Music: Best Albums of the Year series: 1977

[Saturated Fats]

1967: The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
1980: AC/DC - Back in Black
1994: Nirvana - MTV Unplugged in New York
2000: Radiohead - Kid A
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1988: Metallica - ...And Justice for All
2004: (TIE) Madvillain - Madvillainy // The Killers - Hot Fuss // Green Day - American Idiot
1969: The Beatles - Abbey Road

1991: Nirvana - Nevermind (21 votes)

2nd Place: Pearl Jam - Ten (12 votes)
3rd Place: My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (11 votes)
4th Place (tie): Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger (10 votes)
4th Place (tie): Metallica - Metallica (the Black Album)

Not even remotely surprising. Say what you will - Nevermind is one of the most important albums of all time. I still think In Utero is the better work, but it is what it is.

Today is 1977 - a year that saw the bridging of different generations, and provided us with some catalytic and catalogue-defining works. It was obviously an enormous year for punk rock specifically. I've grouped up a couple multiple-release artists, and given a few the space of multiple spots. It all depends on the releases themselves, and whether or not I perceive them to be as equally important works.

The next year that we will cover is 1985.

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[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Weak year. Very weak year. None of these would make my 1969 top-20.

1. Abdul Wadud – By Myself
2. Klaatu – Hope
3. Conventum – À l'affut d'un complot
4. The Beach Boys – Love You
5. Iggy Pop – Lust For Life (I voted for the Iggy Pop self titled from the list)
6. Miles Davis – Dark Magus
7. Luciano Cilio – Dialoghi del presente
8. Renaud – Laisse béton
9. Irène Schweizer – Wilde Señoritas
10. Throbbing Gristle – The Second Annual Report

Honest HM:
Electric Light Orchestra – Out of the Blue
Denis Dufour – Concerto
Jean-Charles Capon, Philippe Maté, Butch Morris, Serge Rahoerson – Untitled
The Kinks – Sleepwalker
Television - Marquee Moon
Shawn Phillips – Spaced
Téléphone – Anna

Super honest HM for Alice Cooper groupies like me:
Billion Dollar Babies – Battle Axe (this is the guys from the Alice Cooper group trying to go at it on their own - better than the Alice album from 1977)

Somewhat important albums that are either disappointing or just not so good (IMO):
George Russell – Vertical Form 6
Can – Saw Delight
John Greaves, Peter Blegvad & Lisa Herman – Kew. Rhone.
John Zorn – Lacrosse
Brian Eno – Before And After Science
Jacques Brel – La Marquise
Brigitte Fontaine & Areski Belkacem – Vous et nous

 

[Saturated Fats]

Damn, it is called Lust for Life isn't it? That's my bad. Hope people don't overlook it

 

[Saturated Fats]

Not sure that this year has a true favourite in terms of who I think will win the poll. Never been a Rumours guy, but I suppose you have to look at that as the best-known.

Steely Dan - Aja
Fela Kuti - Zombie

The Damned - Damned, Damned, Damned
David Bowie - Low
Wire - Pink Flag
John Williams/London Symph. - Star Wars OST
The Jam - In the City

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties!!
Iggy Pop - Lust for Life (called it 'Iggy Pop' in the poll)

 

[frisco]

Other than Rumours, News Of The World, Running On Empty:
Foreigner-Foreigner
Styx-The Grand Illusion
Neil Diamond-Love At The Greek
Bee Gees-Here At Last...Live
Jimmy Buffett-Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
Andy Gibb-Flowing Rivers
Hall And Oates-Beauty On A Back Street

My Best-Carey

 

[Mescaleroman]

The best year covered so far for me , followed closely by 1980 and 1973.

801 - Listen Now
Chris Spedding - Hurt
John Cale - Guts
John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett - s/t
the Jam - In the City
the Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
the Stranglers - No More Heroes
the Clash - s/t
the Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

HM's - Elvis Costello - My Aim is True
Ian Dury - New Boots and Panties
Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
the Dead Boys - Young Loud and Snotty
Jethro Tull - Songs From the Wood
the Jam - This is the Modern World

 

[Cas]

I voted for A Farewell to Kings and Animals as well, but my pick for 1977 is Judas Priest - Sin After Sin. Simon Phillips was a monster as a session drummer.

 

[Eisen]

And I'd like to add Scorpions - Taken by Force
The last one that had Uli Roth, one of my favourite guitarists. Really the end of an era. Despite being more successful in the 80s, the 70s Scorpions are more up my alley. As a teenie I didn't see it that way but as I got older I like them a lot better. They are a lot more psychedelic and experiment more (not that I don't like Jabs or Schenker's writing).

 

[MetalheadPenguinsFan]

Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks

 

[Elvis P]

The best year covered so far for me, ...

Agreed. It's a very strong year for knowledgeable music fans.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Agreed. It's a very strong year for knowledgeable music fans.

Meaning.... You?

The man with a thousand threads has spoken.

 

[Saturated Fats]

BOGEY'S BACK!

@Violenza Domestica get your unknowledgeable ass outta here!

Abdul Wadud? More like Abdul WaDUD!

 

[Chili]

Added:

Supertramp-Even in the Quietest Moments
Steve Miller-Book of Dreams
Trooper-Knock 'em Dead Kid
Styx-The Grand Illusion
Lynyrd Skynyrd-Street Survivors

 

[kihei]

David Bowie: Low
Pink Floyd: Animals
Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel
The Clash: The Clash
Steely Dan: Aja
Bob Marley and the Wailers: Exodus
Sex Pistols: Never Mind the Bollocks....
Television: Marquee Moon
David Bowie: Heroes
Neil Young: American Stars and Bars

Never really got the Iggy Pop thing.

 

[plank]

1. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac
2. s/t - Eddie Money
3. Animals - Pink Floyd
4. Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
5. Aja - Steely Dan
6. Slowhand - Eric Clapton
7. Terrapin Station - Grateful Dead
8. Luxury Liner - Emmylou Harris
9. s/t - George Thorogood & The Destroyers
10. s/t - Foreigner
11. s/t - Rick Danko

 

[plank]

Eddie Money baby!

Awesome song and awesome video.

 

[Teemu]

Television - Marquee Moon
Steely Dan - Aja
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Pink Floyd - Animals

Top 3 are all among my top 25 or so

 

[kook10]

Other :
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome

 

[YoSoyLalo]

The Clash probably. Underrated album.

Sex Pistols is by far the most important album that came out this year though.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

A strong year imo.
Bowie: Low
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours
Jackson Browne: Running on Empty
Meatloaf: Bat Out of Hell
Billy Joel: The Stranger
Pink Floyd: Animals
Bob Marley: Exodus
Elvis Costello: My Aim is True
Steely Dan: Aja
Eddie Money: Eddie Money
Supertramp: Even in the Quietest Moments

 

[BSHH]

Unfortunately, I was much too young and living in the wrong country to witness the massive impact of Never mind the Bollocks. Has there been a similarly influential album ever since?

Gruß,
BSHH

 

[BSHH]

Double post, please delete!

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

I wanted to post this in the 1994 thread but it disappeared so please forgive the anachronism

 

[Spring in Fialta]

Low, Before and After Science, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols, Marquee Moon, Suicide.

 

[Chili]

Missed adding a favorite

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