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1971 Hard Rock Album Releases
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1971
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(15)
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(55)
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(84)
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(41)
Nov 8
Led Zeppelin
Led Zeppelin IV
100
critic score
(4)
89
user score
(2,253)
Aug 14
The Who
Who's Next
100
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(792)
Nov 1
Alice Cooper
Killer
85
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(81)
Mar 9
Alice Cooper
Love It to Death
85
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(80)
Jul 15
Deep Purple
Fireball
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(76)
Nov 8
Led Zeppelin
Stairway to Heaven
95
user score
(76)
Oct 23
The Who
Baba O'Riley
95
user score
(36)
Aug 1
Ten Years After
A Space in Time
65
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(28)
Nov 8
Led Zeppelin
When the Levee Breaks
95
user score
(26)
Jul 6
MC5
High Time
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(24)
Oct
Uriah Heep
Look at Yourself
80
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(24)
Nov 6
The Who
Behind Blue Eyes
91
user score
(23)
Dec 2
Led Zeppelin
Black Dog
86
user score
(23)
Jun
Budgie
Budgie
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(20)
Feb 2
Uriah Heep
Salisbury
65
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(18)
Jun 25
The Who
Won't Get Fooled Again
93
user score
(17)
Mar
Luis Alberto Spinetta
Spinettalandia y Sus Amigos
76
user score
(16)
Apr 30
Thin Lizzy
Thin Lizzy
50
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(16)
Mar
The Groundhogs
Split
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(14)
Aug
Atomic Rooster
In Hearing of Atomic Rooster
60
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(13)
Oct
REO Speedwagon
R.E.O. Speedwagon
60
critic score
(1)
60
user score
(11)
Feb 1
Faces
Long Player
100
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(10)
Apr 1
James Gang
Thirds
75
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(10)
Oct
Leaf Hound
Growers of Mushroom
70
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(10)
Nov 25
Pappo's Blues
Pappo's Blues
80
user score
(10)
Feb 24
Cactus
One Way... or Another
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(9)
Apr 15
Grand Funk Railroad
Survival
60
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(9)
Oct
UFO
UFO 2: Flying
60
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(9)
Nov
Grand Funk Railroad
E Pluribus Funk
50
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(9)
1971
Blues Creation
Demon & Eleven Children
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(8)
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Jul
Wishbone Ash
Pilgrimage
80
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(8)
1971
Fuzzy Duck
Fuzzy Duck
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(7)
1971
Eloy
Eloy
60
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(6)
1971
Dust
Dust
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(6)
Jan
Mountain
Nantucket Sleighride
60
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(6)
May 1
Pink Fairies
Never-Neverland
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(6)
Nov
Nazareth
Nazareth
50
critic score
(1)
66
user score
(6)
Apr
Toad
Toad
68
user score
(4)
Sep 18
Cactus
Restrictions
40
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(4)
Nov 1
Mott The Hoople
Brain Capers
90
critic score
(1)
61
user score
(4)
1971
Strawberry Path
When the Raven Has Come to the Earth
60
user score
(3)
1971
Blackfeather
At the Mountains of Madness
83
user score
(3)
Feb
Birth Control
Operation
60
critic score
(1)
67
user score
(3)
1971
Kin Ping Meh
Kin Ping Meh
60
critic score
(1)
66
user score
(2)
1971
Stone Axe
Slave of Fear / Snakebite
92
user score
(2)
1971
Moses
Changes
70
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(2)
Mar
Stray
Suicide
70
user score
(2)
May
The Masters Apprentices
Choice Cuts
84
user score
(2)
Dec 12
Irish Coffee
Irish Coffee
50
critic score
(1)
91
user score
(2)
1971
Demian
Demian
80
user score
(1)
1971
November
2:a November
81
user score
(1)
1971
Samuel Prody
Samuel Prody
48
user score
(1)
Sep
Golden Earring
Seven Tears
50
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(1)
1971
Hairy Chapter
Can't Get Through
1971
Virus
Thoughts
50
critic score
(1)
Nov
McPhee
McPhee
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