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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.

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
AC/DC	Let There Be Rock	☆
Al Di Meola	Elegent Gypsy	☆
Bee Gees & Various Artists	Saturday Night Fever: The Original Movie Sound Track	☆
Billy Joel	The Stranger	☆
Bob Marley & The Wailers	Exodus	☆
Brian Eno	Before And After Science	☆
Cheap Trick	In Color	☆
Cheap Trick	Cheap Trick	☆
Chic	Chic	☆
Cluster & Eno	Cluster & Eno	☆
Dan Fogelberg	Nether Lands	☆
David Bowie	Low	☆
David Bowie	Heroes	☆
Dennis Wilson	Pacific Ocean Blue	☆
Dolly Parton	Here You Come Again	☆
Donna Summer	Once Upon A Time	☆
Earth, Wind & Fire	All 'n All	☆
Electric Light Orchestra	Out of the Blue	☆
Elvis Costello	My Aim Is True	☆
Emerson, Lake & Palmer	Works Volume 1	☆
Emmylou Harris	Luxury Liner	☆
Eric Clapton	Slowhand	☆
Fleetwood Mac	Rumours	☆
Foreigner	Foreigner	☆
Giorgio Moroder	From Here to Eternity	☆
Grateful Dead	Terrapin Station	☆
Heart	Little Queen	☆
Ian Dury	New Boots and Panties!!	☆
Iggy Pop	Lust for Life	☆
Iggy Pop	The Idiot	☆
Jackson Browne	Running On Empty	☆
Jethro Tull	Songs from the Wood	☆
Jimmy Buffett	Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes	☆
John Williams	Star Wars	☆
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers	Rock 'n' Roll with the Modern Lovers	☆
Keith Green	For Him Who Has Ear to Hear	☆
Kenny Rogers	Daytime Friends	☆
KISS	Love Gun	☆
Kraftwerk	Trans-Europe Express	☆
Linda Ronstadt	Simple Dreams	☆
Lynyrd Skynyrd	Street Survivors	☆
Meat Loaf	Bat Out Of Hell	☆
Muddy Waters	Hard Again	☆
Original Broadway Cast	Annie	☆
Original Broadway Cast	A Chorus Line	☆
Parliament	Funkentelechy vs. the Placebo Syndrome	☆
Peter Frampton	I'm in You	☆
Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel (1) (Car)	☆
Peter Tosh	Equal Rights	☆
Pink Floyd	Animals	☆
Professor Longhair	Rock 'N' Roll Gumbo	☆
Queen	News of the World	☆
Ramones	Rocket To Russia	☆
Randy Newman	Little Criminals	☆
Richard Hell and the Voidoids	Blank Generation	☆
Roberta Flack	Blue Lights in the Basement	☆
Rod Stewart	Foot Loose and Fancy Free	☆
Rufus featuring Chaka Khan	Ask Rufus	☆
Rush	A Farewell To Kings	☆
Sex Pistols	Never Mind The Bollocks, Here's The Sex Pistols	☆
Steely Dan	Aja	☆
Steve Miller Band	Book of Dreams	☆
Styx	The Grand Illusion	☆
Suicide	Suicide	☆
Supertramp	Even in the Quietest Moments...	☆
Taeko Ohnuki	Sunshower	☆
Talking Heads	Talking Heads: 77	☆
Television	Marquee Moon	☆
The Alan Parsons Project	I Robot	☆
The Brothers Johnson	Right on Time	☆
The Clash	The Clash [US]	☆
The Commodores	Commodores	☆
The Damned	Damned Damned Damned	☆
The Dead Boys	Young, Loud and Snotty	☆
The Jam	In the City	☆
Thin Lizzy	Bad Reputation	☆
Throbbing Gristle	The Second Annual Report	☆
Vangelis	Spiral	☆
Weather Report	Heavy Weather	☆
Wire	Pink Flag	☆
Yes	Going For The One	☆

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Songs (?)		Wikipedia
ABBA	Take a Chance on Me	☆
AC/DC	Let There be Rock	☆
AC/DC	Whole Lotta Rosie	☆
Andy Gibb	I Just Want to Be Your Everything	☆
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	☆
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 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	☆
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	☆
Dave Mason	We Just Disagree	☆
David Bowie	Heroes	☆
David Bowie	Sound And Vision	☆
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	☆
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	☆
Foreigner	Cold As Ice	☆
Foreigner	Feels Like The First Time	☆
Foreigner	Starrider	☆
George Thorogood & The Destroyers	One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer	☆
Glen Campbell	Southern Nights	☆
Heart	Barracuda	☆
Heatwave	Boogie Nights	☆
Ian Dury	Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll	☆
Iggy Pop	Lust For Life	☆
Iggy Pop	The Passenger	☆
Jackson Browne	Running On Empty	☆
James Taylor	Handy Man	☆
James Taylor	Your Smiling Face	☆
Jerry Reed	East Bound and Down	☆
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	☆
Lynyrd Skynyrd	What's Your Name	☆
Lynyrd Skynyrd	That Smell	☆
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)	☆
Meco	Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band	☆
Odyssey	Native New Yorker	☆
Parliament Funkadelic	Flash Light	☆
Paul Simon	Slip Slidin' Away	☆
Peter Frampton	I'm in You	☆
Peter Gabriel	Solsbury Hill	☆
Peter Gabriel	Here Comes the Flood	☆
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	☆
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	☆
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	☆
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	☆
Tom Scott	Gotcha (Theme from Starsky & Hutch)	☆
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	☆

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