Rumours
1977
Two couples in the band were breaking up while they recorded, and kept writing songs about each other that the other had to sing.
★ 9.1
Browse by time · year
1977
Showing 11 albums from 1977
Aja
1977
Becker and Fagen ran seven guitarists through the solo on Peg before they kept one, and worked the rest of the record the same way.
★ 8.7
Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols
1977
Sid Vicious barely plays on it, and a record shop was taken to court over the word bollocks and won.
★ 8.5
Marquee Moon
1977
The two guitars never play the same part, and the singer, Tom Verlaine, refused to double-track anything, so you hear what happened in the room.
★ 8.1
Exodus
1977
Marley made it in London after being shot at home in Jamaica, and side two is nothing but songs people still sing at weddings.
★ 7.6
Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack
Various artists
1977
The Bee Gees wrote most of it in about two weeks in a French château, without having read the script or seen a frame.
★ 6.8
My Aim is True
1977
Costello recorded it on days off from his job at a cosmetics factory, backed by an American bar band that included Huey Lewis.
★ 6.0
Rocket to Russia
1977
They were openly chasing a hit single and never got one. The harmonies come straight off the girl-group records they grew up on.
★ 5.9
The Stranger
1977
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant is three unfinished songs stitched into one. The whistling at the start of the record is Joel himself.
★ 5.8
Bat Out of Hell
1977
Every label turned it down, and Todd Rundgren produced it partly because he thought it was a parody. It has sold over forty million.
★ 4.5