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Oct 5
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin III
82
critic score
(5)
81
user score
(2,079)
Nov 27
George Harrison
All Things Must Pass
96
critic score
(5)
88
user score
(1,477)
Jan 26
Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water
98
critic score
(4)
86
user score
(1,297)
Sep 19
Neil Young
After the Gold Rush
92
critic score
(5)
87
user score
(985)
Dec
Nico
Desertshore
90
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(597)
May
Exuma
Exuma
90
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(538)
Nov 1
Grateful Dead
American Beauty
100
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(503)
Dec 1
Vashti Bunyan
Just Another Diamond Day
92
critic score
(5)
84
user score
(452)
Jan 3
Syd Barrett
The Madcap Laughs
77
critic score
(3)
76
user score
(422)
Apr
Joni Mitchell
Ladies of the Canyon
82
critic score
(4)
83
user score
(391)
Nov 23
Cat Stevens
Tea for the Tillerman
80
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(371)
Mar 11
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Déjà Vu
100
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(342)
Oct 19
Bob Dylan
New Morning
82
critic score
(3)
71
user score
(313)
Nov
Linda Perhacs
Parallelograms
89
critic score
(5)
84
user score
(285)
Jun 8
Bob Dylan
Self Portrait
34
critic score
(3)
52
user score
(273)
Jun 14
Grateful Dead
Workingman's Dead
98
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(252)
Mar 1
Rodriguez
Cold Fact
80
critic score
(4)
84
user score
(191)
Nov 1
Minnie Riperton
Come to My Garden
90
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(169)
Nov 14
Syd Barrett
Barrett
65
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(167)
May 1
Tim Buckley
Lorca
60
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(163)
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)
Dec
Exuma
Exuma II
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(77)
Apr 20
Jethro Tull
Benefit
70
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(77)
Jan 20
Simon & Garfunkel
Bridge Over Troubled Water / Keep the Customer Satisfied
100
critic score
(1)
95
user score
(77)
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)
Aug 17
The Band
Stage Fright
80
critic score
(4)
78
user score
(61)
Nov 1
Spirit
Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
90
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(57)
Nov 16
Stephen Stills
Stephen Stills
90
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(55)
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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 1
Cat Stevens
Mona Bone Jakon
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(41)
Mar 4
Simon Finn
Pass the Distance
90
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(35)
Mar 13
Tyrannosaurus Rex
A Beard Of Stars
80
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(31)
Jan 1
The Guess Who
American Woman
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(30)
Nov 1
Fabrizio De André
La Buona Novella
100
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(28)
Jan 1
Ananda Shankar
Ananda Shankar
80
critic score
(2)
66
user score
(25)
Mar 5
Michael Chapman
Fully Qualified Survivor
60
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(21)
Aug 5
はっぴいえんど [Happy End]
はっぴいえんど (Happy End)
80
user score
(21)
Apr
Gordon Lightfoot
Sit Down Young Stranger
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(20)
1970
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Beverly Copeland
74
user score
(19)
Apr 24
Trees
The Garden of Jane Delawney
60
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(19)
Jun
Joni Mitchell
Big Yellow Taxi
93
user score
(17)
1970
Roy Harper
Flat Baroque and Berserk
60
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(13)
Sep 14
The Byrds
Untitled
74
critic score
(2)
63
user score
(13)
Aug 1
Pearls Before Swine
The Use of Ashes
80
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(13)
Feb 13
Rod Stewart
An Old Raincoat Won't Ever Let You Down
90
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(13)
Mar 5
Mayo Thompson
Corky's Debt to His Father
90
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(12)
Jan 1
Bill Fay
Bill Fay
70
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(12)
Apr
Melanie
Candles in the Rain
80
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(12)
Aug 1
Donovan
Open Road
60
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(12)
1970
Cat Stevens
Father and Son
93
user score
(11)
Jan 1
Geoff & Maria Muldaur
Pottery Pie
71
user score
(10)
1970
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes
N°2
83
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(9)
Jan 25
John Phillips
John Phillips (John, the Wolf King of L.A.)
84
critic score
(4)
61
user score
(8)
Jun
Steeleye Span
Hark! The Village Wait
71
user score
(7)
Jan 1
Joan Baez
One Day at a Time
70
critic score
(2)
66
user score
(6)
Oct 1
John Denver
Whose Garden Was This
40
critic score
(1)
45
user score
(5)
Jan 1
Ruthann Friedman
Constant Companion
90
critic score
(1)
66
user score
(4)
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