DJ Egg's Eclectic MeggaMusic Best Albums of 1979

In alphabetical order, not in order of preference.

Adam And The Ants - Dirk Wears White Sox (Do It Records)
Ariel Kalma - Musique Pour Le Reve et L'amour (Astral Muse)
Ashra - Correlations (Virgin)
Atlas - Blå Vardag (Bellatrix, Sweden)
Augustus Pablo - Original Rockers (Greensleeves)
Bill Nelson's Red Noise - Sound On Sound (Harvest)
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Survival (Tuff Gong / Island)
Blondie - Eat To The Beat (Chrysalis)
Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming (CBS)
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports (EG)
Brian Eno, Dieter Moebius & Hans-Joachim Roedelius - After The Heat (Sky)
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind Of Tension (UA)
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady (UA / I.R.S.)
Cabaret Voltaire ‎- Mix-Up (Rough Trade)
Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves (Siren)
Clock DVA - Fragments (Dvation)
Cluster - Grosses Wasser (Sky)
Crass - Stations Of The Crass (Crass Records)
Creation Rebel - Rebel Vibrations (Hitrun)
David Bowie - Lodger (RCA)
Deuter - Ecstasy (New Earth)
Dire Straits - Communiqué (Warner Bros.)
Durutti Column - The Return Of The Durutti Column (Factory)
Edgar Froese - Stuntman (Virgin)
Elvis Costello And The Attractions - Armed Forces (Radar)
Embryo - Embryo's Reise (Schneeball)
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk (Warner Bros.)
Frank Zappa - Joes Garage Acts I-III (Zappa / CBS)
Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti (Zappa / CBS)
Gang of Four - Entertainment (EMI)
Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle (Beggars Banquet)
Günter Schickert - Überfällig (Sky Records, Germany)
Hawkwind - PXR5 (Charisma)
Heldon - Stand By (Egg)
Human League - Reproduction (Virgin)
Japan - Quiet Life (Ariola)
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (Factory)
Judie Tzuke - Welcome To The Cruise (The Rocket Record Company)
Ken Martin - Terrestrial Nightmares
Killing Joke - Are You Receiving EP (Malicious Damage)
King Tubby & Prince Jammy - Dub Gone 2 Crazy: In Fine Style 1975-1979 (Blood & Fire)
Kitaro - From The Full Moon Story (Zen / Polydor)
Kitaro - Oasis (Canyon)
Klaus Schulze - Dune (Brain)
Kleenex - Die Kleenex Spielen (Rough Trade)
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces Of Victory (Island)
Madness - One Step Beyond... (Stiff)
Magazine - Secondhand Daylight (Virgin)
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English (Island)
Michael Garrison - In The Regions Of Sunreturn And Beyond (Windspell)
Misty In Roots - Live At The Counter Eurovision 79 (People Unite)
Motörhead - Overkill (Bronze)
Nash The Slash - Dreams And Nightmares (Cut-Throat)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust (Reprise)
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps (Reprise)
Passage - About Time EP (Object Music)
Pink Floyd - The Wall (Harvest)
Popol Vuh - Nosferatu (Egg)
Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa (Hitrun)
Prince Jammy - Kamikazi Dub (Trojan)
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box / Second Edition (Virgin)
Ramones - End Of The Century (Sire)
Robert Fripp - Exposure (EG / Polydor)
Robert Schroeder - Harmonic Ascendant (Innovative Communication)
Roedelius - Jardin Au Fou (Egg Records)
Roedelius - Selbstportrait I (Sky Records)
Roxy Music - Manifesto (Polydor)
Scritti Politti - Early (Released 2004 but 10 tracks from 1978-79 singles) (Rough Trade)
Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (Virgin)
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands (Polydor)
Sky - Sky (Ariola)
Spizzenergi - Soldier Soldier // Where's Captain Kirk? (Rough Trade)
Sparks - No. 1 In Heaven (Elektra)
Squeeze - Cool For Cats (A&M)
Steel Pulse - Tribute To The Martyrs (Island)
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings (Charisma)
Steven Halpern - Hear To Eternity (Halpern Sounds)
Steve Hillage - Live Herald (Virgin)
Steve Hillage - Open (Virgin)
Steve Hillage - Rainbow Dome Musick (Virgin)
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material (Rough Trade)
Suns Of Arqa - Revenge Of The Mozabites (Rock Steady)
Supertramp - Breakfast In America (A&M)
Swell Maps - A Train To Marineville (Rough Trade)
Talking Heads - Fear of Music (Sire)
Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure (Virgin)
Tappa Zukie - Dub Em Zukie (Rare Dubs 1976-1979) (Jamaican Recordings)
The Alan Parsons Project - Eve (Arista)
The B-52's - The B-52's (Island / Warner Bros.)
The Cars - Candy-O (Elektra)
The Clash - London Calling (CBS)
The Clash - Singles (Epic/Sony)
The Cramps - Gravest Hits (Illegal Records)
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys (Fiction)
The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette (Chiswick Records)
The Fall - Early Fall 1977-1979 (Step Forward)
The Fall - Dragnet (Step Forward)
The Fall - Live At The Witch Trials (Step Forward)
The Flying Lizards - The Flying Lizards (Virgin)
The Jam - Setting Sons (Polydor)
The Mekons - The Quality Of Mercy Is Not Strnen (Virgin)
The Monochrome Set - Eine Symphonie Des Grauens / The Monochrome Set / He's Frank EP (Rough Trade)
The Police - Reggatta De Blanc (A&M)
The Pop Group - Y (Radar)
The Raincoats - The Raincoats (Rough Trade)
The Residents - Eskimo (Ralph Records)
The Ruts - The Crack (Virgin)
The Slits - Cut (Island)
The Specials - The Specials (Two-Tone)
The Stranglers - Live (X Cert) (UA)
The Stranglers - The Raven (UA)
The Tea Set - Cups 'N Saucers / Parry Thomas (Waldo's Records)
The Tourists - Reality Effect (Logo)
This Heat - This Heat (Piano Records)
Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats (Industrial)
Tubeway Army - Replicas (Beggars Banquet)
UK Subs - Another Kind of Blues (GEM / RCA)
Wire - 154 (Harvest)
XTC - Drums and Wires (Virgin)

Approximate Genres

Eclectic, Psychedelic Rock, Psychedelia, Space Rock, Prog. Rock, Art Rock, Folk-Rock, New-Wave, Punk, Post-Punk, Industrial, Industro-Goth, Indie/Alternative, Synthpop/Electronica, Chillout, Krautrock, Berlin-School, World Music, Tribal, Dub, Fusion, Future/Nu-Jazz, Worldbeat, Folk, New-Age, Avantgarde, Neoclassical, Ambient, Crossover.