Larry, this is a great list of albums and great ranking on your part. You really got my eyes AND ears by all your "S" rankings by putting Sparks and Klaaatu on that tier.
Nice Tier list!. My top 5 from 1976: 5. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC 4. Boston - Boston 3. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder 2. Ramones - Ramones 1. Station to Station - David Bowie 👍xxx.
I almost forgot on my previous list another 1976 S Tier album. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s One More From the Road. That is the first album that got me heavily into Skynyrd. Recorded at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. The remastered version released on CD a few years ago is fabulous. I think it is even a better live album than Frampton Comes Alive, of course the biggest selling live album that year and probably of all time. And I was early to that party. I first heard Do You Feel Like We Do? on a late night new music program on CHUM-FM in Toronto when I was 15 in early 1976. No one I knew had heard of it yet. I loved the song and went out the next day and bought Frampton’s Camel by mistake which has the studio version of Do You Feel Like We Do? on it. The next week I went out and also bought Frampton Comes Alive, but it hadn’t exploded yet by then. IMO Frampton’s Camel is a better album and I still listen to it to this day and hardly ever listen to Frampton Comes Alive anymore. So it was a fortunate mistake.
I keep thinking of new ones I forgot. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Alan Parsons Project. His homage to Edgar Allan Poe is yet another S Tier for sure.
My dad (and to some extent, my mom) raised me in part on the Eagles, along with a bunch of other music acts of the 1970s. Hotel California was a mainstay. I was never _as_ big a fan of the band, but that's a classic album of its time. Agents of Fortune is an underrated album among BÖC fans. It's usually seen as "the album with Reaper", but it also has "Summer of Love", "E.T.I.", "Sinful Love", and another personal favorite from my own top 10 BÖC songs list: "Tenderloin".
My top 1976 S and A Tier in order: Steely Dan - The Royal Scam - SS (nothing else comes close for me in 1976) Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees - S Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life - S The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue - S Led Zeppelin - Presence - S Doobie Brothers - Takin’ it to the Streets - S Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle - S Bob Dylan - Desire - S Joni Mitchell - Hejira - S Aerosmith - Rocks - S Genesis - Trick of the Tail - A Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - self titled - A David Bowie - Station to Station - A Bob Seger - Night Moves - A Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures - A Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive! - A Joan Armatrading - self titled - A George Benson - Breezin’ - A Eagles - Hotel California - A Rush - 2112 - A
Like your list! I would add the two Graham Parker albums ,Howling Wind and Heat Treatment. If you like some hard NOLA funk, check out Wild Tchoupitoulas
Great list!!!! I would add only "Black and Blue" by The Rolling Stones a B+ or else an A- , "Desire" by Bob Dylan B tier and "Zoot Allures" by Frank Zappa as A or B tier. "Rainbow Rising" by Rainbow is good too. Keep on rockin' Larry!!!
Most of those albums I’ve never heard. From your list Dirty Deeds… (the version you showed is the best), Rock and Roll Over and Station to Station are S tier for me. Presence and Technical Ecstasy would be high As. Some other great albums from 1976 are: Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy High Voltage (intl ver) - AC/DC Rising - Rainbow Rastaman Vibration - Bob Marley Legalize It - Peter Tosh Blackheart Man - Bunny Wailer Futuristic Dragon - T Rex Desire - Bob Dylan Rocks - Aerosmith Arrival - ABBA
Just pop-rock/rock albums, excludes pop, r&b etc: S-tier: Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny, Scorpions - Virgin Killers, Rainbow - Rising, Cool Feet - Burning Desire, ELO - A New World Record. A-tier: The Sweet - Give Us A Wink, Desiree - Make It With A Smile, Foreigner debut, The Runaways debut, Yesterday and Today debut, Camel - Moonmadness, Renaissance - Novella.
There are times when Technical Ecstasy is my favorite Sabbath album. Of course, there's also the not-quite-amazing 15 Big Ones, which has really been growing on me. It still has that Brian charm; You can really hear him gearing up for Love You. It would go to B tier for me, maybe even A if it gets a remix.
@@nicholasperl I agree with you about 15 Big Ones having that Brian charm. When I first heard it I was unsure but it definitely grew on me. It might just squeeze into A for me.
Here's my favorite albums from 1976 albums: 1. Boston - Boston 2. Kansas - Leftoverture 3. Aerosmith - Rocks 4. Kiss - Destroyer 5. Rush - 2112 6. Kiss - Rock and Roll Over 7. Ted Nugent - Free for All 8. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny 9. ELO - A New World Record 10. Bob Seger - Night Moves
My taste is different on the S level. 'Station to Station' is ok, the others wouldn't be at that level in my list. I would add to S both Genesis albums, 'Songs in the Key of Life' and also 'A New World Record'.
My top five for the year, all S tier: 1 Station to Station 2 Graham Parker, Howlin' Wind, 3 Steely Dan, Royal Scam, 4 Presence, and 5 the self titled debut by Blondie, my favorite Blondie album. Graham Parker's second album Heat Treatment is also S tier for me, as is A New World Record. I didn't see Black and Blue by the Stones on your list, that would be A tier for me, along with Patti Smith and Bob Seger, among others. Definitely a strong year overall.
The two Graham Parker albums released in 1976, Howling Wind and Heat Treatment are both S tier for me. Rainbow Rising is S tier as well , along with The Wild Tchoupitoulas. Check these albums out if you haven’t! I’m definitely gonna check out the Jon Anderson solo album
10cc in "S" tier: Hooray! Sparks in "S" tier: hmmmm.... I haven't done my homework with that album, I guess. Coming right after Indiscreet, which was so great, I just don't know how to approach Big Beat. (But the bonus tracks on the CD reissue are excellent!)
I enjoy viewing your lists. My top 5 from 1976 would be as follows: Boston-Boston Aerosmith-Rocks Eagles-Hotel California Boz Skaggs-Silk Degrees Led Zeppelin-Presence
1976 S tier for me. Rainbow 'Rising' Rush '2112' Boston 'Boston' Judas Priest 'Sad Wings of Destiny' AC/DC 'High Voltage' and one of my favorite live albums of all time Rush 'All The World's A Stage'
‘Presence’ would be at the lower end of B tier. This album is trying to be a return to the more bluesy hard rock of the first 2 albums, and yet, it fails pretty epically in that regard. All of the energy and creativity of those albums is painfully missing on this album. Thankfully, I think they bounced back with their underrated final album. ‘Boston’ could be S tier, but its lost some of its magic due to how overplayed most of the album is. Still, its one of the most consistent albums out there, so A it is. I would add The Rolling Stones album ‘Black & Blue’, which much like Zeppelin, is not one of their finest moments. Some really good songs, and some not so good. Most of the songs are unreasonably dragged out, which kinda makes it a chore to listen to all the way through. The one interesting about it is that it’s pretty much an audition album. You’ve got three different guitarists on here, two of them much better than the guy they ended up picking. Looks aside, I’m puzzled out how Ronnie Wood won over Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel, but oh well. Upper C tier for the Stones. There’s also ‘Chicago X’, which is unfortunately, another disappointment from ‘76. It’s in B tier. One compilation I really like from this year is The Guess Who’s ‘The Way They Were’. These were the final recordings with Randy Bachman, intended as their follow up to ‘American Woman’. I wish some of this stuff ended up on ‘Share The Land’ because that album is pretty short and could’ve used a few more songs. Definitely A tier, which says a lot about 1976, that one my favorites is a compilation of recordings from 1970.
1976 is probably my least favorite year of the '70s but that Wonder double is a masterpiece, I like "Presence" better than LZIV and Jon Lord's "Sarabande" is an overlooked great album!
I had that Klautu album Larry and no vocally they don't sound like Beatles,they're influenced by them for sure but that's it,I also had that Bee Bop Deluxe album but I don't remember anything on it,I think I bought it because I liked their name,Wings Over America is a very good live album and Wings At the Speed of Sound isn't,it's got two good songs on it,More Then A Feeling by Boston blew everyone away when it came out but I lost interest in the band pretty quickly after that album and Frampton Comes Alive was huge,it's funny but Peter Frampton was better live then in the studio,his studio albums were not as successful. Bob
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Larry, this is a great list of albums and great ranking on your part. You really got my eyes AND ears by all your "S" rankings by putting Sparks and Klaaatu on that tier.
Nice Tier list!. My top 5 from 1976:
5. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
4. Boston - Boston
3. Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
2. Ramones - Ramones
1. Station to Station - David Bowie
👍xxx.
I almost forgot on my previous list another 1976 S Tier album. Lynyrd Skynyrd’s One More From the Road. That is the first album that got me heavily into Skynyrd. Recorded at the Fox Theater in Atlanta. The remastered version released on CD a few years ago is fabulous.
I think it is even a better live album than Frampton Comes Alive, of course the biggest selling live album that year and probably of all time. And I was early to that party. I first heard Do You Feel Like We Do? on a late night new music program on CHUM-FM in Toronto when I was 15 in early 1976. No one I knew had heard of it yet. I loved the song and went out the next day and bought Frampton’s Camel by mistake which has the studio version of Do You Feel Like We Do? on it. The next week I went out and also bought Frampton Comes Alive, but it hadn’t exploded yet by then. IMO Frampton’s Camel is a better album and I still listen to it to this day and hardly ever listen to Frampton Comes Alive anymore. So it was a fortunate mistake.
I keep thinking of new ones I forgot. Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Alan Parsons Project. His homage to Edgar Allan Poe is yet another S Tier for sure.
My dad (and to some extent, my mom) raised me in part on the Eagles, along with a bunch of other music acts of the 1970s. Hotel California was a mainstay. I was never _as_ big a fan of the band, but that's a classic album of its time.
Agents of Fortune is an underrated album among BÖC fans. It's usually seen as "the album with Reaper", but it also has "Summer of Love", "E.T.I.", "Sinful Love", and another personal favorite from my own top 10 BÖC songs list: "Tenderloin".
That’ll show Glen Larry! KLAATU forever! Pete Best Never! 😉😂❤
My top 1976 S and A Tier in order:
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam - SS (nothing else comes close for me in 1976)
Boz Scaggs - Silk Degrees - S
Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life - S
The Rolling Stones - Black and Blue - S
Led Zeppelin - Presence - S
Doobie Brothers - Takin’ it to the Streets - S
Steve Miller Band - Fly Like an Eagle - S
Bob Dylan - Desire - S
Joni Mitchell - Hejira - S
Aerosmith - Rocks - S
Genesis - Trick of the Tail - A
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - self titled - A
David Bowie - Station to Station - A
Bob Seger - Night Moves - A
Frank Zappa - Zoot Allures - A
Peter Frampton - Frampton Comes Alive! - A
Joan Armatrading - self titled - A
George Benson - Breezin’ - A
Eagles - Hotel California - A
Rush - 2112 - A
Like your list! I would add the two Graham Parker albums ,Howling Wind and Heat Treatment. If you like some hard NOLA funk, check out Wild Tchoupitoulas
And what about Manfred Mann's Earth Band or Triumvirat?!
I think Hotel California might be my favourite album from 1976!
When you look up S-Tier in the dictionary, there is a picture of that "S/T" Boston album! (:
Another very good album I forgot is "The Roaring Silence" by the fantastic Manfred Mann's Earth Band. See you Larry!!
It’d be cool to see you compile all of your s tier albums from every tier list and rank those.
Great list!!!! I would add only "Black and Blue" by The Rolling Stones a B+ or else an A- , "Desire" by Bob Dylan B tier and "Zoot Allures" by Frank Zappa as A or B tier. "Rainbow Rising" by Rainbow is good too. Keep on rockin' Larry!!!
Most of those albums I’ve never heard. From your list Dirty Deeds… (the version you showed is the best), Rock and Roll Over and Station to Station are S tier for me. Presence and Technical Ecstasy would be high As.
Some other great albums from 1976 are:
Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest
Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
High Voltage (intl ver) - AC/DC
Rising - Rainbow
Rastaman Vibration - Bob Marley
Legalize It - Peter Tosh
Blackheart Man - Bunny Wailer
Futuristic Dragon - T Rex
Desire - Bob Dylan
Rocks - Aerosmith
Arrival - ABBA
Just pop-rock/rock albums, excludes pop, r&b etc:
S-tier: Judas Priest - Sad Wings Of Destiny, Scorpions - Virgin Killers, Rainbow - Rising, Cool Feet - Burning Desire, ELO - A New World Record.
A-tier: The Sweet - Give Us A Wink, Desiree - Make It With A Smile, Foreigner debut, The Runaways debut, Yesterday and Today debut, Camel - Moonmadness, Renaissance - Novella.
There are times when Technical Ecstasy is my favorite Sabbath album. Of course, there's also the not-quite-amazing 15 Big Ones, which has really been growing on me. It still has that Brian charm; You can really hear him gearing up for Love You. It would go to B tier for me, maybe even A if it gets a remix.
@@nicholasperl I agree with you about 15 Big Ones having that Brian charm. When I first heard it I was unsure but it definitely grew on me. It might just squeeze into A for me.
@AnthonyKiyola The single mixes of "Rock and Roll Music" and "It's OK" really reveal what a fun sound it has
Station 🚉 To Station 🚉 by David Bowie is my favourite album of 1976.
Here's my favorite albums from 1976 albums:
1. Boston - Boston
2. Kansas - Leftoverture
3. Aerosmith - Rocks
4. Kiss - Destroyer
5. Rush - 2112
6. Kiss - Rock and Roll Over
7. Ted Nugent - Free for All
8. Judas Priest - Sad Wings of Destiny
9. ELO - A New World Record
10. Bob Seger - Night Moves
Great list!! Love em all
My taste is different on the S level. 'Station to Station' is ok, the others wouldn't be at that level in my list. I would add to S both Genesis albums, 'Songs in the Key of Life' and also 'A New World Record'.
I have loved 'How Dare You' ever since its release. If only the original group had stayed together.. Merry Christmas.
My top five for the year, all S tier: 1 Station to Station 2 Graham Parker, Howlin' Wind, 3 Steely Dan, Royal Scam, 4 Presence, and 5 the self titled debut by Blondie, my favorite Blondie album. Graham Parker's second album Heat Treatment is also S tier for me, as is A New World Record. I didn't see Black and Blue by the Stones on your list, that would be A tier for me, along with Patti Smith and Bob Seger, among others. Definitely a strong year overall.
Queen’s a day at the races is S tier for me.
The two Graham Parker albums released in 1976, Howling Wind and Heat Treatment are both S tier for me. Rainbow Rising is S tier as well , along with The Wild Tchoupitoulas. Check these albums out if you haven’t! I’m definitely gonna check out the Jon Anderson solo album
Another shout out for Steely Dan - The Royal Scam for S-Tier
10cc in "S" tier: Hooray! Sparks in "S" tier: hmmmm.... I haven't done my homework with that album, I guess. Coming right after Indiscreet, which was so great, I just don't know how to approach Big Beat. (But the bonus tracks on the CD reissue are excellent!)
I enjoy viewing your lists. My top 5 from 1976 would be as follows:
Boston-Boston
Aerosmith-Rocks
Eagles-Hotel California
Boz Skaggs-Silk Degrees
Led Zeppelin-Presence
Love your top 2!
1976 S tier for me. Rainbow 'Rising' Rush '2112' Boston 'Boston' Judas Priest 'Sad Wings of Destiny' AC/DC 'High Voltage' and one of my favorite live albums of all time Rush 'All The World's A Stage'
‘Presence’ would be at the lower end of B tier. This album is trying to be a return to the more bluesy hard rock of the first 2 albums, and yet, it fails pretty epically in that regard. All of the energy and creativity of those albums is painfully missing on this album. Thankfully, I think they bounced back with their underrated final album. ‘Boston’ could be S tier, but its lost some of its magic due to how overplayed most of the album is. Still, its one of the most consistent albums out there, so A it is.
I would add The Rolling Stones album ‘Black & Blue’, which much like Zeppelin, is not one of their finest moments. Some really good songs, and some not so good. Most of the songs are unreasonably dragged out, which kinda makes it a chore to listen to all the way through. The one interesting about it is that it’s pretty much an audition album. You’ve got three different guitarists on here, two of them much better than the guy they ended up picking. Looks aside, I’m puzzled out how Ronnie Wood won over Wayne Perkins and Harvey Mandel, but oh well. Upper C tier for the Stones. There’s also ‘Chicago X’, which is unfortunately, another disappointment from ‘76. It’s in B tier. One compilation I really like from this year is The Guess Who’s ‘The Way They Were’. These were the final recordings with Randy Bachman, intended as their follow up to ‘American Woman’. I wish some of this stuff ended up on ‘Share The Land’ because that album is pretty short and could’ve used a few more songs. Definitely A tier, which says a lot about 1976, that one my favorites is a compilation of recordings from 1970.
Wind and Wuthering needs a bit more of your attention Larry as it is extremely high quality and deserved of a higher rating imo.
Have you heard Rainbow Rising - released 1976?
No interest in Rainbow, sorry.
S tier for me is Rainbow Rising, 2112, and Boston.
Is anyone going to address "Tee - jas" instead of the correct Spanish pronunciation "Tay - haas?"
1976 is probably my least favorite year of the '70s but that Wonder double is a masterpiece, I like "Presence" better than LZIV and Jon Lord's "Sarabande" is an overlooked great album!
I had that Klautu album Larry and no vocally they don't sound like Beatles,they're influenced by them for sure but that's it,I also had that Bee Bop Deluxe album but I don't remember anything on it,I think I bought it because I liked their name,Wings Over America is a very good live album and Wings At the Speed of Sound isn't,it's got two good songs on it,More Then A Feeling by Boston blew everyone away when it came out but I lost interest in the band pretty quickly after that album and Frampton Comes Alive was huge,it's funny but Peter Frampton was better live then in the studio,his studio albums were not as successful. Bob
Rush 2112 B-Tier.... sigh...
"Rock And Roll Over" was EASILY the best album of 1976. I'M OUT.....
Bye!
lol I’m not out but Rock and Roll Over is definitely my favorite KISS album 😝