1979 Album Releasese (25 of my faves)

The Wall.

Jared wrote: So, I've been looking at my 1979 listens, and here is my Top 20 list: 1) Eloy: Silent Cries 2) TD: Force Majeure 3) Hackett: Spectral Mornings 4) UK: Danger Money 5) Anyone's Daughter: Adonis 6) PF: The Wall 7) Sky: Sky 8) Tull: Stormwatch 9) Froese: Stuntman 10) MMEB: Angel Station 11) Vangelis: China 12) Camel: I can See Your House 13) Oldfield: Platinum 14) Zep: Out Door 15) Supertramp: Breakfast 16) Renaissance: Azure d'Or 17) Vangelis: Opera Sauvage 18) Hawkwind: PXR5 19) Grobschnitt: Merry-Go- I hope you like it.... I've broken quite a sweat putting this together!!

Suggestion, when preparing such lists in the sauna, try to keep the temperature lower to mitigate steamroom sweat. Very nice list, thanks for preparing and sharing! While I knew that I wanted Vangelis' China in the poll but opted to leave it off due to space limitation, I totally missed adding Vangelis', I think excellent, Opera Sauvage which has been one of my favourite Vangelis albums. I have added it to my list at Awesomeprog.

So here are my favourites of yours:
TD: Force Majeure
PF: The Wall
Froese: Stuntman
Vangelis: Opera Sauvage
Zep: Out Door
Vangelis: China
Supertramp: Breakfast

Also have known and liked Anyone's Daughter: Adonis. I should give that Hackett album a proper listen, and probably try that that UK again (been many years, wasn't for me at the time) and I have liked that Camel album and music off of Stormwatch. Good stuff! Oh, and I really should get down to listening to more Manfred Mann's Earth Band. I like his Solar Fire album from 1974 a lot.

I liked plenty of music from this year, but seeing the other mentions, I know it's a finer year still than what was in my head when I made the poll.

Ah, cool. I mean, with my avi, that could be downright embarrassing.

Logan wrote: Awesome! Thanks.

Was Stuntman there when I voted? I swear I didn't see it at the bottom, unless I was just from a lonnng day at work.

^ Thanks, you have been a significant inspiration on my tastes, by the way with your recommendations, which I have mentioned before but I feel deserves mention again.

Henry Cow
Univers Zero
Art Zoyd

^ I do wish I had stuck closer to my original list and kept Vangelis' China in my top 20 instead of making way for some others with the shuffling of my list. Beautiful music on that. Plenty of wonderful albums form 1979. And I was even thinking about Edgar Froese's Stuntman the other day. Of course Verslibre has the album cover as avatar. That definitely should have been on my list, and I think I will add it somewhere. While UK's never connected with me, I wonder if I had put it in this poll if I might have had a better chance to connect with some people at this forum in topic discussion here. I thought Bruford's One of a Kind might get quite few mentions as one not on the list. It is on my longer list but as I said in the OP, it's not one I have given much attention to (only listened through it the once. I did like it and should return to it at some time).

Froese is in the list now, multiple choice as said, and the try to vote for three albums does not mean that people should not vote for more if they want. Now to update my list in another topic (actually okay with my top 20 there). I now wish I had not limited those lists to twenty 20 per year in that topic, but doesn't matter, have them at AP anyway and that is more dynamic.

I should pay more attention to your lists there, Richard, Jared et al to see omissions. Those lists are all works in progress.

Edited by Logan - 3 hours 54 minutes ago at 11:16

^ Indeed!

^^ Great job, Jared. I had had Vangelis' CHina in my top 20, but made way for some others. I love it.

Rick1 wrote: Surprisingly tough calls - Residents, UZ but went with the mighty Art Bears.  Incidentally, the last Henry Cow album appeared in 79 (although recorded in 78).

Thanks, I have had Henry Cow's Western Culture listed as 1979 in personal lists and knoew that, but totally forgot to change the release date at AwesomeProg (I was recently given those editing privileges there). Changed the date there and added it to my list. It;s multiple choice anyway, and people can vote for more than three (or less) if they want to. Would just hope that they would list all that are voted for. I would have put it in top spot.

So, I've been looking at my 1979 listens, and here is my Top 20 list:

Surprisingly tough calls - Residents, UZ but went with the mighty Art Bears.  Incidentally, the last Henry Cow album appeared in 79 (although recorded in 78).