My 70s Best Of

Pitchfork has just published it's best albums of the 70's. As with all these lists it's got some interesting selections, some annoying selections and some weird non-selections. I've got 64 of them, don't want to get 21 of the rest and am ambivalent about the others. I haven't had a close look at the write ups for each album but it'll probably have the usual mish-mash of succinct, insightfull critiques (dominique leone for the most part) and some over the top stuff to make you wonder why you bother (just like this blog, really).

In response, my list is below. There's probably some things I've left off and there's probably some things I've included just because they're worthy but the top 50 at least has all the albums I really care about from the era of my youth.

# - Artist - Title
01 - Robert Wyatt - Rock Bottom
02 - Can - Ege Bamyasi
03 - Pere Ubu - Modern Dance
04 - Faust - Faust
05 - NEU! - NEU!
06 - Slapp Happy - Casablanca Moon
07 - Roxy Music - For Your Pleasure
08 - Henry Cow - Unrest
09 - Drake, Nick - Five Leaves Left
10 - Eno, Brian - Here Come the Warm Jets
11 - Patti Smith - Horses
12 - Joni Mitchell - Blue
13 - Slapp Happy / Henry Cow - Desperate Straights
14 - Faust - Faust Tapes, The
15 - Fripp and Eno - (No Pussyfooting)
16 - Can - Tago Mago
17 - David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
18 - Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
19 - NEU! - NEU! 2
20 - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Clear Spot
21 - Nick Drake - Bryter Later
22 - This Heat - This Heat
23 - John Cale and Terry Riley - Church of Anthrax
24 - David Bowie - Hunky Dory
25 - Faust - Faust IV
26 - Glass, Philip - Music With Changing Parts
27 - Henry Cow - Legend
28 - Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
29 - David Bowie - Low
30 - Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
31 - Roxy Music - Roxy Music
32 - Robert Wyatt - Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard
33 - Terry Riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air
34 - Stooges, The - Raw Power
35 - Television - Marquee Moon
36 - Lou Reed - Berlin
37 - Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
38 - The New York Dolls - The New York Dolls
39 - The Art Bears - Hopes and Fears
40 - The B-52s - The B-52s
41 - NEU! - NEU! 75
42 - Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
43 - David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
44 - Greaves Blegvad Hermann - Kew. Rhone.
45 - Tony Conrad with Faust - Outside The Dream Syndicate
46 - Rolling Stones, The - Exile on Main Street
47 - Lou Reed - Transformer
48 - Wire - Pink Flag
49 - Family - It's Only A movie
50 - John Cale - Fear
51 - Can - Future Days
52 - Faust - So Far
53 - Captain Beefheart and the Magic band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
54 - Todd Rundgren - Something/Anything?
55 - Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
56 - Slapp Happy - Sort Of
57 - The Specials - The Specials
58 - Harmonia - Deluxe
59 - David Bowie - Heroes
60 - The Fall - Dragnet
61 - Roxy Music - Stranded
62 - The Stooges - Funhouse
63 - The Slits - Cut
64 - The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
65 - Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
66 - Steely Dan - Aja
67 - Carla Bley / Hanes - Escalator Over the Hill
68 - Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Music from the Penguin Café
69 - Family - Bandstand
70 - King Crimson - Red
71 - X-Ray Spex - Germ Free Adolescents
72 - Nico - Desertshore
73 - John Martyn - Solid Air
74 - Can - Soon Over Babaluma
75 - Amon Duul II - Yeti
76 - Eno, Brian - Ambient 1 : Music For Airports
77 - Ramones - Ramones
78 - Cluster - Sowieso
79 - Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
80 - Fripp and Eno - Evening Star
81 - Dr John - In The Right Place
82 - Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
83 - Cale, John - Paris 1919
84 - Buckley, Tim - Greetings From L.A.
85 - Eno, Brian - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
86 - Costello, Elvis - This Years Model
87 - Cale, John - Vintage Violence
88 - Czukay, Holger - Movies
89 - Can - Soundtracks
90 - Fall, The - Live At The Witch Trials
91 - Family - Fearless
92 - Frith, Fred - Guitar Solos
93 - Eno, Brian - Another Green World
94 - Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
95 - Young, Neil - On The Beach
96 - Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
97 - Henry Cow - In Praise of Learning
98 - Steely Dan - Countdown To Ecstacy
99 - Amon Duul II - Tanz Der Lemminge
100 - Bley, Carla - Tropic Appetites