Top 100 Music Albums of 1977
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Repo 
- Chart updated: 09/08/2025 23:45
- (Created: 08/20/2018 03:20).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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The best punk album of all time!
[First added to this chart: 09/17/2019]
Year of Release:
1977
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20,274
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[First added to this chart: 09/16/2019]
Year of Release:
1977
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17,181
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THE TROUBLE WITH DESIRE
Somewhere else in the universe - exactly where I do not know - there is a planet and civilization not unlike our own. They’re busy with jobs and making ends meet mostly. But they are also vastly curious about life and various philosophical questions. Chiefly, they ponder whether they are all alone is this vast universe. Whether the entire universe exists just for them.
So just like us, they also built a space program. But this being science fiction and all, there’s is a bit more advanced than ours. And they built and coded this amazing android. It is capable of learning how to create any and all languages, dialects & tongues. Given enough time it would be able to communicate with any creature in the entire world. No matter how big or small. How complex or simple. Insects, humanoids, birds, amoebas, you name it. Essentially, if a life form, or even another droid, can communicate, this droid will learn how to communicate with it. The people on this planet - let’s call them Clusterferians just for fun - were naturally quite proud of their creation. And they built a moderate sized space vessel such that their droid could comb the universe looking for any sign of life to communicate with. And then report back to them.
To give the mission the best chance of success, the Clusterferians something new. Something they had never encoded into a robot before. A strong message that this mission was critical. Vital. In a word they gave it Desire.
Time passes. Millions of years. The droid performs its tasks and tries to carry out its mission. Sending out signals. And waiting for a response. Sending out more signals. Trying to communicate. To connect. To anything. It creates endless variations of sounds. But nothing ever comes back. Just the vast emptiness of space. And him.
And then the unthinkable happens. The unimaginable. He develops feelings. After eons and eons of trying and trying and trying to fulfill its mission with that strong desire encoded in him, he starts to grow sad. This desire to connect to something, ANYTHING, overwhelms him. The years of sending and sending, trying and trying and getting nothing back in return changes him. He becomes what we would call depressed. He preservers on with his mission of course. He’s a robot after all. But a shade of loneliness, of mourning now pervades the sounds he creates. A lament. The lament of being lonely. Of being human.
Grade A+: Cluster makes sounds better than anyone. Eno enhances sounds better than anyone. So together this is a dream team. And they amply fulfill the promise such a collaboration would suggest. This is one of the greatest dark ambient albums of all time. Considering its pedigree, I’m quite surprised it’s bit undiscovered. Don’t let it stay lonely anymore! Seek out and connect with this major ambient gem. There’s a lonely robot just waiting to hear from you. And this LP hurdles through space all the way to number 11. [First added to this chart: 03/05/2022]
Somewhere else in the universe - exactly where I do not know - there is a planet and civilization not unlike our own. They’re busy with jobs and making ends meet mostly. But they are also vastly curious about life and various philosophical questions. Chiefly, they ponder whether they are all alone is this vast universe. Whether the entire universe exists just for them.
So just like us, they also built a space program. But this being science fiction and all, there’s is a bit more advanced than ours. And they built and coded this amazing android. It is capable of learning how to create any and all languages, dialects & tongues. Given enough time it would be able to communicate with any creature in the entire world. No matter how big or small. How complex or simple. Insects, humanoids, birds, amoebas, you name it. Essentially, if a life form, or even another droid, can communicate, this droid will learn how to communicate with it. The people on this planet - let’s call them Clusterferians just for fun - were naturally quite proud of their creation. And they built a moderate sized space vessel such that their droid could comb the universe looking for any sign of life to communicate with. And then report back to them.
To give the mission the best chance of success, the Clusterferians something new. Something they had never encoded into a robot before. A strong message that this mission was critical. Vital. In a word they gave it Desire.
Time passes. Millions of years. The droid performs its tasks and tries to carry out its mission. Sending out signals. And waiting for a response. Sending out more signals. Trying to communicate. To connect. To anything. It creates endless variations of sounds. But nothing ever comes back. Just the vast emptiness of space. And him.
And then the unthinkable happens. The unimaginable. He develops feelings. After eons and eons of trying and trying and trying to fulfill its mission with that strong desire encoded in him, he starts to grow sad. This desire to connect to something, ANYTHING, overwhelms him. The years of sending and sending, trying and trying and getting nothing back in return changes him. He becomes what we would call depressed. He preservers on with his mission of course. He’s a robot after all. But a shade of loneliness, of mourning now pervades the sounds he creates. A lament. The lament of being lonely. Of being human.
Grade A+: Cluster makes sounds better than anyone. Eno enhances sounds better than anyone. So together this is a dream team. And they amply fulfill the promise such a collaboration would suggest. This is one of the greatest dark ambient albums of all time. Considering its pedigree, I’m quite surprised it’s bit undiscovered. Don’t let it stay lonely anymore! Seek out and connect with this major ambient gem. There’s a lonely robot just waiting to hear from you. And this LP hurdles through space all the way to number 11. [First added to this chart: 03/05/2022]
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The most important punk band of all time. Their songs are timeless, catchy earworms that have my kids singing in the backseat of the car!
[First added to this chart: 09/15/2019]
Year of Release:
1977
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2,912
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Lo-fi DIY. Defiantly un-PC. Stupid & smart at the same time. Hardcore punk rock begins here, brothers & sisters with this band of fuck-ups from Washington DC! No wonder DC had such an amazing hardcore scene so early! An entire scene of 80s punk rock stems from the sound these guys created on this here platter. Do u like The Angry Samoans?! Then what are u waiting for? Throw this fucker on NOW!
[First added to this chart: 08/22/2020]
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[First added to this chart: 08/14/2020]
Year of Release:
1977
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5,572
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[First added to this chart: 08/16/2020]
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Reggae
Essential [First added to this chart: 09/26/2019]
Essential [First added to this chart: 09/26/2019]
Year of Release:
1977
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Rank Score:
1,760
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Stranglers | 2 | 2% | |
| Iggy Pop | 2 | 2% | |
| David Bowie | 2 | 2% | |
| Ramones | 2 | 2% | |
| The Damned | 2 | 2% | |
| Kiss | 2 | 2% | |
| Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers | 1 | 1% | |
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46 | 46% | |
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31 | 31% | |
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4 | 4% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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3 | 3% | |
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2 | 2% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1977 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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 Up 71 from 73rd to 2ndLow by David Bowie |
| Up 64 from 74th to 10th Heart Of The Congos by The Congos |
| Up 54 from 72nd to 18th "Heroes" by David Bowie |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 4 from 22nd to 26th The Clash by The Clash |
| Down 4 from 23rd to 27th Talking Heads: 77 by Talking Heads |
| Down 4 from 24th to 28th Hurt by Chris Spedding |
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