Music Gourmets Presents 60 Years of Great Music - 1977

[Zeeba Neighba]

Tempus fugit - yep, it's already time for the next year in the MG's "60 Years of Great Music" series.
And here we are already at 1977

Here's the rules:

Each Friday, I'll introduce a new year from 1957 through 2016. Each member selects an album released in that year with a few lines (or more) on why you picked it/enjoy it. Your selection does not have to be the most important release or the most admired release of that year (though it certainly can be), simply an album that grabs you and that you really love.

However, once an album is selected by a member, you must choose a different album.

Together we will compile quite the canon of "Great Music" and, who knows, maybe inspire each other to check out some new artists (or to revisit old forgotten classics).

This week - the albums of 1977

 

[Worm]

Tempus fugit

I just read this as "Tempus fungi". o_O

 

[Mattafett]

Supertramp - Even in the Quietest Moments...

I own this on cd and Lp. Never opened the cd. Love this band.

 

[Unsomnambulist]

Easy year...

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols



A shot heard 'round the world.

 

[patrikc325]

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True

 

[LeslieC]

Steely Dan - Aja

Just fantastic!

 

[Postalboy]

Another great year, but an easy choice: this is definitely in my Top 10 of all time! Talking Heads '77

 

[LeslieC]

For Postalboy

 

[axolotl]

I just read this as "Tempus fungi". o_O

That's much better than I read.

And, because times fugs on, here we go:

https://rateyourmusic.com/charts/top/album/1977

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

The David Grisman Quintet - The David Grisman Quintet

On the heels of 1976's Old And In The Way came this discovery. As I mentioned, Old And... was a nice introduction of bluegrass into my rock and roll world - a safe and comfortable one with an artist I already trusted. Following that, one of my best friends came up with this album. It's referred to as Progressive Bluegrass in the places that require categories. I consider it jazz with bluegrass instruments. Whatever, having become comfortable with mandolins, banjos and fiddles the previous year, this was a great followup. I wasn't then and still am not very fluent in jazz. But because this was written with bluegrass in mind and for those instruments, it wasn't so far into the jazz universe that I couldn't follow it. The melodies are really nice, I love the arrangements and I really appreciate that the music seems to be written to be easily consumed even by those who aren't aficionados of either genre.

 

[Old Uncle Toe]

Steely Dan - Aja

Just fantastic!

I love this album. It was the peak of Steely Dan’s recordings led up to by the previous five albums, not to be matched by anything after. Thanks for highlighting it so I could pick something more eclectic.

 

[lpfreak1170]

Billy Joel - The Stranger


My second favorite of his and just a great album.

 

[JazzyRandy]

Earth Wind & Fire - All 'n All

 

[Zeeba Neighba]

Easy year...

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols

Easy year, indeed...but different punk album

The Clash - The Clash

Although one could nominate the U.S. release, I suppose, in 1979, will nominate it here when the original UK release came out. Even from the beginning, it seemed clear the musical talent of The Clash equaled the punk attitude espoused in their music. "Janie Jones" is a perfect opener (though in my mind I still hear it as first song side 2 of the cassette), brash, fast paced, unintelligible. Filled with great songs like "White Riot", "Career Opportunities"...really the whole albums. Also shows the reggae influence embraced by so many British artists in the 1970s, a love that would continue throughout the Clash's career. No the UK version doesn't have the poppier (but still great) cover of the Bobby Fuller Four's "I Fought the Law" or "White Man in Hammersmith" but does give us "Deny", "Cheat" and other greats in their stead.

 

[axolotl]

Keith Jarrett ~ Survivor's Suite



"What da ya want for nothing? ... a rrrrubber biscuit?"

 

[Unsomnambulist]

So nice you posted it twice.

 

[axolotl]

So nice you posted it twice.

'twas not showing as posted even once. My damnable connectivity, again.

En garde, rogue.

 

[patrikc325]

HM's

Jethro Tull - Songs From The Wood

MeatLoaf - Bat out of Hell

Little Feat - Time Loves A Hero

The Grateful Dead - Terrapin Station

Jimmy Buffett -Changes in Latitudes,Changes in Attitudes

 

[Worm]

I'm late to this party, but here's my pick:

Simply one of the best albums of the seventies. <3

 

[Worm]

And my HMs: