My favourite albums from 1978

1. 30

   Nasıl? Ne Zaman?

   Hardal

   

   

   Progressive rock | Anatolian rock

   Tracks:

   1. Bir Yağmur Masalı ●
   2. Unuttum
   3. Sen Gittin Diye
   4. Nasıl? Ne Zaman?
   5. Zor
   6. Ne Kadar Zaman Geçti
   7. Lânet Olsun
   8. Başka
   9. Gece Vakti

   Album blurb pending

2. 29

   Of Queues and Cures

   National Health

   

   

   Jazz fusion | Progressive rock | Art rock

   Tracks:

   1. The Bryden Two-Step (for Amphibians), Pt. 1
   2. The Collapso
   3. Squarer for Maud ●
   4. Dreams Wide Awake
   5. Binoculars
   6. Phlâkatön
   7. The Bryden Two-Step (for Amphibians), Pt. 2

   Album blurb pending

3. 28

   Weidorje

   Weidorje

   

   

   Zeuhl | Progressive rock | Jazz fusion

   Tracks:

   1. Elohims Voyage
   2. Vilna
   3. Booldemug
   4. Rondeau
   5. Kolinda ●

   Album blurb pending

4. 27

   One Nation Under a Groove

   Funkadelic

   

   

   Funk | Progressive rock

   Tracks:

   1. One Nation Under a Groove
   2. Groovallegiance
   3. Who Says a Funk Band Can't Play Rock?! ●
   4. Promentalshitbackwashpsychosis Enema Squad (The Doo Doo Chasers)
   5. Into You
   6. Cholly (Funk Getting Ready to Roll!)

   Album blurb pending

5. 26

   Sinister Soldiers

   Sorcery

   

   

   Heavy metal | Hard rock

   Tracks:

   1. Arachnid ●
   2. Fly the Sky
   3. Sugarsweet
   4. Last Goodbye
   5. Slippin' Away
   6. Snowshit
   7. Airborne
   8. Sorcerer
   9. Schitzoid

   Album blurb pending

6. 25

   Adventure

   Television

   

   

   New wave

   Tracks:

   1. Glory
   2. Days
   3. Foxhole ●
   4. Careful
   5. Carried Away
   6. The Fire
   7. Ain't That Nothin'
   8. The Dream's Dream

   Album blurb pending

7. 24

   Plastic Letters

   Blondie

   

   

   New wave | Pop punk

   Tracks:

   1. Fan Mail
   2. Denis ●
   3. Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)
   4. Youth Nabbed as Sniper
   5. Contact in Red Square
   6. (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear
   7. I'm on E
   8. I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No
   9. Love at the Pier
   10. No Imagination
   11. Kidnapper
   12. Detroit 442
   13. Cautious Lip

   Album blurb pending

8. 23

   Casino

   Al Di Meola

   

   

   Jazz fusion

   Tracks:

   1. Egyptian Danza
   2. Chasin' the Voodoo
   3. Dark Eye Tango
   4. Señor Mouse
   5. Fantasia Suite for Two Guitars ●
   6. Casino

   Album blurb pending

9. 22

   Toto

   Toto

   

   

   Progressive rock | Jazz rock

   Tracks:

   1. Child's Anthem
   2. I'll Supply the Love
   3. Georgy Porgy
   4. Manuela Run
   5. You Are the Flower
   6. Girl Goodbye
   7. Takin' It Back
   8. Rockmaker
   9. Hold the Line ●
   10. Angela

   Album blurb pending

10. 21

    Safinaz

    Cem Karaca & Edirdahan

    

    

    Anatolian rock | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Safinaz ●
    2. Şeyh Bedrettin Destanı
    3. Karam

    Album blurb pending

11. 20

    Incantations

    Mike Oldfield

    

    

    Progressive rock | New age

    Tracks:

    1. Incantations (Part One) ●
    2. Incantations (Part Two)
    3. Incantations (Part Three)
    4. Incantations (Part Four)

    Album blurb pending

12. 19

    Jazz

    Queen

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Mustapha ●
    2. Fat Bottomed Girls
    3. Jealousy
    4. Bicycle Race
    5. If You Can't Beat Them
    6. Let Me Entertain You
    7. Dead on Time
    8. In Only Seven Days
    9. Dreamer's Ball
    10. Fun It
    11. Leaving Home Ain't Easy
    12. Don't Stop Me Now
    13. More of That Jazz

    Album blurb pending

13. 18

    The Scream

    Siouxsie and the Banshees

    

    

    Post-punk

    Tracks:

    1. Pure
    2. Jigsaw Feeling
    3. Overground
    4. Carcass
    5. Helter Skelter
    6. Mirage
    7. Metal Postcard (Mittageisen) ●
    8. Nicotine Stain
    9. Suburban Relapse
    10. Switch

    Album blurb pending

14. 17

    Cuentos de ayer y de hoy

    Ñu

    

    

    Progressive rock | Progressive folk

    Tracks:

    1. Profecia
    2. Preparan ●
    3. Algunos músicos fueron nosotros
    4. Cuentos de ayer y de hoy
    5. El juglar
    6. Paraíso de flautas

    Album blurb pending

15. 16

    From the Inside

    Alice Cooper

    

    

    Garage rock | Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. From the Inside ●
    2. Wish I Were Born in Beverly Hills
    3. The Quiet Room
    4. Nurse Rozetta
    5. Millie and Billie
    6. Serious
    7. How You Gonna See Me Now
    8. For Veronica's Sake
    9. Jackknife Johnny
    10. Inmates (We're All Crazy)

    Album blurb pending

16. 15

    Kaya

    Bob Marley and the Wailers

    

    

    Reggae

    Tracks:

    1. Easy Skanking
    2. Kaya
    3. Is This Love
    4. Sun Is Shining
    5. Satisfy My Soul
    6. She's Gone
    7. Misty Morning
    8. Crisis
    9. Running Away ●
    10. Time Will Tell

    Album blurb pending

17. 14

    Dire Straits

    Dire Straits

    

    

    Blues rock | Roots rock

    Tracks:

    1. Down to the Waterling
    2. Water of Love
    3. Setting Me up
    4. Six Blade Knife
    5. Southbound Again
    6. Sultans of Swing ●
    7. In the Gallery
    8. Wild West End
    9. Lions

    Album blurb pending

18. 13

    Killing Machine

    Judas Priest

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Delivering the Goods
    2. Rock Forever
    3. Evening Star
    4. Hell Bent for Leather
    5. Take on the World
    6. Burnin' up
    7. The Green Manalishi (with the Two-Pronged Crown) ●
    8. Killing Machine
    9. Running Wild
    10. Before the Dawn
    11. Evil Fantasies

    Album blurb pending

19. 12

    Hemispheres

    Rush

    

    

    Progressive rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Cygnus X-1 Book II: Hemispheres
    2. Circumstances
    3. The Trees
    4. La Villa Strangiato ●

    Album blurb pending

20. 11

    Infinity

    Journey

    

    

    AOR | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Lights
    2. Feeling That Way
    3. Anytime
    4. Lă Do Dā
    5. Patiently
    6. Wheel in the Sky ●
    7. Somethin' to Hide
    8. Winds of March
    9. Can Do
    10. Opened the Door

    Album blurb pending

21. 10

    Pieces of Eight

    Styx

    

    

    AOR | progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Great White Hope
    2. I'm OK
    3. Sing for the Day
    4. The Message
    5. Lords of the Ring
    6. Blue Collar Man (Long Nights)
    7. Queen of Spades
    8. Renegade ●
    9. Pieces of Eight
    10. Aku-Aku

    Album blurb pending

22. 9

    Powerage

    AC/DC

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Rock'n'Roll Damnation
    2. Down Payment Blues
    3. Gimme a Bullet
    4. Riff Raff ●
    5. Sin City
    6. What's Next to the Moon
    7. Gone Shootin'
    8. Up to My Neck in You
    9. Kicked in the Teeth

    Album blurb pending

23. 8

    Al final de este viaje

    Silvio Rodríguez

    

    

    Folk

    Tracks:

    1. Canción del elegido
    2. La familia, la propiedad privada y el amor
    3. Ojalá ●
    4. La era está pariendo un corazón
    5. Resumen de noticias
    6. Debo partirme en dos
    7. Óleo de una mujer con sombrero
    8. Aunque no esté de moda
    9. Qué se puede hacer con el amor
    10. Al final de este viaje en la vida

    Album blurb pending

24. 7

    Heavy Horses

    Jethro Tull

    

    

    Progressive folk | Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. ... And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps
    2. Acres Wild
    3. No Lullaby
    4. Moths ●
    5. Journeyman
    6. Rover
    7. Obe Brown Mouse
    8. Heavy Horses
    9. Weathercock

    Album blurb pending

25. 6

    Parallel Lines

    Blondie

    

    

    New wave | Pop rock

    Tracks:

    1. Hanging on the Telephone
    2. One Way or Another
    3. Picture This
    4. Fade Away and Radiate ●
    5. Pretty Baby
    6. I Know but I Don't Know
    7. 11:59
    8. Will Anything Happen?
    9. Sunday Girl
    10. Heart of Glass
    11. I'm gonna Love You Too
    12. Just Go Away

    Album blurb pending

26. 5

    Van Halen

    Van Halen

    

    

    Hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Runnin' with the Devil
    2. Eruption ●
    3. You Really Got Me
    4. Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love
    5. I'm the One
    6. Jamie's Cryin'
    7. Atomic Punk
    8. Feel Your Love Tonight
    9. Little Dreamer
    10. Ice Cream Man
    11. On Fire

    Album blurb pending

27. 4

    The Kick Inside

    Kate Bush

    

    

    Progressive pop | baroque pop

    Tracks:

    1. Moving
    2. The Saxophone Song
    3. Strange Phenomena
    4. Kite
    5. The Man with the Child in His Eyes
    6. Wuthering Heights ●
    7. James and the Cold Gun
    8. Feel It
    9. Oh to Be in Love
    10. L'Amour Looks Something Like You
    11. Them Heavy People
    12. Room for the Life
    13. The Kick Inside

    Album blurb pending

28. 3

    Stained Class

    Judas Priest

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Exciter
    2. White Heat, Red Hot
    3. Better by You, Better Than Me
    4. Stained Class
    5. Invader
    6. Saints in Hell
    7. Savage
    8. Beyond the Realms of Death ●
    9. Heores End

    Album blurb pending

29. 2

    Kingdom of Madness

    Magnum

    

    

    Progressive rock | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. In the Beginning
    2. Baby Rock Me
    3. Universe
    4. Kingdom of Madness
    5. All That Is Real
    6. Bringer
    7. Invasion ●
    8. Lords of Chaos
    9. All Come Together

    Album blurb pending

30. 1

    Long Live Rock 'N' Roll

    Rainbow

    

    

    Heavy metal | hard rock

    Tracks:

    1. Long Live Rock 'N' Roll
    2. Lady of the Lake
    3. L.A. Connection
    4. Gates of Babylon
    5. Kill the King ●
    6. The Shed (Subtle)
    7. Sensitive to Light
    8. Rainbow Eyes

    Album blurb pending