Top 46 Music Albums of 1977
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1977-WARNER BROTHERS
Produced By FLEETWOOD MAC, KEN CAILLAT & RICHARD DASHUT
1. Second Hand News
2. Dreams
3. Never Going Back Again
4. Don’t Stop
5. Go Your Own Way
6. Songbird
7. The Chain
8. You Make Loving Fun
9. I Don’t Want To Know
10. Oh Daddy
11. Gold Dust Woman
When guitarist Bob Welch left Fleetwood Mac in 1974, the band was left with just Mick Fleetwood, Christine and John McVie, a legacy of a once proud blues band that had slid into mediocre pop, and a long roster of former guitar players who barely shone inside the group or after they had gone (with the exception of Peter Green). The band was about to end when Lindsey Buckingham was discovered in California, and when he was asked to join the band, he insisted that his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks, be part of the deal. The result was the album Fleetwood Mac, an almost perfect album that was based in newfound energy and the sudden connection that the five members of the band made. Rumours is the absolute peak of the career of Fleetwood Mac. It’s also the beginning of the end of that spark that made them so special for such a short time. Instead of being magical because the players involved were so good together, Rumours is magical because it’s a chronicle of a band publically eroding before our eyes. And what an absolutely good time we all had with that! The songs that came from the drama, the broken relationships of the couples in the band, and the ability they still had to blend together musically made for an album that was simply perfect.
The songwriting is split almost evenly between Christine McVie, Buckingham and Nicks. And there’s not a single track that isn’t perfection, or that doesn’t help make the album what it is. Buckingham’s “Second Hand News”, “Never Going Back Again” and “Go Your Own Way” are the best of his career. Nicks chimes in with “Dreams”, “I Don’t Want To Know” and “Gold Dust Woman”, all of which helped cement her reputation as a songwriter. McVie’s “Don’t Stop”, “Songbird”, “You Make Loving Fun” and “Oh Daddy” are the foundation of the album, and are exceptional. The group effort, “The Chain”, is simply perfect. This calm pop rock album, built around a fleeting cohesion of talents and internal chaos, remains perfect to this day. The cracks started showing musically on the next album, Tusk, and the magic of Rumours was never regained. But, from 1975 through the release of the somewhat disappointing Tusk, this was the biggest band in the world. It was short, but it was also very sweet. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
Produced By FLEETWOOD MAC, KEN CAILLAT & RICHARD DASHUT
1. Second Hand News
2. Dreams
3. Never Going Back Again
4. Don’t Stop
5. Go Your Own Way
6. Songbird
7. The Chain
8. You Make Loving Fun
9. I Don’t Want To Know
10. Oh Daddy
11. Gold Dust Woman
When guitarist Bob Welch left Fleetwood Mac in 1974, the band was left with just Mick Fleetwood, Christine and John McVie, a legacy of a once proud blues band that had slid into mediocre pop, and a long roster of former guitar players who barely shone inside the group or after they had gone (with the exception of Peter Green). The band was about to end when Lindsey Buckingham was discovered in California, and when he was asked to join the band, he insisted that his girlfriend, Stevie Nicks, be part of the deal. The result was the album Fleetwood Mac, an almost perfect album that was based in newfound energy and the sudden connection that the five members of the band made. Rumours is the absolute peak of the career of Fleetwood Mac. It’s also the beginning of the end of that spark that made them so special for such a short time. Instead of being magical because the players involved were so good together, Rumours is magical because it’s a chronicle of a band publically eroding before our eyes. And what an absolutely good time we all had with that! The songs that came from the drama, the broken relationships of the couples in the band, and the ability they still had to blend together musically made for an album that was simply perfect.
The songwriting is split almost evenly between Christine McVie, Buckingham and Nicks. And there’s not a single track that isn’t perfection, or that doesn’t help make the album what it is. Buckingham’s “Second Hand News”, “Never Going Back Again” and “Go Your Own Way” are the best of his career. Nicks chimes in with “Dreams”, “I Don’t Want To Know” and “Gold Dust Woman”, all of which helped cement her reputation as a songwriter. McVie’s “Don’t Stop”, “Songbird”, “You Make Loving Fun” and “Oh Daddy” are the foundation of the album, and are exceptional. The group effort, “The Chain”, is simply perfect. This calm pop rock album, built around a fleeting cohesion of talents and internal chaos, remains perfect to this day. The cracks started showing musically on the next album, Tusk, and the magic of Rumours was never regained. But, from 1975 through the release of the somewhat disappointing Tusk, this was the biggest band in the world. It was short, but it was also very sweet. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
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1977
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1977 – ATLANTIC
Produced By DAVID CROSBY, STEPHEN STILLS & GRAHAM NASH WITH RON ALBERT & HOWARD ALBERT
1. Shadow Captain
2. See The Changes
3. Carried Away
4. Fair Game
5. Anything At All
6. Cathedral
7. Dark Star
8. Just A Song Before I Go
9. Run From Tears
10. Cold Rain
11. In My Dreams
12. I Give You Give Blind
Supergroups. They tend to not last for very long. Case in point: Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young) played Woodstock and quickly released a pair of albums between 1969 and 1970, then aside from a tour in 1974, did nothing substantial together until 1977. CSN was their third album, but it was already a comeback effort. Their last studio record had been 1970’s Déjà Vu. Neil Young was not around for this one, and the trio wrote all of the songs individually. David Crosby and Graham Nash contributed three songs each, with the other six written by Stephen Stills. CSN sold more copies than their 1969 debut, and was a top ten album in several countries. Star power is what they had, and everyone wanted to know what they had to say after all these years.
The best songs here are from Nash. The sadly short “Just A Song Before I Go” is pure harmony heaven, and “Cathedral” is a perfect centerpiece. Stills checks in with a pair of FM radio staples, “Dark Star” and “Fair Game” (with that awful line about her looking at your crotch). But for the first time in their career (and not the last), there’s quite a bit of filler. The sharp songwriting skills of Stills had begun to fade, and the immediacy of their sound during the Vietnam era now sounded lazy and overly mellow. This album also marked the beginning of Crosby and Stills’ preoccupation with sailing, putting them more on a line with Jimmy Buffett than where they had come from. CSN was viewed at the time as a huge victory, but these days, it’s not much more than average work from a superstar group that had much better work in their rear view mirror. [First added to this chart: 06/12/2015]
Produced By DAVID CROSBY, STEPHEN STILLS & GRAHAM NASH WITH RON ALBERT & HOWARD ALBERT
1. Shadow Captain
2. See The Changes
3. Carried Away
4. Fair Game
5. Anything At All
6. Cathedral
7. Dark Star
8. Just A Song Before I Go
9. Run From Tears
10. Cold Rain
11. In My Dreams
12. I Give You Give Blind
Supergroups. They tend to not last for very long. Case in point: Crosby, Stills & Nash (and sometimes Young) played Woodstock and quickly released a pair of albums between 1969 and 1970, then aside from a tour in 1974, did nothing substantial together until 1977. CSN was their third album, but it was already a comeback effort. Their last studio record had been 1970’s Déjà Vu. Neil Young was not around for this one, and the trio wrote all of the songs individually. David Crosby and Graham Nash contributed three songs each, with the other six written by Stephen Stills. CSN sold more copies than their 1969 debut, and was a top ten album in several countries. Star power is what they had, and everyone wanted to know what they had to say after all these years.
The best songs here are from Nash. The sadly short “Just A Song Before I Go” is pure harmony heaven, and “Cathedral” is a perfect centerpiece. Stills checks in with a pair of FM radio staples, “Dark Star” and “Fair Game” (with that awful line about her looking at your crotch). But for the first time in their career (and not the last), there’s quite a bit of filler. The sharp songwriting skills of Stills had begun to fade, and the immediacy of their sound during the Vietnam era now sounded lazy and overly mellow. This album also marked the beginning of Crosby and Stills’ preoccupation with sailing, putting them more on a line with Jimmy Buffett than where they had come from. CSN was viewed at the time as a huge victory, but these days, it’s not much more than average work from a superstar group that had much better work in their rear view mirror. [First added to this chart: 06/12/2015]
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1977
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Top 46 Music Albums of 1977 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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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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Nice list, but I would have liked to have seen Aja somewhere on the list
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