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1977 Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever (Editorial note: The Nuge is essentially a neanderthal who makes AC/DC seem, by comparison, like Hegelian philosophers; but "Cat Scratch Fever," the song, rocks, even with a totally weak rhythm section) The Outlaws - Hurry Sundown Graham Parker - Stick To Me ("I'm Gonna Tear Your Playhouse Down," "The Heat in Harlem") Parliament - Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome Alan Parsons Project - I Robot ("I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You") Pink Floyd - Animals (even though I embraced punk and knew that Johnny Rotten hated them, I continued to love Pink Floyd, particularly this gorgeous, albeit depressing, piece of work) Piper - Can't Wait (remember this one Dawna?) The Pop - The Pop Iggy Pop - Lust For Life ("Some Weird Sin") (bah damp bomp bomp bah damp bah damp bomp, Ahhh got a lust fer lahfe, a lust fer lahfe ...) Iggy Pop - The Idiot ("Sister Midnight") Queen - News of the World ("We Will Rock You/We Are the Champions") Radio Stars - Songs for Swinging Lovers Ram Jam - Ram Jam ("Black Betty") (one of the great one hit wonders of the year) Ramones - Leave Home (the second classic Ramones LP) Ramones - Rocket to Russia ("Sheena is a Punk Rocker," We're a Happy Family," "Do You Wanna Dance," "Surfin' Bird") (an absolute masterpiece - punk meets pure pop; if there had been any justice, this would have went double platinum rather than simply being the underground classic that it is) The Real Kids - The Real Kids Lou Reed - Walk on the Wild Side: The Best of Lou Reed The Residents - Fingerprince* Rolling Stones - Love You Live Roxy Music - Greatest Hits The Rubinoos - The Rubinoos ("a great, fresh sounding pop band with talent far beyond their tender years" - The Trouser Press Record Guide) The Runaways - Queens of Noise Rush - Farewell To Kings The Saints - (I'm) Stranded (yet another excellent punk band's fine debut album) Bob Seger - Night Moves ("Rock And Roll Never Forgets") The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols ("God Save the Queen," "Anarchy in the U.K.," "Holidays in the Sun") (angry, sarcastic, sacreligious, scandalous, and rocking like a crazy; no one belts out a lyric quite like Johnny Lydon/Rotten. The Sex Pistols were more than simply a band; they were an international cultural phenomenon) The Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes Chris Spedding - Chris Spedding Chris Spedding - Hurt Starcastle - Going for the One Steely Dan - Aja ("Peg," "Deacon Blue") The Stranglers - IV Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers - No More Heroes (The Stranglers were somewhat controversial in their native UK; many punks hated them, but critics liked them and their records sold well. They always seemed to be drawing on a wide rangte of indfluences, from the Sex Pistols to the Doors. After all these years, their records sound pretty fresh still) Styx - The Grand Illusion ("Fooling Yourself," "Come Sail Away") Talking Heads - Talking Heads 77 ("Psycho Killer") (a terrific debut by a terrific band; Who seemed quirkier? Elvis Costello or David Byrne?) Television - Marquee Moon (another legendary band; I'd do anything to go back in time and see them at CBGB's) 10CC - Deceptive Bends ("The Things We Do For Love") (love that song) 38 Special - 38 Special George Thorogood and the Destroyers - George Thorogood and the Destroyers ("One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer") Peter Tosh - Equal Rights ("Get Up, Stand Up") Robin Trower - In City Dreams Ultravox - Ultravox ("Originally lost in the gap between glam rock and punk, Ultravox became prime movers of the electro-pop and new romantic movements when they combined synthesizer with the direct and dancible pop music of the new wave" - Trouser Press Record Guide) Ultravox - Ha! Ha! Ha! Utopia - Oops! Wrong Planet The Vibrators - Pure Mania* (one of the first British punk bands to record an entire lp) Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs Warsaw Pakt - Needle Time! Bob Welch - French Kiss ("Sentimental Lady," "Ebony Eyes") Bob Welch: "My favorite music growing up had been Motown stuff,and I wanted to do songs with a Motown-esque production style. The drummer on "French Kiss", Alvin Taylor, played on all kinds of Elton John and Barry White records; Gene Page, who did all the string parts, was a Motown mainstay; he did string arrangements on "The Greatest Love Of All" by Whitney Houston, "Truly" by Lionel Ritchie, "Endless Love" by Lionel Ritchie and Diana Ross. "Tonight I Celebrate My Love" by Roberta Flack etc.etc. "French Kiss's" producer, John Carter, is now Paula Coles' manager. French Kiss's biggest hit, "Sentimental Lady", had been released as a single from the Fleetwood Mac record Bare Trees in 1972. We recut it 5 years later in 1977." Wire - Pink Flag (a punk rock masterpiece) Yes - Going for the One Neil Young - American Stars 'N Bars Neil Young - Decade (compilation) Brent Popham adds: Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell ("You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)," "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad," "Paradise By The Dashboard Light") Tiny Dancer: D'oh! Only the biggest selling album of the year, nothing noteable there ;-) Go to the next page for Tiny Dancer's additions. Choose a year or click on Next 1970/ 1971/ 1972/ 1973/ 1974 1975/ 1976/ 1977/ 1978/ 1979 
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