Top 30 Albums Of 1970

[@antoniodias4718]

Very good selection!! 1970 is another great year for rock music. I could choose "Deep Purple In Rock" for number 1 too. Good work!! See you Aaron!

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Thank you! I love In Rock👍🤘🤘

[@miguelangeljuarez6196]

Tienes una impresionante colección esta super, te mando un abrazote desde Zacatecas, México.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Thank you 👍🤘🤘

[@twofromthetrunk9932]

Ah 1970. I was a junior in high school. Should have been my graduating year, but 6th grade an I didn’t get along. I talked about blood rock in a couple of videos. Love that band. Csny album I awesome. You are right McCartney did play all the instruments. Mountains Mississippi Queen was my car windows down turn up the volume song. Led zep lll was the party album it was played all the time. Hey Jude. You can never go wrong with their music. Great stuff great video. Peace love and rock and roll ✌️

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Two From the Trunk thanks Tony , what a great year!! 👍🤘🤘

[@berndmuller8826]

Great collection!

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Thank you !! 👍🤘🤘

[@vinylrichie007]

1970 was a great year for music. The first four Santana albums are great. After The Gold Rush is my favorite Neil Young. Eric Burdon and War was my first concert.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Vinyl Richie wow i bet that was a great show, you’ve definitely seen some amazing concerts!!

[@alanboas810]

That's cool hearing about Vinyl Ritchie's first concert. What was yours Aaron?

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

My first concert was Huey Lewis on the Sports tour, it was a really good concert!! 👍🤘🤘

[@FernandoCoto-gx1zi]

Excellent choices. My Top 40 ares: Brian Auger's Oblivion Express - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express Soft Machine - Third Keith Tippett Group - Dedicated to You, But You Weren't Listening John McLaughlin - Devotion Nucleus - Elastic Rock Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again Emerson Lake & Palmer - Emerson Lake & Palmer Genesis - Trespass Gentle Giant - Gentle Giant Jethro Tull - Benefit Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland The Moody Blues - A Question Of Balance King Crimson: Lizard Van Der Graaf Generator - The Least We Can Do Is Wave To Each Other Yes - Time And A Word Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You Black Sabbath - Paranoid Crosby Stills Nash & Young - Deja Vu Deep Purple - In Rock Grand Funk - Closer To Home James Gang - Rides Again Santana - Abraxas Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South Wishbone Ash - Wishbone Ash Uriah Heep - Uriah Heep The Flock - Dinosaur Swamps Savoy Brown - Looking In Spirit - The Twelve Dreams Of Doctor Sardonicus Neil Young - After The Gold Rush Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III Humble Pie - Humble Pie Free - Fire And Water Simon & Garfunkel: Bridge Over Troubled Water MountainL Climbing George Harrison: All Things Must Pass Miles Davis: Bitches Brew The Guess Who: American Woman Stone TheCrows: Stone The Crows

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Awesome! So much prog👍🤘🤘

[@BecketSolis]

Thanks for sharing 🙏🏼

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

My pleasure 👍🤘🤘

[@bert0522]

I have 24 of them in my collection of 4,000+. Jim

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

That’s awesome Jim👍🤘🤘

[@GlenKellawayfromthebasement]

Nice to see Self Portrait get some love..Share The Labd is a fav of mine as well..great pick...Mountain doesn’t get mentioned much in the VC and that album is awesome..All Things Must Pass would be my number one record for 1970..what a great year for music..loving your series Aaron...glen kellaway

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Glen Kellaway From The Basement thanks Glen, 👍🤘🤘another good game 👍

[@RandyforRoyals]

It's funny that I was just playing that Moody Blues album A Question Of Balance before I started watching your video. After The Gold Rush is my favorite Neil Young album and Cosmos Factory is my favorite CCR album. Fine list as usual.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Randall Nelson , hi Randy, my 2 favorites by them as well! Really good M Blues! Thanks for stopping by! 👍🤘🤘

[@RobertsOnMyTurntable]

Great album to start, and the next bunch are so good. Cat Stevens is really great. Love Derek and the Dominos and Morrison Hotel. I have that Guess Who album and John Barleycorn must die as well. Also that Mountain record. Great Santana, I just picked that up too. Lot of the same which is cool. My favourite Sabbath album. Beatles have to be there. Killer Sabbath album. I, Me, Mine is one of my favourite songs and In Rock, what a way to finish. Awesome selections Aaron

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Robert's 'On My Turntable' , thank you Robert it was a great year for music, i had another 20 or so more that almost made it! 👍🤘🤘

[@Fastnbulbous1969]

I think I need to listen to more Guess Who! Much of my top ten is stuff outside of your heavy rock preferences (Curtis, Beefheart, Bitches Brew), though you like some folk, so maybe you'd like some Van Morrison, Nick Drake and Tim Buckley. You NEED dis though, for it's parallels to Abbey Road: The Pretty Things - Parachute Stray - Stray: Iron Maiden regularly played "All in Your Mind" on the PA before shows, so they want you to get that record ;) T2 - It'll All Work Out In Boomland: Cool rockin' psych prog Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend: Essential proto-metal November - En Ny Tid är Här: Swedish proto-metal Atomic Rooster - Death Walks Behind You: I'm sure you know these guys. Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come: Classic, gotta have this to go with yr Blue Cheer.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Lucifers Friend and Atomic Rooster are awesome!!!👍🤘🤘

[@jwelsje]

It's like I knew you would put In Rock as your nr 1. I am a keyboard player and when I started to play Child In Time, it attracted large clouds. Also the intro of Black Magic Woman.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

That’s awesome! Both fantastic songs 👍🤘🤘

[@jcrockandmetalreviews]

Nice list. My #1 would be Paranoid. Followed by Black Sabbath, In Rock, and let it be.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Great choices!! Thanks JC 👍🤘🤘

[@TheAnarchitek]

Best of 1970: 01 Morrison Hotel 02 Idlewild South 03 After the Gold Rush 04 Moondance 05 Alone Together 06 Mona Bone Jakon 07 Tumbleweed Connection 08 Stage Fright 09 American Beauty 10 Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus 11 Gasoline Alley 12 All Things Must Pass 13 Leon Russell 14 Lola 15 Cosmo's Factory 16 Benefit 17 J Geils Band 18 Abraxas 19 Ladies of the Canyon 20 Deja Vu 21 Bridge Over Troubled Waters 22 Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs 23 Pearl 24 Live at Leeds 25 Workingman's Dead 26 His Band and Street Choir 27 Led Zeppelin III 28 Emerson Lake and Palmer I 29 Let It Be 30 In Rock 31 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band 32 Loaded 33 John Barleycorn Must Die 34 Number 5 35 Elton John I 36 No Dice 37 Mad Dogs & Englishmen 38 Kiln House 39 A Question of Balance 40 Atom Heart Mother The Doors had been buffeted, in the press and on the concert trail, so it was great to hear Jim Morrison belt out "Woke up this mornin', got myself a be-er!", to start Morrison Hotel The album is confident and well-produced, easily the band's best. Van Morrison had two great albums that year, Moondance and Street Band and Choir, but Duane Allman's stunning guitars on Idlewild South defined the times. The Dead put out two great albums in a row, Workingman's Dead and American Beauty, the former a little looser and rawer, the latter polished and smooth, both classics of the era. Former Traffic in-and-out member Dave Mason's first solo album was a tour de force, from beginning to end, with swirly vinyl and a fold-put cover that could be hung up. Rod Stewart delivered on the promise of his first solo album with Gasoline Alley, a pattern that would define his best work. Creedence hit their peak in 1970, Cosmo's Factory their career-best LP; Spirit had their finest moment with Twelve Dreams of Dr Sardonicus, then broke up, fistfights onstage and cancelled shows in their wake. Leon Russell came out of the shadows after Mad Dogs and Englishmen, supporting Joe Cocker, with his eponymous first solo LP, delivering what would be the first of two stellar albums. Jethro Tull stumbled a bit, on Benefit, came roaring back, with Aqualung early the next year, against stiff competition. Benefit feels like a sophomore effort, instead of the third album from an important and inventive band. Velvet Underground finally made a meaningful rock 'n' roll record, and Derek stepped into the limelight, jamming' with Duane and an all-star rhythm section, recording the heartbreaking Layla and a credible version of Jimi Hendrix' Little Wing. Cat Stevens' first solo album is stronger than Tea for the Tillerman, an impressive outing for the former popstar. Elton's second album announces a new talent, with a tight band and a more intimate feel than his debut album, also a 1970 release. The other albums speak for themselves, 1970 was another banner year for rock. Creedence pulled out all the stops, to make their finest 12-incher, Cosmo's Factory. Less than two years later, the band would be toast, their last LP a sad companion to their better work. Led Zeppelin punted, producing a quieter album, still featuring Jimmy Page's searing guitaristrionics, but not the 800-pound-gorilla that II had been. Jimi Hendrix released his last, and least-interesting album, Band of Gypsys, with Buddy Miles from the now-defunct Electric Flag, and former barracks-mate, Billy Cox, the two replacing the now-departed Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell. Mitchell would return for all dates in 1970, but Redding was off promoting Fat Mattress. Buddy Miles left, but Billy stayed, and Jimi headlined under his own name. ©BW2023 anarchitek™

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Thank you for the commentary! Interesting list !! Cheers to you👍👍🤘

[@TheAnarchitek]

​@@aaronmuthaalamare4165 I bought every one of the albums on my list in 1970-'71. Many have been replaced, vinyl, cassette, CD, a few SACD, a dozen or more on 8-tracks, played til they wore out, often. It was a miserable year, Nixon invaded Cambodia, encouraged Ohio's Governor to call out the National Guard, so four kids could get shot. The War dragged on, 90& of the casualties occurred in five of the 14 years of the VietNam War, 40K of the 58,220 dead in the years 1967, 1968 and 1969. Music reflected the times, and the issues, spoke to and for the people. We'd been through three assassinations, four large race riots, Charles Whitman and Richard Speck, church bombings, attack dogs and firehoses used on Black people, and dying young Americans on the nightly news. The 'Sixties had been a turbulent decade unlike any in history. The Bomb and the Cold War were ever-present reminders our mortality rested in the hands of some very disturbed people, sex was both breaking out, everywhere, as the Baby Boomers hit puberty, but deeply closeted in Puritan moralism, even as the Sexual Revolution was rippling through society, from top to bottom and side to side. Free Speech and Free Love movements stirred the pot, and drugs offered a glimpse of Nirvana, an escape from the tedium and routine of "modern" life in the mid-20th Century plus ten to twenty. The Space Age had started just before the start of the decade, and the Moon Landing happened just as it was ending. It was like the end of the party, and music of 1970 reflected that dissonance. Bands like Black Sabbath reflected a "lemme outta here!" reaction, and the Stooges an "Anger manifesting as Rage and Destruction" reaction. Neither were reflective or reasonable, as in reason-able. Life goes on, whatever one has to cope with, but both also reflected the societal changes taking place, do in no small part to the issues I mentioned, and the changes in racial, sexual, and financial politics. We weren't going to like the future all that much better than we had the crazy days of the "Swingin' 'Sixties".

[@harryzlotzlottos5715]

Classic 30 albums! 2 more in the collection that I listen to is...Live at Leeds by The Who...and All things must pass by Harrison...thanks!

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Harry zlot zlottos cool , thanks man!! 👍🤘🤘

[@Thomas-wj1or]

Hello Aaron! I really enjoyed your "Top 30 Albums of 1970" presentation! I was VERY PLEASED to see some BLOODROCK show up in the mix! I am a huge fan of BLOODROCK , too bad they only made a "handful' of albums, and a very small handful at that! I 'm thankful for what few albums they DID make. The only BLOODROCK album that I'm missing is "BLOODROCK LIVE", although I think I can "stream" it, I'm not sure. My FAVORITE BLOODROCK albums are, "U.S.A.", "Passage". and "Whirlwind Tongues." WOW! YUSUF ISLAM, The artist formerly known as Cat Stevens, "Tea For The Tillerman"...Truly a "classic grail!" Did you know that he re-recorded the ENTIRE album? It was JUST RELEASED about 4 days ago, it's called Tea For The Tillerman Two, appropriately and referred to as: Cat Stevens / "T4TT2". Congratulations, I DID NOT KNOW that you won a RSD copy of "McCartney", That's Great! Guess it will be released on RSD this coming Saturday, September 26th. I like Black Sabbath, But that VERY FIRST album is, and has always been my favorite! Fantastic Choices for Top 30 Albums of 1970! (Oh, I forgot..Honorable Mention to Emerson, Lake and Palmer..They were FANTASTIC!!!...R.I.P. Greg Lake and Keith Emerson). 👍 🤟

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Thomas Pallam thanks Thomas, i won the McCartney from AGK’s vinyl life 500 subs contest! , 1970 was a great year for music!!👍🤘🤘

[@rafaelcruz4176]

My top 30 30. Back In The USA (MC5) 29. Gasoline Alley (Rod Stewart) 28. Time And A Word (Yes) 27. Emerson, Lake And Palmer (Emerson, Lake And Palmer) 26. Wishbone Ash (Wishbone Ash) 25. Bridge Over Troubled Water (Simon & Garfunkel) 24. Very 'Eavy, Very 'Umble (Uriah Heep) 23. Trespass (Genesis) 22. Climbing ! (Mountain) 21. A Question Of Balance (The Moody Blues) 20. Live At Leeds (The Who) 19. Tumbleweed Connection (Elton John) 18. After The Gold Rush (Neil Young) 17. Closer To Home (Grand Funk Railroad) 16. Fire And Water (Free) 15. Plastic Ono Band (John Lennon) 14. Chicago (Chicago) 13. Layla And Another Assorted Love Songs (Derek And The Dominos) 12. Morrison Hotel (The Doors) 11. Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath) 10. Led Zeppelin III (Led Zeppelin) 9. McCartney (Paul McCartney) 8. All Things Must Pass (George Harrison) 7. American Woman (The Guess Who) 6. Pendulum (Creedence Clearwater Revival) 5. Abraxas (Santana) 4. Let It Be (The Beatles) 3. Deep Purple In Rock (Deep Purple) 2. Paranoid (Black Sabbath) 1. Cosmo's Factory (Creedence Clearwater Revival)

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Outstanding list my friend!! Probably my favorite of yours!! Rock on👍🤘🤘

[@rafaelcruz4176]

@@aaronmuthaalamare4165 Thank you my friend !!, your list is awesome as well. Keep on rockin' bro !!

[@kenvelickoff4275]

Liked the way they put Peace Frog/Blue Sunday together on the greatest hits Weird Tales

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

That is cool👍🤘🤘

[@reginaldperiwinkle]

Seriously thought you were going to put Bridge Over Troubled Water at #1 for a second there -- it would have made sense to me, since you seem to like other folk rock.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Thanks, good guess but hard rock is my favorite , i do like most genres of music quite a bit! Thanks for your input!!👍🤘🤘

[@mistery-ed7900]

What a collection of classics! I gotta admit I don't have all of them now, but I have had all of them at one time or another. The year I turned 16. I liked the weird stuff so The Mothers and Captain Beefheart would have been in my top 30. In the opposite direction Simon and Garfunkel had Bridge Over Trouble Water which certainly qualifies as a classic.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

mistery-ed thanks, yeah Bridge over troubled water almost made it and I don’t have the other 2 👍🤘🤘

[@brianreynolds4931]

I really like ELP too. I have a white label promo of Morrison Hotel - I love the track “Waiting for the Sun” on there. “Machine Gun” on Band of Gypsys is so great. Lots of great 1970 stuff. I love “Never in My Life” on Mountain - Climbing. I just picked up a 2CD of All Things Must Pass. I don’t really have any solo Beatles or Beatles albums proper. I have the red double album and blue double album and I have been listening to them more recently. I may have to get some Beatles albums. Anyways, I’m not familiar with All Things Must Pass at all. Great list! Love “Child in Time”

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

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[@arkngt]

Great year and great selection. Have you heard Sir Lord Baltimore's Kingdom Come? Brutal proto-metal that I think is right up your alley.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Yes I’m familiar with them, great stuff 👍🤘🤘

[@kevinbrown1893]

1. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (8) 2. Deep Purple - In Rock (1) 3. Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath (3) 4. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III (13) 5. Jethro Tull - Benefit 6. The Doors - Morrison Hotel (21) 7. Lucifer's Friend - Lucifer's Friend 8. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother 9. The Beatles - Let It Be (2) 10. Uriah Heep - Very 'eavy...Very 'umble 11. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys (17) 12. King Crimson - In The Wake of Poseidon 13. King Crimson - Lizard 14. Derek and The Dominos - Layla (22)

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Killer list!!! 👍🤘🤘

[@michael7v6]

How many records do you have? Impressive.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

I have between 4,500 - 5,000! Thanks Michael 👍🤘🤘

[@michael7v6]

@@aaronmuthaalamare4165 wow!!! I’m jealous man! My prized possessions are my original Iron Maiden records with all the singles. I have an original Jump in the fire picture disc too. Love the vinyl.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

@@michael7v6 that’s awesome!!! All great pieces!! 👍🤘🤘

[@psp1921tsmg]

Where is no dice by badfinger?

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Sorry I don’t own it👍🤘🤘

[@djtrishm]

There might be a McCartney 3 coming out later this year

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

DJ Trish thank you, that would be cool!!👍🤘🤘

[@robertsaul234]

More great albums came out in week in 1970 than in a calendar year these days imho. Why tf The Guess Who isn't in the RnR hall of fame is a head scratcher. I was predicting In Rock at #1. A few I would include: Stones-Sticky Fingers, Chicago II, Allman's-Idlewild South, Kinks-Lola vs Powerman, Bowie-The Man Who Sold the World, MC5- Back in the USA, Van Morrison-Moondance But it's your list and a great one it is.✌🤟

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Robert Saul thanks Robert, yeah the RnR hall of fame has many headscratchers , the Guess Who is maybe the biggest!! Sticky Fingers is actually 1971 , and the rest you mentioned are classic but I don’t own them, 👍🤘🤘

[@robertsaul234]

@@aaronmuthaalamare4165 I should have looked that one up. I just remember that in the movie Gimmie Shelter, Mick & Keith were listening to the playback of Brown Sugar and Wild Horses while on their '69 tour. I figured you didn't have some of those I mentioned...just giving you a shopping list hehe.

[@velocita8842]

It's 50 years on now from these great albums and safe to say we will never see this kind of talent again.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

velocità absolutely agreed!!👍🤘🤘

[@KBOB-b0b]

My top 20 of 1970 in alphabetical order: "Abraxas" (Santana) "After The Gold Rush" (Neil Young) "All Things Must Pass" (George Harrison) "American Beauty" (Grateful Dead) "Band Of Gypsys" (Jimi Hendrix) "Chicago (II)" (Chicago) "Cosmo's Factory" (Creedence Clearwater Revival) "Deja Vu" (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) "Gasoline Alley" (Rod Stewart) "Ladies Of The Canyon" (Joni Mitchell) "Led Zeppelin III" (Led Zeppelin) "Leon Russell" (Leon Russell) "Live At Leeds" (The Who) "Mona Bone Jakon" (Cat Stevens) "Moondance" (Van Morrison) "Part One: Lola Vs. Powerman And The Moneygoround" (The Kinks) "Pendulum" (Creedence Clearwater Revival) "Plastic Ono Band" (John Lennon) "Tea For The Tillerman" (Cat Stevens) "Workingman's Dead" (Grateful Dead)

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Killer list! Very similar to what i have! 👍🤘🤘

[@beatlehmann3424]

1. Very eavy very umble Uriah Heep 2. Easy Action Alice Cooper 3. On the Boardes Taste 4. Humble Pie Humble Pie 5. Dead walks behind... Atomic Rooster 6. Chunga‘s Revenge Frank Zappa 7. Get Yer Ya Ya‘s out Rolling Stones 8. Let it Be Beatles 9. Fire and Water Free 10. Idlewild South Allman Bros.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

You have great taste!! Killer list!!👍🤘🤘

[@beatlehmann3424]

@@aaronmuthaalamare4165 Thanks ! Great Videos Aaron 👍🏻

[@salvadorromeromolina3719]

VAN MORRISON MOONDANCE

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Awesome album! I do have that one now!!👍🤘🤘

[@user-ys3qq6rf6z]

white boy try sly stone greatest hits

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Great album!! Thanks 👍🤘🤘

[@alanboas810]

No weaknesses in that line-up.

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Thanks Alan !!👍🤘🤘

[@kenvelickoff4275]

Cat Stevens / Matthew and Son lp

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

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[@andrewjohnstone963]

Free at 29 no nearer the top 5 at least brilliant lp Paul Rodgers brilliant blues rock voice they were a tight tight unit Witness live perfomance from Isle of white why are McCartney lps there And the fact you just get on with it is a plus most of your fellow commentators just waffle blah blah Some great lps but not in the order i would have put them in but fair play you have selected some memorable lps 🙃⚪🔵

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Thanks for watching!! 👍🤘🤘

[@kosster6663]

Grand Funk????

[@aaronmuthaalamare4165]

Sorry bro! I only used what i had at the time , i have since added a few Grand Funk albums to my collection., awesome band👍🤘🤘