60 Albums 1976

I stepped back a year to 1976 which of course was very different than 1977. I was in college and living in the Germantown section of Philadelphia which at that time was all about the funk. Parliament and Funkadelic was happening and disco was already becoming too mainstream to be cool anymore although Saturday Night Fever was just around the corner. We also had the very beginnings of what we would know as punk and new wave with the first albums my Blondie, Ramones, Patti Smith and the classic Modern Lovers which was actually recorded in 1973. Little did we know where things were heading.

David Bowie was entering his Thin White Duke period and this album really blew me away. Was this my all time favorite Bowie album? Not hardly. He had many great albums and this is another one.

Reggae was becoming a big part of my collection and we were going down to South Street to regularly see live reggae acts perform at Grendel's Lair. I was also getting into dub and loved to play it at house parties. Freaked people out.

That Joan Armatrading continues to be one of my all time favorite albums.

1. David Bowie - Station To Station
2. Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
3. Bob Dylan - Desire
4. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
5. Ramones - Ramones
6. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
7. Tom Waits - Small Change
8. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
9. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
10. Blondie - Blondie
11. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
12. Marvin Gaye - I Want You
13. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
14. Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
15. Peter Tosh - Legalize It
16. Average White Band - Person To Person
17. Burning Spear - Garvey's Ghost
18. Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia
19. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
20. Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
21. Jeff Beck - Wired
22. Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstien
23. The Wild Tchoupitoulas - The Wild Tchoupitoulas
24. Jackson Browne - The Pretender
25. The Heptones - Nightfood
26. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies
27. Toots & The Maytals - Reggae Got Soul
28. Stomu Yamashta's Go - Go
29. Hall & Oates - Bigger Than Both Of Us
30. Jimmy Cliff - Follow My Mind
31. The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
32. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber  Band
33. Horslips - The Book of Invasions
34. Miles Davis - Water Babies
35. Bob Dylan - Hard Rain
36. Eddie & The Hot Rods - Teenage Depression
37. Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
38. Todd Rundgren - Faithful
39. The Runaways - The Runaways
40. Funkadelic - Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
41. Graham Parker - Howin' Wind
42. Laura Nyro - Smile
43. 801 - 801 Live
44. Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit
45. John Martyn - Live at Leeds
46. The Beach Boys - 15 Big Ones
47. Ian Hunter - All American Boy
48. Burning Spear - Man In The Hills
49. The Rolling Stones -  Black and Blue
50. Santana - Amigos
51. Gary Burton - Dreams So Real
52. Steve Goodman - Words We Can Dance To
53. Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
54. Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind
55. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
56. Soft Machine - Softs
57. Melanie - Photograph
58. Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
59. J. Giles Band - Live: Blow Your Face Out
60. Diana Ross - Diana Ross