⇦ 1977

1979 ⇨

The Best Music of 1978

Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 1978. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.

For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 1978, check out this list.

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
AC/DC	Powerage	☆
Albert Collins	Ice Pickin'	☆
April Wine	First Glance	☆
Ashford & Simpson	Is It Still Good to Ya	☆
Big Star	Third/Sister Lovers	☆
Billy Joel	52nd Street	☆
Blondie	Parallel Lines	☆
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	Stranger In Town	☆
Boston	Don't Look Back	☆
Brian Eno	Ambient 1: Music For Airports	☆
Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town	☆
Carly Simon	Boys in the Trees	☆
Chaka Khan	Chaka	☆
Cheap Trick	Cheap Trick At Budokan	☆
Cheap Trick	Heaven Tonight	☆
Chic	C'est Chic	☆
Devo	Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!	☆
Dire Straits	Dire Straits	☆
Donna Summer	Live and More	☆
Elvis Costello	This Year's Model	☆
Emmylou Harris	Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town	☆
Foreigner	Double Vision	☆
Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove	☆
Genesis	...And Then There Were Three...	☆
George Benson	Weekend in L.A.	☆
Gino Vannelli	Brother to Brother	☆
James Vincent	Waiting for the Rain	☆
Jean-Michel Jarre	Equinoxe	☆
Jethro Tull	Heavy Horses	☆
Jimmy Buffett	Son of a Son of a Sailor	☆
Joe Cocker	Luxury You Can Afford	☆
John Prine	Bruised Orange	☆
Journey	Infinity	☆
Judas Priest	Killing Machine (aka:Hell Bent for Leather)	☆
Judas Priest	Stained Class	☆
Jun Fukamachi	On the Move	☆
Kate Bush	The Kick Inside	☆
Kenny Loggins	Nightwatch	☆
Kenny Rogers	The Gambler	☆
Kenny Rogers	Love or Something Like It	☆
Kraftwerk	The Man-Machine	☆
Larry Carlton	Larry Carlton	☆
Lee "Scratch" Perry	Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread	☆
Little Feat	Waiting For Columbus	☆
Lou Reed	Street Hassle	☆
Marvin Gaye	Here, My Dear	☆
Neil Young	Comes A Time	☆
Nick Lowe	Jesus of Cool	☆
Olivia Newton-John	Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture	☆
Olivia Newton-John	Totally Hot	☆
Parliament	Motor Booty Affair	☆
Patti Smith Group	Easter	☆
Peaches & Herb	2 Hot	☆
Pere Ubu	Dub Housing	☆
Pere Ubu	The Modern Dance	☆
Peter Gabriel	Peter Gabriel (2) (Scratch)	☆
Phil Keaggy	The Master and the Musician	☆
Poco	Legend	☆
Queen	Jazz	☆
Quincy Jones	Sounds...and Stuff Like That!!	☆
Rainbow	Long Live Rock 'n' Roll	☆
Ramones	Road To Ruin	☆
Raydio	Raydio	☆
REO Speedwagon	You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish	☆
Resurrection Band	Awaiting Your Reply	☆
Rick James and the Stone City Band	Come Get It!	☆
Rush	Hemispheres	☆
Ryuichi Sakamoto	Thousand Knives	☆
Steve Martin	A Wild and Crazy Guy	☆
Styx	Pieces of Eight	☆
Sun Ra	Lanquidity	☆
Talking Heads	More Songs About Buildings And Food	☆
Teddy Pendergrass	Life is a Song Worth Singing	☆
Television	Adventure	☆
The Band	The Last Waltz	☆
The Blues Brothers	Briefcase Full of Blues	☆
The Buzzcocks	Another Music in a Different Kitchen	☆
The Buzzcocks	Love Bites	☆
The Carpenters	Christmas Portrait	☆
The Cars	The Cars	☆
The Doobie Brothers	Minute by Minute	☆
The Grateful Dead	Shakedown Street	☆
The Jam	All Mod Cons	☆
The Pointer Sisters	Energy	☆
The Police	Outlandos d'Amour	☆
The Rolling Stones	Some Girls	☆
The Undertones	The Undertones	☆
Thin Lizzy	Live and Dangerous	☆
Todd Rundgren	Hermit of Mink Hollow	☆
Tom Robinson Band	Power in the Darkness	☆
Toto	Toto	☆
Van Halen	Van Halen	☆
Warren Zevon	Excitable Boy	☆
Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson	Waylon & Willie	☆
Weather Report	Mr. Gone	☆
Willie Nelson	Stardust	☆
Wire	Chairs Missing	☆
X-Ray Spex	Germfree Adolescents	☆
Yellow Magic Orchestra	Yellow Magic Orchestra	☆

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Songs (?)		Wikipedia
A Taste of Honey	Boogie Oogie Oogie	☆
Ace Frehley	New York Groove	☆
Aerosmith	Come Together	☆
Al Burton, Alan Thicke, and Gloria Loring	Diff'rent Strokes	☆
Al Stewart	Time Passages	☆
Alicia Bridges	I Love the Nightlife	☆
Amii Stewart	Knock on Wood	☆
Andrew Gold	Thank You for Being a Friend	☆
Andy Gibb	Shadow Dancing	☆
Ashford & Simpson	It Seems to Hang On	☆
Barbara Mandrell	Sleeping Single in a Double Bed	☆
Barbra & Neil	You Don't Bring Me Flowers	☆
Barnes & Barnes	Fish Heads	☆
Barry Manilow	Copacabana (At the Copa)	☆
Barry Manilow	Can't Smile Without You	☆
Billy Joel	My Life	☆
Billy Joel	Big Shot	☆
Billy Joel	Honesty	☆
Black Flag	Nervous Breakdown	☆
Blondie	Heart Of Glass	☆
Blondie	One Way Or Another	☆
Blondie	Hanging On the Telephone	☆
Bob James	Angela (Theme from Taxi)	☆
Bob Marley & The Wailers	Is This Love	☆
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	Old Time Rock And Roll	☆
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	Still the Same	☆
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	We've Got Tonite	☆
Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band	Hollywood Nights	☆
Bobby Caldwell	What You Won't Do for Love	☆
Boney M.	Rasputin	☆
Boney M.	Rivers of Babylon	☆
Bonnie Pointer	Heaven Must Have Sent You	☆
Boston	Don't Look Back	☆
Bruce Springsteen	Badlands	☆
Bruce Springsteen	Prove It All Night	☆
Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town	☆
Carly Simon	You Belong to Me	☆
Chaka Khan	I'm Every Woman	☆
Cheap Trick	Surrender	☆
Cheap Trick	On Top of the World	☆
Cheryl Lynn	Got to Be Real	☆
Chic	Le Freak	☆
Chic	I Want Your Love	☆
Chris Bell	I Am the Cosmos	☆
Chris Norman and Suzi Quatro	Stumblin' In	☆
Chris Rea	Fool (If You Think It's Over)	☆
Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg	The Power of Gold	☆
Devo	Uncontrollable Urge	☆
Devo	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	☆
Devo	Jocko Homo	☆
Dire Straits	Sultans Of Swing	☆
Donna Summer	Last Dance	☆
Donna Summer	MacArthur Park	☆
Donna Summer feat. Brooklyn Dreams	Heaven Knows	☆
Dr. Hook	When You're in Love with a Beautiful Woman	☆
Earth, Wind & Fire	September	☆
Earth, Wind & Fire	Got to Get You Into My Life	☆
Elvis Costello	Pump It Up	☆
Elvis Costello	Radio, Radio	☆
Eric Clapton	Promises	☆
Exile	Kiss You All Over	☆
Foreigner	Double Vision	☆
Foreigner	Hot Blooded	☆
Foreigner	Blue Morning, Blue Day	☆
Frankie Valli	Grease	☆
Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove	☆
Gang of Four	Damaged Goods	☆
Generation X	Ready Steady Go	☆
Genesis	Follow You Follow Me	☆
George Benson	On Broadway	☆
George Thorogood & the Destroyers	Move It On Over	☆
George Thorogood & The Destroyers	Who Do You Love?	☆
Gerry Rafferty	Baker Street	☆
Gerry Rafferty	Right Down the Line	☆
Gino Vannelli	I Just Wanna Stop	☆
Giorgio Moroder	Chase	☆
Gloria Gaynor	I Will Survive	☆
Heart	Straight On	☆
Hot Chocolate	Every 1's a Winner	☆
Jefferson Starship	Count on Me	☆
Jimmy Buffett	Cheeseburger in Paradise	☆
Jimmy Buffett	Son of a Son of a Sailor	☆
Joe Jackson	Is She Really Going Out With Him?	☆
Joe Walsh	Life's Been Good	☆
John Carpenter	Halloween	☆
John Prine	That's the Way That the World Goes 'Round	☆
John Travolta	Greased Lightnin'	☆
John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John	Summer Nights	☆
John Williams	Theme from Superman (Main Title)	☆
Journey	Wheel in the Sky	☆
Journey	Lights	☆
Judas Priest	Beyond the Realms of Death	☆
Kate Bush	Wuthering Heights	☆
Kate Bush	The Man With the Child In His Eyes	☆
Kate Bush	In Search of Peter Pan	☆
Kate Bush	Hammer Horror	☆
KC and the Sunshine Band	Boogie Shoes	☆
Kenny Loggins with Stevie Nicks	Whenever I Call You Friend	☆
Kenny Rogers	The Gambler	☆
Kenny Rogers	She Believes in Me	☆
Kraftwerk	The Model	☆
Kraftwerk	The Robots	☆
Kraftwerk	The Man Machine	☆
Kraftwerk	Neon Lights	☆
Linda Ronstadt	Just One Look	☆
Linda Ronstadt	Ooh Baby Baby	☆
Little River Band	Reminiscing	☆
Little River Band	Lady	☆
Melissa Manchester	Don't Cry Out Loud	☆
Neil Diamond	Forever in Blue Jeans	☆
Nick Gilder	Hot Child in the City	☆
Nicolette Larson	Lotta Love	☆
Olivia Newton-John	Hopelessly Devoted to You	☆
Olivia Newton-John & John Travolta	You're the One That I Want	☆
Olivia-Newton John	A Little More Love	☆
Pablo Cruise	Love Will Find a Way	☆
Patrick Hernandez	Born to Be Alive	☆
Patti Smith Group	Because The Night	☆
Patti Smith Group	Privilege (Set Me Free)	☆
Peaches & Herb	Reunited	☆
Peaches and Herb	Shake Your Groove Thing	☆
Peru Ubu	Non-Alignment Pact	☆
Peter Tosh & Mick Jagger	(You Gotta Walk And) Don't Look Back	☆
Public Image Ltd.	Public Image	☆
Queen	Don't Stop Me Now	☆
Queen	Fat Bottomed Girls	☆
Queen	Bicycle Race	☆
Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated	☆
REO Speedwagon	Time for Me to Fly	☆
REO Speedwagon	Roll with the Changes	☆
Robert Palmer	Every Kinda People	☆
Rod Stewart	Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?	☆
Siouxsie And The Banshees	Hong Kong Garden	☆
Sniff 'n' the Tears	Driver's Seat	☆
Steely Dan	FM (No Static at All)	☆
Steve Martin and the Toot Uncommons	King Tut	☆
Styx	Renegade	☆
Styx	Blue Collar Man	☆
Sun Ra	Lanquidity	☆
Sweet	Love Is Like Oxygen	☆
Sylvester	You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)	☆
Talking Heads	Take Me To The River	☆
Tanya Tucker	Texas (When I Die)	☆
The B-52's	Rock Lobster	☆
The Bee Gees	Too Much Heaven	☆
The Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen in Love	☆
The Buzzcocks	What Do I Get	☆
The Cars	Just What I Needed	☆
The Cars	My Best Friend's Girl	☆
The Cars	Good Times Roll	☆
The Cars	Moving In Stereo	☆
The Cars	You're All I've Got Tonight	☆
The Cars	Bye Bye Love	☆
The Cars	All Mixed Up	☆
The Clash	(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais	☆
The Commodores	Three Times a Lady	☆
The Cramps	Human Fly	☆
The Cure	Killing an Arab	☆
The Doobie Brothers	What A Fool Believes	☆
The Doobie Brothers	Minute by Minute	☆
The Germs	Lexicon Devil	☆
The Grateful Dead	Shakedown Street	☆
The Grateful Dead	Fire on the Mountain	☆
The Human League	Being Boiled	☆
The O'Jays	Use Ta Be My Girl	☆
The Only Ones	Another Girl, Another Planet	☆
The Pointer Sisters	Fire	☆
The Police	Roxanne	☆
The Police	So Lonely	☆
The Police	Can't Stand Losing You	☆
The Records	Starry Eyes	☆
The Rolling Stones	Beast Of Burden	☆
The Rolling Stones	Miss You	☆
The Rolling Stones	Shattered	☆
The Undertones	Teenage Kicks	☆
The Village People	Y.M.C.A.	☆
The Village People	Macho Man	☆
The Walker Brothers	The Electrician	☆
The Who	Who Are You	☆
Throbbing Gristle	Hamburger Lady	☆
Todd Rundgren	Can We Still Be Friends	☆
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	I Need to Know	☆
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	Listen to Her Heart	☆
Toto	Hold the Line	☆
Van Halen	Runnin' With The Devil	☆
Van Halen	Eruption	☆
Van Halen	Ain't Talkin' About Love	☆
Van Halen	Jamie's Cryin'	☆
Warren Zevon	Werewolves Of London	☆
Warren Zevon	Lawyers, Guns and Money	☆
Warren Zevon	Excitable Boy	☆
Warren Zevon	Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner	☆
Waylon Jennings	Don't You Think This Outlaw Bit's Done Got Out Of Hand	☆
Wings	With a Little Luck	☆
Wire	Outdoor Miner	☆

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1979 ⇨