Early 1970's rock: Name some of your favorites

You guys really know how to pick em'. Lot's of damn cool choices. You couldn't have gone to the same high school I went to. When the addiction to hit unused nerve endings really started to kick in, the following records paid off big:
Kraan/Andy Nogger
Good God/Good God (vinyl only)
Guru Guru/Guru Guru (pink beadwork cover)
Henry Cow/ Legend
Eloy/Floating
Embryo/Rocksession
Alquin/Mountain Queen
Van der Graaf Gen./Pawn Hearts
Darryl Way's Wolf/Saturation Point
Can/Future Days/Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi
Coeur Magique/Wakan Tanka
New Trolls/UT
Most of these are surprisingly well recorded given their release period, and musically, (of course I'm totally objective!)they all have unique narcotic properties that seem to never stop growing.

This is the list of the MOST favourite bands/albums that I never get bored to listen and always come back to them many many times.
King Crimson -- LIZARD and ISLANDS; Frank Zappa -- HOT RATS; Can MONSTER MOVIE, FUTURE DAYS and TAGO MAGO; Van Der Graaf Generator GODBLUF; Gentle Giant -- INTERVIEW.

Yeah, great thread! These were my high school and college days, and the era when I bought my first component system. Spinning on that, to me, high end Garrard turntable in the early 70's were:
Elton John, Yellow Brick Road
Art Garfunkel, that first solo album Angel Clare
Paul Simon, Rhymin' Simon, Still Crazy After All These Years (even then I thought so about myself, and I was only 18-19), and the self-titled album Paul Simon
Led Zep IV (?) with Stairway to Heaven of course
Beatles White Album and Let It Be and Abbey Road
Stones Goat's Head Soup
Lou Reed, Transformer
Steely Dan, Can't Buy a Thrill
Pure Prairie League, Bustin' Out
Marshall Tucker Band (I went to college in southern Va.), album with "Heard It in a Love Song"
Rod Stewart, album with "Maggie Mae" on it
Graham Nash, Songs for Beginners
Neil Young, After the Gold Rush and Harvest and Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
CSNY, Deju Vu and 4 Way Street
Steppenwolf, the album with the silver cover with Inna Gadda etc.
Joni Mitchell, everything out up to then
James Taylor, everything out up to then
Tracy Nelson, self-titled (available as import only CD now)
Bonnie Raitt, Give It Up and Home Plate
Van Morrison, Moondance and Tupelo Honey
Embarrassing confession: Loggins and Messina, Sittin' In
and Starland Vocal Band, Afternoon Delight

I could go on and on, the more I list, the more I picture myself in my various dorm rooms spinning vinyl with my friends. What a blast those days were! Will I ever be so carefree again--NO. Though many times, a new record or CD will make me just as happy as when my musicophile days were just beginning.

I litened to David Bowie, Yes, Jethro Tull.

I will give you one that was, in my opinion, the single greatest album from the mid 70s, and possibly STILL the greatest album... Heartsfield "Wonder of it all". It has recently been reissued on CD.