Its 1979, what album are you trying to wear out?

[BootinUp]

This one maybe

[Joe Shlabotnik]

1. Most of my 1979 records were used for impromptu skeet practice.

Dark times for quality rock and roll LPs. Yet a useful and deserving end for overpriced vinyl schlock.

[BootinUp]

2. hmmm

Cheap Trick, Van Halen, The Police, its wasn't all that bad...The dark times were the 90's and now.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

3. Ok... Old Van halen passed the test, and few cheap trick songs survived to mixed audio tapes.

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That was a generalization on my part. But sorry, for the 100 million Lp's that got printed those years....99% were shit. The music industry was/is no different then with turning out 'hits', ahem 'shits'

[surrealAmerican]

4. probably the Kinks

"Low Budget" was released in 1979.

[LynneSin]

5. I kid you not! I wrote a school report back in '79 that said the Knack was the next great Supergroup

I think overtime I could ultimately prove that my thesis was indeed correct.

[CBGLuthier]

6. December 1979 it was this one

I remember listening to it while happily soldering away on my PAIA synthesizer.

As for the Knack I had the album and the 45 which had the most wonderful sleeve.




I think they were a good band but the record company screwed up and used every great song they wrote on their first album. Oh well, Prince came along a few years later and showed just how to be really dirty in the lyrics.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

7. Pure Pop For Now People-Nick Lowe

Still wearing it out.

And Armed Forces by Elvis Costello and the Attractions.

[zanana1]

8. The latest David Bowie album, of course. nt

[dr.strangelove]

9. My very first album

The rare Green Record was my favorite, but that one was hard to find.

[pink-o]

10. In 1979 I loved:

The Clash
The Dammed
The Stranglers
The Jam
Nick Lowe
Elvis Costello
Dave Edmunds

and the old stalwart bands:

The Stones
The Kinks
The Who

So it wasn't all so bad, right?

And hey: whoever upthread said the 90s sucked--so not true! I love anything that sets the established bands on their ears. Happened in the 70s with Punk/New Wave and in the 90s with Grunge.

[dana_b]

25. I love your taste in music

the 90s were actually my favorite with the Seattle bands.

[hifiguy]

11. "The Wall" and Blondie's

"Parallel Lines."

[lastlib]

12. "Hemispheres" (Rush)

(I know it came out before that, but that's when I got it--I was "on a Low Budget"! what with trying to pay for college.) But I played that album into the ground!

[TrogL]

13. Pink Floyd - The Wall

[HopeHoops]

14. I was probably on my second copy of "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" by then.

[davsand]

15. For sure The Wall. The Last Waltz or maybe Excitable Boy.

Also we played the heck outta The Clash, The B-52's, and Rickie Lee Jones.

XTC, Talking Heads, and Ramones had albums playing that year too...


Laura

[Iggo]

16. The Wall. Low Budget. Dream Police.

And like that.

[geardaddy]

17. This one

[MadrasT]

18. The Cars, Candy-O

[ArnoldLayne]

19. The Wall, Breakfast in America and The Knack.

[ArnoldLayne]

20. Oh I forgot London Calling and Candy O.

[opiate69]

21. I was heavily into KISS back then (hey, I was 10 in 79)

so probably Detroit Rock City and Hotter than Hell

[bluedigger]

22. "This ain't no party, this ain't no disco."

From Fear of Music.

[Bertha Venation]

23. In '79 I was still working on Court & Spark

In fact, if I could find it, it would rarely leave the car.

[Doc_Technical]

27. Arguably her best album.

n/t

[dana_b]

24. Lots of good ones but "London Calling"

was my favorite. I played it for months.

[hobbit709]

26. Broken English-Marianne Faithfull

[kwassa]

28. "Fear of Music" the Talking Heads

my art school classmates.

Life During Wartime

Heaven

I Zimbra

[bluesbassman]

29. Cheap Trick - At Budokan

edit for better video.

[kwassa]

30. The B52s first album, including Rock Lobster and Planet Claire