1978 was an awesome year for rock music....

[Virginia Dare]

In no particular order, feel free to add/correct...some of this I like better than others.

1979 was awesome too, maybe somebody wants to contribute that list.

Debuts:

Van Halen
The Cars
Devo
Prince
The Police
Joe Jackson
Kate Bush
The Boomtown Rats
Dire Straits
The Jam



The Who -- Who Are You
Elvis Costello -- This Year's Model
The Band--Last Waltz
Queen--Jazz
Pieces of Eight--Styx
Bruce Springsteen--Darkness on the Edge of Town
Rolling Stones--Some Girls
Ramones--Road to Ruin
Heart--Dog and Butterfly
Lynyrd Skynyrd--Skynyrd's First and..Last
Grateful Dead--Shakedown Street
Neil Young--Comes a Time
Doobie Brothers--Minute By Minute
Joe Walsh--But Seriously Folks
Billy Joel--52nd Street
Rush--Hemispheres
Boston--Don't Look Back
Toto--Toto
Blondie--Parallel Lines
Buzzcocks--Love Bites
Cheap Trick--Heaven Tonight

[taterguy]

1. the dB's formed in 1978

Even if nothing else happened in the music world that would have made it an awesome year

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. Gotta love the dB's!

:hi:

[smtpgirl]

2. AC/DC

Judas Priest
Scorpions
Saxon
The Stranglers
Sex Pistols
Dead Kennedy's
Kix

[New Earth]

3. 1978 was an awesome year because

I was born :D :hi:

[smtpgirl]

4. I graduated high school in 1978

[Joe Fields]

5. I'm glad you love it, but if you don't mind, I'll stick to the '60's.

And very early '70's.

[taterguy]

6. why?

I'm not suggesting you're "wrong", I'd just like to know why you feel that way

[Joe Fields]

10. I guess it depends on how old you are and what music you

were weaned on. I was born in the mid '50's, cut my teeth on Elvis, grew up with the Beatles, Stones, etc..., graduated from Led Zeppelin U.

[evlbstrd]

7. 1979.

The year I got out of the Navy. All the hippies and freaks had disappearred. But Zappa released Joe's Garage, and I discovered the Clash.

[Kire]

8. Y.M.C.A.