McGreivey's Records of the Year...

Year Artist Title Comments




1979 Swell Maps A Trip to Marineville
  Wire 1-5-4
  Stiff Little Fingers Inflammable Material
  Jonathan Richman Back in Your Life
  Squeeze Cool for Cats  
  Buzzcocks A Different Kind of Tension  
  Buzzcocks Singles Going Steady  
  XTC Drums & Wires  
  Joe Jackson Look Sharp  
  Joe Jackson I'm the Man  
  Gang of Four Entertainment  
  Talking Heads Fear of Music  
  The Fall Live at the Witch Trials  
  Elvis Costello Armed Forces  
  Magazine Secondhand Daylight  
  Neil Young Rust Never Sleeps  
  The Jam Setting Sons  
  Nick Lowe Labour of Lust  
  The Soft Boys A Can of Bees  
  The Clash London Calling  
  Joy Division Unknown Pleasures  
  Dave Edmunds Repeat When Necessary  




1978 Wire Chairs Missing
  Buzzcocks Love Bites  
  Nick Lowe Pure Pop for Now People  
  Magazine Real Life  
  Brain Eno Before and After Science  
  Brain Eno Music for Airports  
  Elvis Costello This Year's Model  
  The Jam All Mod Cons  
  The Clash Give 'Em Enough Rope  
  The Ramones Road to Ruin
  Dave Edmunds Tracks on Wax 4  
  Ultravox Systems of Romance
  Todd Rundgren Hermit of Mink Hollow  




1977 Buzzcocks Another Music in a Different Kitchen  
  Ultravox Ha Ha Ha!
  Ultravox Ultravox!
  The Dead Boys Young, Loud, & Snotty  
  Wire Pink Flag
  The Damned Damned Damned Damned  
  The Sex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks...  
  Talking Heads Talking Heads '77  
  David Bowie Low  
  Utopia Oops! Wrong Planet  
  The Jam In the City  
  David Bowie Heroes  
  Elvis Costello My Aim is True  
  Peter Hammill Over  
  The Ramones Rocket to Russia
  The Ramones Leave Home
  Planet Gong Floating Anarchy Live 1977  
  The Clash The Clash  
  Dave Edmunds Get It  
  Thin Lizzy Bad Reputation  




1976 The Ramones The Ramones
  Frank Zappa Zoot Allures  
  David Bowie Station to Station  
  Thin Lizzy Jailbreak  
  Van der Graaf Generator Still Life  




1975 Brain Eno Another Green World  
  The Residents Third Reich & Roll  
  Van der Graaf Generator Godbluff  
  Roy Wood Mustard  
  Peter Hammill Nadir's Big Chance  
  Neil Young Zuma  
  Roxy Music Siren  




1974 John Cale Fear  
  Brain Eno Here Come the Warm Jets  
  Robert Wyatt Rock Bottom  
  Brain Eno Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)  
  King Crimson Starless and Bible Black  
  Big Star Radio City  
  Roy Wood & Wizzard Introducung Eddy & the Falcons  
  Joni Mitchell Court and Spark  




1973 Todd Rundgren A Wizard, A True Star
  John Cale Paris 1919  
  King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic  
  Gong Flying Teapot  
  Gong Angel's Egg  
  Roy Wood Boulders  
  Gram Parsons Grievous Angel  
  Roxy Music For Your Pleasure  




1972 David Bowie Ziggy Stardust  
  Captain Beefheart The Spotlight Kid  
  Gram Parsons G.P.  
  Can Ege Bemyasi  
  Roxy Music Roxy Music  
  The Raspberries Raspberries  
  The Raspberries Fresh  
  Big Star #1 Record  
  Neil Young Harvest  




1971 Can Tago Mago  
  The Flying Burrito Brothers The Flying Burrito Brothers  
  Neu Neu!  
  King Crimson Islands  
  Gong Camembert Electrique  
  Joni Mitchell Blue  
  Badfinger Straight Up  




1970 The Move Shazam
  The Beach Boys Sunflower  
  Captain Beefheart Clear Spot  
  The Stooges Fun House  
  Joni Mitchell Ladies of the Canyon  
  Badfinger No Dice  
  John Cale Vintage Violence  
  David Bowie The Man Who Sold the World  
  Can Soundtracks  
  Van der Graaf Generator H to He Who Am the Only One  
  The Byrds Untitled  
  Neil Young After the Goldrush  
  The Velvet Underground Loaded  
  The Flying Burrito Brothers Burrito Deluxe  

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