The Top Albums from 1979

Rank	All Time	Artist	Album	Buy at Amazon	Song Samples
1	10	The Clash	London Calling		Listen
2	71	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures		Listen
3	114	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall		Listen
4	125	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Rust Never Sleeps		Listen
5	154	Pink Floyd	The Wall		Listen
6	161	Gang of Four	Entertainment!
7	184	The Specials	The Specials		Listen
8	187	Public Image Ltd.	Metal Box/Second Edition		Listen
9	240	Talking Heads	Fear of Music		Listen
10	307	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Armed Forces
11	337	AC/DC	Highway to Hell
12	420	The Undertones	The Undertones		Listen
13	430	Chic	Risque		Listen
14	435	The Police	Regatta De Blanc		Listen
15	457	Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Damn the Torpedoes		Listen
16	470	The B-52's	The B-52's		Listen
17	608	The Pop Group	Y
18	616	The Slits	Cut
19	654	Graham Parker & The Rumour	Squeezing Out Sparks
20	671	Madness	One Step Beyond
21	692	Marianne Faithfull	Broken English		Listen
22	720	Wire	154		Listen
23	739	Stiff Little Fingers	Inflammable Material		Listen
24	798	The Jam	Setting Sons
25	925	Motörhead	Overkill		Listen
26	944	XTC	Drums and Wires		Listen
27	974	Rickie Lee Jones	Rickie Lee Jones		Listen
28	1047	The Cure	Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry		Listen
29	1053	Ramones	It's Alive		Listen
30	1066	Donna Summer	Bad Girls		Listen
31	1168	Joe Jackson	Look Sharp!		Listen
32	1248	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Live Rust		Listen
33	1273	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Forces of Victory		Listen
34	1301	The Raincoats	The Raincoats
35	1348	Van Morrison	Into the Music		Listen
36	1379	The Roches	The Roches		Listen
37	1417	Supertramp	Breakfast in America		Listen
38	1477	Robert Fripp	Exposure		Listen
39	1518	Betty Carter	The Audience with Betty Carter		Listen
40	1542	The Germs	(GI)
41	1553	Throbbing Gristle	20 Jazz Funk Greats		Listen
42	1655	James Chance & The Contortions	Buy
43	1658	Fleetwood Mac	Tusk		Listen
44	1696	Sister Sledge	We Are Family
45	1698	Nick Lowe	Labour of Lust
46	1707	David Bowie	Lodger		Listen
47	1812	The Residents	Eskimo		Listen
48	1845	Blondie	Eat to the Beat		Listen
49	1890	Philip Glass	Einstein on the Beach		Listen
50	1897	The Fall	Live at the Witch Trials		Listen
51	1938	Ry Cooder	Bop 'Til You Drop		Listen
52	2051	The Fall	Dragnet
53	2094	Earth, Wind & Fire	I Am		Listen
54	2270	The Damned	Machine Gun Etiquette		Listen
55	2273	Tom Verlaine	Tom Verlaine		Listen
56	2401	Dave Edmunds	Repeat when Necessary		Listen
57	2434	Judas Priest	Unleashed in the East		Listen
58	2655	The Cars	Candy-O		Listen
59	2667	ZZ Top	Deguello		Listen
60	2676	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Survival		Listen
61	2727	Various Artists	No New York
62	2757	Van Halen	II		Listen
63	2807	Joe Jackson	I'm the Man		Listen
64	2888	This Heat	This Heat		Listen
65	2951	Sarah Vaughan	Duke Ellington Song Book One		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Ebba Grön	We're Only in It for the Drugs
		The Only Ones	Even Serpents Shine
		Sarah Vaughan	Duke Ellington Song Book Two		Listen
		The Buzzcocks	A Different Kind of Tension		Listen
		Iggy Pop	New Values		Listen
		Magazine	Secondhand Daylight		Listen
		Gary Numan	The Pleasure Principle
		Smokey Robinson	Where There's Smoke
		Bob Dylan	Slow Train Coming		Listen
		Lowell George	Thanks, I'll Eat Here		Listen
		The Crusaders	Street Life		Listen

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