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The Album Years

#24 (1977 Part 1A) Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Stranglers & more

The Album Years

W!ZARD Studios

Music

4.9859 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

The Album Years returns with Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness discussing the music of 1977 across 8 full-length episodes! 1977 was a pivotal year in music, with the rise of punk and disco shaking up the industry. Artists who were aware of the changing musical landscape were able to connect with the zeitgeist, while others remained oblivious and continued to create in their own style. Episodes covering artists & releases from 1977 will be released weekly, so be sure to follow the podcast on your platform of choice every time a new episode drops! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:55.2

you and i normally indeed yeah discuss stroke argue about the music that we know it could get very

1:02.8

physical it could get for the first time it could get physical now the interesting thing is of

1:07.4

course we started this as kind of a covid project didn't we we? So it was by necessity, it was all done via Zoom, remotely speaking.

1:16.6

But we thought now that we can, you know, now that we can interact, we should actually try and do this face-to-face.

1:22.6

So let's see.

1:23.6

Maybe the magic won't be there.

1:25.6

As I say, this is kind of how me and Tim usually discuss music, you know, face to face, trying to fob off, you know, mid-period Billy Joel albums onto each other, you know, in swaps and all that stuff.

1:39.3

Not that there's anything wrong with mid-period Billy Joel.

1:41.2

Not at all.

1:42.1

We're just discussing off Mike.

1:43.3

What a classic album he made this year because we're talking about 1977, right? This is your choice, Tim. But

1:49.3

it's a year we've been planning to talk about for a long time, isn't it? Because it's such a kind of,

1:54.1

seismic. Pivotal. Pivotal. As Van Morrison said, a period of transition. And that was one of Vans, that was Vans album of this year, was it?

2:03.3

Which ironically is one of the few I've not heard very much.

2:06.1

Also, I'm afraid I haven't.

2:07.9

So nice to see that I'm not the only one that hasn't done my research this year.

2:12.2

But so let's let's talk about 1977.

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