My top 20 of *any* given year probably wouldn't be much more than half prog. It's a small subset of all that fits under the rock umbrella.Originally Posted by Zeuhlmate
My top 20 of *any* given year probably wouldn't be much more than half prog. It's a small subset of all that fits under the rock umbrella.
Sorry - using the New Post button - forgot to check that it was on Off-Topic (OT)
Heres what I like from your list peter....
The Stranglers - Black & White
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Siouxsie and The Banshees - The Scream
XTC - White Music and Go 2
Magazine - Real Life
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Neil Young - Comes A Time
Crazy Horse - Crazy Moon
Generation X - s/t
Squeeze - s/t
Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die!
Heres what i like from facelifts list...
4. Captain Beefheart - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
7. Wire - Chairs Missing
8. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
9. Kraftwerk - Man-Machine
10. The Jam - All Mod Cons
13. Lou Reed - Street Hassle
18. Rolling Stones - Some Girls
19. Devo - Are We Not Men...
Still alive and well...
Me too, the first time. 1978-86 RIP
"On the Horizon" does NOT mean they had NOT released anything! It means they were still ramping up!
Please feel free to list ANY albums by U.S. and British Punk & New Wave bands that released their BEST material in 1978...
I generally agree with you, because by 78 the first wave of UK punk bands had already released their best albums, and New Wave was only just getting started.
But there are a few exceptions and they are listed in my OP.
These are the best albums IMO, by these artists:
Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (in fact, the best album ever by anyone)
The Stranglers - Black & White
Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Magazine - Real Life
Nina Hagen Band - s/t
E.C. & the Attractions - This Year's Model
Tubeway Army - s/t
Blondie - Parallel Lines
Devo - Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! (best ever US new wave album imo)
Level Headed- Sweet
Re popular music in general, 1978 was like a megaplex cinema; so that at the first screen you're watching Rock which is still strong and healthy in 1978 - sadly, Keith Moon died suddenly in September - then you cross into another room and there plays a completely different genre(s) with completely different iconography - Punk and New Wave; on third screen you're watching some Prog, on fourth there's some ECM, and so on.
One of the greatest live Prog albums ever recorded - Bursting Out - was released in September 1978
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I'm going tonight to see George Clinton & Parliament-Funkadelic at Exit Festival
Roger Glover-Elements, Andrew LLoyd Webber-Variations and the band Conventum
Queen, JAZZ
1978? Beautiful year
National Health Of Queues And Cures
Bubu Anabelas
Mia Cornonstipicum
Happy the Man Crafty Hands
Atila Reviure
Weidorje Weidorje
Henry Cow Western Culture
Shylock Ile De Fievre
Crack Si Todo Hiciera Crack
Muffins, The Manna / Mirage
Fermata Huascaran
Van der Graaf Generator The Box
Cathedral Stained Glass Stories
Tibbetts, Steve Steve Tibbetts
Heldon Stand By
Gotic Escenes
Banco del Mutuo Soccorso ... di Terra
Hoenig, Michael Departure From The Northern Wasteland
Stern Combo Meissen Weisses Gold
Rialzu Rialzu
Grobschnitt Solar Music Live
Flame Dream Calatea
N.H.U., Grupo Grupo N.H.U.
Granada Valle del Pas
Jethro Tull Live-Bursting Out
Seffer Neffesh Music, Yochk'o Ghilgoul
Atlas Bla Vardag
Etron Fou Leloublan Les Trois Fou's Perdegagnent
Today's top 20:
National Health - Of Queues & Cures
Judas Priest- Stained Class
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
National Health - s/t
Al Di Meola - Casino
Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
Rush - Hemispheres
Cathedral - Stained Glass Stories
AC/DC - Powerage
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Atlas - Bla Vardag
Happy the Man - Crafty Hands
Weidorje - s/t
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band - Stranger in Town
Dixie Dregs - What If
Molly Hatchet - s/t
Flame Dream - Calatea
Klaus Schulze - X
Gotic - Escenes
Tu veux un camembert?
13 Ripaille La Vieille que l'On Brula Fra 1978
12 Bubu Anabelas Arg 1978
12 Grobschnitt Solar Music Live Ger 1978
12 Itoiz Itoiz Bsq 1978
12 Maneige Libre Service Can 1978
12 Marino, Frank & Mahogany Rush Live Can 1978
12 Muffins, The Manna / Mirage USA 1978 Avant
12 Rush Hemispheres Can 1978
12 Van Halen Van Halen USA 1978
11 Atila Reviure Spa 1978
11 Bamboche, La La Saison Des Amours Fra 1978
11 Blue Oyster Cult Some Enchanted Evening (Legacy Edition) USA 1978
11 Breant, Francois Sons Optiques Fra 1978
11 Cano Eclipse Can 1978
11 Carol of Harvest Carol of Harvest Ger 1978
11 Coto En Pel Holocaust Spa 1978
11 Gilmour, David David Gilmour Eng 1978
11 Henry Cow Western Culture Eng 1978
11 Marley, Bob / The Wailers Babylon By Bus Jam 1978
11 Max Webster Mutiny Up My Sleeve Can 1978
11 Police, The Outlandos d'Amour Eng 1978
11 Queen Jazz Eng 1978
11 Scofield, John Live USA 1978
11 Thursaflokkur (Şursaflokkur) Hinn Islenzki Thursaflokkur Ice 1978
11 Tibbetts, Steve Steve Tibbetts USA 1978
11 Troisieme Rive Banlieues Fra 1978
10 Aerosmith Live Bootleg USA 1978
10 Ange Guet Apens Fra 1978
10 Aquarelle Sous un Arbre (aka Aquarelle) Can 1978
10 Asgard Tradition & Renouveau Fra 1978
10 Blue Oyster Cult Some Enchanted Evening USA 1978
10 Carr, Ian / Nucleus Out of the Long Dark Eng 1978
10 Cathedral (1) Stained Glass Stories USA 1978 Symphonic
10 Coryell & The Eleventh House, Larry At Montreux USA 1978
10 Coryell, Larry / Philip Catherine Splendid Var 1978
10 Cos Babel Bel 1978
10 Crack Si Todo Hiciera Crack Spa 1978 Symphonic
10 Dire Straits Dire Straits Eng 1978
10 Emma Myldenberger MS Ger 1978
10 Epidermis Genius of Original Force Ger 1978
10 Fiori / Seguin Deux Cents Nuits a l'Heure Can 1978
10 Funkadelic One Nation Under A Groove USA 1978 Funk
10 Godley & Creme L Eng 1978
10 Gong, Pierre Moerlen's Expresso II Var 1978
10 Grateful Dead Terrapin Station USA 1978
10 Guru Guru Live Ger 1978
10 Hammill, Peter The Future Now Eng 1978
10 Heldon 6 - Interface Fra 1978
10 Jarre, Jean-Michel Equinoxe Fra 1978
10 Jethro Tull Heavy Horses Eng 1978
10 Magma Attahk Fra 1978 Zeuhl
10 Mann, Manfred / Earth Band Watch Eng 1978
10 Mia Cornonstipicum Arg 1978
10 National Health National Health Eng 1978
10 National Health Of Queues And Cures Eng 1978
10 Potemkine Nicolas II Fra 1978
10 Rypdal, Terje Waves Nor 1978
10 Santana Inner Secrets USA 1978
10 Smith, Lonnie Liston / Cosmic Echoes Live! USA 1978
10 Solstice Mirage Can 1978
10 Steel Pulse Handsworth Revolution Eng 1978
10 Streetheart Meanwhile, Back in Paris Can 1978
10 Styx Pieces of Eight USA 1978
10 Travers, Pat Heat in the Street USA 1978
10 Van der Graaf Vital Live Eng 1978
10 Wapassou Salammbo Fra 1978
10 Tangerine Dream Cyclone Ger 1978
10 The Who Who Are You Eng 1978
Of which I only knew the ones I bloded out back then... And I didn't necessarily held them in high opinion for some
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my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
I disagree with that. If there really was such thing like "a year of transition" - for popular music in general - it could be only 1979 - 1980 imo.
Those bits I agree with. It most definitely was a year of transition. And has always been my cut off point for the old and the new
Original Punk bands, both UK and US had already released their best stuff, and knew it.
Mainstream pop and rock had changed dramatically and many mainstream bands were moving towards a more New Wave sound, same was true for many pub rock bands. And if you use 78 as a divider for any collection of rock/pop records, you can clearly see the musical divide between the old AOR bands and soft singer/songwriters and the harder edged New Wave bands and singers.
60s blues/hard rock bands had also long since released their best albums.
NWOBHM as a term was coined in 1979, but the style and bands themselves had already raised their heads above the parapet to great success.
And New Wave/post-punk bands had the wind in their sails and were cruising towards greatness.
Goth, synth, industrial were also releasing their early albums and getting better all the time.
Agreed. IMO, 1979 was more like the first year of the early '80s than the last year of the '70s.
This little known album is in my all-time top 3:
I'd say that the 80's started in 77 with the winter of hate ... and the 70's started in 67 with The Summer Of Love
Before 66/67, it was mainly still the 60's... or even the 50's if you wish
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
i just remember it being the height of disco, so almost anything that wasnt disco or wasn't off the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack was 'good'......funny how my tastes have changed over the years and, nowadays, i can get a lot of enjoyment out of a lot of classic disco.......the transition year was about 1980: disco was taking a huge nose-dive, new wave and new romantic music was starting to bloom - both classier (and arguably more talented) offshoots of punk, electro-pop was in its infancy, and the "faceless" rock band years began (between '80 - '82, when bands like Toto and REO Speedwagon could have big radio hits but the general music listening non-audiophile public had no idea who was in the band or what they looked like)
MY Favorites from 1978 (the year I graduated high school), in order of release:
Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
Emmylou Harris - Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town
Mahogany Rush - Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush – Live
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - This Year's Model
The Rutles - S/T
Little Feat - Waiting for Columbus
The Band - The Last Waltz
Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
David Gilmour - S/T
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Scratch)
Jethro Tull - Bursting Out
Neil Young - Comes a Time
Rush - Hemispheres
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Babylon by Bus
"And your little sister's immaculate virginity wings away on the bony shoulders of a young horse named George who stole surreptitiously into her geography revision."
Occasional musical musings on https://darkelffile.blogspot.com/
Someone ought to mention Ultravox’s “System of Romance”, a post punk classic IMO.
"Dem Glücklichen legt auch der Hahn ein Ei."
Great album, but back in the day in the UK, the term post-punk wasn't used. New Romantics and New Wave were the terms de jour for synth bands.
The Who - Who Are You?
Illusion - Illusion
Carol of Harvest - Carol of Harvest
Bob Marley - Kaya
Paul McCartney & Wings - London Town
Van Halen - Van Halen
Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid
Dire Straits - Dire Straits
Rick Wright - Wet Dream
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Queen - Jazz
The Police - Outlandos D'Amour
Bob Dylan - Street Legal
Heart - Dog and Butterfly
You forgot Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band with the Bee Gee's and Peter Frampton. Bloody classic and damn I can't say that and keep a straight face.
Didn't the Rainbow LLRNR come out in '77?
Carry On My Blood-Ejaculating Son - JKL2000
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