1971: Best album ?

For me personally not just the best album of 1971, this is the best album ever.

It was indeed a great year and rock fans especially are spoilt for choice. As recommended already by other posters the David Hepworth book '1971 Never a Dull Moment' is a very good read.

 

All day long

 

Yep that's the one indeed.

 

Maybe not the best, but certainly up there.

 

Best Elvis album of the whole decade.

 

Nilsson Schmilsson.

 

Except... It is from 1972. "Wildlife" was their 1971 LP release (also on Atlantic).

My selections:

• Funkadelic - "Maggot Brain"
• Ides Of March - "Common Bond"
• Carole King - "Tapestry"
• Bee Gees - "Trafalgar"
• Traffic - "Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys"
• Badfinger - "Straight Up"
• Flamin' Groovies - "Teenage Head"
• Booker T. & the MGs - "Melting Pot"
• The Doors - "L. A. Woman"
• Rod Stewart - "Every Picture Tells A Story"
• Spencer Davis Group - "Funky"

I mention this Saturday morning from 0900-1200 hours [GMT-6], WXRT-FM 93.1 Chicago will feature songs from 1971 on "Saturday Morning Flashback". Tune in and hear how many selections from these albums are played.

 

Van der Graaf Generator - "Pawn Hearts"

 

I cheated a bit here as it was released in the U.K. November 1971.

 

These two, along with Master of Reality, and you have three of the best albums of all time.

 

I'm Confused


Brain Capers

Studio album by
Mott the Hoople
Released November 1971 (UK/Canada)
January 1972 (US)
Recorded August-September 1971
Studio Island Studios, London
Genre Hard rock
Length 38:03
Label Island (UK/Canada), Atlantic (US)
Producer Guy Stevens

 

There are quite a few more that could make this list, but this just shows, for me, what a ridiculously strong year 1971 was!

No particular order:

Van der Graaf Generator - Pawn Hearts
Genesis - Nursery Crime
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Mounting Flame
YES - Fragile
Moving Gelatine Plates - S/T
Magma - 1001 Centigrades
ELP - Tarkus
Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda
King Crimson - Islands
Focus - Moving Waves
Il Balletto di Bronzo - YS (one of the best Italian prog albums, ever!)
Elliott Carter - String Quartet no. 3 (Pulitzer Prize winner)
Morton Feldman – Rothko Chapel
Iannis Xenakis - Antikhthon, ballet for orchestra
Frank Zappa - 200 Motels
Orenette Coleman - Twins
Art Ensemble of Chicago - Phase One

 

Only hearing this for the first time. Wow!
Colin Blunstone | One Year


Best of ‘71——my pick - Sticky Fingers

 

I'll pick Alice Cooper - Love it to Death, followed closely by Killer. Other great releases:

Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Deep Purple - Fireball
The Who - Who's Next

Ted

 

Who's Next.

 

THE GOAT

 

The last album that brought me to tears with its sheer beauty.

 

Wow. 1st agree but 2, nothing since then ? Tears roll for RLJ Company.

 

I mean in recent time lol not the actual last album that made me tear up.

 

Easy...


The Allman Brothers Band – The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab – UDSACD 2143
Series: Ultradisc UHR
Format:
SACD, Hybrid, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Special Edition, Cardboard Sleeve
Country: US
Released: 2015
Genre: Rock, Blues

 

Master of Reality - Has to be.

But for the eclectic - John Hartford “Aereo-Plain”

 

Yeah! I bought it that month.

 

The Beatles should have had a studio album in 1971. A case of “ what if”.

 

I have to go with your avatar, no question about it for me.

 

Never heard of them. Sounds like a French restaurant.