Music in 1977

By Patrick Mondout

Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album was more than just album of the Year at the Grammys, it spent an unprecedented 31 weeks at #1 and sent four songs (Dreams, Go Your Own Way, Don't Stop, and You Make Loving Fun) to the top ten - also unprecedented for a group.

However, it was the rise of two "love them or hate them" genres that 1977 is remembered for. Disco acts such as the Bee Gees, Chic, and Andy Gibb began to rule the airwaves while the critics raved about punk bands such as the Ramones and the Sex Pistols.

Here are some of the albums you may have been listening to during 1977.

Abba - Arrival

Al Stewart - Year Of The Cat

Andy Gibb - Flowing Rivers

Bee Gees - Saturday Night Fever

Billy Joel - The Stranger

Bread - Lost Without Your Love

Carpenters - Passage

Chic

Chicago - XI

The Clash

Crosby, Stills and Nash - CSN

ELO - Out Of The Blue

Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True

Firefall - Luna Sea

Fleetwood Mac - Rumours

Iggy Pop - Lust For Life

Jackson Browne - Running on Empty

The Jam - In The City

Jimmy Buffett - Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes

Kiss - Alive II

Linda Ronstadt - Simple Dreams

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivors

Neil Young - Decade

Olivia Newton-John - Making a Good Thing Better

Parliament - Funkentelechy Vs. The Placebo Syndrome

Percy Thrillington (Paul McCartney) - Thrillington

Pink Floyd - Animals

Ramones - Rocket to Russia

Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Blank Generation

Roberta Flack - Blue Lights in the Basement

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

Talking Heads - '77

Television - Marquee Moon

Thelma Houston - Don't Leave Me This Way

Waylon Jennings - Ol' Waylon