Urban75 Album of the Year 1979
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Casual Observer
enough
And then there's Nurse With Wound of course...
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Also Cheap Trick at Budokan - recorded in 78 but released in the US and UK in 79.
At Budokan by Cheap Trick
Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick At Budokan
Cheap Trick at Budokan - Wikipedia
danny la rouge
Ninja swords for all disabled people
Also, the Pop Group- Y.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
of course we are!
The Milk frm Cheltenham album is great, but it's still a grotty old avant garde post punk thing. Of course The Way Out is cut grom the same cloth, but it has this crisp poppy production and its sculpted to perfection. I've always liked it, but revisiting it a few years ago and picking it apart I realised it was perfect. OK the horns are a bit ropey, but in context they work. And that soundscape on Bedroom, and the trippy reggae in Hall and the dabs of rock and roll in The Empty Pause and jazz-pop of Toilet. Things this good don't happen in the normal course of life. We live in a post-Way Out world and we are amazingly lucky for it.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Same here, largely. Looking at my longlist (27 if I don't remember anything else) all but one I either knew at the time or within a couple of years.I'm judging these on how I felt at the time , rather than how I feel about them now . At 14 , music was fantastic , brilliant, awesome
This one I hadn't heard at all until the internet:
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Roedelius - Selbstportrait Vol. 1 - great album of ambient electronica recorded between Cluster sessions
- Jardin Au Fou was also '79
- Jardin Au Fou was also '79
ha, I was literally about to post this. it's on my clipboard.
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Irene Papas was a Greek actress who had appeared in hits like The Guns Of Navarone, she did a 1979 album of Greek folk songs set to electronic accompaniment by Vangelis
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The Philip Glass album from 1979 is pretty special too.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Fucking hell, picking a top 10 is hard for 1979.
There's 5 or 6 albums that will definitely be on the list, but after that there's so much good music that it's hard to know where to start. What criteria even exists to compare Keith Hudson's Nuh Skin Up Dub and the UK Subs' Another Kind of Blues? They're both great in their very different ways.
There's 5 or 6 albums that will definitely be on the list, but after that there's so much good music that it's hard to know where to start. What criteria even exists to compare Keith Hudson's Nuh Skin Up Dub and the UK Subs' Another Kind of Blues? They're both great in their very different ways.
Ming
I shot a man in Reno...
That's a fucking classic. Love Cheap Trick.
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
A quick disco round up for 1979…
Disco is famously a singles style of music and there’s plenty of albums from 1979 to support this view. They’ll have one or two killer tracks that were released as a single and some other tracks that range from inessential to super cheesy (and by 1979 there was a lot of formulaic cheesy disco about). Even the Sister Sledge album – there’s the four singles that are all beyond classic, but the rest of the album is three slow smoochers that I always skip and a good-but-nothing-special track.
But here’s some that are worth checking out if disco is your thing:
Tantra – Hills Of Katmandu
Avoids the problem of weaker tracks by only having two quarter hour long dancefloor bombs.
Grace Jones – Muse
The last of her 3 disco albums produced by Tom Moulton. Not a single track that needs skipping.
Candido – Dancin' & Prancin'
Again, with only 4 long tracks there’s not much chance for weaker ones. And there aren’t any. Contains Jingo, which is of course amazing.
Azoto – Disco Fizz
Italian disco classic! San Salvador is the best known track, but I prefer electro-disco killer Exalt-Exalt. Tbf, the B-side is stronger than the A-side.
Jackie Moore – I'm On My Way
This Time Baby is one of my favourite disco tracks and on first listen I was inclined to disregard the rest of the album but eventually the other tracks have grown on me and I even like her slow numbers.
Slick – Slick
Space Bass is the obvious killer on this album, but while the rest borders on cheese (especially Put Your Pants On) they’re all great, except the last track which makes me want to take the needle off the record.
Not sure how many of these will be in my top 10 - it's a crowded field this year.
Disco is famously a singles style of music and there’s plenty of albums from 1979 to support this view. They’ll have one or two killer tracks that were released as a single and some other tracks that range from inessential to super cheesy (and by 1979 there was a lot of formulaic cheesy disco about). Even the Sister Sledge album – there’s the four singles that are all beyond classic, but the rest of the album is three slow smoochers that I always skip and a good-but-nothing-special track.
But here’s some that are worth checking out if disco is your thing:
Tantra – Hills Of Katmandu
Avoids the problem of weaker tracks by only having two quarter hour long dancefloor bombs.
Grace Jones – Muse
The last of her 3 disco albums produced by Tom Moulton. Not a single track that needs skipping.
Candido – Dancin' & Prancin'
Again, with only 4 long tracks there’s not much chance for weaker ones. And there aren’t any. Contains Jingo, which is of course amazing.
Azoto – Disco Fizz
Italian disco classic! San Salvador is the best known track, but I prefer electro-disco killer Exalt-Exalt. Tbf, the B-side is stronger than the A-side.
Jackie Moore – I'm On My Way
This Time Baby is one of my favourite disco tracks and on first listen I was inclined to disregard the rest of the album but eventually the other tracks have grown on me and I even like her slow numbers.
Slick – Slick
Space Bass is the obvious killer on this album, but while the rest borders on cheese (especially Put Your Pants On) they’re all great, except the last track which makes me want to take the needle off the record.
Not sure how many of these will be in my top 10 - it's a crowded field this year.
Casual Observer
enough
If this doesn't make the eventual top 10, I want my money back. Genius basement DIY sci-fi punk rock from the future. In the realms of human achievement, this album is on a par with getting a man on the moon. The first track is so-so but use the links below (once you've clicked the original link) to go straight to track 2 (Zombie Warfare) and beyond if you're in a hurry to get to the greatness/weirdness.
Lots of listening to get through. James Chance & The Contortions up next.
Lots of listening to get through. James Chance & The Contortions up next.
