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Nineteen-seventy-one serves as "Peak Rock" for us. The album era is in full swing, though by 1976 the number of singles of significance goes back up, reflecting the Disco moment and the rise of Punk Rock. The high number of albums reflects not only the robust fertility of the Rock-Soul mainstream in its diversifying forms (Soft Rock, both in the sense of the Carpenters and Bread and in the form of the "singer-songwriter", Heavy Metal, Progressive Rock, Funk, Glam Rock, British Folk-Rock, Disco, and more) but also a global reach that the genre would enjoy throughout the Eighties at least, and what we could call a form of cultural imperialism, with the genres/ movements Tropicália, Reggae, and Afro Beat being part of the Rock story, however awkwardly. Progressive Rock shades into Kraut Rock and other outré artists, contributing to this era's bounty. Funk, as a defined musical concept, complemented the previous era's "Soul," a superior term for Rhythm and Blues that sadly got jettisoned in later conservative times. As a genre, it joined "Prog" Rock in shading into the Fusion Jazz that also flourished in these years. Prog, Funk, and Fusion joined Heavy Metal in elevating the electric guitarist to an exalted, if not necessarily primary, position, as far as many were concerned: the "guitar god."

For the Seventies, 421 tracks are listed, 980 albums. The totals through 1979 are 1599 tracks and 1466 albums.

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one-hundred-seven albums

The Allman Brothers Band - Idlewild South

Amon Düül II - Yeti

Chet Atkins and Jerry Reed - Me and Jerry

Kevin Ayers and the Whole World - Shooting at the Moon

Badfinger - No Dice

Joan Baez - One Day at a Time

Syd Barrett - The Madcap Laughs

The Beach Boys - Sunflower

Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby

Black Sabbath

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Black Widow - Sacrifice

David Bowie - The Man Who Sold the World

James Brown - Sex Machine

Tim Buckley - Lorca

Tim Buckley - Starsailor

Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day

The Byrds - (Untitled)

John Cale - Vintage Violence

Caravan - If I Could Do It All Over Again, I'd Do It All over You

Michael Chapman - Fully Qualified Survivor

Michael Chapman - Window

Chicago

Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Judy Collins - Whales and Nightingales

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cosmo's Factory

Creedence Clearwater Revival - Pendulum

Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young - Déjà Vu

Curved Air - Airconditioning

Deep Purple in Rock

Delaney and Bonnie and Friends - To Bonnie from Delaney

The Delfonics

Derek and the Dominos - Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs

The Doors - Morrison Hotel

Lee Dorsey - Yes We Can

Nick Drake - Bryter Later

Doris Duke - I'm a Loser

Egg

Emerson, Lake and Palmer

Exuma

Aretha Franklin - Spirit in the Dark

Free - Fire and Water

Funkadelic

Funkadelic - Free Your Mind... and Your Ass Will Follow

The Grateful Dead - Workingman's Dead

The Grateful Dead - American Beauty

The Groundhogs - Thank Christ for the Bomb

Guru Guru - UFO

Roy Harper - Stormcock

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass

Donny Hathaway - Everything Is Everything

Isaac Hayes - The Isaac Hayes Movement

Jimi Hendrix - Band of Gypsys

The Jackson 5 - ABC

The James Gang Rides Again

Elton John

Elton John - Tumbleweed Connection

Paul Kantor/ Jefferson Starship - Blows against the Empire

King Crimson - Lizard

Kris Kristofferson - Kristofferson

The Last Poets

Led Zeppelin III

John Lennon/ Plastic Ono Band

Curtis Mayfield - Curtis

The M. C. 5 - Back in the USA

The Meters - Look-Ka Py Py

Joni Mitchell - Ladies of the Canyon

Van Morrison - Moondance

Van Morrison - His Band and Street Choir

The Mothers of Invention - Burnt Weeny Sandwich

The Mothers of Invention - Weasels Ripped My Flesh

The Move - Shazam

Michael Nesmith and the First National Band - Magnetic South

Randy Newman - 12 Songs

Nico - Desertshore

Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Sings Newman

Yoko Ono/ Plastic Ono Band

Pentangle - Cruel Sister

Popul Vuh - Affenstude

Elvis Presley - "Elvis Country" "I'm 10,000 Years Old"

Emitt Rhodes

Leon Russell

Santana - Abraxas

Paul Siebel - Woodsmoke and Oranges

Simon and Garfunkel - Bridge over Troubled Water

Sir Lord Baltimore - Kingdom Come

Soft Machine - Third

Spirit - Twelve Dreams of Dr. Sardonicus

Cat Stevens - Tea for the Tillerman

Meic Stevens - Outlander

Rod Stewart - Gasoline Alley

Stephen Stills

The Stooges - Fun House

Tangerine Dream - Electronic Meditation

James Taylor - Sweet Baby James

The Temptations - Psychedelic Shack

Ten Years After - Cricklewood Green

T. Rex

Van der Graaf Generator - H to He Who Am the Only One

The Velvet Underground - Loaded

Bob Marley and the Wailers - Soul Rebels

The Who - Live at Leeds

Jesse Winchester

Johnny Winter And

Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street Rhythm Band - Express Yourself

Neil Young - After the Gold Rush

Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge

forty-six singles and deep cuts

Lynn Anderson - 'Rose Garden', Rose Garden

Bloodrock - 'D.O.A.', Bloodrock 2

Bread - 'Make It with You', On the Waters

James Brown - 'Funky Drummer (Part 1)'/ 'Funky Drummer (Part 2)'

James Brown - 'Super Bad (Part 1 & Part 2)'/ 'Super Bad (Part 3)', Super Bad [1971]

Eric Burdon and War - 'Spill the Wine', Eric Burdon Declares "War"

Can - 'Mother Sky', Soundtracks

Can - 'She Brings the Rain', Soundtracks

The Carpenters - '(They Long to Be) Close to You', Close to You

The Carpenters - 'We've Only Just Begun', Close to You

The Chairmen of the Board - 'Give Me Just a Little More Time', The Chairmen of the Board

Dawn - 'Candida', Candida

Neil Diamond - 'Cracklin' Rosie', Tap Root Manuscript

Dave Edmunds - 'I Hear You Knocking', Rockpile [1971]

José Feliciano - 'Feliz Navidad', Feliz Navidad

The Five Stairsteps - 'O-o-h Child', Stairsteps

The Guess Who - 'American Woman', American Woman

Merle Haggard and the Strangers - 'The Fightin' Side of Me'

Hotlegs - 'Neanderthal Man', Hotlegs Thinks: School Stinks

The Kinks - 'Lola', Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One

Gladys Knight and the Pips - 'If I Were Your Woman', If I Were Your Woman [1971]

John Ono Lennon - 'Instant Karma! (We All Shine On)'

Gordon Lightfoot - 'If You Could Read My Mind', Sit Down Young Stranger

Paul McCartney - 'Maybe I'm Amazed', McCartney

Mountain - 'Mississippi Queen', Climbing!

Mungo Jerry - 'In the Summertime', Electronically Tested

Mungo Jerry - 'Baby Jump', Electronically Tested

The Nice - 'The Five Bridges Suite', Five Bridges

The Originals - 'The Bells', Portrait of the Originals

The Osmonds - 'One Bad Apple', The Osmonds

The Partridge Family - 'I Think I Love You', The Patridge Family Album

Ray Price - 'For the Good Times', For the Good Times

Jerry Reed - 'Amos Moses', Georgia Sunshine

Rodriguez - 'Sugar Man', Cold Fact

Diana Ross - 'Ain't No Mountain High Enough', Diana Ross

Hugh Roy with Winston Wright and Tommy McCook Quintet - 'Wake the Town', U. Roy [1974]

Edwin Starr - 'War', War and Peace

Ray Stevens - 'Everything Is Beautiful', Everything Is Beautiful

Three Dog Night - 'Joy to the World', Naturally

Three Dog Night - 'Mama Told Me (Not to Come)', It Ain't Easy

T. Rex - 'Ride the White Swan'

Ike and Tina Turner - 'Proud Mary', Workin' Together

Conway Twitty - 'Hello Darlin'', Hello Darlin'

Stevie Wonder - 'Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours', Signed, Sealed & Delivered

O. V. Wright - 'Ace of Spades', A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades

O. V. Wright - 'A Nickel and a Nail', A Nickel and a Nail and Ace of Spades

three archival and compilation albums

Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More

Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys - 16 All-Time Greatest Hits

Bukka White - Parchman Farm [The Complete Bukka White]