1977..where were you musically?

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  1. Scope J

    Scope J Senior Member

    Location:
    Michigan
    Started out the year with The Who,
    Led Zeppelin, Rush, Kiss, ended it with
    The Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The
    Damned & The Clash .
     
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  2. Comet01

    Comet01 Forum Resident

    I arrived as a freshman in college in September 1977. Right away I had significant roommate issues (he never studied and liked to play the Led Zep debut very loudly!).
    For the first time I had a record store within walking distance - I could buy albums without any comments from parents!
    I was definitely a music snob who was happy with my moderate-sized collection and not that interested in expanding my circle of musical knowledge.

    Here were my favorites in 1977:

    Rock
    Chicago - XI was good but not great. I was about to be absolutely crushed by Terry Kath's death after the new year.
    ELO - my local FM station featured a lot of Out Of The Blue and made me a fan by playing such deep cuts as "Birmingham Blues" and "The Whale".
    Beach Boys - I had read the Timothy White piece in Crawdaddy in 1976 that raved about Brian's new music ("California Feeling" in particular). I thought that 1976's 15 Big Ones was huge a letdown... but it didn't come close to reaching the putrid depths of 1977's Love You. I promised myself that I would never purchase any future BB albums (but would continue to enjoy the old ones that I already had).
    Rick Nelson - I bought Garden Party in the bargain bin that summer and became a big fan of Rick's Stone Canyon Band era.
    Steely Dan - Aja made me a fan.

    Fusion
    Jean-Luc Ponty - I had just became a fan in the summer of 1977 (I got 1976's Imaginary Voyage as a perk of subscribing to Downbeat magazine). The fall release of Enigmatic Ocean was a stunner (it is still one of my all-time favorites): the tour in support of it was my first fusion concert.
    Brecker Brothers - Don't Stop the Music was merely ok. However, I was lucky enough to see the supporting tour that yielded Heavy Metal Be-Bop (Pat Metheny opened).
    Weather Report - Heavy Weather made me a huge Jaco fan.
    New York Mary - a short-lived fusion band on Arista / Freedom.

    Soul
    Average White Band - I was still loving the previous year's Soul Searching.
    Tower of Power - they left Warner Bros in 1976 and the rot had begun to set in (but I didn't know it yet).
     
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  3. sami

    sami Mono still rules

    Location:
    Down The Shore
    17 years old and listening to all the boring AOR stuff that everybody else did, and not really being awfully inspired by any of it, but all that would change when a friend dragged me to see the Ramones in January 1978 - I found myself musically and my tastes took off in multiple directions from that point on. For whatever reason, seeing the Ramones live was like removing the chains, and opening up a whole new world of music to discover.
     
  4. ronm

    ronm audiofreak Thread Starter

    Location:
    southern colo.
    Maybe I'm am being perhaps biased but I would like to say hats off to all us young adults at this time in rock history.I feel it was the apex in classic rock as we know it.Just seems the output got less and less with each passing year. The 70s were a great time to be around.The excellent musical output too me at least would never be the same.Just me 2 cents.
     
  5. MicSmith

    MicSmith Forum Resident

    I was 15 and a UK citizen, so for me 1977 is summed up by listening to the Alan Freeman Show and John Peel Show and thanks to my dad who invested in some pretty decent Hi-Fi was an avid taper of those shows and Sight and Sound In Concert. I already had a decent grounding in rock and pop from about 1971 onwards but 1977 blew the doors off! I embraced a lot of rock music that I hadn't previously heard much of or was actually brand new (Jethro Tull, The Who, VDGG, Floyd, Colosseum II, Peter Gabriel) to add to the stuff I did know (Zeppelin, Genesis, Lizzy, Alex Harvey, Yes, ELP, Elton, Bowie, Stevie Wonder etc.) but I also had a strong interest in the Punk/New Wave music especially The Pistols, The Stranglers, Elvis Costello and The Jam. It was a absolute joy to hear all of this music (old and new waves) and to be able to borrow albums and tape them in decent quality. Probably taken as a whole, in terms of my openness to discovering "new" (to me) music, 1977 would have to be my personal favourite year. I also remember it as a time when friendships were formed around the music we were then listened to - a sort of gang existence if you like - and something I haven't really been exposed to as an adult preferring, in the main, to socialise in very small numbers (2-4) but in '77-'79 there must have been about 6-1o of us all into the same sort of thing, hunting down import singles, sharing tapes, discussing the latest thing we'd read or heard about our musical heroes. So there was a social side to music then which was as much a product of the times as it was my age and circumstance I suppose.
     
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  6. alexpop

    alexpop Power pop + other bad habits....

    Think the only old guard artists in '77 that I still followed where Brian Wilson, Neil Young& David Bowie(Iggy), The rest were not made for that year.
     
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  7. yesstiles

    yesstiles Senior Member

    I was born in 1971, so I don't think anything. Maybe Jack Hannah or Amy Grant's first album? Wish I was older because my favorite period of music is 1970-1975.
     
  8. monotone

    monotone I know noothing.

    Location:
    HEL/FIN
    I was ten years old so 1977 was just before I started to develop a taste of my own for music. But I certainly was interested in most everything that was available on radio and tv. Just couldn't quite distinguish what it was that I really liked yet. I do remember managing to persuade my folks to buy a couple of Abba and Elvis records so that wasn't a bad start. Then a couple of years later I discovered the Beatles and that was pretty much that.
     
  9. Rodney Toady

    Rodney Toady Waste of cyberspace

    Location:
    Finland
    I was still in the beginning of my "career" as a music fan and very much open to everything, which is why I wasn't keen on denouncing the past even though I took a keen interested in punk. My favourites at the time included The Sensational Alex Harvey Band, Jethro Tull, Electric Light Orchestra, Dr Feelgood, Nazareth, Uriah Heep, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Styx, Kansas, Ramones, The Damned, Buzzcocks, The Stranglers, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Eddie and the Hot Rods. I was also well on my way to discovering progressive rock (which I fell for big time) via Yes, Pink Floyd and the like, so 1977 was definitely a time of constant discovery for me.
     
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  10. OneStepBeyond

    OneStepBeyond Senior Member

    Location:
    North Wales, UK
    This year is pretty much where my love for music began. :love:

    I was 7 - bought my first single in an indie record shop, accompanied by my eldest brother who would have been 18; it was Money Money Money by Abba and I remember it clearly to this day... I couldn't decide and he was trying to persuade me that if I left empty-handed I would regret it deeply. :laugh: i must have been in there for ages and think I looked at the used selection too but he would have probably got told off if I came home with something that wasn't brand new! For the same reason, I soon got many a lecture about swapping my newly acquired singles for what was considered 'old' by my grandmother... but I would get two or three in exchange for my one and they'd still just about be in the charts after all! Anyway...

    As far as radio and tv goes, I don't think we started listening to the Sunday afternoon Top 40 chart show on Radio 1 until 1979 because I remember sitting in the kitchen with the little radio on and some of the songs that we were hearing from it. We likely had Top Of The Pops on once or twice, on BBC 1 tv but it wouldn't be a regular feature with my dad not being into music. There was that one Sony cassette that had a chart show or part recorded onto it, that I got hold of and had The Stranglers and The Commodores on - easy way to acquire the latest hits, even if all you could do is point the in-built microphone of your portable tape machine at the tiny speaker on an AM radio. And it was around this time that I heard some or all of Sgt Pepper and the Magical Mystery Tour EP on a tape that had been recorded by the same sort of method - couldn't get my head around I Am The Walrus being by the same people who did I Feel Fine... it was a bit worrying to my tender ears. :D


    What I'd be hearing is mostly tracks from my eldest brother's (again - the other was just playing the eldest's records anyway) LP collection - he'd put an asterisk next to favourites on the back of the sleeve (*) next to the songs he'd favour which I think is pretty bad, these days. But they were his property and he'd treat all the surfaces of the records with a lot of care, cleaning before every play and straight back to its sleeve after play. He would have singles as well but I don't remember much of them from that time - however I was getting very interested in them, maybe a year later when I was starting off my own small collection. He had many things that I remember from the artwork (like Genesis, Lynard Skynard and a lot of big early-mid 70s classics) but I don't remember him playing them at the time but I recall he played Bowie, ELO, Bryan Ferry and Alice Cooper. The latter was and still is his favourite artist and I got into all of these and own all or most albums by them - I don't think he ever achieved this; he's had quite a large collection to most people but I think I'd be called nuts for all the music I have. :winkgrin:

    My other brother (was 11) had a little cassette recorder and Abba's Greatest Hits on a proper pre recorded tape - that was the first one I noticed and then began to spot tapes like that in odd places like Wings At The Speed Of Sound in a local newsagent's window. This stood out to me because that album was there at home. I'd have had no idea that there was any link between Wings and The Beatles.

    Another thing is I remember Elvis passing - hearing the news on radio and the films being shown on tv; we watched at least a few but when Marc Bolan died it seemed to not get a mention. This is not all that far from reality, but I'd possibly not know of him except for the song Jeepster which is still my favourite of his.
     
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  11. Joti Cover

    Joti Cover Forum Resident

    American Stars 'N Bars
     
  12. cgw

    cgw Forum Resident

    Location:
    Upstate NY
    77 was the year I was just getting started getting into music.
    Beatles in a big way.
    Kansas in the beginning of the year.
    Queen by the end of the year.
    I probably had the Beatles US discography by the end of the year.
     
  13. michanes

    michanes oh yeah

    Since when was I you and you me?
     
  14. michanes

    michanes oh yeah

    I was also 13. It was the year of my first concert (ELO at the Notre Dame ACC in South Bend, IN) with the green laser pointed above the cello and the fractured laser light all over the stadium.

    Bought my first LP - Uriah Heep's The Magician's Birthday.

    Started paying attention to what my older sisters were laying - Genesis A Trick of the Tail is one I recall.

    I liked it all; Top 40, Rock (Kiss, Who, Cream, Hendrix), Soul/R&B, even disco.

    At my 25th HS reunion a guy said he recalled I had good taste in music (??!!??) but I don't think so. It took me 4 more years and being 17 and starting college (and immediately flunking out) to find punk and new wave.
     
  15. michanes

    michanes oh yeah

    Oh - and speaking of marijuana - I was 13 in Aug '77 and at a summer camp in Minnesota. I was out with these friends (brothers) from Philly and we were getting high and we got back to the cabin and someone told us Elvis had just died. We were a little stunned, but too stoned to even think about it. I was not big into Elvis (loved In The Ghetto though)....
     
  16. PeakXV

    PeakXV Forum Resident

    Location:
    Far East, Canada
    I was 'in the closet' with Fleetwood Mac .... KISS ruled and I was not a fan.
     
  17. Neonbeam

    Neonbeam All Art Was Once Contemporary

    Location:
    Planet Earth
    "Suicide" by Suicide

    "2nd Annual Report" by Throbbing Gristle

    "Marquee Moon" by Television

    "Pink Flag" by Wire

    "Damned Damned Damned" by The Damned

    "Never Mind The Bollocks" by Sex Pistols

    "Rocket To Russia" by the Ramones

    "'Heroes'" by David Bowie

    "Lust For Life" by Iggy Pop

    "Pacific Ocean Blue" by Dennis Wilson

    "Rumours" by Fleetwood Mac

    "Before And After Science" by Eno

    "Trans Europa Express" by Kraftwerk

    What else mattered??? :wantsome::wantsome:
     
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  18. Brother Maynard

    Brother Maynard Forum Resident

    Location:
    Dallas, TX
    I was six, so I was into about anything my older siblings were listening to. That ranged from the Beatles to the Bee Gees to Kiss.
     
  19. ronm

    ronm audiofreak Thread Starter

    Location:
    southern colo.
    Like I mentioned Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin were at top of the playlist and around the corner were Jimi Hendrix and Cream.At 16 in '77 these two bands who would become HUGE to me were pretty much unknown.
     
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  20. mwheelerk

    mwheelerk Sorry, I can't talk now, I'm listening to music...

    Location:
    Gilbert Arizona
    27 years old, married, a two year old son and an infant daughter.

    • Alan Parsons Project - I Robot
    • Billy Joel - The Stranger
    • Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
    • Chuck Mangione - Feels So Good
    • Crosby, Stiils & Nash - CSN
    • David Bowie - Heroes
    • David Bowie - Low
    • Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
    • Earl Klugh - Finger Painting
    • Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
    • Eric Clapton - Slowhand
    • Grant Green - Iron City
    • Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
    • James Taylor - JT
    • Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
    • Jimmy Dawkins - Blisterstring
    • Joan Armatrading - Show Some Emotion
    • Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams
    • Mannheim Steamroller - Fresh Aire II
    • Mel Torme - The London Sessions
    • Muddy Waters - Hard Again
    • Neil Young - American Bars And Stars
    • Neil Young - Comes A Time
    • The Nighthawks - Full House
    • The Nighthawks - Jacks & Kings
    • Pete Townshend & Ronnie Lane - Rough Mix
    • Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (1)
    • Pink Floyd - Animals
    • Queen - News Of The World
    • Robert Gordon - Robert Gordon With Link Wray
    • Santana - Moonflower
    • Sea Level - Sea Level
    • Steely Dan - Aja
    • Steve Winwood - Steve Winwood
    • Van Morrison - A Period Of Transistion
    • Waylon Jennings - Ol Waylon
    • Steve Hunter - Swept Away
    • Chet Atkins & Les Paul - Chester & Lester
    • Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
    • Television - Marquee Moon
    • Camel - Rain Dance
    • Al Di Meola - Elegant Gypsy
    • Clash - Clash
    • Roomful Of Blues - The First Album
    • David Grisman - The David Quintet
    • Weather Report - Heavy Weather
    • Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
    • George Thorogood & The Destroyers - The George Thorogood & The Destroyers
    • Ron Carter - Third Plane
    ...is where I was at
     
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  21. ganma

    ganma Senior Member

    Location:
    Earth
  22. ganma

    ganma Senior Member

    Location:
    Earth
    The Wombles!
     
  23. Neonbeam

    Neonbeam All Art Was Once Contemporary

    Location:
    Planet Earth
    Cool list, quite open mind... errrr... eared.
     
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  24. jon9091

    jon9091 Master Of Reality

    Location:
    Midwest
    Let's see, in 1977 I was 16. Zeppelin, Sabbath, Queen, Floyd, Rush, BÖC, Stones and Beatles, Yes, The Who, Kiss, Alice, Bowie, ELP, Tull, Elton, ELO....and my favorite new band discovery for that year was Cheap Trick.

    Jeez, I'm listening to the exact same stuff...on a daily basis. :edthumbs:
     
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  25. DeRosa

    DeRosa Vinyl Forever

    I was 9, and grew up in Toronto listening to mainly to the Chum radio station at that time,
    so like many others about the same age who have already posted, it was mainly top 40 radio that was shaping my tastes,
    as well as a few older kids in my neighbourhood who owned albums that put bands like
    The Beatles, Genesis, Queen, Pink Floyd, and Kiss on my radar. Looking through a few 1977 charts,
    there were some hits that I recall very vividly on my radio;

    Steve Miller Band - Swingtown, Jetliner, Fly Like an Eagle
    Supertramp - Give a little bit
    Stephen Bishop - On And On
    Little River Band - Reminiscing
    Cheap Trick - I want you to want me
    Eagles - Hotel California, New Kid in Town
    Styx - Come Sail Away
    Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Blinded by the Light
    Electric Light Orchestra - Telephone Line
    Rush - Closer to the Heart
    Rod Stewart - You're in My Heart

    Rumors by Fleetwood Mac was played on the radio incessantly over the fall of 1977,
    but I never developed a taste for them, and never bought any of their albums.

    The only hit songs from that list I own is the Supertramp's Even in the Quietest Moments album,
    and Rush's A farewell to kings. But looking at the 1977 album chart, it's pretty clear my local radio
    top 40 radio stations weren't playing any of the music from 1977 I would be so interested in a decade
    later in high school:

    Steely Dan - Aja
    Bowie - Low
    Television - Marquee Moon
    Talking Heads - 77
    Peter Gabriel - Car
    Pink Floyd - Animals
    Elvis Costello- My Aim is True
    The Jam - In The city
    Pink Flag - Wire
    The Clash - Debut
    Sex Pistols - Nevermind the bollocks
     
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