POLL 1971: Scaruffi's top 20 albums of that year

Led Zeppelin IV

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kickass list but it's Fragile for me

oh man I own four of these (and have owned two more--Can and Zep--in the past) and the Yes one is easily my least favorite of them

Okay okay! I did vote after all, for Mirror Man! Got the art, got the boogie.

gotta be Tago Mago but Pawn Hearts is very close, as is Faust

Mirror Man is great! Kandy Korn is in the running for my favorite Beefheart song

Listening to the Bruce Palmer album right now. First song is called Alpha Omega Apocalypse and kind of sounds like a weird cross between Traffic and Amon Duul II. It's VERY hippie...

pawn hearts

actually fragile.

Tago mago is p repetitive
hell yeah it is

Yeah, I would have voted for Maggot Brain if it was on the list. Without being totally sure of the chronology, I have a feeling that something Brazilian has been overlooked as well. Or were they all in hiding in 71?

great list save for the hampton grease band -- that record is all style no substance goofiness imo.

Just thinking about Live at Fillmore East vs. Mirror Man has me conflicted.

go for the fillmore! obviously one of the best live albums in history!

haha, just for that I'm voting Hampton, Ian!

STORMCOCK

cool list! who is scaruffi?
it'd be between mirror man, fillmore east, tago mago and america for me.

Tago Mago

My #1 (not listed here) would be Judee Sill's s/t debut. #2 might be "Sticky Fingers" (also not here), or something else I'm forgetting. Of the ones shown here, I'd probably vote for "IV".

oh well, if we're going to go off-list, please consider Sir Douglas Quinter's The Return of Doug Saldana, times Miles Davis's Jack Johnson and Live-Evil. So many other albums I thought were 1971 are actually '70 and '72.

if it were here, I'd go for Live-Evil instantly.

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1971 is one of the all-time great years but most of my favourites aren't here so Crosby it is.

voted Stormcock cos it's the best 1971 alb w/ jimmy page on it

Yeah, I would have voted for Maggot Brain if it was on the list.

Uh and "There's a Riot Going On"? Though it's not rock music so doesn't count obviously.

Yeah Riot is probably my favorite album not on here

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I'd think he'd be into Flower Travellin' Band's Satori, but he probably hasn't updated that list in years. Master Of MFin' Reality, must not be his bag.

Both are further down; Satori is 25

Master is 48

Maybe I will repost the entire list the next time I'm not on my phone

The Bruce Palmer album is filled with lotsa late-nite bongo jams. You can practically smell the incense. And it's got Rick James!

Yeah Master of Reality would be my #1 (xposts).

Missed this poll somehow -- Tago Mago would have gotten another vote.

I can't get that excited about Roy Harper's output in sum but he bottled the lightning on that one

hmmm Sunfighter mightve been a bit slept on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Is2OeUZ6Sg

wd totally love it if KM played a song that sounded like ^that btw

I'm a pretty big Beefheart fan, but "Mirror Man" is like kryptonite to my ears.

Waht? Album or song?

The album. It just sounds like half-assed jamming to me. Give me the well-rehearsed, cleanly-recorded Magic Band of "Trout Mask" over this any day.

tried this?
The Mirror Man Sessions

In 1999, Buddha Records (which had renamed itself to correct the earlier misspelling, 'Buddah') reissued the album under the title The Mirror Man Sessions, which was released with a newly expanded track list and a 12-page booklet explaining the history of the recordings. The additional tracks included on this release are also taken from the abandoned Brown Wrapper sessions, and thus yield a track listing which is somewhat closer to the original concept. Other tracks from these sessions are included as bonus material on Buddha's 1999 issue of Safe as Milk.
No. Title Length
1. "Tarotplane" 19:08
2. "25th Century Quaker" 9:50
3. "Mirror Man" 15:46
4. "Kandy Korn" 8:06
5. "Trust Us" (Take 6) 7:14
6. "Safe as Milk" (Take 12) 5:00
7. "Beatle Bones n' Smokin' Stones" 3:11
8. "Moody Liz" (Take 8) 4:32
9. "Gimme Dat Harp Boy" 3:32

^that and Shiny Beast were my gateways into Beefheart. I still think of those sessions as basically the 2nd Beefheart album (ie the missing link between Safe as Milk and TMR)

"Kandy Korn" is probably in my top 3 songs from Van Vliet