Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1976 poll

some albums just missing the Top 256 include: 27 Steely Dan - The Royal Scam, 29 Tom Zé - Estudando O Samba, 30 Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil, 32 Graham Parker & The Rumour - Heat Treatment, 33 Serge Gainsbourg - L'homme à tête de chou, 35 Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune, 36 Peter Tosh - Legalize It, 37 Rainbow - Rising, 38 Ry Cooder - Chicken Skin Music, 43 Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein, 44 Dr. Feelgood - Stupidity, 45 Weather Report - Black Market, 47 Bob Marley and The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration and 48 J.J. Cale - Troubadour.

What a year! Some of my favorite records from some of my favorite artists. Had to go for Station To Station just a nose (ahem) ahead of Ramones debut, Aerosmith's Rocks, Dylan's Desire and Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak.

Such a great year (especially when you throw in Einstein on the Beach, Presence, Agents of Fortune, and Dreamboat Annie). Hejira is one of my favourite things ever and it still doesn't get an instant vote because Oxygene is up there. I'll have to think.

I really like all of these:

3 104 Eagles - Hotel California
6 352 Aerosmith - Rocks
8 497 Joni Mitchell - Hejira
9 646 Boston - Boston
1005 Rush - 2112
17 1039 Blondie - Blondie
20 1145 Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive!
26 1341 Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène

and there a bunch more that I haven't heard all the way through but that I'm sure I'd like, based on what I do know from them.

Things really dropped off in the next two years, based on these lists.

*there are a bunch more (Stevie, Modern Lovers, Bowie, Thin Lizzy)

for me it is between Ramones, Songs in the Key of Life or The Modern Lovers.

would have voted for Steely Dan for the second year in a row if it would have been an option.

I know it will get few, if any, besides mine, votes, but Silk Degrees is a pretty great album. And yes this is another awesome year.

Easy (Rawks!)

Songs in the Key of Life will probably get my vote just ahead of The Modern Lovers.

Sad to see Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band isn't listed, I might have gone with that.

Ramones, but a slightly less enthusiastic vote than for Leave Home last time. I'd never heard of the Ramones in 1976: would have voted for Rocks or Destroyer or A New World Record at the time.

modern lovers ftw. (and my fb "cover" image is that bad news bears photo.)

super ape

Dr Buzzard's Original Savannah Band was number 41. know nothing about that album myself...

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would've voted africa brasil, kinda awesome to see KISS and steve miller band make the top 26 (seems like arrival's high placing might be due to similar cause - token cw 'best album' by massively popular act), love silk degrees, love station to station, love modern lovers, love rocks, love hejira, voted frampton.

this isn't as good of a selection as the 77 one in my opinion. voted modern lovers because someday i too want to be dignified and old.

Stevie or get thee farthest fuck out

is that Boz Scaggs album good? it never occurred to me that he has songs other than "Lowdown" (which is an all-time jam obv)

Don't really like many of these all that much. Voted For Joni, runners up for me are Bowie and Lee Perry.

Ramones is obviously awesome but also something I'm almost never in the mood to listen to.

word. if I'm in the mood to listen to the Ramones I'm probably just going to listen to Flockaveli instead

Ramones.

Is that Steve Miller album any good?

yeah this is the weakest list of the four so far. tempted to vote "Hotel California" because the title track is all time, but the rest of it is awful. so gonna go with Joni.

I think 1976 might be my least favourite year of the the decade for albums, either this or 1970.

plenty of favorites. Modern Lovers, Station to Station, Warren Zevon, Super Ape, Howlin Wind, Blackheart Man, Silk Degrees...

would have voted for Buzzard, as it is I'm going with teh Boz

modern lovers

Top 5:

Bowie
Flamin' Groovies
Thin Lizzy
Aerosmith
Upsetters

Super Ape
2112
Station to Station

I like quite a few of these, but the spaceship on the s/t Boston cover destroys the rest of the earthbound field (including Kiss on their rubble heap)

great year. especially love these:

Ramones - Ramones
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Kiss - Destroyer
The Upsetters - Super Ape
Rush - 2112

had to go with stevie

i sort of agree with Kitchen Person and think this is sort of a weaker year for the '70s.

Listened to about half of Songs in the Key of Life. It sounds amazing.

"hospital" is sort of a masterpiece on its own. the best artistic expression of the "nice guy" complex ever, and made stranger and more memorable by the fact that it is never clear, really, whether richmann realizes how badly his narrator comes across. really deranged song, full of grandiose self-pity, and played totally straight without any kind of indication of self-awareness.

voted for keys. ramones would be my second choice.

man this is tough.

between Jailbreak, Rocks, and Key of Life for me

this is going to be the last one for awhile, going to take off for July 4th.

Bowie

silk degrees forever and for all time

This is Station To Station so much it isn't even funny.

thin lizzy

xp station to station is a close second for me. i can't pick bowie for every year he released an album though.

Silk Degrees, easy. I would even vote for it over 2112 because it is clearly the best Boz Scaggs album while 2112 is doesn't rank as high for me in the Rush pantheon as some of their other classics.

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Rocks, over Station To Station.

Probably the worst year for music out of the entire 1970s.

lots of middling albums, voted Super Ape because it's the only one I still enjoy listening to occasionally

He's not gonna win, but I needed to make sure that Warren Zevon didn't go voteless. That's the album that Hotel California would have been if it knew how.

For those who have never heard it. Go toYou Tube and search for Silk Degrees. The whole album can be streamed there.

finally decided to go with The Modern Lovers.

good choice. i'll send over a bottle of champagne.

Modern Lovers just ahead of Bowie for me, tough choice though. Love Blondie's debut so much.

is that Boz Scaggs album good? it never occurred to me that he has songs other than "Lowdown" (which is an all-time jam obv)

― The Reverend, Thursday, June 27, 2013 1:29 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes. It is v v good indeed and got my vote.

Voted Stevie here just ahead of Modern Lovers. Tough poll.

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yay

i did not see this one coming.

going to have to check out that Boz Scaggs, who knew?

do it. it's good stuff.

Like I posted earlier, You Tube has the whole Boz album. Just search Silk Degrees. Good stuff.

ok I'm officially going to have to flag everyone's posts who didn't vote for stevie this shit is inexcusable

I still need to listen to that album.

yah same here

i'm glad 'ramones' exists but it's easily my least favorite of the first four albums, i never feel like hearing any of it apart from 'judy is a punk.'

No-one really said anything nice yet about The Bunny Wailer album, but that thing is great, some really solid roots tunes on that one.

dunno why that t went and got all uppity and capitalized

I'm the Bob Seger vote. It's got "Sunspot Baby" and "Mainstreet", and next to Destroyer, it's probably the one I remember best as a complete album.

Other favorite songs from this list "Detroit Rock City", "Lido Shuffle", "Last Child", "Coyote", "Sir Duke", "Shake Some Action", "X Offender", "Take the Money and Run", "American Girl", "Hitch a Ride", "Mohammed's Radio", "Golden Years", "I Don't Wanna Go Down to the Basement", "Knowing Me, Knowing You"

Good year.