An ongoing ranking and rating of my favorite albums of 1976. Items in bold are part of my personal CD collection.
THE TOP TEN
1. Boston ~ Boston (10.6)
2. Billy Joel ~ Turnstiles (10.5)
3. Kansas ~ Leftoverture (9.9)
4. Bad Company ~ Run With The Pack (9.6)
5. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band ~ Night Moves (9.6)
6. Eagles ~ Hotel California (9.5)
7. AC/DC ~ Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap (9.4)
8. Thin Lizzy ~ Jailbreak (9.2)
9. Steve Miller Band ~ Fly Like An Eagle (8.6)
10. Aerosmith ~ Rocks (8.6)
THE REST: ALPHABETICAL BY RATING
Rainbow ~ Rising (8.4)
Blue Öyster Cult ~ Agents Of Fortune (8.4)
Queen ~ A Day At The Races (8.4)
Kiss ~ Destroyer (8.2)
Max Webster ~ Max Webster (8.0)
David Bowie ~ Station To Station (8)
Scorpions ~ Virgin Killer (8)
Led Zeppelin ~ Presence (7.8)
The Babys ~ The Babys (7.7)
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers ~ Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers (7.7)
Journey ~ Look Into The Future (7.5)
Peter Frampton ~ Frampton Comes Alive! (7.5)
UFO ~ No Heavy Petting (5) (7.4)
Elton John ~ Blue Moves (7)
Eric Clapton ~ No Reason To Cry (7)
Slade ~ Nobody’s Fools (7)
Steely Dan ~ The Royal Scam (7)
Rush ~ 2112 (6.9)
Black Sabbath ~ Technical Ecstasy (6.6)
Foghat ~ Night Shift (6.5)
Kiss ~ Rock And Roll Over (6.2)
The Doobie Brothers ~ Taking It To The Streets (6.2)
Blondie ~ Blondie (6)
Sammy Hagar ~ Nine On A Ten Scale (5.0)
Thin Lizzy ~ Johnny The Fox (5)
Triumph ~ Triumph (4)
ZZ Top ~ Tejas (4)
CURRENTLY UNRATED
The Alan Parsons Project ~ Tales Of Mystery And Imagination Edgar Allan Poe
Alice Cooper ~ Goes To Hell
The Allman Brothers Band ~ Wipe The Windows Check The Oil Dollar Gas
April Wine ~ The Whole World’s Going Crazy
The Beach Boys ~ 15 Big Ones
Black Oak Arkansas ~ Balls Of Fire
Blackfoot ~ Flyin’ High
Boz Scaggs ~ Silk Degrees
Budgie ~ If I Were Brittania I’d Waive The Rules
Chicago ~ Chicago X
Derringer ~ Derringer
Electric Light Orchestra ~ A New World Records
Genesis ~ A Trick Of The Tail
Genesis ~ Wind & Wuthering
Grand Funk Railroad ~ Born To Die
Grand Funk Railroad ~ Good Singin’, Good Playin’
Hollies ~ Russian Roulette
Hollies ~ Write On
Ian Gillan Band ~ Child In Time
Jackson Browne ~ The Pretender
Jeff Beck ~ Wired
Jefferson Starship ~ Spitfire
Jethro Tull ~ Too Old To Rock ‘N’ Toll: Too Young To Die!
Judas Priest ~ Sad Wings Of Destiny
Krokus ~ Krokus
Leslie West ~ The Leslie West Band
Lynyrd Skynyrd ~ Gimme Back My Bullets
Mahogany Rush ~ IV
Mannfred Mann’s Earth Band ~ The Roaring Silence
Nazareth ~ Close Enough For Rock ‘N’ Roll
Nazareth ~ Play ‘N’ The Game
Outlaws ~ Lady In Waiting
Point Blank ~ Point Blank
REO Speedwagon ~ R.E.O.
Rick Springfield ~ Wait For Night
Rod Stewart ~ A Night On The Town
The Rolling Stones ~ Black And Blue
The Runaways ~ The Runaways
Status Quo ~ Blue For You
Steppenwolf ~ Skullduggery
The Stills-Young Band ~ Long May You Run
Styx ~ Crystal Ball
Sweet ~ Give Us A Wink
Ted Nugent ~ Free-For-All
Uriah Heep ~ High And Mighty
Wings ~ At The Speed Of Sound
Wishbone Ash ~ Locked In
Wishbone Ash ~ New England
Yesterday & Today ~ Yesterday & Today
[Last updated: 2021.01.03]
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