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Dec 17
David Bowie
Hunky Dory
98
critic score
(5)
86
user score
(3,543)
May 17
Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
Ram
80
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(1,116)
Feb 10
Carole King
Tapestry
98
critic score
(5)
86
user score
(1,093)
Sep 9
John Lennon
Imagine
95
critic score
(4)
80
user score
(992)
Mar 24
Serge Gainsbourg
Histoire de Melody Nelson
93
critic score
(7)
83
user score
(440)
Nov
Harry Nilsson
Nilsson Schmilsson
95
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(234)
Dec 7
Wings
Wild Life
53
critic score
(3)
64
user score
(186)
Dec 29
America
America
60
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(131)
Nov 24
The Kinks
Muswell Hillbillies
85
critic score
(4)
80
user score
(131)
Oct 1
Cat Stevens
Teaser and the Firecat
80
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(131)
Oct 16
Françoise Hardy
La question
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(115)
Sep 3
Fleetwood Mac
Future Games
65
critic score
(2)
69
user score
(106)
Oct 11
John Lennon
Imagine
100
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(104)
Dec 13
Badfinger
Straight Up
80
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(96)
May
David Bowie
Moonage Daydream
92
user score
(75)
Apr 12
John Denver
Take Me Home (Country Roads)
93
user score
(66)
Sep
Cher
Chér
65
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(63)
May 14
Carpenters
Carpenters
65
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(63)
1971
Jorge Ben
Negro é Lindo
80
user score
(53)
Apr 6
John Denver
Poems, Prayers & Promises
60
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(45)
Mar 16
James Taylor
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(40)
Nov 29
The Beach Boys
Surf's Up
91
user score
(35)
Sep
Halfnelson
Halfnelson
80
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(33)
Jan 1
Harry Nilsson
The Point!
80
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(32)
Aug 2
Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey / Too Many People
95
user score
(32)
1971
Joan Manuel Serrat
Mediterráneo
79
user score
(32)
1971
Evinha
Cartão Postal
78
user score
(31)
Jun 24
Todd Rundgren
Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
90
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(27)
Nov
Colin Blunstone
One Year
100
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(26)
Aug 1
Barbra Streisand
Barbra Joan Streisand
95
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(22)
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Apr
The Velvet Underground
Who Loves the Sun ?
89
user score
(20)
Jan 1
Marcos Valle
Garra
100
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(19)
Oct 8
The Hollies
Distant Light
60
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(16)
Jun 16
Elvis Presley
Love Letters from Elvis
40
critic score
(1)
45
user score
(16)
Nov
Carly Simon
Anticipation
70
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(14)
Jan 1
Michel Polnareff
Polnareff's
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(14)
Oct
The Mamas & The Papas
People Like Us
40
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(14)
Feb 19
Paul McCartney
Another Day
91
user score
(12)
Feb 9
Carly Simon
Carly Simon
70
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(12)
1971
The Children of Sunshine
Dandelions
69
user score
(12)
Oct
Melanie
Gather Me
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(11)
1971
Barbra Streisand
Stoney End
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(10)
1971
Lucio Battisti
Amore e Non Amore
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(10)
1971
Congress-Woman Malinda Jackson Parker
Tubman Goodtype Songs of Liberia
68
user score
(10)
Aug
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Himself
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(9)
Mar
Cass Elliot
Mama's Big Ones: Her Greatest Hits
80
user score
(5)
Nov
Olivia Newton-John
If Not for You
80
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(4)
Apr 1
The Guess Who
The Best Of The Guess Who
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(4)
1971
Stampeders
Against the Grain
70
user score
(3)
1971
Edison Lighthouse
Already
73
user score
(2)
1971
The Grass Roots
Their 16 Greatest Hits
75
user score
(2)
Feb 27
Melanie
The Good Book
70
user score
(1)
Nov 17
Orhan Gencebay
Orhan Gencebay
98
user score
(1)
Jan
Kate Taylor
Sister Kate
90
critic score
(1)
40
user score
(1)
1971
Stoney And Meatloaf
Stoney and Meatloaf
45
user score
(1)
1971
Marc Mundy
Marc Mundy
80
user score
(1)
1971
Lee Michaels
5th
60
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(1)
May
Shirley Bassey
Something Else
60
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(1)
1971
The Sugar Bears
Presenting The Sugar Bears
1971
The Archies
This Is Love
40
critic score
(1)
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