Lily Allen mounts a return with her personally charged album, West End Girl, though the story within is let down by instrumentally underwhelming choices.
Ozzy Osbourne improves on his Blizzard of Oz sound with some ballads across Diary of a Madman, which survives thanks to the capable work of Randy Rhoads.
Jethro Tull's Aqualung still, inevitably, holds up today, but it's through the commentaries Ian Anderson makes and the complimentary flute sound that it stays that way.
The Doobie Brothers' self-titled debut is a cool and still fun piece of work from a band whose genre experimentation defines them just as much as country rock does.
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