[Music] Your Favourite Album Released in 1977

[studio150]

A changeover year in music terms.

Big selling albums from David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Bob Marley, Steely Dan, Meat Loaf, ELO combined with debut albums from Tom Petty, Blondie, Television, Talking Heads, Sex Pistols, The Clash.

So did you stay with the old guard or make the jump across to new music.

So what was your favourite album at the time and do you still play it regularly.

Mine is My Aim Is True, the Elvis Costello debut which I still enjoy.

So 98 seconds of perfection from this album track

 

[Is it PotG?]

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

Rattus Norvegicus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lR_oNjKzMo0&list=PLf7WDR9SCheA6mwjPSg4rfUvxoDEz2hx8

 

[Grombleton]

 

[Icy Gull]

I did not embrace Punk, in fact I liked most of the music it was rebelling against

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZJ-6o5300Y

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

The Clash by, er, The Clash

 

[Eeyore]

 

[Nitram]

Two I still love AC/DC Let there be Rock and Fleetwood Mac Rumours.

 

[Jesus Gul]

Would say Panini Football '77 but they didn't start until '78 (my first one was '79)

 

[pearl]

https://youtu.be/QBeNlUG0Vyc

I still play this

 

[Eeyore]

Would say Panini Football '77 but they didn't start until '78 (my first one was '79)

They were producing albums (including English leagues) before then in various formats. I think early 1978 was the first full album with proper modern stickers.

I remember there being an album where you glued the sticker in with the player bio on the back.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

They were producing albums (including English leagues) before then in various formats. I think early 1978 was the first full album with proper modern stickers.

I remember there being an album where you glued the sticker in with the player bio on the back.

that's right and having to wait for the glue to dry

the staple currency of playgrounds up and down the country

 

[pearl]

and I still play this ...

https://youtu.be/HuBU3pzy7is

 

[PFJ]

Tricky one this. The Damned came in with a banger, but heavily influenced by the Detroit Sound. The Jam, despite their Mod look, had what to me looked like a seedy punk rock cover with spray paint on the toilet wall. The Stranglers on the back of Peaches probably created a strong soundtrack of 1977 for me. Clash, well say no more. Probably the purest punk rock album of 1977. I listen to all these albums now, but the one I listen to the most is still Never Mind The Bollocks.

 

[Gregory2Smith1]

The Clash by, er, The Clash

brilliant album

taped it off a mate

used to rewind Janie Jones time after time

 

[Ludensian Gull]

Either Rumours : Fleetwood Mac or Exodus : Bob Marley & The Wailers

 

[Alfagull]

David Bowie, Heroes or Ian Dury, New Boots and Panties.

 

[jakarta]

Remember flipping the record from Side One (3 minute songs) to Side Two (ambient stuff courtesy Professor Eno and no vocals to speak of) and thinking what the hell is going on here?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWgBiJP7ivM&list=PLiN-7mukU_REnx_JyyDIB0ZnV7i6c6mIv

Still play it regularly...

 

[Napier]

Steely Dan - Aja

Here is the title track:

 

[METALMICKY]

My top 3 would be :

Rattus Norvegicus - The Stranglers
Bad Reputation - Thin Lizzy
Let There Be Rock - AC/DC