Best Albums of 1979
Listed below are the best albums of 1979 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 4 hours ago).
"Underrated album by an underrated band." Reply
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Jbalbinolr | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Pretty crazy that this album isn't even top hundred of 79? Also there's no comments. Hmm. I think it's great!" Reply
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ExTeaSea | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"If you like guitars you may surely like this album. I do. There are all sorts of guitars here attacking your listening experience, coming from all sorts of directions." Reply
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NickVolos | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"It's a quite lame album from the Journey and does not have too many good songs on it. This kind of AOR stuff is suitable for adult radio stations but I guess these songs do not get much air time. Forgettable.." Reply
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Jboy56 | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | 0 votes (0 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Bruford takes his already outstanding prog drumming and cranks it up a notch and creates one of the all time great fusion albums, right up there with the likes of Billy Cobham, Alphonse Mouzon, and Williams." Reply
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Fischman | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +2 votes (2 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"Killer JA LP, and one of the 3 best albums ever released by Studio One (along with Soul Beat by The Gaylads and On Top by The Heptones) in this writer's humble opinion. An important gateway LP for those a little tentative about the genre. This is proto-dancehall delivered with one of the smoothes..." [+] Reply
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Jimmy Dread | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +3 votes (3 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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"A brilliant debut album from Judie Tzuke and still her best. The title track & Stay With Me 'Till Dawn along with the beautiful For You are the stand out tracks. All the songs were written by Judie & Mike Paxman her musical collaborator. Paul Buckmaster was responsible for the string arrangements..." [+] Reply
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Tamthebam | Helpful? (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful)
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 12 of 100
Best Albums of 1979 composition
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| Various Artists | 17 | 2% | |
| Frank Zappa | 5 | 1% | |
| Steve Hillage | 4 | 0% | |
| The Residents | 3 | 0% | |
| Electric Light Orchestra | 3 | 0% | |
| Vangelis | 3 | 0% | |
| Fela Kuti & Africa 70 | 3 | 0% | |
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368 | 37% | |
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245 | 25% | |
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41 | 4% | |
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40 | 4% | |
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36 | 4% | |
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33 | 3% | |
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30 | 3% | |
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