1971

Ring of Hands

Argent

• Label: Epic
• Released: February 1971

• Progressive rock

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?

Camembert Electrique

Gong

• Label: BYG
• Released: October 1971

• Psychedelic rock
• Progressive rock
• Space rock

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

What's Going on

Marvin Gaye

• Label: Tamla
• Released: 21 May 1971

• Soul

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)

Nursery Cryme

Genesis

• Label: Charisma
• Released: 12 November 1971

• Progressive rock

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

Faust

Faust

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 1971

• Krautrock
• Experimental rock

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

Rosemary Lane

Bert Jansch

• Label: Transatlantic
• Released: June 1971

• Folk

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

Islands

King Crimson

• Label: Island
• Released: 3 December 1971

• Progressive rock
• Jazz fusion

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

Meddle

Pink Floyd

• Label: Harvest
• Released: 30 October 1971

• Progressive rock
• psychedelic rock

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

Blue

Joni Mitchell

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 22 June 1971

• Folk

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

Bryter Layter

Nick Drake

• Label: Island
• Released: 5 March 1971

• Folk rock
• Folk pop

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

Just as I Am

Bill Withers

• Label: Sussex
• Released: 1 May 1971

• Soul

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

Deuce

Rory Gallagher

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 1971

• Blues rock

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

Nantucket Sleighride

Mountain

• Label: Island
• Released: January 1971

• Hard rock

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

The Yes Album

Yes

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 19 February 1971

• Progressive rock

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

Teaser and the Firecat

Cat Stevens

• Label: Island
• Released: 1 October 1971

• Folk rock

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

Maggot Brain

Funkadelic

• Label: Westbound
• Released: 12 July 1971

• psychedelic funk
• funk rock

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

St. Radigunds

Spirogyra

• Label: B&C Records
• Released: September 1971

• Progressive folk
• Psychedelic folk

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

A Space in Time

Ten Years After

• Label: Chrysalis
• Released: August 1971

• Blues rock

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

Tapestry

Carole King

• Label: A&M
• Released: 10 February 1971

• Pop rock
• R&B

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

Fragile

Yes

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 12 November 1971

• Progressive rock

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

Killer

Alice Cooper

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: November 1971

• Hard rock
• garage rock

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

Pawn Hearts

Van Der Graaf Generator

• Label: Charisma
• Released: October 1971

• Progressive rock

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

Pearl

Janis Joplin

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 11 January 1971

• Blues rock
• Soul

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

Look at Yourself

Uriah Heep

• Label: Bronze
• Released: September 1971

• Heavy metal
• progressive rock

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

L.A. Woman

The Doors

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 19 April 1971

• Blues rock
• Psychedelic rock

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

First Utterance

Comus

• Label: Dawn
• Released: 1971

• Progressive folk
• Psychedelic folk

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

Demian

Demian

• Label: ABC-Dunhill
• Released: 1971

• Blues rock
• Psychedelic rock

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

Songs of Love and Hate

Leonard Cohen

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 19 March 1971

• Folk

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

Tago Mago

Can

• Label: United Artists
• Released: August 1971

• Avant-garde rock
• Progressive rock

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

Salisbury

Uriah Heep

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: January 1971

• Heavy metal
• progressive rock

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

Aqualung

Jethro Tull

• Label: Chrysalis
• Released: 19 March 1971

• Progressive rock
• hard rock

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

Master of Reality

Black Sabbath

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: August 1971

• Heavy metal
• stoner metal

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

Fireball

Deep Purple

• Label: Harvest
• Released: July 1971

• Hard rock
• heavy metal

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

Led Zeppelin IV

Led Zeppelin

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 8 November 1971

• Blues rock
• hard rock

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