Best #1 Album of 1979

Wow, I had every one of these in heavy rotation in 1979.

I still think it's, Breakfast in America, but Bad Girls is very solid for a double album, and I've come to appreciate the entire, Spirits Having Flown, too.

 

Zep for me. My favorite Zeppelin album and I am listening to it now. Achilles Last Stand and Tea For One are fantastic. I like the rest too.

 

The Long Run

 

But aren't those songs from Led Zep's other underloved #1 album, Presence?

 

Umm...

 

Yes, I got confused. In Through The Out Door is my second fav.

 

Between these, went with In Through The Out Door
Billy Joel - 52nd Street
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
Eagles - The Long Run

 

1979 is one of my favourite year for rock. The year was so good, that even the #1's, most "commercial" stuff was highly listenable, as this poll shows.

 

100% agreed. The #1 albums of '79 aren't even my favorites of the year - but definitely very listenable.

There was one #1 album of '79 which I did not put into this poll because it is a greatest hits compilation, which was Barbra Streisand's Greatest Hits Volume Two.

I only included the actual studio albums of '79 which hit #1.

 

1-2-3, I have to go with Supertramp, Billy Joel, and Led Zeppelin. So, I voted for Supertramp.

 

What a lousy list of albums. Can't vote.

 

Supertramp for me!

 

I finally put my vote in. I had to go with Donna Summer's "Bad Girls". I'm not a huge fan of disco - but Summer really put together one hot album here. Her form of disco was more a disco meets rock type sound with heavy guitar and strong dance beat.

A+ all the way.

 

Blues Brothers.

 

I pretty much figured "Breakfast In America" was going to top this list. The album was such a huge hit in '79 and was really a big part of high school and college age culture at the time. I was 19 in '79 and I remember playing "Breakfast In America" on a daily basis for months on end. My favorite track then was "Take The Long Way Home". Now, I'd say my favorite track has to be "Breakfast In America" - but really they're all excllent tracks.

If I were to list them from favorite to least it would be as follows:

1. Donna Summer - Bad Girls
2. Supertramp - Breakfast In America
3. Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
4. Eagles - The Long Run
5. The Knack - Get The Knack
6. Billy Joel - 52nd Street
7. Doobie Brothers - Minute By Minute
8. Blues Brothers - Briefcase Full Of Blues
9. Bee Gees - Spirits Having Flown
10. Rod Stewart - Blondes Have More Fun

 

Went with 52nd Street just barely over Breakfast in America. More sentimental attachments to that record I guess.

 

Spirits Have Flown

Bad Girls
52nd Street

Get The Knack


Would not have choosen this list in '79 though.

 

Is it shameful that I had to google each album to see the track list, then search youtube and such, to hear the songs hat weren't a big hit single?

Nothing that strikes me as a good solid complete album, unfortunately, and I don't want to vote falsely by one or two singles on the entire album. If I was pushed real, hard I'd probably go Supertramp, but I am not really a fan of it. Now if this included 'The Wall', it would have been a seconds thought!

 

Bad Girls gets my vote

 

I graduated from HS in '79, and, looking at this lost, I realize why music seemed so awful then. I wouldn't play any of those records without a gun to my head.

 

I voted for BAD GIRLS. I actually like BREAKFAST more (now), but my father played the living hell out of Bad Girls back in 1979 when I was only 11 years old, and that album (along with many other disco-related records) introduced me to a broader realm of music.

Yes, I could play KISS - DETROYER then move straight into ANITA WARD with no trouble.

 

In Through the Out Door, but 1979 was not my year for MOR - I was 18 and went for The New Wave.

 

yup.

 

I didn't own any of those albums back in the day.

I own these on CD:
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door
The Knack - Get The Knack
Billy Joel - 52nd Street


The Knack's Get The Knack gets my vote.