The Best Rock Albums of 1979

Selected by piero scaruffi
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1979


    9/10
  1. Pop Group: Y (Radar)
    8.5/10
  2. Chrome: Half Machine Lips Move (Siren)
    8/10
  3. Pere Ubu: New Picnic Time (Chrysalis)
  4. Public Image Ltd: Second Edition (Virgin)
  5. Germs: GI (Slash)
  6. Contortions: Buy (Ze)
  7. This Heat: This Heat (Piano)
  8. Rickie Lee Jones: Rickie Lee Jones (Warner)
  9. Residents: Eskimo (Ralph)
  10. Wire: 154 (Harvest)
  11. Mnemonists: Mnemonist Orchestra (1979)
    7.5/10
  12. Talking Heads: Fear Of Music (Sire)
  13. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures (Factory)
  14. Stiff Little Fingers: Inflammable Material (RoughTrade)
  15. Art Bears: Winter Songs (Re)
  16. Tom Petty: Damn The Torpedoes (Backstreet)
  17. Red Crayola: Soldier Talk (Radar)
  18. Neil Young: Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise)
    7/10
  19. B52's: I (Island)
  20. Robert Fripp: Exposure (Polydor)
  21. Swell Maps: Trip To Marineville (Rough Trade)
  22. Zoogz Rift: Idiots On The Miniature Golf Course (Snout)
  23. Gang Of Four: Entertainment (Warner)
  24. Raincoats: Raincoats (Rough Trade)
  25. Anthony Moore: Flying Doesn't Help (Quango)
  26. James White: Off White (Ze)
  27. Univers Zero: Heresie (Cryonic)
  28. Art Bears: Hopes And Fears (Re)
  29. Van Morrison: Into The Music (Mercury)
  30. John Hiatt: Slug Line (MCA)
  31. Clash: London Calling (CBS)
  32. Cure: Three Imaginary Boys (Fiction)
  33. Crass: Stations Of The Crass (Crass)
  34. Shoes: Present Tense (Elektra)
  35. Dickies: Dawn (A&M)
  36. Heldon: Stand By (Egg)
  37. Cluster: Grosses Wasser (Sky)
  38. Frank Zappa: Orchestral Favourites (Discreet)
  39. Throbbing Gristle: 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Industrial)
  40. Fall: Live At Witch Trials (StepForward)
  41. Marianne Faithful: Broken English (Island)
  42. Elvis Costello: Armed Forces (Radar)
  43. Richard Lloyd: Alchemy (Elektra)
  44. Roches: Roches (Warner)
  45. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk (Warner)
  46. Supertramp: Breakfast In America (Island)
  47. Roy Loney: Out After Dark (Solid Smoke)
  48. Terry Allen: Lubbock (Fate)
  49. Deuter: Ecstasy (Kuckuck)
  50. Mekons: The Quality Of Mercy (Virgin)
  51. Yellow Magic Orchestra: Solid State Survivor (Alfa)
  52. Joe Jackson: Look Sharp (A&M)
  53. Graham Parker: Squeezing Out Sparks (Mercury)
  54. Emerald Web: Dragon Wings And Wizard Tales
  55. Flying Lizards: The Flying Lizards
  56. Idio Savant: Shakers In A Tantrum Landscape (1979)
  57. Tom Verlaine: Tom Verlaine

Playlist
  1. ... In preparation
  2. Chrome: Zombie Warfare
  3. Pop Group: Thief of Fire
  4. Buggles: Video Killed the Radio Star
  5. Fleetwood Mac: Tusk
  6. This Heat: The Fall of Saigon
  7. Fleshtones: American Beat
  8. Clash: London Calling
  9. Stiff Little Fingers: Suspect Device
  10. Suicide: Dream Baby Dream
  11. Dead Kennedys: California uber alles
  12. B-52's: Rock Lobster
  13. James White: Off Black
  14. Contortions: Contort Yourself
  15. Rickie Lee Jones: Chuck E.'s in Love
  16. Pere Ubu: Have Shoes Will Walk
  17. Police: Message in a Bottle
  18. Pere Ubu: Jehovah's Kingdom Comes!
  19. Pink Floyd: Another Brick in the Wall
  20. Pop Group: We Are Time
  21. Stiff Little Fingers: Alternative Ulster
  22. Swell Maps: Full Moon in My Pocket
  23. Supertramp: The Logical Song
  24. Cheap Trick: I Want You to Want Me
  25. Knack: My Sharona
Extended tracks
  1. ... In preparation
  2. Public Image Ltd: Albatross
  3. Frank Zappa: Strictly Genteel
  4. Meredith Monk: Dolmen Music

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