1977

Novella

Renaissance

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: January 1977

• Progressive rock

1. Can You Hear Me?
2. The Sisters
3. Midas Man
4. The Captive Heart
5. Touching Once (Is So Hard to Keep)

Heavy Weather

Weather Report

• Label: Columbia
• Released: March 1977

• Jazz fusion

1. Birdland
2. A Remark You Made
3. Teen Town
4. Harlequin
5. Rumba Mamá
6. Palladium
7. The Juggler
8. Havona

A Diamond Is a Hard Rock

Legs Diamond

• Label: Mercury
• Released: September 1977

• Hard rock

1. Diamond Is a Hard Rock
2. Waiting
3. Long SHot
4. Woman
5. Jailbait
6. I Think I Got It
7. Evil
8. Live a Little
9. Flyin' Too High

Sammy Hagar

Sammy Hagar

• Label: Capitol
• Released: January 1977

• Hard rock

1. Red
2. Catch the Wind
3. Cruisin' & Boozin'
4. Free Money
5. Rock 'n' Roll Weekend
6. Fillmore Shuffle
7. Hungry
8. The Pits
9. Love Has Found Me
10. Little Star / Eclipse

Lights out

UFO

• Label: Chrysalis
• Released: May 1977

• Hard rock

1. Too Hot to Handle
2. Just Another Suicide
3. Try Me
4. Lights out
5. Gettin' Ready
6. ALone Again Or
7. Electric Phase
8. Love to love

American Stars 'n Bars

Neil Young and Crazy Horse

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 27 May 1977

• Roots rock
• Blues rock

1. The Old Country Waltz
2. Saddle up the Palomino
3. Hey Babe
4. Hold Back the Tears
5. Bite the Bullet
6. Star of Bethlehem
7. Will to Love
8. Like a Hurricane
9. Homegrown

Point of Know Return

Kansas

• Label: Kirshner
• Released: October 1977

• Progressive rock
• Hard rock

1. Point of Know Return
2. Paradox
3. The Spider
4. Portrait (He Knew)
5. Closet Chronicles
6. Lightning's Hand
7. Dust in the Wind
8. Sparks of the Tempest
9. Nobody's Home
10. Hopelessly Human

The Grand Illusion

Styx

• Label: A&M
• Released: 7 July 1977

• Progressive rock
• Hard rock

1. The Grand Illusion
2. Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)
3. Superstars
4. Come Sail Away
5. Miss America
6. Man in th Wilderness
7. Castle Walls
8. The Grand Finale

A Farewell to Kings

Rush

• Label: Anthem
• Released: 7 September 1977

• Progressive rock

1. A Farewell to Kings
2. Xanadu
3. Closer to the Heart
4. Cinderella Man
5. Madrigal
6. Cygnus X-1 Book I: The Voyage

Talking Heads: 77

Talking Heads

• Label: Sire
• Released: 16 September 1977

• New wave
• Art rock

1. Uh-Oh, Love Comes to Town
2. New Feeling
3. Tentative Decisions
4. Happy Day
5. Who Is It?
6. No Compassion
7. The Book I Read
8. Don't Worry About the Government
9. First Week / Last Week ... Carefree
10. Psycho Killer
11. Pulled up

News of the World

Queen

• Label: EMI
• Released: 28 October 1977

• Hard rock
• Glam rock

1. We Will Rock You
2. We Are the Champions
3. Sheer Heart Attack
4. All Dead, All Dead
5. Spread Your Wings
6. Fight from the Inside
7. Get Down, Make Love
8. Sleeping on the Sidewalk
9. Who Needs You
10. It's Late
11. My Melancholy Blues

Free Fall

Dixie Dregs

• Label: Capricorn
• Released: 27 May 1977

• Jazz fusion

1. Free Fall
2. Holiday
3. Hand Jig
4. Moe Down
5. Refried Funky Chicken
6. Sleep
7. Cruise Control
8. Cosmopolitan Traveler
9. Dig the Ditch
10. Wages of Weirdness
11. Northern Lights

Halloween

Pul.sar

• Label: CBS
• Released: 1977

• Progressive rock
• Space rock

1. Halloween Part I
2. Halloween Part II

Cat Scratch Fever

Ted Nugent

• Label: Epic
• Released: 13 May 1977

• Hard rock

1. Cat Scratch Fever
2. Wang Dang Sweet Poontang
3. Death by Misadventure
4. Live It up
5. Home Bound
6. Workin' Hard, Playin' Hard
7. Sweet Sally
8. A Thousand Knives
9. Fist Fightin' Son of a Gun
10. Out of Control

Rocket to Russia

Ramones

• Label: Sire
• Released: 4 November 1977

• Punk rock

1. Cretin Hop
2. Rockaway Beach
3. Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
4. Locket Love
5. I Don't Care
6. Sheena Is a Punk Rocker
7. We're a Happy Family
8. Teenage Lobotomy
9. Do You Wanna Dance?
10. I Wanna Be Well
11. I Can't Give You Anything
12. Ramona
13. Surfin' Bird
14. Why Is It Always This Way?

Sin After Sin

Judas Priest

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 8 April 1977

• Heavy metal

1. Sinner
2. Diamonds and Rust
3. Starbreaker
4. Last Rose of Summer
5. Let Us Prey / Call for the Priest
6. Raw Deal
7. Here Come the Tears
8. Dissident Aggressor

Street Survivors

Lynyrd Skynyrd

• Label: MCA
• Released: 17 October 1977

• Southern rock
• Boogie 'n' roll

1. What's Your Name
2. That Smell
3. One More Time
4. I Know a Little
5. You Got That Right
6. I Never Dreamed
7. Honky Tonk Night Time Man
8. Ain't No Good Life

Marquee Moon

Television

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 8 February 1977

• Art rock
• Post-punk

1. See No Evil
2. Venus
3. Friction
4. Marquee Moon
5. Elevation
6. Guiding Light
7. Prove It
8. Torn Curtain

Exodus

Bob Marley and the Wailers

• Label: Island
• Released: 3 June 1977

• Reggae

1. Natural Mystic
2. So Much Things to Say
3. Guiltiness
4. The Heathen
5. Exodus
6. Jamming
7. Waiting in Vain
8. Turn Your Lights Down Low
9. Three Little Birds
10. One Love / People Get Ready

Lust for Life

Iggy Pop

• Label: RCA
• Released: 9 September 1977

• Garage rock
• New wave

1. Lust for Life
2. Sixteen
3. Some Weird Sin
4. The Passenger
5. Tonight
6. Success
7. Turn Blue
8. Neighbourhood Threat
9. Fall in Love with Me

Aja

Steely Dan

• Label: ABC
• Released: 23 September 1977

• Jazz rock

1. Black Cow
2. Aja
3. Deacon Blues
4. Peg
5. Home at Last
6. I Got the News
7. Josie

Love Gun

Kiss

• Label: Casablanca
• Released: 30 June 1977

• Hard rock

1. I Stole Your Love
2. Christine Sixteen
3. Got Love for Sale
4. Shock Me
5. Tomorrow and Tonight
6. Love Gun
7. Hooligan
8. Almost Human
9. Plaster Caster
10. Then She Kissed Me

Spectres

Blue Öyster Cult

• Label: Columbia
• Released: November 1977

• Hard rock
• heavy metal

1. Godzilla
2. Golden Age of Leather
3. Death Valey Nights
4. Searchin' for Celine
5. Fireworks
6. R. U. Ready 2 Rock
7. Goin' Through the Motions
8. I Love the Nights
9. Nosferatu

Let There Be Rock

AC/DC

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 21 March 1977

• Hard rock

1. Go Down
2. Dog Eat Dog
3. Let There Be Rock
4. Bad Boy Boogie
5. Overdose
6. Crabsody in Blue
7. Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be
8. Whole Lotta Rosie

Bat out of Hell

Meat Loaf

• Label: Epic
• Released: 21 October 1977

• Hard rock
• progressive rock

1. Bat out of Hell
2. You Took the Words Right out of My mouth (Hot Summer Night)
3. Heaven Can Wait
4. All Revved up with No Place to Go
5. Two out of Three Ain't Bad
6. Paradise by the Dashboard Light
7. For Crying out Loud

Trans-Europe Express

Kraftwerk

• Label: King Klang
• Released: March 1977

• Electronic
• Synth pop

1. Europe Endless
2. The Hall of Mirrors
3. Showroom Dummies
4. Trans-Europe Express
5. Metal on Metal
6. Abzug
7. Franz Schubert
8. Endless Endless

Songs from the Wood

Jethro Tull

• Label: Chrysalis
• Released: March 1977

• Progressive folk
• Progressive rock

1. Songs from the Wood
2. Jack-in-the-Green
3. Cup of Wonder
4. Hunting Girl
5. Ring out, Solstice Bells
6. Velvet Green
7. The Whistler
8. Pibroch (Cap in Hand)
9. Fire at Midnight

Little Queen

Heart

• Label: Portrait
• Released: May 1977

• Hard rock
• blues rock

1. Barracuda
2. Love Alive
3. Sylvan Song
4. Dream of the Archer
5. Kick It out
6. Little Queen
7. Treat Me Well
8. Say Hello
9. Cry to Me
10. Go on Cry

Rumours

Fleetwood Mac

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 4 February 1977

• Pop rock

1. Second Hand News
2. Dreams
3. Never Going Back Again
4. Don't Stop
5. Go Your Own Way
6. Songbird
7. The Chain
8. You Make Loving Fun
9. I Don't Want to Know
10. Oh Daddy
11. Gold Dust Woman

Animals

Pink Floyd

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 21 January 1977

• Progressive rock

1. Pigs on the Wing (Part One)
2. Dogs
3. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
4. Sheep
5. Pigs on the Wing (Part Two)