Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1976

How can anybody deny "roadrunner"??? Don't answer that

More great reggae from this year:

Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
The Abyssinians - Satta Massagana
Pablo Moses - Revolutionary Dream

Also Lucio Battisti's La Batteria, Il Contrabbasso, Eccetera, which I love.

Got about six I'm trying to choose between and Modern Lovers is in the mix.

yeah Modern Lovers are great wtf

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The 1976 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

Albums

1. Stevie Wonder: Songs in the Key of Life (Tamla) 292 (25)
2. Graham Parker & the Rumour: Heat Treatment (Mercury) 234 (22)
3. Jackson Browne: The Pretender (Asylum) 232 (22)
4. Graham Parker & the Rumour: Howlin' Wind (Mercury) 215 (19)
5. Kate & Anna McGarrigle: Kate & Anna McGarrigle (Warner Bros.) 208 (16)
6. Steely Dan: The Royal Scam (ABC) 182 (14)
7. Joni Mitchell: Hejira (Asylum) 169 (16)
8. Ramones: Ramones (Sire) 153 (15)
9. Rod Stewart: A Night on the Town (Warner Bros.) 150 (15)
10. Blue Oyster Cult: Agents of Fortune (Columbia) 148 (13)
11. Eno: Another Green World (Island) 143 (12)
12. The Wild Tchoupitoulas: The Wild Tchoupitoulas (Island) 136 (14)
13. David Bowie: Station to Station (RCA Victor) 136 (13)
14. The Modern Lovers: The Modern Lovers (Home of the Hits) 111 (12)
15. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band: Night Moves (Capitol) 109 (12)
16. Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band: Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band (RCA Victor) 99 (7)
17. Bob Marley and the Wailers: Live! (Island) 86 (10)
18. Ry Cooder: Chicken Skin Music (Reprise) 84 (8)
19. Warren Zevon: Warren Zevon (Asylum) 81 (8)
20. The Dwight Twilley Band: Sincerely (Capitol) 80 (7)
21. Boz Scaggs: Silk Degrees (Columbia) 79 (10)
22. Boston: Boston (Epic) 78 (5)
23. Richard & Linda Thompson: Pour Down Like Silver (Island) 74 (9)
24. Arlo Guthrie: Amigo (Reprise) 68 (8)
25. Thin Lizzy: Jailbreak (Mercury) 66 (6)
26. Bob Dylan: Desire (Columbia) 59 (5)
27. Jeff Beck: Wired (Epic) 58 (5)
28. Andy Pratt: Resolution (Nemporer) 57 (6)
29. Linda Ronstadt: Hasten Down the Wind (Asylum) 55 (4)
30. Patti Smith Group: Radio Ethiopia (Arista)

Good call, Gerald, that Numbers Band record just rips. Chrissie Hynde’s brother Terry on sax:

https://youtu.be/TtQHtkjVQ24

AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
David Bowie - Station to Station
Peter Tosh - Legalize It
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life ,
The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers

one of these five I guess.

man, I wish I had time to check out all the ones I haven't heard listed in this thread

there are plenty of good ones imo

I wonder if Rocks could be a dark horse winner

I might have voted for Silk Degrees if it had made the list

That Ry Cooder is good, some tight grooves

Xpost P&J list. I wanted to like the McGarrigle disc. Never stuck.

HOW IS THIS GETTING HARDER WITH EACH PASSING YEAR?

went with ramones, `cuz fugit.👍🏻

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HOW IS THIS GETTING HARDER WITH EACH PASSING YEAR?

― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin)

is your question about this poll, or about life?

I wound up going with Priest because, dammit, someone has to.
It's really a phenomenal record.

MIA: Blondie's debut album.
Ramones vs. Stevie for me then.

I thought the same re Blondie but it's a bit inconclusive when it came out - some places say December 1976 but others say January 1977 and that Dec 1976 was when test pressings were made

Station to Station

Discovered about ten years ago it's become one of my favourites from this year: Serge Gainsbourg - L' Homme à Tête de Chou

I haven't heard that one

that is my fave album by gainsbourg. it's a concept album about a love story of the teller with a hairdresser who cheats on him with very explicit lyrics. i never really understood the fuss about "melody nelson", this is the real deal.

Only problem is I cant speak French.

That's no problem.

voted for rocks without even fucking thinking about it

and i'd do it again

Tough choice between Songs in the Key of Life & Boston but Stevie wins

stevie will win this poll

The thing about the Boston album, with some people loving it and some who wanted to love it being a little meh: Chuck Eddy told me a long time ago that a guy finally told him that there were two pressings or masterings of it (because Tom Scholz changed his mind again, duh) and that the one with the orange label (think it was orange) was better, so he (CE) checked and sure enough his was the orange (or whatever). I dunno, but that's what he said.
Jimmy Bell's, hell yeah, no idea that was Chrissie Hynde's brother (barely mentioned in her memoir, according to a review). Rocks has always been my favorite Aerosmith, and was always struck by the fact that Jack Douglas supervised, as he did the most straight-ahead tracks on the sprawling, challenging, variously rewarding (play the title sprawl on reasonably big floor speakers, the kind that tune the house) Radio Ethiopia----well he supervised the whole thing maybe, but re "straight-ahead", thinking of "Ask The Angels" and "Punping (My Heart)" especially.

voted Station To Station but Hejira and Zombie ran it very close

dow is this different to the hot stamp pressings that people go on about?

um yeah it's just a different pressing... check out discogs

La Düsseldorf la.

I mean fuck it. Going with that. It's not really an emphatic best though sorry Klaus.

I for one miss the 70s fusion - Weather Report, Al DiMeola, and Stanley Clarke. The Peter Tosh and Stevie Wonder albums were excellent as well.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

but does the public miss it?

Voted for Super Ape, a true dub classic.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

dang

Is Rainbow's Rising any good? I see it's ranked third on RYM's 1976 list (Station to Station also happens to be their #1).

'good' is subjective but it's the origin point of nearly all Power Metal.

The only Rainbow album from the Dio phase that was recorded by a stable band (or didn't have huge chunks overdubbed by Blackmore to erase people he'd fallen out with or didn't think were good enough) it straddles the boogie elements (Starstruck) with the driving proto-thrash (Light In The Black), giving them all equal favour.

But the reputation and love definitely, more than anything else, comes from Stargazer (voted best metal track of all time on this very board iirc).

It's a sandals 'n' sorcery prog epic with far more key changes than necessary, a lifetime great soaring vocal and grinding, repetitive final coda that feels like it could go on forever (and possibly did, given it's faded out on the record).

And that's why it got my vote, despite arguably stronger candidates this year.

Rising is an excellent record, an absolute 100% classic. Those keyboards at the beginning of 'Tarot Woman'!

I'll have to check it out then, if only for historical reasons.

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1977!