Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1978!

ahh dammit double entry for the adverts

went for magazine

Not as strong a year as '77 surprisingly.

the 77 year got fewer votes than the others surprisingly

Because it was too difficult to pick one album, I reckon. That's why I didn't vote.

The Only Ones

Three formative reggae records for me that still very much hold up aren’t on the list, unfortunately: Poet and the Roots (Linton Kwesi Johnson), Dread Beat an' Blood, Steel Pulse, Handsworth Revolution, and Dr. Alimantado, Best Dressed Chicken in Town (a compilation, but still).

I would have voted for Dread Beat an' Blood had it been there, now the choice is more difficult. Chairs Missing possibly, but there are a few others to consider as well.

Three formative reggae records for me that still very much hold up aren’t on the list, unfortunately: Poet and the Roots (Linton Kwesi Johnson), Dread Beat an' Blood, Steel Pulse, Handsworth Revolution, and Dr. Alimantado, Best Dressed Chicken in Town (a compilation, but still).

I would have voted for Dread Beat an' Blood had it been there, now the choice is more difficult. Chairs Missing possibly, but there are a few others to consider as well.

Sorry about that, and sorry Zing, I’m blaming you.

Oh, this is undoubtedly Systems of Romance, which is a highly influential record that I still don't feel gets its due, not to mention one of my favourite albums of all time. They'd dropped the "!" by this time - this is not something that happened after John Foxx left.

this is reminding me i need to check out those early cameo albums...

right now i'd either go with chairs missing or music for 18 musicians.

would add:
david behrman - on the other ocean
harold budd - the pavilion of dreams
sally oldfield - water bearer
mike oldfield - incantations
national health - national health

I'd go music for 18 musicians > modern dance > lanquidity but my vote might have gone to budd

Parallel Lines vs. Chairs Missing

I think I actually like this list more than 77.

Music for 18 >>> Easter > Van Halen > Music for Airports > If You Want Blood

gonna abstain from voting in honor of This Year's Model

At Budokan

the modern dance by a mile.

voted TG, nothing else like it in 1978

i haven't heard most of these records

voted devo, because devo

other suggestions:

andreas aarflot - det rivna pianot
armand schaubroeck steals - ratfucker
arthur blythe - lenox avenue breakdown
the bill fay group - tomorrow tomorrow and tomorrow
bruce haack - haackula
cheb khaled - nenssa souad
chic - c'est chic
colin towns - full circle
collage - kaokiri
the cowsills - cocaine drain
dominique guiot - l'univers de la mer
donna mcghee - make it last forever
estrak lancios - cosmopolitan wave
frank reidy & eric allen - forest of evil vol. 1
gianni safred - futuribile (the life to come)
goblin - zombi
godley & creme - l
granada - valle del pas
hako yamasaki - nagare yoi uta
happy dragon band - s/t
het pandorra ensemble - iii
jem targal - luckey guy
jeritere - jeritree's house of many colours
key - fit me in
konrad bauer - gruppe fez
kracq - circumvision
liliental - s/t
magma - attahk
michael giles - progress
midnight rhythm - s/t
mosaic - ultimatum
naang naang - le' ywei sin tei mya
nu - cuentos de ayer y de hoy
olivia byington - corra o risco
peter hammill - the future now
prince far i and the arabs - crytuff dub encounter, chapter 1
queen - jazz
r. stevie moore - games and groceries
raxola - s/t
the residents - duck stab/buster & glen
rimona francis - s/t
rosa yemen - s/t
rosebud - discoballs: a tribute to pink floyd
sir shina adewala & the superstars international - superstar verse 4
super mama djombo - na cambanca
venus gang - galactic soul
veronique chalot - j'ai vu le loup
weidorje - s/t
willie nelson - stardust
winterhawk - there and back again
yuri morozov - jazz night
zamla mammaz manna - schlagerns mystik
zenith effluvium - almost made it in the usa

absolutely love that Devo record, I still consider it one of my favorite albums ever. for me it's between that and Man-Machine, but Devo edges it out

lots of great stuff this year, even though I instinctively think of '78 as the year prog went to shit. here's a few more I would've put on:

Haruomi Hosono - Paraiso (legit top 5 record for me)
Jean-Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
Magma - Attahk
Weidorje - s/t
Yellow Magic Orchestra - s/t
Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Love Beach

oh, i totally overlooked "echoes" by michel johnson, i'm still sick and out of it some!

i had a friend who insisted that love beach wasn't as bad as its reputation. i'll grant that it's not the worst elp record - even he wouldn't go so far as to defend "in the hot seat"!

Van Halen > Music for Airports

Tim Hecker might have combined these on My Love Is Rotten to the Core.

also "warriors" by don pullen and "cumbia and jazz fusion" by charles mingus, christ i need to see a doctor

Lanquidity remains my top choice for Sun Ra but Music for 18 Musicians is perfection

In absence of these two, Real Life might well have got my vote

Hey, where's the love for Hammill's The Future Now?

chic - c'est chic

armand schaubroeck steals - ratfucker

that's what the second entry of the adverts album replaced by mistake. but i cba asking for this poll to be deleted and starting another one

what did the second rick james entry replace?

so this

The Adverts - Crossing the Red Sea With The Adverts ,

is a vote for Ratfucker, got it ;)

oh bollocks didnt notice that
xp

im ill in bed since friday so im blaming that

just checked my og list made on facebook years ago and it was the chic album.
When i pasted to excel and sorted it into alphabetical order i messed things up and removed 2 albums instead of the duplicates i intended to

adventure.

Turrican said that "Systems Of Romance" is one of my favorite albums of all time. I'd be interested to know what else is on your all-time list.

Meanwhile, there are so many fabulous releases on this list, for me it's one of:
Adverts, Big Star, Brian Eno, Captain Beefheart, Devo, Jam, Kraftwerk, Magazine, Only Ones, Pere Ubu, PiL, Talking Heads, Television, Throbbing Gristle, Ultravox, Wire, X-Ray Spex

Really tough call between Wire and Pere Ubu, two bands who set the stage for much of what I love. I will mull it over...

Other favorites from this incredible year:
Alternative TV - The Image Has Cracked
Be Bop Deluxe - Drastic Plastic
Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen / Love Bites
Doctors Of Madness - Sons Of Survival
Eno Moebius Roedelius - After the Heat [would have possibly voted for this, one of my all-timers]
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 2
Generation X - Generation X
La Dusseldorf - Viva
Nick Lowe - Jesus Of Cool
Outsiders - Close Up
Penetration - Moving Targets
Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos
The Saints - Eternally Yours / Prehistoric Sounds
Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
The Stranglers - Black & White
Tom Robinson Band - Power In The Darkness
The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights [just for Scott's four monumental tracks]
XTC - White Music / Go 2

Good list there.

Yeah, the initial flowering of post-punk is amazing. I've read so many quotes from the participants that indicate how they didn't know they were *allowed* to make this kind of music until they heard such-and-such LP and it inspired them to go even further. The rule book was out the door, anything goes, let's meld punk energy and funk rhythms, smash rock and jazz, make really quiet-but-still-engaging music, etc. I still find it very inspiring.

shit how did i leave off my fave la dusseldorf album

Blondie vs. Devo, my two most played records that year. But Parallel Lines is "just" an excellent pop-rock record, Devo is in a world of its own.

Also-ran write-in for The Cars debut.

Van Halen - S/t ,

xp oh yeah Cars debut is def something that's way up in this year for me

I passed up a mint upgrade copy with a hype sticker a few weeks ago, still kinda regret it

Also, these:

Penetration - Moving Targets
Rezillos - Can't Stand The Rezillos

But Devo still wins.

Really tough call between Wire and Pere Ubu

My thinking as well. These are such amazing albums.

my fave by both

hat-tip to rushomancy for the super mama djombo mention, my favourite of all the records mentioned itt

talking heads of the ones in the poll

I wavered over "Modern Dance" but went "Chairs Missing"

van halen

In this list, Music For !8 Musicians. Outside of it, one of Darkness On The Edge of Town or This Year's Model would have got my vote. But '78 was a year where singles reigned supreme, not albums.

I have these albums on my list.

I grew up on Wavelength, love "Natalia" and the title track. Great lead guitar.

Beefheart for me, and it's kinda not even close.

The 1978 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll

Albums

1. Elvis Costello: This Year's Model (Columbia) 783 (58)
2. The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones) 616 (52)
3. Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Power People (Columbia) 328 (32)
4. The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic) 328 (28)
5. Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire) 317 (28)
6. Bruce Springsteen: Darkness at the Edge of Town (Columbia) 284 (25)
7. Ramones: Road to Ruin (Sire) 262 (24)
8. Neil Young: Comes a Time (Reprise) 250 (25)
9. The Cars: The Cars (Elektra) 223 (24)
10. David Johansen: David Johansen (Blue Sky) 186 (17)
11. Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum) 182 (16)
12. Brian Eno: Before and After Science (Island) 171 (16)
13. Ian Dury: New Boots and Panties! (Stiff) 146 (15)
14. Patti Smith Group: Easter (Arista) 144 (18)
15. Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (Warner Bros.) 137 (14)
16. Dave Edmunds: Tracks on Wax 4 (Swan Song) 111 (13)
17. The Who: Who Are You (MCA) 110 (8)
18. Television: Adventure (Elektra) 109 (13)
19. Willie Nelson: Stardust (Columbia) 108 (11)
20. Devo: Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! (Warner Bros.) 107 (12)
21. Bob Dylan: Street Legal (Columbia) 101 (8)
22. Cheap Trick: Heaven Tonight (Epic) 92 (11)
23. Van Morrison: Wavelength (Warner Bros.) 90 (11)
24. Lou Reed: Street Hassle (Arista) 89 (10)
25. Blondie: Parallel Lines (Chrysalis) 88 (11)
26. Pere Ubu: The Modern Dance (Blank) 81 (10)
27. Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove (Warner Bros.) 73 (7)
28. Wire: Pink Flag (Harvest) 70 (6)
29. Generation X: Generation X (Chrysalis) 66 (7)
30. Al Green: Truth 'n Time (Hi) 65 (9)

Parallel Lines

this is the 2nd last poll btw. Anyone got or want to do 80s list versions?

On this list, One Nation Under a Groove

i don't really fuck with the '80s, i'm certainly out!

before this poll is over by the way i did want to single out the winterhawk record "there and back again" particularly, it's a cheat as it was recorded in '78 but not released then, but i particularly recommend it to anybody who likes hard rock of the sorts that have been regularly featured on these polls... i'm not a real hard rock head, which might disqualify me, but i really do think "there and back again" might be one of the greatest rock live albums ever released, just insanely great twin guitar awesomeness

Decided to vote for Slave - The Concept. one of my fave funk albums ever.

The Man Machine is beautiful beyond words

KISS - Paul Stanley '78 solo.

lol

Voted V/A - No New York

just over:

Blondie - Parallel Lines
Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Batchain Puller)
Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
Patti Smith Group - Easter
Talking Heads - More Songs About Building and Food
Van Halen - S/T

http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/year/1978a.htm

NME Albums 1978

1. Darkness On The Edge Of Town - Bruce Springsteen
2. All Mod Cons - The Jam
3. This Years Model - Elvis Costello
4. More Songs About Buildings & Food - Talking Heads
5. Africa Stand Alone - Culture
6. Peter Gabriel (2) - Peter Gabriel
7. Street Legal - Bob Dylan
8. Dub Housing - Pere Ubu
9. Germ Free Adolescents - X Ray Spex
10. David Johansen - David Johansen
11. The Modern Dance - Pere Ubu
12. The Scream - Siouxsie & The Banshees
13. Moving Targets - Penetration
14. Shiny Beast - Captain Beefheart
15. Rasta Communication - Keith Hudson
16. An American Prayer - Jim Morrison
17. Who Are You - The Who
18. Some Girls - The Rolling Stones
19. Marcus Children - Burning Spear
20. Real Life - Magazine
21. Blue Valentine - Tom Waits
22. Go 2 - Xtc
23. Jazz - Ry Cooder
24. We Are Not Men... - Devo
25. Another Music In A Different Kitchen. - The Buzzcocks
26. Dynamite Daze - Kevin Coyne
27. Give 'Em Enough Rope - The Clash
28. First Edition - Public Image
29. Live & Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
30. Man Machine - Kraftwerk

Also Rans Albums

Tonic For The Troops - Boomtown Rats
Power In The Darkness - Tom Robinson Band
Dread Beat & Blood - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Wavelength - Van Morrison
The Real Kids - Same
Road To Ruin - The Ramones
Hearts Of Stone - Southside Johnny
Some Enchanted Evening - Blue Oyster Cult
Suicide - Same
Smooth Talk - Evelyn ‘Champagne’ King
Roy Hill - Same
Tell Us The Truth - Sham 69
Comes A Time - Neil Young
Disguise In Love - John Cooper Clarke
The Image Has Cracked - Atv
Midnight Express - Giorgo Moroder
Dark Album - Wigwam
Fool Around - Rachel Sweet
Love Bites - Buzzcocks
Black & White - Stranglers
Easter - Patti Smith
Love - Twinkle Brothers
The Akron Compilation - Various Artists
Crusin - Village People
The 5th Power - Lester Bowie
Rosewood - Woody Shaw
One Nation Under A Groove - Funkadelic
V.S.O.P. - The Quintet
Enhance - Billy Heart
X Dreams - Annette Peacock
The Best Dressed Chicken In Town - Dr Alimantado

NME Singles 1978

1. Ever Fallen In Love - The Buzzcocks
2. Public Image - Public Image
3. What A Waste - Ian Dury
4. Miss You - Rolling Stones
5. Radio Radio - Elvis Costello
6. I Don't Want To Go To Chelsea - Elvis Costello
7. Hong Kong Garden - Siouxsie & The Banshees
8. White Man In Hammersmith Palais - The Clash
9. Shot Both Sides - Magazine
10. Sign Of The Times - Bryan Ferry
11. Shame - Evelyn 'Champagne' King
12. Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
13. Rising Free - Tom Robinson Band
14. Satisfaction - Devo
15. Ambition - Subway Sect
16. Take Me To The River - Talking Heads
17. It's The New Thing - The Fall
18. I Love The Sound Of Breaking Glass - Nick Lowe
19. What Do I Get - The Buzzcocks
20. Germ Free Adolescents - X Ray Spex
21. I Am The Fly - Wire
22. Because The Night - Patti Smith
23. Damaged Goods - Gang Of Four
24. Mr Know It All - Gregory Isaacs
25. Night People - Alan Toussaint
26. Mighty Real - Sylvester
27. Private Plane - Thomas Leer
28. Where Were You - The Mekons
29. Hard Workin Man - Captain Beefheart
30. Down At The Doctors - Doctor Feelgood

Also Rans, Singles

Little Way Different - Errol Dunkley
Don’t Come Close - The Ramones
Dangerous Woman - Tapper Zuki
Love Don’t Live Here Any More - Rose Royce
Surrender - Cheap Trick
Dry Up Your Tears - The Bold One/Clint Eastwood
Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
Badlands - Bruce Springsteen
Tommy Gun - The Clash
Jilted John - Jilted John
Human Fly - The Cramps
Natty Never Get Weary - Culture
Picture This - Blondie
Shank Block Bologna - Scritti Politti
Which Way Is Up - Starguard
Statue Of Liberty - Xtc
Tomorrow Night - Shoes
News Of The World - The Jam
D.I.Y. - Peter Gabriel

Didn't expect NME to have a bruce album at the height of punk

More impossible than ever, as I knew it would be, so gut vote this time is Parallel Lines, because it was my most played that year and maybe the next, still plays itself in my head, a vivid, poised sound and vision---think this is the one where xgau, then at his peak, mentioned "lives lived intensely on the surface," Hey Blondie: "All I want is a picture in my wallet/A small resemblance of something more solid/All I want/Is a picture of youuu." Deep enough, ditto "Fade Away and Radiate"---Top Ten of course Beefheart, Ubu, Television, Funkadelic, Willie, Chic, Mingus etc etc etc.
This Year's Model always had sort of a popological laboratory quality overall---not mad scientist, more detached or over-obviously concerned with precision----overall, that is, despite, lots of individually enjoyable, even sing-along tracks. Maybe it's just me. Stopped following him when he got too prolific for my budget, which was right away.
Street Legal is the most appalling Dylan album I've heard, though "Changing of the Guard's homeless rainbow brain stew imagery is a keeper for the case history, and overall you can tell he's gonna need Jesus or something. Does have some very nice arrangements, though mostly dead drums ("New Pony" the most deftly played overall, pert vocal, though lyrics seem to be about pony porn? Jeez.)

homeless rainbow brain stew imagery

Haha this is so true re: Changing of the Guards.

It's interesting that NME ranked Peter Gabriel 2 so highly. That album gets a lot of hate from a lot of places, but I think it's one of his best.

I thought that was the one everyone loved

3 is probably the most popular and acclaimed of the early albums. It's def my favourite. 1 had a huge hit in "Solsbury Hill". 2 falls through the cracks a bit.

voted for shuffering and shmiling on sight

but this too:

The Man Machine is beautiful beyond words

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i would say:

1. beefheart
2. lanquidity
3. only ones
4. reich
5. ramones

It's Magazine for me.

Nobody up for do the 80s? I really cant do it. Would be nice if someone could though.

I can do the 80s polls

wooo! Go Dr Mick!

My 80s lists arent that great, esp the early 80s lists are tiny I should update them as you go along and add the albums I dont have.
I dont think I put much effort into them and only did top 20s.

I can't believe you didn't include Robin Trower's Caravan to Midnight; burn this hellsite to the ground!!

(j/k I surprised myself by voting Third over Modern Dance; this is a rad list)

Either Eno or Wire, I suppose. Not an annus mirabilis.

ilm loves its eno

voted for Languitity, it was either that or More Songs About Buildings and Food

* Lanquidity

I love a lot of these, it's kind of an arbitrary choice

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

its not easy is it

Oh wait, I just realized Music for 18 Musicians is in there. Done.

last hours for my penultimate poll and mike takes over for the 80s

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Welcome to ILM.

I like these results

High five to the other voter for Systems of Romance.

will have to listen to Systems of Romance, not sure I ever heard it.

the top 10 are mostly albums I considered voting for

also almost went with Throbbing Gristle

loved the Pere Ubu, Television, The Jam, Patti Smith, PIL, No New York albums

PiL getting no votes is a surprise to me.

Welcome to ILM.

Wait, is ILM known to be a bastion of Steve Reich aficionados? I'm happy to see this in any case.

cool results

1st PIL kinda sucks imo, not much there

I could have just as easily voted Music For Airports instead of DOA but the post punk explosion is already in full effect here, plus the height of disco and fuckin Fela, what a year

Didn't see that one coming tbh.

I've quietly voted in several of these. I think this is the first year where my choice was the winner.

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1979!!

Wow, can't believe Reich (who I voted for) won.

Kind of a weak year for albums, tbh.

Great #1 and #3.

I would have given Goblin's other record this year (the one about the cockroach called Mark) a shout but was thinking it was '79.

No, great #2!

was so sure this would have been between Blondie and Devo