One of the last big immaculately produced west coast pop/country albums, before punk started tearing everything down.
It's like the Eagles knew it was the end of an era too, with tales of burnt out celebrity and wasted lives... but it all sounds so pretty.
I'd say that country disappeared from the mainstream a bit, but there was plenty of slick west coast pop still around - Fleetwood Mac's Rumours was obviously huge in 1977, and stuff like The Doobie Brother's 'Minute By Minute', James Taylor's 'JT', and Crosby Stills, and Nash's 'CSN' were big sellers in 1977 and 1978.
ReplyDeleteI would credit disco as a much bigger force in the US mainstream than punk. Some new-wave like Blondie slipped into the mainstream but I don't think it had a big effect on what was big. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_200_number-one_albums_of_1979