My favourite albums from 1979

1. 32

   Saxon

   Saxon

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Rainbow Theme ●
   2. Frozen Rainbow
   3. Big Teaser
   4. Judgement Day
   5. Stallions of the Highway
   6. Backs to the Wall
   7. Still Fit to Boogie
   8. Militia Guard

   Genres

   • Heavy metal
   • Hard rock

2. 31

   Breakfast in America

   Supertramp

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Gone Hollywood
   2. The Logical Song ●
   3. Goodbye Stranger
   4. Breakfast in America
   5. Oh Darling
   6. Take the Long Way Home
   7. Lord Is It Mine
   8. Just Another Nervous Wreck
   9. Casual Conversations
   10. Child of Vision

   Genres

   • Progressive pop
   • Pop rock

3. 30

   Van Halen II

   Van Halen

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. You're No Good
   2. Dance the Night Away
   3. Somebody Get Me a Doctor
   4. Bottoms up!
   5. Outta Love Again
   6. Light up the Sky
   7. Spanish Fly
   8. D.O.A.
   9. Women in Love ...
   10. Beautiful Girls ●

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Heavy metal

4. 29

   Stand by

   Heldon

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Bolero
   2. Une drôle de journée
   3. Stand by ●

   Genres

   • Avant-garde rock
   • Progressive rock
   • Electronica

5. 28

   Dynasty

   Kiss

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. I Was Made for Lovin' You ●
   2. 2,000 Man
   3. Sure Know Something
   4. Dirty Livin'
   5. Charisma
   6. Magic Touch
   7. Hard Times
   8. X-Ray Eyes
   9. Save Your Love

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Disco

6. 27

   Enlightened Rogues

   The Allman Brothers Band

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Crazy Love
   2. Can't Take It With You ●
   3. Pegasus
   4. Need Your Love So Bad
   5. Blind Love
   6. Try It One More Time
   7. Just Ain't Easy
   8. Sail Away

   Genres

   • Southern rock
   • Blues rock

7. 26

   Regatta de Blanc

   The Police

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Message in a Bottle ●
   2. Regatta de Blanc
   3. It's Alright for You
   4. Bring on the Night
   5. Deathwish
   6. Walking on the Moon
   7. On Any Other Day
   8. The Bed's Too Big Without You
   9. Contact
   10. Does Everyone Stare
   11. No Time This Time

   Genres

   • New wave
   • Reggae rock

8. 25

   Hydra

   Toto

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Hydra ●
   2. St. George and the Dragon
   3. 99
   4. Lorraine
   5. All Us Boys
   6. Mama
   7. White Sister
   8. A Secret Love

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Hard rock

9. 24

   Narita

   Riot

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Waiting for the Taking
   2. 49er ●
   3. Kick Down the Wall
   4. Born to Be Wild
   5. Narita
   6. Here We Come Again
   7. Do It up
   8. Hot for Love
   9. White Rock
   10. Road Racin'

   Genres

   • Hard rock
   • Heavy metal

10. 23

    Casiopea

    Casiopea

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Time Limit
    2. Tears of the Star
    3. Space Road
    4. Midnight Rendezvous ●
    5. Far Away
    6. Swallow
    7. Dream Hill
    8. Black Joke

    Genres

    • Jazz fusion

11. 22

    Top Priority

    Rory Gallagher

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Follow Me
    2. Philby ●
    3. Wayward Child
    4. Key Chain
    5. At the Depot
    6. Bad Penny
    7. Just Hit Town
    8. Off the Handle
    9. Public Enemy No. 1

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Hard rock

12. 21

    Flirtin' with Disaster

    Molly Hatchet

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Whiskey Man
    2. It's All Over Now
    3. One Man's Pleasure
    4. Jukin' City
    5. Boogie No More
    6. Flirtin' with Disaster ●
    7. Good Rockin'
    8. Gunsmoke
    9. Long Time
    10. Let the Good Times Roll

    Genres

    • Southern rock
    • Boogie 'n' roll

13. 20

    Strikes

    Blackfoot

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Road Fever
    2. I Got a Line on You
    3. Left Turn on a Red Light
    4. Pay My Dues
    5. Baby Blue
    6. Wishing Well
    7. Run and Hide
    8. Train, Train
    9. Highway Song ●

    Genres

    • Southern rock
    • Blues rock

14. 19

    Lovehunter

    Whitesnake

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Long Way from Home
    2. Walking in the Shadow of the Blues
    3. Help Me Thro' the Day
    4. Medicine Man
    5. You 'n' Me
    6. Mean Business
    7. Love Hunter ●
    8. Outlaw
    9. Rock 'n' Roll Women
    10. We Wish You Well

    Genres

    • Blues rock
    • Hard rock

15. 18

    Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws

    Bruce Cockburn

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Creation Dream
    2. Hills of Morning
    3. Badlands Flashback
    4. Northern Lights
    5. After the Rain
    6. Wondering Where the Lions Are ●
    7. Incandescent Blue
    8. No Footprints

    Genres

    • Folk
    • Folk rock

16. 17

    Machine Gun Etiquette

    The Damned

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Love Song ●
    2. Machine Gun Etiquette
    3. I Just Can't Be Happy Today
    4. Melody Lee
    5. Anti-Pope
    6. These Hands
    7. Plan 9 Channel 7
    8. Noise, Noise, Noise
    9. Looking at You
    10. Liar
    11. Smash It up (Part 1)
    12. SMash It up (Part 2)

    Genres

    • Punk rock
    • Proto-hardcore

17. 16

    Degüello

    ZZ Top

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. I Thank You
    2. She Loves My Automobile
    3. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
    4. A Fool dor Your Stockings
    5. Dust My Broom
    6. Lowdwn in the Street
    7. Hi Fi Mama
    8. Cheap Sunglasses ●
    9. Esther Be the One

    Genres

    • Blues
    • Blues rock

18. 15

    Down to Earth

    Rainbow

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. All Night Long ●
    2. Eyes of the World
    3. No Time to Lose
    4. Makin' love
    5. Since You've Been Gone
    6. Love's No Friend
    7. Danger Zone
    8. Lost in Hollywood

    Genres

    • Hard rock

19. 14

    Wave

    Patti Smith Group

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Frederick
    2. Dancing Barefoot ●
    3. So You Want to Be (a Rock 'n' Roll Star)
    4. Hymn
    5. Revenge
    6. Citizen Ship
    7. Seven Ways of Going
    8. Broken Flag
    9. Wave

    Genres

    • Art rock
    • Art punk

20. 13

    Bomber

    Motörhead

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Dead Man Tell No Tales
    2. Lawman
    3. Sweet Revenge
    4. Sharpshooter
    5. Poison
    6. Stone Dead Forever
    7. All the Aces
    8. Step Down
    9. Talking Head
    10. Bomber ●

    Genres

    • Speed metal

21. 12

    Cornerstone

    Styx

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Lights
    2. Why Me
    3. Babe
    4. Never Say Never
    5. Boat on a River ●
    6. Borrowed Time
    7. First Time
    8. Eddie
    9. Love in the Midnight

    Genres

    • Pop rock
    • progressive rock

22. 11

    Fröm the Fjörds

    Legend

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Destroyer
    2. The Wizard's Vengeance ●
    3. The Golden Bell
    4. The Confrontation
    5. R.A.R.Z.
    6. Against the Gods
    7. The Iron Horse
    8. From the Fjords

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Progressive metal

23. 10

    Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes

    Eloy

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Astral Entrance
    2. Master of Sensation
    3. The Apocalypse
    4. Pilot to Paradise
    5. De Labore Solis
    6. Mighty Echoes ●

    Genres

    • Space rock
    • Progressive rock

24. 9

    Lovedrive

    Scorpions

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Loving You Sunday Morning
    2. Another Piece of Meat
    3. Always Somewhere
    4. Coast to Coast
    5. Can't Get Enough
    6. Is There Anybody There?
    7. Lovedrive
    8. Holiday ●

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • heavy metal

25. 8

    Magnum II

    Magnum

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Great Adventure
    2. Changes
    3. The Battle
    4. If I Could Live Forever
    5. Reborn
    6. So Cold the Night
    7. Foolish Heart
    8. Stayin' Alive
    9. Firebird
    10. All of My Life ●

    Genres

    • Progressive rock
    • hard rock

26. 7

    Unknown Pleasures

    Joy Division

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Disorder
    2. Day of the Lords ●
    3. Candidate
    4. Insight
    5. New Dawn Fades
    6. She's Lost Control
    7. Shadowplay
    8. Wilderness
    9. Interzone
    10. I Remember Nothing

    Genres

    • Post-punk
    • Gothic rock

27. 6

    Rust Never Sleeps

    Neil Young & the Crazy Horse

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue) ●
    2. Thrasher
    3. Ride My Llama
    4. Pocahontas
    5. Sail Away
    6. Powderfinger
    7. Welfare Mothers
    8. Sedan Delivery
    9. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • hard rock

28. 5

    Damn the Torpedoes

    Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Refugee ●
    2. Here Comes My Girl
    3. Even the Losers
    4. Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)
    5. Century City
    6. Don't Do Me Like That
    7. You Tell Me
    8. What Are You Doin' in My life?
    9. Louisiana Rain

    Genres

    • Roots rock

29. 4

    Tusk

    Fleetwood Mac

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Over & Over
    2. The Ledge
    3. Think About Me
    4. Save Me a Place
    5. Sara
    6. What Makes You Think You're the One
    7. Storms
    8. That's All for Everyone
    9. Not That Funny
    10. Sisters of the Moon
    11. Angel
    12. That's Enough for Me
    13. Brown Eyes
    14. Never Make Me Cry
    15. I Know I'm Not Wrong
    16. Honey Hi
    17. Beautiful Child
    18. Walk a Thin Line
    19. Tusk ●
    20. Never Forget

    Genres

    • Pop rock
    • experimental rock

30. 3

    Overkill

    Motörhead

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Overkill
    2. Stay Clean
    3. (I Won't) Pay Your Price
    4. I'll Be Your Sister
    5. Capricorn
    6. No Class ●
    7. Damage Case
    8. Tear Ya Down
    9. Metropolis
    10. Limb from Limb

    Genres

    • Speed metal
    • heavy metal

31. 2

    The Wall

    Pink Floyd

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. In the Flesh?
    2. The Thin ice
    3. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1
    4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives
    5. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
    6. Mother
    7. Goodbye Blue Sky
    8. Empty Spaces
    9. Young Lust
    10. One of My Turns
    11. Don't Leave Me Now
    12. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3
    13. Goodbye Cruel World
    14. Hey You
    15. Is There Anybody out There?
    16. Nobody Home
    17. Vera
    18. Bring the Boys Home
    19. Comfortably Numb ●
    20. The Show Must Go on
    21. In the Flesh
    22. Run Like Hell
    23. Waiting for the Worms
    24. Stop
    25. The Trial
    26. Outside the Wall

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

32. 1

    Highway to Hell

    AC/DC

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Highway to Hell
    2. Girls Gor Rhythm
    3. Walk All Over You
    4. Touch Too Much ●
    5. Beating Around the Bush
    6. Shot Down in Flames
    7. Get It Hot
    8. If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
    9. Love Hungry Man
    10. Night Prowler

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • heavy metal