What are your favorite albums from 1976

So many great albums this year! Here are my fav's:

Peter Frampton: Frampton Comes Alive!
Wings: Wings Over America
Kiss : Destroyer
Kiss: Rock and Roll Over
Led Zeppelin: Presence
Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains The Same
J. Geils Band: Blow Your Face Out
The Rolling Stones: Black and Blue
Aerosmith: Rocks
The Ramones: ST
Steve Miller: Fly Like An Eagle
The Beatles: Rock and Roll Music
David Bowie: Changesonebowie
Boston: ST
Lynyrd Skynyrd: One More From The Road
Bob Seger: Night Moves
The Bay City Rollers: Dedication
Frank Zappa: Zoot Allures
Kansas: Leftoverture
WHEW!

 

Pat Metheny Group - Bright Size Life
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
David Bowie - Station to Station
Joni Mitchell - Heijra

 

Bob Dylan - Desire
David Bowie - Station to Station
Reflections - Jerry Garcia
Wings at the Speed of Sound - Wings
Presence - Led Zeppelin
Too Old to Rock N' Roll; Too Young to Die - Jethro Tull
Rastaman Vibration - Bob Marley
Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band
The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
Steal Your Face - Grateful Dead
No Reason to Cry - Eric Clapton
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
The Song Remains the Same - led Zeppelin
Wipe the Windows, Check the Oil, Dollar Gas - Allman Brothers Band
A Day at the Races - Queen

 

ABBA - Arrival
AC/DC - High Voltage
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
AEROSMITH - Rocks
BECK, JEFF - Wired
BLACK SABBATH - Technical Ecstasy
BOWIE, DAVID - Station To Station
COOPER, ALICE - Alice Cooper Goes To Hell
DEEP PURPLE - Made In Europe
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA - A New World Record
GENESIS - A Trick Of A Tail
JETHRO TULL - Too Old To Rock'n'Roll: Too Young To Die!
KISS - Destroyer
LED ZEPPELIN - Presence
LED ZEPPELIN - The Song Remains The Same
NAZARETH - Close Enough For Rock'n'Roll
NAZARETH - Play'n'The Game
QUEEN - A Day At The Races
RAINBOW - Rising
ROLLING STONES, THE - Black And Blue
SCORPIONS - Virgin Killer
SLADE - Nobody's Fools
SMOKIE - Midnight Café
STEWART, ROD - A Night on the Town
WAITS, TOM - Small Change
ZZ TOP - Tejas

 

First and foremost:

"Ramones"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also essential

Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny
Genesis - A Trick Of The Tail
Bowie - Stationtostation
Gainsbourg - L'Homme à tête de chou
Dylan - Desire
Klaus Schulze - Moondawn
Tangerine Dream - Stratosfear
Modern Lovers - s/t
Lou Reed - Coney Island Baby

 

1) Genesis - Wind & Wuthering
2) Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
3) Renaissance - Live at Carnegie Hall (love the bass solo on Ashes are Burning!)
4) JM Jarre - Oxygene
5) Queen - A Day at the Races
6) Led Zep - Prescence
7) Camel - Moonmadness
8) Rush - 2112
9) Harmonium - L'Heptade
10) Dylan - Desire

 

Some sensational LPs released this year. Still play all of these to this day.

Mott 'Shouting And Pointing'.
Dr Feelgood 'Stupidity'. (Bound to go for that one as one side of the album was recorded here in Sheffield!)
Dylan's 'Desire'
Doctors Of Madness 'Late Night Movies, All Night Brainstorms'
The soundtrack to the tv series 'Rock Follies'. (Great show. Wish one of the satellite channels would take a chance on repeating it).
'All The World's A Stage' - Rush.
Status Quo 'Blue For You'

 

Desire - Bob Dylan
Station To Station - Bowie
Wings At The Speed Of Sound - Wings
The Omen Soundtrack - Jerry Goldsmith

 

I've just picked up Smokie's Midnight Cafe album. Very strong.

Seems to me they're a misunderstood band.

 

Saw them live in '78. So much more than a chart act.

 

In no particular order:
ABBA: Arrival
Dorothy Moore: Misty Blue
Wings: Wings over America
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Jethro tull: Too old to rock ´n´ roll, too Young to die
Billy Joel: Turnstiles
ELO: A new World record

 

Boston - Boston
Kiss - Destroyer
ELO - A New World Record
BOC - Agent of Fortune
Queen - A Day at the Races

 

Led Zeppelin - Presence
David Bowie - Station to Station
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
AC/DC - High Voltage
Shakti - A Handful of Beauty
Miles Davis - Water Babies
Larry Coryell - Planet End
Patrick Moraz - The Story of I
Led Zeppelin - The Song Remains The Same
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering

 

Not too bad a year. Some great debutants, too.
Matchbox - Riders in the Sky (debut)
The Runaways - debut
Blondie - debut
Ramones - debut
Deaf School - Second Honeymoon (debut)
Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy (glad to see so many like it!)
Crazy Cavan 'n' the Rhythm Rockers - Rockability
AC/DC - High Voltage (Atlantic)
AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Joan Baez - From Every Stage live 2LP
David Allan Coe - Longhaired Redneck
Judas Priest -Sad Wings of Destiny
Dr Feelgood -Stupidity live

 

Matchbox - excellent choice!

The only album featuring the original singer Wiffle Smith.

For me, they improved as time went on - Flying Colours is my favourite, though some don't like the country rock influences on that one - but Riders is a real statement of intent. They're still going strong. Touring Europe shortly, I believe.

 

They always play up here, too! I've seen them live at least five times. I have the first four LPs but had never checked out Flying Colours, but it sounds very good. I'll have to buy it. I don't remember hearing those songs live either, apart from Babes In The Wood.

Wiffle Smith is a great singer, too bad he hasn't done any more music. Or has he? I've heard he used to sing on the London tube at some point.

 

Ramones

 

My top 3

 

Don't know what happened to Wiffle. He was in the band for a good few years & had a decent set of pipes.

Lots of good singers in the band beside Graham Fenton, Gordon Scott is very strong & Steve Bloomfield is also a fine vocalist. At the risk of upsetting your bank manager, if you haven't got Steve's solo album Rockabilly Originals, it's excellent!

 

Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
ZZ Top - Tejas
Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
Dwight Twilley Band - Sincerely
Otis Rush - Right Place, Wrong Time
Foghat - Night Shift
Johnny Winter - Captured Live!

 

Rusty Wier - Black Hat Saloon is the right answer, an epic swirling country album of supreme greatness. Check the title track. Awes.

 

I have great memories of 1976. You're only once sweet 16. I would like to nominate all of the above especially:

Bob Dylan - Hard rain and Desire
Genesis - A trick of the tail
Rolling Stones - Black and blue
Modern Lovers
Wings over America
Fela Kuti - Zombie
Rory Gallagher - Calling card
Hotel California
JJ Cale - Troubadour
Alquin on tour
Jan Akkerman/Kaz Lux - Eli
Ry Cooder - Chicken skin music
Bowie - Station to station
Little River Band - Diamantina cocktail
Bob Seger - Night moves
Peter Tosh - Legalize it
Bunny Wailer - Blackheart man
Bob Marley - Rastaman vibration
Roxy Music - Viva!
Joe Walsh - You can't argue with a sick mind
Songs in the key of life

and the best unreleased album: Neil Young - Hitchhiker

 

Lots..I can tell you one of my worst-At The Speed of Sound-Wings.

 

I think I already offered my selections here before, but here is a more "scenic" post, complete with a fantasy "original album series" box. And this is just volume one for the year, focusing on my five favorite albums released between January and June. Stay tuned for the volume 2 box.

 

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