Top 20 Music Albums of 1979
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Onater 
My Top 10 songs of 1979:
10. The B-52's - Rock Lobster (The B-52's)
9. Joy Division - Shadowplay (Unknown Pleasures)
8. Joy Division - New Dawn Fades (Unknown Pleasures)
7. Supertramp - The Logical Song (Breakfast In America)
6. The Clash - Train In Vain (London Calling)
5. The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight(Single)
4. Joy Division - Transmission (Single)
3. Joy Division - Disorder (Unknown Pleasures)
2. Talking Heads - Heaven (Fear Of Music)
1. Kermit - The Rainbow Connection (The Muppet Movie)
- Chart updated: 07/22/2019 05:15
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:39).
- Chart size: 20 albums.
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Favourite Tracks: Disorder, New Dawn Fades, Shadowplay, Day Of The Lords [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Disorder, New Dawn Fades, Shadowplay, Day Of The Lords [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1979
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21,789
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"Tell me, is something eluding you sunshine? Is this not what you expected to see? If you wanna to find out what's behind these cold eyes, You'll just have to claw your way through this disguise!"
Favourite tracks: Hey You, Comfortably Numb, Goodbye Blue Sky, Nobody Home, Mother, The Trial [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Favourite tracks: Hey You, Comfortably Numb, Goodbye Blue Sky, Nobody Home, Mother, The Trial [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1979
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Rank Score:
25,167
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"It's hard to imagine that nothing at all could be so exciting, could be so much fun."
Favourite Tracks: Heaven, Life During Wartime, Cities, I Zimbra [First added to this chart: 07/24/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Heaven, Life During Wartime, Cities, I Zimbra [First added to this chart: 07/24/2017]
Year of Release:
1979
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Rank Score:
6,857
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"When you look through the years and see what you could have been, oh, what might have been, if you'd had more time."
Favourite tracks: The Logical Song, Take The Long Way Home, Child Of Vision, Just Another Nervous Wreck [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Favourite tracks: The Logical Song, Take The Long Way Home, Child Of Vision, Just Another Nervous Wreck [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1979
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4,673
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"After all you've seen yourself before. What difference does it make? What difference does it make if I take your photograph? What difference does it make if someone else sees it too?"
Favourite Tracks: Hot On The Heels Of Love, Convincing People, Persuasion [First added to this chart: 11/04/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Hot On The Heels Of Love, Convincing People, Persuasion [First added to this chart: 11/04/2018]
Year of Release:
1979
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887
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"Well some things you can explain away, but the heartache's in me 'til this day."
Favourite Tracks: Train In Vain, Spanish Bombs, Lost In The Supermarket, The Guns Of Brixton [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Train In Vain, Spanish Bombs, Lost In The Supermarket, The Guns Of Brixton [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Year of Release:
1979
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Rank Score:
30,826
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"I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream. You could have been anyone to me."
Favourite Tracks: Like A Hurricane, Tonight's The Night, Cortez The Killer, Hey Hey My My (Into The Black) [First added to this chart: 08/21/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Like A Hurricane, Tonight's The Night, Cortez The Killer, Hey Hey My My (Into The Black) [First added to this chart: 08/21/2018]
Year of Release:
1979
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1,260
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"It's better to burn out than to fade away."
Favourite Tracks: My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue), Hey Hey My My (Into The Black), Thasher, Powderfinger [First added to this chart: 08/20/2017]
Favourite Tracks: My My Hey Hey (Out Of The Blue), Hey Hey My My (Into The Black), Thasher, Powderfinger [First added to this chart: 08/20/2017]
Year of Release:
1979
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4,243
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"You're doing wrong, it's not the movies and you're old."
Favourite Tracks: Albatross, Swan Lake, Poptones, Memories [First added to this chart: 06/17/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Albatross, Swan Lake, Poptones, Memories [First added to this chart: 06/17/2019]
Year of Release:
1979
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2,100
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"After the rain in the streets light flows like blood, I can just taste salt on the humid wind."
Favourite Tracks: After The Rain, Wondering Where The Lions Are, Creation Dream, Incandescent Blue, Badlands Flashback [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
Favourite Tracks: After The Rain, Wondering Where The Lions Are, Creation Dream, Incandescent Blue, Badlands Flashback [First added to this chart: 05/02/2017]
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Top 20 Music Albums of 1979 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Neil Young & Crazy Horse | 2 | 10% | |
| Bruce Cockburn | 1 | 5% | |
| Wire | 1 | 5% | |
| Philip Glass Ensemble | 1 | 5% | |
| Joy Division | 1 | 5% | |
| James Chance & The Contortions | 1 | 5% | |
| Pink Floyd | 1 | 5% | |
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| Best Artists of the 1970s | |
|---|---|
| 1. Pink Floyd | |
| 2. David Bowie | |
| 3. Led Zeppelin | |
| 4. Neil Young | |
| 5. The Rolling Stones | |
| 6. The Clash | |
| 7. Black Sabbath | |
| 8. Fleetwood Mac | |
| 9. Stevie Wonder | |
| 10. The Who | |
| 11. Genesis | |
| 12. Brian Eno | |
| 13. Joni Mitchell | |
| 14. Paul McCartney | |
| 15. Yes | |
| 16. Bob Dylan | |
| 17. Bob Marley | |
| 18. Bruce Springsteen | |
| 19. Nick Drake | |
| 20. Marvin Gaye |
