Re: 70s Party Decision

The 40 best LPs from the 1976-1979 era::
roughly grouped by year of release
RAMONES - s/t
LED ZEPPELIN – Presence
DAMNED - Damned, Damned, Damned
ELVIS COSTELLO - My Aim is True
CLASH – s/t UK
DAVID BOWIE – Low
PINK FLOYD – Animals
IGGY POP - The Idiot or Lust for Life
RAMONES - Leave Home
LOU REED - Walk on the Wild Side
SEX PISTOLS - Never Mind the Bollocks
SIOUXSIE and the BANSHEES - The Scream
TALKING HEADS – 77
TELEVISION - Marquee Moon
WIRE - Pink Flag
BLACK FLAG - Nervous Breakdown
BLONDIE - Parallel Lines
BUZZCOCKS - Another Music in a Different Kitchen or Love Bites
CLASH - Give 'em Enough Rope
ELVIS COSTELLO - This Year's Model
DEVO – Are We Not Men
KINKS – Misfits
MAGAZINE - Real Life
ROLLING STONES - Some Girls
TALKING HEADS - More Songs About Buildings and Food
TELEVISION – Adventure
ULTRAVOX - Systems of Romance
WIRE – 154
TALKING HEADS - Fear of Music
SIOUXSIE and the BANSHEES - Join Hands
PUBLIC IMAGE LTD. - Second Edition/Metal Box
JOY DIVISION - Unknown Pleasures
FALL - Live at the Witch Trials
DEVO - Duty Now for the Future
DAMNED – Machine Gun Etiquette
ELVIS COSTELLO - Armed Forces
CURE - Boys Don't Cry
BUZZCOCKS - A Different Kind of Tension or Singles Going Steady
BOWIE – Lodger
B-52's – s/t

Great List. Mine would be quite similar but I would have to find room for .....HORSES, ROCKET TO RUSSIA, LAMF, SQUEEZING OUT SPARKS, SO ALONE, EVEN SERPENTS SHINE. Pere Ubu and possibly the Jam would show up as well ......ah, good times.

hey you missed all the good ones!

the last
scruffs
al green
jam
ubu
pagans' singles
big star third
neil
vibrators
the saints

Both Pagans and Clash-London Calling were "80s disqualified".
Not sure how Jam, Big Star, etc. missed out.
Mostly surprised by absence of Horses.
Ony two from 1976; a leanest of years, but really, what else mattered but gabba gabba?
13 from 77 and 79.

Horses came out in '75, (hence the recent 30th anniversary re-release) so it was all well and good that it was not on the list.

I think London Calling actually came out in mid-December '79, but most people consider it a 1980 album.