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Help fill in this list with your favorite songs and albums from 1975-1977 that no doubt inspired the Ramones and the Sex Pistols. You'd "beat on the brat" too if you had to listen to this muck.
- obtaining electric guitars before learning how to play acoustic ones
- Because the older kids had already co-opted Led Zeppelin, Grand Funk, and Ted Nugent.
- Just about anything on the U.S. Top 40 chart. "Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille takes the cake. "Run Joey Run" by David Geddes comes close.
- Jake Holmes' icky commercials and muzak
- ABBA, "ABBA"
- ABBA, "Arrival"
- Bad Company, Run With The Pack
- Barry Manilow, This One's for You
- Black Sabbath, Technical Ecstasy
- Boston, "Boston"
- Chicago, Chicago VIII
- Deep Purple, Come Taste the Band
- Debbie Boone, "You Light up My Life"
- Donna Summers, "Once Upon a Time"
- Eagles, Hotel California
- Elton John, Blue Moves
- Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Works
- Foreigner, Foreigner
- Gloria Gaynor, "Love Tracks"
- Bert Jansch, A Rare Conundrum
- Joan Baez, Blowin' Away
- Johnnie Taylor, "Eargasm"
- KC and the Sunshine Band, "KC and the Sunshine Band"
- Tom Petty, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Pink Floyd, Animals
- Rainbow, Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow
- Rick Wakeman, Myths and Legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table
- Spirit, Future Games, Son of Spirit, Farther Along, Spirit of 76, pretty much everything after Feedback
- Yes, Going for the One
- Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
- The Eagles, Hotel California
- Peter Frampton, Frampton Comes Alive!
- Shaun Cassidy, "Shaun Cassidy" (contains a butchered version of Motown classic "Da Doo Ron Ron.")
- Styx, Wait, People Liked Us At One Point?
- Starland Vocal Band, Afternoon Delight
- Peter Hammill, Nadir's Big Chance[1]
- Bands named after US cities or States.
- Symphonic rock, such as Moody Blues, King Crimson, Renaissance, and The Nice
- Anything by America, ELO, Wings, or Jefferson Starshit[2]
- Nektar, Remember the Future
- "Convoy". "The White Knight". "Me and Old CB". "Hey Shirley, This Is Squirrely". "Teddy Bear". "Breaker Breaker". "CB Savage". "The Bull and the Beaver". "Let's Truck Together".[3]
Prog rock, pop, and heavy metal albums that sold well between 1977-81—during the so-called "punk revolution"[edit]
- ABBA, "The Album"
- ABBA, "Voulez-Vous"
- ABBA, "Super Trouper"
- Barry Manilow, Barry Manilow Live
- Bee Gees, Saturday Night Fever
- Billy Joel, 52nd Street
- Billy Thorpe, Children of the Sun
- Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell
- Black Sabbath, Mob Rules
- Blue Oyster Cult, Cultasaurus Erectus
- Boston, Don't Look Back
- ELO Out of the Blue
- ELO Discovery
- Fleetwood Mac, Tusk
- Foreigner, 4
- Stevie Nicks, Belladonna
- FM, Black Noise
- Genesis, Duke
- Kansas, Point of Know Return
- Kansas, Monolith
- Led Zeppelin, In Through the Out Door
- Phil Collins, About Face
- Peter Gabriel (the one where he's clawing his own photo)
- Peter Gabriel (the one where his face is melting)
- Peter Gabriel (the one that the record company named "Security")
- Kate Bush, The Dreaming
- Max Webster, Live Magnetic Air
- Pink Floyd, The Wall
- Rush, Farewell to Kings
- Rush, Hemispheres
- Rush, Permanent Waves
- Rush, Moving Pictures
- Yes, Drama
- Genesis, "A Trick of the Tail"
- Genesis, "Wind and the Wuthering"
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Footnotes[edit]
- ↑ While punk was seen as a backlash against progressive rock, Johnny Rotten was known to be a big fan of Hammill, see here
- ↑ If you think you like Jefferson Starship, listen to one of their albums, then listen to anything from 1960s Jefferson Airplane or one of the early 1970s Kantner/Slick or Hot Tuna outings. The difference should be obvious.
- ↑ If you still know every one of these songs by heart, you are severely in need of being sent to a reeducation camp. Nothing like us, of course.