And Led Zeppelin II, reviewed that same year without a straight face, was voted the year's No. 2 album.
Both LPs best the '69 releases by the Beatles, the Stones and the Who.
The list includes a total of 15 records from the year that yielded the Woodstock festival, and artists from that show are well represented: Woodstock performers Neil Young, the Band, and Sly & the Family Stone all have discs on the list, as do the Velvet Underground, the Stooges, Blind Faith, the Kinks and Captain Beefheart.
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