Decade Personal Best: '70s

1. The Clash: The Clash (CBS import '77)
2. Rolling Stones: Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones '72)
3. Derek and the Dominoes: Layla (Atco '70)
4. New York Dolls: In Too Much Too Soon (Mercury '74)
5. Sly & the Family Stone: Greatest Hits (Epic '70)
6. Randy Newman: 12 Songs (Reprise '70)
7. Van Morrison: Moondance (Warner Bros. '70)
8. Al Green: Call Me (Hi '73)
9. Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise '79)
10. Michael Hurley/Unholy Modal Rounders/Jeffrey Fredericks & the Clamtones: Have Moicy! (Rounder '76)
11. Television: Marquee Moon (Elektra '77)
12. Eno: Another Green World (Island '76)
13. Neil Young: After the Gold Rush (Reprise '70)
14. The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic '78)
15. New York Dolls: New York Dolls (Mercury '73)
16. Rod Stewart: Every Picture Tells a Story (Mercury '71)
17. Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Manfred Mann's Earth Band (Polydor '72)
18. Steely Dan: Pretzel Logic (ABC '74)
19. Paul Simon: Paul Simon (Warner Bros. '72)
20. Sly & the Family Stone: There's a Riot Goin' On (Epic '71)
21. John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band (Apple '70)
22. The Harder They Come (Mango '73)
23. Al Green: Greatest Hits (Hi '75)
24. The Wild Tchoupitoulas: The Wild Tchoupitoulas (Island '76)
25. John Fahey: Of Rivers and Religion (Reprise '72)
26. Bob Dylan: Blood on the Tracks (Columbia '75)
27. Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones '78)
28. Ramones: Ramones (Sire '76)
29. Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Dancer With Bruised Knees (Warner Bros. '77)
30. James Talley: Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got a Lot of Love (Capitol '75)
31. Bonnie Raitt: Give It Up (Warner Bros. '72)
32. Fleetwood Mac: Rumours (Reprise '77)
33. Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (Warner Bros. '77)
34. Joni Mitchell: For the Roses (Asylum '72)
35. Dolly Parton: Best of Dolly Parton (RCA '75)
36. Aretha Franklin: Spirit in the Dark (Atlantic '70)
37. Neil Young: Tonight's the Night (Reprise '75)
38. Patti Smith: Horses (Arista '75)
39. John Lennon: Imagine (Capitol '71)
40. Wire: Pink Flag (Harvest '78).

Village Voice, Dec. 17, 1979