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Review by Mick Farren, NME, 29 January 1977

THE MAIN thing that's wrong with this album can be summed up in two words. They are Kim Fowley. Yes that's right. Fowley appears to ...

Steve Harley: Love's a Prima Donna

Review by Lester Bangs, Circus, 31 January 1977

YOU'VE GOTTA FEEL sorry for Steve Harley. Aside from not having as much talent as Arthur Brown, he's really gotten the stult end of the ...

David Bowie: Low

Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, February 1977

WELL, THIS IS probably the strangest thing Bowie has ever recorded. First listen was a real shock...and I've come to expect surprises from this bloke. ...

David Bowie: Low

Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, February 1977

THE NEW BOWIE album doesn't make much sense. While practically everybody else in rock is striving for cleaner and more accurately recorded sound, Bowie's Low ...

Iggy Pop: The Idiot

Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977

IT'S TWO O'CLOCK in the morning and I'm playing The Idiot for the fifth time running. Can't stop, it's so compelling...but very VERY strange. ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: IG and Super IG — Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA); The Stooges: The Stooges/Fun House (Elektra)

Review by Max Bell, Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 2 April 1977

Igs past and present collide in sonic fury as NICK KENT & MAX BELL once more grasp for the identity of the enIGma, quest for ...

Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA APL1-2275)

Review by John Swenson, Rolling Stone, 5 May 1977

IGGY POP has always been the greatest rock comedian. As leader and frontispiece for that most extreme wing of rock nihilism represented by the Stooges, ...

Elliott Murphy: Just A Story From America (Columbia)

Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, June 1977

WHEN I FIRST put this record on the turntable, it spun and revolved just like any other vinyl tostada. The needle, just like always, ate ...

Iggy Pop: The Idiot (RCA)

Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, June 1977

LET'S SEE, 1977 minus 1973 is four; it's been four whole years since Iggy and the Stooges' milestone Raw Power was released. Four years can ...

Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers: Rock'n'Roll With The Modern Lovers (Beserkley PZ-34800, Import) ***** and then some

Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 25 June 1977

A sense of wonder ...

Kim Fowley: International Heroes

Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 30 July 1977

I REALISE it's getting to be an obsession, but what can I do? Even Viv Goldman, between bouts of trying to convince me to do ...

Dwight Twilley: Twilley Don’t Mind

Review by Bud Scoppa, Phonograph Record, August 1977

EVERYBODY KNOWS that people who write record reviews are supposed to complain every so often about what a crummy year it’s been for music, and ...

The Dictators: Manifest Destiny

Review by Gene Sculatti, Crawdaddy!, August 1977

IT WOULDN'T BE hard. One could assemble a tidy list of contemporary Major Acts whose initial fate it was to be cast as "critics' favorites": ...

Iggy Pop: Lust For Life (RCA AFLI 2488)*****

Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 20 August 1977

"Yeah I'm through with sleeping on the sidewalk,no more beating my brains,no more beating my brains,with liquor and drugs,with liquor and drugs,well I'm just a modern ...

Iggy Pop: Lust For Life (RCA)

Review by Max Bell, NME, 27 August 1977

GOG AND MAGOG?! No, Dog And Maindog. A Pure Pop Person Pleads Sanity. MAX BELL Was At The Hearings. ...

Iggy Pop: Lust for Life

Review by Kris Needs, ZigZag, September 1977

WHILE countless young groups do weak imitations of the Ig of five years ago Jimmy Osterburg himself moves on at a rate of revitalised progress ...

David Bowie, Stranglers, The: David Bowie: 'Heroes' (RCA); The Stranglers: 'No More Heroes' (United Artists UP 36300)

Review by Rosalind Russell, Tim Lott, Record Mirror, 17 September 1977

He says there are... ...

Nico: The Marble Index

Review by Jon Savage, Sounds, 24 September 1977

"FROZEN WARNINGS close to mine, close to the frozen borderline......" ...