Best Albums of 1979
100 albums ranked by Wavelength users
Off the Wall
Michael Jackson
London Calling
The Clash
CASIOPEA
Casiopea
Fear of Music
Talking Heads
Discovery
Electric Light Orchestra
Entertainment!
Gang of Four
The Wall
Pink Floyd
The Specials (Deluxe Version)
The Specials
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Y
The Pop Group
SUPER FLIGHT
Casiopea
154
Wire
No. 1 In Heaven
Sparks
Underwater Moonlight
The Soft Boys
Bustin' Out of L Seven
Rick James
Breakfast In America (Remastered 2026)
Supertramp
Sound System
The Clash
Armed Forces (Remastered 2020)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Colossal Youth
Young Marble Giants
Labour of Lust (Remastered)
Nick Lowe
Lesson No. 1
Glenn Branca
Rust Never Sleeps
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
The Roches
The Roches
And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Television Personalities
Jane from Occupied Europe
Swell Maps
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Pretenders (Expanded Edition) [2006 Remaster]
Pretenders
Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
Highway to Hell
AC/DC
Look Sharp! (Bonus Track Version)
Joe Jackson
20 Jazz Funk Greats (Remastered)
Throbbing Gristle
Half Gentlemen Not Beasts
Half Japanese
Second Edition
Public Image Ltd.
Singles Going Steady (Deluxe Version)
Buzzcocks
Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)
Joy Division
Los Angeles
X
Flirtin' with Disaster (Bonus Track Version)
Molly Hatchet
Communique
Dire Straits
Gi
Germs
Tusk (Deluxe Edition)
Fleetwood Mac
Angel Station
Manfred Mann's Earth Band
Machine Gun Etiquette
The Damned
Vida
Chico Buarque
Overkill
Motörhead
A Trip to Marineville
Swell Maps
Jeopardy
The Sound
Squeezing Out Sparks + Live Sparks
Graham Parker & The Rumour
Greatest
Bee Gees
Catholic Boy
The Jim Carroll Band
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
John Williams
Do It Yourself
Ian Dury & The Blockheads
Unleashed In the East (Live)
Judas Priest
Broken English (Deluxe Edition)
Marianne Faithfull
Three Imaginary Boys (Deluxe Edition)
The Cure
Prince
Prince
Songs the Lord Taught Us
The Cramps
Synthesist
Harald Grosskopf
Reel to Real Cacophony (Remastered)
Simple Minds
Quadrophenia (2013 Remaster)
The Who
Future Street
Pages
Candy-O
The Cars
The Expanding Universe
Laurie Spiegel
Rita Lee
Rita Lee & Tutti Frutti
En tournée (L'heptade Live)
Harmonium
Knowledge of Self
Billy Harper
Live Rust
Neil Young & Crazy Horse
Solid State Survivor
Yellow Magic Orchestra
Piraretã
Tetê Espíndola
Alma de Diamante
Spinetta Jade
Doll In the Box
Cristina
Stations of the Crass
Crass
Ok, Ko
Doce
Essa Mulher
Elis Regina
Dynasty
Kiss
Realce
Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben Jor
In Europe
Billy Harper Quintet
Teddy (Expanded Edition)
Teddy Pendergrass
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Strangers In the Night (Deluxe Edition) [Live]
UFO
Is This Real?
Wipers
Gravest Hits
The Cramps
Maanam (Remastered)
Maanam
Joe's Garage: Acts I, II & III
Frank Zappa
Un peu de l'âme des bandits
Aksak Maboul
Manzanita
The Tony Rice Unit
One Of A Kind (Expanded & Remixed Edition)
Bill Bruford
Alfredo
Alfredo de la Fé
You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic (Deluxe Version)
Ian Hunter
A Different Kind of Tension (Special Edition)
Buzzcocks
American Garage
Pat Metheny Group
Kamikazi Dub
Prince Jammy
We Are Family
Sister Sledge
Just For The Record
Barbara Mandrell
Hot Tracks
John Hammond
On the Radio: Greatest Hits, Vol. I & II
Donna Summer
Ed Bruce
Ed Bruce
The Concert
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Glory Boys
Secret Affair
Lodger
David Bowie
Cat In the Hat
Bobby Caldwell
MAKE UP CITY
Casiopea
Metamatic
John Foxx
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