These are just some of the albums released in 1971.
What are some of your favorite albums that were released 50 years ago?
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These are just some of the albums released in 1971.
What are some of your favorite albums that were released 50 years ago?
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My music purchasing kicked in by 1975. Just wait until we get to that year.
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Don McClean's American Pie was released in 71, though the iconic song was not a hit until 72.
A very fertile period for music, I think. Agree with the above and would add:
America - America
Jeff Beck - Rough and Ready
ELP - Pictures at an Exhibition
Fleetwood Mac - Future Games
Focus - Moving Waves
King Crimson - Islands
Nektar - Journey to the Center of the Eye
The Nice - Elegy
Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson and The Point
Tom
I wore the vinyl out on Aqualung, MATW & Hunky Dory.... played a lot of Tarkus as well...
Little Feat’s eponymous first album.
Many of the albums I have from 1971 are in the picture (LA Woman, Nursery Crime, and The Yes Album - (I have Fragile as 1972)), but I would add Blue by Joni Michell, Gentle Giant's Acquiring The Taste and Bill's Northern Dream. I also own The Soft Machine's - Fourth and Gong's Camembert Electrique, but I haven't gotten into them yet.
Both double live albums for me.
Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East. And Grateful Dead Skull and Roses, the bulk recorded at Fillmore East by the amazing Betty Cantor Jackson. Something about that Fillmore East hall. 😎
I have 11 of the 20 illustrated there, plus Maggot Brain and What's Goin' On. Classics, each and every one.
Just had a quick look at a "50 best albums of 1971", and that gave me a few more:
- Camembert Electrique by Gong
- Electric Warrior by T Rex
- Tago Mago by Can
and two of my absolute all-time favourites
- Live At The Fillmore East by the Allman Brothers Band - mesmerising, one of the few bands that jazz musicians listened to, sheer musicianship and inventiveness, even the drum solo (with two drummers) is interesting
- In The Land Of Grey And Pink by Caravan - the pinnacle of the Canterbury movement, superb songs, superb musicianship, very English whimsy... and I hope to be seeing them live this October, postponed from last year.
If there's anyone else out there who knows both, I'd love to hear Caravan tackle "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" :)
And, of course, Northern Dream by our host here was released in 1971 - 15th June apparently. Will raise a glass to you that day, Bill!
Wow..where to begin?!
amazing year for music.
Too many to pick a favourite but a few ( that aren’t pictured above)
are Maggot Brain by Funkadelic,What’s Goin On by Marvin Gaye
All Day Music by War.....I could go on and on😮