The Best Rock Albums of 1976

Today's post in 50 Years of Music, a section of my blog devoted to the best rock albums of the past fifty years, will include the best albums of 1976. I have covered 10 years of music in other posts (1965-1975), which can be found by typing the year into the search bar at the top of my blog. Each post in 50 Years of Music is updated frequently, with new albums recommended by readers added to the posts. What's your favorite?

• AC/DC- High Voltage (U.S. Release); Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
• Boston- Boston
• Peter Frampton- Frampton Comes Alive!
• Queen- A Day at the Races
• Status Quo- Blue For You
• Ted Nugent- Free-For-All
• The Rolling Stones- Black and Blue
• Kiss- Destroyer; Rock and Roll Over
• Foghat- Night Shift
• Blue Öyster Cult- Agents of Fortune
• Eagles- Hotel California
• Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers- Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
• Kansas- Leftoverture
• Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band- 'Live' Bullet
• Steve Miller Band- Fly Like an Eagle
• Electric Light Orchestra- A New World Record
• Ringo Starr- Ringo's Rotogravure 
• Alice Cooper- Alice Cooper Goes to Hell
• George Harrison- Thirty Three and 1/3 
• Todd Rundgren- Faithful 
• Joe Walsh- You Can't Argue with a Sick Mind

Rush- 2112 (1976)

2112 is the fourth studio album by the Canadian rock trio Rush released on April 1, 1976. The album has been certified 3x Platinum in the United States, 2x Platinum in Canada, and Silver (60,000 units sold) in the United Kingdom. The album charted at #61 on the U.S. Billboard Pop Albums Chart.

2112 included 3 singles upon its release-- " The Twilight Zone," "2112 Overture/The Temples of Syrinx," and "A Passage to Bangkok." The album is most noted for the song "2112," a 20-minute composition composed of seven different parts with music written by singer/bassist Geddy Lee and guitarist Alex Lifeson, and lyrics written by drummer Neil Peart. The song describes the tale of a man who finds a guitar and presents it to the "Priests of the Temples of Syrinx," who have become the leaders of the world and control every aspect of humans lives. The Priests destroy the guitar and tell the man that the world does not need music and the "old ways of man."

2112 is often regarded as one of the most influential albums in the development of the progressive rock genre. Of course other bands i.e. Yes had been making progressive rock albums before the mid '70s, but Rush greatly helped to bring a much larger fan-base to the genre with 2112 and other releases, such as the 1981 album Moving Pictures.

For a guitar cover by me of a song released in 1976, just click on the link to a YouTube video: KISS - Calling Dr. Love Cover

via (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtqZXUJ1flA) 

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