60 Albums 1977

My favorite 60 albums from my collection released in 1977. A lot of people say it was one of the greatest years for rock music. I certainly had my favorites. I was in college at the time and spending a whole lot of my income on records but I still collected a lot that year.

It wasn't just about the emergence of punk and what would soon be known as New Wave. For me it was also a continuation of my exploration and emergence in reggae and jazz. This list probably has my largest number of reggae albums of any year. There are also many albums that one would see on other 1977 lists that don't appear here at all. Oh well. This is my list of favorites and I wasn't listening to Billy Joel and Lynyrd Skynyrd.

Here are some mixes of songs from 1977:

• Songs 1977 Vol. 1 - What The Hell Is Wrong With Me - List
• Songs 1977 Vol. 2 - I Feel Love - List 
• Songs 1977 Vol. 3 - Sex & Drugs & Rock n Roll - List 
• Songs 1977 Vol. 4 - Sun Is Shining In The Sky - List 

1. The Clash - The Clash
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. David Bowie - Heroes
4. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True 
5. Ramones - Rocket To Russia
6. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
7. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Exodus
8. Brian Eno - Before and After Science
9. Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
10. Neil Young - Decade
11. Wire - Pink Flag
12. Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here Are The Sex Pistols
13. David Bowie - Low
14. Van Morrison - A Period Of Transition
15. Garland Jeffreys - Ghost Writer
16. The Saints - (I'm) Stranded
17. Joan Armatrading - Show Some Emotion
18. Kraftwerk - Trans Europe Express
19. Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
20. Steely Dan - Aja
21. Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. The Placebo Syndrome
22. Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
23. John Martyn - One World
24. Santana - Moon Flower
25. The Congos - Heart of the Congos
26. Dave Edmunds - Get It
27. Third World - 96 Degrees in the Shade
28. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
29. Ramones - Leave Home
30. Augustus Pablo - Augustus Pablo Meets King Tubby Uptown
31. Mink DeVille - Cabretta
32. Leonard Cohen - Death of a Ladies' Man
33. Iggy Pop - The Idiot
34. Eddie & The Hot Rods - Life On The Line
35. Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
36. Ornette Coleman - Dancing In Your Head
37. The Jam - In The City
38. Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue
39. Burning Spear - Dry and Heavy
40. Little Feat - Times Loves a Hero
41. Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation
42. Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
43. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rock 'N' Roll With The Modern Lovers
44. The Jam - This Is The Modern World
45. Blondi - Plastic Letters
46. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
47. Robert Gordon - Robert Gordon with Link Wray
48. Horace Andy - In The Light
49. The Beach Boys - Love You
50. The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus (IV)
51. Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F.
52. Culture - Two Sevens Clash
53. Suicide - Suicide
54. Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick
55. Earth, Wind & Fire - All 'n' All
56. The Heptones - Party Time
57. The Damned - Damn Damn Damn
58. Cheap Trick - In Color
59. Joni Mitchell - Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
60. The Kinks - Sleepwalker

More...

• The Rolling Stones - Love You Live
• Cluster & Eno - Cluster & Eno
• Neil Young - Decade
• Miles Davis - Dark Magus
• Charles Mingus - Three or Four Shades of Blue
• Eric Clapton - Slowhand