1 Television - Marquee Moon. easy choice
2 Wire - Pink Flag
3 Chrome - Alien Soundtracks
4 Barry White - Barry White Sings For Someone You Love. (totally underrated funk classic)
5 Graham Central Station - Now Do U Wanta Dance
6 The Stranglers - IV
7 Brian Eno - Before and after science
8 AC/DC - Let There Be Rock
9 The Stranglers - No More Heroes
10 The Pirates - Out Of Their Skulls
11 Slave - The Hardness Of The World
12 Neil Young - American Stars 'N Bars
13 Talking Heads- s/t

1977 was pretty nuts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1977_in_m ... s_released

1. David Bowie - Low
2. Television - Marquee Moon
3. The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
4. Iggy Pop - The Idiot
5. Suicide - S/T
6. David Bowie - Heroes
7. Rush - A Farewell To Kings
8. Brian Eno - Before & After Science
9. Wire - Pink Flag
10. Iggy Pop - Lust for Life

1. Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
2. Before and After Science - Brian Eno
3. Marquee Moon - Television
4. The Belle Album - Al Green
5. Rumours - Fleetwood Mac

Honorable Mentions: Passage - The Carpenters, Pacific Ocean Blue - Dennis Wilson

Shoes - 'Black Vinyl Shoes'

Leeplusplus wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:12 pm 1. Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
2. Before and After Science - Brian Eno
3. Marquee Moon - Television

Wow, judging by your #2 and #3 I should check out your #1.

Dismissed that Al Green LP unheard as from his god botherer phase. That good eh?

Rocky Rockbottom wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:46 pm

Leeplusplus wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:12 pm 1. Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
2. Before and After Science - Brian Eno
3. Marquee Moon - Television

Wow, judging by your #2 and #3 I should check out your #1.

Dismissed that Al Green LP unheard as from his god botherer phase. That good eh?

The Belle Album is one of the best records of all time.

Rocky Rockbottom wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 10:46 pm

Leeplusplus wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:12 pm 1. Bat Out of Hell - Meat Loaf
2. Before and After Science - Brian Eno
3. Marquee Moon - Television

Wow, judging by your #2 and #3 I should check out your #1.

Dismissed that Al Green LP unheard as from his god botherer phase. That good eh?

I recommend starting here!

Cecil Taylor-Dark to themselves (group) Air above mountains (solo) (recorded in 76 but relased in 77 according to discogs)
Parliament-Funkentelechy
AC/DC-Let there be rock
Wire-Pink Flag
Television-Marquee Moon
Ramones-Rocket to Russia and Leave Home
Chrome-Alien Soundtracks
Anthony Braxton-Montreux/Berlin concerts
David Bowie-Low
Iggy Pop-The idiot
Motörhead-s/t
Bootsy-Aaah... the name is Bootsy baby

...or something, sure I'm forgetting a lot; I need to look at a list, right now, I'm just going by what's already listed and throwing in some jazz-records and random stuff I dig, LOL!

Rocky Rockbottom wrote: Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:04 pm 10 The Pirates - Out Of Their Skulls

Yes! For that scratchy lead / rhythm style Keith Levene and Andy Gill used, go via Wilko Johnson and meet Mick Green:



(The Pirates' catalogue is a right mess)

Residents - Fingerprince