Here they are. My favorite albums from my collection released in 1970. I spent most of the year on one Navy base or another and there was always plenty of time (except for those months in boot camp) to listen to music and get albums. It was also a time when I was first getting cassette tapes which were newly available and becoming widespread. Some of the guys were buying reel to reel tape players and there were actually some albums available in that format.I kept waiting to be shipped out to sea but that wasn't to happen until early '71. I also saw a lot of shows that year and many of them at the Aragon Ballroom in Chicago when I was stationed nearby at Great Lakes Naval Training Center.
One of the great experiences of the year was my exposure to a variety of different kinds of music and in particular country and western. Back then they all called in that. The closest I ever got to country music was the Byrds but I was sent to basic training in San Diego, California and I was only one of a couple of people from the East and definitely the only person from an Eastern city. Now I grew up in Philadelphia on Doo-Wop, Soul and Rock 'n Roll. I was shocked when the company commander pulled out a tiny radio for the entire barracks and we got to vote on the one channel that would be played in the evening during the hour we had to ourselves. The vote was overwhelmingly in favor of the country music station. I would have been happy with either a rock/pop or soul station but... not a chance. I was surrounded by Southern and Western boys. It was a real eye opener and most of that country music in 1970 sucked. I did get to like George Jones though.
Anyway... Neil Young was one of my favorites from that year and saw him in concert a couple of times. Once with Crosby, Stills and Nash in Chicago and once by himself. I think the George Harrison album was my first pre-recorded cassette album. It was a double one too.
A lot of these albums I heard at friends houses or down the shore while visiting on leave. I went on to get them for myself over the following few years.
- Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
- George Harrison - All Things Must Pass
- Derek and The Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs
- Miles Davis - Bitches Brew
- Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
- Van Morrison - Moondance
- Santana - Abraxas
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Deja Vu
- Cat Stevens - Tea For The Tillerman
- The Who - Live at Leeds
- Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin III
- Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen
- Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton
- The Velvet Underground - Loaded
- Grateful Dead - American Beauty
- The Beatles - Let It Be
- Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys
- John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
- David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World
- The Moody Blues - A Question of Balance
- Jethro Tull - Benefit
- The Kinks - Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround (Part One)
- Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead
- Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection
- Stephen Stills - Stephen Stills
- Dave Mason - Alone Together
- The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack
- Paul McCartney - McCartney
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory
- Hot Tuna - Hot Tuna
- Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon
- Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
- John McLaughlin - Devotion
- Funkadelic - Funkadelic
- John Cale - Vintage Violence
- Isaac Hayes - The Isaac Hayes Movement
- The Band - Stage Fright
- Jesse Winchester - Jesse Winchester
- Buddy Miles - Them Changes
- Eric Burdon and War - Eric Burdon Declares War
- Seatrain - Seatrain
- Little Feat - Little Feat
- Savoy Brown - Raw Sienna
- The Guess Who - American Woman
- The Doors - Morrison Hotel
- The Byrds - (Untitled)
- Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs
- The Pretty Things - Parachute
- The Stooges - Fun House
- Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus
- Pearls Before Swine - The Use of Ashes
- James Taylor - Sweet Baby James
- Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
- Badfinger - Magic Christian Music
- Chicago - Chicago III
- Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley
- Andrew Lloyd Webber & Tim Rice - Jesus Christ Superstar
- Tim Buckley - Starsailor
- Captain Beefheart - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
- Sly & The Family Stone - Greatest Hits
- Exuma - Exuma II
- Soft Machine - Third
- Nico - Desertshore
- The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South
- Aretha Franklin - Spirit in the Dark
- The Beach Boys - Sunflower
- Syd Barrett - Barrett
- Funkadelic - Free Your Mind and Your Ass Will Follow
- Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb
- Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
- King Crimson - In the Wake of Poseidon
- Tyrannosaurus Rex - A Beard of Stars
- Elton John - Elton John
- Heron - Heron
- Van Morrison - His Band and the Street Choir
- Badfinger - No Dice
- Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum
- Melanie - Candles in the Rain
- Delaney & Bonnie - Delaney & Bonnie & Friends on Tour with Eric Clapton
- Todd Rundgren - Runt
- Gil Scott-Heron - Small Talk at 125th and Lenox
- J.D. Blackfoot - The Ultimate Prophecy
- Booker T. & The M.G.'s - McLemore Avenue
- Mandrill - Mandrill
- The Incredible Stringband - U
- The Rolling Stones - Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!
- James Brown - Sex Machine
- Bob Dylan - New Morning
- Alice Cooper - Easy Action
- Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk
- The J. Geils Band - The J. Geils Band
- Fleetwood Mac - Kiln House
- Shuggie Otis - Here Comes Shuggie Otis
- The Guess Who - Share the Land
- Poco - Poco
- Atomic Rooster - Atomic Rooster
- Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green
- Mountain - Climbing
- Bob Dylan - Self Portrait
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