Songs in the Key of Life
1976
It took so long that Wonder and the band took to wearing T-shirts reading We're Almost Finished. Twenty-one songs, and no filler.
★ 9.2
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Hotel California
1976
The two guitars at the end of the title track were worked out note for note in advance, and have to be played identically every night.
★ 8.9
Ramones
1976
Fourteen songs in twenty-nine minutes, recorded for about six thousand dollars. Nothing on it is longer than two and a half minutes.
★ 8.5
Zombie
Fela Kuti and Africa '70
1976
Horns and drums lock into one riff and hold it for minutes before Fela sings a word, which is how he built nearly every track.
★ 7.3
Rocks
1976
They recorded it in a converted warehouse they rented as a clubhouse. Slash and Kurt Cobain both named it the record that started them.
★ 5.9
Their Greatest Hits (1971-1975)
1976
It was the first album certified platinum, and for decades it traded places with Thriller as the best-selling record in America.
★ 5.8
2112
1976
The label wanted something commercial, so Rush delivered a twenty-minute dystopian suite about a banned guitar. It worked, and bought them their freedom.
★ 5.1
I Want You
1976
Leon Ware wrote it as his own record and Gaye liked it so much he took it. It plays as one continuous piece.
★ 4.4
Wanted! The Outlaws
1976
RCA put it together from recordings already sitting in its vaults, and it became the first country album to sell a million copies.
★ 4.2
Night Moves
1976
Half of it was cut with the Muscle Shoals house band, and the title song is Seger remembering a summer twenty years earlier.
★ 3.9
Live Bullet
1976
Seger had been playing for ten years with no national hit when this was taped over two nights at Cobo Hall in Detroit.
★ 2.9
