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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
(1,283)
May 17
Paul McCartney & Linda McCartney
Ram
80
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(1,116)
Mar 19
Leonard Cohen
Songs of Love and Hate
97
critic score
(3)
87
user score
(759)
Feb 19
Comus
First Utterance
80
critic score
(3)
84
user score
(536)
Oct
John Prine
John Prine
98
critic score
(4)
82
user score
(208)
Nov 8
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
96
user score
(159)
Oct 24
Don McLean
American Pie
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(145)
Dec 29
America
America
60
critic score
(2)
74
user score
(131)
Oct 1
Cat Stevens
Teaser and the Firecat
80
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(131)
May 28
Rod Stewart
Every Picture Tells a Story
98
critic score
(3)
74
user score
(127)
Oct 16
Françoise Hardy
La question
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(115)
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 1
John Fahey
America
90
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(90)
Nov 20
はっぴいえんど [Happy End]
風街ろまん (Kazemachi Roman)
79
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(87)
Jan 1
Karen Dalton
In My Own Time
87
critic score
(3)
77
user score
(85)
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)
Sep
Cher
Chér
65
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(63)
Mar 15
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
Beverly Glenn-Copeland
80
user score
(58)
Apr 6
John Denver
Poems, Prayers & Promises
60
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(45)
May 28
Graham Nash
Songs for Beginners
85
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(45)
Oct
Fabrizio De André
Non al denaro non all'amore né al cielo
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(44)
Mar
Luis Alberto Spinetta
Spinettalandia y Sus Amigos
74
user score
(43)
Nov 6
The Who
Behind Blue Eyes
91
user score
(41)
Oct 15
Van Morrison
Tupelo Honey
80
critic score
(3)
81
user score
(40)
Mar 16
James Taylor
Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(40)
Oct 24
Grateful Dead
Grateful Dead
72
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(37)
1971
Joni Mitchell
A Case of You
94
user score
(37)
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Dec 20
Various Artists
The Concert for Bangla Desh
84
critic score
(5)
83
user score
(33)
Sep 15
The Band
Cahoots
70
critic score
(3)
75
user score
(31)
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)
1971
Moondog
Moondog 2
60
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(27)
1971
Labi Siffre
The Singer and the Song
77
user score
(26)
Jun 12
The Rolling Stones
Wild Horses
90
user score
(25)
1971
Michael Hurley
Armchair Boogie
50
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(24)
1971
Tia Blake
Folksongs & Ballads
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(24)
Oct
Joni Mitchell
California
93
user score
(24)
Nov 26
José Mário Branco
Mudam-se os Tempos, Mudam-se as Vontades
83
user score
(24)
Nov
John Martyn
Bless the Weather
85
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(22)
1971
Exuma
Do Wah Nanny
50
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(22)
Jan
Trees
On The Shore
60
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(21)
Jan 1
Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes
Âme debout
81
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(21)
1971
Bridget St. John
Songs for the Gentle Man
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(16)
Oct
The Mamas & The Papas
People Like Us
40
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(14)
Nov
Carly Simon
Anticipation
70
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(14)
1971
Carlos Paredes
Movimento Perpétuo
73
user score
(14)
1971
Robbie Băsho
Song of the Stallion
60
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(13)
Sep
Spirogyra
St. Radigunds
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(13)
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)
Jul 1
Joan Baez
Blessed Are...
70
critic score
(2)
73
user score
(8)
Jul
Strawbs
From the Witchwood
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(7)
Jun
Masato Minami
回帰線 (The Tropics)
61
user score
(6)
1971
Lee Hazlewood
Requiem for an Almost Lady
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(6)
1971
Joakim Skogsberg
Jola Rota
70
user score
(4)
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