the best year in 70s music?

1978

1971 > 1978 > 1976 > 1973 > 1979 > 1977 > 1970 > 1972 > 1975 > 1974

71/73

The mid-70s was that interlude between the hippie/post-hippie era and the punk/New Wave era, so not much interesting going on.

>>72156318
1977
>Motörhead self-titled
>Iggy Pop - The Idiot, Lust for Life, Kill City
>Bowie - Low and Heroes
>The Clash self-titled
>Sex Pistols - NMTB
>Ramones - Rocket to Russia

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>>72156859
>nothing interesting was happening because mainstream music wasn't interesting

>>72156318
i'd say either 77, 78 or 79

>>72156941
The first Motorhead album sucked though, just like Aerosmith, they didn't find themselves until the second album. Punk was obviously the big thing going in 1977, the mainstream rock scene was very weak and there were few albums of note.

1978 though...glorious year. Van Halen S/T, Stained Class, Overkill, and of course lots of New Wave. Making it easy to overlook the noxious flood of manufactured radio disco flooding the airwaves that year.

>>72156941
marquee moon

>>72157012
Oh right, I forgot this is /mu/ and he has to post his list of obscure fedoracore lo-fi EPs from 1974.

>>72156941
pink flag tho

>>72156318
There was no hip hop or power metal in 1975 so no lmao

>>72157248
i wouldn't say it sucked necessarily, it's honestly one of my favorite of their albums
i like the more pronounced blues theme and imo theyve literally never written a song better than Iron Horse / Born to Lose

>>72157248
Are you talking about what was really the SECOND Motorhead album or are you talking about the album that would eventually be released with the title On Parole? On Parole is GOAT!

>>72156859
The whole counterculture movement was over by 1971.

1971 or 1972, alot of the best prog albums were coming out then, besides that probably 75 or 77.

71, 73, 78

>>72156941
>>72157252
Talking Heads 77, Trans Europe Express

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1971

>>72156318
74

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73 for this and this alone

>>72166820
Good pick, forgot it was this old.

>>72156318
>Top-Tier
1979
1978
1972
1971
1976
1970
1977
1973
1975
1974

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>>72163821
>that list
Pic related. It's you.

>>72166848
this album refuses to age, haven't heard anything else like it from around the time
sounds like it was released yesterday

>>72166982
Go back your kdot threads.

>>72166959
Most of the music happening in 79 was just refinements of the stuff that came out in 78, so I wouldn't necessarily say it was better.

>>72156859
Problem with 1974-75 is that the protest era was over and artists didn't have a lot to write songs about. Watergate wasn't really something that made for good song material. My uncle bought the first two KISS albums back then and immediately returned them. He said the rock scene at that time was so weak and disappointing compared to 5 years earlier.

>>72166820
That was 74 bud

>>72167137
During that time, you had all of the following:

>corporate rock (Doobie Brothers, Foghat, etc)
>increasingly lazy, complacent albums coming from the grizzled veterans of the 60s
>buttprog (prog had had its heyday in the early 70s, by 75 it was turning into self-parody)

On the other hand, disco was a legitimate underground scene as opposed to the commercialized shitshow it became during the Carter years.

Punk rock was a huge relief in an era of corporate rock and California hippie triple albums.