Random Album Clash - Champions of the 1970s

The first one was essentially a series of polls for each year between 1964 and 2020, where fifteen albums were featured and the polls were on for a week. After this time of voting and commenting, we get one winner for each year who gets to 'clash' in the current phase, where we take a look at each decade [from the 60s up to the 2010s + 2020]. The most obvious albums, which include the ones you have mentioned, have purposely been omitted, as they would simply make the Clashes meaningless and uninteresting. For the same reason, you see 'Stand Up' by Jethro Tull representing 1969 and not ITCOTCK, which would have been the winner without a doubt. 'Close to the Edge' is nowhere to be found, and so are albums like TAAB, 'Aqualung', 'Mirage', 'Fragile', and so on.