1979 Albums1. Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Armed Forces
2. Talking Heads - Fear of Music
3. The Clash - London Calling
4. Gang of Four - Entertainment!
5. Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
6. David Bowie - Lodger
7. Pink Floyd - The Wall
8. The Jam - Setting Sons
9. XTC - Drums and Wires
10. Buzzcocks - A Different Kind of Tension
Notable Shorts: The Cramps - Gravest Hits; The Go-Betweens - People Say
Notable Compilations: Buzzcocks - Singles Going Steady
1978 Albums1. Television - Adventure
2. Elvis Costello - This Year's Model
3. Talking Heads - More Songs About Buildings and Food
4. Big Star - 3rd
5. Patti Smith Group - Easter
6. Wire - Chairs Missing
7. Kate Bush - The Kick Inside
8. Black Devil - Disco Club
9. The Rolling Stones - Some Girls
10. Kraftwerk - The Man-Machine
Notable Shorts: The Go-Betweens - Lee Remick
1977 Albums1. Television - Marquee Moon
2. Augustus Pablo - King Tubbys Meets Rockers Uptown
3. David Bowie - Low
4. Wire - Pink Flag
5. The Damned - Damned Damned Damned
6. Kraftwerk - Trans-Europe Express
7. The Clash - The Clash
8. Cerrone - Supernature
9. Augustus Pablo - East of the River Nile
10. The Beach Boys - Love You
Notable Shorts: John Cale - Animal Justice EP; Alex Chilton - Singer Not the Song EP
1976 Albums1. The Modern Lovers - The Modern Lovers
2. Michael Hurley/ The Unholy Modal Rounders/ Jeffrey Fredericks & The Clamtones - Have Moicy!
3. Max Romeo & The Upsetters - War ina Babylon
4. Bob Dylan - Desire
5. Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers
6. Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Kate & Anna McGarrigle
7. The Gladiators - Trenchtown Mix Up
8. Ramones - Ramones
9. Robert Lester Folsom - Music & Dreams
10. David Bowie - Station to Station
Notable Shorts: The Nerves - The Nerves
1975 Albums1. Brian Eno - Another Green World
2. Bob Dylan - Blood on the Tracks
3. Curtis Mayfield - There's No Place Like America Today
4. Bob Dylan & The Band - The Basement Tapes
5. Neil Young - Tonight's the Night
6. Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
7. Neil Young - Zuma
8. Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel - The Best Years of Our Lives
9. Willie Nelson - Red Headed Stranger
10. Big Youth - Dread Locks Dread
Notable Shorts: Television - Little Johnny Jewel 7"
1974 Albums1. Brian Eno - Here Come the Warm Jets
2. Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
3. Brian Eno - Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy)
4. Cockney Rebel - The Psychomodo
5. John Cale - Fear
6. Leonard Cohen - New Skin for the Old Ceremony
7. Richard and Linda Thompson - I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight
8. Big Star - Radio City
9. Bob Dylan - Planet Waves
10. Randy Newman - Good Old Boys
1973 Albums1. John Cale - Paris 1919
2. Can - Future Days
3. Jerry Washington - Right Here is Where You Belong
4. Lou Reed - Berlin
5. Judee Sill - Heart Food
6. David Bowie - Aladdin Sane
7. Cockney Rebel - The Human Menagerie
8. Curtis Mayfield - Back to the World
9. Al Green - Call Me
10. James Brown - The Payback
1972 Albums1. Nick Drake - Pink Moon
2. The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
3. Can - Ege Bamyasi
4. Curtis Mayfield - Superfly
5. Neil Young - Harvest
6. T. Rex - The Slider
7. Al Green - I'm Still in Love With You
8. Miles Davis - On the Corner
9. Lou Reed - Transformer
10. David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars
1971 Albums1. David Bowie - Hunky Dory
2. Joni Mitchell - Blue
3. Michael Hurley - Armchair Boogie
4. Marvin Gaye - What's Going On
5. Roy Harper - Stormcock
6. Judee Sill - Judee Sill
7. Serge Gainsbourg - Histoire de Melody Nelson
8. The Rolling Stones - Sticky Fingers
9. Can - Tago Mago
10. Harry Nilsson - Nilsson Schmilsson
1970 Albums1. John Lennon - Plastic Ono Band
2. Nick Drake - Bryter Layter
3. Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
4. Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms
5. Van Morrison - Moondance
6. The Beach Boys - Sunflower
7. The Velvet Underground - Loaded
8. Curtis Mayfield - Curtis
9. Roy Harper - Flat Baroque and Berserk
10. The Stooges - Fun House