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Urban75 Album of the Year - 1977

belboid

belboid

Exasperated, not angry.
It is, apparently, what the people want.

The Pistols or The Clash, then. Or are we going to dare admit that it is actually Rumours.

My god, there were a lot of brilliant albums released that year. Not just the punk classics, but the number of 'post-punk' masterpieces, Bowie, Culture, Kraftwerk, Tull. Okay, maybe not the Tull.

Usual rules apply, up to 10 choices. PM me a list of your top ten, in order, and I'll add them all up. NO COMPILATIONS. Live albums fine.

I will post up a results list.....Tuesday or Wednesday.

FINAL VOTES TO BE IN BY
23:59:59 MONDAY SEPTEMBER 11
 
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I'm going to find this much harder than usual. Not only is it the year my serious album buying took off, it is also the year that the same happened to my friends. Albums I didn't own myself were borrowed from friends, played in friends' bedrooms, at parties, copied on cassette, played at school on crappy flat, one-speaker casette players, and so was responsible for much of the soundtrack of my youth. It is a Year responsible for many albums that are still my favourites today. Many of my most abiding and meaningful music memories were made that year. I still vividly remember cycling home with Rocket to Russia under my arm, for example.

It is also a year my record-buying mined in subsequent years. In 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83 and even later I was still mining 1977.

Even records I love now and didn't even realise were released in 77 in fact came out that year: Dark Magus was released in 77, To Lefty From Willie, Sandy Denny's Rendezvous.

I honestly don't know how I'll do this. It's the hardest year we've ever polled.
 
danny la rouge said:
I'm going to find this much harder than usual. Not only is it the year my serious album buying took off, it is also the year that the same happened to my friends. Albums I didn't own myself were borrowed from friends, played in friends' bedrooms, at parties, copied on cassette, played at school on crappy flat, one-speaker casette players, and so was responsible for much of the soundtrack of my youth. It is a Year responsible for many albums that are still my favourites today. Many of my most abiding and meaningful music memories were made that year. I still vividly remember cycling home with Rocket to Russia under my arm.

It is also a year my record-buying mined in subsequent years. In 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83 and even later I was still mining 1977.

Even records I love now and didn't even realise were released in 77 in fact came out that year: Dark Magus was released in 77, To Lefty From Willie, Sandy Denny's Rendezvous.

I honestly don't know how I'll do this. It's the hardest year we've ever polled.
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you're going for rumours too then?
 
One of my oldest friends and I had our only serious argument about an album that came out that year. The argument occurred a few years later, but it was over a Little Feat album he wanted to play at a party we were both at. I took it off the turntable and said it was "truckers' music". This escalated into unforgivable insults and drunken and badly thrown punches. And ended up with him sitting on the roof of the house we were at and refusing to come down. :D

(It won't be in my top ten albums. But it's something he still brings up to this day).
 
danny la rouge said:
One of my oldest friends and I had our only serious argument about an album that came out that year. The argument occurred a few years later, but it was over a Little Feat album he wanted to play at a party we were both at. I took it off the turntable and said it was "truckers' music". This escalated into unforgivable insults and drunken and badly thrown punches. And ended up with him sitting on the roof of the house we were at and refusing to come down. :D

(It won't be in my top ten albums. But it's something he still brings up to this day).
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Has your view of Little Feat changed since then? I briefly checked them out after reading they were John Cale's backing band on Paris 1919, but found nothing much of interest... that was a decade ago though, and my own tastes have developed considerably since.
 
killer b said:
Has your view of Little Feat changed since then? I briefly checked them out after reading they were John Cale's backing band on Paris 1919, but found nothing much of interest... that was a decade ago though, and my own tastes have developed considerably since.
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To be honest, I haven't listened to them to find out. But I probably wouldn't be so snobby about truckers now.

In my defence I was a kid and music tribes were important.
 
It's good to listen again and see if you missed something - I recently tried Steely Dan again after years of spurning them and found much to enjoy (Aja, which happens to be a class of 77 album - I doubt it'll make my list tho).
 
danny la rouge said:
I'm going to find this much harder than usual. Not only is it the year my serious album buying took off, it is also the year that the same happened to my friends. Albums I didn't own myself were borrowed from friends, played in friends' bedrooms, at parties, copied on cassette, played at school on crappy flat, one-speaker casette players, and so was responsible for much of the soundtrack of my youth. It is a Year responsible for many albums that are still my favourites today. Many of my most abiding and meaningful music memories were made that year. I still vividly remember cycling home with Rocket to Russia under my arm, for example.

It is also a year my record-buying mined in subsequent years. In 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83 and even later I was still mining 1977.

Even records I love now and didn't even realise were released in 77 in fact came out that year: Dark Magus was released in 77, To Lefty From Willie, Sandy Denny's Rendezvous.

I honestly don't know how I'll do this. It's the hardest year we've ever polled.
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I started buying albums and singles in 1978 so for that reason I'm out and will wait for the 78 poll.
 
There will be only me that will list these two albums from that year so excuse me for playing two extracts:

Twilley Dont Mind -Dwight Twilley who were perhaps the greatest exponents of power pop


Future Games - Spirit
 
quite boring list from me :( didn't really buy albums before 79

this one might not be very popular with the cool kids :cool:
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Since I'm still obsessed with "Low" and hear new things every time I go back to it - I still can't quite get over the fact that this record is real and was made all the way back in 1977 by a bloke who ten years before thought he might be the new Tommy Steel. No other record comes close - let alone just from 1977.

After that I'm open to debate. It was a fucking good year!!


this is Low being performed in 2002
 
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