I have the LP

I have the LP also and the movie on VHS. I think the music is incorporated well into the plot -- "FM" is about a radio station, after all. Normally when a movie has a good soundtrack, the music overpowers the film, like in the two examples you listed. But in "FM," they work perfectly together. Plus the movie has live segments with Jimmy Buffett and Linda Ronstadt. It's kind of a corny plot -- an independent radio station battling the corporate goliath -- but it seemed more genuine in 1978. I gave it 8 out of 10 stars.

I bought the LP in the Mall, right after seeing the movie.
I had never done that before or since!
I do remember though, one song, I can't remember which one, was defective, the pressing, and I had to drive all the way back to the mall and get them to replace it, I was young then and didn't even know if they would, they even let me listen to the next album in the store to make sure they were all not bad pressings.
The Record Bar.
I still have this album, but the only side I usually play is Life's been good, Joe Walsh.
I also liked FM by Steely Dan, but play it on their best of album (Trivia, that was never on one of their "concept LP's)

Yeah, it's a great movie. It's the movie that inspired me as a teenager to get into radio. I can't tell you how many DJs I've talked to who said they got into radio because of that movie.

Okay the movie is nothing to write home about but the soundtrack is just great. I saw the movie ona double bill with Seargant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club band in 1979. Guess which film of the two is the most forgettable? I mean Peter Frampton as an actor? C'mon! I liked FM anyway. I loved the music.

If you are not busy being born, you are busy dying.

Oh yea, and don't forget about the poster...QSKY and a paper airplane. Not to mention the strange edited down version of Night Moves with the bridge missing.

I still have it on 8-track. KACUNK!

"Holy Bananas, it's a girl's leg!"

I'm listening to the album right now. The original vinyl LP, no less!