Greatest Album of 1979 - Preliminary Round 3

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Which albums deserve to move on?

Poll ended at 15 May 2021, 8:52am

Blondie, Eat to the Beat
3
3%
The Clash, London Calling
12
13%
Elvis Costello and the Attractions, Armed Forces
6
7%
The Damned, Machine Gun Etiquette
3
3%
Gang of Four, Entertainment!
8
9%
The Germs, (GI)
3
3%
The Jam, Setting Sons
8
9%
Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures
5
6%
KISS, Dynasty
2
2%
Madness, One Step Beyond …
3
3%
Magazine, Secondhand Daylight
4
4%
The Ruts, The Crack
3
3%
The Skids, Scared to Dance
4
4%
The Slits, Cut
5
6%
The Specials, The Specials
11
12%
Stiff Little Fingers, Inflammable Material
9
10%
 
Total votes: 89
Flex
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Marky Dread wrote: ↑
15 May 2021, 4:35pm
 Oh please please please vote for these albums I like please.
Well, yeah.
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a bowl of soup
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a rolling hoop
Wiggle, wiggle, wiggle like a ton of lead
Wiggle - you can raise the dead

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tepista wrote: ↑
15 May 2021, 11:07am
Heston wrote: ↑
14 May 2021, 8:35pm
 Tell me this isn't great rock and roll...

STONES COVER!?!?!?!
Bettered it
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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Marky Dread
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Flex wrote: ↑
15 May 2021, 4:42pm
Marky Dread wrote: ↑
15 May 2021, 4:35pm
 Oh please please please vote for these albums I like please.
Well, yeah.
;)
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Forces have been looting
My humanity
Curfews have been curbing
The end of liberty

We're the flowers in the dustbin...
No fuchsias for you.

"Without the common people you're nothing"

Nos Sumus Una Familia
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Re: Greatest Album of 1979 - Preliminary Round 3

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Flex wrote: ↑
14 May 2021, 11:19pm
Heston wrote: ↑
14 May 2021, 9:12pm
Have they got any good tunes or is it just people shouting?
I can't emphasize enough how important it is to listen to the album from front to back, but here are three tasty tracks that represent Darby's version of David Bowie's apocalyptic visions filtered through a blender of class of 77 inspiration and punk rock democracy:





Good stuff. I wish I'd listened to this at the time I would have loved it. The only American bands that I heard or paid attention to were The Ramones and Dead Kennedys.
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