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-JET
Produced By JEFF LYNNE
1. Turn To Stone
2. It's Over
3. Sweet Talkin' Woman
4. Across The Border
5. Night In The City
6. Starlight
7. Jungle
8. Believe Me Now
9. Steppin' Out
10. Standin' In The Rain
11. Big Wheels
12. Summer And Lightning
13. Mr. Blue Sky
14. Sweet Is The Night
15. The Whale
16. Birmingham Blues
17. Wild West Hero
Why was ELO so big? After the huge success of A New World Record, Jeff Lynne (who basically was ELO) went on a writing spree and came up with the two record monster Out Of The Blue, which turned out to be even bigger. "Turn To Stone", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Sweet Is The Night"...all adding to the fact that ELO was one hell of a singles band. Throw in songs like "Jungle", "Across The Border", and "Wild West Hero", and you've got a hell of an album.
But unfortunately, this is a double album, not a single. And with any ELO album, you can count on plenty of filler...so this one has twice as much. And the filler here is pretty below par. Songs like "It's Over", "Starlight", and especially the sleep-inducing "The Whale" can make what should be a great listen tedious. Throw in the Concerto For A Rainy Day (4 songs ending with "Mr. Blue Sky"), and you've got something pretty disappointing with a lot of great material in between. As well, it was the beginning of Lynne's paring ELO down from a string band to a synth band. And his writing was all downhill from here.
Difficult to be so hard on this album...this was my first real purchase when I had finally put together my first real stereo...this was the beginning of my music collecting. But there is just too much lesser material. [First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
Produced By JEFF LYNNE
1. Turn To Stone
2. It's Over
3. Sweet Talkin' Woman
4. Across The Border
5. Night In The City
6. Starlight
7. Jungle
8. Believe Me Now
9. Steppin' Out
10. Standin' In The Rain
11. Big Wheels
12. Summer And Lightning
13. Mr. Blue Sky
14. Sweet Is The Night
15. The Whale
16. Birmingham Blues
17. Wild West Hero
Why was ELO so big? After the huge success of A New World Record, Jeff Lynne (who basically was ELO) went on a writing spree and came up with the two record monster Out Of The Blue, which turned out to be even bigger. "Turn To Stone", "Mr. Blue Sky", "Sweet Talkin' Woman", "Sweet Is The Night"...all adding to the fact that ELO was one hell of a singles band. Throw in songs like "Jungle", "Across The Border", and "Wild West Hero", and you've got a hell of an album.
But unfortunately, this is a double album, not a single. And with any ELO album, you can count on plenty of filler...so this one has twice as much. And the filler here is pretty below par. Songs like "It's Over", "Starlight", and especially the sleep-inducing "The Whale" can make what should be a great listen tedious. Throw in the Concerto For A Rainy Day (4 songs ending with "Mr. Blue Sky"), and you've got something pretty disappointing with a lot of great material in between. As well, it was the beginning of Lynne's paring ELO down from a string band to a synth band. And his writing was all downhill from here.
Difficult to be so hard on this album...this was my first real purchase when I had finally put together my first real stereo...this was the beginning of my music collecting. But there is just too much lesser material. [First added to this chart: 04/12/2012]
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1977
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3,433
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Produced by Chris Thomas and Bill Price. This music, and the people who litened to it, used to scare the bejesus out of me. I know now that it was because I didn't understand what punk was supposed to be. I now find this album magnificent in its brutality. While bands like The Clash sang about things from a global perspective, Johnny Rotten sang about what was bugging HIM. There was also the band being dismissed as not being able to play their instruments...but as you can hear on this brilliant album, they really COULD play.
[First added to this chart: 05/29/2012]
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1977
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10,728
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[First added to this chart: 01/17/2014]
Year of Release:
1977
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6,276
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[First added to this chart: 11/20/2012]
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[First added to this chart: 05/11/2012]
Year of Release:
1977
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825
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1977 – RSO
Produced By GLYN JOHNS
1. Cocaine
2. Wonderful Tonight
3. Lay Down Sally
4. Next Time You See Her
5. We’re All The Way
6. The Core
7. May You Never
8. Mean Old Frisco
9. Peaches And Diesel
Before he settled into his solo career in the early seventies, Eric Clapton earned his reputation as one of rock’s elite guitarists in bands like The Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, Cream, and Derek And The Dominos. After that, he discovered the work of J.J. Cale, and became a somewhat mellow singer songwriter guy who could still play a mean six string. And his recorded output throughout his long solo years has been, to put it nicely, sporadic. With a couple of notable exceptions. 461 Ocean Boulevard is well worth having, and a couple of others are steady enough to hold up. But maybe the best album of his career is 1977’s Slowhand.
This may be because Slowhand is simply the best set of songs Clapton has released. Cale’s “Cocaine” is here, along with “Wonderful Tonight” and “Lay Down Sally”, two of Clapton’s most memorable songs. “Next Time You See Her” is fine but a little weird, and both “The Core” and “Mean Old Frisco” contain enough fine guitar work to keep his 60’s fans happy. But this album, as with much of the rest of his 70’s and beyond career, is more about Clapton the singer than it is about his fretwork. Which is fine…it’s just the lesser of his two instruments. Other Clapton solo albums have come close, but this is his most consistent work. If you have to have just one, this would be it. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
Produced By GLYN JOHNS
1. Cocaine
2. Wonderful Tonight
3. Lay Down Sally
4. Next Time You See Her
5. We’re All The Way
6. The Core
7. May You Never
8. Mean Old Frisco
9. Peaches And Diesel
Before he settled into his solo career in the early seventies, Eric Clapton earned his reputation as one of rock’s elite guitarists in bands like The Bluesbreakers, The Yardbirds, Cream, and Derek And The Dominos. After that, he discovered the work of J.J. Cale, and became a somewhat mellow singer songwriter guy who could still play a mean six string. And his recorded output throughout his long solo years has been, to put it nicely, sporadic. With a couple of notable exceptions. 461 Ocean Boulevard is well worth having, and a couple of others are steady enough to hold up. But maybe the best album of his career is 1977’s Slowhand.
This may be because Slowhand is simply the best set of songs Clapton has released. Cale’s “Cocaine” is here, along with “Wonderful Tonight” and “Lay Down Sally”, two of Clapton’s most memorable songs. “Next Time You See Her” is fine but a little weird, and both “The Core” and “Mean Old Frisco” contain enough fine guitar work to keep his 60’s fans happy. But this album, as with much of the rest of his 70’s and beyond career, is more about Clapton the singer than it is about his fretwork. Which is fine…it’s just the lesser of his two instruments. Other Clapton solo albums have come close, but this is his most consistent work. If you have to have just one, this would be it. [First added to this chart: 04/11/2012]
Year of Release:
1977
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Rank Score:
733
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[First added to this chart: 11/06/2012]
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1977 – SIRE
Produced By TONY BONGIOVI, LANCE QUINN & TALKING HEADS
1. Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
2. New Feeling
3. Tentative Decisions
4. Happy Day
5. Who Is It?
6. No Compassion
7. The Book I Read
8. Don’t Worry About The Government
9. First Week / Last Week…Carefree
10. Psycho Killer
11. Pulled Up
If you’re looking for all of those great Talking Heads hits, you won’t find them here. Except for “Psycho Killer”. Nope. Not here. They weren’t a hitmaking machine yet. They had also not yet benefitted from spending three albums having their musical minds expanded by Brian Eno, they had not yet done “Burning Down The House” or “Once In A Lifetime”. They weren’t even very famous yet. What you do get with their debut album, Talking Heads ’77, is what they were initially. They were a somewhat funky, punky, new wave band of art school students who sang songs about serial killers and various quirky nerdiness. It’s easy to hear why they were catching on as a live act. They were fast, instrumentally tight as a drum, and David Byrne had just the right kind of weirdness to make a song like “Psycho Killer” something you had to experience. This is what they were in the beginning, before all of the awesome layers settled in.
A few of the tracks here don’t hold up well, but a few (like “Pulled Up”, “New Feeling”) sound as fresh as they did the day we first discovered this wonderful band. Some of their future magic is here…just not all of it. Talking Heads still had some growing to do, and they would do it very quickly. But, still…in 1977, if you were one of the cool kids who had stumbled onto “Psycho Killer” and bought this album, you had to know that while this wasn’t absolutely great stuff, there was a lot better music to come from them. And even “Psycho Killer” wasn’t your usual hit song about boy meets girl. It came out right after the Son Of Sam killer was caught in New York, which made it all the more interesting, even though it had been written years earlier. Talking Heads ’77 is a good album. It’s not a great one, but it’s important because it’s the first step in what would quickly become a fascinating and fruitful career. [First added to this chart: 11/09/2017]
Produced By TONY BONGIOVI, LANCE QUINN & TALKING HEADS
1. Uh-Oh, Love Comes To Town
2. New Feeling
3. Tentative Decisions
4. Happy Day
5. Who Is It?
6. No Compassion
7. The Book I Read
8. Don’t Worry About The Government
9. First Week / Last Week…Carefree
10. Psycho Killer
11. Pulled Up
If you’re looking for all of those great Talking Heads hits, you won’t find them here. Except for “Psycho Killer”. Nope. Not here. They weren’t a hitmaking machine yet. They had also not yet benefitted from spending three albums having their musical minds expanded by Brian Eno, they had not yet done “Burning Down The House” or “Once In A Lifetime”. They weren’t even very famous yet. What you do get with their debut album, Talking Heads ’77, is what they were initially. They were a somewhat funky, punky, new wave band of art school students who sang songs about serial killers and various quirky nerdiness. It’s easy to hear why they were catching on as a live act. They were fast, instrumentally tight as a drum, and David Byrne had just the right kind of weirdness to make a song like “Psycho Killer” something you had to experience. This is what they were in the beginning, before all of the awesome layers settled in.
A few of the tracks here don’t hold up well, but a few (like “Pulled Up”, “New Feeling”) sound as fresh as they did the day we first discovered this wonderful band. Some of their future magic is here…just not all of it. Talking Heads still had some growing to do, and they would do it very quickly. But, still…in 1977, if you were one of the cool kids who had stumbled onto “Psycho Killer” and bought this album, you had to know that while this wasn’t absolutely great stuff, there was a lot better music to come from them. And even “Psycho Killer” wasn’t your usual hit song about boy meets girl. It came out right after the Son Of Sam killer was caught in New York, which made it all the more interesting, even though it had been written years earlier. Talking Heads ’77 is a good album. It’s not a great one, but it’s important because it’s the first step in what would quickly become a fascinating and fruitful career. [First added to this chart: 11/09/2017]
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1977
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3,234
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[First added to this chart: 12/08/2012]
Year of Release:
1977
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1,680
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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% | |
| Jackson Browne | 1 | 2% | |
| Steely Dan | 1 | 2% | |
| Culture | 1 | 2% | |
| The Alan Parsons Project | 1 | 2% | |
| Eric Clapton | 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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