Acclaimed Music - The Top Albums from 1979

The Top Albums from 1979
Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	9	The Clash	London Calling		Listen
2	64	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures		Listen
3	104	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall		Listen
4	133	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Rust Never Sleeps		Listen
5	138	Pink Floyd	The Wall		Listen
6	148	Gang of Four	Entertainment!
7	194	The Specials	Specials		Listen
8	208	Public Image Ltd.	Metal Box/Second Edition		Listen
9	244	Talking Heads	Fear of Music		Listen
10	278	AC/DC	Highway to Hell
11	350	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Armed Forces
12	397	The Police	Reggatta de Blanc		Listen
13	441	The Undertones	The Undertones		Listen
14	481	Chic	Risqu�		Listen
15	502	The B-52's	The B-52's		Listen
16	576	Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Damn the Torpedoes		Listen
17	612	Marianne Faithfull	Broken English		Listen
18	665	The Slits	Cut
19	676	Madness	One Step Beyond...
20	678	The Pop Group	Y
21	727	Graham Parker & The Rumour	Squeezing Out Sparks
22	747	Wire	154		Listen
23	816	Stiff Little Fingers	Inflammable Material		Listen
24	854	Mot�rhead	Overkill		Listen
25	907	The Cure	Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry		Listen
26	920	XTC	Drums and Wires		Listen
27	934	The Jam	Setting Sons
28	1055	Donna Summer	Bad Girls		Listen
29	1108	Rickie Lee Jones	Rickie Lee Jones		Listen
30	1158	Ramones	It's Alive		Listen
31	1184	Supertramp	Breakfast in America		Listen
32	1210	Joe Jackson	Look Sharp!		Listen
33	1387	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Forces of Victory		Listen
34	1534	Ry Cooder	Bop Till You Drop		Listen
35	1569	The Raincoats	The Raincoats
36	1607	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Live Rust		Listen
37	1661	The Roches	The Roches		Listen
38	1736	Betty Carter	The Audience with Betty Carter		Listen
39	1748	Van Morrison	Into the Music		Listen
40	1774	Robert Fripp	Exposure		Listen
41	1804	Throbbing Gristle	20 Jazz Funk Greats		Listen
42	1837	Sister Sledge	We Are Family
43	1879	The Germs	(GI)
44	1893	Camar�n	La leyenda del tiempo
45	1924	Fleetwood Mac	Tusk		Listen
46	1934	Philip Glass	Einstein on the Beach		Listen
47	2006	Serge Gainsbourg	Aux armes et caetera		Listen
48	2023	James Chance & The Contortions	Buy
49	2069	Earth, Wind & Fire	I Am		Listen
50	2142	The Fall	Live at the Witch Trials		Listen
51	2146	David Bowie	Lodger		Listen
52	2182	Nick Lowe	Labour of Lust
53	2217	Blondie	Eat to the Beat		Listen
54	2251	The Residents	Eskimo		Listen
55	2313	Air [USA]	Air Lore
56	2317	The Stranglers	The Raven		Listen
57	2354	The Fall	Dragnet
58	2476	This Heat	This Heat		Listen
59	2566	Scorpions	Lovedrive		Listen
60	2586	Tubeway Army	Replicas		Listen
61	2587	Cabaret Voltaire	Mix-Up		Listen
62	2772	Tom Verlaine	Tom Verlaine		Listen
63	2825	Bob Dylan	Slow Train Coming		Listen
64	2867	Judas Priest	Unleashed in the East - Live in Japan		Listen
65	2919	The Damned	Machine Gun Etiquette		Listen
66	2940	Dave Edmunds	Repeat when Necessary		Listen
67	2972	ZZ Top	Deg�ello		Listen
68	2986	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Nice Guys		Listen
69	2990	Holger Czukay	Movies		Listen
70	2991	Lucio Dalla	Lucio Dalla
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Van Halen	Van Halen II		Listen
		Joe Jackson	I'm the Man		Listen
		Bob Marley and The Wailers	Survival		Listen
		UFO	Strangers in the Night		Listen
		The Ruts	The Crack		Listen
		Magazine	Secondhand Daylight		Listen
		The Cars	Candy-O		Listen
		Ebba Gr�n	We're Only in It for the Drugs
		Old and New Dreams	Old and New Dreams [1979]		Listen
		Buzzcocks	A Different Kind of Tension		Listen
		Gary Numan	The Pleasure Principle
		Frank Zappa	Sheik Yerbouti		Listen
		Yellow Magic Orchestra	Solid State Survivor		Listen
		The Only Ones	Even Serpents Shine
		Frank Zappa	Joe's Garage, Act 1		Listen
		Iggy Pop	New Values		Listen
		Thin Lizzy	Black Rose - A Rock Legend		Listen
		The Human League	Reproduction		Listen
		Sarah Vaughan	Duke Ellington Song Book One		Listen
		Chrome	Half Machine Lip Moves		Listen
		Pere Ubu	New Picnic Time		Listen
		Ornette Coleman & Charlie Haden	Soapsuds Soapsuds		Listen
		Sarah Vaughan	Duke Ellington Song Book Two		Listen
		Smokey Robinson	Where There's Smoke..
		Lowell George	Thanks, I'll Eat It Here		Listen
		Squeeze	Cool for Cats		Listen
		Swell Maps	A Trip to Marineville		Listen
		The Crusaders	Street Life		Listen