The Best Music of 1977
Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1977. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.
For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 1977, check out this list.
| Songs (?) | Wikipedia |
| ABBA | Take a Chance on Me | ☆ |
| ABBA | The Name of the Game | ☆ |
| AC/DC | Let There be Rock | ☆ |
| AC/DC | Whole Lotta Rosie | ☆ |
| Alan O'Day | Undercover Angel | ☆ |
| Alice Cooper | You and Me | ☆ |
| Andy Gibb | I Just Want to Be Your Everything | ☆ |
| Barclay James Harvest | Hymn | ☆ |
| Barry White | It's Ecstasy When You Lay Down Next to Me | ☆ |
| Bee Gees | More Than a Woman | ☆ |
| Bill Withers | Lovely Day | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | Just The Way You Are | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | Movin' Out (Anthony's Song) | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | Only The Good Die Young | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | Scenes from an Italian Restaurant | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | She's Always a Woman | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | The Stranger | ☆ |
| Billy Joel | Vienna | ☆ |
| Blue Öyster Cult | Godzilla | ☆ |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | Three Little Birds | ☆ |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | One Love/People Get Ready | ☆ |
| Bob Marley & The Wailers | Jamming | ☆ |
| Bob Marley & the Wailers | Exodus | ☆ |
| Bob Welch | Ebony Eyes | ☆ |
| Bob Welch | Sentimental Lady | ☆ |
| Bonnie Tyler | It's a Heartache | ☆ |
| Carly Simon | Nobody Does It Better | ☆ |
| Cheap Trick | I Want You To Want Me | ☆ |
| Cheap Trick | Elo Kiddies | ☆ |
| Cheap Trick | Southern Girls | ☆ |
| Chic | Dance, Dance, Dance | ☆ |
| Chic | Everbody Dance | ☆ |
| Chicago | Baby, What A Big Surprise | ☆ |
| Chuck Mangione | Feels So Good | ☆ |
| Crosby, Stills & Nash | Just a Song Before I Go | ☆ |
| Crystal Gayle | Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue | ☆ |
| Dan Hill | Sometimes When We Touch | ☆ |
| Dave Mason | We Just Disagree | ☆ |
| David Bowie | Heroes | ☆ |
| David Bowie | Sound And Vision | ☆ |
| David Gates | Goodbye Girl | ☆ |
| Debby Boone | You Light Up My Life | ☆ |
| Dolly Parton | Here You Come Again | ☆ |
| Donna Summer | I Feel Love | ☆ |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | Fantasy | ☆ |
| Earth, Wind & Fire | Serpentine Fire | ☆ |
| Eddie Money | Baby Hold On | ☆ |
| Eddie Money | Two Tickets to Paradise | ☆ |
| Electric Light Orchestra | Mr. Blue Sky | ☆ |
| Electric Light Orchestra | Turn To Stone | ☆ |
| Electric Light Orchestra | Sweet Talkin' Woman | ☆ |
| Elvis Costello | Alison | ☆ |
| Elvis Costello & The Attractions | Watching the Detectives | ☆ |
| Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Fanfare for the Common Man | ☆ |
| Eric Clapton | Wonderful Tonight | ☆ |
| Eric Clapton | Cocaine | ☆ |
| Eric Clapton | Lay Down Sally | ☆ |
| Fleetwood Mac | The Chain | ☆ |
| Fleetwood Mac | Dreams | ☆ |
| Fleetwood Mac | Don't Stop | ☆ |
| Fleetwood Mac | You Make Loving Fun | ☆ |
| Fleetwood Mac | Songbird | ☆ |
| Fleetwood Mac | Gold Dust Woman | ☆ |
| Foreigner | Cold As Ice | ☆ |
| Foreigner | Feels Like The First Time | ☆ |
| Foreigner | Starrider | ☆ |
| Foreigner | Long, Long Way from Home | ☆ |
| George Thorogood & The Destroyers | One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer | ☆ |
| Glen Campbell | Southern Nights | ☆ |
| Heart | Barracuda | ☆ |
| Heart | Heartless | ☆ |
| Heatwave | Boogie Nights | ☆ |
| Heatwave | The Groove Line | ☆ |
| Ian Dury | Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll | ☆ |
| Iggy Pop | Lust For Life | ☆ |
| Iggy Pop | The Passenger | ☆ |
| Jackson Browne | Running On Empty | ☆ |
| Jackson Browne | The Load-Out/Stay | ☆ |
| James Taylor | Handy Man | ☆ |
| James Taylor | Your Smiling Face | ☆ |
| Jerry Reed | East Bound and Down | ☆ |
| Jethro Tull | Ring Out Solstice Bells | ☆ |
| Jimmy Buffett | Margaritaville | ☆ |
| Jimmy Buffett | Changes in Latitudes, Changes in Attitudes | ☆ |
| John Williams | Star Wars (Main Title) | ☆ |
| Johnny Paycheck | Take This Job and Shove It | ☆ |
| Johnny Rivers | Swayin' to the Music (Slow Dancing) | ☆ |
| Judas Priest | Diamonds and Rust | ☆ |
| Kansas | Dust In The Wind | ☆ |
| Kansas | Point of Know Return | ☆ |
| Kenny Rogers | Lucille | ☆ |
| Kiss | Love Gun | ☆ |
| Kraftwerk | Trans-Europe Express | ☆ |
| Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Full Experience | Disco Devil | ☆ |
| Linda Ronstadt | Blue Bayou | ☆ |
| Linda Ronstadt | It's So Easy | ☆ |
| Linda Ronstadt | Poor Poor Pitiful Me | ☆ |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | What's Your Name | ☆ |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | That Smell | ☆ |
| Lynyrd Skynyrd | You Got That Right | ☆ |
| Marvin Gaye | Got to Give it Up | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | Paradise By The Dashboard Light | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | Bat Out Of Hell | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | Two Out of Three Ain't Bad | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | You Took the Words Right Out of My Mouth (Hot Summer Night) | ☆ |
| Meat Loaf | All Revved Up with No Place to Go | ☆ |
| Meco | Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band | ☆ |
| Natalie Cole | I've Got Love on My Mind | ☆ |
| Odyssey | Native New Yorker | ☆ |
| Orlando Riva Sound | Moon Boots | ☆ |
| Parliament Funkadelic | Flash Light | ☆ |
| Paul Davis | I Go Crazy | ☆ |
| Paul Simon | Slip Slidin' Away | ☆ |
| Peter Frampton | I'm in You | ☆ |
| Peter Gabriel | Solsbury Hill | ☆ |
| Peter Gabriel | Here Comes the Flood | ☆ |
| Pink Floyd | Dogs | ☆ |
| Pink Floyd | Sheep | ☆ |
| Player | Baby Come Back | ☆ |
| Queen | We Are The Champions | ☆ |
| Queen | We Will Rock You | ☆ |
| Ram Jam | Black Betty | ☆ |
| Ramones | Sheena Is A Punk Rocker | ☆ |
| Ramones | Rockaway Beach | ☆ |
| Randy Newman | Short People | ☆ |
| Randy Newman | Baltimore | ☆ |
| Raydio | Jack and Jill | ☆ |
| Richard Hell And The Voidoids | Blank Generation | ☆ |
| Rita Coolidge | (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher | ☆ |
| Rita Coolidge | We're All Alone | ☆ |
| Roberta Flack & Donny Hathaway | The Closer I Get to You | ☆ |
| Rod Stewart | Hot Legs | ☆ |
| Rod Stewart | You're In My Heart | ☆ |
| Rush | Closer To The Heart | ☆ |
| Samantha Sang | Emotion | ☆ |
| Sanford-Townsend Band | Smoke from a Distant Fire | ☆ |
| Sex Pistols | God Save The Queen | ☆ |
| Sex Pistols | Pretty Vacant | ☆ |
| Sex Pistols | Holidays In The Sun | ☆ |
| Steely Dan | Deacon Blues | ☆ |
| Steely Dan | Peg | ☆ |
| Steely Dan | Josie | ☆ |
| Steve Miller Band | Jet Airliner | ☆ |
| Steve Miller Band | Jungle Love | ☆ |
| Steve Miller Band | Swingtown | ☆ |
| Styx | Come Sail Away | ☆ |
| Styx | Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man) | ☆ |
| Styx | The Grand Illusion | ☆ |
| Suicide | Ghost Rider | ☆ |
| Suicide | Frankie Teardrop | ☆ |
| Supertramp | Give a Little Bit | ☆ |
| Talking Heads | Psycho Killer | ☆ |
| Ted Nugent | Cat Scratch Fever | ☆ |
| Television | Marquee Moon | ☆ |
| Television | See No Evil | ☆ |
| Television | Venus | ☆ |
| The Alan Parsons Project | I Wouldn't Want to Be Like You | ☆ |
| The Bee Gees | Stayin' Alive | ☆ |
| The Bee Gees | Night Fever | ☆ |
| The Bee Gees | How Deep Is Your Love | ☆ |
| The Brothers Johnson | Strawberry Letter 23 | ☆ |
| The Buzzcocks | Orgasm Addict | ☆ |
| The Clash | White Riot | ☆ |
| The Clash | Complete Control | ☆ |
| The Clash | London's Burning | ☆ |
| The Commodores | Brick House | ☆ |
| The Commodores | Easy | ☆ |
| The Dead Boys | Sonic Reducer | ☆ |
| The Emotions | The Best of My Love | ☆ |
| The Isley Brothers | Footsteps in the Dark | ☆ |
| The Jam | In The City | ☆ |
| The Kinks | Father Christmas | ☆ |
| The Marshall Tucker Band | Heard It in a Love Song | ☆ |
| The Runaways | Queens of Noise | ☆ |
| The Runaways | Hollywood | ☆ |
| Tom Scott | Gotcha (Theme from Starsky & Hutch) | ☆ |
| Utopia | Love is the Answer | ☆ |
| Walter Egan | Magnet and Steel | ☆ |
| Weather Report | Birdland | ☆ |
| Wings | Mull of Kintyre | ☆ |
| Wire | 12 X U | ☆ |
| Wire | Reuters | ☆ |
| X-Ray Spex | Oh Bondage Up Yours! | ☆ |
| Yvonne Elliman | If I Can't Have You | ☆ |
