Albums of the Year | 1979

After giving a brief overview of the year in music, Jason, Kramzer, and Joe each make their picks for the best albums of 1979 and discuss what they think makes them so great.

Best-Selling Album: 52nd Street by Billy Joel
Longest No. 1 Single: Crazy Love by Poco
Grammy – Album of the Year: 52nd Street by Billy Joel
Grammy – Song of the Year: What a Fool Believes by The Doobie Brothers
Groups Formed: Cocteau Twins, Dokken, Exodus, The Exploited, Fishbone, The Fixx, A Flock of Seagulls, Husker Du, King's X, Huey Lewis and the News, Loverboy, Spandau Ballet, The The, Was (Not Was)
Groups Disbanded: ELP, Little Feat, Tubeway Army, Wild Cherry, X-Ray Spex
Deaths: Charles Mingus, Donny Hathaway, Sid Vicious, Lowell George, Van McCoy, Minnie Riperton, Jimmy McCulloch, Judee Sill
Top-Grossing Film: Kramer vs. Kramer
Best Selling Fiction Book: The Matarese Circle by Robert Ludlum
Best Selling Non-Fiction Book: Aunt Erma's Cope Book by Erma Bombeck
TIME’s Person of The Year: Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

Don't forget to comment below with your favorite albums of '79, and if you'd like, take a stab at guessing what our picks for 1980 will be.

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