Urban75 Album of the Year - 1978

[sunnysidedown]

I'll have three guesses - Tom Robinson Band, Minor Threat, On-U-Sound sampler. Scrap that, probably Crass.

I thought possibly Crass but they didnt release anything till '79. The (pay no more than £1.75) ATV/H&N album was '78.

 

[Dr. Furface]

extraordinary time for music - so many albums that are still being played and still shape music some 40 years (!) later. far more so than the 1968 list IMHO. same would go for 1979 as well.

Yep, 79 was an amazing year and will be a reet bastard to classify

 

[rekil]

16.Tonic For The Troops - The Boomtown Rats

Geldof claimed fairly recently that the Boomtown Rats were "in the top 10" bands of that era. He's clearly delusional but I was wondering how much opinion of bands like his and The Police is coloured by subsequent decades of intensive knobendery. Maybe they should've all died from choking on spit in 1980 or something.

Aside from all the ones mostly everyone else has I had Townes Van Zandt and these europunks in there or thereabouts.

The Kids. Which includes the amusing "Old Djs".

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Ivy Green

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Raxola

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[marty21]

Geldof claimed fairly recently that the Boomtown Rats were "in the top 10" bands of that era. He's clearly delusional but I was wondering how much opinion of bands like his and The Police is coloured by subsequent decades of intensive knobendery. Maybe they should've all died from choking on spit in 1980 or something.

Aside from all the ones mostly everyone else has I had Townes Van Zandt and these europunks in there or thereabouts.

The Kids. Which includes the amusing "Old Djs".

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Ivy Green

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Raxola

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They were a big band, 2 massive number 1s - Rat Trap, and I Don't Like Mondays, before Sir Bob came Sir Bob, he was just a loud mouth singer.

I remember the Police when they were up and coming - in 77, I think Roxanne was a hit in the US and then they were rediscovered over here

 

[Casual Observer]

At the risk of telling people what they already know, there's a great Buzzcocks' bootleg that became a semi-official LP called Time's Up. 11 songs recorded in a studio with an engineer, all played live with no overdubs, Howard Devoto singing throughout (with Peter Shelley on guitar, Steve Diggle on bass, John Mayer on drums). All recorded in an afternoon in October 1976 so it predates the recording of Spiral Scratch (recorded December 76, released January 77). Sounds better than Spiral Scratch to my ears. And there's more of it.

 

[belboid]

At the risk of telling people what they already know, there's a great Buzzcocks' bootleg that became a semi-official LP called Time's Up. 11 songs recorded in a studio with an engineer, all played live with no overdubs, Howard Devoto singing throughout (with Peter Shelley on guitar, Steve Diggle on bass, John Mayer on drums). All recorded in an afternoon in October 1976 so it predates the recording of Spiral Scratch (recorded December 76, released January 77). Sounds better than Spiral Scratch to my ears. And there's more of it.

Properly released last year, it’s a cracker

 

[Knotted]

9 - Dr. Alimantado ‎– Best Dressed Chicken In Town

I don't actually know this album at all. I am not proud of this fact.

Same here. These threads are great for broadening horizons. When it comes to eg. reggae, I just don't know the big names to even check them out. Thanks everyone, especially belboid.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I thought possibly Crass but they didnt release anything till '79. The (pay no more than £1.75) ATV/H&N album was '78.

Well there was this in 1973:

Also the Virgin V comp (1975) had a sticker on it with the price, but not "pay no more than" printed on the sleeve:

 

[Lurdan]

Well there was this in 1973:

That Faust album was one of the first three albums Virgin released, along with Gong's Flying Teapot and Tubular Bells. I went up to the Virgin store on Oxford Street the first day they were on sale. Sadly in retrospect, I bought the other two...