Best Albums of 1978

Listed below are the best albums of 1978 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 58,000 greatest album charts. (Chart last updated: 5 hours ago).
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1978 year summaryThe best artists of 1978 were Bruce Springsteen, Blondie, The Cars, Elvis Costello, Van Halen, Kraftwerk, Kate Bush, Steve Reich, The Rolling Stones and Talking Heads.
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"Their second best album after Triumph. A strong album contains dance numbers Blame It On The Boogie, Shake Your Body... & All Nite Dancin', the title track Destiny plus another two slower numbers Bless His Soul & That's What You Get.... are really good & give the album a nice balance only low poi..."  [+]  Reply
- Tamthebam | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +1 votes (1 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"It saddens me to not see the genius of Moondog on more charts. A street musician with a jazz pedigree, Louis Thomas Hardin was greatly admired by everyone from Charlie Parker and Benny Goodman to Phillip Glas to Janis Joplin and Modest Mouse. H'art Songs came more than 20 years into his career. U..."  [+]  Reply
- meccalecca | Helpful?  (Log in to vote) | +6 votes (6 helpful | 0 unhelpful) Help A maximum of 5 top-voted qualifying comments are selected for each album. To provide the best experience for visitors, comments are excluded if they refer to data corrections, contain excessive profanity, are written in all caps, are non-English, are too short, consist of conversations between users, or contain lists of best tracks etc.
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"If it wasn't a Black Sabbath album some of the tracks may be considered decent. However when it closes out an era of the band that included those first 6 albums it does not come close to meeting expectations. There is no classic Sabbath song here. It was clearly time for them to part ways with Oz..."  [+]  Reply
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"The best British reggae album, and possibly my favourite reggae album. This album has no filler, just eight heavyweight cuts. It helps that they're from just down the road too."  Reply
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20 Golden Greats 
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"Nine Top Ten hits in barely two years and then a fateful flight on a small plane (some claim was called the American Pie) and Buddy Holly entered the realm of rock & roll legend. I consider this album a must have."  Reply
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