When can one album propel a group to the top of the eligibles list? When it’s Never Mind the Bollocks.


You should check out the 1977 results on the results thread if you haven’t done so yet.

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HALL OF ACCLAIM: TOP 100 CANDIDATES FOR 1978 ELECTION

Only releases through December 31, 1977 included.

1977 releases indicated with an asterisk.

1. SEX PISTOLS
ALBUM: Never Mind the Bollocks Here’s the Sex Pistols (9)*.
SONGS: Anarchy in the U.K. (9); God Save the Queen (21)*; Pretty Vacant (281)*; Holidays in the Sun (536)*.

2. STEELY DAN
ALBUMS: Can’t Buy a Thrill (425); Countdown to Ecstasy (385); Pretzel Logic (284); Katy Lied (780); The Royal Scam (1316), Aja (271)*.
SONGS: Do It Again (1303); Reeling in the Years (449); The Boston Rag (2830); Rikki Don’t Lose That Number (927); Deacon Blues (2825)*.

3. FLEETWOOD MAC
ALBUMS: Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac (1650); Then Play On (1456); Fleetwood Mac (787); Rumours (54)*.
SONGS: Albatross (1816); Oh Well (1158); Rhiannon (1053); Go Your Own Way (239)*; Dreams (2559)*.

4. THE EAGLES
ALBUMS: The Eagles (2837); Desperado (1004); One of These Nights (2218); Hotel California (86).
SONGS: Take It Easy (2176); Desperado (1176); One of These Nights (1039); Take It to the Limit (2740); New Kid in Town (2513); Hotel California (43).

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 Freedo (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. KRAFTWERK
ALBUMS: Autobahn (282); Radioaktivitat (2450); Trans-Europa Express (97)*.
SONGS: Autobahn (196); Trans-Europa Express (707)*.

10. 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); A Night on the Town (2819).
SONGS: Maggie May (107); You Wear It Well (1867); Tonight’s the Night (1520).

11. BRIAN ENO
ALBUMS: Here Come the Warm Jets (391); Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) (978); Another Green World (198); Discreet Music (1921); Before and After Science (506)*.
SONGS: Cindy Tells Me (2495); Baby’s on Fire (2430).

12. 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).

13. 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).

14. RANDY NEWMAN
ALBUMS: 12 Songs (336); Sail Away (384); Good Old Boys (424); Little Criminals (1021)*.
SONG: Sail Away (701).

15. 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).

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

17. QUEEN
ALBUMS: Sheer Heart Attack (1101); A Night at the Opera (171).
SONGS: Killer Queen (2758); Bohemian Rhapsody (68); We Are the Champions (1113)*; We Will Rock You (995)*.

18. 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).

19. 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).

20. 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).

21. TELEVISION
ALBUM: Marquee Moon (25)*.
SONGS: Little Johnny Jewel (1809); Marquee Moon (324)*; See No Evil (2984)*.

22. 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).

23. 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.

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

25. AEROSMITH
ALBUMS: Toys in the Attic (337); Rocks (349).
SONGS: Dream On (443); Sweet Emotion (2060); Walk This Way (340).

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

27. 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).

28. THE CLASH
ALBUM: The Clash (52)*.
SONGS: White Riot (563)*; Complete Control (393)*.

29. JACKSON BROWNE
ALBUMS: Jackson Browne (Saturate Before Using) (1509); For Everyman (1763); Late for the Sky (333); The Pretender (724); Running on Empty (736)*.
SONGS: Late for the Sky (1659); Running on Empty (1639)*.

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

31. LYNYRD SKYNYRD
ALBUMS: (Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd) (576); Second Helping (626), Street Survivors (1272)*.
SONGS: Free Bird (258); Sweet Home Alabama (418).

32. ELVIS COSTELLO
ALBUM: My Aim Is True (89)*.
SONGS: Less Than Zero (2040)*; Alison (332)*; Watching the Detectives (521)*.

33. THE BEE GEES
ALBUM: Saturday Night Fever (121)*.
SONGS: To Love Somebody (1718); Jive Talkin’ (2521); Stayin’ Alive (98)*; Night Fever (2065)*.

34. 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).

35. 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).

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

37. IGGY POP
ALBUMS: The Idiot (600)*; Lust for Life (210)*.
SONGS: The Passenger (1199)*; Lust for Life (339)*.

38. 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).

39. 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).

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

41. 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).

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

43. 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).

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

45. 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).

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

47. 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).

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

49. 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).

50. 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).

51. ABBA
ALBUM: Arrival (629).
SONGS: Waterloo (697); S.O.S. (1346); Dancing Queen (116); Knowing Me Knowing You (1335).

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

53. 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).

54. 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).

55. 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).

56. 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).

57. ISAAC HAYES
ALBUMS: Hot Buttered Soul (358); Shaft (1152).
SONGS: Walk On By (2664); By the Time I Get to Phoenix (1975); Theme from Shaft (247).

58. THE RONETTES
ALBUM: Presenting the Fabulous Ronettes featuring Veronica (1414).
SONGS: Be My Baby (13); Baby, I Love You (2524); Walking in the Rain (2576).

59. THE ISLEY BROTHERS
ALBUM: 3+3 (903).
SONGS: Shout (Parts 1 and 2) (237); Twist and Shout (1038); This Old Heart of Mine (1502); It’s Your Thing (999); That Lady (1302).

60. GENESIS
ALBUMS: Foxtrot (895); Selling England by the Pound (707); The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway (406); A Trick of the Tail (2791).
SONG: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) (2414).

61. THE DRIFTERS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Money Honey (972); There Goes My Baby (277); Save the Last Dance for Me (694); Up on the Roof (896); On Broadway (938); Under the Boardwalk (1512).

62. MOTT THE HOOPLE
ALBUMS: All the Young Dudes (981); Mott (526); The Hoople (2818).
SONG: All the Young Dudes (203).

63. PAUL McCARTNEY
ALBUMS: Ram (1388); Band on the Run (386).
SONGS: Maybe I’m Amazed (840); Live and Let Die (1643); Band on the Run (2972); Jet (963).

64. YES
ALBUMS: The Yes Album (873); Fragile (544); Close to the Edge (615); Tales from Topographic Dreams (2769).
SONGS: none.

65. LITTLE FEAT
ALBUMS: Sailin’ Shoes (466); Dixie Chicken (517); Feats Don’t Fail Me Now (1313).
SONGS: Willin’ (2547); Dixie Chicken (2974).

66. B.B. KING
ALBUMS: Singin’ the Blues (2412); Live at the Regal (248); Live in Cook County Jail (1959).
SONGS: Sweet Little Angel (2833); The Thrill Is Gone (398).

67. JONATHAN RICHMAN/THE MODERN LOVERS
ALBUMS: The Modern Lovers (203); Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers (2792).
SONG: Roadrunner (248).

68. PAUL SIMON
ALBUMS: Paul Simon (664); There Goes Rhymin’ Simon (818); Still Crazy After All These Years (867).
SONGS: Kodachrome (2610); 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (1381).

69. THE ANIMALS
ALBUMS: The Animals (2909); Animalisms (2330); Animalism (2549).
SONGS: House of the Rising Sun (61); Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood (1380); We Gotta Get Out of This Place (846).

70. ERIC DOLPHY
ALBUMS: Outward Bound (1961); Out There (1792); Live at the Five Spot, Vol. 1 (1780); Far Cry (2438); Iron Man (2308); Out to Lunch (287).
SONGS: none.

71. THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Little Latin Lupe Lu (2713); You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin’ (24); Unchained Melody (827).

72. THE O’JAYS
ALBUMS: Back Stabbers (708); Ship Ahoy (1822).
SONGS: Back Stabbers (519); Love Train (573); I Love Music (1628).

73. MARTHA AND THE VANDELLAS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Heatwave (665); Dancing in the Street (58); Nowhere to Run (1063).

74. KISS
ALBUMS: Alive! (572); Destroyer (751).
SONGS: Rock ‘n’ Roll All Nite (805); Detroit Rock City (1431).

75. PATSY CLINE
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Walkin’ After Midnight (1452); Crazy (147); I Fall to Pieces (424); She’s Got You (1706); Sweet Dreams (Of You) (1894).

76. DION
ALBUM: Born to Be with You (1868).
SONGS: I Wonder Why (833); A Teenager in Love (762); Runaround Sue (315); The Wanderer (1460); Abraham, Martin and John (1684).

77. THE KINGSMEN
ALBUMS: none.
SONG: Louie Louie (11).

78. TALKING HEADS
ALBUM: Talking Heads 77 (283)*.
SONG: Psycho Killer (226)*.

79. ART BLAKEY
ALBUMS: A Night at Birdland Vol. 1 (1203); A Night at Birdland Vol. 2 (2254); A Night in Tunisia (1789); Moanin’ (745); Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk (1475); Free for All (2070).
SONGS: none.

80. THE CRYSTALS
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: He’s a Rebel (325); He’s Sure the Boy I Love (2637); Da Doo Ron Ron (163); Then He Kissed Me (1026).

81. JAMES TAYLOR
ALBUM: Sweet Baby James (351); JT (2743)*.
SONGS: Fire and Rain (269); You’ve Got a Friend (2363).

82. THE FLYING BURRITO BROTHERS
ALBUM: The Gilded Palace of Sin (152).
SONGS: Sin City (1278); Hot Burrito #1 (2093).

83. THE JACKSON 5
ALBUMS: Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5 (2365); ABC (2931).
SONGS: I Want You Back (32); The Love You Save (2036); I’ll Be There (2306).

84. PROCOL HARUM
ALBUMS: Procol Harum (1632); A Salty Dog (996).
SONG: A Whiter Shade of Pale (117).

85. CHARLIE PARKER
ALBUMS: Charlie Parker with Strings (1813); Bird & Diz (1548); Jazz at Massey Hall (494).
SONGS: Koko (821); Ornithology (2555).

86. JETHRO TULL
ALBUMS: Stand Up (1562); Aqualung (450); Thick as a Brick (1553).
SONG: Aqualung (1111).

87. SERGE GAINSBOURG
ALBUM: Histoire de Melody Nelson (555).
SONGS: Bonnie & Clyde (1106); Je T’Aime Moi Non Plus (287).

88. ROBERT WYATT
ALBUM: Rock Bottom (231).
SONG: Sea Song (557).

89. GEORGE HARRISON
ALBUMS: All Things Must Pass (306); The Concert for Bangladesh (1942).
SONG: My Sweet Lord (650).

90. JOHN CALE
ALBUMS: The Academy in Peril (2538); Paris 1919 (370); Fear (1513); Slow Dazzle (2567).
SONG: Andalucia (1245).

91. JACKIE WILSON
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Reet Petite (The Finest Girl You Ever Want to Meet) (543); Lonely Teardrops (501); (Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher (272).

92. BUD POWELL
ALBUMS: The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 1 (761); Jazz at Massey Hall (494); The Amazing Bud Powell Vol. 2 (2882).
SONG: Un Poco Loco (1688).

93. BEN E. KING
ALBUMS: none.
SONGS: Spanish Harlem (621); Stand by Me (67).

94. THE SMALL FACES
ALBUMS: There Are But Four Small Faces (2630); Ogdens’ Nut Gone Flake (363).
SONGS: All or Nothing (2845); Itchycoo Park (757); Tin Soldier (2727); Lazy Sunday (1842).

95. THEM
ALBUM: (The Angry Young) Them (760).
SONG: Gloria (115).

96. WOODY GUTHRIE
ALBUM: Dust Bowl Ballads (583).
SONG: This Land Is Your Land (165).

97. THE MAMAS AND THE PAPAS
ALBUM: If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears (961).
SONG: California Dreamin’ (96).

98. SUICIDE
ALBUM: Suicide (225)*.
SONG: Frankie Teardrop (990)*.

99. SAM AND DAVE
ALBUM: Soul Men (1753).
SONGS: Hold On, I’m Coming (764); When Something Is Wrong With My Baby (2386); Soul Man (354).

100. BILL HALEY AND HIS COMETS
ALBUM: Rock Around the Clock (1969).
SONG: (We’re Gonna) Rock Around the Clock (46).

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MOVING UP: Sex Pistols, Steely Dan, Fleetwood Mac, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Randy Newman, Queen, Jackson Browne, Lynyrd Skynyrd.

NEW TO THE LIST: Television, The Clash, Elvis Costello, The Bee Gees, Talking Heads, Suicide.

FELL OFF THE LIST: The Impressions, Blue Öyster Cult, The Lovin’ Spoonful, Dave Brubeck.

BUBBLING UNDER: Eric Clapton, Wilson Pickett, Wayne Shorter, Booker T. & the MG’s, Boston.