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	69	Joy Division	Unknown Pleasures		Listen
3	107	Michael Jackson	Off the Wall		Listen
4	128	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Rust Never Sleeps		Listen
5	144	Pink Floyd	The Wall		Listen
6	147	Gang of Four	Entertainment!
7	193	The Specials	Specials		Listen
8	201	Public Image Ltd.	Metal Box/Second Edition		Listen
9	235	Talking Heads	Fear of Music		Listen
10	258	AC/DC	Highway to Hell
11	346	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Armed Forces
12	379	The Police	Reggatta de Blanc		Listen
13	434	The Undertones	The Undertones		Listen
14	448	Chic	Risque		Listen
15	469	The B-52's	The B-52's		Listen
16	542	Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Damn the Torpedoes		Listen
17	574	Marianne Faithfull	Broken English		Listen
18	640	The Slits	Cut
19	644	The Pop Group	Y
20	666	Madness	One Step Beyond�
21	679	Graham Parker & The Rumour	Squeezing Out Sparks
22	694	Wire	154		Listen
23	790	Stiff Little Fingers	Inflammable Material		Listen
24	806	Mot�rhead	Overkill		Listen
25	841	The Cure	Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry		Listen
26	857	XTC	Drums and Wires		Listen
27	858	The Jam	Setting Sons
28	968	Donna Summer	Bad Girls		Listen
29	1024	Rickie Lee Jones	Rickie Lee Jones		Listen
30	1060	Ramones	It's Alive		Listen
31	1109	Supertramp	Breakfast in America		Listen
32	1127	Joe Jackson	Look Sharp!		Listen
33	1298	Linton Kwesi Johnson	Forces of Victory		Listen
34	1414	Ry Cooder	Bop Till You Drop		Listen
35	1465	Neil Young & Crazy Horse	Live Rust		Listen
36	1473	The Raincoats	The Raincoats
37	1560	The Roches	The Roches		Listen
38	1609	Betty Carter	The Audience with Betty Carter		Listen
39	1627	Van Morrison	Into the Music		Listen
40	1640	Robert Fripp	Exposure		Listen
41	1675	Throbbing Gristle	20 Jazz Funk Greats		Listen
42	1698	Sister Sledge	We Are Family
43	1759	The Germs	(GI)
44	1779	Camar�n	La leyenda del tiempo
45	1789	Philip Glass	Einstein on the Beach		Listen
46	1814	Fleetwood Mac	Tusk		Listen
47	1896	Serge Gainsbourg	Aux armes et caetera		Listen
48	1935	James Chance & The Contortions	Buy
49	1940	Earth, Wind & Fire	I Am		Listen
50	2002	The Fall	Live at the Witch Trials		Listen
51	2018	David Bowie	Lodger		Listen
52	2060	Nick Lowe	Labour of Lust
53	2087	Blondie	Eat to the Beat		Listen
54	2112	The Residents	Eskimo		Listen
55	2170	Air [USA]	Air Lore
56	2191	The Stranglers	The Raven		Listen
57	2220	The Fall	Dragnet
58	2385	This Heat	This Heat		Listen
59	2388	Scorpions	Lovedrive		Listen
60	2422	Cabaret Voltaire	Mix-Up		Listen
61	2440	Tubeway Army	Replicas		Listen
62	2669	Tom Verlaine	Tom Verlaine		Listen
63	2702	Judas Priest	Unleashed in the East - Live in Japan		Listen
64	2730	Bob Dylan	Slow Train Coming		Listen
65	2739	The Damned	Machine Gun Etiquette		Listen
66	2771	Dave Edmunds	Repeat when Necessary		Listen
67	2784	Lucio Dalla	Lucio Dalla
68	2810	Art Ensemble of Chicago	Nice Guys		Listen
69	2812	ZZ Top	Deg�ello		Listen
70	2869	Holger Czukay	Movies		Listen
71	2925	Van Halen	Van Halen II		Listen
72	2945	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Survival		Listen
73	2994	UFO	Strangers in the Night		Listen
Some albums "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Joe Jackson	I'm the Man		Listen
		Magazine	Secondhand Daylight		Listen
		The Ruts	The Crack		Listen
		The Cars	Candy-O		Listen
		Old and New Dreams	Old and New Dreams [1979]		Listen
		Ebba Gr�n	We're Only in It for the Drugs
		Buzzcocks	A Different Kind of Tension		Listen
		Gary Numan	The Pleasure Principle
		Frank Zappa	Sheik Yerbouti		Listen
		Yellow Magic Orchestra	Solid State Survivor		Listen
		Frank Zappa	Joe's Garage, Act 1		Listen
		The Only Ones	Even Serpents Shine
		Iggy Pop	New Values		Listen
		Sarah Vaughan	Duke Ellington Song Book One		Listen
		Thin Lizzy	Black Rose - A Rock Legend		Listen
		The Human League	Reproduction		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