What are your favorite albums from 1976

And my volume 2 for 1976...these are five favorites listed in release order between June of that year and December...

 

Desire Bob Dylan
Station to Station David Bowie
Dreamboat Annie Heart
Sunburst Finish Be-Bop Deluxe
Destroyer Kiss
Sad Wings of Destiny Judas Priest
Presence Led Zeppelin
Moondawn Klaus Schulze
Let Your Love Flow The Bellamy Brothers
Pat Travers Pat Travers
Young and Rich The Tubes
Rocks Aerosmith
Rising Rainbow
No Earthly Connection Rick Wakeman
Tales of Mystery and Imagination The Alan Parsons Project
Alice Cooper Goes to Hell Alice Cooper
Boston Boston
Hasten Down the Wind Linda Ronstadt
Technical Ecstasy Black Sabbath
Private Eyes Tommy Bolin
Free-for-All Ted Nugent
Rock and Roll Over Kiss

 

In Alphabetical order:

Aerosmith - rocks
Be Bop Deluxe - sunburst finish / modern music
Blondie - s/t
Bob Dylan - desire
David Bowie - station to station
Jeff Beck - wired
Journey - look into the future
Kiss – destroyer / rock n roll over
Led Zeppelin - presence
Mahogany Rush – IV
Norman Blake – whiskey for breakfast
Peter Frampton – comes alive
Queen - a day at the races
Ramones - s/t
Robin Trower – live
The Rolling Stones - black and blue
The Tubes - young and rich
Thin Lizzy - jailbreak
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers – s/t
UFO - no heavy petting

 

14 LPs purchased. Bowie, Todd,Patti Smith, Ramones etc..
This was the last year I bought albums in abundance till the mid eighties.

 

Thin Lizzy-Jailbreak
Rush-2112
Kiss-Destroyer
Heart-Dreamboat Annie
AC/DC-High Voltage
Boston-S/T
Bob Seger-Night Moves
Blondie-S/T

All purchased on day of release at the tender age of 11. There are more to this list, but coffee is ready!

 

You had me until Technical Ecstasy....... I was 15 in 1976........I wholeheartedly agree with your other choices. Let me throw in a few more.........

Boston- self-titled
Eagles - Hotel California
Kansas- Leftoverture
Rush -All the World's a Stage
Aerosmith - Rocks
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Rainbow- Rising
Frampton Comes Alive
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Warren Zevon - self-titled
Bob Seger - Night Moves
Boz Scaggs- Silk Degrees
Jackson Browne - The Pretender
Skynyrd - One More From The Road
Marvin Gaye - I Want You
Bob Seger - Live Bullet
Rory Gallagher - Calling Card
George Harrison - 33 and a third
Wings Over America
Allman Brothers - Wipe The Windows.........
Waylon - Live
Z.Z. Top - Tejas
Hall and Oates - Bigger Than The Both of Us
Stills/Young - Long May You Run
Blackfoot - Ridin High
Robin Trower - Live

dang, what a year.

 

Not in order

Speed of Sound-Wings
S/T-Fleetwood Mac
S/T-Boston
A Night At The Opera-Queen
Give Us A Wink-Sweet
S/T-Firefall
Live At City Center-Monty Python
Moonlight Feels Right-Starbuck
Dreamboat Annie-Heart
X-Chicago

Queen, Chicago, Fleetwood Mac probably my top 3 from 76

 

Queen - A Day At The Races
Bowie - Station To Station
AC/DC - High Voltage
Ramones - S/T

 

Really love that Firefall album though.

 

You sure missed a lot. What brought you back?

 

i think we have them listed here amongst all these posts, another great year for albums.

 

Yeah, me too!

 

Wanted! The Outlaws – Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Tompall Glaser and Jessi Colter
Alone Again – George Jones
Desire - Bob Dylan
Live Bullet - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
The Roots of My Raising - Merle Haggard
Hotel California - Eagles
Small Change - Tom Waits

 

Bowie: Station to Station
Judas Priest: Sad Wings of Destiny
Abba: Arrival
E.L.O: A New World Record

 

ABBA: Arrival

HEART: Dreamboat Annie

 

Didn't have any time for music in '76.

 

Stevie Wonder-Songs In The Key Of Life
Gong-Gazeuse
Jan Hammer-Oh Yeah!
Genesis-Trick Of The Tail
Gentle Giant-Interview
Zappa-Zoot Allures
Bruce Cockburn-In The Falling Dark
Joni Mitchell-Hejira
RTF-Romantic Warrior
Brand X-Unorthodox Behaviour

 

My top three from 1976:
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers -s/t
Boston -s/t
The Eagles -Hotel California

 

The Ramones