Album of The Year - Endgame

I'll do this now because I know I'll forget once I'm up north. This is probably the best year I remember doing for this. Really wish I had more time to listen to some of the stuff on lists here less familiar to me, but alas. Most of these could have been number 1 for a lot of other years.

1. Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water (10 pts.)
2. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
3. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
4. Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
5. Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
6. Van Morrison - His Band and the Street Choir
7. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu
8. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
9. Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman
10. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (1 pt.)

Honourable mentions:
11. The Guess Who - American Woman
12. Toquinho - Toquinho
13. Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
14. Bob Dylan - New Morning
15. The Band - Stage Fright
16. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
17. Velvet Underground - Loaded
18. Van Morrison - Moondance
19. Gordon Lightfoot - Sit Down Young Stranger (aka If You Could Read My Mind)
20. Tim Maia - Tim Maia
21. Bob Dylan - Self Portrait
 
1. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
2. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
4. The Beatles - Let It Be
5. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
6. Grateful Dead - Workingman’s Dead
7. The Stooges - Fun House
8. Badfinger - No Dice
9. The Beach Boys - Sunflower
10. Can - Soundtracks
 
1) Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead (probably because I just got off a huge Dead kick. Oh well, it's my favorite studio album of theirs.)
2) Alice Coltrane - Ptah the El Daoud (Alice has become one of my all time favorite artists over the last couple of years)
3) The Stooges - Funhouse
4) Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (Probably my least favorite from this run of electric albums but it's also Miles. I think I'm in the minority that prefers his electric run to the 1st and 2nd quintets.)
5) Velvet Underground - Loaded
6) The Kinks - Lola vs Powerman (Strangers is my favorite Kings song)
7) Led Zeppelin - III
8) Derek and the Dominoes - Layla (Duane is one of my three or four favorite guitarists ever *pours one out*. Eric isn't too shabby either.)
9) Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
10) Grateful Dead - American Beauty

Damn, among others these didn't even make the cut. Loaded year:
McCoy Tyner - Extensions
Van Morrison - Moondance
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
Soft Machine - Third
Tim Buckley - Starsailor
Nico - Desertshore
CCR - Cosmos Factory
 
Calculating this up now and realized I never did a personal list for 70

  1. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
  2. Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
  3. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
  4. Velvet Underground- Loaded
  5. George Harrison- All Things Must Pass
  6. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
  7. Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
  8. Zeppelin 3
  9. Beatles - Let it Be
  10. Grateful Dead - American Beauty
 
The N+G Top 20 Albums of 1970

  1. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
  2. Miles Davis - Bitches Brew (tie 2)
  3. Black Sabbath - Paranoid (tie 2)
  4. Van Morrison - Moondance
  5. Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
  6. Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Trouble Water
  7. The Stooges - Fun House
  8. Grateful Dead ~ American Beauty
  9. The Beatles - Let it Be
  10. George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
  11. Velvet Underground - Loaded
  12. Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
  13. Grateful Dead ~ Workingman's Dead
  14. CCR - Cosmo's Factory
  15. CSNY - Déjà Vu
  16. David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
  17. Alice Coltrane - Ptah, the El Daoud (tie 17)
  18. Joni Mitchell - Ladies Of The Canyon (tie 17)
  19. Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day
  20. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
 
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1. Beck - Midnite Vultures
2. Pinback - Pinback
3. Old 97's - Fight Songs
4. Tom Waits - Mule Variations
5. Smog - Knock Knock
6. Van Morrison - Back on Top
7. Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
8. American Football - American Football
9. American Analog Set - The Golden Band
10. Built to Spill - Keep It Like a Secret


for whatever reason, I feel like I'm forgetting a big one, but that's still a hell of a list
 
Wasn’t Clarity out in 98?

Off the top of my head, immediate stand outs would be flips’ Soft Bulletin, Fiona Apple’s When the Pawn, Sigur Ros’ Aegitis Byrjun, wilco’s Summerteeth, and d-plan’s The Emergency & I

From an Oztrayan perspective, bluebottle kiss’ Patient, and second records from Not From There and possibly Pnau (although did Sambanova came out in 98 too?)
 
1999:
  1. Built to Spill - "Keep It Like a Secret"
  2. Sigur Rós - "Ágætis byrjun"
  3. The Dismemberment Plan - "Emergency & I"
  4. The Flaming Lips - "The Soft Bulletin"
  5. Boredoms - "Vision Creation Newsun"
  6. The Magnetic Fields - "69 Love Songs"
  7. Wilco - "Summerteeth"
  8. American Football - "American Football"
  9. Blur - "13"
  10. Fiona Apple - "When the Pawn"
 
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