It was a year of punk, a year of funk and over all a year full of musical developments that ran in parallel and remain influential for many years and in some cases to this day. And it’s the start of something called new wave.

In no particular order.

• Fleetwood Mac ‘Rumours’

• Joan Armatrading ‘Show Some Emotion’

• Dennis Wilson ‘Pacific Ocean Blue’

• Kraftwerk ‘Trans-Europe Express’

• Rufus + Chaka Kahn ‘Ask Rufus’

• Steely Dan ‘Aja’

• David Bowie ‘Low’

• Randy Newman ‘Little Criminals’

• Gary Wilson ‘You Think You Really Know Me’

I’m going to post the top 9 albums of every year from the last 50 years. One post every week.

If you like the albums and the songs, go check out the playlist on Spotify.

The playlist for the Sailing For Peace blog series 'Top Albums From The Last 50 Years'. Nine songs for each year representing the nine albums of the year. Randomly from 1971 to 2021. It grows every week. And it is a lot of good music.

The perfect soundtrack for your sailing turn. Come aboard and please enjoy!

The absolute top albums from the last 50 years.

For me.

1977

This is edition No. 23 from 50.

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