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Which is your fave album of 1979? Maybe this list of the 43 releases from 1979 in my discotheque can help:

Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast
Chilton, Alex - Like Flies on Sherbert
Clapton, Eric - Just One Night
Codona - 1
Cohen, Leonhard - Field Commander Cohen
Cure - Boys Don't Cry
Dire Straits - Communiqué
Dr. Feelgood - Let It Roll
Dylan, Bob - Slow Train Coming
Faithfull, Marianne - Broken English
Gainsbourg, Serge - Aux Armes et Caetera
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Garbarek, Jan - Photo With Blue Sky
Garbarek;Haden;Gismonti - Folk Songs
Gomm, Ian - Summer Holiday
Hooker, John Lee - Sittin' Here Thinkin'
Jarrett, Keith - Nude Ants
Jarrett, Keith &Garbarek - Personal Mountains
Jones, Rickie Lee - s/t
Joy Division - Les Bains Douches, 18.12.79
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Jupp, Mickey - Long Distance Romancer
Madness - One Step Beyond
Mingus, Charles - Passions of a Man
Mitchell, Joni - Mingus
Monk, Meredith - Dolmen Music
Newman, Randy - "Live in Köln, 8.11.79"
Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Ponty, Jean-Luc - Live
Pop Group - Y
Reed, Lou - The Bells
Slits - Cut
Stranglers - The Raven
Towner, Ralph - Old Friends, New Friends (partly)
Wire - 154
Wire - On Returning
XTC - Drums and Wires
Young, Neil - Rust Never Sleeps
Zappa, Frank - Joe's Garage Act 1
Zappa, Frank - Sheik Yerbouti

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Fuck you for making me choose. This is like the end of the Good Son, only without Maculy being really evil.

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

*hums a certain song* Er, wait, what?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Rust Never Sleeps

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I know the best album from 1979 which I don't own. Neil Young's Live Rust. Somehow I think it his best. And I have almost every thing he ever put out except that stunning live album. I also know my fave of the ones I got. But I won't tell you yet.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Right now, Colossal Youth by Young Marble Giants.

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Muppet Movie soundtrack.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Monday, 17 January 2005 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Remark of a pedant: Isn't Colossal Youth from 1980?

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The first B-52s record.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Colossal Youth is from 1979 and the Test Card EP is from 1980.. maybe I'm wrong?

― donut christ (donut), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:06 (twenty-one years ago)

arrrrrggggghhh.... on this list, probably "Entertainment!" although Singles Going Steady and Unknown Pleasures are close behind.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

+1 to the years you mention, donut christ, and it's ok. at least according to mc strong.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

uhhh...The Clash?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Either Armed Forces or Off The Wall or London Calling or Highway to Hell. I can't decide.

― darin (darin), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Unknown Pleasures or Rust Never Sleeps - too close to call for me.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Dawn of the Dickies was wicked then, and has aged well.

― everything, Monday, 17 January 2005 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Should I buy that Young Marble Giants live dvd that I saw at the record store? I'm a fan, but not a fanatic. Is it for fanatics only? How is the performance? It's got a cover that looks like the Colossal Youth cover.

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

of those, its a tie between Cut and Singles Going Steady

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

more pedantry: Shiny Beast came out in 78, I believe.

Risque by Chic?
The B-52s?
Fear of Music by Talking Heads
Forces of Victory by Linton Kwesi Johnson
Buy The Contrtions

can't choose

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

the human league: reproduction

or unknown pleasures

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:53 (twenty-one years ago)

BuzzcocKs ........singles going steady
Undertones.....s/t
Damned........Machine Gun Etiquette
Dickies........Dawn of....
Wire.......154

From about '83 onwards, it was all USA stuff. The Ramones would have figured, but by this time had the best (first) three been released.

Any good US bands I've missed. All the good stuff was singles, right? Weirdos, Avengers ,Dils et al?

― Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountain Dog (Jessie the Drunk Dutch Mountai), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:07 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry i can't stop it. shiny beast came out in the us at warners in 1979. according to my source, mc strong. in the uk it was a february 1980 release chez virgin. fear of music is the album of 1979 i don't know at all i am most intrigued about.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

London Calling best album; best single a tie between "There But For the Grace of God" and "Why Can't I Touch It?"

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the clash don't exist in my world of music. they are even less punk than the sex pistols. they are on par with pre-Amnesiac radiohead. totally forgettable. for a real punk band listen to the german kfc.

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahahaha oh christ.

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

entertainment

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

"more/less punk" is about as important a qualifier for me as "is the bass player a fatass"

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

How can you name a fave album from that year? The best year EVER, right?

― mnm, Monday, 17 January 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

it's pretty fucking good.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall - Dragnet
P.I.L, - Second Edition
Alternative TV - Vibing up the Senile Man
Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville (?)
The Germs - G.I.
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

"more/less punk" is about as important a qualifier for me as "is the bass player a fatass"

sure, we've gained a little weight around the middle, but we're working on it!

― Bass Players (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

P.I.L, - Second Edition

the game done changed!

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:51 (twenty-one years ago)

the tail end of 79 for that one, so its impact was felt throughout 1980. I remembered getting Shiny Beast at the same time as One Nation Under a Groove in fall of 1978 but I guess that's wrong.

Now it's a tie between Risque and Second Edition. Then there's Special View by the Only Ones (US compilation).

― lovebug starski (lovebug starski), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Nope, 'Shiny Beast' is definitely a '78 release in the U.S.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably some Louie Ramirez produced salsa album I haven't heard yet.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:04 (twenty-one years ago)

The Pop Group - Y

Colossal Youth was a 1980 release, yes.

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Zappa's "Joe's Garage", closely followed by The Police's Reggatta De Blanc

― bahtology, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 02:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Unknown Pleasures or Rust Never Sleeps - too close to call for me.

M@tt He1geson, are you me? (Of course not, but they were the same two I got stuck on.)

"Transmission" for best single. Or maybe "We Are Family". Wait, "My Sharona"... ah, hell...

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

LODGER

― Sonny, Ah!!1 (Sonny A.), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:03 (twenty-one years ago)

This reminds me, I really gotta revamp my CDR Go! for this year (and remove the songs that were actually released in 1975, whoops).

― What's this place, Biblevania? (natepatrin), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

right now, Fear of Music; any other time, Risque or Metal Box

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Tusk

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 05:56 (twenty-one years ago)

ouch! PiL!

― Nic de Teardrop (Nicholas), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I certainly think that 1979 was the best year of music. Or at least almost the best...

The Specials: The Specials
Squeeze: Cool For Cats
XTC - Drums and Wires
Devo - Duty Now For The Future
Madness: One Step Beyond
The Undertones: The Undertones
Talking Heads: Fear Of Music
The Clash: London Calling

etc.
etc.

A lot of classics, I can't choose my favourite one.

― zeus, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:43 (twenty-one years ago)

1979 makes me immediately think of Gang of Four's Entertainment, a gut reaction, even though I realize I'm leaving PIL 'Second Edition' and 'Dragnet' out. It's a hard choice, but I guess you gotta go with your gut feeling sometimes.

There is this interesting bunch of Squeeze related photos in this magazine I have called Word with Peel on the cover. When I looked at this collection of old photos compiled by Chris Difford I believe - I asked myself:

Why is Squeeze a band I just never ever think about? Why aren't Squeeze ever mentioned anyhwere? I've never even really tried to get into them but now I wonder why no one ever seems to talk about them.

Answers on a postcard...

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 08:07 (twenty-one years ago)

"Unknown Pleasures". Had this been for other year from the 1970's then I would have had to actually think about it.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

And I would be wrong. It was Glenn Tilbrook of Squeeze that compiled the photos.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 08:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Stiff Little Fingers, Inflammable Material
Tom Petty, Damn the Torpedos
Raincoats, s/t
Joe Jackson, Look Sharp
Mekons, Quality of Mercy
Fall, Live at the Witch Trials
Pere Ubu, New Picnic Time
Donna Summer, Bad Girls
Cheap Trick, Live at Budokan
Michael Jackson, Off the Wall

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 08:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, someone mentioned Tom Petty. Somehow I knew that was going to happen eventually.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 08:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Squeeze were a very good band, writing some great pop songs. Maybe Jools Holland put people off, I don't know. But "Cool for Cats", "Pulling Mussels (from the Shell)", "Take Me I'm Yours", and "Up the Junction" are all classic songs (two of which are from 1979, just to stay on topic).

― David A. (Davant), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

for some reason i hadn't immediately associated 154, metal box or entertainment! with 1979. which makes me a tool.

this doesn't actually change my fundamental reaction that reproduction and unknown pleasures are the high point, but it does make me wish i'd been born ten years earlier and had actually been old enough to appreciate the sheer seismic brilliance that was going on.

mind you, if i'd been born ten years earlier i'd probably have been a tragic 14-year-old ELP fan or something.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i was wrong concerning the beefheart. from his site:

"Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Strong return to form - hilarious, thrilling and deeply unusual, it's classic Beefheart.
Recorded: 1976 / 8
Released: 1978
"

― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Australia:
Cold Chisel - Breakfast at Sweethearts
Angels - No Exit

International:
Abba - Voulez-Vous
Kiss - Dynasty ( heavy metal vs disco)

― mark opitz, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Slits. I wrote something last night about Ari Up's tour in March and in doing so, remembered how crazily unique and awesome that band were

― DJ Mencap0))), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 13:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Pick from list:Wire - 154

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 16:26 (twenty-one years ago)

One of the very few things that has changed during the last 25 years is my complete inability to choose a favourite between London Calling and Cut.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i'll go with fear of music. others:

magazine "secondhand daylight"
motorhead "overkill"

― dan (dan), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

RUST NEVER SLEEPS!

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Wow, someone mentioned Tom Petty. Somehow I knew that was going to happen eventually.

Not really my favorite album from 1979, but definitely something I enjoy more than many of the albums that had been listed so far.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 06:56 (twenty-one years ago)

mind you, if i'd been born ten years earlier i'd probably have been a tragic 14-year-old ELP fan or something.

Now, now. Don't be so hard on yourself. :P

Not sure why Tom Petty occured to me, actually. I guess I was trying to think of something that had been left off the list, and for some reason he came to mind. I don't own any Petty albums fwiw.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

um... RUST NEVER SLEEPS!

and the Marlon Brando verse of "Pocahontas" is my second favorite of the year, after the whole of "Oliver's Army," which I don't understand at all but it seems very witty, rhetorically speaking

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Wednesday, 19 January 2005 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

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