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Best Alternative albums of the 1970s

Ranked by a weighted score: a record needs several good scores, not one, to climb.

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4 records · chart score = each record's average, pulled toward the site average (8.0) until it has more than a few scores

1
Buy The Contortions
1979 Alternative
Chart score8.27avg 9.0 · 1 score
2
Entertainment! (2021 Remaster)Gang Of Four
1979 Alternative
Chart score8.27avg 9.0 · 1 score
3
Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)Joy Division
1979 Alternative
Chart score8.27avg 9.0 · 1 score
4
The Academy in Peril John Cale
1972 Alternative
Chart score7.52avg 6.0 · 1 score