My Top 50 Albums of 1977
Here's the Spotify playlist with a deep cut from each album:
1. Television - Marquee Moon
2. Steely Dan - Aja
3. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
5. David Bowie - Low
6. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
7. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
8. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
9. Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
10. Heart - Little Queen
11. Queen - News Of The World
12. The Ramones - Rocket To Russia
13. Donna Summer – Once Upon A Time
14. Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
15. Billy Joel - The Stranger
16. The Isley Brothers – Go For Your Guns
17. The Clash - The Clash
18. Randy Newman - Little Criminals
19. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
20. Rush - A Farewell To Kings
21. Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue
22. Suicide – Suicide
23. Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
24. David Bowie - "Heroes"
25. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 1 (Car)
26. Joni Mitchell – Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
27. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
28. Teddy Pendergrass – Teddy Pendergrass
29. Chic – Chic
30. Al Green - The Belle Album
31. Yes - Going For The One
32. Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars
2. Steely Dan - Aja
3. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
4. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
5. David Bowie - Low
6. Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell
7. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols
8. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
9. Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
10. Heart - Little Queen
11. Queen - News Of The World
12. The Ramones - Rocket To Russia
13. Donna Summer – Once Upon A Time
14. Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
15. Billy Joel - The Stranger
16. The Isley Brothers – Go For Your Guns
17. The Clash - The Clash
18. Randy Newman - Little Criminals
19. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
20. Rush - A Farewell To Kings
21. Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue
22. Suicide – Suicide
23. Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
24. David Bowie - "Heroes"
25. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 1 (Car)
26. Joni Mitchell – Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter
27. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
28. Teddy Pendergrass – Teddy Pendergrass
29. Chic – Chic
30. Al Green - The Belle Album
31. Yes - Going For The One
32. Neil Young - American Stars 'n Bars
33. Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. the Placebo
Syndrome
34. Wire - Pink Flag
35. Jimmy Buffett – Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
36. Styx – The Grand Illusion
37. Cheap Trick - In Color
38. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
39. Blue Oyster Cult – Spectres
40. The Ramones - Leave Home
41. Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies' Man
42. Iggy Pop – The Idiot
43. Pink Floyd – Animals
44. Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station
45. Little Feat - Time Loves A Hero
46. Earth, Wind & Fire – All ‘N All
47. Bill Withers – Menagerie
48. Sparks – Introducing Sparks
49. Aerosmith - Draw The Line
50. Blondie - Plastic Letters
34. Wire - Pink Flag
35. Jimmy Buffett – Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes
36. Styx – The Grand Illusion
37. Cheap Trick - In Color
38. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
39. Blue Oyster Cult – Spectres
40. The Ramones - Leave Home
41. Leonard Cohen - Death Of A Ladies' Man
42. Iggy Pop – The Idiot
43. Pink Floyd – Animals
44. Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station
45. Little Feat - Time Loves A Hero
46. Earth, Wind & Fire – All ‘N All
47. Bill Withers – Menagerie
48. Sparks – Introducing Sparks
49. Aerosmith - Draw The Line
50. Blondie - Plastic Letters
As I work my way back
through the years, I’m entering the era when it was common not just to release
an album every year but to release multiple albums in a single year. David
Bowie, The Ramones, Iggy Pop, Donna Summer, Cheap Trick, The Jam, The Damned,
The Stranglers, Curtis Mayfield, Gary Wright, Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, The
Spinners, Merle Haggard, Utopia, and Sammy Hagar are just a few of the artists
who released two studio albums in 1977. So those were a lot of instances where I had to
figure out which of each pair of '77 albums was better, and whether to include
both, or one, or neither. It gets to be kind of a headache because I want to cover
more artists, and some really cool records wound up outside the top 50. But when someone like Bowie releases two classics in a year, you
just kind of have to go with it, you can’t shut one of them out.
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