VA - Top 100 '70s Rock Albums by Ultimate Classic Rock Part 4 (1970-1979), MP3

Picking our list of the Top 100 '70s Rock Albums was no easy task, if only because that period boasted such sheer diversity. The decade saw rock branch into a series of intriguing new subgenres, beginning, at the dawn of the '70s, with heavy metal. Singer-songwriters came into their own; country-rock flourished. The era ended with the revitalizing energy of punk and New Wave. No list would be complete without climbing onto every one of those limbs. Here are the Top 100 '70s Rock Albums, presented chronologically from the start of the decade.

1977 - Fleetwood Mac - Rumours (1984 Germany, Warner Bros. Records - 03010-2) Target CD
1976 - The Eagles - Hotel California (1999 US, Asylum Records - 103-2; 253 051) Reissue, Remastered
1977 - AC/DC - Let There Be Rock (2002 Germany, ATCO Records - 7567-92445-2) Reissue, Remastered
1977 - Cheap Trick - In Color (1990 US, Epic - EK 34884) Reissue
1977 - Steely Dan - Aja (1984 Germany, MCA Records - 250 449-2) Reissue
1977 - Billy Joel - The Stranger (1998 US, Columbia - CK 69384) Reissue, Remastered
1977 - Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols (1993 US, Warner Bros. Records - 3147-2) Reissue, Repress
1977 - Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell (1984 Japan/USA, Epic - EK 34974)
1977 - Eric Clapton - Slowhand (1991 US, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab - UDCD 553) Remastered
1978 - Van Halen - Van Halen (1995 Germany, Warner Bros. Records - 7599-27320-2) Reissue
1978 - Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model (1993 US, Rykodisc - RCD 10272) Reissue, Remastered
1978 - Rolling Stones - Some Girls (1994 Holland, Virgin - CDV 2734) Reissue, Remastered
1978 - The Cars - The Cars (1990 US, Elektra - 135-2) Reissue
1978 - Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town (1984 EU, Columbia - COL CD 86061) Reissue
1978 - Blondie - Parallel Lines (1985 US, Chrysalis - F2 21192) Club Edition, Reissue
1978 - Billy Joel - 52nd Street (2012 US, Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab - UDSACD 2090) SACD, Hybrid, Limited Edition, Numbered - №02747, Remastered
1979 - Cheap Trick - At Budokan (2002 Austria, Epic - 507919 2) Remastered
1978 - The Police - Outlandos D'Amour (US, A&M Records - CD-3311) Reissue
1979 - Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps (1990 Canada, Reprise Records - CD 2295)
1979 – AC/DC - Highway To Hell (1994 Germany, Atlantic - SD 19244-2) Reissue
1979 - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes (US, MCA Records - MCAD-31161) Club Edition
1979 - ZZ Top - Deguello (Germany, Warner Bros. Records - 7599-27400-2) Reissue, Repress
1979 - Pink Floyd - The Wall (2001 Japan, EMI - TOCP-65742.43) 2xCD, Reissue, Remastered, Papersleeve
1979 - The Police - Regatta De Blanc (EU, A&M Records - 394 792-2) Reissue
1979 - The Clash - London Calling (1991 EU, Columbia - 460114 2)

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