dougal
2009-02-11 02:58:53 UTC
Time for our yearly look into the wayback machine and remember these
albums released in 1979 (that would be thirty years ago for no
particular reason except I was still a teenager).
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young (electric Hey Hey is a masterpiece of
distortion)
London Calling - The Clash (their Exile on Main Street)
The Wall - PF (who could get this released and mount the tour today?)
At Budokon - Cheap Trick (don't even play like you've never sung to a
Cheap Trick song)
Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty (overrated but influential none the
less)
In Through the Out Door - LZ (was this their last? and 30 years later
Plant wins a Grammy for a folk record. Next, Jimmy Page tours with
Brooks and Dunn)
The Long Run - Eagles (not a fan but I love Joe Walsh. The Eagles have
sucked since Desperado)
Breakfast in America - Supertramp (you could not get away from this
record all year)
Highway to Hell - AC/DC (f*ckin yeah)
Regatta de Blanc - Police (this record floored me when I heard it.
Much more rocking than you'd think)
That, my friends, is maybe the last of the great classic rock years.
All of the above have one thing in common and that is staying power.
What ten releases of last year will we be talking about in 30 years?
dougal
albums released in 1979 (that would be thirty years ago for no
particular reason except I was still a teenager).
Rust Never Sleeps - Neil Young (electric Hey Hey is a masterpiece of
distortion)
London Calling - The Clash (their Exile on Main Street)
The Wall - PF (who could get this released and mount the tour today?)
At Budokon - Cheap Trick (don't even play like you've never sung to a
Cheap Trick song)
Damn the Torpedoes - Tom Petty (overrated but influential none the
less)
In Through the Out Door - LZ (was this their last? and 30 years later
Plant wins a Grammy for a folk record. Next, Jimmy Page tours with
Brooks and Dunn)
The Long Run - Eagles (not a fan but I love Joe Walsh. The Eagles have
sucked since Desperado)
Breakfast in America - Supertramp (you could not get away from this
record all year)
Highway to Hell - AC/DC (f*ckin yeah)
Regatta de Blanc - Police (this record floored me when I heard it.
Much more rocking than you'd think)
That, my friends, is maybe the last of the great classic rock years.
All of the above have one thing in common and that is staying power.
What ten releases of last year will we be talking about in 30 years?
dougal