1971 ALBUMS
- Pigeon
- Dec 27, 2024
- 4 min read
Updated: Jun 10
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV (1971)
(•)> IV: Their untitled installment is melodic and versatile. Peak Led Zeppelin delivers a really solid collection of hard rock tunes with subtle changes of mood. IV starts with the heavy riffs and screams of “Black Dog”. The Tolkien-inspired “Battle of Evermore” is followed by the enigmatic “Stairway To Heaven”. “Going To California” gives me a feeling of range life. Next, “When The Levee Breaks, the complex closer that ends this timeless record.
Marvin Gaye - What's Going On (1971)
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David Bowie - Hunky Dory (1971)
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Joni Mitchell - Blue (1971)
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Black Sabbath - Master of Reality (1971)
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The Doors - L.A. Woman (1971)
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Funkadelic - Maggot Brain (1971)
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The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers (1971)
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John Lennon - Imagine (1971)
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Paul McCartney - Ram (1971)
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The Who - Who's Next (1971)
LIGHT 9
I don't know to what extent The Who has the influence that other classic rock bands of this time had. Comparing the band to Led Zeppelin, who helped shape the hard rock scene in a way that few other bands would, comparing them to Yes, with their colorful and versatile expansions of what prog rock was at the time, but also reflecting on what an artist like Todd Rundgrenn was able to mobilize when it came to psychedelic pop, The Who don't seem like influencers so much as the result of a crucial evolution of the genre.
As such, Who's Next ends up taking a lot of these artists' sounds and ideas and concentrating it all on a single album. An album that can be characterized as hard rock, yes, but that would perhaps be reducing it a little to what it is capable of offering. Because if the band features powerful riffs on Bargain, the synths and psychedelic ambitions of the band on Baba O'Riley, not only their most popular song but also the best on the album, is in any case enough to be characterized as art rock in its purest form. Multiple moments on this album lean towards the progressive sound full of pianos and synthesizers that I mentioned earlier, and this combined with the more straightforward hard rock riffs create a contrast that I never thought would work so well.
As much as this album has been mentioned in discussions over time, the fact is that its biggest audience is a boomer crowd that finds it difficult to align its taste with what is generally the old-school rock that the new generation values most. And as part of the new generation, I'm amazed but incredibly happy to realize that WHO'S NEXT deserves perhaps a little more credit than we're giving them.
Fav. Tracks: Bab O’Riley; Bargain; My Wife; The Song Is Over; Getting In Tune; Going Mobile; Won’t Get Fooled Again
Least Fav. Track: Behind Blue Eyes
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Nick Drake - Bryter Layter (1971)
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The Beach Boys - Surf's Up (1971)
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Janis Joplin - Pearl (1971)
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Yes - Fragile (1971)
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Alice Coltrane - Journey in Satchidananda (1971)
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Don McLean -American Pie (1971)
(•)> Don Mclean's debut opens with an epic and iconic lead single about the day the music died. "Vincent" stands tall as a poetic love letter to all artists with an insane and intense passion for their works of art. Meanwhile, the rest of "American Pie" has catchy hooks and enough acoustic reflections on the American dream to keep it a pleasant listen.
Yes - The Yes Album (1971)
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Yusuf / Cat Stevens - Teaser And The Firecat (1971)
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Miles Davis - A Tribute To Jack Johnson (1971)
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Alice Cooper - Killer (1971)
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Badfinger - Straight Up (1971)
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Pharaoah Sanders - Thembi (1971)
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Mahavishnu Orchestra - The Inner Mounting Flame (1971)
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Deep Purple - Fireball (1971)
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Victor Jara - El Derecho de Vivir en Paz (1971)
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The Kinks - Muswell Hillbillies (1971)
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Alice Coltrane - World Galaxy (1971)
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Pappo's Blues - Pappo's Blues, vol. 1 (1971)
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José Afonso - Cantigas Do Maio (1971)
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Todd Rundgren - Runt: The Ballad of Todd Rundgren (1971)
(•)> His sophomore seems slightly more mature.
Sérgio Godinho - Os Sobreviventes (1971)
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James Brown - Hot Pants (1971)
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Violeta Parra - Canciones Reencontradas en París (1971)
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José Mário Branco - Mudam-se Os Tempos Mudam-se As Vontades (1971)
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