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SoulTracks Poll: Vote for the Greatest Albums of the 70s
Wanna get in trouble? Try to make a list of the "best" of anything. Well, we're jumping into the water with this one.
SoulTrackers are passionate about their music, especially their classic albums. So thanks to a suggestion by SoulTracker Vin, we decided to let you sound off and choose the greatest soul albums of all time.
We'll be voting on albums one decade at a time, and what better decade to 
start with than the 1970s, believed by many to be the period of the greatest soul music ever. So here goes....
Some initial rules we set in doing this:
- Only studio albums of new music count (no live or greatest hits albums)
- The album must have been initially released between 1970 and 1979
Our polling software limited us to 40 total album choices, so with the help of writers and friends, we chose 40 great albums (20 by groups and 20 by solo artists or duos). We know we missed A LOT of great music, and some soul groups that had several fantastic albums (like Earth Wind & Fire, for instance) were limited to one album in the poll. But we did our best, and we think you'll agree -- or maybe you won't -- that these are some fine albums on our list. .
Voting Over
See our Results!
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Posted February 18th, 2009 by administratorComments
Only one album nominated for
serpentinefire4ever - February 21st, 2009
Only one album nominated for Earth, Wind & Fire? SPIRIT (1976) & especially ALL N' ALL (1977) which was their strongest album without doubt. Funkadelic's ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE should be a contender too. You should also do the greatest live album of the 60's, 70's & 80's too.
As great of a fan I am of
prayzehymn - February 22nd, 2009
As great of a fan I am of Isaac Hayes' breakthrough LP Hot Buttered Soul (Enterprise/Stax), it must go on record that the album was initially released in mid-1969. Therefore, the album technically shouldn't be included in a poll featuring the Best Albums of the 1970s. The impact of the singles and radio airplay was still effective in 1970, but the album was released in the '60s not the '70s. The rules of the poll mentions that all album entries must "have been initially released between 1970 and 1979." To match the facts, you may do better featuring in your poll Hayes' stellar work on the double-LP Black Moses (1971).
J. Matthew Cobb
Editor-At-Large, PRAYZEHYMNOnline.com
Nardo good choices to say
nardo - July 28th, 2009
Nardo
good choices to say the least,blockbusters if you will, but there were some who depending on which coast you were on, or in my case being in the southwest,i was able to find musical groups which no one even heard of, but were good Funk & Roll groups, such as Side Effect(west coast), Pleasure(east Coast),UNCC(mid-west), but i would have thought for sure CAMEO would have been among the 25, wow!
