I'm so happy that I saw Television for the first and last time in 2019. I dig your list - nailed it as usual. I'm a massive fan of Costello's first 5 albums. Imperial Bedroom and Blood & Chocolate are quite good as well. I have an excellent Ian Dury compilation but New Boots is a killer album. Really enjoying your vids. Take care
Great vid Matt , one of my favorite yrs for music 🎶. I was 17 then and had some money, a car, girlfriends and a yr to go till high school is done lol. I have all those LP,s except that Neil Young you showed first. Cheers.
Nice job! I can only wonder if you had to think it thru a couple times before you felt you got the ranking to your satisfaction. Sych a great representation of the old guard, new directions that older bands were voing in and the arrival of punk . A big year of change. Man, that copy of Aja looks brand spankin new! Very cool, cant wait for the next one!
I'm with you on Marquee Moon! I've loved that album since I bought it in 1979. Two years earlier, in March, 1977, I went to my first rock concert: Peter Gabriel on his first post-Genesis solo tour with Television as the opening act. It was a mind-blowing experience for a 10th-grader from a small Michigan town! A great memory. (And "Humdrum" is my favorite track on PG's 1st album.) Thanks for another enjoyable video!
Great list, as usual you cover most of the bases, though I would include a couple of underrated gems by two of my favorite artists, Stick to Me by Graham Parker and the Rumour and Short Eyes by Curtis Mayfield. For the record, Joe Jackson also does an excellent cover of See No Evil on his brilliant album Fast Forward.
I graduated from high school in 1977 from Whitney Point, NY. Bat Out of Hell was a top played album. Once I got into college in 1979 (Buffalo State), I heard more New Wave groups, punk. Yes, for Elvis Costello debut. Yeah for ELO. I agree that Rumors has been played to death - I heard it so much. I will look at the 1977 discography to see if there are more I like.
Possibly my favourite year ever. I could've easily picked 40 albums but these 20 take some beating. Props for including Sleepwalker in your selections. A brilliant album that deserves more acclaim. 20. Barclay James Harvest - Gone To Earth 19. Poco - Indian Summer 18. Van Morrison - A Period Of Transition 17. Camel - Rain Dances 16. Boxer - Absolutely 15. Pat Travers - Makin' Magic 14. Utopia - Ra 13. Pink Floyd - Animals 12. Yes - Going For The One 11. Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind 10. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors 9. Nils Lofgren - I Came To Dance 8. Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood 7. Sensational Alex Harvey Band(Without Alex) - Fourplay 6. Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness And Charm 5. Television - Marquee Moon 4. Horslips - Aliens 3. Uriah Heep - Innocent Victim 2. Blue Oyster Cult - Spectres 1. UFO - LIGHTS OUT
Totally agree about Marquee Moon. I had a CD version that included ‘little Johnny jewel on it’. Blew my mind - the album is a masterpiece. Also, can’t deny the Saturday night fever soundtrack - although I didn’t get into until the late 80s… Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes is an album I like better than some of your choices. Ramones - Leave Home and Modern Lovers - Rock n Roll with the Modern Lovers, are favorites from ‘77 as well.
I definitely would have had Street Survivors from Skynyrd in there. Probably their best output. "That Smell" is a masterpiece. Storytelling at its finest.
Quite often I walk past Hammersmith odeon another classic London music haunt . I always think of Bowie doing Ziggy there and Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols going round the back and stealing Bowie mics and PA . Believe me it’s all security now . I saw Steely Dan there twice ! Once saw them at Wembley arena and then the next day at Hammersmith odeon. Punk and the Dan ! Yeah
Top ten: Cheap Trick- in Color, Bowie- Low, ELO- Out of The Blue, Commodores' self titled album, Queen's- News of the World, Bob Marley- Exodus, Iggy Pop-up Lust For Life, Fleetwood Mac- Rumours, Parliament- Mothership Connection, Earth, Wind and Fire- All in All.
1 Pink Floyd - Animals 2 David Bowie - Low 3 Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus 4 Television - Marquee Moon 5 Brian Eno - Before and After Science 6 Scorpions - Taken by Force 7 Talking Heads - 77 8 Ultravox - Ha Ha Ha! 9 Wire - Pink Flag 10 David Bowie - Heroes
The biggest surprise here is Kill City over Lust For Life. Dude. I love most things Iggy did, but not that. It's just a demo of him and James trying to drum up label interest for another Stooges album on weekend breaks from the hospital while Iggy was strung out and trying to get it together. The only truly finished and decent song they did, the "I Got a Right" single, isn't even on it. I'd argue Lust for Life is the best thing that came out of the five albums between Iggy and Bowie in Berlin. Agreed on Television of course. The Congos is a hypnotic masterpiece. I get your not liking Wire, but figured you'd like The Saints and The Stranglers. Television - Marquee Moon The Congos - Heart Of The Congos Wire - Pink Flag Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue Iggy Pop - Lust For Life Fela Kuti - Zombie The Saints - (I’m) Stranded Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus The Clash - The Clash Radio Birdman - Radios Appear The Stranglers - No More Heroes Brian Eno - Before And After Science Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks David Bowie - Low Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77 Ramones - Rocket To Russia The Damned - Damned Damned Damned The Stranglers - IV Rattus Norvegicus Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation Ramones - Leave Home George Faith - To Be A Lover Culture - Two Sevens Clash Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves Peter Tosh - Equal Rights The Heptones - Party Time Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express Horace Andy - In The Light David Bowie - “Heroes”
Walked through Walthamstow market where the Ian Dury cover was shot , in the photo Woolworths is visible in the shop window. Woolworths went bust so is no longer there . Ian went to art college in Walthamstow.
In order to reach 20 albums, I had to add 10 albums in french. Top 10 albums in english (alphabetical order) : Carmen, Eric - Boats Against The Current Cummings, Burton - My Own Way To Rock Electric Light orchestra - Out Of The Blue Parsons, Alan, Project - I, Robot Renaissance - Novella Styx - Grand Illusion Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments 10cc - Deceptive Bends Tyner, McCoy - Inner Voices Wilson, Dennis - Pacific Ocean Blue Top 10 albums in french (alphabetical order) : Brel, Jacques - Brel Charlebois, Robert - Swing Charlebois Swing Duguay, Raoul - M Ferré, Léo - La frime Gauthier, Claude - Ça prend des racines Lara, Catherine - (self-titled album) Maneige - Ni vent, ni nouvelle (instrumental) Morse Code - Je suis le temps Octobre - L'autoroute des rêves Piché, Paul - À qui appartient le beau temps
Great list. Lots of overlap to what I might choose but I would probably add Styx’s Grand Illusion 😂 just kidding. I’d be adding Wire’s Pink Flag near the top, competing with Marquee Moon. I’d also consider Ramones’ Leave Home or Rocket to Russia, Pink Floyd’s Animals and Brian Eno’s Before and After Science (although not his best I love his 70’s output up to Apollo in 1983). Cheers!
I'd add Wire's debut, and Before and After Science. Possibly Rocket to Russia as well. 1977 was a good year, Songs of the Woods, Animals, Trans-Europe Express. Heaps of good albums
A decent list, and yes, your favorites. I thought for sure that Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" would get a mention. Other great albums- Queen "News of the World"- Foreigner's self-titled debut- Billy Joel "The Stranger"- Heart- "Little Queen"- Meatloaf "Bat Out of Hell"- Pink Floyd "Animals"-Steve Miller Band "Book of Dreams"- Linda Ronstadt "Simple Dreams" -Styx "The Grand Illusion" - Frank Zappa "Live in New York"
It was a pretty good year, riding in on the coattails of Hotel California, and blasting out on Elvis Costello's inspired match-up with Clover! Along the way, we got a little dirty laundry, before Don Henley thought of it, and some very tasty albums to listen while we watched. Best of 1977 01 M Y A I M I S T R U E Elvis Costello 02 R U M O U R S Fleetwood Mac 03 T H E S T R A N G E R Billy Joel 04 E V E N I N T H E Q U I E T E S T M I N U T E S Supertramp 05 I N C O L O R Cheap Trick 06 N E W S O F T H E W O R L D Queen 07 S L E E P W A L K E R the Kinks 08 O U T O F T H E B L U E Electric Light Orchestra 09 L O W David Bowie 10 A N I M A L S Pink Floyd 11 T A L K I N G H E A D S ' 7 7 Talking Heads 12 A J A Steely Dan 13 S T R E E T S U R V I V O R S Lynyrd Skynyrd 14 E X O D U S Bob Marley & the Wailers 15 A M E R I C A N S T A R S A N D B A R S Neil Young 16 L I G H T S O U T UFO 17 R U N N I N G O N E M P T Y Jackson Browne 18 L I T T L E Q U E E N Heart 19 M A R Q U E E M O O N Television 20 H E R O E S David Bowie 21 B O O K O F D R E A M S the Steve Miller Band
just started watching and shocked at rumours being last. out of the blue at 18 more understandable, although i'd disagree. aja 1, rumours 2, elo 3 would be my completely objective scientific ratings. was aja even 77? guess i'll know soon enough!
🤣👍 if you had a few record stores, ended with cd-appearance, you could get almost allergic to everything like top 10, or music for the masses. because for weeks, one was tortured by listening to them all day, at work. that’s why I never listened and liked all the mainstream stuff...in private... and always searched for the unpopular and unknown jewels.. and there were so many.... finally ended up in jazz 🤣🤣🤣
"Compared to what's out there today, disco sounds like Mozart....";Amen to that.....love your channel
Thanks for watching. Much appreciated. 😉
I'm so happy that I saw Television for the first and last time in 2019. I dig your list - nailed it as usual. I'm a massive fan of Costello's first 5 albums. Imperial Bedroom and Blood & Chocolate are quite good as well. I have an excellent Ian Dury compilation but New Boots is a killer album. Really enjoying your vids. Take care
I agree that Imperial Bedroom and Blood and Chocolate are awesome. Thanks for watching. 😉
Great vid Matt , one of my favorite yrs for music 🎶. I was 17 then and had some money, a car, girlfriends and a yr to go till high school is done lol. I have all those LP,s except that Neil Young you showed first. Cheers.
Cheers! Thanks for watching.
Nice job! I can only wonder if you had to think it thru a couple times before you felt you got the ranking to your satisfaction. Sych a great representation of the old guard, new directions that older bands were voing in and the arrival of punk . A big year of change. Man, that copy of Aja looks brand spankin new! Very cool, cant wait for the next one!
It did take many revisions, but it’s pretty close as far as faves from ‘77. Thanks for watching. 😉
Thank you, Tom, for including 'Low'. My favourite Bowie album.
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I'm with you on Marquee Moon! I've loved that album since I bought it in 1979. Two years earlier, in March, 1977, I went to my first rock concert: Peter Gabriel on his first post-Genesis solo tour with Television as the opening act. It was a mind-blowing experience for a 10th-grader from a small Michigan town! A great memory. (And "Humdrum" is my favorite track on PG's 1st album.) Thanks for another enjoyable video!
Now that’s what I call an awesome double bill! Humdrum is an incredible track.
Great list, as usual you cover most of the bases, though I would include a couple of underrated gems by two of my favorite artists, Stick to Me by Graham Parker and the Rumour and Short Eyes by Curtis Mayfield. For the record, Joe Jackson also does an excellent cover of See No Evil on his brilliant album Fast Forward.
Interesting….by the way Chris I picked up Superfly on your recommendation. Going to spin it tonight. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 How cool! Hope you enjoy it. If not, you know where to find me.
I graduated from high school in 1977 from Whitney Point, NY. Bat Out of Hell was a top played album. Once I got into college in 1979 (Buffalo State), I heard more New Wave groups, punk. Yes, for Elvis Costello debut. Yeah for ELO. I agree that Rumors has been played to death - I heard it so much. I will look at the 1977 discography to see if there are more I like.
"new rose" was the first punk single, probably in 76. album really was not talked about back then, so no idea who released the first punk LP
The damned
Possibly my favourite year ever. I could've easily picked 40 albums but these 20 take some beating. Props for including Sleepwalker in your selections. A brilliant album that deserves more acclaim.
20. Barclay James Harvest - Gone To Earth
19. Poco - Indian Summer
18. Van Morrison - A Period Of Transition
17. Camel - Rain Dances
16. Boxer - Absolutely
15. Pat Travers - Makin' Magic
14. Utopia - Ra
13. Pink Floyd - Animals
12. Yes - Going For The One
11. Bryan Ferry - In Your Mind
10. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors
9. Nils Lofgren - I Came To Dance
8. Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood
7. Sensational Alex Harvey Band(Without Alex) - Fourplay
6. Hawkwind - Quark Strangeness And Charm
5. Television - Marquee Moon
4. Horslips - Aliens
3. Uriah Heep - Innocent Victim
2. Blue Oyster Cult - Spectres
1. UFO - LIGHTS OUT
Nice list. Going For The One is great. Poco, Utopia…very cool.
Iggy and James Williamson worked together again in the last Stooges reunion
Totally agree about Marquee Moon. I had a CD version that included ‘little Johnny jewel on it’. Blew my mind - the album is a masterpiece.
Also, can’t deny the Saturday night fever soundtrack - although I didn’t get into until the late 80s…
Shoes - Black Vinyl Shoes is an album I like better than some of your choices.
Ramones - Leave Home and Modern Lovers - Rock n Roll with the Modern Lovers, are favorites from ‘77 as well.
I definitely would have had Street Survivors from Skynyrd in there. Probably their best output. "That Smell" is a masterpiece. Storytelling at its finest.
Quite often I walk past Hammersmith odeon another classic London music haunt . I always think of Bowie doing Ziggy there and Steve Jones from the Sex Pistols going round the back and stealing Bowie mics and PA . Believe me it’s all security now . I saw Steely Dan there twice ! Once saw them at Wembley arena and then the next day at Hammersmith odeon. Punk and the Dan ! Yeah
Very cool!
me too, it always felt a bit odd being into SD & SP at the same time!
Top ten: Cheap Trick- in Color, Bowie- Low, ELO- Out of The Blue, Commodores' self titled album, Queen's- News of the World, Bob Marley- Exodus, Iggy Pop-up Lust For Life, Fleetwood Mac- Rumours, Parliament- Mothership Connection, Earth, Wind and Fire- All in All.
1 Pink Floyd - Animals
2 David Bowie - Low
3 Bob Marley and the Wailers - Exodus
4 Television - Marquee Moon
5 Brian Eno - Before and After Science
6 Scorpions - Taken by Force
7 Talking Heads - 77
8 Ultravox - Ha Ha Ha!
9 Wire - Pink Flag
10 David Bowie - Heroes
The biggest surprise here is Kill City over Lust For Life. Dude. I love most things Iggy did, but not that. It's just a demo of him and James trying to drum up label interest for another Stooges album on weekend breaks from the hospital while Iggy was strung out and trying to get it together. The only truly finished and decent song they did, the "I Got a Right" single, isn't even on it. I'd argue Lust for Life is the best thing that came out of the five albums between Iggy and Bowie in Berlin. Agreed on Television of course. The Congos is a hypnotic masterpiece. I get your not liking Wire, but figured you'd like The Saints and The Stranglers.
Television - Marquee Moon
The Congos - Heart Of The Congos
Wire - Pink Flag
Electric Light Orchestra - Out Of The Blue
Iggy Pop - Lust For Life
Fela Kuti - Zombie
The Saints - (I’m) Stranded
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Exodus
The Clash - The Clash
Radio Birdman - Radios Appear
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
Brian Eno - Before And After Science
Richard Hell & the Voidoids - Blank Generation
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks
David Bowie - Low
Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77
Ramones - Rocket To Russia
The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
The Stranglers - IV Rattus Norvegicus
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
Thin Lizzy - Bad Reputation
Ramones - Leave Home
George Faith - To Be A Lover
Culture - Two Sevens Clash
Junior Murvin - Police & Thieves
Peter Tosh - Equal Rights
The Heptones - Party Time
Kraftwerk - Trans Europa Express
Horace Andy - In The Light
David Bowie - “Heroes”
I like the looseness of Kill City. Consolation Prizes is great. Love Night Theme, No Sense Of Crime, Johanna. Nice variety on this album.
Walked through Walthamstow market where the Ian Dury cover was shot , in the photo Woolworths is visible in the shop window. Woolworths went bust so is no longer there . Ian went to art college in Walthamstow.
Anthony Phillips 💕 The Geese And The Ghost
Good list, not sure what i'd drop but some things would need to go to make space for Terrapin Station, Rattus Norvegicus, Animals and Heavy Weather.
In order to reach 20 albums, I had to add 10 albums in french.
Top 10 albums in english (alphabetical order) :
Carmen, Eric - Boats Against The Current
Cummings, Burton - My Own Way To Rock
Electric Light orchestra - Out Of The Blue
Parsons, Alan, Project - I, Robot
Renaissance - Novella
Styx - Grand Illusion
Supertramp - Even In The Quietest Moments
10cc - Deceptive Bends
Tyner, McCoy - Inner Voices
Wilson, Dennis - Pacific Ocean Blue
Top 10 albums in french (alphabetical order) :
Brel, Jacques - Brel
Charlebois, Robert - Swing Charlebois Swing
Duguay, Raoul - M
Ferré, Léo - La frime
Gauthier, Claude - Ça prend des racines
Lara, Catherine - (self-titled album)
Maneige - Ni vent, ni nouvelle (instrumental)
Morse Code - Je suis le temps
Octobre - L'autoroute des rêves
Piché, Paul - À qui appartient le beau temps
Great list. Lots of overlap to what I might choose but I would probably add Styx’s Grand Illusion 😂 just kidding. I’d be adding Wire’s Pink Flag near the top, competing with Marquee Moon. I’d also consider Ramones’ Leave Home or Rocket to Russia, Pink Floyd’s Animals and Brian Eno’s Before and After Science (although not his best I love his 70’s output up to Apollo in 1983). Cheers!
Cheers! 😉
The Gibb brothers are super talented!
I like B G's earlier 70s or late 60s material better.
As a kid who grew up in rural NY I couldn't grasp disco, Beach Boys.
I'd add Wire's debut, and Before and After Science. Possibly Rocket to Russia as well. 1977 was a good year, Songs of the Woods, Animals, Trans-Europe Express. Heaps of good albums
Indeed.
Good list but Animals, News of the World, and The Stranger deserve a spot on this list
The absence of Wire (Pink Flag) is shocking to me. Probably the most innovative band to come out of punk movement.
Apart from that, good list. Thanks.
I need to pick up Pink Flag. Never owned it.
A decent list, and yes, your favorites. I thought for sure that Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Street Survivors" would get a mention. Other great albums- Queen "News of the World"- Foreigner's self-titled debut- Billy Joel "The Stranger"- Heart- "Little Queen"- Meatloaf "Bat Out of Hell"- Pink Floyd "Animals"-Steve Miller Band "Book of Dreams"- Linda Ronstadt "Simple Dreams" -Styx "The Grand Illusion" - Frank Zappa "Live in New York"
Where is the Ramones album Rocket to Russia?!! Sorry but this album changed a lot of people's lives, it deserved to be on this list...
Never mind the bollocks is among the best 10 records ever.
It was a pretty good year, riding in on the coattails of Hotel California, and blasting out on Elvis Costello's inspired match-up with Clover! Along the way, we got a little dirty laundry, before Don Henley thought of it, and some very tasty albums to listen while we watched.
Best of 1977
01 M Y A I M I S T R U E
Elvis Costello
02 R U M O U R S
Fleetwood Mac
03 T H E S T R A N G E R
Billy Joel
04 E V E N I N T H E Q U I E T E S T M I N U T E S
Supertramp
05 I N C O L O R
Cheap Trick
06 N E W S O F T H E W O R L D
Queen
07 S L E E P W A L K E R
the Kinks
08 O U T O F T H E B L U E
Electric Light Orchestra
09 L O W
David Bowie
10 A N I M A L S
Pink Floyd
11 T A L K I N G H E A D S ' 7 7
Talking Heads
12 A J A
Steely Dan
13 S T R E E T S U R V I V O R S
Lynyrd Skynyrd
14 E X O D U S
Bob Marley & the Wailers
15 A M E R I C A N S T A R S A N D B A R S
Neil Young
16 L I G H T S O U T
UFO
17 R U N N I N G O N E M P T Y
Jackson Browne
18 L I T T L E Q U E E N
Heart
19 M A R Q U E E M O O N
Television
20 H E R O E S
David Bowie
21 B O O K O F D R E A M S
the Steve Miller Band
Nice list 😉
Pink Floyd - Animals
Robin Trower - In City Dreams
just started watching and shocked at rumours being last. out of the blue at 18 more understandable, although i'd disagree. aja 1, rumours 2, elo 3 would be my completely objective scientific ratings. was aja even 77? guess i'll know soon enough!
ok, put the clash as number 2. science is all about adjusting itself!
ok, so my top 5 in the end are aja, clash, rumours, out of blue, marquee moon. that settles it, scientifically
🤣👍 if you had a few record stores, ended with cd-appearance, you could get almost allergic to everything like top 10, or music for the masses.
because for weeks, one was tortured by listening to them all day, at work.
that’s why I never listened and liked all the mainstream stuff...in private...
and always searched for the unpopular and unknown jewels..
and there were so many....
finally ended up in jazz 🤣🤣🤣
Radio's Appear by Radio Birdman.
Never heard it. I’ll check it out.
@@tomrobinson5776 Some of the band members have connections to ex Stooges members. Asheton co wrote one of the songs if I remember correctly.
Disco sounds like Mozart ! Classic opinion
Where is Street Legal?
Do you not value lyrics?
I do, that’s why I’m a huge Kinks fan.
Boney M. Love for sale is an excellent Album
I’ll have to check that out.
al stewart
I still can't stand Saturday Night Fever
You can't be serious
Disco: Yuck 😂😢
Rocket to Russia