Nassim wrote:
If the end of Tago Mago was as good as the 40 first minutes, it might have topped my list... but the last couple of tracks are terrible to my ears. Talking about krautrock, Faust's self-titled is a new contender as AM3000 album I am the least likely to listen to again... ever... please...
I love "Bring Me Coffee or Tea"! I think it's the perfect comedown from all the craziness earlier in the album, relaxed but somehow there's still the sense of something sinister lurking beneath the surface.
Faust is certainly an acquired taste; it looks like Tago Mago might be the sole krautrock representative from this year. Where's all the Ash Ra Tempel fans?
Best Albums of 1971:
1. Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
2. Ash Ra Tempel - Ash Ra Tempel
3. Can - Tago Mago
4. Leonard Cohen - Songs of Love and Hate
5. The Who - Who's Next
6. Popol Vuh - In den Garden Pharaos
7. T. Rex - Electric Warrior
8. Joni Mitchell - Blue
9. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
10. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
11. The Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame
12. The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
13. Tangerine Dream - Alpha Centauri
14. Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
15. Pink Floyd - Meddle
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16. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
17. Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies
18. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire du Melodie Nelson
19. Sly and the Family Stone - There's a Riot Goin' On
20. Miles Davis - Live Evil
21. Faust - Faust
22. Janis Joplin - Pearl
23. Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
24. Traffic - The Low Spark of the High-Heeled Boys
25. Rod Stewart - Every Picture Tells a Story
26. Amon Duul II - Tanz der Lemminge
27. Doors - L.A. Woman
28. Beach Boys - Surf's Up
29. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Pictures at an Exhibition
30. Crazy Horse - Crazy Horse
31. John Lennon - Imagine
32. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
33. Carole King - Tapestry
SONGS OF 1971:
1. Led Zeppelin - Stairway to Heaven
2. The Who - Baba O'Riley
3. Harry Nilsson - Jump Into the FIre
4. The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
5. Pink Floyd - One of These Days
6. John Lennon - Oh Yoko!
7. David Bowie - Life on Mars
8. T. Rex - Cosmic Dancer
9. Can - Bring Me Coffee Or Tea
10. Funkadelic - Maggot Brain
11. The Move - Do Ya
12. Rod Stewart - Reason to Believe
13. Harry Nilsson - Coconut
14. Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
15. Can - Halleluwah
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16. Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks
17. Rolling Stones - Brown Sugar
18. Leonard Cohen - Famous Blue Raincoat
19. Led Zeppelin - The Battle of Evermore
20. The Who - Behind Blue Eyes
21. Rolling Stones - Dead Flowers
22. Joni Mitchell - Carey
23. Five Man Electrical Band - Signs