1976: Your Favourite Album

A turbulent and weird year but with many new ideas, with a feeling that something different was close to happen. So I have also an odd list.

 

Other.


Thirty Three & 1/3 - George Harrison

 

"Station to Station" - easy choice!

 

no Aerossmith Rocks?

 

Kiss - Destroyer/Rock & Roll Over

 

Hejira, my favorite Joni album, featuring marvelous work from Jaco Pastorious (whose debut would be my second choice)

 

1. Ramones: Ramones
2. Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life
3. Led Zeppelin: Presence
4. Bob Dylan: Desire
5. Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak
6. Bob Dylan: Hard Rain
7. Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees
8. David Bowie: Station to Station
9. Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely
10. Funkdadelic: Hardcore Jollies
11. Heart: Dreamboat Annie
12. Electric Light Orchestra: A New World Record
13. The Rolling Stones: Black and Blue
14. Al Green: Full of Fire
15. The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers
16. Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon
17. Bernard Herrmann: Taxi Driver OST
18. Joni Mitchell: Hejira
19. The Residents: Third Reich’n’Roll
20. Graham Parker: Howlin Wind

 

1. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
2. David Bowie - Station To Station (No.2 on New Musical Express' albums of the year chart)
3. Patti Smith - Radio Etheopia
4. The Modern Lovers - s/t

Bubbling under... Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Tom Waits, Lee Scratch Perry and The Ramones.

My favourite album of 1976 is not on the above list.

Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action

Other favourite albums from 1976 not on the above list include:

Be-Bop Deluxe - Modern Music
Blue Öyster Cult - Agents Of Fortune
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
Klaatu - 3.47 EST
Led Zeppelin - Presence
The Rolling Stones - Black And Blue
Shakti w/ John McLaughlin - s/t
Status Quo - Blue For You
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Wings - At The Speed Of Sound
Frank Zappa - Zoot Alures

 

Faithful - Todd Rundgren

 

Other.....

Royal Scam....Steely Dan

Silk Degrees......Box Scaggs

 

On the list? Modern Lovers
Not on the list? Zevon

 

Songs In the Key of Life
Ramones
Small Change
Desire -- Bob Dylan
Rastaman Vibration -- Bob Marley & The Wailers

 

I voted Legalize It, but I do prefer Rastaman Vibration.

 

From that list, Jaco.....

 

from the poll (weak poll btw) - Station To Station.

from the real 1976 (bold are essential):
Frampton Comes Alive
A Trick Of The Tail
Presence
Destroyer
A Night On the town
Night Moves
Jailbreak (thin lizzy)
Hotel California
Boston
Rocks
Songs In The Key of Life
Hejira
Moonmadness
Dreamboat Annie
Oxygen
Fly Like An Eagle
Year of the Cat
The Royal Scam
Eagles Greatest Hits
Silk Degrees
the Pretender
Agents of Fortune
Romantic Warrior
Live Bullet
Black and Blue
Breezin'
School Days
the Roaring Silence
Wings At the Speed of Sound
Best of the Doobies
Chicago X
Hasten Down the Wind
Sunburst Finish
Timeless Flight
Wild Cherry
Mott The Hoople Greatest Hits
Run With The Pack

 

Best Albums Ever.com for 1976

http://www.besteveralbums.com/yearstats.php?y=1976

Their list has 419 albums.

 

Dreamboat Annie.

 

15 BIG ONES

 

Station To Station. Didn't need to look at the list as I knew what I was going to vote for before opening the thread. Bowie's best IMO and it's up against some very strong competition.

 

A New World Record - Electric Light Orchestra

 

Boston - Boston
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive
Lynyrd Skynyrd - One More From The Road
Rainbow - Rising

Those responsible for the choices in the polls should be sacked for leaving out such large albums.

 

1. Whiskey Before Breakfast - Norman Blake
2. Sunday Street - Dave Van Ronk
3. Chicken Skin Music - Ry Cooder
4. Presence - Led Zeppelin
5. Captured Live - Johnny Winter

*Otis Rush - Right Place, Wrong Time was recorded in 1971, I believe.

 

Rory Gallagher and the Modern Lovers. Still a good year but maybe a rank down from the previous run of abundance.

 

Apparently the OP does not like Chicago...

Chicago X is a grammy award winning album!

 

Tricky one this but I'll go with The Alan Parsons Project, Tales Of Mystery & Imagination by Edgar Allen Poe.