Pazz & Jop 1978: Dean's List

Albums

1. Wire: Pink Flag (Harvest) 13
2. Nick Lowe: Pure Pop for Now People (Columbia) 13
3. Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food (Sire) 13
4. The Clash: Give 'Em Enough Rope (Epic) 11
5. Neil Young: Comes a Time (Reprise) 11
6. Elvis Costello: This Year's Model (Columbia) 11
7. The Rolling Stones: Some Girls (Rolling Stones) 7
8. Lee Dorsey: Night People (ABC) 7
9. Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band: Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (Warner Bros.) 7
10. The Vibrators: Pure Mania (Columbia) 7

11. Ramones: Road to Ruin (Sire)
12. Joe Ely: Honky Tonk Masquerade (MCA)
13. Funkadelic: One Nation Under a Groove (Warner Bros.)
14. Blondie: Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
15. Television: Adventure (Elektra)
16. Willie Nelson: Stardust (Columbia)
17. Al Green: Truth n' Time (Hi)
18. Ashford & Simpson: Is It Still Good to Ya (Warner Bros.)
19. Ian Dury: New Boots and Panties!! (Stiff)
20. Shoes: Black Vinyl Shoes (PVC)
21. Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy (Asylum)
22. Parliament: Motor-Booty Affair (Casablanca)
23. Dave Edmunds: Tracks on Wax 4 (Swan Song)
24. Willie Nelson: Face of a Fighter
25. Bob Marley & the Wailers: Kaya (Island)
26. David Johansen (Blue Sky)
27. Professor Longhair: Live on the Queen Mary (Harvest)
28. Michael Mantler: Movies (Watt)
29. Patti Smith Group: Easter (Arista)
30. Brian Eno: Before and After Science (Island)

Village Voice, Jan. 22, 1979

1977

Essay | Critics Poll

1979