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Remember the\u00a01960s? The streets were awash with peace, love, and a tie-dye swirl of something that carried the vague scent of hope. By 1977, even the smouldering embers of that dream had been snuffed out under the polished wingtip of power, and the only abundant asset that money couldn\u2019t buy was poverty.<\/p>\n

The hot new product was Sizzlean, a healthy bacon alternative that actually contained 37% fat. England failed to qualify for the second World Cup in a row. And the IRA had detonated seven bombs on Oxford Street in a single hour that thankfully brought about zero casualties and minimal damage, proving that even terrorism was naff. The music, however, was not.<\/p>\n

A revolution was afoot on both sides of the pond. A gig poster, proudly pasted to the wall of the CBGB, advertises a forthcoming show where the Ramones are backed by support from Talking Heads, and Blondie\u2019s concert in July trails at the bottom of the pamphlet. Meanwhile, in the UK, Sex Pistols gigs are proving so raucous that they are forced to play under pseudonyms like Special Guests, Acne Rabble, and A Mystery Band of International Repute to avoid the authorities\u2019 heavy-handed attention.<\/p>\n

Some might claim that the punk and new wave uprising that finally crested the sacred shores of the mainstream in 1977 was short-lived, but in truth, its glorious, teen-spirit stench can be whiffed in everything that has followed. As Kurt Cobain\u2019s fittingly juvenile definition put it, \u201cPunk is musical <\/a>freedom<\/a>. It\u2019s saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster\u2019s terms, \u2018nirvana\u2019 means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that\u2019s pretty close to my definition of punk rock.\u201d<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, disco landed like a bludgeon against the bourgeoisie stronghold on the arts as virtuosity made way for good times in an age of bad news. The \u2018Son of Sam\u2019 killer was striking fear into New York in the grim summer of \u201877, but in bold defiance, revellers still flocked to Studio 54 to get down to Chic. Likewise, Peter Sutcliffe was at large in Leeds, but that didn\u2019t stop the F Club from opening and fostering feisty future talents like Gang of Four, the Slits, and XTC.<\/p>\n

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Even Berlin, awash with spies pretending to simply read the same page of the paper for four hours straight, was having a musical moment as David Bowie and Iggy Pop sought sobriety and a new form of artistry in its crumbling brutalism. And over in Greece, where international tensions were heating up after they imprisoned five British plane-spotters,\u00a0Iannis Xenakis was revolutionarily pairing architecture and music.<\/p>\n

As Warmduscher would later tell me drunkenly backstage over a chat about how vital acts like Gil Scott-Heron proved to be, \u201cI think when things are shit you find people making music with nothing else to do. When there is no reason to make music, and everything is shit, that is when you\u2019re going to find the best music. It\u2019s people doing it because they love it and that creates scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n

That was certainly Patti Smith\u2019s view. When she sat down to tell William S Burroughs the meaning of punk in 1979, she commented, \u201cI think what it was was a hunger that we didn\u2019t know that a lot of us had. We all felt loneliness as a hunger for something to happen. As we thought we were lonely, a group like Television thinks they\u2019re alone. The boys that later became the Sex Pistols thought they were alone. All of us people that should have been perpetuating, or helping to build on, the sixties, we were dormant. And we thought we were alone\u201d.<\/p>\n

What they sought was unity: \u201cOur credo was, \u2018Wake up!\u2019\u201d Smith decreed. And it wasn\u2019t just the punks, either. Something adjacent to what would become Hip Hop was also beginning to take shape in a bid to bring a smattering of community to a crime-torn New York. At 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, DJ Kool Herc threw routine parties with his sister Cindy Campbell in the ground-floor recreation room of their flat block, and a cultural movement was seeded from the humble beginnings of two turntables in full flow, a sanguine hum in the atmosphere, and a space awash with breakdancing, graffiti artists, DJs, and part-time MCs.<\/p>\n

It was 1977, everything was fucked, and music was flourishing.<\/p>\n

What happened in music in 1977?<\/h2>\n
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The Clash kickstart The Roxy<\/h3>\n

The Clash headline the opening night of London\u2019s first punk rock club, The Roxy. It\u2019s instantly riotous. The movement now has a home. Pete Townshend will later claim its the only thing that ever matched the revolution of The Beatles.<\/p>\n

\u201cI look at the 100 nights of The ROXY as the life span of punk.\u201d \u2013 Mick Jones<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Sex Pistols sacked from EMI<\/h3>\n

After only releasing one single, EMI staff get very nervous about losing their jobs and threaten to strike, focring label bosses to sack the Sex Pistols from their recently signed contract. They are rebels without a home, but \u2018Anarchy in the UK\u2019 is riding high.<\/p>\n

\u201cEMI feels it is unable to promote this group\u2019s records internationally in view of the adverse publicity which has been generated over the last two months.\u201d \u2013 Official EMI statement<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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David Bowie gets weird with\u00a0Low<\/em><\/h3>\n

David Bowie pioneers a strange new blend of new wave, ambient music and Eastern European folk, even inventing his own language in the prorcess. It proves pivotal to the post-punk movemnt to come, and defines his Berlin years.<\/p>\n

\u201cI couldn\u2019t have written things like\u00a0Low<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Heroes<\/em>, those particular albums, if it hadn\u2019t have been for Berlin and the kind of atmosphere I felt there.\u201d \u2013 David Bowie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pink Floyd fight for prog with\u00a0Animals<\/em><\/h3>\n

Depsire punk apparently trying to put prog to bed, it still proves popular as Pink Floyd peak at second in the UK with\u00a0Animals<\/em>\u00a0and third in the US, despite being a hit-free five song suite concept album about sociopolitical conditions in Britain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love the album; it was exciting and noisy and fun. It really had some great bits and stuff of effects on there but it was not one of our creative high points really.\u201d \u2013 David Gilmour<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Fleetwood Mac confirm the\u00a0Rumours<\/em><\/h3>\n

After murmings of plentiful sordid studio shenanigans, Fleetwood Mac finally emerge with the soft rock classic,\u00a0Rumours<\/em>. It goes on to be one of the best-selling albums ever.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever was going in the band, specifically between the two couples, very much informed the material, and I think that was a very great appeal of the album. If you look at the success that the album enjoyed, I think it goes a little bit beyond the music itself.\u201d \u2013 Lindsey Buckingham<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The B-52s and \u2018The Athens Mircale\u2019<\/h3>\n

The B-52s play their first-ever gig at a secret party in Athens, Georgia. The small town will soon become a hotbed for alternative bands, like REM. The scene thrives on DIY, communal ethos, and distinct sounds.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistorically we have given much \u2013 from James Brown to the B-52\u2019s, Jessye Norman to Childish Gambino, Martin Luther King Jr to Stacey Abrams.\u201d \u2013 Michael Stipe<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Marquee Moon<\/em>: The CBGBs best?<\/h3>\n

Television, the original safety pin sporting post-punks, release\u00a0Marquee Moon<\/em>. It is perhaps the greatest album to ever hail from the CBGB movement. And there are many to chose from. Somehow it is post-punk before even punk was truly defined.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like a mini symphony.\u201d \u2013 Richard Lloyd<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Iggy Pop survives the end of The Stooges<\/h3>\n

Iggy Pop emerges with his solo debut following the end of The Stooges and addicition struggles.\u00a0The Idiot<\/em>, made alongside David Bowie and Tony Visconti, turns out to be a rare masterpiece, channeling Dostoyevsky and Berlin\u2019s past.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019ll never make it to the recording studios in time. Iggy\u2019s doomed.\u201d \u2013 David Bowie<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Sex Pistols at the Palace<\/h3>\n

The Sex Pistols continue to make waves as they sign their A&M contract outside of Buckingham Palace (pictured above), as the police watch on. Their antics are even debated in parliament where John Lydon is threatened with treason.<\/p>\n

\u201cKids want excitement, they want things that are going to transform what is basically a very boring life for them right now, and music, young rock music, is the only thing they have, that they thought that they controlled.\u201d \u2013 Malcolm McLaren<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Disco arrives at Studio 54<\/h3>\n

In a parallel story to punk, disco is given a home at Studio 54 in New York City. Bands like Rare Pleasure, Chic and more thrive. Meanwhile, Andy Warhol, Debbie Harry and more party to the new sound. It sadly closed in 1980.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudio 54 is a dictatorship at the door, but a democracy on the dance floor.\u201d \u2013 Andy Warhol<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Record broken by Led Zeppelin<\/h3>\n

A still-thriving Led Zeppelin set the world record for an indoor show as over 76,000 cram into the Pontiac Silverdome to see them perform. They play a legendary, career-spanning set, opening with \u2018The Song Remains the Same\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201c[Vanilla Fudge] played with Hendrix, Cream, The Who, and at times, we blew everybody off the stage. We were a very hard act to follow, we were known for being very aggressive live and different from anyone else. We were wondering who was going to blow us off \u2013 it was Led Zeppelin.\u201d \u2013 Carmine Appice<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Behold, The Clash<\/h3>\n

The Clash release their self-titled debut in the UK. It rises to 12th in the album chart, proving punk has commercial potential. Songs like \u2018White Riot\u2019 become instant classics and reaffirm the politics of the egalitarian movement. It cost just \u00a34,000 to make.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It\u2019s a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.\u201d \u2013 Joe Strummer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The future is here with \u2018I Feel Love\u2019<\/h3>\n

Brian Eno decalres he has heard \u201cthe sound of the future\u201d after listening to Donna Summer\u2019s pioneering use of a Moog synthesiser on \u2018I Feel Love\u2019. It becomes a chart-topping smash hit in the UK, and sixth in the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe was an incredibly talented singer, who could improvise but was also very disciplined.\u201d \u2013 Giorgio Moroder<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018Hotel California\u2019 hits Number One<\/h3>\n

Weeks after the single was released, \u2018Hotel California\u2019, a lament on the lingering lie of the American Dream, steadily rises to number one on the charts. It remains one of the best-selling singles worldwise in classic rock history.<\/p>\n

\u201cPerfection is not an accident.\u201d \u2013 Glenn Frey<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Farewell to The Supremes<\/h3>\n

Motown legends the Supremes call it a day after their final concert in London. They are remmembered as icons of popular music. Their singles have spent a whopping 306 weeks in the UK charts to date.<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw the Supremes when they were still singing in little black skirts and white blouses.\u201d \u2013 Aretha Franklin<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Exodus<\/em>: Reggae\u2019s greates record?<\/h3>\n

Bob Marley causes a reggae uprising with the genre\u2019s most iconic record,\u00a0Exodus<\/em>. It has since sold approximately 20million copies worldwide. It features classics like \u2018Three Little Birds\u2019 and \u2018Jamming\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cMe just ease up me mind and go in a different bag. What me stand for me always stand for. Jah is my strength.\u201d \u2013 Bob Marley<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Star Wars Soundtrack<\/h3>\n

John Williams goes to second in the US album charts with the\u00a0Star Wars<\/em>\u00a0soundtrack. Pop culture has a new galactic commerciality, as the film also soars along with merch, posters, toys and more. The blockbuster is upon us\u2026 even in the music charts.<\/p>\n

\u201cJohn Williams\u2019 music is what truly brought the Star Wars universe to life. He gave it its soul.\u201d \u2013 George Lucas<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The King has left Indianapolis<\/h3>\n

Elvis Presley performs for the final time. The last song he ever sings on stage is \u2018Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain\u2019. Themonring before the show, he was commemorated for recieving two billion record pressings. He dies a few weeks later on August, 16th.<\/p>\n

\u201cElvis is the last thing we\u2019re all going to agree on. After this you are going to have your heroes and I\u2019m going to have mine. You\u2019re gonna like Joni Mitchell, I\u2019m gonna like Iggy Pop. So instead of saying goodbye to Elvis, I\u2019m going to say goodbye to you.\u201d \u2013 Bruce Springsteen (paraphrasing Lester Bangs)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Macho Types Wanted for The Village People<\/h3>\n

Camp sensation The Village People arrive with their debut album after the composer Jacques Morali puts an advert into a music trade magazine, stating: \u201cMacho Types Wanted: Must Dance And Have A Moustache\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cYoung man\u2026\u201d \u2013 The Village People<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nasa launch\u00a0The Golden Record<\/em><\/h3>\n

An unmanned probe is launched into space by Nasa intended to be an artefact that alien life may find.\u00a0It includes an assortment of music. The first human music that ET\u2019s may hear is by Bach, and then they\u2019ll get a blast of rock \u2018n\u2019 roll in the form of \u2018Johnny B Goode\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cHello from the children of planet Earth.\u201d \u2013 The People of Earth<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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What, exactly, is Pub Rock?<\/h3>\n

Mot\u00f6rhead arrive with their debut single, and pioneer a new brand of music that becomes known as pub rock, proudly crafted for Friday nigth revelry. This debut release from Chiswick Records remains the home of pub rock\u2019s unsurpassed best.<\/p>\n

\u201cBorn to lose. Live to win.\u201d \u2013 Lemmy<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The prolific Stranglers and Iggy Pop<\/h3>\n

Depsite their tours also gaining widespread press for all sorts of antics, The Stranglers manage to find the time for their second release of the year.\u00a0No More Heroes<\/em>\u00a0is another cracker. Iggy Pop also serves up his second of \u201977, the equally cracking\u00a0Lust for Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhatever happened to Leon Trotsky? He got an ice pick, that made his ears burn.\u201d \u2013 Hugh Cornwell<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The arrival of\u00a0Aja<\/em><\/h3>\n

Steely Dan serve up\u00a0Aja<\/em>, an album that has been hailed by fans and plenty of fellow musicians as one of the finest albums, in every aspect, ever since.<\/p>\n

\u201cStunning writing. Stunning production, stunning singing, outstanding playing, but songs. Unbelievable goddamn songs. It\u2019s too good. They\u2019re all fantastic.\u201d \u2013 David Crosby<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Stellar songwriting<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s not all punk as more traditional songwriters sweep through September with classics like:<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Litttle Criminals<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Randy Newman
\n\u2013\u00a0Foreign Affairs<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Tom Waits
\n\u2013\u00a0The Stranger<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Billy Joel
\n\u2013\u00a0New Boots and Panties<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Ian Dury
\n\u201877\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Talking Heads
\n\u2013\u00a0Blank Generation\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Richard Hell (OK, that\u2019s also punk, I suppose).<\/p>\n

But could this be the best month in music, ever?<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t get any better than that. It\u2019s like a classically heroic anthem theme. He did it. There\u2019s quite a few people who did it.\u00a0Not that many people in Randy\u2019s class.\u201d \u2013 Bob Dylan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Never Mind the Madness<\/h3>\n

The month is dominated by one release:\u00a0Never Mind the Bollocks<\/em>. There is more to say about the Sex Pistols\u2019 one and only album than this little box will allow, literally.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe most influential record of all time is\u00a0Never Mind The Bollocks.<\/em>\u00a0People who are still working now in the music business did their shit because of that record.\u201d \u2013 Noel Gallagher<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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We could be \u2018Heroes\u2019<\/h3>\n

David Bowie releases \u2018Heroes\u2019.<\/p>\n

The song goes on to be pivotal not just withing culture, but within society at large as it contibutes to the toppling of the Berlin Wall in time.<\/p>\n

\u201cGood-bye, David Bowie. You are now among Heroes. Thank you for helping bring down the wall.\u201d \u2013 The German Goverment<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Hot competition from Pop Rock<\/h3>\n

Punk and Bowie receive stiff commerical competition as the following are also released:<\/p>\n

\u2013\u00a0Bat Out of Hell<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Meat Loaf
\n\u2013\u00a0News of the World<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Queen
\n\u2013\u00a0Out of the Blue<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 ELO
\n\u2013\u00a0Show Some Emotion<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Joan Armatrading
\n\u2013\u00a0Street Survivors<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Lynyrd Skynyrd<\/p>\n

And so many others you wonder, was this the biggst month in music, ever?<\/p>\n

\u201cI saw [Bat Out of Hell<\/em>] as a spoof of Bruce Springsteen. Because the songs were sort of very basic changes, the themes were all\u2026 [Laughs<\/em>}\u2026 by the time it was the \u201970s, the themes were kind of\u00a0nostalgic<\/em>.\u201d \u2013 Todd Rundgren<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Disco goes\u00a0All \u2018n All<\/em><\/h3>\n

Disco is really announced on the mainstream as Chic relese their self-titled debut only a day after Earth, Wind and Fire dropped\u00a0All \u2018n All<\/em>. Both become classics and bleed into the new wave and funk movements.<\/p>\n

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Elvis Costello gets banned from\u00a0SNL<\/em><\/h3>\n

SNL panic and pull the plug on the Sex Pistols\u2019 planned appearance, but they forget Elvis Costello is also a punk and his live, unscheduled change to his set sees him banned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just wanted them to remember us. I didn\u2019t really have anything against the show. I was more pissed off at being told what to play by the record company than I was NBC.\u201d \u2013 Elvis Cotelllo<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Paul McCartney has the final say<\/h3>\n

The former Beatle tops off the year with a slice of cheese. \u2018Mull of Kintyre\u2019 oddly becomes the biggest hit of the era in a last ditch bid from the old school.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who hated it were pissed off with me. And even some of the people who bought it were pissed off with me because they\u2019d bought it. Of course, it didn\u2019t help that it came out at\u00a0the height of punk rock.\u201d \u2013 Paul McCartney<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The best albums from 1977:<\/h2>\n
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  • Aja<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Steely Dan<\/li>\n
  • Animals<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Pink Floyd<\/li>\n
  • Bat Out of Hell<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Meat Loaf<\/li>\n
  • Before and After Science<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Brian Eno<\/li>\n
  • Blank Generation<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Richard Hell & the Voidoids<\/li>\n
  • Car<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Peter Gabriel<\/li>\n
  • Clear Spot<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The Congos<\/li>\n
  • Cheap Trick in Color<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Cheap Trick<\/li>\n
  • Eternally Yours<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The Saints<\/li>\n
  • Heavy Weather<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Weather Report<\/li>\n
  • Here, My Dear<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Marvin Gaye<\/li>\n
  • Heroes<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 David Bowie<\/li>\n
  • I Remember Yesterday<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Donna Summer<\/li>\n
  • In Color<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Cheap Trick<\/li>\n
  • In the City<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The Jam<\/li>\n
  • I Tcho Tchass<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Francis Bebey<\/li>\n
  • Jesus of Cool<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Nick Lowe<\/li>\n
  • Low<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 David Bowie<\/li>\n
  • Marquee Moon<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Television<\/li>\n
  • Matching Mole<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Robert Wyatt<\/li>\n
  • My Aim Is True<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Elvis Costello<\/li>\n
  • Never Mind the Bollocks, Here\u2019s the Sex Pistols<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Sex Pistols<\/li>\n
  • No More Heroes<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The Stranglers<\/li>\n
  • Opposite People<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Fela Kuti & Africa \u201970<\/li>\n
  • Pink Flag<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Wire<\/li>\n
  • Pure Pop for Now People<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Nick Lowe<\/li>\n
  • Rocket to Russia<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Ramones<\/li>\n
  • Rumours<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Fleetwood Mac<\/li>\n
  • Saturday Night Fever<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Various Artists<\/li>\n
  • Saw Delight<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Can<\/li>\n
  • Sorrow, Tears & Blood<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Fela Kuti & Africa \u201970<\/li>\n
  • Street Survivors<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Lynyrd Skynyrd<\/li>\n
  • Talking Heads: 77<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Talking Heads<\/li>\n
  • The Clash<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 The Clash<\/li>\n
  • The Stranger<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Billy Joel<\/li>\n
  • Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers<\/li>\n
  • Transcendence<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Alice Coltrane<\/li>\n
  • Viva! Roxy Music<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Roxy Music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    The most underrated songs of 1977:<\/h2>\n
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