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HOA: 1976 eligibles list

The Boss makes his thunderous debut at the top of the eligibles list for the 1976 HOA election.

You should check out the 1975 results on the results thread if you haven’t done so yet.

Post your ballots on the 1976 voting thread.


HALL OF ACCLAIM: TOP 50 CANDIDATES FOR 1976 ELECTION

Only releases through December 31, 1975 included.

1975 releases indicated with an asterisk.

1. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN
ALBUMS: Greetings from Asbury Park N.J. (1629); The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle (657); Born to Run (17)*.
SONGS: Thunder Road (166)*; Born to Run (26)*.

2. LOU REED
ALBUMS: Transformer (76); Berlin (197); Rock ‘n’ Roll Animal (977).
SONGS: Walk on the Wild Side (54); Perfect Day (849); Satellite of Love (1293); Sweet Jane (live) (1418).

3. FRANK ZAPPA/THE MOTHERS OF INVENTION
ALBUMS: Freak Out! (279); Absolutely Free (1054); We’re Only in It for the Money (166); Uncle Meat (718); Hot Rats (191); Over-Nite Sensation (2239).
SONG: Willie the Pimp (Parts I and II) (2796).

4. STEELY DAN
ALBUMS: Can’t Buy a Thrill (425); Countdown to Ecstasy (385); Pretzel Logic (284); Katy Lied (780)*.
SONGS: Do It Again (1303); Reeling in the Years (449); The Boston Rag (2830); Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (927).

5. ELTON JOHN
ALBUMS: Elton John (2981); Tumbleweed Connection (1757); Honky Chateau (1199); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (141); Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy (1828)*.
SONGS: Your Song (306); Tiny Dancer (1061); Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (540); Candle in the Wind (1093); Bennie and the Jets (1257); Philadelphia Freedom (1364)*.

6. GRATEFUL DEAD
ALBUMS: Anthem of the Sun (2397); Live/Dead (347); Aoxomoxoa (1818); Workingman’s Dead (357); American Beauty (305).
SONGS: Dark Star (684); Uncle John’s Band (1217); Box of Rain (651).

7. T. REX
ALBUMS: Electric Warrior (182); The Slider (695).
SONGS: Get It On (Bang a Gong) (110); Jeepster (2240); Telegram Sam (603); Children of the Revolution (569); 20th Century Boy (570).

8. CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND HIS MAGIC BAND
ALBUMS: Safe as Milk (415); Trout Mask Replica (53); Lick My Decals Off, Baby (1594); Clear Spot (566); The Spotlight Kid (2051).
SONG: Big Eyed Beans from Venus (1448).

9. CREAM
ALBUMS: Fresh Cream (1129); Disraeli Gears (183); Wheels of Fire (428).
SONGS: I Feel Free (1560); Sunshine of Your Love (461); White Room (2395); Crossroads (1296); Badge (1711).

10. CROSBY, STILLS, NASH (& YOUNG)
ALBUMS: Crosby, Stills and Nash (315); Dèjá Vu (151); Four-Way Street (1287).
SONGS: Suite: Judy Blue Eyes (1331); Helpless (1552); Ohio (547).

11. JEFFERSON AIRPLANE
ALBUMS: Surrealistic Pillow (164); After Bathing at Baxter’s (1277); Crown of Creation (2083); Volunteers (926).
SONGS: Somebody to Love (476); White Rabbit (223).

12. DEEP PURPLE
ALBUMS: In Rock (348); Machine Head (242); Made in Japan (407).
SONGS: Highway Star (2098); Smoke on the Water (509).

13. ROD STEWART
ALBUMS: The Rod Stewart Album (2085); Gasoline Alley (816); Every Picture Tells a Story (154); Never a Dull Moment (1621); Atlantic Crossing (2621)*.
SONGS: Maggie May (107); You Wear It Well (1867).

14. CURTIS MAYFIELD
ALBUMS: Curtis (507); Curtis/Live (1515); Superfly (155); There’s No Place Like America Today (2629)*.
SONGS: (Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go (2508); We the People Who Are Darker Than Blue (1935); Move On Up (643); Freddie’s Dead (1333); Superfly (1993).

15. JANIS JOPLIN/BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY
ALBUMS: Cheap Thrills (227); Pearl (193).
SONGS: Piece of My Heart (753); Me and Bobby McGee (372).

16. PATTI SMITH
ALBUM: Horses (22)*.
SONGS: Piss Factory (1977); Gloria (348)*; Land: Horses/Land of a Thousand Dances/La Mer(de) (2588)*.

17. SONNY ROLLINS
ALBUMS: Tenor Madness (1049); Saxophone Colossus (332); Way Out West (904); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 (965); Night at the Village Vanguard, Vol. 2 (1088); The Bridge (1133).
SONG: St. Thomas (2627).

18. THE SUPREMES
ALBUMS: Where Did Our Love Go (1881); The Supremes Sing Holland-Dozier-Holland (1907).
SONGS: Where Did Our Love Go (219); Baby Love (737); Stop! In the Name of Love (142); You Can’t Hurry Love (415); You Keep Me Hangin’ On (867).

19. ORNETTE COLEMAN
ALBUMS: Something Else!!! (1843); The Shape of Jazz to Come (293); Change of the Century (763); Free Jazz (473); This Is Our Music (1674); At the Golden Circle, Vol. 1 (1586).
SONGS: none.

20. DEREK AND THE DOMINOS
ALBUM: Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs (69).
SONG: Layla (47).

21. RANDY NEWMAN
ALBUMS: 12 Songs (336); Sail Away (384); Good Old Boys (424).
SONG: Sail Away (701).

22. LOVE
ALBUMS: Love (2529); Da Capo (1700); Forever Changes (50).
SONG: Alone Again Or (221).

23. CAROLE KING
ALBUM: Tapestry (59).
SONGS: Home Again (2507); It’s Too Late (349); I Feel the Earth Move (1344); You’ve Got a Friend (997).

24. CAN
ALBUMS: Monster Movie (1529); Tago Mago (258); Ege Bamyasi (684); Future Days (631); Soon Over Babaluma (1661).
SONGS: none.

25. BRIAN ENO
ALBUMS: Here Come the Warm Jets (391); Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (978); Another Green World (198)*; Discreet Music (1921)*.
SONGS: Cindy Tells Me (2495); Baby’s on Fire (2430).

26. QUEEN
ALBUMS: Sheer Heart Attack (1101); A Night at the Opera (171)*.
SONGS: Killer Queen (2758); Bohemian Rhapsody (68)*.

27. TIM BUCKLEY
ALBUMS: Goodbye and Hello (1171); Happy Sad (440); Blue Afternoon (2172); Starsailor (557); Greetings from L.A. (1202).
SONG: Song to the Siren (869).

28. KING CRIMSON
ALBUMS: In the Court of the Crimson King (135); Islands (2717); Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1579); Red (562).
SONG: 21st Century Schizoid Man (1102).

29. SANTANA
ALBUMS: Santana (1256); Abraxas (168), III (2454); Caravanserai (1411); Lotus (2655).
SONGS: Black Magic Woman (722); Oye Como Va (1353).

30. NICO
ALBUMS: The Velvet Underground & Nico (4); Chelsea Girl (2511); The Marble Index (1402); Desertshore (2571).
SONGS: All Tomorrow’s Parties (1305); Femme Fatale (2075); These Days (1145).

31. THE ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND
ALBUMS: Idlewild South (2941); At Fillmore East (101); Eat a Peach (1446); Brothers and Sisters (1852).
SONGS: Whipping Post (1384); Ramblin’ Man (1374); Jessica (1567).

32. DUSTY SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: A Girl Called Dusty (2878); Dusty in Memphis (95).
SONGS: I Only Want to Be with You (2959); You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me (1103); Son of a Preacher Man (205).

33. JIMMY CLIFF
ALBUM: The Harder They Come (194).
SONGS: Many Rivers to Cross (167); Vietnam (2105); The Harder They Come (429).

34. LYNYRD SKYNYRD
ALBUMS: (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd) (576); Second Helping (626).
SONGS: Free Bird (258); Sweet Home Alabama (418).

35 GRAM PARSONS
ALBUMS: G.P. (398); Grievous Angel (130).
SONGS: Return of the Grievous Angel (1624); Hickory Wind (2749).

36. THE FOUR TOPS
ALBUM: Second Album (2673); Reach Out (1462).
SONGS: Baby I Need Your Loving (845); I Can’t Help Myself (1466); It’s the Same Old Song (1642); Reach Out (I’ll Be There) (36); Standing in the Shadows of Love (1626); Bernadette (2692).

37. PARLIAMENT/FUNKADELIC
ALBUMS: Funkadelic (2077); Maggot Brain (416); Cosmic Slop (2710); Mothership Connection (272)*.
SONGS: Maggot Brain (2642); Cosmic Slop (2200); Tear the Roof Off the Sucker (Give Up the Funk) (1049)*.

38. BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD
ALBUMS: Buffalo Springfield (1459); Buffalo Springfield Again (326).
SONGS: For What It’s Worth (99); Expecting to Fly (1115).

39. HERBIE HANCOCK
ALBUMS: Takin’ Off (1503); Empyrean Isles (1500); Maiden Voyage (459); Mwandishi (1748); Sextant (2238); Head Hunters (524).
SONGS: none.

40. STAN GETZ
ALBUMS: Hamp & Getz (2194); Stan Getz and J.J. Johnson at the Opera House (2742); Focus (1668); Jazz Samba (804); Getz/Gilberto (372); Stan Getz and Bill Evans (2501).
SONGS: The Girl from Ipanema (553); Corcovado (2516).

41. MC5
ALBUMS: Kick Out the Jams (212); Back in the USA (624).
SONG: Kick Out the Jams (368).

42. FAIRPORT CONVENTION
ALBUMS: Fairport Convention (2508); What We Did on Our Holidays (2391); Unhalfbricking (498); Liege and Lief (399).
SONGS: Who Knows Where the Time Goes (401); A Sailor’s Life (2490).

43. NEW YORK DOLLS
ALBUMS: New York Dolls (139); Too Much Too Soon (844).
SONG: Personality Crisis (577).

44. BILL EVANS
ALBUMS: Everybody Digs Bill Evans (1659); Portrait in Jazz (1707); Explorations (2281); Sunday at the Village Vanguard (455); Waltz for Debby (475); Undercurrent (2208).
SONG: Waltz for Debby (2760).

45. COUNT BASIE
ALBUMS: Count Basie Swings, Joe Williams Sings (1268); April in Paris (975); At Newport (1439); The Atomic Mr. Basie (594).
SONGS: One O’Clock Jump (911); Lester Leaps In (2346); April in Paris (1338).

46. TODD RUNDGREN
ALBUMS: Something/Anything? (262); A Wizard, a True Star (658); Todd (2206)*.
SONG: I Saw the Light (704).

47. ALICE COOPER
ALBUMS: Love It to Death (1379); Killer (957); School’s Out (1298); Billion Dollar Babies (1246).
SONGS: I’m Eighteen (1386); School’s Out (396).

48. TRAFFIC
ALBUMS: Mr. Fantasy (488); Traffic (966); John Barleycorn Must Die (504); The Low Spark of the High Heeled Boys (2557).
SONGS: Paper Sun (2926); Dear Mr. Fantasy (2225).

49. DIZZY GILLESPIE
ALBUMS: Bird & Diz (1548); Jazz at Massey Hall (494); Dizzy Gillespie with Roy Eldridge (1526); Groovin’ High (1463); At Newport (2176); Gillespiana (2221).
SONGS: Groovin’ High (2795); A Night in Tunisia (2603); Manteca (1219).

50. IKE AND TINA TURNER
ALBUM: River Deep Mountain High (893).
SONGS: A Fool in Love (2646); It’s Gonna Work Out Fine (2085); River Deep Mountain High (22).

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MOVING UP: Steely Dan, Elton John, Curtis Mayfield.

NEW TO THE LIST: Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Brian Eno, Queen, Parliament/Funkadelic.

FELL OFF THE LIST: Isaac Hayes.

BUBBLING UNDER: Aerosmith, The Ronettes, The Isley Brothers, The Drifters, Genesis.