My favourite albums from 1971

1. 30

   What's Going on

   Marvin Gaye

   

   

   Soul

   Tracks:

   1. What's Going on
   2. What's Happening Brother
   3. Flyin' High (in the Friendly Sky)
   4. Save the Children
   5. God Is Love
   6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
   7. Right on
   8. Wholy Holy
   9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) ●

2. 29

   Nursery Cryme

   Genesis

   

   

   Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. The Musical Box ●
   2. For Absent Friends
   3. The Return of the Giant Hogweed
   4. Seven Stones
   5. Harold the Barrel
   6. Harlequin
   7. The Fountain of Salmacis

3. 28

   Faust

   Faust

   

   

   Krautrock | Experimental rock

   Tracks:

   1. Why Don't You Eat Carrots?
   2. Meadow Meal ●
   3. Miss Fortune

4. 27

   Rosemary Lane

   Bert Jansch

   

   

   Folk

   Tracks:

   1. Tell Me What Is True Love?
   2. Rosemary Lane ●
   3. M'Lade Nancy
   4. A Dream, A Dream, A Dream
   5. Alman
   6. Wayward Child
   7. Nobody' Bar
   8. Reynardine
   9. Silly Woman
   10. Peregrinatos
   11. Sylvie
   12. Sarabanda
   13. Bird Song

5. 26

   Islands

   King Crimson

   

   

   Progressive rock | Jazz fusion

   Tracks:

   1. Formentera Lady
   2. Sailor's Tale ●
   3. The Letters
   4. Ladies of the Road
   5. Prelude: Song of the Gulls
   6. Islands

6. 25

   Meddle

   Pink Floyd

   

   

   Progressive rock | psychedelic rock

   Tracks:

   1. One of These Days ●
   2. A Pillow of Winds
   3. Fearless
   4. San Tropez
   5. Seamus
   6. Echoes

7. 24

   Bryter Layter

   Nick Drake

   

   

   Folk rock | Folk pop

   Tracks:

   1. Introduction
   2. Hazey Jane II
   3. At the Chime of a City Clock ●
   4. One of These Things First
   5. Hazey Jane I
   6. Bryter Later
   7. Fly
   8. Poor Boy
   9. Northern Sky
   10. Sunday

8. 23

   Just as I Am

   Bill Withers

   

   

   Soul

   Tracks:

   1. Harlem
   2. Ain't No Sunshine ●
   3. Grandma's Hands
   4. Sweet Wanomi
   5. Everybody's Talkin'
   6. Do It Good
   7. Hope She'll Be Happier
   8. Let It Be
   9. I'm Her Daddy
   10. In My Heart
   11. Moanin' and Groanin'
   12. Better off Dead

9. 22

   Deuce

   Rory Gallagher

   

   

   Blues rock

   Tracks:

   1. Used to Be
   2. I'm Not Awake Yet ●
   3. Don't Know Where I'm Going
   4. Maybe I Will
   5. Whole Lot of People
   6. In Your Town
   7. Should've Learnt My Lesson
   8. There's a Light
   9. Out of My Mind
   10. Crest of a Wave

10. 21

    Nantucket Sleighride

    Mountain

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Don't Look Around
    2. Taunta (Sammy's Tune)
    3. Nantucket Sleighride (to Owen Coffin) ●
    4. You Can't Get Away
    5. Tired Angels (to J.M.H.)
    6. The Animal Trainer and the Toad
    7. My Lady
    8. Travellin' in the Dark (to E.M.P.)
    9. The Great Train Robbery

11. 20

    The Yes Album

    Yes

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Yours Is No Disgrace
    2. Clap
    3. Starship Trooper
    4. I've Seen Good People ●
    5. A Venture
    6. Perpetual Change

12. 19

    Teaser and the Firecat

    Cat Stevens

    

    

    Folk rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Wind
    2. Rubylove
    3. If I Laugh
    4. Changes IV
    5. How Can I Tell You
    6. Teusday's Dead
    7. Morning Has Broken
    8. Bitterblue
    9. Moonshadow
    10. Peace Train ●

13. 18

    Maggot Brain

    Funkadelic

    

    

    psychedelic funk | funk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Maggot Brain ●
    2. Can You Get to That
    3. Hit It and Quit It
    4. You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
    5. Super Stupid
    6. Back in Our Minds
    7. Wars of Armageddon

14. 17

    St. Radigunds

    Spirogyra

    

    

    Progressive folk | Psychedelic folk

    Tracks:

    1. The Future Won't Be Long ●
    2. Island
    3. Magical Mary
    4. Captain's Log
    5. At Home in the World
    6. Cogwheels, Crutches and Cyanide
    7. Time Will Tell
    8. We Were a Happy Crew
    9. Love Is a Funny Thing
    10. Duke of Beaufoot

15. 16

    A Space in Time

    Ten Years After

    

    

    Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. One of These Days ●
    2. Here They Come
    3. I'd Love to Change the World
    4. Over the Hill
    5. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You
    6. Once There Was a Time
    7. Let the Sky Fall
    8. Hard Monkeys
    9. I've Been There Too
    10. Uncle Jam

16. 15

    Tapestry

    Carole King

    

    

    Pop rock | R&B

    Tracks:

    1. I Feel the Earth Move
    2. So Far Away
    3. It's Too Late ●
    4. Home Again
    5. Beautiful
    6. Way Over Yonder
    7. You've Got a Friend
    8. Where You Lead
    9. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
    10. Smackwater Jack
    11. Tapestry
    12. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

17. 14

    Fragile

    Yes

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Roundabout ●
    2. Cans and Brahms
    3. We Have Heaven
    4. South Side of the Sky
    5. Five per Cent for Nothing
    6. Long Distance Runaround
    7. The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)
    8. Mood for a Day
    9. Heaty of the Sunrise

18. 13

    Killer

    Alice Cooper

    

    

    Hard rock | garage rock

    Tracks:

    1. Under My Wheels
    2. Be My Lover
    3. Halo of Flies ●
    4. Desperado
    5. You Drive Me Nervous
    6. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
    7. Dead Babies
    8. Killer

19. 12

    Pawn Hearts

    Van Der Graaf Generator

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Lemmings (Including 'Cog') ●
    2. Man-Erg
    3. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

20. 11

    Look at Yourself

    Uriah Heep

    

    

    Heavy metal | progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Look at Yourself
    2. I Wanna Be Free
    3. July Morning ●
    4. Tears in My Eyes
    5. Shadows of Grief
    6. What Should Be Done
    7. Love Machine

21. 10

    L.A. Woman

    The Doors

    

    

    Blues rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. The Changeling
    2. Love Her Madly
    3. Been Down So Long
    4. Cars Hiss by My Window
    5. L.A. Woman
    6. L'America
    7. Hyacinth House
    8. Crawling King Snake
    9. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
    10. Riders on the Storm ●

22. 9

    First Utterance

    Comus

    

    

    Progressive folk | Psychedelic folk

    Tracks:

    1. Diana ●
    2. The Herald
    3. Drip Drip
    4. Song to Comus
    5. The Bite
    6. Bitten
    7. The Prisoner

23. 8

    Demian

    Demian

    

    

    Blues rock | Psychedelic rock

    Tracks:

    1. Face the Crowd
    2. Windy City ●
    3. Love People
    4. Coming
    5. Todd's Tune
    6. No More Tenderness
    7. Are You with Me Baby
    8. Only a Lover

24. 7

    Songs of Love and Hate

    Leonard Cohen

    

    

    Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Avalanche
    2. Last Year's Man
    3. Dress Rehearsal Rag
    4. Diamonds in the Mine
    5. Love Calls You by Your Name
    6. Famous Blue Raincoat ●
    7. Sing Another Song, Boys
    8. Joan of Arc

25. 6

    Tago Mago

    Can

    

    

    Avant-garde rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Paperhouse ●
    2. Mushroom
    3. Oh Yeah
    4. Halleluhwah
    5. Aumgn
    6. Peking O
    7. Bring Me Coffee or Tea

26. 5

    Salisbury

    Uriah Heep

    

    

    Heavy metal | progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Bird of Prey
    2. The Park
    3. Time to Live
    4. Lady in Black ●
    5. High Priestess
    6. Salisbury

27. 4

    Aqualung

    Jethro Tull

    

    

    Progressive rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Aqualung ●
    2. Cross-Eyed Mary
    3. Cheap Day Return
    4. Mother Goose
    5. Wond'ring Aloud
    6. Up to Me
    7. My God
    8. Hymn 43
    9. Slipstream
    10. Locomotive Breath
    11. Wind-up

28. 3

    Master of Reality

    Black Sabbath

    

    

    Heavy metal | stoner metal

    Tracks:

    1. Sweet Leaf
    2. After Forever
    3. Embryo
    4. Children of the Grave ●
    5. Orchid
    6. Lord of this World
    7. Into the Void

29. 2

    Fireball

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fireball
    2. No No No
    3. Demon's Eye
    4. Anyone's Daughter
    5. The Mule
    6. Fools ●
    7. No One Came

30. 1

    Led Zeppelin IV

    Led Zeppelin

    

    

    Blues rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Black Dog
    2. Rock and Roll
    3. The Battle of Evermore
    4. Stairway to Heaven ●
    5. Misty Mountain Hop
    6. Four Sticks
    7. Going to California
    8. When the Levee Breaks