You’ve got to think for yourselves! You’re all individuals!

I have collected vinyl albums for more than 40 years and enjoyed your list of lesser-known gems from 1971. Your list was strongly Anglo-Americandirected, although you managed to squeeze in Bröselmaschine, Flower Travellin’ Band and

Supersister. To rectify this, I have assembled my European Top 10. A lot of these albums are still quite unknown outside their home countries. Thanks to fellow collector Haaken Eric Mathiesen for assisting me in this momentous exercise – we ended up with about 200 albums. The rest of the world? Oh, that would mean at least another 100 LPs…

1. Junipher Greene – Friendship

2. Krokodil – An Invisible World Revealed

3. Aphrodite’s Child – 666

4. Paroni Paakkunainen – Plastic Maailma

5. Culpeper’s Orchard – Culpeper’s Orchard

6. Wigwam – Fairyport

7. Pan & Regaliz – Pan & Regaliz

8. Amon Düül II – Tanz der Lemminge

9. Panna Freda – Uno

10. Sogmusobil – Telefon Dag Erik Asbjørnsen, via e-mail