Update sinds 27 januari 2009:

01 (---) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
02 (01) Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
03 (03) Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
04 (02) Toto - Hydra
05 (---) Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl
06 (---) Wire - 154
07 (04) Foreigner - Head Games
08 (05) Scorpions - Lovedrive
09 (06) The Alan Parsons Project - Eve
10 (07) Simple Minds - Life in a Day

01. The Clash - London Calling (Year Defining Record!)
02. Foreigner - Head Games
03. Scorpions - Lovedrive
04. Supertramp-Breakfast In America
05. The Undertones - The Undertones
06. Thin Lizzy - Black rose: A rock Legend
07. Japan - Quiet Life
08. Joe Jackson-I'm The Man
09. Babys - Head First
10. Riot - Narita

1. Japan - Quiet Life
2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. The Jam - Setting Sons
5. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
6. Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
7. Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
8. The Police - Regatta De Blanc
9. Wire - 154
10. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp !

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
3. Supertramp - Breakfast In America
4. The Clash - London Calling
5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5. The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
6. David Bowie - Lodger
7. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
8. Patti Smith Group - Wave
9. Chic - Risqué
10. Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild

01:Pink Floyd-The wall
02:Led Zeppelin-In through the out door
03:Motörhead-Bomber
04:Bob Dylan-Slow train coming
05:Joy Division-Unknown pleasures
06:Van Morrison-Into the music
07:ZZ Top:Degüello
08:Ry Cooder-Bop till you drop
09:Motörhead-Overkill
10:Emmylou Harris-Light of the stable

Update sinds 10 augustus 2013:

01 (01) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
02 (02) Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
03 (03) Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
04 (06) Wire - 154
05 (04) Toto - Hydra
06 (10) Simple Minds - Life in a Day
07 (05) Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl
08 (---) The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
09 (---) U.K. - Danger Money
10 (07) Foreigner - Head Games

Top-30 van 1979 (update en uitbreiding, op 77 albums gestemd waarvan 48 met ten minste 4*):

1. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti 5*
2. The Clash - London Calling
3. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces
4. Van Morrison - Into the Music
5. John Hiatt - Slug Line 4,5*
6. The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
7. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust
8. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Survival
9. The Jam - Setting Sons
10. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

11. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
12. Pink Floyd -The Wall
13. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
14. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Act I
15. Supertramp - Breakfast In America
16. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
17. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
18. ABBA - Voulez-Vous
19. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts II & III
20. Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl

21. The Nits - Tent
22. Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
23. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
24. Japan - Quiet Life 4*
25. Roxy Music - Manifesto
26. David Bowie - Lodger
27. Patti Smith Group - Wave
28. XTC - Drums and Wires
29. Lowell George - Thanks I'll Eat It Here
30. The Specials - Specials

1. (-) Sun Ra - Sleeping Beauty
2. (-) Steve Hillage - Live Herald
3. (-) The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
4. (-) Japan - Quiet Life
5. (-) Don Cherry, Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Ed Blackwell - Old and New Dreams
6. (3) Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
7. (-) Donnie & Joe Emerson - Dreamin' Wild
8. (-) This Heat - This Heat
9. (-) David Bowie - Lodger
10. (-) Amanda Lear - Never Trust a Pretty Face
11. (10) Talking Heads - Fear of Music
12. (-) Philip Glass / Robert Wilson - Einstein on the Beach
13. (-) Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
14. (-) The Sugarhill Gang - Sugarhill Gang
15. (-) Atrium Musicae de Madrid - Musique de la Grèce Antique

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. Japan - Quiet Life
3. The Jam - Setting Sons
4. The Police - Regatta De Blanc
5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
6. Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
7. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
8. Supertramp - Breakfast In America
9. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
10. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp !

Update sinds 17 april 2015:

01 (01) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
02 (02) Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
03 (03) Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
04 (04) Wire - 154
05 (05) Toto - Hydra
06 (08) The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
07 (09) U.K. - Danger Money
08 (10) Foreigner - Head Games
09 (---) Scorpions - Lovedrive
10 (06) Simple Minds - Life in a Day

1. Japan - Quiet Life
2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
3. The Stranglers - The Raven
4. The Clash - London Calling
5. Patti Smith Group - Wave
6. Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville
7. Simple Minds - Real to Real Cacophony
8. Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
9. Chrome - Half Machine Lip Moves
10. Wire - 154

1. Pink Floyd - The Wall
2. Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
3. Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
4. Camel - I Can See Your House from Here
5. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
6. Japan – Quiet Life
7. Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
8. Dire Straits – Communiqué
9. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands
10. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

01. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

02. Philip Glass / Robert Wilson - Einstein on the Beach
03. Pink Floyd - The Wall
04. Ian Hunter - You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic
05. Univers Zero - Heresie
06. Madness - One Step Beyond...
07. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
08. Paolo Conte - Un Gelato Al Limon
09. The Specials - Specials
10. Magazine - Secondhand Daylight

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
3. The Only Ones - Even Serpents Shine
4. Japan - Quiet Life
5. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
6. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Armed Forces
7. Patti Smith Group - Wave
8. Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
9. David Bowie - Lodger
10. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys

11. Tubeway Army - Replicas
12. The Human League - Reproduction
13. Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
14. Simple Minds - Real to Real Cacophony
15. The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
16. Wire - 154
17. The Jam - Setting Sons
18. PiL - Metal Box
19. Sparks - N° 1 in Heaven
20. Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine

21. The B-52's - The B-52's
22. Blondie - Eat to the Beat
23. Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle
24. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
25. Suouxsie & the Banshees - Join Hands
26. The Undertones - The Undertones
27. The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
28. The Beat - The Beat
29. Swell Maps - A Trip to Marineville
30. Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color

01. (02) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
02. (01) Japan - Quiet Life
03. (--) Talking Heads - Fear of Music
04. (--) Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
05. (08) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
06. (03) The Stranglers - The Raven
07. (07) Simple Minds - Real to Real Cacophony
08. (--) Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Press Color
09. (10) Wire - 154
10. (05) Patti Smith Group - Wave

Update sinds 19 april 2016

01 (01) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
02 (02) Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
03 (03) Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
04 (04) Wire - 154
05 (05) Toto - Hydra
06 (06) The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
07 (07) U.K. - Danger Money
08 (08) Foreigner - Head Games
09 (---) The Alan Parsons Project - Eve
10 (09) Scorpions - Lovedrive

1. The Clash - London Calling
2. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
3. Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
4. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
5. Wire - 154
6. The Fall - Live at the Witch Trials
7. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
8. The Pop Group - Y
9. Lou Reed - The Bells
10. Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats

Update sinds 7 april 2017

01 (01) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
02 (02) Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
03 (03) Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
04 (06) The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
05 (04) Wire - 154
06 (---) Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
07 (---) Fischer-Z - Word Salad
08 (05) Toto - Hydra
09 (07) U.K. - Danger Money
10 (08) Foreigner - Head Games

Update sinds 7 maart 2018

01 (01) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
02 (02) Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
03 (03) Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
04 (05) Wire - 154
05 (04) The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
06 (06) Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
07 (07) Fischer-Z - Word Salad
08 (08) Toto - Hydra
09 (09) U.K. - Danger Money
10 (---) Sparks - No 1. in Heaven

1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
3. The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
4. The Specials - Specials
5. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
6. The Undertones - The Undertones
7. Wipers - Is This Real?
8. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
9. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
10. Fischer Z - Word Salat

Update sinds 26 februari 2019:

01 (01) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
02 (02) Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
03 (03) Simple Minds - Reel to Real Cacophony
04 (04) Wire - 154
05 (05) The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
06 (06) Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
07 (07) Fischer-Z - Word Salad
08 (08) Toto - Hydra
09 (09) U.K. - Danger Money
10 (---) Eskaton - 4 Visions

Na 5 jaar een niet spectaculaire update:
2-1:Led Zeppelin : In Though The Out Door 5.0
1-2:Pink Floyd : The Wall 4.5
3-3:Motörhead : Bomber 4.5
4-4:Bob Dylan : Slow Train Coming 4.5
9-5:Motörhead : Overkill 4.0
7-6:ZZ Top : Degüello 4.0
10-7:Emmylou Harris : Light of the stable 4.0
6-8:Van Morrison : Into the music 4.0
//-9:Johnny Cash : Silver 4.0
//-10:George Jones : My Very Special Guests 4.0

Update:

01 (01). Pink Floyd - The Wall
02 (02). Tangerine Dream - Force Majeure
03 (03). Steve Hackett - Spectral Mornings
04 (07). Eloy - Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes
05 (--). Tony Banks - A Curious Feeling
06 (05). Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
07 (--). U.K. - Danger Money
08 (--). Laurent Thibault - Mais On Ne Peut Pas Rêver Tout le Temps
09 (04). Camel - I Can See Your House from Here
10 (--). Bob Dylan - Slow Train Coming

01 (10) Wire - 154 (1979)
02 (06) Gang of Four - Entertainment! (1979)
03 (**) Gino Soccio - Outline (1979)
04 (01) Magazine - Secondhand Daylight (1979)
05 (05) Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box (1979)
06 (03) Talking Heads - Fear of Music (1979)
07 (04) Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures (1979)
08 (02) The Pop Group - Y (1979)
09 (08) Japan - Quiet Life (1979)
10 (**) The Clash - London Calling (1979)

Ik ga me ook maar eens wagen aan al deze 'Top van jaar x'-lijsten. Laat ik beginnen met 1979.

01. Shakin' Stevens - Take One!
02. Rory Gallagher - Top Priority
03. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
04. Neil Diamond - September Morn
05. Buddy Guy - The Blues Giant
06. Prince - Prince
07. ZZ Top - Degüello
08. Roxy Music - Manifesto
09. Galt MacDermot, James Rado & Gerome Ragni - Hair
10. Riot - Narita

Ik kom er meteen achter dat ik bijzonder weinig albums uit 1979 heb gehoord . Over een hele tijd eens kijken of daar verandering in is gekomen, vast wel. Voor nu is dit mijn lijst.

Even updaten.

1. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
2. Pink Floyd - The Wall
3. XTC - Drums And Wires
4. Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
5. Wire - 154
6. Frank Zappa - Sjeik Yerbouti
7. Japan - Quit Life
8. David Bowie - Lodger
9. Wings - Back To The Egg
10. The Specials - Specials

Top-40 van 1979:

1. Frank Zappa - Sheik Yerbouti
2. The Clash - London Calling
3. Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces
4. Van Morrison - Into the Music
5. Kitaro - Oasis
6. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Live Rust
7. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
8. John Hiatt - Slug Line
9. Bob Marley & the Wailers - Survival
10. Garland Jeffreys - American Boy & Girl

11. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
12. The Jam - Setting Sons
13. The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
14. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp!
15. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
16. Pink Floyd -The Wall
17. Supertramp - Breakfast In America
18. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts I
19. Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
20. Culture - International Herb

21. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts II & III
22. Gerry Rafferty - Night Owl
23. The Nits - Tent
24. Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
25. Madness - One Step Beyond...
26. Vangelis - Opera Sauvage
27. ABBA - Voulez-Vous
28. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
29. Japan - Quiet Life
30. Ramones - It's Alive

31. The Stranglers - The Raven
32. Wire - 154
33. The Undertones - The Undertones
34. UFO - Strangers in the Night
35. Johnny Osbourne - Truths and Rights
36. Ry Cooder - Bop Till You Drop
37. Roxy Music - Manifesto
38. The Gladiators - Sweet So Till
39. Patti Smith Group - Wave
40. XTC - Drums and Wires

Op 143 albums gestemd waarvan 85 met ten minste 4* (7x 5*, 29x 4,5*, 49x 4*).

1. The Jam - Setting Sons
1. The Clash - London Calling
3. The Specials - Specials
4. Madness - One Step Beyond...
5. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
6. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
7. U.K. Subs - Another Kind of Blues
8. Matchbox - Matchbox
9. Merle Haggard - Serving 190 Proof
10. Motörhead - Bomber

Top 10
01. Ramones - It's Alive
02. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
03. Joe Jackson - Look Sharp
04. The B-52's - The B-52's
05. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
06. Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage, Act I
07. The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
08. AC/DC - Highway To Hell
09. Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
10. The Pop Group - Y


De rest:
11. Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
12. Punishment Of Luxury - Laughing Academy
13. Philip Glass - Einstein On The Beach
14. Tubeway Army - Replicas
15. Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
16. The Cramps - Gravest Hits
17. Linton Kwesi Johnson - Forces Of Victory
18. The Police - Regatta De Blanc
19. Lee 'Scratch' Perry - Scratch On The Wire
20. The Specials - The Specials
21. Motörhead - Overkill
22. Gang Of Four - Entertainment!
23. Hermeto Pascoal - Montreux Jazz Festival
24. The Clash - London Calling
25. Alex Chilton - Like Flies On Sherbet
26. This Heat - This Heat
27. Mikey Dread - Dread At The Controls
28. Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
29. Tin Huey - Contents Dislodged During Shipment
30. Wire - 154
31. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Damn The Torpedoes
32. Sister Sledge - We Are Family
33. The Jam - Setting Sons
34. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Solid State Survivor
35. Elvis Costello - Armed Forces
36. The Undertones - The Undertones
37. Robert Fripp - Exposure
38. The Germs - (G.I.)
39. Cowboys International - The Original Sin
40. Ry Cooder - Bop Til You Drop
41. The Records - Shades In Bed
42. Misty In Roots - Live At The Counter Eurovision
43. Supertamp - Breakfast In America
44. Squeeze - Cool For Cats
45. Earth, Wind & Fire - I Am
46. Moondog - A New Sound Of An Old Instrument
47. U.K. Subs - Another Kind Of Blues
48. Madness - Madness
49. The Yachts - The Yachts
50. Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
51. Magazine - Secondhand Daylight
52. Nick Lowe - Labour Of Lust
53. Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning
54. Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
55. Black Uhuru - Showcase
56. Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats
57. Blondie - Eat To The Beat
58. Flying Lizards - Flying Lizards
59. Pere Ubu - New Picnic Time
60. Van Morrison - Into The Music
61. Swell Maps - A Trip To Marineville
62. Donna Summer - Bad Girls
63. Snakefinger - Chewing Hides The Sound
64. Devo - Duty Now For The Future
65. Bruce Cockburn - Dancing In The Dragon's Jaws
66. Judas Priest - Unleashed In The East
67. James Chance & The Contortions - Buy Contortions
68. Etoile De Dakar - Volume 1
69. The Residents - Eskimo
70. Fischer-Z. - Word Salad
71. The Skids - Scared To Dance
72. Pink Floyd - The Wall
73. Public Image LTD. - Metal Box
74. Barrington Levy - Englishman
75. Univers Zéro - Heresie

1. The Jam - Setting Sons
2. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
3. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Join Hands
4. The Specials - Specials
5. The Clash - London Calling
6. Skids - Scared to Dance
7. Public Image Ltd. - Metal Box
8. Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
9. Grant Green - Matador
10. Wire - 154

11. Gregory Isaacs - Soon Forward
12. AC/DC - Highway to Hell
13. The Damned - Machine Gun Etiquette
14. Rockers - Original Soundtrack
15. Wipers - Is This Real?
16. Stiff Little Fingers - Inflammable Material
17. The Cramps - Gravest Hits
18. Skids - Days in Europa
19. Madness - One Step Beyond...
20. The B-52's - The B-52's