Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1978 poll

You probably know why i picked Superman, those totals are funny as the new Man of Steel movie will probably make that amount in the first week.

dub housing

just over one nation under a groove

So many great records but I've loved Van Halen's debut for 30+ years so it gets my vote.

Some albums just missing the Top 25 include: 27 Brian Eno - Ambient 1: Music for Airports, 28 Willie Nelson - Stardust, 29 Cheap Trick - At Budokan, 30 The Band - The Last Waltz, 32 Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band - Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller), 33 Magazine - Real Life, 34 AC/DC - If You Want Blood, You've Got It, 35 Nick Lowe - Jesus of Cool/Pure Pop for Now People, 36 Tom Waits - Blue Valentine, 37 Nina Hagen Band - Nina Hagen Band, 39 Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution , 41 Warren Zevon - Excitable Boy, 42 Public Image Ltd. - Public Image - First Issue, 44 Lou Reed - Street Hassle, 49 Ramones - Road to Ruin and 50 Buzzcocks - Love Bites.

Sister Lovers

Great list, there are only a few on here I don't like. Think I will vote for Devo just ahead of Elvis Costello and Dub Housing.

its gotta be Q: Are We Not Men

for me it's between Talking Heads or Blondie.

Parallel Lines plays like a greatest hits album. almost every single song is a 10 and you could imagine a radio station playing it. i have had so much fun listening to this album. a classic among the classics.

C'Est Chic vs Music for 18 Musicians vs Outlandos D'Amour

meant to post a third: The Third Album/Sister Lovers.

I don't know many of these but that's Steve Reich's best work and easily a top 5 post-WWII composition, with a good shot at being my #1. Patti Smith and Van Halen would fight it out for #2.

heads above all the others - the modern dance

Parallel Lines. Remove the singles and it's STILL a great album.

Top 5:

Blondie
Costello
Wire
Talking Heads
Springsteen

What a great year for new wave/post-punk (disco too but that's less well-represented here).

From the gut, going with Some Girls, Blondie and Heads close.

10-way tie for #2 after Blondie, though.

Springsteen

despite some great albums in the list, this is an easy choice for me : devo.

The Modern Dance then Cher's Missing

a good shot at being my #1

My #1 postwar composition. It's easily my favourite album on this list, out of all the ones I've heard. (And I'd be amazed if any of the ones I haven't heard would beat it out.)

I think this is the least exciting list for me, of all the Acclaimed Music lists we've polled so far.

This Year's Model

reich over van halen

I mean there are lots of great albums here - E. Cost, Kraftwerk, and of course the original Van Halen one...but that Devo album is all-time.

You have won the battle, but daddy's gonna win the war.

DEVO. August '78, highly anticipated debut album on cassette in my boombox at the beach, cheap yellow kid's sunglasses... ah, new wave memories...

X-Ray Spex, then Wire--even though for me the latter now amounts to "Mannequin," a couple of other songs, and much that I've long since forgotten. Germfree Adolescents is pretty great start to finish. I suppose Big Star will win. My favourite album of 1978 is Black Vinyl Shoes.

I wouldn't be so sure about Big Star. Third gets a lot of love around here, but so do Chic and Devo. Still, none of those records have "Pretty Baby" on them.

OTM or my favorite, "Sunday Girl."

this thread is dead this year?

anyways can anyone tell me about Music for 18 Musicians.

it rules!

lol BeeOK you may have earned FP #3 from Noodle Vague based on that post

lmao thought this was the thread where KURTZ.JPG was postd

it's gorgeous and stunning. listen to it on a train ride or something. xp

i do kinda regret not voting for it but i'm happy i gave dub housing some love.

i always enjoy these threads in spite of myself

think i voted for dire straits, also good for listening on a train ride

Bee OK, what do you want to know about Music for 18 Musicians?

(There's a lot that can be said about it.)

i know nothing about it, so i was just asking. could Google it but asked about it instead because it seemed like something interesting.

Music for 18 Musicians is beautiful and brilliant. It's possibly my favorite recording that I've never owned a copy of in any medium (not counting fragments taped off the radio years ago).

I think of it as the recording (was going to say piece--but really it's that particular recording, even if Reich loves a more recent one) where Reich's distinctive timbral palate from that time period is at its most distinctive. I'm always fascinated by the way timbre itself can be so emotionally expressive, because for some reason it doesn't seem obvious it would be. (Well, of course there is no timbre itself since there is other stuff going on, but I'm convinced the timbre is carrying a lot of the expressiveness.)

Yeah, that's a very good point. It's not at all a standard or intuitive ensemble but the orchestration is really delicate and beautiful all the same. Seems very carefully chosen.

not too many horns can make that sound... way on down south

so it's classical music, no wonder i know nothing about it.

I love Some Girls as much as any other Stones album. Maybe a regressive choice for this year but, eh it's my favorite.

xpost to Bee OK:

Yeah, but Reich's style often appeals to people who are not necessarily classical listeners since it is strongly rhythmic and repetitive in a way that has some affinities to pop, especially electronic music (even though this piece is acoustic).

You can find clips of this recording on Youtube, starting with this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy9BQ1f4COM

so i was almost right Superman run in 1978 made $134,218,018. Man of Steel earned $113 million in its opening weekend at the box office, according to studio estimates Sunday. The retelling of Superman's backstory earned an additional $12 million from Thursday screenings, bringing its domestic total to $125 million.

I am a 1970's white rock critic and beyond everything else Elvis Costello is on the vanguard right now, history will prove me right.

Can you believe how smart his lyrics are? He's so smart.

Ubu or Reich

So that is how Bob Dylan has managed to wing it for so long!
xp

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

music for 18 musicians. One of those pieces of music that feels like it always existed and just needed somebody to discover it.

The Cars.

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I didn't expect that. Well done, ILM!

this is not right: Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food 0

however the rest looks about right with a lot of votes spread out.

I listened to Music for 18 Musicians this morning. I usually try to avoid writing really emotionally about music but there's something actually therapeutic about that album for me that reminds me of why I ever got so heavily into minimalism. Beyond just finding it relaxing and meditative, I actually feel like a better person, like I can see things more clearly. I don't even know how that music does that.

I think I know what you mean. The one time I met Steve Reich, while I was still in college, I remember saying something to him about how his music had helped me get through difficult times. I could sort of get away with that as an earnest college student. He was very gracious about it. (Great show at Swarthmore College where they played part of Drumming, among other things, if I recall correctly.)

(I did not go to Swarthmore! I'm a Temple prole.)

I am a 1970's white rock critic and beyond everything else Elvis Costello is on the vanguard right now, history will prove me right.

― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Sunday, 16 June 2013 20:24 (2 days ago) Permalink

It looks as though Acclaimed's lists are historical, including some mix of contemporaneous and subsequent evaluations. So, in a sense, history has "proven" 1970's wrc right. But neither opinion then, nor opinion now, nor history proves anything.

I voted for Some GIrls, btw.

History has proven you wrong :P

I got to see Tehillim and Daniel Variations live at SUNY Buffalo. Never talked to Reich myself though.

this is not right: Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food 0
^this. If I'd known others would have The Cars' back, I'd have voted for TH.

Harsh on Buzzcocks too. First LP is just as good as Singles Going Steady ppl.

History has proven you wrong :P

― my autocorrect is in Spanish right now (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, June 19, 2013 7:11 PM (Yesterday)

Miley Cyrus's Video For "We Can't Stop" (Being Badass Means Sticking Your Tongue Out A Lot Apparently...)

lol

obv my tongue meant 'j/k'; Some Girls is a fine album

:)

13 429 The Police - Outlandos D'Amour 0

i voted steve reich but this is also a solid album that deserved better, probably their best.