1979

Saxon

Saxon

• Label: Carrère
• Released: 21 May 1979

• Heavy metal
• Hard rock

1. Rainbow Theme
2. Frozen Rainbow
3. Big Teaser
4. Judgement Day
5. Stallions of the Highway
6. Backs to the Wall
7. Still Fit to Boogie
8. Militia Guard

Breakfast in America

Supertramp

• Label: A&M
• Released: 29 March 1979

• Progressive pop
• Pop rock

1. Gone Hollywood
2. The Logical Song
3. Goodbye Stranger
4. Breakfast in America
5. Oh Darling
6. Take the Long Way Home
7. Lord Is It Mine
8. Just Another Nervous Wreck
9. Casual Conversations
10. Child of Vision

Van Halen II

Van Halen

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 23 March 1979

• Hard rock
• Heavy metal

1. You're No Good
2. Dance the Night Away
3. Somebody Get Me a Doctor
4. Bottoms up!
5. Outta Love Again
6. Light up the Sky
7. Spanish Fly
8. D.O.A.
9. Women in Love ...
10. Beautiful Girls

Stand by

Heldon

• Label: Cuneiform
• Released: 1979

• Avant-garde rock
• Progressive rock
• Electronica

1. Bolero
2. Une drôle de journée
3. Stand by

Dynasty

Kiss

• Label: Casablanca
• Released: 23 May 1979

• Hard rock
• Disco

1. I Was Made for Lovin' You
2. 2,000 Man
3. Sure Know Something
4. Dirty Livin'
5. Charisma
6. Magic Touch
7. Hard Times
8. X-Ray Eyes
9. Save Your Love

Enlightened Rogues

The Allman Brothers Band

• Label: Capricorn
• Released: February 1979

• Southern rock
• Blues rock

1. Crazy Love
2. Can't Take It With You
3. Pegasus
4. Need Your Love So Bad
5. Blind Love
6. Try It One More Time
7. Just Ain't Easy
8. Sail Away

Regatta de Blanc

The Police

• Label: A&M
• Released: 5 October 1979

• New wave
• Reggae rock

1. Message in a Bottle
2. Regatta de Blanc
3. It's Alright for You
4. Bring on the Night
5. Deathwish
6. Walking on the Moon
7. On Any Other Day
8. The Bed's Too Big Without You
9. Contact
10. Does Everyone Stare
11. No Time This Time

Hydra

Toto

• Label: Columbia
• Released: November 1979

• Progressive rock
• Hard rock

1. Hydra
2. St. George and the Dragon
3. 99
4. Lorraine
5. All Us Boys
6. Mama
7. White Sister
8. A Secret Love

Narita

Riot

• Label: Capitol
• Released: August 1979

• Hard rock
• Heavy metal

1. Waiting for the Taking
2. 49er
3. Kick Down the Wall
4. Born to Be Wild
5. Narita
6. Here We Come Again
7. Do It up
8. Hot for Love
9. White Rock
10. Road Racin'

Casiopea

Casiopea

• Label: Alfa Records
• Released: 25 May 1979

• Jazz fusion

1. Time Limit
2. Tears of the Star
3. Space Road
4. Midnight Rendezvous
5. Far Away
6. Swallow
7. Dream Hill
8. Black Joke

Top Priority

Rory Gallagher

• Label: Chrysalis
• Released: September 1979

• Blues rock
• Hard rock

1. Follow Me
2. Philby
3. Wayward Child
4. Key Chain
5. At the Depot
6. Bad Penny
7. Just Hit Town
8. Off the Handle
9. Public Enemy No. 1

Flirtin' with Disaster

Molly Hatchet

• Label: Epic
• Released: September 1979

• Southern rock
• Boogie 'n' roll

1. Whiskey Man
2. It's All Over Now
3. One Man's Pleasure
4. Jukin' City
5. Boogie No More
6. Flirtin' with Disaster
7. Good Rockin'
8. Gunsmoke
9. Long Time
10. Let the Good Times Roll

Strikes

Blackfoot

• Label: Atco
• Released: 7 March 1979

• Southern rock
• Blues rock

1. Road Fever
2. I Got a Line on You
3. Left Turn on a Red Light
4. Pay My Dues
5. Baby Blue
6. Wishing Well
7. Run and Hide
8. Train, Train
9. Highway Song

Lovehunter

Whitesnake

• Label: United Artists
• Released: 1 October 1979

• Blues rock
• Hard rock

1. Long Way from Home
2. Walking in the Shadow of the Blues
3. Help Me Thro' the Day
4. Medicine Man
5. You 'n' Me
6. Mean Business
7. Love Hunter
8. Outlaw
9. Rock 'n' Roll Women
10. We Wish You Well

Dancing in the Dragon's Jaws

Bruce Cockburn

• Label: True North
• Released: 1979

• Folk
• Folk rock

1. Creation Dream
2. Hills of Morning
3. Badlands Flashback
4. Northern Lights
5. After the Rain
6. Wondering Where the Lions Are
7. Incandescent Blue
8. No Footprints

Machine Gun Etiquette

The Damned

• Label: Chiswick
• Released: 2 November 1979

• Punk rock
• Proto-hardcore

1. Love Song
2. Machine Gun Etiquette
3. I Just Can't Be Happy Today
4. Melody Lee
5. Anti-Pope
6. These Hands
7. Plan 9 Channel 7
8. Noise, Noise, Noise
9. Looking at You
10. Liar
11. Smash It up (Part 1)
12. SMash It up (Part 2)

Degüello

ZZ Top

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: November 1979

• Blues
• Blues rock

1. I Thank You
2. She Loves My Automobile
3. I'm Bad, I'm Nationwide
4. A Fool dor Your Stockings
5. Dust My Broom
6. Lowdwn in the Street
7. Hi Fi Mama
8. Cheap Sunglasses
9. Esther Be the One

Down to Earth

Rainbow

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 3 August 1979

• Hard rock

1. All Night Long
2. Eyes of the World
3. No Time to Lose
4. Makin' love
5. Since You've Been Gone
6. Love's No Friend
7. Danger Zone
8. Lost in Hollywood

Wave

Patti Smith Group

• Label: Arista
• Released: 17 May 1979

• Art rock
• Art punk

1. Frederick
2. Dancing Barefoot
3. So You Want to Be (a Rock 'n' Roll Star)
4. Hymn
5. Revenge
6. Citizen Ship
7. Seven Ways of Going
8. Broken Flag
9. Wave

Bomber

Motörhead

• Label: Bronze
• Released: 12 October 1979

• Speed metal

1. Dead Man Tell No Tales
2. Lawman
3. Sweet Revenge
4. Sharpshooter
5. Poison
6. Stone Dead Forever
7. All the Aces
8. Step Down
9. Talking Head
10. Bomber

Cornerstone

Styx

• Label: A&M
• Released: 19 October 1979

• Pop rock
• progressive rock

1. Lights
2. Why Me
3. Babe
4. Never Say Never
5. Boat on a River
6. Borrowed Time
7. First Time
8. Eddie
9. Love in the Midnight

Fröm the Fjörds

Legend

• Label: Empire
• Released: 1979

• Heavy metal
• Progressive metal

1. The Destroyer
2. The Wizard's Vengeance
3. The Golden Bell
4. The Confrontation
5. R.A.R.Z.
6. Against the Gods
7. The Iron Horse
8. From the Fjords

Silent Cries and Mighty Echoes

Eloy

• Label: Harvest
• Released: 1979

• Space rock
• Progressive rock

1. Astral Entrance
2. Master of Sensation
3. The Apocalypse
4. Pilot to Paradise
5. De Labore Solis
6. Mighty Echoes

Lovedrive

Scorpions

• Label: Harvest
• Released: February 1979

• Hard rock
• heavy metal

1. Loving You Sunday Morning
2. Another Piece of Meat
3. Always Somewhere
4. Coast to Coast
5. Can't Get Enough
6. Is There Anybody There?
7. Lovedrive
8. Holiday

Magnum II

Magnum

• Label: Jet
• Released: October 1979

• Progressive rock
• hard rock

1. Great Adventure
2. Changes
3. The Battle
4. If I Could Live Forever
5. Reborn
6. So Cold the Night
7. Foolish Heart
8. Stayin' Alive
9. Firebird
10. All of My Life

Unknown Pleasures

Joy Division

• Label: Factory
• Released: 15 June 1979

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock

1. Disorder
2. Day of the Lords
3. Candidate
4. Insight
5. New Dawn Fades
6. She's Lost Control
7. Shadowplay
8. Wilderness
9. Interzone
10. I Remember Nothing

Rust Never Sleeps

Neil Young & the Crazy Horse

• Label: Reprise
• Released: 22 June 1979

• Folk rock
• hard rock

1. My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)
2. Thrasher
3. Ride My Llama
4. Pocahontas
5. Sail Away
6. Powderfinger
7. Welfare Mothers
8. Sedan Delivery
9. Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)

Damn the Torpedoes

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

• Label: Geffen
• Released: 19 October 1979

• Roots rock

1. Refugee
2. Here Comes My Girl
3. Even the Losers
4. Shadow of a Doubt (A Complex Kid)
5. Century City
6. Don't Do Me Like That
7. You Tell Me
8. What Are You Doin' in My life?
9. Louisiana Rain

Tusk

Fleetwood Mac

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 12 October 1979

• Pop rock
• experimental rock

1. Over & Over
2. The Ledge
3. Think About Me
4. Save Me a Place
5. Sara
6. What Makes You Think You're the One
7. Storms
8. That's All for Everyone
9. Not That Funny
10. Sisters of the Moon
11. Angel
12. That's Enough for Me
13. Brown Eyes
14. Never Make Me Cry
15. I Know I'm Not Wrong
16. Honey Hi
17. Beautiful Child
18. Walk a Thin Line
19. Tusk
20. Never Forget

Overkill

Motörhead

• Label: Bronze
• Released: March 1979

• Speed metal
• heavy metal

1. Overkill
2. Stay Clean
3. (I Won't) Pay Your Price
4. I'll Be Your Sister
5. Capricorn
6. No Class
7. Damage Case
8. Tear Ya Down
9. Metropolis
10. Limb from Limb

The Wall

Pink Floyd

• Label: EMI
• Released: 30 November 1979

• Progressive rock

1. In the Flesh?
2. The Thin ice
3. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1
4. The Happiest Days of Our Lives
5. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2
6. Mother
7. Goodbye Blue Sky
8. Empty Spaces
9. Young Lust
10. One of My Turns
11. Don't Leave Me Now
12. Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3
13. Goodbye Cruel World
14. Hey You
15. Is There Anybody out There?
16. Nobody Home
17. Vera
18. Bring the Boys Home
19. Comfortably Numb
20. The Show Must Go on
21. In the Flesh
22. Run Like Hell
23. Waiting for the Worms
24. Stop
25. The Trial
26. Outside the Wall

Highway to Hell

AC/DC

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 27 July 1979

• Hard rock
• heavy metal

1. Highway to Hell
2. Girls Gor Rhythm
3. Walk All Over You
4. Touch Too Much
5. Beating Around the Bush
6. Shot Down in Flames
7. Get It Hot
8. If You Want Blood (You've Got It)
9. Love Hungry Man
10. Night Prowler