Top 10 (in no particular order) Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan Hotel California - Eagles Band on the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd The Stranger - Billy Joel Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones Warren Zevon debut album Dire Straits debut album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John Imagine - John Lennon
Hi Andrew, here’s my 70’s list: 10 - Patti Smith Group - Easter (1987) 9 - Neil Young - Harvest (1972) 8 - John Lennon - Imagine (1971) 7 - Bob Dylan - Desire (1976) 6 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1971) 5 - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973) 4 - Carly Simon - No Secrets (1972) 3 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977) 2 - Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run (1973) Honourable mentions: - Paul McCartney & Wings - Venus And Mars (1975) - Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (1987) - ABBA - Arrival (1976) - Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975) - Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène (1976) And my number 1! 1 - George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (1970) Greetings
Nice list... mine 1.Ram McCartney 2.Goodbye Yellow brick Road Elton John 3. Tonight's the Night Neil Young 4.Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper 5. Physical graffiti Led Zeppelin 6.Aja Steely Dan 7 . This year's Model Elvis Costello 8. Quadaphia Who 9.Cheap Trick Cheap Trick 10.Horses Patti Smith
So many great albums in the 70’s. My favorite are Band on the Run, Poems, Prayers and Promises, Let it Be, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Tapestry, Imagine, I’ve Got a Name, Blue, Deja Vu, and Harvest.
Re-Vamped my list cuz i wanted to 1. Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney 2. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac 3. Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon 4. Pink Moon - Nick Drake 5. All Things Must Pass - George Harrison 6. Blood on the tracks - Bob Dylan 7. Wish you were Here - Pink Floyd 8. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder 9. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel 10. Venus and Mars - Wings i love the 70s
Never Mind the Bollocks is a great album. As for Ram, I've always regarded it as McCartney's last Beatles album. Nice to see Nick Drake get a bit of love too!
Hi Andrew. Togerher with the sixties, the seventies are my favorite decades. It's difficult to rank so many good albums, so I won't do that. But I mention my favorite albums. Pink Floyd - The Wall and Animals, Queen - News Of The World and Jazz, The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street, David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station To Station, Low and Heroes, Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks and Desire, Neil Young - After The Gold Rush, Harvest, Comes A Time and Tonight's The Night, Dire Straits - Dire Straits, The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround, Derek And The Dominos - Layla And Other Assorted Lovesongs, Paul Mccartney - McCartney, Ram, Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run, Venus And Mars, John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Walls And Bridges, George Harrison - All Things Must Pass, Dark Horse and George Harrison. I was 10 years old in 1972 when I started to listen to top40 radio. My first vinyl LP buys, 1973, were Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies and David Bowie - Aladdin Sane. My first 45RPM I bought was The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz. My favorite band in that period was Slade. Not their regular studio albums, but their 45RPm's like Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Gudbuy t' Jane, Cum On Feel The Noize, Skweeze Me Pleeze Me. So Slade - Sladest is my favorite compilation album from the seventies.
The 1970s were probably the most diverse decade in terms of music genres, so not an easy task to put up a top 10 list. My all time favourite album happens to be from the decade, Kate Bush's The Kick Inside - have listened to it 250+ times and still am not fed up. Others in the top 10 are: Deep Purple - D.P In Rock; Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality; E.L.O - A New World Record and Out Of The Blue; Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire; Motorhead - Overkill. From pop and r&b: Carpenters - self titled (just for the 3 hit songs) and Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel ... liquid gold voices from the ladies who both died young unfortunately. Plus the B-52's debut just for its craziness (in a good way).
My Top 10 Albums of 1970s : 10. Status Quo - Blue for You (1976) 5. Van Halen (1978) 9. Dire Straits (1978) 4. AC/DC - Powerage (1978) 8. Motorhead - Overkill (1979) 3. Queen II (1974) 7. Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St (1972) 2. Rainbow - Rising (1976) 6. The Stooges - Funhouse (1970) 1. David Bowie - Station To Station (1976)
My top 10 albums 70's 1.On the radio-Donna Summer 2.Bad girls-Donna Summer. 3.Voulez-vous-Abba. 4.Nightflight to venus-Boney M. 5.Arrival-Abba 6.Bat out off hell-Meat Loaf 7.Discovery-E.l.o. 8.The Wall-Pink Floyd 9.Parallel lines-Blondie. 10.Never mind the bollocks-Sex pistols. P.s.love The Beatles🎸
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - Plastic Ono Band George Harrison - All Things Must Pass Paul McCartney - Ram Japan - Quiet Life ELO - A New World Record Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory Lou Reed - Transformer David Bowie - Hunky Dory T. Rex - Electric Warrior Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures Just missed out... John Lennon - Imagine, Blondie - Parallel Lines, The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine, McCartney Wings - Red Rose Speedway, Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water, T. Rex - The Slider, Ringo Starr - Ringo
Ram is so damn good. The production and the sound on a few songs like dear boy uncle albert and ram on are so good it still sounds like it's from the future.
You being English naturally favor English bands/ albums.As an American my experience with our music makes me favor ours. No particular order.. Eagles Hotel California Boston debut The Cars debut Van Halen debut Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping Joni Mitchell Court and Spark Zeppelin 4 Floyd Dark Side Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band Night Moves Fleetwood Mac,untitled '75 album and Rumours (tie)
Great choices Andrew. At the time I was underwhelmed with Paul McCartney's first three solo albums, the best was of course Ram but I've grown to love all three since then! You're right about John Lennon's POB LP, such a difficult listen for this 15 year old teenager to handle:-). One album I was hoping to have seen in there was Slade Alive, a tour de force of an album. Cheers again...
Cheers Eddie, I have a Slade compilation and I love it, it gave me a great appreciation for them beyond the obvious handful of songs, but I've not yet listened to a studio album of theirs!
Really nice selection. It is really hard to choose in that decade. For me it would be something like : 1. Paul McCartney - RAM 2. Sparks - Indiscreet 3. Queen - A night at the opera 4. Wings - Band on the run 5. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours 6. Sparks - Propaganda 7. Serge Gainsbourg - L'Homme à tête de chou 8. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band 9. Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the blue 10. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Some bankers here, but too narrow a focus on Beatles related artists for me. I Have not seen 60's one yet but on this basis I would expect at least three albums in there. Shockingly overlooked rock artists here like Deep Purple, , Who, Sabbath. Also apart from Floyd there is sparse on prog with no Yes, Genesis, ELP. Also the early 70's probably saw best work of the Stones too. And no Springsteen, Clash, Police, Blondie, Jam, Elvis Costello, either! I could go on but I accept this is a personal list and well done for taking the immense time to put it out there.
Thank you, as you say it's my personal list so can only ever contain my choices, I certainly wasn't going to include things just for the sake of ticking diversity boxes.
Hi Andrew, the list, as it progresses from 10 to 1 is personal, which I respect. I couldn't agree any further to the words you spent on band on the run. Definitely when a musician composes an album like that, the muse descends. And the same applies to all things must pass. Released at the age of 28!!!. I just checked pink moon. Used in a Volkswagen CABRIO commercial shot in Northern California. Great add.
1. Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers 2. Genesis: Foxtrot 3. Led Zeppelin: III 4. John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band 5. Neil Young: Harvest 6. John Martyn: Solid Air 7. Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark 8. David Bowie: Low 9. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here 10. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
Hi David, I might have to give the XTC album a go, I know several of their songs, and Senses Working Overtime was a huge favourite of mine in the early 80s, but I've never had a full studio album of theirs.
I love the Pistols ever since I stole the cassette, Live at Burton on Trent, while shoplifting with a friend at a used bookstore in the DFW metroplex when we were 13.years old in 1987. We all needed a Jean jacket after seeing the Goonies and they had those wonderful inside pockers! Haha. My mom bought me Bollocks a few months later. I recognized Pretty Vacant from the cover version used in the Ralph Bashki film American Pop which was a childhood favorite of mine... anyway, I tried to listen to the Clash when I BOUGHT the cd from Half Price Books in the 90s but the songs didnt have the honest sound of the punk bands of my taste. White Riot just sounded corney. God bless Joe Strummer though. My cousin from Anaheim, California got into the music business working for a bunch of other bands I dont like; No Doubt, Offspring, Pearl Jam... and a few I do like: Nofx, and 311. Well, the latter just a little bit. He has many friends in these bands. In 1999, he had lunch with Joe Strummer and Joe drew an autograph on a napkin for Donnie. I say drew because its very fancy the way he did it. He added a star and a few other nuances. Plus his name is spelled out beautifly. I have a picture of it. I.would share it here if I could. Maybe in the right time and place, id enjoy songs like London Calling? Maybe if I wasnt stuck in bloody South Texas? But it just doesnt have that energy. "Anger is an Energy"
I enjoy a lot "Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts". That's a perfect album. Are you going to comment the new "All things must pass" remix? Loved it!
I did a video on it yesterday before it had been released, I've heard it now and I thought it sounded really good, definitely less reverb on the vocals and it feels like a wider stereo effect on the brass and lead guitar. definitely encouraging for what the rest of the album might sound like!
1973 was a particularly good year - Dark Side Of The Moon, Tubular Bells, Quadrophenia, Pronounced Lynerd Skynerd - those are the one's I can name without using Google.
As much as i love some Beatles solo albums. there is no better way to listen to them when they were a four piece band. togheter, they had a chemistry and an alchemy that neither of their solo works were able to reproduce.
I prefer the original acoustic New York Sessions of Blood On The Tracks, and especially "Idiot Wind". I think Plastic Ono Band and Imagine are John's best albums. Joni Mitchell's "Court And Spark" is a perfect album, and The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street is up there, too. A Beard Of Stars by Tyrannosaurus Rex is great. Carole King's Tapestry is brilliant. They would all be in my top 10.
Do you like “Band On The Run” album with or without “ Helen Wheels” it was on the US edition but not the UK because Paul didnt want the song in there... I respectfully disagree. To me “Helen Wheels” belongs on BOTR right in between “No Words” and “Picasso’s Last Words” it just fits! Theres even a little mention of Sailor Sam in that song a charecter referenced on “Band On The Run” title track....How can “Helen Wheels” not belong on BOTR?
@@AndrewDixonMusic so.... he prefers a song which mentions a character from “Band On The Run” song to NOT be on that album? Yet he allows a snippet of the title track to be played at the end of “1985”, end of of the album...as if its a concept album...🤪🤪 that’s supposed to make sense? I never understood that...
@@derekroberts6654 I think the decision to put a snippet of Band On The Run at the end of 1985 was an awful one! It's one of his most intense epic song endings and it ruins the mood. But.... There's a whole other discussion there about the number of times he's done that in his career when a song has been getting heavy, classic Macca tactic.
@@AndrewDixonMusic i guess he just wanted to do what he did on “Sgt. Pepper” with the reprize. Thats when it actually worked. But the thing is... it seems he was trying to go for another “Beatles” with Wings. (You can just tell that Paul was the one”beatle” that did not want it to end, he accepted it because he had to) and we can get in a whole discussion on why Wings failed and the ever changing lineups even though historically there were quite a few hits. But this is just one example of Paul subconsciously trying to be a “Beatle”.... that was part of the Beatle drama of the 70s. Little ironic now that his most popular 70s album is “Ram” not a Wings album at all.
How come you don’t like the Clash? I think London calling is a superb record. I suppose we’re all different! Queen night at the opera I’d maybe Chuck in there too.
I've tried with The Clash and it just does nothing for me. Every time I hear them they either annoy me, or I just wish I was listening to Sex Pistols or The Jam instead.
Clash > Sex Pistols. London Calling reminds me of The White Album with it's musical diversity. No problem with your list, because it's YOUR list. I would have Exile on Main Street, Wish You Were Here, Who's Next. Quadrophenia and a Led Zeppelin lp in there somewhere.
An impossible task but a good list nonetheless. Band On The Run easily makes my top 10 too - Floyd for me would be Wish You Were Here. No Zep IV or Highway to Hell?
This was my decade as a teenager ! Ok Honorable mention Band On The Run, Imagine & All things Must pass . Top 10- Derek & Dominos Layla, Allman Brs Fillmore East, Fleetwood Mac- Rumors, Elvis Costello Armed Forces, Les Zep Physically Graffiti, Whos next, Dylan Blood On The Tracks, Eagles Hotel California, Bowie Ziggy Stardust ,Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Great list Andrew. I'm hopeless at doing these kind of top 10's, so I'm always full of admiration for people who manage it. Just for the record, I couldn't imagine Band on the Run without No Words. I saw Denny Laine live a few years ago in a small club venue and he played a great live version of it. I'm a Clash person more than Sex Pistols. I do have Never Mind The Bollocks (on CD and vinyl!) and it's undeniably a great album with the incredible Chris Thomas production...but if the house was burning down and it was that or London Calling, it'd be London Calling. Cheers!
@@AndrewDixonMusic It was interesting. It was billed as 'an evening of music and stories with Denny Laine', but he didn't tell a single story all night. I asked him about it in the dressing room afterwards and he told me he hadn't told any stories as he couldn't remember any. He said he was supposed to be writing an autobiography but had given that up too due to not being able to remember anything about his life.
@@davidjackson5449 I definitely would David...I just meant if it was a choice between the Clash and the Pistols record, I'd save the Clash one. Just for the record, I'd save East Side Story before either of them.
Have you heard the original takes if oh Yoko?. He sounds desperate, nit happy! Speeded it up like Help! Maybe he felt he had compromise d and vetoed a single release.
I noticed this kind of thing also especially in the new Flaming Pie box, Paul does it also, write the song, concentrate on the melody and chords but not necessarily any energy or upbeat nature to it (Flaming Pie demos were full of this kind of thing). I guess if they know they can get the performance they need in the studio, then those early demos are about getting words/chords/melody and making sure they all fit right. That's my guess anyway, could be wrong!
You could do with a little more diversity in you musical taste. There were so many great records from the decade that it’s tough to narrow down the 10 best... But how can’t anyone begin to even think about music from the 1970’s and not think of Elton John and David Bowie?
If I listened to everyone here I'd have 40 artists who *must* be in my top 10, and that doesn't go.. Bowie was definitely considered, I did have 2 of his albums in the short list that I showed on screen. I'm not going to put albums in my own personal top 10 that are there just to fulfill a diversity quota, and anyone who does is just doing it for show.
Musical diversity is something for a list by journalists, not necessarily by a personal list. Wait for the sixties list. I bet there’s a lot of Beatles in it. It is definitely in my list. 😜
I know I am in the vast minority here (🤔 hmm? I wonder if I can get some government benefits), and I know I'm going to be destroyed for saying this, but I have never liked the Imagine album. I always thought Walls and Bridges was his best album. With that said, let the persicution begin. 😀
I'm never quite sure whether the wall of sound production helps or hinders the album. I'd love to hear a 50th anniversary stripped back version which would maybe give us a definite idea of whether Phil Spector made or damaged the album!
Top 10 (in no particular order)
Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan
Hotel California - Eagles
Band on the Run - Paul McCartney and Wings
Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd
The Stranger - Billy Joel
Sticky Fingers - The Rolling Stones
Warren Zevon debut album
Dire Straits debut album
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road - Elton John
Imagine - John Lennon
Hi Andrew,
here’s my 70’s list:
10 - Patti Smith Group - Easter (1987)
9 - Neil Young - Harvest (1972)
8 - John Lennon - Imagine (1971)
7 - Bob Dylan - Desire (1976)
6 - Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (1971)
5 - Pink Floyd - The Dark Side Of The Moon (1973)
4 - Carly Simon - No Secrets (1972)
3 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1977)
2 - Paul McCartney & Wings - Band On The Run (1973)
Honourable mentions:
- Paul McCartney & Wings - Venus And Mars (1975)
- Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (1987)
- ABBA - Arrival (1976)
- Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac (1975)
- Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène (1976)
And my number 1!
1 - George Harrison - All Things Must Pass (1970)
Greetings
Some great albums there Thomas!
Thanks Andrew.
Finally we have some similarities in our lists. 😁
Nice list... mine
1.Ram McCartney
2.Goodbye Yellow brick Road Elton John
3. Tonight's the Night Neil Young
4.Billion Dollar Babies Alice Cooper
5. Physical graffiti Led Zeppelin
6.Aja Steely Dan
7 . This year's Model Elvis Costello
8. Quadaphia Who
9.Cheap Trick Cheap Trick
10.Horses Patti Smith
Cheers Don, number 1 for Ram, nice!
Love it that you give RAM its proper due. What a truly great listening experience. You said it perfectly....it just gets better each passing year.
So many great albums in the 70’s. My favorite are Band on the Run, Poems, Prayers and Promises, Let it Be, Bridge Over Troubled Waters, Tapestry, Imagine, I’ve Got a Name, Blue, Deja Vu, and Harvest.
RAM the best album of Paul! I love it so much. Good list. Congratulations.
Hi Andrew, great list. All of your albums I love. Now I try make my list but is very difficult becouse I love many kinds of music. Best from Poland.
Great list! There was so much good music in the 70s - this would be a daunting task.
It was Lucy!
Re-Vamped my list cuz i wanted to
1. Ram - Paul & Linda McCartney
2. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
3. Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
4. Pink Moon - Nick Drake
5. All Things Must Pass - George Harrison
6. Blood on the tracks - Bob Dylan
7. Wish you were Here - Pink Floyd
8. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
9. Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
10. Venus and Mars - Wings
i love the 70s
Great list. Love every record and wonderful to see two mentions for Nick Drake! But surely, What’s Going On? - one of the best albums ever made?
Never Mind the Bollocks is a great album. As for Ram, I've always regarded it as McCartney's last Beatles album. Nice to see Nick Drake get a bit of love too!
Great list. Agreed. Nick Drake!
4 of the top 10 albums in a decade where they were fresh off a breakup...only the Beatles
I’d say it literally impossible to rank all the great albums of the 1970’s, so a good list!
Hi Andrew.
Togerher with the sixties, the seventies are my favorite decades.
It's difficult to rank so many good albums, so I won't do that.
But I mention my favorite albums.
Pink Floyd - The Wall and Animals,
Queen - News Of The World and Jazz,
The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers and Exile On Main Street,
David Bowie - Hunky Dory, Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Diamond Dogs, Station To Station, Low and Heroes,
Bob Dylan - Blood On The Tracks and Desire,
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush, Harvest, Comes A Time and Tonight's The Night,
Dire Straits - Dire Straits,
The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman And The Moneygoround,
Derek And The Dominos - Layla And Other Assorted Lovesongs,
Paul Mccartney - McCartney, Ram, Red Rose Speedway, Band On The Run, Venus And Mars,
John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band, Imagine, Walls And Bridges,
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass, Dark Horse and George Harrison.
I was 10 years old in 1972 when I started to listen to top40 radio.
My first vinyl LP buys, 1973, were Alice Cooper - Billion Dollar Babies and David Bowie - Aladdin Sane. My first 45RPM I bought was The Sweet - Ballroom Blitz.
My favorite band in that period was Slade. Not their regular studio albums, but their 45RPm's like Mama Weer All Crazee Now, Gudbuy t' Jane, Cum On Feel The Noize, Skweeze Me Pleeze Me. So Slade - Sladest is my favorite compilation album from the seventies.
Wow, some great albums there Pe!
The 1970s were probably the most diverse decade in terms of music genres, so not an easy task to put up a top 10 list. My all time favourite album happens to be from the decade, Kate Bush's The Kick Inside - have listened to it 250+ times and still am not fed up. Others in the top 10 are: Deep Purple - D.P In Rock; Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality; E.L.O - A New World Record and Out Of The Blue; Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Solar Fire; Motorhead - Overkill. From pop and r&b: Carpenters - self titled (just for the 3 hit songs) and Minnie Riperton - Perfect Angel ... liquid gold voices from the ladies who both died young unfortunately. Plus the B-52's debut just for its craziness (in a good way).
My Top 10 Albums of 1970s :
10. Status Quo - Blue for You (1976) 5. Van Halen (1978)
9. Dire Straits (1978) 4. AC/DC - Powerage (1978)
8. Motorhead - Overkill (1979) 3. Queen II (1974)
7. Rolling Stones - Exile On Main St (1972) 2. Rainbow - Rising (1976)
6. The Stooges - Funhouse (1970) 1. David Bowie - Station To Station (1976)
Nice list. Agree with most of them. I enjoy watching your videos.
Thank you Al 🙂👍
I have loved the Ram album from day one of its release in 1970 .
My top 10 albums 70's
1.On the radio-Donna Summer
2.Bad girls-Donna Summer.
3.Voulez-vous-Abba.
4.Nightflight to venus-Boney M.
5.Arrival-Abba
6.Bat out off hell-Meat Loaf
7.Discovery-E.l.o.
8.The Wall-Pink Floyd
9.Parallel lines-Blondie.
10.Never mind the bollocks-Sex pistols.
P.s.love The Beatles🎸
I was the same has you with punck music I like all music this is a great video
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - Plastic Ono Band
George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
Paul McCartney - Ram
Japan - Quiet Life
ELO - A New World Record
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
Lou Reed - Transformer
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
T. Rex - Electric Warrior
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Just missed out... John Lennon - Imagine, Blondie - Parallel Lines, The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine, McCartney Wings - Red Rose Speedway, Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water, T. Rex - The Slider, Ringo Starr - Ringo
Ram is so damn good. The production and the sound on a few songs like dear boy uncle albert and ram on are so good it still sounds like it's from the future.
Yep, absolutely amazing!
i have to say i agree with your entire list!
You being English naturally favor English bands/ albums.As an American my experience with our music makes me favor ours.
No particular order..
Eagles Hotel California
Boston debut
The Cars debut
Van Halen debut
Lynyrd Skynyrd Second Helping
Joni Mitchell Court and Spark
Zeppelin 4
Floyd Dark Side
Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band Night Moves
Fleetwood Mac,untitled '75 album and Rumours (tie)
Obviously a big Beatles guy. I think nobody dominated the seventies artistic output like Bowie.
Great choices Andrew. At the time I was underwhelmed with Paul McCartney's first three solo albums, the best was of course Ram but I've grown to love all three since then! You're right about John Lennon's POB LP, such a difficult listen for this 15 year old teenager to handle:-). One album I was hoping to have seen in there was Slade Alive, a tour de force of an album. Cheers again...
Cheers Eddie, I have a Slade compilation and I love it, it gave me a great appreciation for them beyond the obvious handful of songs, but I've not yet listened to a studio album of theirs!
Nobody can sing Monkberry Moon Delight better than Paul. Period.
Really nice selection. It is really hard to choose in that decade. For me it would be something like :
1. Paul McCartney - RAM
2. Sparks - Indiscreet
3. Queen - A night at the opera
4. Wings - Band on the run
5. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
6. Sparks - Propaganda
7. Serge Gainsbourg - L'Homme à tête de chou
8. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
9. Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the blue
10. Genesis - Selling England by the Pound
Some bankers here, but too narrow a focus on Beatles related artists for me. I Have not seen 60's one yet but on this basis I would expect at least three albums in there. Shockingly overlooked rock artists here like Deep Purple, , Who, Sabbath. Also apart from Floyd there is sparse on prog with no Yes, Genesis, ELP. Also the early 70's probably saw best work of the Stones too. And no Springsteen, Clash, Police, Blondie, Jam, Elvis Costello, either! I could go on but I accept this is a personal list and well done for taking the immense time to put it out there.
Thank you, as you say it's my personal list so can only ever contain my choices, I certainly wasn't going to include things just for the sake of ticking diversity boxes.
Hi Andrew, the list, as it progresses from 10 to 1 is personal, which I respect. I couldn't agree any further to the words you spent on band on the run. Definitely when a musician composes an album like that, the muse descends. And the same applies to all things must pass. Released at the age of 28!!!. I just checked pink moon. Used in a Volkswagen CABRIO commercial shot in Northern California. Great add.
Cheers Antonio! 🙂
1. Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers
2. Genesis: Foxtrot
3. Led Zeppelin: III
4. John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band
5. Neil Young: Harvest
6. John Martyn: Solid Air
7. Joni Mitchell: Court and Spark
8. David Bowie: Low
9. Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here
10. Miles Davis: Bitches Brew
Hi Andrew, interesting list.I would have to include All the Mod Cons by the Jam, Drums and Wirers by XTC and Any of Elvis Costellos early albums
Hi David, I might have to give the XTC album a go, I know several of their songs, and Senses Working Overtime was a huge favourite of mine in the early 80s, but I've never had a full studio album of theirs.
All Mod Cons is a Jam classic and a must...
Cool,job
I love the Pistols ever since I stole the cassette, Live at Burton on Trent, while shoplifting with a friend at a used bookstore in the DFW metroplex when we were 13.years old in 1987. We all needed a Jean jacket after seeing the Goonies and they had those wonderful inside pockers! Haha. My mom bought me Bollocks a few months later. I recognized Pretty Vacant from the cover version used in the Ralph Bashki film American Pop which was a childhood favorite of mine... anyway, I tried to listen to the Clash when I BOUGHT the cd from Half Price Books in the 90s but the songs didnt have the honest sound of the punk bands of my taste. White Riot just sounded corney. God bless Joe Strummer though. My cousin from Anaheim, California got into the music business working for a bunch of other bands I dont like; No Doubt, Offspring, Pearl Jam... and a few I do like: Nofx, and 311. Well, the latter just a little bit. He has many friends in these bands. In 1999, he had lunch with Joe Strummer and Joe drew an autograph on a napkin for Donnie. I say drew because its very fancy the way he did it. He added a star and a few other nuances. Plus his name is spelled out beautifly. I have a picture of it. I.would share it here if I could. Maybe in the right time and place, id enjoy songs like London Calling? Maybe if I wasnt stuck in bloody South Texas? But it just doesnt have that energy. "Anger is an Energy"
I enjoy a lot "Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts". That's a perfect album.
Are you going to comment the new "All things must pass" remix? Loved it!
I did a video on it yesterday before it had been released, I've heard it now and I thought it sounded really good, definitely less reverb on the vocals and it feels like a wider stereo effect on the brass and lead guitar. definitely encouraging for what the rest of the album might sound like!
1973 was a particularly good year - Dark Side Of The Moon, Tubular Bells, Quadrophenia, Pronounced Lynerd Skynerd - those are the one's I can name without using Google.
I've been loving Tubular Bells lately!
As much as i love some Beatles solo albums. there is no better way to listen to them when they were a four piece band. togheter, they had a chemistry and an alchemy that neither of their solo works were able to reproduce.
Can't argue with that! 🙂
I prefer the original acoustic New York Sessions of Blood On The Tracks, and especially "Idiot Wind". I think Plastic Ono Band and Imagine are John's best albums. Joni Mitchell's "Court And Spark" is a perfect album, and The Rolling Stones Exile On Main Street is up there, too. A Beard Of Stars by Tyrannosaurus Rex is great. Carole King's Tapestry is brilliant. They would all be in my top 10.
Do you like “Band On The Run” album with or without “ Helen Wheels” it was on the US edition but not the UK because Paul didnt want the song in there... I respectfully disagree. To me “Helen Wheels” belongs on BOTR right in between “No Words” and “Picasso’s Last Words” it just fits! Theres even a little mention of Sailor Sam in that song a charecter referenced on “Band On The Run” title track....How can “Helen Wheels” not belong on BOTR?
I prefer it without, that's the album Paul intended . I do like the song very much though. Good point about Sailor Sam!
@@AndrewDixonMusic so.... he prefers a song which mentions a character from “Band On The Run” song to NOT be on that album? Yet he allows a snippet of the title track to be played at the end of “1985”, end of of the album...as if its a concept album...🤪🤪 that’s supposed to make sense? I never understood that...
@@derekroberts6654 I think the decision to put a snippet of Band On The Run at the end of 1985 was an awful one! It's one of his most intense epic song endings and it ruins the mood. But.... There's a whole other discussion there about the number of times he's done that in his career when a song has been getting heavy, classic Macca tactic.
@@AndrewDixonMusic i guess he just wanted to do what he did on “Sgt. Pepper” with the reprize. Thats when it actually worked. But the thing is... it seems he was trying to go for another “Beatles” with Wings. (You can just tell that Paul was the one”beatle” that did not want it to end, he accepted it because he had to) and we can get in a whole discussion on why Wings failed and the ever changing lineups even though historically there were quite a few hits. But this is just one example of Paul subconsciously trying to be a “Beatle”.... that was part of the Beatle drama of the 70s.
Little ironic now that his most popular 70s album is “Ram” not a Wings album at all.
How come you don’t like the Clash? I think London calling is a superb record. I suppose we’re all different!
Queen night at the opera I’d maybe Chuck in there too.
I've tried with The Clash and it just does nothing for me. Every time I hear them they either annoy me, or I just wish I was listening to Sex Pistols or The Jam instead.
Clash > Sex Pistols. London Calling reminds me of The White Album with it's musical diversity. No problem with your list, because it's YOUR list. I would have Exile on Main Street, Wish You Were Here, Who's Next. Quadrophenia and a Led Zeppelin lp in there somewhere.
Maybe one day The Clash will make some sense to me! Some great albums you listed there 🙂
An impossible task but a good list nonetheless. Band On The Run easily makes my top 10 too - Floyd for me would be Wish You Were Here. No Zep IV or Highway to Hell?
Zep IV was very close to making the list, Highway To Hell not for me, those that want it are welcome to it in their list! 😉
What about Let It Be?
As much as I love it, it's not a top 10 decade album for me!
In Rock D.P.
This was my decade as a teenager ! Ok Honorable mention Band On The Run, Imagine & All things Must pass . Top 10- Derek & Dominos Layla, Allman Brs Fillmore East, Fleetwood Mac- Rumors, Elvis Costello Armed Forces, Les Zep Physically Graffiti, Whos next, Dylan Blood On The Tracks, Eagles Hotel California, Bowie Ziggy Stardust ,Floyd Dark Side of the Moon
Bridge over troubled waters, after the gold rush & moon dance honorable as well!
Sticky Fingers & Exile!! Ok I will stop now 😂
Bridge over troubled water one of my best sounding vinyl records, got myself a great pressing of it!
what’d the stones do to hurt you?
Nothing, they just don't make my top 10.
Great list Andrew. I'm hopeless at doing these kind of top 10's, so I'm always full of admiration for people who manage it. Just for the record, I couldn't imagine Band on the Run without No Words. I saw Denny Laine live a few years ago in a small club venue and he played a great live version of it. I'm a Clash person more than Sex Pistols. I do have Never Mind The Bollocks (on CD and vinyl!) and it's undeniably a great album with the incredible Chris Thomas production...but if the house was burning down and it was that or London Calling, it'd be London Calling. Cheers!
Thought you would have chosen a Squeeze album james
They are flipping hard work mentally to do! I bet that Denny Laine concert was great to see.
@@AndrewDixonMusic It was interesting. It was billed as 'an evening of music and stories with Denny Laine', but he didn't tell a single story all night. I asked him about it in the dressing room afterwards and he told me he hadn't told any stories as he couldn't remember any. He said he was supposed to be writing an autobiography but had given that up too due to not being able to remember anything about his life.
@@davidjackson5449 I definitely would David...I just meant if it was a choice between the Clash and the Pistols record, I'd save the Clash one. Just for the record, I'd save East Side Story before either of them.
@@jamesgriffithsmusic Wow, that's both funny and very sad at the same time!
Rumours by fleetwood Mac the end
How do you not have Led Zeppelin 4 in the top 10?
Mick & Keef??
Not for me. I like The Stones and do listen often but no album of theirs has ever become a favourite.
Have you heard the original takes if oh Yoko?.
He sounds desperate, nit happy! Speeded it up like Help! Maybe he felt he had compromise d and vetoed a single release.
I noticed this kind of thing also especially in the new Flaming Pie box, Paul does it also, write the song, concentrate on the melody and chords but not necessarily any energy or upbeat nature to it (Flaming Pie demos were full of this kind of thing). I guess if they know they can get the performance they need in the studio, then those early demos are about getting words/chords/melody and making sure they all fit right. That's my guess anyway, could be wrong!
You could do with a little more diversity in you musical taste. There were so many great records from the decade that it’s tough to narrow down the 10 best... But how can’t anyone begin to even think about music from the 1970’s and not think of Elton John and David Bowie?
If I listened to everyone here I'd have 40 artists who *must* be in my top 10, and that doesn't go..
Bowie was definitely considered, I did have 2 of his albums in the short list that I showed on screen.
I'm not going to put albums in my own personal top 10 that are there just to fulfill a diversity quota, and anyone who does is just doing it for show.
Some great albums but serious lack of musical diversity in your choices.
Musical diversity is something for a list by journalists, not necessarily by a personal list.
Wait for the sixties list. I bet there’s a lot of Beatles in it. It is definitely in my list. 😜
I could have given you a very diverse list of albums I like, but it wouldn't have been my top 10, which would have defeated the object.
@@AndrewDixonMusic Not knocking you. Just my thoughts. Have a good one.
I know I am in the vast minority here (🤔 hmm? I wonder if I can get some government benefits), and I know I'm going to be destroyed for saying this, but I have never liked the Imagine album. I always thought Walls and Bridges was his best album. With that said, let the persicution begin. 😀
It's allowed! Walls and Bridges is a great album 🙂👍
@@AndrewDixonMusic Vindicated!!! 😄
I think the production of all things must pass is terrible.
It’s not the first time I hear or read that.
But I never had any problems with it. I love it as it is.
George's remake of My Sweet Lord minus Phil Spector was terrible. It sounds fine the way it is.
I'm never quite sure whether the wall of sound production helps or hinders the album. I'd love to hear a 50th anniversary stripped back version which would maybe give us a definite idea of whether Phil Spector made or damaged the album!
This list sucks!
And yours would be?...