. The Stooges - Fun House
5. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
6. Van Morrison - Moondance
7. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
8. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
9. Led Zeppelin - III
10. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
11. The Who - Live at Leeds
12. James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
13. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
14. Otis Redding & Jimi Hendrix - Monterey International Pop Festival

Songs

1. Derek and The Dominos - Layla
2. James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being a) Sex Machine
3. The Velvet Underground - Sweet Jane
4. Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5. The Kinks - Lola
6. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio
7. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
8. John Lennon - Instant Karma (We All Shine On)
9. Edwin Starr - War
10. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Who'll Stop the Rain
11. Free - All Right Now
12. Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
13. John Lennon - Working Class Hero
14. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Helpless
15. John Lennon - God
16. The Velvet Underground - Rock and Roll
17. The Temptations - Ball of Confusion (That's What the World Is Today)
18. Led Zeppelin - Since I've Been Loving You
19. Van Morrison - Into the Mystic
20. James Brown - Funky Drummer

Songs

1. I Love Music ~ Ahmad Jamal
2. Since I've Been Loving You ~ Led Zeppelin
3. Slightly All The Time ~ Soft Machine
4. Rainy Day In Centerville ~ Minnie Riperton
5. Grandfather Clock ~ The Stark Reality
6. Las Vegas Tango ~ Gary Burton
7. We've Only Just Begun ~ Carpenters
8. Layla ~ Derek & The Dominos
9. Machine Gun ~ Jimi Hendrix
10. It Must Be Love (Medley) ~ Labi Siffre
11. The Signs II-IV ~ David Axelrod
12. Let It Down ~ George Harrison
13. Deirdre ~ The Beach Boys
14. Grass ~ The Pretty Things
15. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright ~ Simon & Garfunkel
16. Time To Remember ~ Grant Green
17. Poor Boy ~ Nick Drake
18. Snowbird ~ Anne Murray
19. Across The Universe ~ The Beatles
20. Children's Game ~ Antonio Carlos Jobim

Down By The Borderline ~ Tim Buckley
Makings of You ~ Curtis Mayfield
Joe ~ Scott Walker
Cade Jodel (Beautiful One) ~ João Donato
Sesame Street ~ Joe Raposo
Raspberry Jam ~ Carole King
Moondance ~ Van Morrison
Cybernaut ~ T.O.N.T.O.'s Expanding Head Band
This Night This Song ~ Tony Williams Lifetime
Tensity ~ Cannonball Adderley
Helpless ~ Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Big Yellow Taxi ~ Joni Mitchell
Intrepid Fox ~ Freddie Hubbard
National Anthem To The Moon ~ Bruce Haack
Feio ~ Miles Davis
Long Time No See ~ Emitt Rhodes
Incident at Neshabur ~ Santana
The Dolphin After ~ Bill Evans
Freio Aerodinamico ~ Marcos Valle
All That Is My Own ~ Nico
Noi Un Tempo Fa ~ Stelvio Cipriani
Egyptian Kings ~ Brainticket
Night In Barcelona ~ Bobby Hutcherson
Bubbles ~ The Free Design
The Bells ~ The Originals
Love on a 2 Way Street - The Moments
Patches ~ Clarence Carter
For The Love of Him ~ Bobbi Martin
Red White & You Blue ~ Kevin Ayers
Down On The Corner ~ Creedence Clearwater Revival
Dindi ~ Janet Lawson
Skull Session ~ Oliver Nelson
Sex Shop ~ Serge Gainsbourg
Evidence for the Existence of the Unconscious ~ The Grodeck Whipperjenny
Movement 3 (Time) ~ Mandrill
Thunder In The Morning ~ Essra Mohawk
Give It Up ~ Kool & The Gang
Dawn Until Dawn ~ Bob Downes
In The Afterglow ~ Bread
Serenade to a Savage ~ Candido
Spinning Wheel ~ Dr. Lonnie Smith
I Wanna Be A Free Girl ~ Dusty Springfield
Engine #9 ~ Wilson Pickett
ABC ~ Jackson 5
Nunca Me Dejes ~ José José
Night Thing ~ Spontaneous Combustion

And here are the albums qualified to the final round :

1 - Neil Young - After the Goldrush
2 - Van Morrison - Moondance
3 - John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
4 - Velvet Underground , The - Loaded
5 - Stooges, The - Fun House
6 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
7 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
8 - Nick Drake - Bryter Layer
9 - Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
10 - Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

There is the tie on the 11th position between Black Sabbath and Curtis Mayfield, closely followed by CSNY, the Beatles and the Beach Boys, all which might have been qualified with a single more or less vote.

Lowest AM ranked albums qualified : Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (#13 of the year) and I love you for that
Highest AM ranked album not qualified : Black Sabbath - Paranoid (#8 of the year) and I hate you for that

Our selection is quite close to the AM rank as you can see, the main difference between Santana ranked 25th in our list, quite far for the top 10.

Nice, good results, though I'm a little surprised to see Moondance edge out Plastic Ono Band for 2nd. Anyway, when does voting for 1971 start? I've already started thinking about my list, and it's not easy. The year is just absurd.

Forgotten and discovered songs from 1970: (not to be listed)


Antonio Carlos Jobim – Children’s Game (tx, Antonio)
Beatles – Let It Be
Beatles – One After 909
Rodriguez – Rich Folks Hoax (tx, netjade)
David Bowie – The Man Who Sold The World (tx, seller)
Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Theme de Yo-Yo (tx, sonofsam)
David Axelrod - The Sign, Part 1&4(tx, georgie)
Lee Hazlewood – Hey Cowboy (beware, bubblegum)
Lee Hazlewood – No Train To Stockholm (tx, Swedish Rail)

Thankyou Academy, Thankyou Pencil, Thankyou Robot...2008 Japanese Oscar winner (cartoonish)

Thanks Nassim for the album results! Perhaps there will be room for some more surprises in the songs list? The individual lists had a lot of less-acclaimed but indeed interesting choices, but to reach the total top 10 requires a lot of points, especially for albums.

1971 is a ridiculously good year.

I still say 1971 should get one or two of the spots allocated to 1976.

1976 is the 1981 of the 70's. I think I have about 5 from that year...

I may be the oldest person posting on here--I'm 48--but I'm learning new things from you all. Curtis didn't make my list, but if I'd had some more time with it, it might have eventually made it. I'd known "Move On Up" for as long as I can remember, but the rest of the album was new to me until less than a weak ago. That's why I love reading this forum!

There is the tie on the 11th position between Black Sabbath and Curtis Mayfield

The fact that these 2 just missed saddens me deeply.



Can't wait for the songs results!

Damn, did I miss the boat? February is way too short a month for such a glorious year as 1970.

Anyway, here's a lucky 13 of 1970 albums. I give up on selecting songs ... although for once I have no doubt which would be no. 1 -- hearing "My Sweet Lord" on the radio still has that same effect on me as that guy swallowing a mouthful of some cake in Proust's "Remembrance of things past"

1970 albums

1) Pearls Before Swine – The Use of Ashes
2) Neil Young – After the Gold Rush
3) CSNY – Déjà vu
4) Simon & Garfunkel – Bridge over Troubled Water
5) Nick Drake – Bryter Layter
6) CCR – Cosmo’s Factory
7) The Band – Stage Fright
The Doors – Absolutely Live
9) The Gratefuld Dead – American Beauty
10) Spirit – The Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
11) John Cale – Vintage Violence
12) Dylan – New Morning
13) The Pretty Things – Parachute

Damn those smilies

I see the results are up already ... and that it wouldn't have changed things for me to be on time.

Hey, Mike Kelly, good to see a fellow old geezer. and yes, you learn as long as you're willing to.

And here are the songs that made the cut :

1 - Derek & the Dominos - Layla
2 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
3 - James Brown - Get Up (I Feel Like Being A) Sex Machine
4 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid
5 - Velvet Underground, The - Sweet Jane
6 - Velvet Underground, The - Rock and Roll
7 - Kinks, The - Lola
8 - Neil Young - After the Goldrush
9 - Curtis Mayfield - Move On Up
10 - John Lennon - Working Class Hero

Not much competition for those 10, only Moondance, Instant Karma and Let it Be kept slight chance to make the cut.

Most acclaimed song not qualified : James Taylor - Fire and Rain (ranked #5 on AM list for 1970)
Least acclaimed song qualified : Neil Young - After the Goldrush (#44)

Most acclaimed song with no vote : Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter (#16)

Still a lot of listening for me to do.
I did like Mayfield's "Move on Up", and "..Hell Below" and that Eugene McDaniels "Unspoken Dreams.." track so thanks for those suggestions.

Nassim, are we going to get to see spreadsheets listing all the albums and songs that got votes, as was the case for the yearly installments of the previous decade polls? Just wondering.

Yes you will... I'm just wondering how I can post them ^^

Send it to me (henrik.franzon [at] gmail.com) and I'll upload it.

Here's the spreadsheet. Thanks for sending, Nassim.

Damn, I should have voted for Moondance.

Good job Nassim, I know how much work goes into it.

Nassim, I don't know how to tell you this, but my album ratings are missing from the spreadsheet. My songs are there, but my 20 albums aren't.

not even in the Cuddlin' RockyRaccoon 'til I die section? hmmm..

Ok,
With the addition of Harold's vote, here are the new results :

1 - Neil Young - After the Goldrush
2 - Van Morrison - Moondance
3 - John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
4 - Stooges, The - Fun House
5 - Velvet Underground , The - Loaded
6 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
7 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
8 - Nick Drake - Bryter Layer
9 - Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
10 - Miles Davis - Bitches Brew

The only difference is that Fun House is now ranked just before Loaded !
I Will check tomorrow that there isn't any other vote missing but I think it is ok now.

That section's reserved for you, Netjade.

Yaaay, lots of spikes and candy.... !!

Looks like I won the contest for most unconventional tastes! Only until #29 do my first 3 points go to My Sweet Lord.

Take that, netjade!

well Jonah you have voted for 5 of the 10 winning albums while netjade only voted for 1 ^^
But well, you are even more unconventional than him on songs... which is hard ! (only in a way, netjade has 16 songs he is the only one to have listed while you only get 13 ^^ )

she

(go, dumbass use of visualization..)

and thanks, nic... no living space for female pop geeks, that's too bad...

I actually meant to say I had the most unconventional song tastes, for the record. I'm sure netjade will beat me in other years. This is her chance to give some suggestions for 1976, which we've discussed is a very weak year. Maybe with a netjade approved list I can have 1976 in a parallel universe where music didn't suck.

ther's a place here for ya