Last time I played ‘Some Girls’ (about a month ago), it grew on me. It will never be one of my favorites from The Rolling Stones, but its still a fine album. I’ve only always liked “Miss You”, “Beast Of Burden”, and “Shattered”, but recently, I’ve been appreciating “Lies” and some of the other songs. My problem is that the album is a bit monotonous (samey) and punky. I wanted more funk and less punk. I think ‘Emotional Rescue’ is a better version of ‘Some Girls’. Still, I do like it, which is why I’ll put it in B tier. I haven’t heard ‘Parallel Lines in over 15 years, so I can’t rank it, but its a good album. ‘The Cars’ is hands down the best of this year, and one of the best debuts. Every song is so catchy and memorable. Easily S tier. I would add ‘An American Prayer’, which is a nice album. I only heard it once, but its in B tier. Also, The Who’s ‘Who Are You’, which is another B tier. Underrated album.
Excellent year for music with memorable debuts from Van Halen & The Cars. Classics by Elvis Costello & Talking Heads. Fascinating XTC album with All Along The Watchtower cover & The Clash with a terrific second album like Peter Gabriel.
1978 Ranked by Favorite: 1. Rush - Hemispheres 2. Cars - Cars 3. Van Halen - Van Halen 4. Boston - Don't Look Back 5. Styx - Pieces of Eight 6. Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight 7. Judas Priest - Stained Class 8. Journey - Infinity 9. Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses 10. Toto - Toto 11. Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll 12. Ted Nugent - Weekend Warriors 13. Foreigner - Double Vision 14. UFO - Obsession
Happy Xmas! Thanx for the entertainment all year MR Studmuffin. Make em happy?! LG nothing makes peoples happy anymore. You know. Do ya thang. ) oh @CE, now, im awake in a state).i love the VH little skit there.
Shiny Beast Album of the year for '78, followed by Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce, The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu and Remain in Light Those would be my S tier
Another great year!!! " Shiny Beast" is a fantastic comeback album and my absolute favourite from 1978 too! I would add Dire Straits and Kate Bush' debuts. And "Nite Flights", the ignored Walker Brothers final album...
Merry Christmas. 1978 was a good year - I got my first Elvis records that Christmas which happened to be my first records ever. It’s Christmas morning here and I’m listening to Natty Christmas - Jacob Miller which is a 1978 S tier release. From your list I would have Powerage, Ace Frehley, Give Em Enough Rope, Darkness on the Edge of Town as S tier…. as well as my favourites from the respective artists. A tiers would be Some Girls, Street Legal, Are We Not Men…., Paul Stanley, London Town and Van Halen. Some other favorites from 1978 are: Stained Class - Judas Priest Killing Machine - Judas Priest Kaya - Bob Marley Bush Doctor - Peter Tosh Public Image First Issue - PiL The Scream - Siouxsie and the Banshees All Mod Cons - The Jam Rose Tattoo - Rose Tattoo Midnight Oil - Midnight Oil Cold Chisel - Cold Chisel Face to Face - The Angels If You Want Blood …. - AC/DC Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy Also, Kiss’ Double Platinum was 1978 - I know it’s a compilation but it was a special album to me.
Merry Christmas Larry! I agree that lots of the albums are B-Tier. They're good and have some great songs on them but it's not the albums I am most drawn to. Almost fell for your trap about Van Halen. I love Van Halen so I was very upset with you there for a few seconds :p The biggest change I would make is that I would push up Obsession by UFO to A or S-Tier. I love that album!
1978 was a great year for music. You have some good albums on your list. Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine was a few years ahead of it's time. They were making 1980's Techno Pop before the 1980's existed. Remarkable stuff.
A few worthy omissions for me, including Rush - Hemispheres, Rainbow - Long Live Rock n' Roll, The Motors - Approved By, The Boomtown Rats - Tonic For The Troops and Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds.
I'm not the one who complained, but I'm glad you cleared up the confusion about your ranking system. I kinda knew how you were doing it, yet sometimes the language would make me wonder. Good ranking, no complaints. I'd rank the 10cc album a little higher because I was still a big fan when that album came out. But after that, they fell off a cliff. Really, Godley & Creme was where the action was by then -- their albums were much more interesting (and almost unlistenably weird) at the time. I guess you aren't familiar with their 1978 album, which was called L.
YES Tormato is excellent, the production is a bit muddy in parts, YES produced it themselves and clearly Eddie Offord their long time producer and live sound mixer, had to take a break. If Eddie had been at the mixing board that LP would have been Fantastic. I would still put it ahead of most LPs of 1977, because of the sheer fact that YES didn’t follow trends and wrote an excellent album. Future Times is worth the money. Then you know the rest of the story.
Ironic XTC and Blondie side by side for a while, on a tour a few years ago Dave Gregory played guitar for Blondie ! Wish I had seen him. Seen Blondie with out him !
I'm not as familiar with albums from this year, admittedly. I've probably listened to Queen's Jazz and the Devo record the most. Obligatory Beach Boys note: MIU Album goes into B tier for me, but Adult/Child would have been S :)
No, Gene Simmons nor Peter Criss solo albums? I actually really like Gene's album. I'll be there for the Livestream at 4:00 pm E.S.T. (Which will be 5:00 pm my time)
Hey Larry! Not a great year for me as I have only 22 of these. I think it is due to the amount of the punk/new wave movement, as not much of that ever resonated with me. Cheers!.
To me Paul McCartney's London Town was good Larry but it's not one of my favorites by him,it's to keyboard dominant for my liking and the Cars made some great AM hits in the 70's,also in the 70's I played in a club in Hamilton and the Police were our competition down the street and according to the staff there we did better business that week then they did!,with that stupid name that band was going nowhere,little did we know! Bob
1978 has the great "Tormato" and . And some other good albuns. Not Abba neither Bee Gees albuns, amazingly. Queen "Jazz" and BS"Never say die" are also great - and I really like Elton john " A single Man", and Peter hammill "Future now" is just OK ( his worst album of the 70s) - but in general a year of great bands going down and okey to mediocre bands going up
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Merry Christmas, Larry!
Excellent list Larry!! Nothing in particular to add!! See you!!!
Last time I played ‘Some Girls’ (about a month ago), it grew on me. It will never be one of my favorites from The Rolling Stones, but its still a fine album. I’ve only always liked “Miss You”, “Beast Of Burden”, and “Shattered”, but recently, I’ve been appreciating “Lies” and some of the other songs. My problem is that the album is a bit monotonous (samey) and punky. I wanted more funk and less punk. I think ‘Emotional Rescue’ is a better version of ‘Some Girls’. Still, I do like it, which is why I’ll put it in B tier. I haven’t heard ‘Parallel Lines in over 15 years, so I can’t rank it, but its a good album. ‘The Cars’ is hands down the best of this year, and one of the best debuts. Every song is so catchy and memorable. Easily S tier. I would add ‘An American Prayer’, which is a nice album. I only heard it once, but its in B tier. Also, The Who’s ‘Who Are You’, which is another B tier. Underrated album.
Excellent year for music with memorable debuts from Van Halen & The Cars. Classics by Elvis Costello & Talking Heads. Fascinating XTC album with All Along The Watchtower cover & The Clash with a terrific second album like Peter Gabriel.
1978 Ranked by Favorite:
1. Rush - Hemispheres
2. Cars - Cars
3. Van Halen - Van Halen
4. Boston - Don't Look Back
5. Styx - Pieces of Eight
6. Cheap Trick - Heaven Tonight
7. Judas Priest - Stained Class
8. Journey - Infinity
9. Jethro Tull - Heavy Horses
10. Toto - Toto
11. Rainbow - Long Live Rock and Roll
12. Ted Nugent - Weekend Warriors
13. Foreigner - Double Vision
14. UFO - Obsession
Merry Christmas to you and yours
Take care.
Same to you!
Happy Xmas! Thanx for the entertainment all year MR Studmuffin. Make em happy?! LG nothing makes peoples happy anymore. You know. Do ya thang. ) oh @CE, now, im awake in a state).i love the VH little skit there.
Shiny Beast Album of the year for '78, followed by Darkness on the Edge of Town by Bruce, The Modern Dance by Pere Ubu and Remain in Light Those would be my S tier
I meant More Songs About Buildings and Food,not Remain in Light
Another great year!!! " Shiny Beast" is a fantastic comeback album and my absolute favourite from 1978 too! I would add Dire Straits and Kate Bush' debuts. And "Nite Flights", the ignored Walker Brothers final album...
Merry Christmas. 1978 was a good year - I got my first Elvis records that Christmas which happened to be my first records ever. It’s Christmas morning here and I’m listening to Natty Christmas - Jacob Miller which is a 1978 S tier release. From your list I would have Powerage, Ace Frehley, Give Em Enough Rope, Darkness on the Edge of Town as S tier…. as well as my favourites from the respective artists. A tiers would be Some Girls, Street Legal, Are We Not Men…., Paul Stanley, London Town and Van Halen.
Some other favorites from 1978 are:
Stained Class - Judas Priest
Killing Machine - Judas Priest
Kaya - Bob Marley
Bush Doctor - Peter Tosh
Public Image First Issue - PiL
The Scream - Siouxsie and the Banshees
All Mod Cons - The Jam
Rose Tattoo - Rose Tattoo
Midnight Oil - Midnight Oil
Cold Chisel - Cold Chisel
Face to Face - The Angels
If You Want Blood …. - AC/DC
Live and Dangerous - Thin Lizzy
Also, Kiss’ Double Platinum was 1978 - I know it’s a compilation but it was a special album to me.
Merry Christmas Larry!
I agree that lots of the albums are B-Tier. They're good and have some great songs on them but it's not the albums I am most drawn to.
Almost fell for your trap about Van Halen. I love Van Halen so I was very upset with you there for a few seconds :p
The biggest change I would make is that I would push up Obsession by UFO to A or S-Tier. I love that album!
1978 was a great year for music. You have some good albums on your list.
Kraftwerk's The Man-Machine was a few years ahead of it's time. They were making 1980's
Techno Pop before the 1980's existed. Remarkable stuff.
Excellent as usual!. Jazz - Queen is my favourite from 1978, a very underrated album indeed!. Merry Christmas! 💕👍xxx.
A few worthy omissions for me, including Rush - Hemispheres, Rainbow - Long Live Rock n' Roll, The Motors - Approved By, The Boomtown Rats - Tonic For The Troops and Jeff Wayne - War Of The Worlds.
that ace frehley solo album kicks ass!!
I'm not the one who complained, but I'm glad you cleared up the confusion about your ranking system. I kinda knew how you were doing it, yet sometimes the language would make me wonder. Good ranking, no complaints. I'd rank the 10cc album a little higher because I was still a big fan when that album came out. But after that, they fell off a cliff. Really, Godley & Creme was where the action was by then -- their albums were much more interesting (and almost unlistenably weird) at the time. I guess you aren't familiar with their 1978 album, which was called L.
P.S. Like you, I was disappointed with Peter Gabriel's "scratch" album, after loving his first one. I tried listening again years later, but no dice.
YES Tormato is excellent, the production is a bit muddy in parts, YES produced it themselves and clearly Eddie Offord their long time producer and live sound mixer, had to take a break. If Eddie had been at the mixing board that LP would have been Fantastic. I would still put it ahead of most LPs of 1977, because of the sheer fact that YES didn’t follow trends and wrote an excellent album. Future Times is worth the money.
Then you know the rest of the story.
1978 S tier for me: Rush 'Hemispheres' and AC/DC 'Powerage'. Only two but two of my favorites that I listen to often.
Ironic XTC and Blondie side by side for a while, on a tour a few years ago Dave Gregory played guitar for Blondie ! Wish I had seen him. Seen Blondie with out him !
I'm not as familiar with albums from this year, admittedly. I've probably listened to Queen's Jazz and the Devo record the most.
Obligatory Beach Boys note: MIU Album goes into B tier for me, but Adult/Child would have been S :)
Larry, only a twisted mind can put Devo or More Songs in S tier, or even tormato in front of A Tier. ...by the way, I would do the same!!!!😂
no double vision foreingner?
0:50 😉
@KurtisC93 its not there!
Oh boy...
@@antoniocognato5023 No, I... that's... just... listen to Larry's words at that segment. 🤦🏻
I'm not a Van Halen fan, so I'd take it off the S tier and put it in the A tier. (Grumble, grumble, $#!+, no Sparks album.)
I'm not a fan of Van Halen, so I'd put the VH album you have in "S" and put it in the lost of the "A"s.
No, Gene Simmons nor Peter Criss solo albums? I actually really like Gene's album.
I'll be there for the Livestream at 4:00 pm E.S.T. (Which will be 5:00 pm my time)
I've never heard those two albums...
@@LarryGravesCanadianStudmuffinThat makes sense, they're not bad. Not as good as Ace's, but definitely better than Paul's!
Peter Gabriel Scratch is very good. To me it is not quite as great as the debut or Melt (3rd). I think its a good 3-album run
Hey Larry! Not a great year for me as I have only 22 of these. I think it is due to the amount of the punk/new wave movement, as not much of that ever resonated with me. Cheers!.
To me Paul McCartney's London Town was good Larry but it's not one of my favorites by him,it's to keyboard dominant for my liking and the Cars made some great AM hits in the 70's,also in the 70's I played in a club in Hamilton and the Police were our competition down the street and according to the staff there we did better business that week then they did!,with that stupid name that band was going nowhere,little did we know! Bob
1978 has the great "Tormato" and . And some other good albuns. Not Abba neither Bee Gees albuns, amazingly. Queen "Jazz" and BS"Never say die" are also great - and I really like Elton john " A single Man", and Peter hammill "Future now" is just OK ( his worst album of the 70s) - but in general a year of great bands going down and okey to mediocre bands going up
No _Long Live Rock and Roll_ or _Hemispheres_ eh? I guess Rainbow and Rush are shite.
Rush is great but I was never a fan of Rainbow.
@LarryGravesCanadianStudmuffin What about the Dio years of Sabbath or the band Dio?
I only like Sabbath with Ozzy and I never got into Dio. @@Driven2Beers
@LarryGravesCanadianStudmuffin Thank you for your opinion. Have a wonderful Boxing Day.