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May 16
The Who
Live at Leeds
90
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(160)
Jul
Alice Coltrane
Ptah, The El Daoud
81
critic score
(4)
85
user score
(160)
Dec 11
Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
Yoko Ono / Plastic Ono Band
80
critic score
(4)
70
user score
(153)
Aug 19
Carpenters
Close to You
65
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(151)
Sep 21
Can
Soundtracks
69
critic score
(3)
76
user score
(148)
Aug 7
Stevie Wonder
Signed, Sealed & Delivered
60
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(143)
Jul 1
Funkadelic
Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow
89
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(137)
Oct 23
Frank Zappa
Chunga's Revenge
70
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(137)
Dec 1
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band
Lick My Decals Off, Baby
90
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(129)
Apr 10
Tim Maia
Tim Maia
81
user score
(122)
Oct
Pharoah Sanders
Deaf Dumb Blind (Summun bukmun umyun)
79
critic score
(4)
83
user score
(121)
Nov
Kraftwerk
Kraftwerk
60
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(121)
Dec 1
Van der Graaf Generator
H to He Who Am the Only One
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(116)
Mar 6
The Beatles
Let it be
100
critic score
(1)
90
user score
(116)
1970
Anthony Braxton
For Alto
80
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(112)
Mar 1
Frank Sinatra
Watertown
90
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(110)
Aug 24
Aretha Franklin
Spirit in the Dark
83
critic score
(3)
84
user score
(107)
Sep 18
Fleetwood Mac
Kiln House
75
critic score
(2)
64
user score
(99)
Sep 23
The Allman Brothers Band
Idlewild South
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(97)
Nov 23
George Harrison
My Sweet Lord
96
user score
(97)
Mar 6
Charles Manson
Lie: The Love and Terror Cult
80
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(96)
Feb 1
Van der Graaf Generator
The Least We Can Do Is Wave to Each Other
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(88)
Jul 1
Traffic
John Barleycorn Must Die
80
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(88)
1970
Pharoah Sanders
Jewels of Thought
75
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(86)
1970
The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Voodoo Chile
96
user score
(83)
Apr 17
Rita Lee
Build Up
80
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(80)
Jan 15
MC5
Back in the USA
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(79)
May 8
Jackson 5
ABC
83
critic score
(3)
74
user score
(78)
Mar 7
Mountain
Climbing!
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(77)
Apr 20
Jethro Tull
Benefit
70
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(77)
Advertisement
Dec
Exuma
Exuma II
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(77)
Jan 20
Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water / Keep the Customer Satisfied
100
critic score
(1)
95
user score
(76)
Mar 25
John Cale
Vintage Violence
75
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(76)
Apr 1
Randy Newman
12 Songs
100
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(74)
Aug 7
Black Sabbath
Paranoid
94
user score
(72)
Aug 1
James Brown
Sex Machine
90
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(71)
Jan 26
Chicago
Chicago II
70
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(70)
Nov 4
David Bowie
The Man Who Sold The World
87
user score
(69)
1970
Milton
Milton
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(66)
Nov 15
Van Morrison
His Band and the Street Choir
80
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(65)
Nov 5
Led Zeppelin
Immigrant Song
93
user score
(63)
May
Freddie Hubbard
Red Clay
100
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(62)
Aug 17
The Band
Stage Fright
80
critic score
(4)
78
user score
(61)
Jun 26
Free
Fire and Water
87
critic score
(3)
69
user score
(60)
Dec 24
Gal Costa
Legal
80
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(60)
Oct
Magma
Magma [Kobaïa]
70
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(59)
Nov 1
Spirit
Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(57)
Mar 27
Ringo Starr
Sentimental Journey
50
critic score
(2)
48
user score
(56)
Jun
Third Ear Band
Third Ear Band
80
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(56)
Aug 1
Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton
80
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(56)
Aug 7
The Moody Blues
A Question of Balance
60
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(55)
Nov 16
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
90
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(55)
Dec 18
T. Rex
T. Rex
65
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(53)
Jun 1
Rod Stewart
Gasoline Alley
95
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(53)
Jul
John Coltrane
Transition
75
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(51)
Dec 28
Loretta Lynn
Coal Miner's Daughter
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(51)
Sep 4
Caravan
If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(50)
Sep 25
Ringo Starr
Beaucoups of Blues
70
critic score
(2)
52
user score
(49)
Jul 1
Donny Hathaway
Everything Is Everything
87
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(49)
Jun
Tangerine Dream
Electronic Meditation
68
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(43)
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