Top 46 Music Albums of 1977
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Romanelli 
- Chart updated: 10/29/2025 23:15
- (Created: 04/11/2012 18:50).
- Chart size: 46 albums.
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Produced By NICK LOWE
1. Welcome To The Working Week
2. Miracle Man
3. No Dancing
4. Blame It On Cain
5. Alison
6. Sneaky feelings
7. (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
8. Less Than Zero
9. Mystery Dance
10. Pay It Back
11. I’m Not Angry
12. Waiting For The End Of The World
13. Watching The Detectives
Bonus Tracks:
14. Radio Sweetheart
15. Stranger In The House
16. Imagination (Is A Powerful Deceiver)
17. Mystery Dance
18. Cheap Reward
19. Jump Up
20. Wave A White Flag
21. Blame It On Cain
22. Poison Moon
Elvis Costello was initially wanted by Sire Records as a songwriter for Dave Edmunds. Nick Lowe got him into the studio, recorded this album, and persuaded them to utilize him as a solo artist instead. My Aim Is True had all the right timing. His angry young man sneer fit in well with the blossoming punk scene, and more than anything else, Costello was proving to be a master songwriter. “Alison” and “Watching The Detectives” made him a huge star, but it was the other songs that made him Elvis Costello. “Mystery Dance” is a great punk song: “Red Shoes”, “Blame It On Cain”, and “Less Than Zero” are top notch songs, and “Waiting For The End Of The World” (which was the vehicle for naming The Legendary Hitchhikers) is maybe his best song.
Bonus tracks. The best thing about them here is that they give an indication as to just how country Costello actually was. The first 3 are interesting, decent songs that didn’t make the cut: the rest are interesting one time, boring acoustic demos that were intended to stay on the cutting room floor. None of what Rykodisc threw onto the end of this fine album (10 tracks) is vital or necessary. Find a version without bonus tracks unless you must have them. [First added to this chart: 11/29/2012]
Top 46 Music Albums of 1977 composition
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| David Bowie | 2 | 4% | |
| Cheap Trick | 2 | 4% | |
| Burning Spear | 1 | 2% | |
| Wire | 1 | 2% | |
| Jackson Browne | 1 | 2% | |
| Steely Dan | 1 | 2% | |
| Culture | 1 | 2% | |
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| ! | 10/30/2022 22:27 | DJENNY | 4,365 | 100/100 |
| ! | 01/07/2021 18:08 |  Goliath | 351 | 86/100 |
| ! | 11/25/2020 17:57 |  desh79 | 1,278 | 93/100 |
| ! | 05/06/2018 17:56 | TrekkiELO | 75 | 88/100 |
| ! | 11/15/2014 13:28 |  sssvnnn | 2,864 | 83/100 |
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sssvnnn 11/15/2014 13:28 | #127042
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thedistantship 08/22/2014 14:41 | #120102
Nice list, but I would have liked to have seen Aja somewhere on the list
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