NME dergisine göre 1979’un en iyi albümleri.
1. Fear of music – Talking Heads
2. Metal box – Public Image ltd.
3. Unknown Pleasures – Joy Division
4. Setting sons – The Jam
5. Entertainment – Gang of Four
6. Armed Forces – Elvis Costello
7. Do it yourself – Ian Dury
8. London Calling – The Clash
9. Squeezing out the sparks – Graham Parker
10. The Specials – The Specials
11. Forces of victory – Lintin Kwesi Johnson
12. The B52’s – The B52’s
13. Bop till you drop – Ry Cooder
14. The Raincoats – The Raincoats
15. Tom Verlaine – Tom Verlaine
16. I am – Earth, Wind & Fire
17. The Undertones – The Undertones
18. 154 – Wire
19. Repeat when necessary – Dave Edmunds
20. Drums & Wires – XTC
21. New panic time – Pere Ubu
22. Cut – The Slits
23. Risque – Chic
24. Regatta de blank – Police
25. Humanity – The Royle Rasses
26. Same song – Israel Vibration
27. Katzenmusic – Michael Rother
28. Rust never sleeps – Neil Young
29. Brudder des schattens, sohne des.. – Popol Vuh
30. Dragnet – The Fall
31. Even serpents shine – The only ones
32. Eskimo – The Residents
33. Slow train coming – Bob Dylan
34. Blue valentine – Tom Waits
35. This heat – This heat
36. A train to Marineville – Swell maps
37. I’m the man – Joe Jackson
38. Soldier Talk – The red crayola
39. Reproduction – The Human League
40. Lodger – David Bowie