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    Hard to argue with 1973 being the best but I have a soft spot for 1979.
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    What replaced Prog/rock? Ive heard it was Punk, Ive heard it was Disco..

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    '75 & '76 are hard to beat too

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    Quote Originally Posted by dgtlman View Post
    '75 & '76 are hard to beat too
    '76 Rock was a big vacuum ready for the new wave...

    1976 18 albums in top 1000
    080 Station to Station - David Bowie
    152 Ramones - Ramones
    176 Rainbow Rising - Rainbow
    194 The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
    226 Sad Wings of Destiny - Judas Priest
    238 Desire - Bob Dylan
    286 Jailbreak - Thin Lizzy
    363 Still Life - Van der Graaf Generator
    373 2112 - Rush
    424 El jardín de los presentes - Invisible
    469 Moonmadness - Camel
    577 A Trick of the Tail - Genesis
    593 The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
    838 Calling Card - Rory Gallagher
    850 Picchio dal Pozzo - Picchio dal Pozzo
    925 A New World Record - Electric Light Orchestra
    926 Boston - Boston
    947 Radio Ethiopia - Patti Smith Group
    vs
    1980 (32 in the top 1000)
    023 Remain in Light - Talking Heads
    031 Closer - Joy Division
    131 Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys
    207 Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
    209 Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
    246 Ace of Spades - Motörhead
    282 Back in Black - AC/DC
    291 Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
    324 Crazy Rhythms - The Feelies
    347 Permanent Waves - Rush
    384 Jeopardy - The Sound
    395 Seventeen Seconds - The Cure
    410 Is This Real? - Wipers
    443 Lightning to the Nations - Diamond Head
    446 Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) - David Bowie
    522 Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
    555 Sound Affects - The Jam
    567 Underwater Moonlight - The Soft Boys
    604 Colossal Youth - Young Marble Giants
    626 Los Angeles - X
    631 Dirty Mind - Prince
    662 Black Sea - XTC
    698 (5 Symbols) - Roky Erickson and the Aliens
    715 Pretenders - Pretenders
    730 In the Flat Field - Bauhaus
    741 British Steel - Judas Priest
    772 The River - Bruce Springsteen
    815 Get Happy!! - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
    834 Doc at the Radar Station - Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band
    843 Grotesque - The Fall
    858 Killing Joke - Killing Joke
    895 Songs the Lord Taught Us - Cramps

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    Quote Originally Posted by Yodelgoat View Post
    What replaced Prog/rock? Ive heard it was Punk, Ive heard it was Disco..
    For the prog audience - AOR!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Galactic Bulldozer View Post
    '76 Rock was a big vacuum ready for the new wave...
    According to the Disco Lovers poll

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    73 was my favorite. So I'm biased and shouldn't reply. Holy crap were there great albums that year!!!!!


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