Top 16 Music Albums of 1976
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My Top 10 songs of 1976:
10. David Bowie - TVC15 (Station To Station)
9. Tom Waits - Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) (Small Change)
8. Stevie Wonder - Sir Duke (Songs In The Key Of Life)
7. Tom Waits - Invitation To The Blues (Small Change)
6. David Bowie - Word On A Wing (Station To Station)
5. Patti Smith - Ask The Angels (Radio Ethiopia)
4. Patti Smith - Pissing In A River (Radio Ethiopia)
3. Penguin Café Orchestra - The Sound Of Someone You Love Who's Going Away And It Doesn't Matter (Music From The Penguin Café)
2. The Modern Lovers - Hospital (The Modern Lovers)
1. David Bowie - Station To Station (Station To Station)
- Chart updated: 09/11/2019 05:45
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:26).
- Chart size: 16 albums.
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"It's not the side-effects of the cocaine, I'm thinking that it must be love."
Favourite Tracks: Station to Station, Word On A Wing, TVC15 [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Station to Station, Word On A Wing, TVC15 [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
Year of Release:
1976
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Rank Score:
11,836
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"And I know you got the feeling, you know, I feel it crawl across the floor. And I know it got you reeling, and honey honey the call is for war."
Favourite Tracks: Pissing In A River, Ain't It Strange, Ask The Angels, Poppies [First added to this chart: 07/22/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Pissing In A River, Ain't It Strange, Ask The Angels, Poppies [First added to this chart: 07/22/2019]
Year of Release:
1976
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919
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"The piano has been drinking, my necktie is asleep, and the combo went back to New York, the jukebox has to take a leak."
Favourite Tracks: Invitation to the Blues, Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen), I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue), Step Right Up, The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King) [First added to this chart: 02/24/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Invitation to the Blues, Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen), I Can't Wait to Get Off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue), Step Right Up, The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening With Pete King) [First added to this chart: 02/24/2019]
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1976
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1,379
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Favourite Tracks: Plantasia, Concerto For Philodendron And Pothos, Swingin' Spathipyllums, Symphony For A Spider Plant, You Don't Have To Walk A Begonia
Favourite Tracks: The Sound Of Someone You Love Who's Going Away And It Doesn't Matter, Penguin Cafe Single
[First added to this chart: 09/11/2019]
"Oh I can't stand what you do, but I'm in love with your eyes."
Favourite Tracks: Hospital, Pablo Picasso, Roadrunner [First added to this chart: 02/25/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Hospital, Pablo Picasso, Roadrunner [First added to this chart: 02/25/2018]
Year of Release:
1976
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3,525
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"What I'm about to say could mean the world's disaster. Could change your joy and laughter to tears and pain."
Favourite Tracks: Sir Duke, I Wish, As, Another Star, Love's In Need Of Love Today, Summer Soft [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Sir Duke, I Wish, As, Another Star, Love's In Need Of Love Today, Summer Soft [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
Year of Release:
1976
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Rank Score:
15,647
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"He points a bony finger at you and says, I don't like you. Everybody laughs as if it's the old man's standard joke, but it's true, we're only welcome for our drink and smoke."
Favourite Tracks: Hejira, Coyote, Song For Sharon, Amelia [First added to this chart: 09/09/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Hejira, Coyote, Song For Sharon, Amelia [First added to this chart: 09/09/2018]
Year of Release:
1976
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3,800
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"Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man."
Favourite Tracks: Theme From Taxi Driver, I Work The Whole City, Reprise: Theme From Taxi Driver, Betsy In A White Dress [First added to this chart: 03/01/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Theme From Taxi Driver, I Work The Whole City, Reprise: Theme From Taxi Driver, Betsy In A White Dress [First added to this chart: 03/01/2018]
"Seems like every time you turn around, there's another hard-luck story that you're gonna hear."
Favourite Tracks: Sara, Black Diamond Bay, Hurricane, Joey [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Sara, Black Diamond Bay, Hurricane, Joey [First added to this chart: 03/23/2017]
Year of Release:
1976
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4,088
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Total albums: 16. Page 1 of 2
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Top 16 Music Albums of 1976 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Modern Lovers | 1 | 6% | |
| Stevie Wonder | 1 | 6% | |
| Joni Mitchell | 1 | 6% | |
| Bernard Herrmann | 1 | 6% | |
| Bob Dylan | 1 | 6% | |
| Jean Michel Jarre | 1 | 6% | |
| David Bowie | 1 | 6% | |
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Top 16 Music Albums of 1976 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 4th to 3rdSmall Change by Tom Waits |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 2 from 3rd to 5thMusic From The Penguin Cafe by Penguin Cafe Orchestra |
| Down 1 from 5th to 6thThe Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers |
| Down 1 from 6th to 7thSongs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder |
| New entries |
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| Mother Earth's Plantasia by Mort Garson |
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