Bitches Brew
1970
Davis gave the players almost no written music, and his producer Teo Macero cut the tapes together afterward with a razor blade.
★ 8.9
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Bridge Over Troubled Water
1970
Simon wrote the title song and gave it to Garfunkel to sing alone, and spent years regretting it. They had broken up by release.
★ 8.6
After the Gold Rush
1970
Recorded mostly in the basement of his Topanga house, with an eighteen-year-old Nils Lofgren on piano, an instrument he had not played before.
★ 8.2
Deja Vu
1970
It took roughly eight hundred hours of studio time, and by the end the four of them were barely speaking to each other.
★ 8.1
Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
1970
Clapton wrote it about his best friend's wife. The long piano ending was brought in by the drummer, and he was paid for the co-write.
★ 8.1
Paranoid
1970
The title song was written in about twenty minutes as filler. Tony Iommi plays with plastic fingertips after losing his in a factory.
★ 8.0
American Beauty
1970
The bassist Phil Lesh wrote Box of Rain while his father was dying, and sang it himself. The Dead had never written this plainly before.
★ 7.7
Moondance
1970
Morrison arranged the horns himself and has spent decades saying he does not much like the record. Everyone else disagrees.
★ 7.5
Plastic Ono Band
1970
Lennon made it straight after four months of primal scream therapy, with almost nothing on it but piano, bass and drums.
★ 7.5
Black Sabbath
1970
Recorded in a single day for a few hundred pounds and released on a Friday the thirteenth. The riff is a devil's interval.
★ 7.1
Cosmo's Factory
1970
The band called their rehearsal warehouse the factory, because John Fogerty had them in there every day. Five singles came out of it.
★ 7.0
Live at Leeds
1970
They burned the tapes of every other show on the tour and kept this one, packaged deliberately to look like a bootleg.
★ 6.4
Workingman's Dead
1970
They made it in about nine days, in debt and facing charges after a New Orleans arrest, singing harmonies learned from Crosby, Stills and Nash.
★ 6.3
Loaded
1970
The label asked for an album loaded with hits, so they called it that. Lou Reed quit the band before it was released.
★ 6.0
Sweet Baby James
1970
Taylor was the first American signed to the Beatles' Apple label, and had already made a record there that nobody bought.
★ 5.9
Bryter Layter
1970
It sold fewer than three thousand copies. John Cale played on two songs, and Drake barely performed any of it in public.
★ 5.5
Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
1970
Recorded on the 1969 American tour, weeks before Altamont. Charlie Watts posed for the cover with a donkey carrying the band's instruments.
★ 5.1
Tumbleweed Connection
1970
Neither John nor Bernie Taupin had set foot in America when they wrote these songs about it. Taupin had been listening to The Band.
★ 4.3
Close to You
1970
Karen Carpenter was the drummer, and sang from behind the kit until someone persuaded her to come out in front of it.
★ 2.9