Tusk
Artist: Fleetwood Mac
Community Score: 9.60

Where Rumours achieved greatness through turmoil, its double-album follow-up, Tusk, is the sound of a band imploding. Lindsey Buckingham began to assume control of Fleetwood Mac during the Rumours sessions, but he dominates Tusk, turning the album into a paranoid roller coaster ride where sweet soft rock is offset by feverish cocaine fantasies.... Read More

Upp
Artist: Upp
Tourists
Artist: The Tourists

The Tourists were a typical British post-punk power-pop group by the evidence of their U.K.-only debut album, The Tourists. Chiming guitars, quickstep martial beats (sometimes borrowing from Bo Diddley or the Ronettes), and the odd rude or belligerent remark ("Nothing means nothing to me," snarled in the first single, "Blind Among the Flowers")... Read More

Night Out
Artist: Ellen Foley
Community Score: 9.67

The grand opener "We Belong to the Night" is breathtaking and bombastic bliss; a creamy confection of debonair dreams that could only come from the late '70s and the glitter-gutter combo of Mick Ronson and Ian Hunter. The princely poppers provide the perfect atmosphere for Foley's powerful theatrics on her inaugural flight. The second single,... Read More

La Booga Rooga
Artist: Andy Fairweather Low

Andy Fairweather Low's most successful record, this continues his eclectic approach, starting off with the steel guitar-drenched cover "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" and also featuring the cocktail lounge pop of "Champagne Melody" and the funky title track (a U.K. hit for the Surprise Sisters), plus his biggest solo single, the whimsical "Wide... Read More

Sailin'
Artist: Kim Carnes
Absolutely
Artist: Boxer
Spark in the Dark
Artist: Alpha Band

Despite its obvious reference to "the light of the triune God," to which "this music is humbly offered," Spark in the Dark may be the most accessible of the Alpha Band's three recordings. At the same time, it lacks the consistency and flow of their excellent, yet offbeat debut. "East of East" is an auspicious opener, but a couple of near-misses... Read More

Book of Dreams
Artist: Steve Miller Band
Community Score: 6.83

Unless the Black Crowes dress up in NASA drag or Garth Brooks takes his glam-industrial doppelgänger Chris Gaines into Mothership terrain, Steve Miller should retain his monopoly on the "Space Cowboy" moniker for many years to come. And it is here, on this 1977 blockbuster, that Miller shored up his cosmic persona: from the winged horse on the... Read More

Setting Sons
Artist: The Jam
Community Score: 7.50

The Jam's Setting Sons was originally planned as a concept album about three childhood friends who, upon meeting after some time apart, discover the different directions in which they've grown apart. Only about half of the songs ended up following the concept due to a rushed recording schedule, but where they do, Paul Weller vividly depicts... Read More

Greatest Hits - PHILIPS
Artist: The Walker Brothers