1976 was a watershed year: the music industry was revitalized by the emergence of "independent" labels and the music scene was revitalized by the emergence of new genres. The two phenomena fed into each other and spiraled out of control. In a matter of months, a veritable revolution changed the way music was produced, played and heard. The old rock stars were forgotten and new rock stars began setting new trends. As far as white popular music goes, it was a sort of Renaissance after a few years of burgeoisie icons (think: Bowie), conservative sounds (country-rock, southern boogie) and exploitation of minorities (funk, reggae).
During the 1970s alternative rock had survived in niches that were highly intellectual, namely German rock and progressive-rock (particularly the Canterbury school). They were all but invisible to the masses.
1976 was the year when most of those barriers (between "low" and "high" rock, between "intellectual" and "populist", between "conservative" and "progressive", between "star" and "anti-star") became not only obsolete but meaningless. Something similar had happened in 1966, when rock music as we know it was born through the revolutionary records of Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Doors, Velvet Underground, etc. But in 1976 rock music had a powerful ally: the record industry itself, that an army of amateurish entrepreneurs rescued from the virtual monopoly of the "major" labels.
The creative explosion was indeed very similar to the exuberance of the mid Sixties. However, the mood was completely different. The Sixties were, ultimately, an optimistic age. The young generation thought it could change (and own) the world. In 1976, only the most utopian of teenagers could fathom an ideal world in which peace and honesty triumph.
Captain Beefheart: Trout Mask Replica (1969)
Bob Dylan: Blonde On Blonde (1966)
Captain Beefheart: Safe As Milk (1967)
Doors: The Doors (1967):
Frank Zappa: Uncle Meat (1969)
Red Crayola: Parable Of Arable Land (1967)
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks (1968)
Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Velvet Underground: White Light White Heat (1967)
Jefferson Airplane: Volunteers (1969)
King Crimson: In The Court Of The Crimson King (1969)
Leonard Cohen: Songs Of Leonard Cohen (1967)
MC5: Kick Out The Jams (1969)
Pink Floyd: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (1967)
Band: II (1969)
Bob Dylan: Highway 61 Revisited (1965)
Colosseum: Valentyne Suite (1969)
David Peel: Have A Marijuana (1968)
Deviants: Ptooff (1967)
Doors: Strange Days (1967)
Family: Music In A Doll's House (1968)
Frank Zappa: Freak Out (1966)
Frank Zappa: Absolutely Free (1967)
Frank Zappa: We're Only In It For The Money (1967)
Grateful Dead: Anthem Of The Sun (1968)
Grateful Dead: Live Dead (1969)
Holger Czukay: Canaxis 5 (1969)
Holy Modal Rounders: Indian War Whoop (1967)
Jefferson Airplane: After Bathing At Baxter's (1967)
Jimi Hendrix: Are You Experienced? (1967)
Jimi Hendrix: Electric Ladyland (1968)
Kaleidoscope: Beacon From Mars (1968)
Love: Da Capo (1967)
Neil Young: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
Nico: Marble Index (1968)
Pearls Before Swine: Balaklava (1968)
Pink Floyd: A Saucerful Of Secrets (1968)
Robbie Basho: Venus In Cancer (1969)
Sandy Bull: Fantasia For Guitar & Banjo (1963)
Stooges: Stooges (1969)
Tim Buckley: Happy Sad (1969)
United States Of America: United States of America (1968)
Who: Tommy (1969)
13th Floor Elevators: The Psychedelic Sounds Of (1966)
Amon Duul: Phallus Dei (1969)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Doughnut In Granny's Greenhouse (1968)
Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band: Gorilla (1967)
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Green River (1969)
Deviants: Disposable (1968)
Eric Burdon: Twain Shall Meet (1968)
Family: Family Entertainment (1969)
Grateful Dead: Aoxomoxoa (1969)
Incredible String Band: Hangman's Beautiful Daughter (1968)
Kevin Ayers: Joy Of A Toy (1969)
Laura Nyro: Eli And The 13th Confession (1968)
Leo Kottke: 6 & 12 String Guitar (1969)
Nick Drake: Five Leaves Left (1969)
Pink Floyd: Ummagumma (1969)
Robbie Basho: Falconer's Arm (1967)
Robbie Basho: The Grail And the Lotus (1966)
Rolling Stones: Between The Buttons (1967)
Silver Apples: Silver Apples (1968)
Spirit: The Family That Plays Together (1969)
Third Ear Band: Alchemy (1969)
Tim Buckley: Blue Afternoon (1969)
Tim Buckley: Goodbye And Hello (1967)
Townes Van Zandt: Our Mother The Mountain (1969)
Traffic: Mr Fantasy (1967)
VanDyke Parks: Song Cycle (1968
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