Top 50 Albums of 1971

#1: Led Zeppelin

#2: Black Sabbath

#3: Can

#4: Pink Floyd

#5: David Bowie

#6: Marvin Gaye

#7: The Rolling Stones

#8: The Who

#9: Leonard Cohen

#10: Joni Mitchell

#11: Yes

#12: Comus

#13: Funkadelic

#14: Jethro Tull

#15: Alice Coltrane featuring Pharoah Sanders

#16: The Doors

#17: Miles Davis

#18: T. Rex

#19: Sly & the Family Stone

#20: Serge Gainsbourg

#21: Yes

#22: Van der Graaf Generator

#23: Chico Buarque

#24: The Mahavishnu Orchestra with John McLaughlin

#25: Caravan

#26: Genesis

#27: Paul & Linda McCartney

#28: Faust

#29: Gil Scott-Heron

#30: Roy Harper

#31: John Coltrane

#32: Santana

#33: LaSalle Quartett

#34: Wiener Philharmoniker / Karl Böhm

#35: Alice Cooper

#36: Ennio Morricone

#37: Fabrizio De André

#38: Alice Cooper

#39: Flower Travellin' Band

#40: Wiener Philharmoniker / Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor / Karl Böhm / Edith Mathis / Júlia Hamari / Wiesław Ochman / Karl Ridderbusch

#41: Carole King

#42: Gentle Giant

#43: King Crimson

#44: John Lennon

#45: Curtis Mayfield

#46: Marek Grechuta / Anawa

#47: Janis Joplin

#48: Uriah Heep

#49: Rory Gallagher

#50: Cat Stevens