GERRY RAFFERTY : City To City ANDREW GOLD : All This And Heaven Too VARIOUS ARTISTS : FM (Soundtrack) WILLIE NELSON : Stardust PABLO CRUISE : Worlds Away KENNY LOGGINS : Nightwatch BOB JAMES : Touchdown CHIC : C'est Chic STYX : Pieces Of Eight GINO VANNELLI : Brother To Brother AL STEWART : Time Passages CHICAGO : Hot Streets BILLY JOEL : 52nd Street MELISSA MANCHESTER : Don't Cry Out Loud WINGS : Wings Greatest QUEEN : Jazz EARTH, WIND & FIRE : The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 STEELY DAN : Greatest Hits MICHAEL FRANKS : Burchfield Nines AMBROSIA : Life Beyond L.A. DEODATO : Love Island LEE RITENOUR : Friendship VICTOR FELDMAN : In My Pocket
Some real heavyweights in the New Wave corner, and my pick is Inflammable Material. But what a great year for music.
Darkness On The Edge Of Town is my favorite album, of any year, by any artist. That makes this list easy, because if I had to choose between You're Gonna Get It, Powerage, This Year's Model, All Mod Cons, Some Girls, holy crap, this was a good year.
Rush - Hemispheres Van Halen - S/T Thin Lizzy - Live and Dangerous George Harrison - S/T KISS - Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley Toto - S/T The Police - Outlandos D’Amour As for my favorite, I’d probably pick either Hemispheres or Ace Frehley
Elvis Costello - TYM... With his little band heading straight into the Punk wilderness & coming out the other side making all of us the better for it... He sustained his electric Dylan raging momentum pared with his Randy Newman humor honed to perfection on TYM his greatest LP... Rod Stewart EPTAS is my fav early 70s record & TYM is not only my fav 1978 album but it is my fav late 70s record as well...mid 70s would be Dylan & The Band The Basement Tapes
Kate Bush - Lionheart because it was the first album i ever bought (aged 13). The Kick Inside followed shortly thereafter and the first seeds of completism were sown.
I certainly had the Steely Dan single and was intrigued at what was on... FM (soundtrack) - Wikipedia Good stuff!
This one: Lou Reed - Street Hassle Elvis Costello - This Year's Model The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope The Only Ones - s/t Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - You're Gonna Get It The Rolling Stones - Some Girls Siouxsie & The Banshees - The Scream
Tough Year, three of my all time favourites were released in 1978 and for 40 years I've never really been able to separate them.
