My favourite albums from 1971

1. 34

   Ring of Hands

   Argent

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Celebration
   2. Sweet Mary
   3. Cast Your Spell Uranus
   4. Lothlorien ●
   5. Chained
   6. Rejoice
   7. Pleasure
   8. Sleep Won't Help Me
   9. Where Are We Going Wrong?

   Genres

   • Progressive rock

2. 33

   Camembert Electrique

   Gong

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Radio Gnome
   2. You Can't Kill Me
   3. I've Been Stoned Before
   4. Mister Long Shanks: O Mother I Am Your Fantasy
   5. Dynamite: I Am Your Animal
   6. Wet Cheese Delirium
   7. Squeezing Sponges Over Policemen's Heads
   8. Fohet Digs Holes in Space ●
   9. Tried So Hard
   10. Tropical Fish: Selene
   11. Gnome the Second

   Genres

   • Psychedelic rock
   • Progressive rock
   • Space rock

3. 32

   What's Going on

   Marvin Gaye

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. What's Going on
   2. What's Happening Brother
   3. Flyin' High (in the Friendly Sky)
   4. Save the Children
   5. God Is Love
   6. Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology)
   7. Right on
   8. Wholy Holy
   9. Inner City Blues (Make Me Wanna Holler) ●

   Genres

   • Soul

4. 31

   Nursery Cryme

   Genesis

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. The Musical Box ●
   2. For Absent Friends
   3. The Return of the Giant Hogweed
   4. Seven Stones
   5. Harold the Barrel
   6. Harlequin
   7. The Fountain of Salmacis

   Genres

   • Progressive rock

5. 30

   Faust

   Faust

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Why Don't You Eat Carrots?
   2. Meadow Meal ●
   3. Miss Fortune

   Genres

   • Krautrock
   • Experimental rock

6. 29

   Rosemary Lane

   Bert Jansch

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Tell Me What Is True Love?
   2. Rosemary Lane ●
   3. M'Lade Nancy
   4. A Dream, A Dream, A Dream
   5. Alman
   6. Wayward Child
   7. Nobody' Bar
   8. Reynardine
   9. Silly Woman
   10. Peregrinatos
   11. Sylvie
   12. Sarabanda
   13. Bird Song

   Genres

   • Folk

7. 28

   Islands

   King Crimson

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Formentera Lady
   2. Sailor's Tale ●
   3. The Letters
   4. Ladies of the Road
   5. Prelude: Song of the Gulls
   6. Islands

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Jazz fusion

8. 27

   Meddle

   Pink Floyd

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. One of These Days ●
   2. A Pillow of Winds
   3. Fearless
   4. San Tropez
   5. Seamus
   6. Echoes

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • psychedelic rock

9. 26

   Blue

   Joni Mitchell

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. All I Want
   2. My Old Man
   3. Little Green
   4. Carey
   5. Blue
   6. California
   7. This Flight Tonight
   8. River ●
   9. A Case of You
   10. The Last Time I Saw Richard

   Genres

   • Folk

10. 25

    Bryter Layter

    Nick Drake

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Introduction
    2. Hazey Jane II
    3. At the Chime of a City Clock ●
    4. One of These Things First
    5. Hazey Jane I
    6. Bryter Later
    7. Fly
    8. Poor Boy
    9. Northern Sky
    10. Sunday

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • Folk pop

11. 24

    Just as I Am

    Bill Withers

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Harlem
    2. Ain't No Sunshine ●
    3. Grandma's Hands
    4. Sweet Wanomi
    5. Everybody's Talkin'
    6. Do It Good
    7. Hope She'll Be Happier
    8. Let It Be
    9. I'm Her Daddy
    10. In My Heart
    11. Moanin' and Groanin'
    12. Better off Dead

    Genres

    • Soul

12. 23

    Deuce

    Rory Gallagher

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Used to Be
    2. I'm Not Awake Yet ●
    3. Don't Know Where I'm Going
    4. Maybe I Will
    5. Whole Lot of People
    6. In Your Town
    7. Should've Learnt My Lesson
    8. There's a Light
    9. Out of My Mind
    10. Crest of a Wave

    Genres

    • Blues rock

13. 22

    Nantucket Sleighride

    Mountain

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Don't Look Around
    2. Taunta (Sammy's Tune)
    3. Nantucket Sleighride (to Owen Coffin) ●
    4. You Can't Get Away
    5. Tired Angels (to J.M.H.)
    6. The Animal Trainer and the Toad
    7. My Lady
    8. Travellin' in the Dark (to E.M.P.)
    9. The Great Train Robbery

    Genres

    • Hard rock

14. 21

    The Yes Album

    Yes

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Yours Is No Disgrace
    2. Clap
    3. Starship Trooper
    4. I've Seen Good People ●
    5. A Venture
    6. Perpetual Change

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

15. 20

    Teaser and the Firecat

    Cat Stevens

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Wind
    2. Rubylove
    3. If I Laugh
    4. Changes IV
    5. How Can I Tell You
    6. Teusday's Dead
    7. Morning Has Broken
    8. Bitterblue
    9. Moonshadow
    10. Peace Train ●

    Genres

    • Folk rock

16. 19

    Maggot Brain

    Funkadelic

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Maggot Brain ●
    2. Can You Get to That
    3. Hit It and Quit It
    4. You and Your Folks, Me and My Folks
    5. Super Stupid
    6. Back in Our Minds
    7. Wars of Armageddon

    Genres

    • psychedelic funk
    • funk rock

17. 18

    St. Radigunds

    Spirogyra

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Future Won't Be Long ●
    2. Island
    3. Magical Mary
    4. Captain's Log
    5. At Home in the World
    6. Cogwheels, Crutches and Cyanide
    7. Time Will Tell
    8. We Were a Happy Crew
    9. Love Is a Funny Thing
    10. Duke of Beaufoot

    Genres

    • Progressive folk
    • Psychedelic folk

18. 17

    A Space in Time

    Ten Years After

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. One of These Days ●
    2. Here They Come
    3. I'd Love to Change the World
    4. Over the Hill
    5. Baby Won't You Let Me Rock 'n' Roll You
    6. Once There Was a Time
    7. Let the Sky Fall
    8. Hard Monkeys
    9. I've Been There Too
    10. Uncle Jam

    Genres

    • Blues rock

19. 16

    Tapestry

    Carole King

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. I Feel the Earth Move
    2. So Far Away
    3. It's Too Late ●
    4. Home Again
    5. Beautiful
    6. Way Over Yonder
    7. You've Got a Friend
    8. Where You Lead
    9. Will You Love Me Tomorrow?
    10. Smackwater Jack
    11. Tapestry
    12. (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman

    Genres

    • Pop rock
    • R&B

20. 15

    Fragile

    Yes

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Roundabout ●
    2. Cans and Brahms
    3. We Have Heaven
    4. South Side of the Sky
    5. Five per Cent for Nothing
    6. Long Distance Runaround
    7. The Fish (Schindleria Praematurus)
    8. Mood for a Day
    9. Heaty of the Sunrise

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

21. 14

    Killer

    Alice Cooper

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Under My Wheels
    2. Be My Lover
    3. Halo of Flies ●
    4. Desperado
    5. You Drive Me Nervous
    6. Yeah, Yeah, Yeah
    7. Dead Babies
    8. Killer

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • garage rock

22. 13

    Pawn Hearts

    Van Der Graaf Generator

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Lemmings (Including 'Cog') ●
    2. Man-Erg
    3. A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

23. 12

    Pearl

    Janis Joplin

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Move Over
    2. Cry Baby
    3. A Woman Left Lonely
    4. Half Moon
    5. Buried Alive in the Blues
    6. My Baby
    7. Me and Bobby McGee ●
    8. Mercedes Benz
    9. Trust Me
    10. Get It While You Can

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Soul

24. 11

    Look at Yourself

    Uriah Heep

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Look at Yourself
    2. I Wanna Be Free
    3. July Morning ●
    4. Tears in My Eyes
    5. Shadows of Grief
    6. What Should Be Done
    7. Love Machine

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • progressive rock

25. 10

    L.A. Woman

    The Doors

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Changeling
    2. Love Her Madly
    3. Been Down So Long
    4. Cars Hiss by My Window
    5. L.A. Woman
    6. L'America
    7. Hyacinth House
    8. Crawling King Snake
    9. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
    10. Riders on the Storm ●

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Psychedelic rock

26. 9

    First Utterance

    Comus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Diana ●
    2. The Herald
    3. Drip Drip
    4. Song to Comus
    5. The Bite
    6. Bitten
    7. The Prisoner

    Genres

    • Progressive folk
    • Psychedelic folk

27. 8

    Demian

    Demian

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Face the Crowd
    2. Windy City ●
    3. Love People
    4. Coming
    5. Todd's Tune
    6. No More Tenderness
    7. Are You with Me Baby
    8. Only a Lover

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Psychedelic rock

28. 7

    Songs of Love and Hate

    Leonard Cohen

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Avalanche
    2. Last Year's Man
    3. Dress Rehearsal Rag
    4. Diamonds in the Mine
    5. Love Calls You by Your Name
    6. Famous Blue Raincoat ●
    7. Sing Another Song, Boys
    8. Joan of Arc

    Genres

    • Folk

29. 6

    Tago Mago

    Can

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Paperhouse ●
    2. Mushroom
    3. Oh Yeah
    4. Halleluhwah
    5. Aumgn
    6. Peking O
    7. Bring Me Coffee or Tea

    Genres

    • Avant-garde rock
    • Progressive rock

30. 5

    Salisbury

    Uriah Heep

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Bird of Prey
    2. The Park
    3. Time to Live
    4. Lady in Black ●
    5. High Priestess
    6. Salisbury

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • progressive rock

31. 4

    Aqualung

    Jethro Tull

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Aqualung ●
    2. Cross-Eyed Mary
    3. Cheap Day Return
    4. Mother Goose
    5. Wond'ring Aloud
    6. Up to Me
    7. My God
    8. Hymn 43
    9. Slipstream
    10. Locomotive Breath
    11. Wind-up

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • hard rock

32. 3

    Master of Reality

    Black Sabbath

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Sweet Leaf
    2. After Forever
    3. Embryo
    4. Children of the Grave ●
    5. Orchid
    6. Lord of this World
    7. Into the Void

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • stoner metal

33. 2

    Fireball

    Deep Purple

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Fireball
    2. No No No
    3. Demon's Eye
    4. Anyone's Daughter
    5. The Mule
    6. Fools ●
    7. No One Came

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • heavy metal

34. 1

    Led Zeppelin IV

    Led Zeppelin

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Black Dog
    2. Rock and Roll
    3. The Battle of Evermore
    4. Stairway to Heaven ●
    5. Misty Mountain Hop
    6. Four Sticks
    7. Going to California
    8. When the Levee Breaks

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • hard rock