Greatest Album of 1979 - Preliminary Round 1
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Re: Greatest Album of 1979 - Preliminary Round 1
I'm nominating A Different Kind of Tension.
There were a lot of great albums released that year. A lot of genres, too.
There were a lot of great albums released that year. A lot of genres, too.
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Re: Greatest Album of 1979 - Preliminary Round 1
Small ball or GTFO.
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It really is hard to exaggerate the significance of that year for signaling what was to come. For all the hype of 76/77, '79 was the real start of post-60s music.
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I could safely listen to music from only 1979 for probably several weeks before I started feeling constrained.
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Re: Greatest Album of 1979 - Preliminary Round 1
I'm going to nominate Highway To Hell - AC/DC. The final Bon Scott album is fantastic, nearly every track a winner, might put it on now actually.
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Lots of astonishing reggae, a good Bob Marley album, gonna go with the home team with Mikey Dreads Dread at the Controls.
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Voted Crass, Madness, Specials, Go4, PiL
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FWIW, I voted Blondie, B-52's, Crass, Gang of Four and The Slits.
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Crass, Go4, Magazine, Slits, Wire
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Fuck this was way too hard.
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Honestly, there are at least ten albums on this list that I would absolutely accept as someone’s favorite album without batting an eye. Maybe more.
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Seconded. Also seconding Off the Wall.
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board
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A few i could think of like Rust Never Sleeps or the pleasure principle, but the one I'd nominate is Skids - Scared to Dance
The first of two albums they released in '79 and their best song that year, Masquerade, wasn't even on either of them.
The first of two albums they released in '79 and their best song that year, Masquerade, wasn't even on either of them.
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You already second SLF. You're done, hon.
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"Goes back to read rules again"
There's a tiny, tiny hopeful part of me that says you guys are running a Kaufmanesque long con on the board