Top 16 Music Albums of 1976
by Onater

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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Station To Station 

 David Bowie

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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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

1,097 charts

Rank Score:

12,172

Rank in 1976:

2

Rank in 1970s:

30

Overall Rank:

106

Average Rating:

 85 (1,547 votes)

Comments:

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Radio Ethiopia 

 Patti Smith Group

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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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

209 charts

Rank Score:

962

Rank in 1976:

28

Rank in 1970s:

340

Overall Rank:

1,762

Average Rating:

 78 (248 votes)

Comments:

13

3. (4) 1

Small Change 

 Tom Waits

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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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

270 charts

Rank Score:

1,424

Rank in 1976:

21

Rank in 1970s:

250

Overall Rank:

1,221

Average Rating:

 79 (340 votes)

Comments:

14

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Mother Earth's Plantasia 

 Mort Garson

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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

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

71 charts

Rank Score:

485

Rank in 1976:

51

Rank in 1970s:

554

Overall Rank:

3,095

Average Rating:

 79 (97 votes)

Comments:

2

5. (3) 2

Music From The Penguin Cafe 

 Penguin Cafe Orchestra

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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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

98 charts

Rank Score:

447

Rank in 1976:

54

Rank in 1970s:

591

Overall Rank:

3,323

Average Rating:

 74 (127 votes)

Comments:

8

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The Modern Lovers 

 The Modern Lovers

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"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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

536 charts

Rank Score:

3,672

Rank in 1976:

9

Rank in 1970s:

107

Overall Rank:

473

Average Rating:

 82 (606 votes)

Comments:

34

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Songs In The Key Of Life 

 Stevie Wonder

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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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

1,297 charts

Rank Score:

15,824

Rank in 1976:

1

Rank in 1970s:

21

Overall Rank:

75

Average Rating:

 85 (1,364 votes)

Comments:

90

8. (7) 1

Hejira 

 Joni Mitchell

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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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

404 charts

Rank Score:

3,861

Rank in 1976:

7

Rank in 1970s:

103

Overall Rank:

449

Average Rating:

 81 (456 votes)

Comments:

26

9. (8) 1

Taxi Driver - Original Soundtrack Recording 
Soundtrack

 Bernard Herrmann

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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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

34 charts

Rank Score:

94

Rank in 1976:

156

Rank in 1970s:

1,717

Overall Rank:

12,249

Average Rating:

 74 (34 votes)

Comments:

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10. (9) 1

Desire 

 Bob Dylan

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"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]

Year of Release:

1976

Appears in:

660 charts

Rank Score:

4,160

Rank in 1976:

6

Rank in 1970s:

98

Overall Rank:

408

Average Rating:

 81 (991 votes)

Comments:

55

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Top 16 Music Albums of 1976 composition

Artist	Albums	%
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%
福居良 [Ryo Fukui]	1	6%
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Country	Albums	%
	7	44%
	4	25%
	3	19%
	1	6%
	1	6%

Top 16 Music Albums of 1976 chart changes

Biggest climbers
Up 1 from 4th to 3rd Small Change by Tom Waits

Biggest fallers
Down 2 from 3rd to 5th Music From The Penguin Cafe by Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Down 1 from 5th to 6th The Modern Lovers by The Modern Lovers
Down 1 from 6th to 7th Songs In The Key Of Life by Stevie Wonder

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