POX 1977 Non-Punk Albums

Cameo - Cardiac Arrest
Cloud One - Cloud One
Congos - Heart of the Congos
Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n All
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
Gil-Scott Heron - Bridges
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
Rufus - Ask Rufus
Slave - Slave
Steely Dan - Aja

(Two-way tie for 10th)

ABBA - Arrival
Bowie, David - "Heroes"
Bowie, David - Low
Can - Flow Motion
Cheap Trick
Cluster & Eno
Eno, Brian - Before and After Science
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Pop, Iggy - The Idiot
Pop, Iggy - Lust for Life

Yeah, these were sorta considered for my list. For some reason, I thought them to be too close. (I'm too groggy to explain.)

Univers Zero - 1313
This Heat - Made Available
Heldon - Interface
Aksak Maboul - Onze Danses Pour Combattre le Migraine
Lard Free - III: Spirale Malax
Archaia - s/t
Magma - Attahk
Jacques Thollot - Resurgence
Etron Fou Leloublan - Batelages
Queen - News of the World

ELO - Out of the blue
Candi Staton - Young hearts run free
Motorhead - Motorhead
The Enid - In the region of the summer stars
John Martyn - One world
Donna Summer - I remember yesterday
Chic - Chic
Culture - Two sevens clash

Note: If half-albums were eligible, Side One of Bowie's Low woulda made the list. (Presuming it's not considered new wave.)

Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
Blondie - s/t
Blondie - Plastic Letters
Pleasure - Joyous
Andrew Gold - What's Wrong With This Picture?
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Randy Newman - Little Criminals
Colosseum II - Electric Savage
The Muppets - The Muppet Show
Yes - Going For The One

and if Blondie are considered punk, substitute:
Peter Gabriel - s/t
Jean-Michel Jarre - Oxygene

Love Gun by Kiss
Alive II by Kiss
News of the World by Queen
Animals by Pink Floyd
Draw the Line by Aerosmith
Funkentelechy... by Parliament
Live by Status Quo
Bad Reputation by Thin Lizzy
Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent
Saturday Night Fever - soundtrack

In case it helps with the mysterious market research, here are some 1977 albums I'd like to hear: Dancing in Your Head; North Star; Equal Rights; Yes, We Have No Mananas; Street Survivors; Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo Syndrome; Dancer With Bruised Knees.

...in other words, Not That Chuck's list. The posts certainly came in thick and fast while I was ruminating, so apologies for redundancy! (And for missing out Rod.)

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Brian Eno - Before and After Science
John Martyn - One World (a little surprised not to see this on more lists)
Harry Nilsson - Knnillssonn (i seriously do love this; marvellous epitaph to the main part of his career: love the cavernous, world-weary ballads; 'Perfect Day' is astonishingly moving, his voice miraculously rejuvenated after the last few albums, if still rougher hewn than 'twas circa "Aerial Ballet" etc. And also I must express appreciation for that lunatic ode to "The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case", 'Who Done It?', with its witty string arrangement, and vocal non sequiturs)
Donna Summer - Once Upon A Time (a divine disco 'musical')
Beach Boys - Love You
Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue (not quite up to the Roy Wood-involved debut, or "Eldorado", but a very fine record)
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express (easy call, but profoundly a right one; bit of an influence on Post-Punk's synth-heavier excursions, like "Low")
David Bowie - Low
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
ABBA - The Album

Thank fuck for punk and new wave!

Garland Jeffreys, Ghost Writer
Fela and Afrika 70, Sorrow Tears and Blood
Ray Charles, True to Life
Joe Ely, Joe Ely
Charles Mingus, Three or Four Shades of Blues
maybe Gil Scott-Heron and Brian Jackson, It's Your World
Pete Townshend and Ronnie Lane, Rough Mix
Philip Glass, North Star
James Taylor, JT (God, I feel so boring)
[whatever I'm forgetting]

No, Willen, I don't hate Side Two of Low at all - I like it somewhat, but not enough for it to have made my top 20 (if it were released on its own). As it is, it weighs down Side One just enough to demote the LP to #16 or so. (Again, assuming it's not considered new wave.)

David Bowie – Heroes
David Bowie – Low
Black Uhuru – Black Sounds Of Freedom
Burning Spear – Dry And Heavy
Ornette Coleman – Dancing In Your Head
Congos – Heart Of The Congos
Culture – Two Sevens Clash
Brian Eno – Before & After Science
Kraftwerk – Trans Europe Express
Junior Murvin – Police And Thieves
Poet And The Roots (Linton Kwesi Johnson) – Dread, Beat An’ Blood
Steely Dan – Aja
U Roy - Rasta Ambassador
Tom Waits – Foreign Affairs
Yes – Going For The One

... made available but not in 1977. Also This Heat were "new wave" or sumthin'.

On today of all days.

Anyone have anything to add to this thread 7 years later?

I'm offering Goblin - Suspiria. What an album!

Yes - Going for the One
Can - Saw Delight
Elvis Costello - My Aim is True (he's not really in his "new wave" phase yet is he?
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome
Pete Hammill - Over
Tangerine Dream - Encore
Sparks - Introducing Sparks

I guess I only got 8

Some records I listened to a lot in 1977:

Steve Miller Band - Book of Dreams
The Tubes - Now
Be Bop Deluxe - Live In The Air Age
Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - Face To Face, A Live Recording

As a longtime Sparks fan, I hated Introducing Sparks when I first heard it, and didn't end up buying it until years later to fill in my collection. I've softened on it a bit, but it's still far from a favorite.

Def listened to Rumours a ton, too.

I'd just barely heard of punk rock in 1977, and I'd only been buying albums for a year or so. I was curious as to what I bought at the time, so I quickly scrolled through Rate Your Music's big list: Jethro Tull's Songs for the Wood, Gentle Giant's Playing the Fool, Neil's Stars 'n Bars, and Max Webster's High Class in Borrowed Shoes. We all have a past.

I'm just going to post random 77 favorites until maybe I reach 10

Popol Vuh, Herz aus glas/Heart of Glass

Alice Coltrane - Transcendence
Jon Hassell - Vernal Equinox

Manuel Gottsching - Blackouts