Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1977!

went dancing in your head sounds much better though neil

went east of the river nile works too

East of the River Nile is great, I don't know the Ornette record

Went with Pink Flag because I've listened to it the most.

neil i meant as in
Went East Of The River Nile
Went Dancing In Your Head

geddit?

I don't know the Ornette record A better title would have been Electric Music For The Mind and Body, but that was already taken. It's based around that "dah dee dah dah, dah dah dah" motif in his symphonic Skies of America: sort of hippity jiggity okay yeah more for actual dancing in your head than feet, but word gets around, and you can't sit down, at least in your head, especially of you're stoned, and a friend of mine thought of it ot at the time as somewhat like an all-instrumental Beefheart & Magic Band, if the Captain aimed his sax a little closer to home. Kind of. Should be said that some longtime Ornette fans, of different ages, haaate Prime Time (this was his first with them). But it's worth checking out if you like him at all. It's not like what got tagged as fusion, it's not like no wave (well kinda the same idea in some ways), but really finds its own space in the 70s.

All of these warrant consideration...

AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
David Bowie - Heroes
Dead Boys - Young Loud and Snotty
Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
Pink Floyd - Animals
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
Ramones - Leave Home
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks Here's the Sex Pistols
Suicide - Suicide
Talking Heads - 77
Television - Marquee Moon
The Clash - The Clash
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
UFO - Lights Out
Wire - Pink Flag

Jesus Christ, who to pick!

I think the last poll got the most votes of all so far but more chat than this one so I'll be interested to see how many vote in this supposedly better indeed stellar important year

brian what did you pick? I can see heavy rock not getting much votes so maybe a wee vote for ufo from your shortlist?

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

results are kind of what I expected. really so many great albums from this year

I picked Rumours, sort of regret not picking Marquee Moon, which would have made it tie for first. impossible choices

Only 1 vote for the Pistols! Times have changed...

that is surprising

I was only paying attention to music in 1979 on a basic level and hadn't heard a lot of these. Of all of the ones I listened to for the first time later, Suicide made an impression

*1977

pretty good mix of votes, surprised "low" took it over television, i guess rym is well into its "bowie stan" phase

surprised to see that many votes for john martyn, i finally got around to "solid air" last year and thought it was ok

respectable showing for the floyd. i expect one vote AT MOST for "the wall", if it's even on the list. i don't even know what records came out in '79 other than maybe "beat rhythm news" and "number 1 in heaven" but there have to be twenty or thirty records better than "the wall" from that year. "duty now for the future" maybe. love all these votes for the one-offs. after all the "before and after science" talk it wound up pretty low.

Am pleased "Heart of the Congos" is up there

I am too.

Went with Suspiria in the end cos I fancied listening to it but should probably have stuck with Suicide. Some of the most frightening sounds on any rock records between those two?

My problem with Bowie is I don't like his voice or most of the songs LOL.

yeah Heart of the Congos was in the running for me also, great album.

dow- your description makes that Ornette record sound really interesting, I will check it out.

Neechy- got it! Sense of humour failure there...

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1978!

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