01 March 2019

my Top 39 among Albums Released 1979


-79 seems to me a bit superficial, strange year in music history. Of course many splendid songs were made, in creative styles. But to find whole concepts fantastic enough (in my ears) became a quite sluggish, still unfulfilled process.

From Breakfast To Breakfast
including a favourite track from each



1. BREAKFAST IN AMERICA
Supertramp

Take The Long Way Home


2. DISCOVERY
Electric Light Orchestra

Confusion


3. ARMED FORCES
Elvis Costello & The Attractions

Green Shirt


4. REALITY EFFECT*
The Tourists
= Stewart & Lennox early band
where Peet Coombes was great composer

The Loneliest Man in The World

* in fact released -80
though "The Tourists" -79
probably would feel as good as this



5. THE FINE ART OF SURFACING
Boomtown Rats

(Tell Me Why) I Don't Like Mondays


6. LONDON CALLING
Clash

The Card Cheat


7. THE RAVEN
Stranglers

Duchess


8. THE AGE OF PLASTIC
Buggles

Elstree

[Released rather in January -80] 


9. pH7
Peter Hammill

Faculty X


10. MANIFESTO
Roxy Music

Dance Away


11. FEAR OF MUSIC
Talking Heads

Mind


12. THE WALL
Pink Floyd

Comfortably Numb


13. LABOUR OF LUST
Nick Lowe

Switchboard Susan


14. REPEAT WHEN NECESSARY
Dave Edmunds

Girls Talk


15. EVE
Alan Parsons' Project

Winding Me Up


16. A CURIOUS FEELING
Tony Banks

After The Lie


17. I CAN SEE YOUR HOUSE FROM HERE
Camel

Eye of The Storm


18. SPLIT VISION
Björn Skifs

Let Music Live


19. EVOLUTION
Journey

Too Late


20. REPRODUCTION
Human League

Empire State Human


21. KORGIS
Korgis

Dirty Postcards


22. TUSK
Fleetwood Mac

What Makes You Think You're The One?


23. THE BELLS
Lou Reed

City Lights [around Chaplin]


24. DREAM POLICE
Cheap Trick

Way of The World


25. VOULEZ-VOUS
ABBA

Angel Eyes


26. LOVEDRIVE
Scorpions

Always Somewhere


27. HONEST LULLABY
Joan Baez

Let Your Love Flow


28. SPECTRAL MORNINGS
Steve Hackett

The Virgin and The Gypsy


29. STORMWATCH
Jethro Tull

Home



30. DRUMS & WIRES
Xtc

Helicopter


31. GET THE KNACK
The Knack

Lucinda


32. ONE STEP BEYOND
Madness

Bed and Breakfast Man


33. LOOK SHARP!
Joe Jackson

Sunday Papers



34. E LA LUNA BUSSO'
Loredana Bertè

Folle Citta'


35. OCEANS OF FANTASY
Boney M

Bahama Mama


36. ANGEL STATION
Manfred Mann's Earth Band

Belle of The Earth


37. NUMBER ONE IN HEAVEN
Sparks

My Other Voice


38. BACK TO THE EGG
Paul McCartney with Wings

So Glad to See You


39. FATE FOR BREAKFAST
Art Garfunkel

Beyond The Tears







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