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Old 23-06-2013, 17:53
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Could this be the most innovative year for music ever? By 1979 it was OK to have short hair again, thanks to the punk and 2 Tone scenes, and the musical landscape had changed vastly compared with two years previously. Punk had mostly given way to post punk with bands like Joy Division, there was a new generation of metal bands who had moved away from self indulgent solos, the 2 Tone scene had revived an interest in ska after a long absence, Gary Numan was starting the boom in synthesiser music that would dominate the early eighties, and The Jam had kicked off a mod revival. Also there were minor trends towards country, jazz funk and reggae.
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Old 23-06-2013, 18:03
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also Pink Floyd released The Wall and Iron Maiden were signed by EMI
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Old 23-06-2013, 18:33
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arguably, yes, though others could argue early 60's.

ps you left out disco, better give it a mention before memer 'unique' rises from his crypt and insists that disco was responsible for everything... lol
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Old 23-06-2013, 18:37
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^ Lol!!!
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Old 23-06-2013, 18:48
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MJ releasing the classic Off The Wall record was quite a highlight, as well as the last of David Bowie's Berlin albums.
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Old 23-06-2013, 19:05
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Eat To The Beat - Blondie

The Wall - Pink Floyd

Two stand out albums for me.
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Old 23-06-2013, 19:58
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Curiously, 1979 was the year that Joy Division released Unknown Pleasures and Rickie Lee Jones released Chuck E's In Love. Both great, but they couldn't be more different.

I also remember Ry Cooder's Bop Till You Drop from that year, the first digitally-recorded "pop" album, and one of the first overtly to recognise the importance of black r'n'b as an influence on mainstream white American rock and pop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-5bx...586204D80026ED
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Old 23-06-2013, 20:13
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I was thinking about this the other day - I've got every song that charted between 1952 and 1989 (and I'm currently working on 1990-2004!), and looking at the folder with all the songs that charted in 1979 I thought that it was definitely the year with the greatest range of different styles of chart music there's ever been...
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Old 23-06-2013, 23:30
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also Pink Floyd released The Wall and Iron Maiden were signed by EMI
Also the year when the most unfestive song ever reached number one, by Pink Floyd. It really was an exciting time for music as there were so many styles on offer.
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Old 24-06-2013, 07:09
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Also the year when the most unfestive song ever reached number one, by Pink Floyd. It really was an exciting time for music as there were so many styles on offer.
Yes, because Rage Against The Machine's Killing in the name of really puts you in the mulled wine and presents mood
Yes 1979 WAS a great year. I was in my late teens and into everything from punk/new wave to Genesis and Styx (who can forget Babe!!). Loved it.....though the year I always go back to when looking at the year that means most to me musically is 1981,but that whole period from 1977 to about 1982 was amazing for musical diversity which meant I liked pop, disco, punk, reggae, Ska, New Romantic, rock ......
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Old 24-06-2013, 07:21
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Yes, because Rage Against The Machine's Killing in the name of really puts you in the mulled wine and presents mood
Yes 1979 WAS a great year. I was in my late teens and into everything from punk/new wave to Genesis and Styx (who can forget Babe!!). Loved it.....though the year I always go back to when looking at the year that means most to me musically is 1981,but that whole period from 1977 to about 1982 was amazing for musical diversity which meant I liked pop, disco, punk, reggae, Ska, New Romantic, rock ......
yeah i too rate 81 above 79, but thats just a personal thing.
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Old 24-06-2013, 12:47
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1979 saw the release of Quiet Life by JAPAN highly underrated band and often ignored. Good, I'll keep them all for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnruMVKTq7A
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Old 24-06-2013, 13:04
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1979 is also the year Elvis Costello released Armed Forces, the third in a series of a pretty much unbroken run of great albums from 1977 to 1982. (not counting a covers album!)
Also contained two definitely classic songs in the form of Olivers Army (His highest selling UK single) and Accidents Will Happen.
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Old 24-06-2013, 14:07
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1979 saw the release of Quiet Life by JAPAN highly underrated band and often ignored. Good, I'll keep them all for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnruMVKTq7A
Always liked that tune

I think Japan tended to get overlooked mostly because, well, Roxy Music already existed.
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Old 24-06-2013, 14:46
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Kate Bush did her one and only tour and boy, it was an epic one
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Old 24-06-2013, 21:15
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Reading all the posts it does seem that 79 was a vintage year
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Old 24-06-2013, 21:24
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Three brilliant Jam singles released in 1979:-

Strange Town
When You're Young
The Eton Rifles
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Old 24-06-2013, 21:36
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1979 also included two of the best singles ever, by Elvis Costello:-

Oliver's Army
Accidents Will Happen
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Old 25-06-2013, 07:15
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Reading all the posts it does seem that 79 was a vintage year
you could make a case for most years tbh...

personally id suggest 1966 was the best...
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Old 25-06-2013, 07:30
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Not a great year for albums for me.

Londons Calling and Damn the Torpedoes are probably the best. Things like The Wall, Eat to the Beat, Highway to Hell, Lodger and Tusk are in my opinion decent/good but inferior to those artists previous material.
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