Top Albums of 1971
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Album▼ Genres▼
1
5
 Marvin Gaye What's Going On Soul
2
33
 Led Zeppelin Led Zeppelin IV Hard Rock
3
38
 The Who Who's Next Hard Rock
4
49
 Joni Mitchell Blue Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
5
53
 The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers Blues Rock
6
61
 Sly and the Family Stone There's a Riot Goin' On Funk, Soul
7
69
 Carole King Tapestry Singer/Songwriter, Soft Rock
8
75
 David Bowie Hunky Dory Art Rock, Glam Rock, Pop Rock
9
106
 John Lennon Imagine Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
10
134
 The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East Blues Rock, Jam Band, Southern Rock
11
170
 T. Rex Electric Warrior Glam Rock
12
202
 Janis Joplin Pearl Blues Rock
13
206
 Rod Stewart Every Picture Tells a Story Pop Rock
14
261
 Can Tago Mago Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock
15
273
 The Doors L.A. Woman Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
16
276
 Nick Drake Bryter Layter Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
17
321
 Serge Gainsbourg Histoire de Melody Nelson Art Pop, French Pop
18
462
 Funkadelic Maggot Brain Funk, Funk Rock
19
468
 Leonard Cohen Songs of Love and Hate Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
20
484
 Jethro Tull Aqualung Progressive Rock
21
727
 The Mahavishnu Orchestra The Inner Mounting Flame Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock
22
761
 The Beach Boys Surf's Up Pop Rock, Psychedelic Pop
23
784
 Black Sabbath Master of Reality Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
24
811
 John Prine John Prine Contemporary Folk, Country, Singer/Songwriter
25
883
 David Crosby If I Could Only Remember My Name Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
26
897
 Nilsson Nilsson Schmilsson Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
27
912
 Alice Cooper Killer Glam Rock, Hard Rock
28
934
 Yes Fragile Progressive Rock
29
956
 Flamin' Groovies Teenage Head Blues Rock, Garage Rock, Rock & Roll
30
1029
 Isaac Hayes Shaft Film Score, Funk, Soul
31
1115
 Bob Marley and The Wailers Soul Revolution/African Herbsman Roots Reggae
32
1192
 Dolly Parton Coat of Many Colors Country
33
1194
 Paul and Linda McCartney Ram Pop Rock
34
1293
 Faces A Nod Is As Good As a Wink...to a Blind Horse Hard Rock
35
1315
 Gil Scott-Heron Pieces of a Man Soul
36
1322
 Carla Bley & Paul Haines Escalator Over the Hill Experimental Big Band
37
1330
 Alice Cooper Love It to Death Glam Rock, Hard Rock
38
1351
 Pink Floyd Meddle Progressive Rock
39
1404
 Yes The Yes Album Progressive Rock
40
1435
 Michel Polnareff Polnareff's Baroque Pop, French Pop
41
1490
 Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 4 Way Street Folk Rock
42
1532
 The Kinks Muswell Hillbillies Country Rock, Pop Rock
43
1537
 Various Artists The Concert for Bangla Desh Folk Rock
44
1591
 Van der Graaf Generator Pawn Hearts Progressive Rock
45
1601
 Anthony Braxton For Alto Free Jazz
46
1664
 Roy Harper Stormcock Progressive Folk, Singer/Songwriter
47
1727
 The Last Poets This Is Madness Poetry
48
1743
 Bill Withers Just As I Am Soul
49
1760
 Caravan In the Land of Grey and Pink Canterbury Scene
50
1804
 Van Morrison Tupelo Honey Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
51
1811
 Miles Davis A Tribute to Jack Johnson Jazz Fusion, Jazz-Rock
52
1886
 Curtis Mayfield Curtis/Live! Chicago Soul
53
1922
 Faust Faust Krautrock
54
1955
 Cat Stevens Teaser and the Firecat Folk Pop, Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
55
1974
 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Tarkus Symphonic Prog
56
1983
 B.B. King Live in Cook County Jail Electric Blues
57
2057
 Joan Manuel Serrat Mediterráneo Nueva canción española
58
2091
 Comus First Utterance Freak Folk, Progressive Folk
59
2161
 Traffic The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Progressive Rock
60
2253
 Chico Buarque Construção MPB, Singer/Songwriter
61
2272
 Aretha Franklin Aretha Live at Fillmore West Deep Soul
62
2347
 Miles Davis Live Evil Jazz Fusion
63
2365
 Judee Sill Judee Sill Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
64
2441
 Popol Vuh In den Gärten Pharaos Ambient, Krautrock
65
2454
 Master Musicians of Jajouka Brian Jones Presents The Pipes of Pan at Joujouka Arabic Folk Music
66
2467
 Laura Nyro and Labelle Gonna Take a Miracle Pop Soul, Rhythm & Blues
67
2524
 Herbie Hancock Mwandishi Jazz Fusion
68
2559
 Shirley Collins and The Albion Country Band No Roses British Folk Rock
69
2697
 Alice Coltrane Universal Consciousness Free Jazz, Spiritual Jazz
70
2710
 Elton John Madman Across the Water Piano Rock
71
2773
 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Pictures at an Exhibition Symphonic Prog
72
2861
 Colin Blunstone One Year Baroque Pop, Singer/Songwriter
73
2874
 Don McLean American Pie Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
74
2959
 Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers Hound Dog Taylor and the Houserockers Electric Blues
75
2986
 Faces Long Player Rock

Albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
Elvis Presley Elvis Country (I'm 10,000 Years Old) Nashville Sound
Al Green Al Green Gets Next to You Southern Soul
Gal Costa Fa-Tal - Gal a Todo Vapor Blues Rock, Tropicália
Tom T. Hall In Search of a Song Country, Progressive Rock
Duke Ellington New Orleans Suite Big Band
War All Day Music Funk, Soul
Santana Santana III Latin Rock
Bridget St John Songs for the Gentle Man British Folk Rock, Chamber Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Chick Corea Piano Improvisations, Vol. 1 Jazz
King Crimson Islands Progressive Rock
Jimi Hendrix The Cry of Love Psychedelic Rock
Crazy Horse Crazy Horse Roots Rock
Ann Peebles Straight from the Heart Southern Soul
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Mirror Man Blues Rock, Psychedelic Rock
Todd Rundgren Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren Power Pop
James Brown Revolution of the Mind (Live at the Apollo, Vol. 3) Funk, Soul
Deep Purple Fireball Hard Rock
James Taylor Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Gene Clark Gene Clark/White Light Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Curtis Mayfield Roots Chicago Soul, Funk
Rory Gallagher Deuce Blues Rock
John McLaughlin My Goal's Beyond Jazz Fusion
Badfinger Straight Up Power Pop
The Chi-Lites (For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People Chicago Soul, Smooth Soul
Barbra Streisand Stoney End Soft Rock
Steeleye Span Please to See the King British Folk Rock, English Folk Music
John Fahey America American Primitivism
Earl Hines Earl Hines Plays Duke Ellington Jazz
Françoise Hardy La Question Chanson, French Pop
Hawkwind In Search of Space Space Rock
Link Wray Link Wray Americana, Country Rock, Roots Rock
Amon Düül II Tanz der Lemminge Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock
Focus Focus II/Moving Waves Symphonic Prog
MC5 High Time Garage Rock, Hard Rock, Proto-Punk
Isaac Hayes Black Moses Smooth Soul
John Martyn Bless the Weather British Folk Rock, Contemporary Folk, Singer/Songwriter
Fela Ransome Kuti & The Africa 70 Open & Close Afrobeat
Chick Corea Piano Improvisations, Vol. 2 Jazz
Ash Ra Tempel Ash Ra Tempel Krautrock, Psychedelic Rock
Stevie Wonder Where I'm Coming From Soul
Chris McGregor's Brotherhood of Breath Brotherhood of Breath Jazz
Genesis Nursery Cryme Progressive Rock
The Move Message from the Country Psychedelic Rock
Osibisa Woyaya Highlife, Jazz-Rock
The Stylistics The Stylistics Philly Soul, Smooth Soul
John Coltrane Sun Ship Avant-Garde Jazz
Waylon Jennings The Taker/Tulsa Outlaw Country
The Mothers Fillmore East - June 1971 Jazz-Rock