Best Albums of 1979

14 Reviews

London Calling

The Clash

14 Reviews

CASIOPEA

Casiopea

5 Reviews

The Wall

Pink Floyd

10 Reviews

Entertainment!

Gang of Four

Fear of Music

Talking Heads

9.3

The Specials (Deluxe Version)

The Specials

Discovery

Electric Light Orchestra

9.1

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

9.1

Y

The Pop Group

SUPER FLIGHT

Casiopea

Unknown Pleasures (2019 Digital Master)

Joy Division

4 Reviews

154

Wire

No. 1 In Heaven

Sparks

Underwater Moonlight

The Soft Boys

Bustin' Out of L Seven

Rick James

Sound System

The Clash

Armed Forces (Remastered 2020)

Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Colossal Youth

Young Marble Giants

8.6

Labour of Lust (Remastered)

Nick Lowe

Lesson No. 1

Glenn Branca

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

9.5

The Roches

9.5

And Don't the Kids Just Love It

Television Personalities

9.5

Jane from Occupied Europe

Swell Maps

Pretenders (Expanded Edition) [2006 Remaster]

Pretenders

Damn the Torpedoes

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

Look Sharp! (Bonus Track Version)

Joe Jackson

20 Jazz Funk Greats (Remastered)

Throbbing Gristle

9.3

Half Gentlemen Not Beasts

Half Japanese

9.2

Second Edition

Public Image Ltd.

9.2

Singles Going Steady (Deluxe Version)

Buzzcocks

Breakfast In America (Remastered 2026)

Supertramp

Los Angeles

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

Songs the Lord Taught Us

The Cramps

Synthesist

Harald Grosskopf

8.6

Reel to Real Cacophony (Remastered)

Simple Minds

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

7.7

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

7.8

Realce

Gilberto Gil & Jorge Ben Jor

In Europe

Billy Harper Quintet

Teddy (Expanded Edition)

Teddy Pendergrass

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

7.6

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

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

Dreamin' Wild

Donnie & Joe Emerson