Top 10 for 1978

TheBigBlack's Rock Top 10

Cold Chisel
Cold Chisel

Rock | Album | 24 April 1978

David Gilmour
David Gilmour

Rock | Album | 25 May 1978

Rose Tattoo
Rose Tattoo

Hard Rock | Album | ?? November 1978

Public Image Ltd. (PiL)
Public Image (First Issue)

Post-Punk | Album | 8 December 1978

Going solo (or at least creating a new band identity for yourself) after being in a ground breaking genre-defining band is always going to be tough. People like Paul McCartney and Robert Plant realised this, and struggled to find a new norm amongst their established audience. Johnny Rotten knew that post Sex Pistols his fans wanted to see him become more Rotten than ever, which is why he did the opposite - he became himself. Re-emerging as John Lydon, he introduced the world to PiL, a post-punk art-rock anomaly, that many fans were left confused and alienated by. There are shades of his former band buried here, but more in attitude than style. There are acerbic buzzsaw guitars, but they create atmosphere rather that riffs, and the spoken word poetry of Religion was likely too much for most mohawked glue-sniffers in 1978. There are still some 'real' songs here, with tracks like Annalisa and Public Image pumping out rock greatness, but for the most part this is an album (and band) designed to make you think, rather than pogo.

Jeff Wayne
Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of 'The War Of The Worlds'

Progressive Rock | Album | 9 June 1978

Jethro Tull
Heavy Horses

Progressive Rock | Album | 21 April 1978

The Angels
Face To Face

Hard Rock | Album | 12 August 1978

Bob Dylan
Street-Legal

Classic Rock | Album | 15 June 1978

AC/DC
Powerage [A.U. Edition]

Hard Rock | Album | 25 May 1978

TheBigBlack's Metal Top 10

Black Sabbath
Never Say Die!

Heavy Metal | Album | 28 September 1978

Judas Priest
Stained Class

Heavy Metal | Album | 10 February 1978

Judas Priest
Killing Machine

Heavy Metal | Album | 9 October 1978