Best Albums of 1976

Listed below are the best albums of 1976 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 8 hours ago).
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1976 year summaryThe best artists of 1976 were Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Ramones, Eagles, Boston, Bob Dylan, Genesis, Rush, Joni Mitchell and The Modern Lovers.
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"Pretty 70's electronic stuff. Its feels too melodic to be quite ambient music, but is still very pastoral and atmospheric. The songs are constructed in a very blocky minimalist way, but somehow still sound totally natural and human."  Reply
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1976
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"This album is about 50/50. The good cuts are really good, the others laughably awful. I think Mr. Moraz needed a producer that knew how to say the word NO on this record."  Reply
- Coconut | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"This is not your run of the mill disco album. In fact this is a electronica ambiance concept Album about a love affair and how it evolves over time like the 4 seasons. Also.. it served as a great background for the real thing. For those who cringe at such an album ... check some of it out on Yout..."  [+]  Reply
- galileo1957 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +5 votes (5 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"There is nothing more disappointing than seeing a major artist so drunk on stage that they ruin a show. I totally get Coconut's comment. Sadly, the last time I saw Marillion was the end of the road for me, in buying any of their new work or ever seeing them live again. Steve Hogarth, you ruined i..."  [+]  Reply
- Junomoogmello | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"This is what I would dare call the classic "Schulze". Very repetitive, analog but supportive drums, long drawn-out chords on the synthesizer that unfortunately beg a little too often for variation (playing a different note really causes a kind of relief). The sound of the synthesizer effects is v..."  [+]  Reply
- leMonk | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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1976
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"the album as a format has been around for roughly 58 years. that's roughly 21,000 days... therefore, if you accept this album's rank at 21,609, you come to the unrealistic and inescapable conclusion that ROUGHLY ONE ALBUM PER DAY HAS BEEN RELEASED THAT IS BETTER THAN THE CLONES OF DR. FUNKENSTEIN..."  [+]  Reply
- jackbrown8786 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +9 votes (9 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"A personal favourite of mine. Love the humour of This Song , which deals with him being sued over My Sweet Lord. Eric Idle providing a Monty Python style line in it. Crackerbox Palace, another underrated classic. One of his best albums of the 70’s. Well worth checking out."  Reply
- Nowhereman1965 | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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