Only the Final Four Remain

Our quest to search out one of the best rock album of the ’70s has reached the semi-finals, with simply 4 traditional albums left to compete in your votes.

Solely Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and the Who stay. It is as much as you who strikes onto the finals.

You may vote one per hour in every of the fourth spherical brackets, which you’ll discover under. Voting for this spherical concludes at 11:59PM EST on Sunday, March 29. The finals will start the next morning, and the winner might be topped on April 1.

The Who’s Who’s Subsequent vs. Tom Petty’s Rattling the Torpedoes

The Who’s 1971 album Who’s Subsequent – residence to “Baba O’Riley,” “Will not Get Fooled Once more” and “Behind Blue Eyes” amongst many others – beat AC/DC’s Freeway to Hell by a vote of 57% to 43% to achieve the ultimate 4. The album had beforehand dispatched the Beatles’ Let it Be and Van Halen’s 1978 debut album.

After besting Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks and Bob Seger’s Stranger in City, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Rattling the Torpedoes – which options “Do not Do Me Like That,” “Refugee” and “Right here Comes My Lady” –  beat Rush’s 2112 in a detailed 51% to 49% race to achieve the semifinals.

Pink Floyd’s The Darkish Facet of the Moon vs. Led Zeppelin’s IV

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Pink Floyd’s 1973 masterpiece The Darkish Facet of the Moon has been probably the most dominant contender thus far on this bracket, dismantling David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, Paul McCartney’s Band on the Run and the Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers whereas capturing at the least 75% of the vote in all three rounds.

The file will face its hardest competitors but with Led Zeppelin’s 1971 gem IV, residence to “Stairway to Heaven,” “Black Canine,” “When the Levee Breaks and far more. Zep IV has already stomped throughout Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Highway, the Eagles’ Resort California and Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours, with 79%, 74% and 67% of the vote respectively.