McQ's Favorite Albums Of 1979

Highest Recommends

1. London Calling - The Clash

Strong Recommends

2. Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
3. Entertainment - Gang Of Four
4. Damn The Torpedoes - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
5. Squeezing Out The Sparks - Graham Parker

Solid Recommends

6. Lodger - David Bowie
7. Fear Of Music - Talking Heads
8. The Wall - Pink Floyd
9. Exposure - Robert Fripp
10. Armed Forces - Elvis Costello
11. The Specials
12. Into The Music - Van Morrison
13. Breakfast In American - Supertramp

Mild Recommends

14. Second Edition - Public Image Limited

1979 Albums Of Critical Note I Have Yet To Hear

154 - Wire
20 Jazz Funk Greats - Throbbing Gristle
Air Lore - Air
Aux Armes Et Caetera - Serge Gainsbourg
Bad Girls - Donna Summer
Black Rose: A Rock Legend - Thin Lizzy
Bop Til You Drop - Ry Cooder
Broken English - Marianne Faithful
Buy - James Chance And The Contortions
Cut - The Slits
Deguello - ZZ Top
Dragnet - The Fall
Drums and Wine - XTC
Eat To The Beat - Blondie
Einstein On The Beach - Philip Glass
Eskimo - The Residents
Forces Of Victory - Linton Kwesi Johnson
Highway To Hell - AC/DC
I Am - Earth, Wind, & Fire
I'm The Man - Joe Jackson
Inflammable Material - Stiff Little Fingers
It's Alive - The Ramones
La leyenda del tiempo - Camaron
Labour Of Lust - Nick Lowe
Live At The Witch Trails - The Fall
Live Rust - Neil Young And Crazy Horse
Look Sharp! - Joe Jackson
Lovedrive - The Scorpions
Machine Gun Etiquette - The Damned
Mix Up - Cabaret Voltaire
Nice Guys - Art Ensemble Of Chicago
Off The Wall - Michael Jackson
One Step Beyond - Madness
Overkill - Motorhead
Regatta De Blanc - The Police
Repeat When Necessary - Dave Edmunds
Replicas - Tubeway Army
Rickie Lee Jones
Risque - Chic
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young
Secondhand Daylight - Magazine
Setting Sons - The Jam
Survival - Bob Marley And The Wailers
The Audience With Betty Carter - Betty Carter
The B-52s
The Crack - The Ruts
The Pleasure Principle - Gary Numan
The Raincoasts
The Raven - The Stranglers
The Roches
The Undertones
Three Imaginary Boys/Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
Tom Verlaine
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Van Halen II
We Are Family - Sister Sledge
Y - The Pop Group
(GI) - Germs