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There isn't a 1979 year-end countdown for KROQ around anywhere is there? If not, it would be cool to hear everyones picks for a "psuedo" 1979 list. Here is my top 40. (Maybe I will do 106.7 of them later...) I tried to stick with mostly new wave for this, though there would have been many other genres in an actual countdown (as evidenced by the 1980 list).

1) B-52’s-Planet Claire
2) The Police-Message In A Bottle
3) Flash & The Pan-Ladykiller
4) Devo-Blockhead
5) 20/20-Yellow Pills
6) Joe Jackson-Is She Really Going Out
With Him?
7) The Tubes-Turn Me On
The Records-Starry Eyes
9) Elvis Costello-Goon Squad
10) Sniff ‘N’ The Tears-Drivers Seat
11) Devo-Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA
12) Blondie-Accidents Never Happen
13) Buzzcocks-Something’s Gone Wrong
14) Ian Dury-Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
15) Herman Brood & His Wild Romance-Saturday Night
16) Tim Curry-I Do The Rock
17) Kinks-Attitude
18) Shoes-Tomorrow Night
19) The Cars-Dangerous Type
20) Ian Hunter-Just Another Night
21) Suburban Lawns-Gidget Goes To Hell
22) Bram Tchaikovsky-Girl Of My Dreams
23) Iggy Pop-Five Foot One
24) 999-Homicide
25) Lene Lovich-Lucky Number
26) Tubeway Army-Are ‘Friends’ Electric
27) The Sinceros-Take Me To Your Leader
28) Gang of Four-I Found That Essence Rare
29) The Knack-Your Number Or Your Name
30) Dickies-Tricia Toyota (Stuck In A Pagoda With)
31) The Normal-Warm Leatherette
32) Sports-Who Listens To The Radio?
33) The Damned-Smash It Up
34) Specials-Gangsters
35) Roxy Music-Angel Eyes
36) David Bowie-D.J.
37) Joe Jackson-Sunday Papers
38) XTC-Making Plans For Nigel
39) Talking Heads-Life During Wartime
40) The Slits-I Heard It Through The Grapevine

From the spririt of radio fansite, the best and worst albums of 1979 as listed by cfny-fm that year:

"Top 79 Albums of 1979"

Talking Heads - Fear of Music
B-52's - B-52's
Gary Numan - Replicas
Neil Young - Rust Never Sleeps
XTC - Drums & Wi

Man, that list makes me nostalgic for when music was really good, lol.

Especially that CFNY list. God, does CFNY ever suck now. They should be ashamed of themselves. Well, it's actually Corus Entertainment's fault. DAMN YOU CORUS!!!!!!!

This hurt my brain. With assistance from Frisky's list, here's my proposed KROQ 1979, IN ORDER no less (subject to great debate of course). Also borrowed some hits from '78 in the tradition of other KROQ lists...

Rank-Artist-Song
1-Gary Numan-Cars
2-

Impressive!
But wasn't the 1980 list done on Jan 1 & 2 of 1980?

[quote]Originally posted by Jimbo
[br]Impressive!
But wasn't the 1980 list done on Jan 1 & 2 of 1980?

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Does anybody then know what version of "Only a Lad" made the 1980 countdown?
The reason that I ask is the album "Only a Lad" was not released until 1981 but the 1980 EP had their early version of that song.

Have I been wrong all of these years?

You're quite right Jimbo. The album version was not released at the time. I must have been the EP version.

Damn, beaten to the punch....[B)]

Great list, myirwin. I picked up a few that I had forgotten about or just plain don't remember.

Myirwin, that Dickies song has to be my favorite on the Dawn Of The Dickies album. My friend had it early on, and whe

Damn! I don't know frisky.
Great question.
Let me check something first and maybe I can figure it out.

Nope. I came up blank.

Sorry frisky

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[br]Damn, beaten to the punch....[B)]
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Life Begins At The Hop - XTC
Spizzenergi - Where's Capt. Kirk?
You Got It - Pearl harbour & The Explosions
Switchboard Susan - Nick Lowe
Rhythm Of Cruelty - Magazine
Thick As Thieves - The Jam
Back Of My Hand - The Jags
Dirty Water - The Inmates
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Sorry about the formatting. I got this list in 1996 from an Unofficial KROQ site when I was doing some research for DJing my own retro night at the Melody in New Brunswick, NJ.

Here's the actual list from January, 1980:

KROQ's Best of the Year