1979 Album Survivor - Re-announce and bye list
AlbumSurvivor
determined. Thanks to everyone who nominated albums for the competition. All
nominees were included in the final list.
The final list consists of 382 significant Rock, Pop, and R&B albums released
in 1979. This means that in order to have the required first round of 256
albums, 130 albums will receive byes to the first round while the remaining 252
albums battle it out in a preliminary round.
An album automatically received a bye if it met one or more of the following
criteria:
- It peaked within the top 10 on the Billboard 200 albums chart;
- It contained one of the top 20 singles of the year based on the American Top
40 year-end countdown list;
- It appeared on Dave Marsh's list of the top 40 albums for the year;
- It appeared on Robert Christgau's list of the top 30 albums for the year;
- It appeared on the Village Voice critics' list of the top 20 albums for the
year;
- It appeared on the Melody Maker critics' list of the top 20 albums for the
year;
- It appeared on the New Music Express critics' list of the top 30 albums for
the year;
- It was one of the top 45 albums for the year at the Acclaimed Music website;
- It appeared in the top 25 albums for the year at the rateyourmusic website.
Additional bye slots were filled with albums that received the most
nominations/seconds in the recent nomination process (generally this took at
least two seconds).
The preliminary round will be split into two halves; the first half of the
prelims will be posted later today.
The list of 130 albums receiving byes is:
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert
Allman Brothers Band - Enlightened Rogues
Anita Ward - Songs of Love
Ashford & Simpson - Stay Free
Bad Company - Desolation Angels
Barbra Streisand - Wet
Barry Manilow - One Voice
Bee Gees - Spirits Having Flown
Blondie - Eat to the Beat
Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming
Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
Captain & Tennille - Make Your Move
Charlie Daniels Band - Million Mile Reflections
Cheap Trick - Dream Police
Cheap Trick - Live at Budokan
Chic - Risqué
Commodores - Midnight Magic
Cory Daye - Cory and Me
Cowboys International - The Original Sin
Dave Edmunds - Repeat When Necessary
David Bowie - Lodger
Donna Summer - Bad Girls
Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band - Goes to Washington
Dr. Hook - Sometimes You Win
Dwight Twilley - Twilley
Eagles - The Long Run
Earth, Wind and Fire - I Am
Electric Light Orchestra - Discovery
Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
Foreigner - Head Games
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Act 1
Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
Gang of Four - Entertainment!
Gloria Gaynor - Love Tracks
Graham Parker - Squeezing Out Sparks
Herb Alpert - Rise
Ian Dury - Do It Yourself
Iggy Pop - New Values
James Taylor - Flag
Jefferson Starship - Freedom at Point Zero
Jermaine Jackson - Let's Get Serious
Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
John Stewart - Bombs Away Dream Babies
Joni Mitchell - Mingus
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Kansas - Monolith
KC and the Sunshine Band - Do You Wanna Go Party
Kenny Rogers - Kenny
Kiss - Dynasty
Led Zeppelin - In Through the Out Door
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces of Victory
Little River Band - First Under the Wire
M - New York-London-Paris-Munich
Madness - One Step Beyond
Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
McFadden & Whitehead - Mcfadden & Whitehead
McGuinn, Clark and Hillman - McGuinn, Clark and Hillman
Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
Michael Rother - Katzenmusik
Neil Diamond - September Morn
Neil Young - Live Rust
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust
Original Soundtrack -- Meatballs
Patti Smith - Wave
Paul McCartney & Wings - Back to the Egg
Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
Pere Ubu - New Picnic Time
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Prince - Prince
Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
Ramones - It's Alive
Raydio - Rock On
Rickie Lee Jones - Rickie Lee Jones
Robert Fripp - Exposure
Robert Gordon - Rock Billy Boogie
Robert John - Robert John
Rupert Holmes - Partners in Crime
Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop
Serge Gainsbourg - Aux Armes et Cætera
Shalamar - Big Fun
Shoes - Present Tense
Sister Sledge - We Are Family
Smokey Robinson - Where There's Smoke . . .
Soft Boys - A Can of Bees
Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes - The Jukes
Steel Pulse - Tribute to the Martyrs
Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
Stevie Wonder - Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
Styx - Cornerstone
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Talking Heads - Fear of Music
Teddy Pendergrass - Teddy
The B-52's - The B-52's
The Cars - Candy-O
The Clash - London Calling
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Fall - Dragnet
The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
The Flamin' Groovies - Jumpin' in the Night
The Germs - (GI)
The Inmates - First Offence
The Jam - Setting Sons
The Kinks - Low Budget
The Knack - Get the Knack
The O'Jays - Identify Yourself
The Police - Regatta de Blanc
The Pop Group - Y
The Raincoats - The Raincoats
The Residents - Eskimo
The Roches - The Roches
The Royal Rasses - Humanity
The Ruts - The Crack
The Slits - Cut
The Specials - The Specials
The Undertones - The Undertones
The Who - The Kids Are Alright (live)
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
UFO - Strangers in the Night (live)
Van Halen - Van Halen II
Van Morrison - Into the Music
Village People - Go West
Wire - 154
XTC - Drums & Wires
ZZ Top - Deguello
JGM
>> Pere Ubu - Dub Housing
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>I thought you had agreed to file this under 1978.
Indeed. I moved it to the '78 list but failed to remove it from '79. Thanks
for the catch.
Okay, Bob Marley - Survival gets the next bye and the prelim slot that Bob
was in will be filled by something else.
JGM
I'm JGM, and I approved this message.