The Top Albums from 1971

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	6	Marvin Gaye	What's Going On		Listen
2	31	Led Zeppelin	Led Zeppelin IV		Listen
3	33	The Who	Who's Next		Listen
4	43	The Rolling Stones	Sticky Fingers		Listen
5	48	Joni Mitchell	Blue		Listen
6	51	Sly and the Family Stone	There's a Riot Goin' On		Listen
7	62	David Bowie	Hunky Dory
8	66	Carole King	Tapestry		Listen
9	93	John Lennon	Imagine
10	120	The Allman Brothers Band	At Fillmore East		Listen
11	154	T. Rex	Electric Warrior		Listen
12	159	Rod Stewart	Every Picture Tells a Story		Listen
13	176	Janis Joplin	Pearl		Listen
14	216	The Doors	L.A. Woman		Listen
15	220	Can	Tago Mago		Listen
16	330	Serge Gainsbourg	Histoire de Melody Nelson
17	415	Leonard Cohen	Songs of Love and Hate		Listen
18	425	Funkadelic	Maggot Brain		Listen
19	462	Jethro Tull	Aqualung
20	558	The Beach Boys	Surf's Up		Listen
21	598	The Mahavishnu Orchestra	The Inner Mounting Flame		Listen
22	765	John Prine	John Prine		Listen
23	767	David Crosby	If I Could Only Remember My Name		Listen
24	800	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Soul Revolution/African Herbsman		Listen
25	801	Yes	Fragile		Listen
26	845	Alice Cooper	Killer		Listen
27	886	Flamin' Groovies	Teenage Head		Listen
28	938	Isaac Hayes	Shaft		Listen
29	945	Nilsson	Nilsson Schmilsson		Listen
30	953	Yes	The Yes Album		Listen
31	992	Black Sabbath	Master of Reality		Listen
32	1110	Faces	A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse		Listen
33	1148	Miles Davis	A Tribute to Jack Johnson		Listen
34	1169	Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young	4 Way Street		Listen
35	1183	Carla Bley & Paul Haines	Escalator Over the Hill		Listen
36	1221	Paul and Linda McCartney	Ram		Listen
37	1335	Dolly Parton	Coat of Many Colors		Listen
38	1361	Miles Davis	Live Evil		Listen
39	1383	Van der Graaf Generator	Pawn Hearts		Listen
40	1385	Pink Floyd	Meddle		Listen
41	1459	Van Morrison	Tupelo Honey		Listen
42	1475	The Kinks	Muswell Hillbillies		Listen
43	1508	Alice Cooper	Love It to Death		Listen
44	1557	Gil Scott-Heron	Pieces of a Man		Listen
45	1621	Chico Buarque	Construção
46	1646	Curtis Mayfield	Curtis/Live!		Listen
47	1787	Faust	Faust		Listen
48	1827	Various Artists	The Concert for Bangladesh		Listen
49	1876	Roy Harper	Stormcock
50	1898	Popol Vuh	In den Gärten Pharaos
51	1928	Joan Manuel Serrat	Mediterráneo		Listen
52	1978	J.J. Cale	Naturally		Listen
53	2009	Herbie Hancock	Mwandishi
54	2031	Tom T. Hall	In Search of a Song		Listen
55	2043	Cat Stevens	Teaser and the Firecat		Listen
56	2050	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Tarkus		Listen
57	2085	Anthony Braxton	For Alto		Listen
58	2111	Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Pictures at an Exhibition		Listen
59	2143	Michel Polnareff	Polnareff's
60	2185	Gal Costa	Fa-Tal - Gal a Todo Vapor		Listen
61	2190	Laura Nyro and Labelle	Gonna Take a Miracle		Listen
62	2200	Caravan	In the Land of Grey and Pink
63	2207	Shirley Collins and The Albion Country Band	No Roses		Listen
64	2228	Elvis Presley	Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old)		Listen
65	2306	B.B. King	Live in Cook County Jail		Listen
66	2409	Al Green	Al Green Gets Next to You		Listen
67	2528	The Last Poets	This Is Madness
68	2619	Master Musicians of Jajouka	Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka		Listen
69	2651	Don McLean	American Pie		Listen
70	2661	Bill Withers	Just as I Am		Listen
71	2703	Traffic	The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys		Listen
72	2734	Chick Corea	Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1		Listen
73	2740	War	All Day Music		Listen
74	2800	Santana	Santana III		Listen
75	2955	Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers	Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Deep Purple	Fireball		Listen
		Blue Öyster Cult	Blue Öyster Cult		Listen
		Jimi Hendrix	The Cry of Love
		King Crimson	Islands		Listen
		John Fahey	America		Listen
		Crazy Horse	Crazy Horse		Listen
		Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band	Mirror Man
		Aretha Franklin	Aretha Live at Fillmore West		Listen
		Chick Corea	Piano Improvisations, Vol. 2		Listen
		Alice Coltrane	Universal Consciousness		Listen
		James Taylor	Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon		Listen
		Gene Clark	Gene Clark/White Light		Listen
		Comus	First Utterance
		James Brown	Revolution of the Mind (Live at the Apollo, Vol. 3)
		Faces	Long Player		Listen
		Badfinger	Straight Up		Listen
		John McLaughlin	My Goal's Beyond		Listen
		Steeleye Span	Please to See the King		Listen
		Earl Hines	Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington		Listen
		Ann Peebles	Straight from the Heart		Listen
		Duke Ellington	New Orleans Suite		Listen
		Bridget St John	Songs for the Gentle Man
		Little Feat	Little Feat		Listen
		Hawkwind	In Search of Space		Listen
		Judee Sill	Judee Sill		Listen
		The Chi-Lites	(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People		Listen
		Barbra Streisand	Stoney End		Listen
		The Move	Message from the Country		Listen
		Osibisa	Woyaya
		The Stylistics	The Stylistics		Listen
		Rory Gallagher	Deuce
		Ash Ra Tempel	Ash Ra Tempel		Listen
		Curtis Mayfield	Roots		Listen
		Todd Rundgren	Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren		Listen
		Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70	Open & Close		Listen
		Waylon Jennings	The Taker/Tulsa
		Amon Düül II	Tanz der Lemminge		Listen
		Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath	Brotherhood of Breath		Listen
		Stevie Wonder	Where I'm Coming From
		Genesis	Nursery Cryme		Listen
		Isaac Hayes	Black Moses		Listen
		Focus	Focus II/Moving Waves
		MC5	High Time		Listen
		Link Wray	Link Wray
		Elton John	Madman Across the Water		Listen
		Colin Blunstone	One Year		Listen
		The Mothers	Fillmore East - June 1971		Listen
		John Martyn	Bless the Weather		Listen
		Francoise Hardy	La Question		Listen
		John Coltrane	Sun Ship		Listen

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