GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1976

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1 9 7 6



Obviously make sure to hit up RYM yourself and search your favourite genres.

The deadline is 6th of March 1925.

The rules:
- submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.

GNMD = General Non-Metal Discussion, so NO UNAMBIGUOUSLY METAL ALBUMS are to be included in anybody's list.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Prelim

1. Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life
2. Earth, Wind & Fire - Spirit
3. Steve Reid - Rhythmatism
4. Heatwave - Too Hot to Handle
5. Kansas - Leftoverture
6. Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies
7. The Isley Brothers - Harvest for the World
8. Ted Nugent - Free-for-All
9. Aerosmith - Rocks
10. Parliament - The Clones of Dr. Funkenstein
Triumph - Triumph
Mirthrandir - For You the Old Women
Lucifer's Friend - Mind Exploding
The Brothers Johnson - Look Out for #1
矢野顕子 [Akiko Yano] - Japanese Girl (日本少女)
David Bowie - Station to Station
Rush - 2112
Doctors of Madness - Figments of Emancipation
Alice Cooper - Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
Van der Graaf Generator - Still Life

Priority listens/relistens:
Be-Bop Deluxe - Sunburst Finish
Blondie - Blondie
Funkadelic - Tales of Kidd Funkadelic
Funkadelic - Hardcore Jollies
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène
Jon Anderson - Olias of Sunhillow
Marijata - This Is Marijata
Popol Vuh - Letzte Tage, Letzte Nächte
Queen - A Day at the Races
Rory Gallagher - Calling Card

Not seeing any super favorites from this year, but definitely some really good stuff, especially on the funk side of things.

EDIT: Oh and Split Enz' Second Thoughts, which I think I told Satanstoenail I'd check out soon like three times over the last six years, and after the third time I checked my LastFM to realize I had actually checked the album out but completely forgot that I did, which I'm now seeing I never even wishlisted on RYM despite all the other garbage that I have. Definitely some weird alien-amnesia vibes here.

 

[Slammed]

1. Neil Diamond - Beautiful Noise
2. Queen - A Day at the Races
3. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
4. KISS – Destroyer
5. ZZ Top – Tejas
6. KISS - Rock and Roll Over
7. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
8. Led Zeppelin – Presence
9. The Runaways - The Runaways
10. Derek & Clive - Derek & Clive (Live)

 

[no country for old wainds]

will you fucking announce the results already it’s been 95 fucking years

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

3. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves

 

[Allfader]

Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
Genesis - Wind & Wuthering

Those 3 above everything else, then:

Jaco Pastorius - S/T
Journey - Look into The Future
Camel - Moonmadness
Rush - 2112
Eagles - Hotel California
Van Der Graaf Generator - World Record
Commodores - Hot on the Tracks

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Tom Waits - Small Change
2. Genesis - A Trick of the Tail
3. Genesis - Wind and Wuthering
4. Goblin - Roller
5. Rush - 2112
6. Brand X - Unorthodox Behavior
7. Ramones - Ramones
8. David Allan Coe - Longhaired Redneck
9. Sun Ra - Cosmos
10. Waylon Jennings / Willie Nelson / Jessi Colter / Tompall Glaser - Wanted! The Outlaws

 

[zabu of nΩd]

1. Ramones - Ramones
2. Boston - Boston
3. Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
4. Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
5. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
6. Led Zeppelin - Presence
7. Hawkwind - Astounding Sounds, Amazing Music
8. Magma - Udu Wudu
9. Rush - 2112
10. Camel - Moonmadness

 

[Bloopy]

1. The Runaways - The Runaways
2. Blondie - Blondie
3. Truth and Janey - No Rest for the Wicked
4. Ramones - Ramones
5. Ragnarok - Nooks
6. Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
7. ZZ Top - Tejas
8. Marlena Shaw - Just a Matter of Time
9. Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
10. Led Zeppelin - Presence

 

[Sirjack]

1976 Heatwave overlooking Park Lane London​

1. Michal Urbaniak - Body Language
2. Allan Holdsworth - Velvet Darkness
3. Weather Report - Black Market
4. Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour
5. Flora Purim - Open Your Eyes You Can Fly
6. David Sancious And Tone - Transformation (The Speed Of Love)
7. The Eleventh House - Aspects
8. Premiata Forneria Marconi - Chocolate Kings
9. Chick Corea - The Leprechaun
10. Keith Jarrett - Arbour Zena

 

[Slammed]

Heatwave? London? Was it 23 degrees?

 

[no country for old wainds]

'76 was notorious, every old fucker talks about that summer. 15 consecutive days over 32, peaked at 36, pretty impressive for here lol. 2018 finally topped that year overall though.

 

[CiG]

peaked at 36

Soft cunts.

 

[CiG]

Then I took out my razor blade, then I did what God forbade.
Now the cops are after me, but I proved that I'm no sissy.

1. Ramones - Ramones
2. Debris' - Static Disposal
3. The Residents - The Third Reich 'n Roll
4. Clannad - Dúlamán
5. Bunny Wailer - Blackheart Man
6. Blondie - Blondie
7. Tom Waits - Small Change
8. Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia
9. AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
10. Keith Jarrett - Mysteries
--------------------HM's------------------------------------
11. Oisín - Oisín
12. Kansas - Leftoverture
13. Zappa - Zoot Allures
14. Chrome - The Visitation
15. Rush - 2112
16. KISS - Destroyer
17. Eloy - Dawn
18. Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygène
19. Eddie and the Hot Rods - Teenage Depression
20. Brand X - Unorthodox Behaviour


Excluded for (some more obvious than others) metallic concerns:

Budgie - If I Were Brittania I'd Waive the Rules
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Thin Lizzy - Johnny the Fox
Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
Rainbow - Rising
Scorpions - In Trance
Scorpions - Virgin Killer
Blue Öyster Cult - Agents of Fortune

 

[challenge_everything]

Agents of Fortune seems a particularly dubious omission, if based on metallic concerns!

 

[CiG]

Wouldn't have made the top 10 regardless, if it makes you feel any better.

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

In Trance is apparently a '75 release, so chalk that up to yet another RYM fuckup.

 

[challenge_everything]

1. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
2. Camel - Moonmadness
3. Ramones - Ramones
4. Blue Oyster Cult - Agents of Fortune
5. Patti Smith Group - Radio Ethiopia
6. Bob Dylan - Desire
7. Led Zeppelin - Presence
8. Popol Vuh - Aguirre

 

[CiG]

No Acca? Fucking dirty traitor.

 

[Slammed]

And did you non dirty traitor become part of history and line the streets of the Canning Highway for Bon on the weekend?