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  • 4/17/2025
Top Albums 1979

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00:00we're counting down the best rock albums of 1979 a great year that's all classic
00:08albums by legends as well as younger punk and new wave artists at number 10 is Neil
00:14Young's half acoustic half electric Russ never sleeps it opened with the solo my
00:18my hey hey out of the blue and closed with an electric version of the same
00:23song hey hey my mind into the black number nine is Tom Petty and the
00:27heartbreakers damn the torpedoes stacked with radio classics including refugee
00:31here comes my girl even the losers and don't do me like that punk rock hits our
00:36chart at number eight with the clashes London calling the politically charged
00:41album had some of their most accessible songs including lost in the supermarket
00:45and train in vain when our number seven album was released no one knew that it
00:50marked at end of an era but ACDC's highway to hell was their last album with frontman
00:54Bonscott he died a few months later after the massive success of 1977 rumors
00:59Fleetwood Mac's label was clearly hoping for rumors part two but our number six
01:03album tusk was anything but that a sprawling double album it didn't sell like
01:08rumors but it held up as a classic in its own right every police album is great but
01:13our number five album 1979's where got into blank is a bit underrated and that's
01:18crazy considering that it has message in a bottle walking on the moon and bringing
01:22on the night 1978's van halen was a game-changing debut but our number four
01:26album van halen to prove that the band wasn't just a flash of the pan thanks to
01:31party jams like dance the night away women in love and beautiful girls our
01:35number three album the long run was the end of the line for the Eagles at least
01:39until they reunited for hell freezes over in 1994 number two also marked the end for a
01:45legendary band Led Zeppelin's in through the outdoor was their last LP but with
01:49songs like in the evening and all of my love they went out on a strong note and
01:53that number one pig Floyd's the wall a rock opera a film epic stage show one of
01:59the rare concept albums that holds up from start to finish and it had a number
02:03one single with another break of the wall part two that's our list what did we
02:08miss

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