Rock Chronicles: Top Rock Albums of 1979
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00:00Hey, get ready. The shark is counting down the top rock albums of 1979. What a great year. This was a year where we saw a lot of legends putting out music, as well as younger punk artists and the new wave artists with some music. So let's get going.
00:15At number 10 is Neil Young's half acoustic, half electric, Rust Never Sleeps. It opened with a solo of My My Hey Hey Out of the Blue and closed with an electric version of the same song, Hey Hey My My Into the Black.
00:26Number 9 is Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' Damn the Torpedoes. That one's stacked with radio classics, including Refugee, Here Comes My Girl, Even the Losers, and Don't Do Me Like That.
00:37Punk Rock hits our chart at number 8 with The Clash's London Calling. The politically charged album had some of their most accessible songs, including Lost in the Supermarket and Train in Vain.
00:47When our number 7 album was released, no one knew it would mark the end of an era, but ACDC's Highway to Hell was their final album with frontman Bon Scott.
00:56After a massive success of 1977's Rumors, Fleetwood Mac's label was clearly hoping for Rumors Part 2, but our number 6 album, Tusk, was anything but that.
01:06It was a sprawling double album that didn't sell like Rumors, but it held up as a classic in its own right.
01:11Every Police album is pretty great, but our number 5 album, 1979's Regatta de Blanc, is a bit underrated, and that's crazy if you consider it has Message in a Bottle, Walking on the Moon, and Bring on the Night.
01:231978's Van Halen was a game-changing debut, but our number 4 album, Van Halen 2, proved that the band wasn't just a flash in the pan, thanks to party jams like Dance the Night Away, Women in Love, and Beautiful Girls.
01:35Our number 3 album, The Long Run, was the end of the line for the Eagles, at least until they reunited for Hell Freezes Over in 1994.
01:43Our number 2, also marked the end for a legendary band, Led Zeppelin's In Through the Outdoor was their last LP.
01:50But with songs like In the Evening and All of My Love, they went out on a strong note.
01:54And at number 1, Pink Floyd's The Wall, a rock opera, a film, an epic stage show.
02:00It's one of the rare concept albums that holds up from start to finish.
02:04And it had a number 1 single, with Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2.
02:08And there you go, that's our list on 98.7 The Shark. Did we miss anything?