60 Albums 1970

Here they are. My favorite albums from my collection released in 1970. I spent most of the year on one Navy base or another and there was always plenty of time (except for those months in boot camp) to listen to music and get albums. It was also a time when I was first getting cassette tapes which were newly available and becoming widespread. Some of the guys were buying reel to reel tape players and there were actually some albums available in that format.

I kept waiting to be shipped out to sea but that wasn't to happen until early '71. I also saw a lot of shows that year and many of them at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago when I was stationed nearby at Great Lakes Naval Training Center.

One of the great experiences of the year was my exposure to a variety of different kinds of music and in particular country and western. Back then they all called in that. Previously the closest I ever got to country music was the Byrds but I was sent to basic training in San Diego, California and I was only one of a couple of people from the East and definitely the only person from an Eastern city. Now I grew up in Philadelphia on Doo-Wop, Soul and Rock 'n Roll. I was shocked when the company commander pulled out a tiny radio for the entire barracks and we got to vote on the one channel that would be played in the evening during the hour we had to ourselves. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the country music station. I would have been happy with either a rock/pop or soul station but... not a chance. I was surrounded by Southern and Western boys. It was a real eye opener and most of that country music in 1970 sucked. I did get to like George Jones though.

Anyway... Neil Young was one of my favorites from that year and saw him in concert a couple of times. Once with Crosby, Stills and Nash in Chicago and once by himself. I think the George Harrison album was my first pre-recorded cassette album. It was a double one too.

A lot of these albums I heard at friends houses or down the shore while visiting on leave. I went on to get them for myself over the following few years.

1. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
2. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
3. Derek and The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
4. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
5. Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
6. Van Morrison - Moondance
7. Santana - Abraxas
8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
9. Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
10. The Who - Live at Leeds
11. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
12. Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen
13. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
14. Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
15. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
16. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
17. The Beatles - Let It Be
18. Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
19. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
20. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
21. The Moody Blues - A Question of Balance
22. Jethro Tull - Benefit
23. The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround (Part One)
24. Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
25. Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
26. Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills
27. Dave Mason - Alone Together
28. The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
29. Paul McCartney - McCartney
30. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
31. Hot Tuna - Hot Tuna
32. Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
33. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
34. John McLaughlin - Devotion
35. Funkadelic - Funkadelic
36. John Cale - Vintage Violence
37. Isaac Hayes - The Isaac Hayes Movement
38. The Band - Stage Fright
39. Jesse Winchester - Jesse Winchester
40. Buddy Miles - Them Changes
41. Eric Burdon and War - Eric Burdon Declares War
42. Seatrain - Seatrain
43. Little Feat - Little Feat
44. Savoy Brown - Raw Sienna
45. The Guess Who - American Woman
46. The Doors - Morrison Hotel
47. The Byrds - (Untitled)
48. Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
49. The Pretty Things - Parachute
50. The Stooges - Fun House
51. Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
52. Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes
53. James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
54. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
55. Badfinger - Magic Christian Music
56. Chicago - Chicago III
57. Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
58. Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar
59. Tim Buckley - Starsailor
60. Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
61. Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits
62. Exuma - Exuma II
63. Soft Machine - Third
64. Nico - Desertshore
65. The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
66. Aretha Franklin - Spirit in the Dark
67. The Beach Boys - Sunflower
68. Syd Barrett - Barrett
69. Funkadelic - Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
70. Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb
71. Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
72. King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
73. Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard of Stars
74. Elton John - Elton John
75. Heron - Heron
76. Van Morrison - His Band and the Street Choir
77. Badfinger - No Dice
78. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum
79. Melanie - Candles in the Rain
80. Delaney & Bonnie - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends on Tour with Eric Clapton
81. Todd Rundgren - Runt
82. Gil Scott-Heron - Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
83. J.D. Blackfoot - The Ultimate Prophecy
84. Booker T. & The M.G.'s - McLemore Avenue
85. Mandrill - Mandrill
86. The Incredible Stringband - U
87. The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
88. James Brown - Sex Machine
89. Bob Dylan - New Morning
90. Alice Cooper - Easy Action
91. Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk
92. The J. Geils Band - The J. Geils Band
93. Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House
94. Shuggie Otis - Here Comes Shuggie Otis
95. The Guess Who - Share the Land
96. Poco - Poco
97. Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster
98. Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green
99. Mountain - Climbing
100. Bob Dylan - Self Portrait