The Best Rock Albums of 1978

Selected by piero scaruffi
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1978


    9/10
  1. Pere Ubu: Modern Dance (Blank)
  2. Residents: Not Available (Ralph)
    8.5/10
  3. Harold Budd: Pavilion Of Dreams
    8/10
  4. Michael Hoenig: Departure From The Northern Wasteland (Warner Brothers)
  5. Brian Eno: Music For Airports (Ambient)
  6. Klaus Schulze: X (Gramavision)
    7.5/10
  7. Muffins: Manna/Mirage (RandomRadar)
  8. Talking Heads: More Songs About Building And Food (Sire)
  9. XTC: White Music (Virgin)
  10. Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum)
  11. Jean-Michel Jarre: Equinoxe (Disques Dreyfus)
  12. Pere Ubu: Dub Housing (Chrysalis)
  13. Jasun Martz: The Pillory (Neoteric)
    7/10
  14. Devo: Are We Not Men (Warner)
  15. Television: Adventure (Elektra)
  16. Patti Smith: Easter (Arista)
  17. Wire: Chairs Missing (Harvest)
  18. National Health: Of Queues And Cures (Charly)
  19. Univers Zero: 1313 (Cryonic)
  20. Art Bears: Hopes And Fears (Re)
  21. Brian Eno: Music For Films (Polydor)
  22. X-Ray Spex: Germ Free Adolescents (EMI)
  23. Tom Waits: Blue Valentine (Asylum)
  24. Saints: Eternally Yours (Harvest)
  25. Cabaret Voltaire: Mix-up (RoughTrade)
  26. Lou Reed: Street Hassle (Arista)
  27. Big Star: Third (PVC)
  28. Public Image Ltd: First Issue (Virgin)
  29. Throbbing Gristle: DOA (Industrial)
  30. Tom Petty: You're Gonna Get It (Island)
  31. Funkadelic: One Nation Under A Groove (Warner)
  32. Captain Beefheart: Shiny Beast (Warner)
  33. Elvis Costello: This Year's Model (Radar)
  34. Van Halen: Van Halen (Warner)
  35. U.K.: U.K. (Polydor)
  36. Paul Winter: Common Ground (A&M)
  37. Nick Lowe: Jesus Of Cool (Radar)
  38. Joe Ely: Honky Tonk Masquerade (MCA)
  39. National Health: self-titled (Affinity)
  40. Jon Hassell: Earthquake Island (Tomato)
  41. Generation X: Generation X (Chrysalis)
  42. Synergy: Cords (Passport)
  43. Real Kids: Real Kids (Redstar)
  44. Butch Hancock: West Texas Waltzes & Dust-Blown Tractor Tunes (Rainlight)
  45. Jade Warrior: Way Of The Sun (Island)
  46. Kate Bush: The Kick Inside (EMI)
  47. Deuter: Haleakala Mystery (Kuckuck)
  48. Dixie Dregs: What If (Capricorn)
  49. Rodney Crowell: Ain't Living Long Like This (Warner)
  50. Foreigner: Double Vision (Atlantic)
  51. Caetano Veloso: Muito
  52. Townes Van Zandt: Flyin' Shoes

Playlist
  1. ... In preparation
  2. Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
  3. Kate Bush: Wuthering Heights
  4. Meat Loaf: Two Out of Three Ain't Bad
  5. Patti Smith: Because the Night
  6. Devo: Uncontrollable Urge
  7. Bob Dylan: Is Your Love in Vain?
  8. Wire: I Am the Fly
  9. Nuns: Decadent Jew
  10. Kenny Rogers: The Gambler
Extended tracks
  1. ... In preparation
  2. Residents: Edweena
  3. Brian Eno: Music for Airports
  4. Muffins: The Adventures Of Captain Boomerang
  5. Public Image Ltd: Fodderstompf

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