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    Here they are. Hope they bring back some good memories for you.

    10 Great Songs From 1 Great Year:

    The year....1976!

    1. Rolling Stones - Hot Stuff!
    2. Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
    3. Spinners - Rubber Band Man***
    4. Gary Wright - Dream Weaver
    5. Scott Beach - Religion & Politics
    6. ABBA - I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do
    7. Boz Scaggs - Love Me Tomorrow
    8. Genesis - Robbery, Assault & Battery
    9. Rose Royce - Car Wash
    10. Steely Dan - The Fez

    ***BEST OF SET!!

    Artist: Spinners
    Album Title: Happiness Is Being With the Spinners
    Date of Release: 1976
    Genre: Rock

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    Notes from All Music Guide:
    As 1975's classic Pick of the Litter seemed to garner its strength from melancholy and faultless arrangements, this 1976 studio follow-up often wallows in style over substance and platitudes. The pretty but vacuous "Now That We're Together" is all over the road and has inane lyrics like, "You're such a great crowd/Why don't you sing loud." Other tracks "You're All I Need in Life" and "If You Can't Be in Love" all put into practice arrangements and themes that were better executed on New and Improved. Although things get a little mushy here, producer Thom Bell and the Spinners do have their moments here. The highly danceable and infectious "Rubberband Man" breaks out of this effort's stodgy surroundings and gave lead singer Philippe Wynne plenty of room for his skilled scatting and effortless riffing. The best non-hit on this effort is "Toni My Love." The song is jazzy rumination on a mature relationship and it's the only track that's skilled enough to stand tall on Pick of the Litter. Despite the few high points, Happiness Is Being With the Spinners winds down before any of its predecessors did. The best of the last tracks, "The Clown" is a little overwrought and Philippe Wynne sounds like his hands are tied. Happiness Is Being With the Spinners is one of the first Bell efforts to be partially recorded at Kaye Smith Studios in Seattle, WA, and was mastered at A&M Studios rather than Philadelphia's Sigma Sound. That fact arguably changed the winning formula and for the most part this falls short of the work that came before it. — Jason Elias

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    Here they are. Hope they bring back some good memories for you.

    10 Great Songs From 1 Great Year:

    The year....1977!

    1. ELO - Do Ya
    2. The Doobie Brothers - Livin' On the Fault Line
    3. Santana - Let the Children Play
    4. Q - Dancin' Man
    5. CSN - Fair Game
    6. Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get it Right
    7. Grateful Dead - Estimated Prophet***
    8. Meco - Star Wars Theme/Cantina Band
    9. Steely Dan - Black Cow***
    10. Stephen Bishop - Save it For a Rainy Day

    ***BEST OF SET!! (2-Way Tie)

    Artist: The Grateful Dead
    Album Title: Terrapin Station
    Date of Release: Jul 27, 1977
    Genre: Rock

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    Notes from All Music Guide:
    It is generally agreed that the Grateful Dead's late-'70s studio releases left even the most enthusiastic Deadheads longing for something more. The theory being that the band's momentum is best experienced during the ebb and flow of a live performance rather than the somewhat clinical tedium of a recording studio. Terrapin Station marks several milestones for the Grateful Dead: It was the band's first studio album in two years, as well as their return to a major label — in this case Arista Records. More significant however is the use of an outside (read: non-Grateful Dead) producer. This was only the second time in which the Dead did not seize complete control. And the first time in a decade that they would relinquish their production reigns. They chose Keith Olson — a former member of the '60s garage rock band Music Machine — whose production roster also included other Bay Area notables including the Sons of Champlin and Santana. Musically, Terrapin Station offers a few choice glimpses of the band doing what they do best. While the most prominent example is the album's extended title suite, there are a few others such as the cover of the Rev. Gary Davis gospel-blues "Samson and Delilah" and a resurrection of the Martha & the Vandellas hit "Dancin' in the Streets." The latter tune was originally performed by the Dead in their mid-'60s repertoire. What was once a garage rock and psychedelic reading has evolved into a 4/4-time, brass-influenced disco arrangement. Luckily, their extended versions during concert performances were infinitely more tolerable. Parties interested in examining the contrast between the studio and live performance versions of Terrapin Station material should seek the archival concert release Dick's Picks, Vol. 3. This two-disc set not only captures the band exactly two months and two days prior to the release of Terrapin Station, it also features stellar performances of every track from the album sans the up-tempo rocker "Passenger." — Lindsay Planer

    Artist: Steely Dan
    Album Title: Aja
    Date of Release: 1977
    Genre: Rock

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    Notes from All Music Guide:
    Steely Dan hadn't been a real working band since Pretzel Logic, but with Aja, Becker and Fagen's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock, Aja has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous Steely Dan records. Instead, it's a measured and textured album, filled with subtle melodies and accomplished, jazzy solos that blend easily into the lush instrumental backdrops. But Aja isn't just about texture, since Becker and Fagen's songs are their most complex and musically rich set of songs — even the simplest song, the sunny pop of "Peg," has layers of jazzy vocal harmonies. In fact, Steely Dan ignores rock on Aja, preferring to fuse cool jazz, blues, and pop together in a seamless, seductive fashion. It's complex music delivered with ease, and although the duo's preoccupation with clean sound and self-consciously sophisticated arrangements would eventually lead to a dead end, Aja is a shining example of jazz-rock at its finest. — Stephen Thomas Erlewine

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    nice post crumbcat

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