Album of The Year - Endgame

1. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
2. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
3. Wire - Chairs Missing
4. Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
5. Magazine - Real Life
6. Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool
7. Television - Adventure
8. The Cars - The Cars
9. Nationalteatern - Barn Av Var Tid
10. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
 
Not much love for Seger here, eh? Maybe his appeal isn't as widespread as I thought.
I admittedly have a soft spot for him because he's a local legend, and he has kept a couple friends of mine employed at times. But his body of work is pretty amazing, no?
1978's Stranger in Town has Hollywood Nights, Still the Same, Feel Like a Number, We've Got Tonight among others.
Old Time Rock & Roll is on there too, and while I can't bear to hear that song anymore, that's not the song's fault that it has been beaten to death at weddings and elsewhere.

Anyway...not necessarily lobbying, just noticed he's not on any lists.
 
1. The Band - The Last Waltz
2. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
3. Bob Dylan - Street-Legal
4. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
5. Neil Young - Comes a Time
6. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
7. Townes Van Zandt - Flyin' Shoes
8. Patti Smith Group - Easter
9. David Gilmour - David Gilmour
10. X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents
 
1. Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
2. Michael Rother - Sterntaler
3. La Düsseldorf - Viva
4. The Cars - The Cars
5. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
6. Wolfgang Riechmann - Wunderbar
7. Public Image Ltd. - First Issue
8. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
9. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
10. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside

Honorable mention:
The Walker Brothers - Nite Flights
Lou Reed - Street Hassle
Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Various - No New York
Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
 
1. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
2. Kraftwerk - The Man Machine
3. The Residents - Not Available
4. Sun Ra - Lanquidity
5. V/A - No New York
6. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance
7. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
8. Wire - Chairs Missing
9. Marvin Gaye - Here My Dear
10. Rush - Hemisphere

Great year for experimental music, even without as many mainstream "heavy hitters" as just about every other year in the 70s!
 
Hard list. Amazing year. Probably be different another week.

1. Wire - Chairs Missing
2. Funkadelic - One Nation Under A Groove
3. Magazine - Real Life
4. Kraftwerk - Die Mensch-Maschine
5. Steve Reich - Music For 18 Musicians
6. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness On The Edge Of Town
7. Elvis Costello - This Years Model
8. Tom Waits - Blue Valentine
9. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings And Food
10. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy

HM:
Johnny Thunders - So Alone
The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Buzzcocks - Another Music In A Different Kitchen
X-Ray Spex - Germfree Adolescents
Marvin Gaye - Here My Dear
 
1978:
1. Wire - Chairs Missing
2. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope
3. Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
4. The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
5. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
6. The Cars - The Cars
7. Big Star - Third
8. Magazine - Real Life
9. Sun Ra - Lanquidity
10. Pere Ubu - The Modern Dance

HM:
Blondie – Parallel Lines
Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Nick Lowe – Jesus of Cool
Television ‎– Adventure
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Van Halen - Van Halen
Tom Waits – Blue Valentine
XTC ‎– White Music/Go 2
 
grateful for the extra week, wouldn't have found the time to reevaluate some of the records otherwise

1. Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
2. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
3. Blondie - Parallel Lines
4. The Police - Outlandos d'Amour
5. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
6. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
7. Fela Kuti - Shuffering and Shmiling
8. Magazine - Real Life
9. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
10. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
 
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Thankful for this extra week, too. Currently at work, but rattling this off!

Top 10 Albums of 1978:
  1. Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports​
  2. Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine​
  3. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians​
  4. Ryuichi Sakamoto -Thousand Knives of Ryuichi Sakamoto​
  5. The Cars - The Cars​
  6. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside​
  7. Funkadelic - One Nation Under a Groove
  8. Robbie Basho - Visions of the Country
  9. Oregon - Out of the Woods​
  10. Brian Eno - Music for Films​
 
Looks like I'm not too late! One of the best years of the 70s imo

1978:
1. Journey - Infinity
2. Styx - Pieces Of Eight
3. Van Halen - Van Halen
4. Judas Priest - Killing Machine
5. Quiet Riot - Quiet Riot II
6. Queen - Jazz
7. Jefferson Starship - Earth
8. Dire Straits - Dire Straits
9. The Cars - The Cars
10. REO Speedwagon - You Can Tune A Piano, But You Can't Tuna Fish
 
1 Wire - Chairs Missing
2 Big Star - Third
3 Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
4 Devo - Q: Are We Not Men?
5 Stranglers-Black and white
6 Television ‎– Adventure
7 Van Morrison-Wavelength
8 Buzzcocks - Another Music in a Different Kitchen
9 Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music For Airports
10 Brian Eno - Music for Films
 
The N+G Top 20 Albums of 1978

  1. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
  2. Wire - Chairs Missing
  3. Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
  4. The Cars - The Cars
  5. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians
  6. Bruce Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
  7. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
  8. Brian Eno - Ambient 1/Music for Airports
  9. Blondie - Parallel Lines
  10. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
  11. Big Star - Third
  12. Funkadelic- One Nation Under a Groove
  13. The Clash - Give 'Em Enough Rope (tie 13)
  14. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside (tie 13)
  15. The Police - Outlandos D'Amour
  16. Devo - Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
  17. Tom Waits - Blue Valentine (tie 17)
  18. Dire Straits - Dire Straits (tie 17)
  19. Magazine - Real Life
  20. Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy
 
It seems I missed the last run out, oh well.

2006 was the happiest year of my life, to date, also, what a magical year for music! Sohere it goes...

1. Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
2. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That Is What I’m Not
3. Thom Yorke- The Eraser
4. Morrissey - Ringleader Of The Tormentors
5. Bob Dylan - Modern Times
6. Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere
7. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones
8. TV On The Radio - Return To Cookie Mountain
9. Hot Chip - The Warning
10. Muse - Black Holes & Revelations
 
A truly magnificent year in music!!! ⭐️

1.Amy Winehouse - Back To Black
2. Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
3. Justin Timberlake - FutureSex/LoveSounds
4. J Dilla - Donuts
5. Joanna Newsom - Ys
6. Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not
7. Grizzly Bear - Yellow House
8. Cunninlynguists - A Piece Of Strange
9. Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
10. Corinne Bailey Rae - Corinne Bailey Rae
 
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