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Jun 22
Joni Mitchell
Blue
100
critic score
(5)
90
user score
(2,321)
Mar 5
Nick Drake
Bryter Layter
89
critic score
(4)
85
user score
(1,282)
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)
Nov
Chico Buarque
Construção
100
critic score
(1)
90
user score
(876)
Mar 19
Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate
97
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(758)
Nov
Harry Nilsson
Nilsson Schmilsson
95
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(234)
Oct
John Prine
John Prine
98
critic score
(4)
82
user score
(208)
Oct 24
Don McLean
American Pie
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(145)
Nov 1
Billy Joel
Cold Spring Harbor
50
critic score
(2)
69
user score
(140)
Oct 1
Cat Stevens
Teaser and the Firecat
80
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(131)
Feb 22
David Crosby
If I Could Only Remember My Name
94
critic score
(5)
78
user score
(114)
Sep 15
Judee Sill
Judee Sill
84
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(113)
Oct 11
John Lennon
Imagine
100
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(104)
Jan 1
Roy Harper
Stormcock
90
critic score
(3)
83
user score
(88)
Jul 3
Caetano Veloso
Caetano Veloso (A Little More Blue)
100
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(81)
Nov 1
Rodriguez
Coming from Reality
60
critic score
(5)
77
user score
(68)
Mar 15
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
80
user score
(58)
Apr
Víctor Jara
El derecho de vivir en paz
83
user score
(58)
1971
Jorge Ben
Negro é Lindo
80
user score
(53)
May 28
Graham Nash
Songs for Beginners
85
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(45)
Apr 6
John Denver
Poems, Prayers & Promises
60
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(45)
Oct
Fabrizio De André
Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(44)
Aug 1
Gene Clark
White Light
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(42)
Dec 1
Carole King
Music
80
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(40)
Mar 16
James Taylor
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(40)
Oct 15
Van Morrison
Tupelo Honey
80
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(40)
1971
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
94
user score
(37)
Apr 5
Townes Van Zandt
High, Low and In Between
83
critic score
(3)
76
user score
(34)
1971
Joan Manuel Serrat
Mediterráneo
79
user score
(32)
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1971
Bill Fay
Time of the Last Persecution
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(28)
Dec 25
José Afonso
Cantigas do Maio
84
user score
(28)
Jun 24
Todd Rundgren
Runt. The Ballad of Todd Rundgren
90
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(27)
1971
Labi Siffre
The Singer and the Song
77
user score
(26)
Nov
Colin Blunstone
One Year
100
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(26)
Oct
Joni Mitchell
California
93
user score
(24)
1971
Michael Hurley
Armchair Boogie
50
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(24)
Apr 16
Carole King
It's Too Late
91
user score
(23)
Nov
John Martyn
Bless the Weather
85
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(22)
Jan 1
Kris Kristofferson
The Silver Tongued Devil and I
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(17)
1971
Bridget St. John
Songs for the Gentle Man
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(16)
Nov
Carly Simon
Anticipation
70
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(14)
Feb 9
Carly Simon
Carly Simon
70
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(12)
Oct
Melanie
Gather Me
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(11)
1971
Carole King
You've Got a Friend
90
user score
(11)
Aug
Gilbert O'Sullivan
Himself
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(9)
Apr 10
三上寛 [Kan Mikami]
三上寛の世界
71
user score
(8)
Apr 16
Carole King
I Feel The Earth Move
91
user score
(7)
Sep 5
浅川マキ [Maki Asakawa]
Maki II
75
user score
(7)
1971
Lee Hazlewood
Requiem for an Almost Lady
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(6)
Jan 11
Jonathan Edwards
Jonathan Edwards
82
user score
(5)
Feb
Loudon Wainwright III
Album II
80
critic score
(2)
60
user score
(4)
1971
Paul Williams
Just an Old Fashioned Love Song
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(3)
1971
Plume Latraverse
Triniterre
80
user score
(3)
1971
Tucker Zimmerman
Tucker Zimmerman
83
user score
(3)
Aug
Carole King
So Far Away
94
user score
(2)
May
Ian Matthews
If You Saw Thro' My Eyes
80
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(1)
1971
Cris Williamson
Cris Williamson
70
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(1)
Jan
Kate Taylor
Sister Kate
90
critic score
(1)
40
user score
(1)
1971
Catherine Howe
What a Beautiful Place
70
critic score
(1)
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