What are your favorite albums from 1976

Lots of great picks. A few that I don't think have been mentioned...

Merle Haggard - My Love Affair With Trains

Mahavishnu Orchestra - Inner Worlds

Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny

Queen - A Day At the Races

Jerry Garcia - Reflections

 

Love Joni & Boz but also...

Dion - Streetheart
Elton - Blue Moves
Ned Doheny - Hard Candy

 

Bright Size Life -Pat Metheny
Hejira - Joni Mitchell
Royal Scam - Steely Dan
Those Souther Knights - the Crusaders
SITKOL - Stevie Wonder
Still Life - VDGG
Unorthodox Behaviour - Brand X
Black Market - Weather Report
The Book of Invasions - Horslips

 

Led Zeppelin-The Song Remains The Same Soundtrack-So many people always trashed this but I can`t help loving this one!

 

Billy Joel - Turnstiles
Chicago - Chicago X
The Doobie Brothers - Takin' It To the Streets

 

Beautiful Noise - Neil Diamond

Oxygene - Jean Michel Jarre

 

My list. I was 9 in 1976, so except for ABBA's Arrival I learned about these albums later on in life. Listed in order of liking:
- Oxygène, Jean Michel Jarre
- Songs in the Key of Life, Stevie Wonder
- Arrival, ABBA
- I Want You, Marvin Gaye
- Hejira, Joni Mitchel
- Station to Station, David Bowie

 

Too many to list, but I'd have to say the one album I played more than any other from that year was Agents Of Fortune. Something about it just hooked me in.

 

Queen - A Day at the Races

 

Queen - A Day at the Races
ELO - A New World Record
Status Quo - Blue For You
Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War Ina Babylon
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
Bowie - Station to Station
AC/DC - High Voltage & Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Super Ape - The Upsetters
Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
Gladiators - Trenchtown Mix Up
Burning Spear - Man In The Hills
Junior Murvin - Police and Thieves

Great year for reggae. Possibly the best.

 

Ramones - Ramones
Maddy Prior & June Tabor - Silly Sisters
Tom Waits - Small Change
Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life
Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia
Marvin Gaye - I Want You
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
The Upsetters - Super Ape
Cluster - Sowiesoso
Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely
Andy Irvine & Paul Brady - Andy Irvine & Paul Brady
Henry Cow - Concerts
June Tabor - Airs and Graces
J.J. Cale - Troubadour
Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage, Letzte Nächte
Van der Graaf Generator - World Record
Serge Gainsbourg - L'homme à tête de chou
Camel - Moonmadness
Tom Zé - Estudando o samba
Vainica Doble - Contracorriente
Jorge Ben - Africa Brasil
Can - Flow Motion

 

Steely Dan - Royal Scam
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Jeff Beck - Wired
Weather Report - Black Market
Bob Dylan - Desire
Bill Withers - Naked and Warm
John McLaughlin - Shakti
Zappa - Zoot Allures
Bob Marley - Rastaman Vibration

 

Anonymous - Inside the Shadow
Barigozzi Group - Woman's Colours
Bob Dylan - Desire
Rainbow - Rising
Bernard Herrmann - Taxi Driver
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
Budgie - If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Little River Band - After Hours
Novalis - Sommerabend
Rory Gallagher - Calling Card
Selda - Selda
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
The Gladiators - Trenchtown Mix Up
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox

 

How on earth did I forget the magnificent first two Ramones LPs?!

and Jailbreak?

In the UK 1975 & 1976 are often thought of as being complacent and mediocre years for music, that punk was a reaction against. When I start thinking what music came out in those years, yes some of the big rock acts were jaded by then, but there were superb albums being made if you look elsewhere.

 

Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Rush - 2112
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Jeff Beck - Wired
Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
Styx - Crystal Ball
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains the Same
Kansas - Leftoverture

A lot of great friggin' albums that year.

 

Great that you included The Gladiators too. I was hoping I wouldn't be the only one! There were a lot of excellent roots reggae albums in 1976 and the production as well recording quality was of a high standard on them all too.

 

I was not alive in 1976, but looking at this list I can see lots of things I like.

I can also see that were I a youth at this time, there would have been a lot of dross, so would have thoroughly welcomed punk in the next year.

 

Station to Station
Ramones
Silk Degrees
Live Bullet
Rocks
Agents of Fortune
Howlin' Wind
The Modern Lovers
One More For From the Road
Songs in the Key of Life
Night Moves
Heat Treatment
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band

 

Steely Dan - The Royal Scam

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Duke Ellington - The Ellington Suites (posthumous)
Serge Gainsbourg - L'Homme A Tête De Chou
A.C. Jobim - Urubu
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby
Weather Report - Black Market

 

Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Ramones
The Modern Lovers
Blondie
Michael Hurley, the Unholy Modal Rounders ..... - Have Moicy!
Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Richard Thompson - (guitar, vocal)
Kate & Anna McGarrigle
Joni Mitchell - Hejira
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
Bob Dylan - Desire

 

Some 1976 albums in my collection.

Futuristic Dragon T.Rex
Born to Die Grand Funk Railroad
Diana Ross Diana Ross
Smokey's Family Robinson Smokey Robinson
Their Greatest Hits (1971–1975) Eagles
Nobody's Fools Slade
Wings of Love The Temptations
The Osmonds Brainstorm
Home Is Where the Heart Is David Cassidy
You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind Joe Walsh
A Kind of Hush Carpenters
Whistling Down the Wire Crosby & Nash
15 Big Ones The Beach Boys
Anthology The Jackson 5
Good Singin', Good Playin' Grand Funk Railroad
My Name Is Jermaine Jermaine Jackson
Bigger Than Both of Us Hall & Oates
Spirit John Denver
Donny & Marie Osmond Featuring Songs Ftom Their TV Show
Children of the World Bee Gees
Dedication Bay City Rollers
The Power of Music The Miracles
Arrival ABBA
Don't Stop Believin' Olivia Newton-John
Part 3 KC and the Sunshine Band
The Jacksons The Jacksons
Getting It in the Street David Cassidy
Hotel California Eagles
A Day at the Races Queen
Disco Train Donny Osmond


Darryl

 

1976 was a good year, here is some of my faves:
ELO- A New World Record
Peter Frampton-Frampton Comes Alive
Bob Seger- Live Bullet
Rush- Exit Stage Left
Rush- 2112
Bad Company- Run With The Pack
Led Zeppelin- Presence
Led Zeppelin- The Song Remains The Same
Atlanta Rhythm Section- Red Tape
Styx- Crystal Ball

 

Aerosmith - Rocks
Boston - Boston
David Bowie - Station To Station
Isley Brothers - Harvest For the World
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Parliament - The Clones Of Dr Funkenstein
Rainbow - Rising
Ramones - Ramones
Rush - 2112
Stevie Wonder - Songs In the Key Of Life

-the usual suspects

 

What a great question! I will offer my Top Ten:

1) 'Songs In The Key Of Life' by STEVIE WONDER
2) 'Ramones' by THE RAMONES
3) 'Jailbreak' by THIN LIZZY
4) 'Boston' by BOSTON
5) 'The Modern Lovers' by THE MODERN LOVERS
6) 'Agents Of Fortune' by BLUE OYSTER CULT
7) 'High Voltage' by AC/DC
8) 'Fly Like An Eagle' by STEVE MILLER BAND
9) '2112' by RUSH
10) 'Night Moves' by BOB SEGER

Some honorable mention for Led Zeppelin, Electric Light Orchestra, The Eagles, Loudon Wainwright III, David Bowie, KISS and Waylon Jennings. Omissions are toughest part of these lists!

 

WOW!

a "name every album released in 1976" thread............

i say this one goes on for quite a while.