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CD	ARTIST - - - Album (Year)	MP3
	FUNKADELIC - - - Maggot Brain (1971) Funky + psychedelic = acid soul. Their 'delickest.	Funky track: "Super Stupid"
	CAT STEVENS - - - Teaser and the Firecat (1971) Wonderful album, with folky, acoustic guitar and piano, and many of his best songs.
	HARRY NILSSON - - - Nilsson Schmilsson (1971) Not to be confused with Harry Chapin. This Harry hung out with John Lennon. Nilsson was a fine songwriter. His most popular album.
	JEFFERSON AIRPLANE - - - Bark (1971) One of their last great albums, with songs that show the band members pulling apart in different directions.	Feel-good track: "Feel So Good"
	JOHN LENNON - - - Imagine (1971) Short of a greatest hits collection, John's best solo work.
	LED ZEPPELIN - - - IV (1971) (Untitled 4th album some people now call ZOSO) One of the best rock albums of all time.
	MARVIN GAYE - - - What's Goin' On (1971) Marvin Gaye's beautiful, plaintive protest of worldly wrongs.
	PAUL McCARTNEY - - - Ram (1971) Paul's second album picks up the pace and rocks more than his first.
	THE ROLLING STONES - - - Sticky Fingers (1971) Look beyond the high energy hits "Brown Sugar" and "Bitch" on this. The other songs are more laid-back, but that doesn't mean they are tame. They don't need to be loud to be dangerous, or fast to be virile. "Moonlight Mile" is dead lovely.
	SHAWN PHILLIPS - - - Collaboration (1971) Acoustic guitar, piano, cello, and orchestra, impassioned vocals, with lots of tempo changes and wide dynamic range (soft-loud), from sigh to foot-stomp. Shawn writes socially relevant, philosophically questioning, sensitive, and poetic songs. This album even has one radio-ready tune ("Spaceman").
	TRAFFIC - - - The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (1971) This ranges from jazzy jams, with horns, piano, and flute, to guitar-god rock.
	VAN DER GRAAF GENERATOR - - - Pawn Hearts (1971) Van Der Graff was a virtuoso art rock outfit, like Emerson, Lake & Palmer distilled into a liquor too potent for mass consumption. In spite of lack of commercial fame, one of the best art/prog rock groups. You might have to knock out some walls to fit this in your mind.
	YES - - - Fragile (1971) One of their most popular early records, got a lot of airplay.	Tough track: "Roundabout"
	CAT STEVENS - - - Catch Bull at Four (1972) While half of the songs are quieter, this also has some of his most intense and exciting songs, like the ecstatic "Angelsea," with its fast guitar strumming and synthesizer, the driving, urgent "Sitting" and "Can't Keep It In," and "18th Avenue," with its dramatic build up. Not to mention the one about alien abduction (?) when he's force-fed cold potatoes.
	CURTIS MAYFIELD - - - Superfly (1972) Movie sountrack and one of the most popular crossover albums (from soul to rock).
	JETHRO TULL - - - Living in the Past (1972) A double album with two mediocre live tracks, but the rest is brilliant and infectious Tull. (Repeats a few tracks from other albums, but most tracks were unique to this album.)
	NEIL YOUNG - - - Harvest (1972) Neil's Number 1 charting album.
	PAUL SIMON - - - Paul Simon (1972) His first and best solo album after splitting from Garfunkel.	Hit track: "Mother and Child Reunion"
	THE ROLLING STONES - - - Exile on Main Street (1972) The Stones were never so loose and so in the groove at the same time, powerful and inspired.
	YES - - - Close to the Edge (1972) It was around this time that these progressive rock pioneers reached a new level of sophistication.
	PINK FLOYD - - - Dark Side of the Moon (1973) Their first big, and one of their biggest, commercial successes.
	SANTANA - - - Welcome (1973) A jazz-rock fusion masterpiece from Santana, flying on a spiritual high.
	THE WHO - - - Quadrophenia (1973) A rock opera that has a bigger and bolder sound than their Tommy.
This is a DVD set	FRANK ZAPPA - - - Over-Nite Sensation / Apostrophe' (1973-74) These two albums are available on one CD (and go together well). Zappa leaves behind his lumpy, stop-start, Varesian rock-mixed-with-other-sound montages for still lumpy, but higher rock-octane arrangements. His songwriting, humor, psychedelic guitar virtuosity (he was one of the best), and rocking out are all peak Zappa here. Liberal dose of amusing sexual lyrics.
	ALICE COOPER - - - Alice Cooper's Greatest Hits (1974) Marilyn Manson's spiritual father, Alice liked it hard and sick. But above all, every song has great hooks.
	CROSBY STILLS NASH & YOUNG - - - So Far (Greatest Hits) (1974) CS&N and CSN&Y put out only a few albums, and they are all good.
	DAVID BOWIE - - - Diamond Dogs (1974) Wild Bowie, swinging from the skyscrapers, after square society's collapse.
	JONI MITCHELL - - - Court and Spark (1974) Joni successfully makes a leap into a slick, sophisticated production without losing the heart of her music.
	TODD RUNDGREN - - - Todd (1974) Todd in all his glory, from sweet pop to silly humor to heavy metal.	Check out "Heavy Metal Kids"
	BRIAN ENO - - - Another Green World (1975) Another world is right! Deeply subconscious sounds of dreams, freakish forces, and mad meditations. Much of it is serene and atmospheric.
	CARLY SIMON - - - Best of Carly Simon (1975) Includes some big radio hits. Carly is a strong, evocative songwriter, and the production is first class.
	LAURA NYRO - - - Nested (1978) A later gem from the first lady of pop.

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