Thursday, December 22, 2011

60 Albums 1976

I stepped back a year to 1976 which of course was very different than 1977. I was in college and living in the Germantown section of Philadelphia which at that time was all about the funk. Parliament and Funkadelic was happening and disco was already becoming too mainstream to be cool anymore although Saturday Night Fever was just around the corner. We also had the very beginnings of what we would know as punk and new wave with the first albums my Blondie, Ramones, Patti Smith and the classic Modern Lovers which was actually recorded in 1973. Little did we know where things were heading.

David Bowie was entering his Thin White Duke period and this album really blew me away. Was this my all time favorite Bowie album? Not hardly. He had many great albums and this is another one.

Reggae was becoming a big part of my collection and we were going down to South Street to regularly see live reggae acts perform at Grendel's Lair. I was also getting into dub and loved to play it at house parties. Freaked people out.

That Joan Armatrading continues to be one of my all time favorite albums.


  1. David Bowie - Station To Station
  2. Joan Armatrading - Joan Armatrading
  3. Bob Dylan - Desire
  4. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
  5. Ramones - Ramones
  6. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Rastaman Vibration
  7. Tom Waits - Small Change
  8. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
  9. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
  10. Blondie - Blondie
  11. Joni Mitchell - Hejira
  12. Marvin Gaye - I Want You
  13. Electric Light Orchestra - A New World Record
  14. Flamin' Groovies - Shake Some Action
  15. Peter Tosh - Legalize It
  16. Average White Band - Person To Person
  17. Burning Spear - Garvey's Ghost
  18. Patti Smith - Radio Ethiopia
  19. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
  20. Elvis Presley - The Sun Sessions
  21. Jeff Beck - Wired
  22. Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstien
  23. The Wild Tchoupitoulas - The Wild Tchoupitoulas
  24. Jackson Browne - The Pretender
  25. The Heptones - Nightfood
  26. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies
  27. Toots & The Maytals - Reggae Got Soul
  28. Stomu Yamashta's Go - Go
  29. Hall & Oates - Bigger Than Both Of Us
  30. Jimmy Cliff - Follow My Mind
  31. The Mighty Diamonds - Right Time
  32. Bootsy's Rubber Band - Stretchin' Out In Bootsy's Rubber  Band
  33. Horslips - The Book of Invasions
  34. Miles Davis - Water Babies
  35. Bob Dylan - Hard Rain
  36. Eddie & The Hot Rods - Teenage Depression
  37. Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
  38. Todd Rundgren - Faithful
  39. The Runaways - The Runaways
  40. Funkadelic - Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
  41. Graham Parker - Howin' Wind
  42. Laura Nyro - Smile
  43. 801 - 801 Live
  44. Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit
  45. John Martyn - Live at Leeds
  46. The Beach Boys - 15 Big Ones
  47. Ian Hunter - All American Boy
  48. Burning Spear - Man In The Hills
  49. The Rolling Stones -  Black and Blue
  50. Santana - Amigos
  51. Gary Burton - Dreams So Real
  52. Steve Goodman - Words We Can Dance To
  53. Warren Zevon - Warren Zevon
  54. Linda Ronstadt - Hasten Down The Wind
  55. Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees
  56. Soft Machine - Softs
  57. Melanie - Photograph
  58. Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
  59. J. Giles Band - Live: Blow Your Face Out
  60. Diana Ross - Diana Ross

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