Top Ten Best Albums of 1977

The Top Ten

  1. Queen - News of the World

    Queen's sixth album continues their hot streak with this album, which includes the duo of the thumping We Will Rock You and the balladeering anthemic We Are The Champions.

  2. Pink Floyd - Animals

  3. Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

    This album has been regarded as one of the greatest albums ever recorded. Classic songs like Go Your Own Way, Don't Stop, The Chain, and Dreams are still played on the radio to this day. If you haven't heard this album yet, go check it out. It's a gem, and I've been listening to it a lot lately.

    Are you kidding me? Why do Queen albums keep getting #1? The albums were good, but they weren't THAT good. I guess they are just very popular on this site. Anyway, Rumours is amazing and deserves #1. NO question.

    This album is a rock masterpiece.

  4. Electric Light Orchestra - Out of the Blue

    Although I've seen some people dis this album before, I urge those people to listen to Side 3 again. "Concerto for a Rainy Day" just may be the most underrated progressive piece I've ever heard. It is so amazing that you'd just have to hear it for yourself. As for the rest of the album, it's just as amazing. Great album.

    Just an absolutely brilliant album from start to finish. Turn to Stone, right through to Wild West Hero. Jeff Lynne's songwriting talent shines on this album. It's a must-have in your collection. Others to have from this group are Time, Discovery, and the acclaimed Face the Music.

  5. ABBA - The Album

    This album was number 1 all over the world, with songs like Take a Chance on Me, The Name of the Game, Eagle, and Thank You for the Music.

  6. Rush - A Farewell to Kings

  7. David Bowie - Low

    David Bowie's first album in the Berlin Trilogy, in collaboration with Brian Eno, plays like a greatest hits album. Singles "Sound and Vision" and "Be My Wife" stand alongside heavy gems "Always Crashing in the Same Car," "What in the World," and "Breaking Glass."

    Bowie sheds his "Thin White Duke" persona from his previous year's effort "Station to Station" in favor of this new, more subtle David. He sought to "normalize" his career with this dynamic album that veered rapidly into a combination of electronic, rock, punk, and pop music.

  8. Television - Marquee Moon

  9. David Bowie - "Heroes"

    The second album in Bowie's Berlin Trilogy, in collaboration with Brian Eno, continues to display his ability to jump seamlessly between different styles. This album is his take on electronic/new wave pop. The title track is easily the album's (and possibly Bowie's) masterpiece, while other gems include Beauty and the Beast and V-2 Schneider.

  10. The Clash - The Clash

    11. The Newcomers
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    Keep the Dogs Away - Thor

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    Mass - Back to the Music

    13. The Contenders

  13. Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols

  14. Kiss - Love Gun

  15. Billy Joel - The Stranger

    After releasing the legendary album Turnstiles in 1976, Billy Joel came out with what most people considered his best album, "The Stranger." In addition to the iconic "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant," beautiful songs such as "Only the Good Die Young" and "Vienna" are extremely memorable. These are seen as some of his best songs and the best songs of 1977 in both rock and pop.

    Billy Joel's magnum opus sixth album is carried by the weight of five consecutive smash hit singles. Led by the double Grammy-winning Just the Way You Are, it also includes four other pop gems: the steady, cautious Vienna, the fast-paced and frantic Get it Right the First Time, the soulful, gospel-tinged Everybody Has a Dream, and the iconic Scenes from an Italian Restaurant, Joel's tribute to the second side of Abbey Road.

  16. Meat Loaf - Bat Out of Hell

    Composed by Jim Steinman but performed by dynamic singer Meat Loaf (Michael Aday), this iconic album includes a barrage of hit singles such as "You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night)," "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad," the title track, and one of Meat Loaf's strongest vocal performances, "Paradise by the Dashboard Light," a duet with singer Ellen Foley.

  17. Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) - John Williams

  18. Steely Dan - Aja

  19. Heart - Little Queen

    Heart continues their platinum success with this album that includes the fiery Barracuda.

  20. Talking Heads - Talking Heads: 77

    Leading the new wave movement is this unpredictable debut album by an unpredictable band, fronted by dynamic leader and main songwriter David Byrne. The album was boosted by the success of the frantic, jumpy single Psycho Killer, but the rest of the album carries itself just as well.

  21. Ramones - Rocket to Russia

  22. Foreigner - Foreigner

    This Anglo-American band's 1977 debut immediately took hold of listeners' minds with smash singles Feels Like the First Time and Cold as Ice, while also hiding some album gems like Starrider and Long, Long Way From Home.

  23. Styx - The Grand Illusion

    Even with at times bloated progressive rock, Styx showed major improvements in musicianship and songwriting with this breakthrough album that included one of their signature songs: Come Sail Away.

    So if you think your life is a complete illusion

    Because you never win the game,

    Just remember that it's a grand illusion,

    And after all, we are all the same.

  24. Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

  25. Elvis Presley - Moody Blue

    Great album! Probably one of Elvis's best works and has some great songs. Definitely the number 1 choice for that year.

  26. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express

  27. Aerosmith - Draw the Line

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