109. John Lennon — Imagine
110. The Congos — Heart Of The Congos
111. Leonard Cohen — New Skin For The Old Ceremony
112. Bob Dylan — Blood On The Tracks
113. The Who — Who’s Next
114. Brian Eno — Another Green World
115. Ramones — Rocket To Russia
116. Toots & Maytals — Funky Kingston
117. Augustus Pablo — King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
118. Sex Pistols — Never Mind the Bollocks
119. The Jam — All Mod Cons
120. Elvis Costello — This Year’s Model
121. Blondie — Parallel Lines
122. Talking Heads — Talking Heads ’77
123. Cymande — S/T
124. Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady
The Ramones were seminal, the Clash political, and the Sex Pistols apocalyptical, but for sheer pint-fueled aggro energy, you can’t top Singles. From the cheeky opening shot of “Orgasm Addict” to more serious rants “What Do I Get?” and “Ever Fallen In Love,” the Buzzcocks’ singles showed that love had a place in punk — albeit a delightfully twisted one. — John Schacht125. Iggy Pop — Lust for Life
126. King Crimson — Starless and Bible Black
127. Van Morrison — Tupelo Honey
128. Pink Floyd — Wish You Were Here
129. The Wailers — Burnin’
130. Black Sabbath — Paranoid
131. Police — Outlandos D’Amour
132. Humble Pie — Rock On
133. Miles Davis — Live: Evil
134. Creedence Clearwater Revival — Cosmo’s Factory
135. AC/DC — Highway to Hell
136. Donna Summer — On The Radio
137. The B-52’S — The B-52’s
138. Elton John — Tumbleweed Connection
139. Various Artists — Saturday Night Fever
140. Queen — A Night At the Opera
141. Doors — L.A. Woman
142. Yes — Close to the Edge
143. Rikki Lee Jones — S/T
144. Ashford & Simpson — Is It Still Good To Ya
145. O’Jays — Backstabbers
146. Al Green — Let’s Stay Together
147. Claudia Lennear — Phew
148. Rasputin’s Stash — S/T
149. Black Merda — S/T
150. Carole King — Tapestry
151. Donald Byrd — Ethiopian Knights
152. Jimi Hendrix — Band of Gypsys
153. Eddie Kendricks — People…Hold On
154. Harold Melvin & the Bluenotes — Wake Up Everybody
155. The Brothers Johnson — Look Out For #1
156. Rufus — Rags To Rufus
157. Quincy Jones — Sounds and Stuff Like That
158. Aerosmith — Toys In The Attic
159. Dorothy Moore — Misty Blue
160. Edwin Birdsong — Supernatural
161. The Dramatics — Watcha See Is Watcha Get
162. James Luther Dickinson — Dixie Fried
163. Commodores — S/T
164. Joni Mitchell — Court & Spark
165. David Crosby — If I Could Only Remember My Name…
166. Betty Davis — S/T
167. The Last Poets — This Is Madness
168. Roberta Flack — Chapter Two
169. The Jacksons — Destiny
170. The Temptations — All Directions
171. The Main Ingredient — Euphrates River
172. Hank Williams Jr. — Whiskey Bent And Hell Bound
173. Tom Waits — Small Change
174. The Stylistics — S/T
175. Joe Cocker — Mad Dogs & Englishmen
176. T.Rex — Electric Warrior
177. Stevie Wonder Innervisions
Innervisions qualifies as Wonder’s first innovative masterwork. The peerless “Living For the City” demonstrates how the consummate musician wove soul, jazz, and pop into stories of the American, especially Black American, cultural landscape of the early 1970s. — Samir Shukla178. Kraftwerk — Trans-Europe Express
179. Sly & the Family Stone — There’s A Riot Goin’ On
180. Esther Phillips — From A Whisper to A Scream
181. Fanny — Charity Ball
182. Delaney & Bonnie — Motel Shot
183. Eddie Hinton — Very Extremely Dangerous
184. Eugene McDaniels — Headless Heroes of the Apocalypse
185. Kool & the Gang — Wild & Peaceful
186. Sylvester & the Hot Band — Scratch My Flower
187. Waylon Jennings — Honky Tonk Heroes
188. Boz Scaggs — Silk Degrees
189. Johnnie Taylor — One Step Beyond
190. Steve Miller Band — Fly Like An Eagle
191. Jimmy Castor Bunch — It’s Just Begun
192. Phoebe Snow — Never Letting Go
193. Chuck Brown & the Soul Searchers — Bustin’ Loose
194. Jon Lucien — Rashida
195. The Wild Tchoupitoulas — Wild Tchoupitoulas
196. Parliament — Mothership Connection
197. Johnny Guitar Watson — A Real Mother For Ya
198. The Chi-Lites — (For God’s Sake) Give More Power to the People
199. Marianne Faithfull — Broken English
200. Diana Ross — S/T
Rocks Off
Top 200 albums of the ’70s
This article appears in Sep 20-26, 2006.





