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What Is Your Favorite Album from 1977? - **DON'T USE THIS ONE**

Foreigner - Foreigner
0 (0%)
AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
1 (3.1%)
Judas Priest - Sin After Sin
2 (6.3%)
UFO - Lights Out
0 (0%)
Heart - Little Queen
0 (0%)
KISS - Love Gun
2 (6.3%)
David Bowie - Heroes
0 (0%)
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
0 (0%)
Rush - A Farewell to Kings
9 (28.1%)
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
2 (6.3%)
Queen - News of the World
1 (3.1%)
Scorpions - Taken by Force
0 (0%)
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours
1 (3.1%)
Pink Floyd - Animals
6 (18.8%)
Steely Dan - Aja
1 (3.1%)
Billy Joel - The Stranger
0 (0%)
Yes - Going for the One
2 (6.3%)
Jethro Tull - Songs from the Wood
0 (0%)
ELO - Out of the Blue
0 (0%)
OTHER
5 (15.6%)

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Offline pg1067

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Your Favorite Album from 1977
« on: October 29, 2023, 11:59:29 PM »
Lots of choices.  I could have extended the list, but 20 options is enough.  What'cha got?
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2023, 12:06:24 AM »
Low >>>> Heroes.
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Offline MirrorMask

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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2023, 02:17:20 AM »
Voted for Sin after Sin, but it was a coin toss with Bat Out of Hell.
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Offline Mladen

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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2023, 04:53:42 AM »
Pink Floyd - Animals

But I'm hard put to find a better year than 1977. That list of albums is just unbelievable.
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2023, 05:08:43 AM »
Other:     City Boy - Young Men Gone West
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2023, 05:18:21 AM »
I haven't listened to a lot of stuff from '77. Rush got by vote beating out PF. My rankings:

1. Rush - A Farewell To Kings - 3.5/5
2. Pink Floyd - Animals - 3/5
3. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell - 2/5
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2023, 06:56:38 AM »
Pigs, dogs and sheep.

Among the best of the whole decade actually.
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2023, 07:02:07 AM »
Rumours, with A Farewell to Kings close second. Point of know return by Kansas is from 1977 as well, love that album.
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #8 on: October 30, 2023, 07:29:07 AM »
Going For The One is my favorite album of all time by any band, and The Stranger is top 10.  'Nuff said, I guess.
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« Reply #9 on: October 30, 2023, 07:32:02 AM »
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #10 on: October 30, 2023, 07:34:05 AM »
No option for Point of Known Return by Kansas? For shame. That album is too good to be lumped in to the "other" category.

That said, I will go with Animals by Floyd, but the ones by Kansas, Rush, Thin Lizzy, Steely Dan and Billy Joel are all right there as well.  The Priest one gets docked a bit because the middle of the album is pretty average.
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #11 on: October 30, 2023, 07:45:32 AM »
gotta go with OTHER again

my pick: Television - Marquee Moon

others from this year missing from the list:

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Car)
David Bowie - Low
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Iggy Pop - The Idiot
Talking Heads - Talking Heads '77
Weather Report - Heavy Weather
Jimmy Buffet - Changes in Attitudes, Changes in Attitudes
Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments
Brand X - Moroccan Roll
38 Special - 38 Special
Tom Waits - Foreign Affairs
Neil Young - American Stars & Bars
Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station

of the list my pick is:

Steely Dan - Aja


one of the best years ever for music?
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Offline Trav86

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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #12 on: October 30, 2023, 07:47:52 AM »
Yeah this was a good year. Lots of albums I like but I’m going with A Farewell to Kings. It’s the only one from this year that I still go back to.
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Offline Trav86

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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #13 on: October 30, 2023, 07:49:37 AM »
Quote from: TheHoveringSojourn808 on October 30, 2023, 07:45:32 AM

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue


That’s a good one that doesn’t get talked about enough.
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #14 on: October 30, 2023, 07:58:13 AM »
Quote from: Trav86 on October 30, 2023, 07:49:37 AM
Quote from: TheHoveringSojourn808 on October 30, 2023, 07:45:32 AM

Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue


That’s a good one that doesn’t get talked about enough.

Yep! It's stronger than most Beach Boys records and there is so much foreshadowing of soul/singer-songwriter stuff a lot of artists did years later. Super underrated record!! RIP Dennis Wilson
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #15 on: October 30, 2023, 12:55:36 PM »
From this list my top 3 would be GFTO, Animals, and then AFTK.  But, I think my overall number one would be Seconds Out.
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #16 on: October 30, 2023, 05:04:49 PM »
This one was easy!



1. AC/DC-Let The Be Rock
2. UFO-Lights Out
3. Thin Lizzy-Bad Reputation
4. Alice Cooper-Lace And Whiskey
5. Kiss-Love Gun
6. Scorpions-Taken BY Force
7. Styx- The Grand Illusion
8. Aerosmith-Draw The Line
9. Rush-A Farewell To Kings
10. Riot-Rock City
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #17 on: October 30, 2023, 05:06:47 PM »
Another great album not mentioned is Suicide’s self-titled debut.
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #18 on: October 30, 2023, 05:07:19 PM »
Animals and Kings
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #19 on: October 30, 2023, 05:14:24 PM »
Styx's The Grand Illusion is another glaring omission. (I was not home earlier, but when looking at my iTunes of albums from that year, I realized it). That might actually be my favorite of the year over Animals.

Blue Oyster Cult's Spectres is another great one from '77.



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Offline HOF

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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #20 on: October 30, 2023, 05:23:56 PM »
Not a year I’m especially fond of. I’ll say Camel’s Raindances for other.
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Offline Trav86

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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #21 on: October 30, 2023, 05:47:56 PM »
Quote from: KevShmev on October 30, 2023, 05:14:24 PM
Styx's The Grand Illusion is another glaring omission. (I was not home earlier, but when looking at my iTunes of albums from that year, I realized it). That might actually be my favorite of the year over Animals.

Blue Oyster Cult's Spectres is another great one from '77.

I’m seriously ashamed that I didn’t notice this. Probably a top 10 album for me, and it didn’t pop up in my tiny brain. I guess the only thing I can do now is go listen to it!
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #22 on: October 30, 2023, 06:01:23 PM »
Quote from: KevShmev on October 30, 2023, 07:34:05 AM
No option for Point of Known Return by Kansas? For shame. That album is too good to be lumped in to the "other" category.

If you had been around for the first several of these, you'd know that I pretty much always miss one obvious album that should be on the list.  Unfortunately, in this case, I missed two.




I'm going to retry this.  Could I get a mod to lock this one?
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Re: Your Favorite Album from 1977
« Reply #23 on: October 30, 2023, 06:18:38 PM »
Sure.  :lokked:
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