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  • 1970 - LZ scores another Top 10 and 2 solo Beatles releases make an impression.

    Looking back, 1970 was the year whereby I started to buy vinyl seriously. I turned 17 that year and started to drift away from sports, which had up until then consumed most of my leisure time. I became truly hooked on music and that passion has continued until this day.

    What are the best albums of 1970? BestEverAlbums.com brings together over 50,000 charts and calculates an overall ranking of the best albums of all time. The top ranked albums of 1970 are 1 - Paranoid by Black Sabbath, 2 - After The Gold Rush by Neil Young, 3 - All Things Must Pass by George Harrison, 4 - Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel, 5 - Bitches Brew by Miles Davis, 6 - John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon, 7 - Moondance by Van Morrison, 8 - Led Zeppelin III by Led Zeppelin, 9 - Cosmo's Factory by Creedence Clearwater Revival and 10 - Fun House by The Stooges.


    Top 10 - 8
    Top 25 - 20
    Top 50 - 28
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    I have 7 of the top 10 and 18 of the top 25. I didn't start buying LPs until around '76 though.
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    • #3
      The top 7 are staggering.
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      Senior Editor, Positive-Feedback.com
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      • #4
        Did you ever read the reviews of Zep at the time? Some were positively nasty; no wonder Page avoided the press. They made big piles of money here, and had a serious run- really the model for rock star excesses with the jet, the groupies, the drugs, and the rest of the insanity.
        Somebody should do a compilation of all of Page's studio work pre- and post Zep- it's pretty staggering how many big hits he played on before Zep- some of it standard pop. He was a one-man Wrecking Crew.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Bill Hart
          Did you ever read the reviews of Zep at the time? Some were positively nasty; no wonder Page avoided the press. They made big piles of money here, and had a serious run- really the model for rock star excesses with the jet, the groupies, the drugs, and the rest of the insanity.
          Somebody should do a compilation of all of Page's studio work pre- and post Zep- it's pretty staggering how many big hits he played on before Zep- some of it standard pop. He was a one-man Wrecking Crew.
          IIRC Led Zep didn't make any money until their fifth or sixth album such was their contract.
          Myles B. Astor, PhD, Administrator
          Senior Editor, Positive-Feedback.com
          ________________________________________

          -Zellaton Plural Evo speakers
          -Goldmund Telos 440 and 1000 Nextgen mono amps
          -Goldmund Mimesis 37S Nextgen preamplifier
          -Doshi EVO and Goldmund PH3.8 phonostage
          -VPI Vanquish direct-drive turntable
          -VPI 12-inch 3D Fat Boy dual pivot tonearm, VPI 12-inch 3D Fat Boy gimballed and SAT LM-12 arm
          -Lyra Atlas SL Lambda, vdh Colibri Master Signature, Mutech Hayabusa,
          -Technics RS1506 with Flux Magnetic heads, Doshi V3.0 tape stage (balanced)
          -Assorted cables including Skogrand, Kubala-Sosna, Audience FrontRow; Audience FrontRow, Genesis Advanced Technologies , Goldmund and Ensemble Power Cords
          -Accessories including Stillpoint Aperture panels, Cathedral Sound panels, Furutech NCF Nano AC receptacles; Silver Circle Tchaik 6 PLC, Symposium ISIS and SRA Craz 3 racks, Audiodharma Cable Cooker, Symposium Ultra and assorted SRA OHIO Class 2.3+ platforms.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by MylesBAstor

            IIRC Led Zep didn't make any money until their fifth or sixth album such was their contract.
            That may have been true under the recording contract,I don't know, but they were taking no prisoners on the tours- Peter Grant pushed the limits on % of the gate. Remember when they had a big box of cash stolen from the Waldorf safe room? I can't remember if it was 125k or 250k, and that was what was stashed from a few nights of gigs if I remember right.

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