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)
- Burning Spear - Living Dub (Burning Spear)
- 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 - Fragment (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 - Joe's Garage Acts I, II & 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 / Almost Red 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)
- Prince Far I & The Arabs - Dub To Africa (Hitrun)
- Prince Jammy - Kamikazi Dub (Trojan)
- Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box / Second Edition (Virgin)
- Pyrolator - Inland (Warning Records, Germany)
- Ramones - End Of The Century (Sire)
- Robert Fripp - Exposure (EG / Polydor)
- Robert Schröder - Harmonic Ascendant (Innovative Communication)
- Roedelius - Jardin Au Fou (Egg Records)
- Roedelius - Selbstportrait I (Sky Records)
- Roxy Music - Manifesto (Polydor)
- Satin Whale - Die Faust in der Tasche: Original Soundtrack (Strand)
- 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)
- Sun Ra And His Outer Space Arkestra - On Jupiter (El Saturn)
- Suns Of Arqa - Revenge Of The Mozabites (Rock Steady)
- Supertramp - Breakfast In America (A&M)
- Swell Maps - A Trip 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)
- Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous & Jack DeJohnette - Terje Rypdal, Miroslav Vitous & Jack DeJohnette (ECM)
- 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 Years 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)
- Various (Chrome, MX-80 Sound, Residents, Tuxedomoon) - Subterranean Modern (Ralph Records)
- Wire - 154 (Harvest) ▶
- XTC - Drums and Wires (Virgin)
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