Best Albums Of '78

[pzman]

Plus --- Same -- from Argentina,this was their second album,(typical
hard rock a la Led Zeppelin/Bad Company)note that Saul Blanch
(some years later with Rata Blanca in their debut album)was the lead singer.

Black Spirit -- Same (recorded in 1973 but published in 1978,
extremely rare with gatefold cover,
this band was formed by italian members but they all lived
in Germany,heavy doom inspired by Black Sabbath;reissued on cd and
lp with different cover in 1993/1994).

Janus -- Al maestrale(extremely rare,but reissued many times,
this is a very strange but good italian stuff,hard rock
with medieval influences).

Never heard these, i'll try to check em out, thanks nonseinormale65!

[convent guilt]

Not the quantity of killer releases as some other years in the '70s, but:

Judas Priest 'Stained class'
Judas Priest 'Killing machine'
Rose Tattoo 's/t'
AC/DC 'Powerage'
AC/DC 'If you want blood'
Scorpions 'Tokyo tapes'
Sorcery 'Sinister soldiers'
Thin Lizzy 'Live and dangerous'
Van Halen 's/t'

And I was released in '78 as well, which my mother probably thought was a good thing...

[Ernest Thesiger]

Nazareth's Expect No Mercy was the first heavy album I heard when I was little. For sentimental reasons I'm picking that one.

[malegys]

-Ramones "it's alive" & "rocket to russia"
-ac/dc "powerage" & "if you want blood"
-Throbbing gristle "20 jazz funk hits"
-Vanhalen "s/t"
-Rush "Hemispheres"
-Police "outlandos d'amour"

[DTP]

HEAVY AS FUK

[Avenger]

Where are the NWOBHM crazies when you need them? This thread is getting pretty off-topic by a few posts

[pzman]

Where are the NWOBHM crazies when you need them? This thread is getting pretty off-topic by a few posts

I had a feeling it might get out of control...

The idea is to eventually have a complete range of threads for each year of Metal that this website/forum is dedicated to.

[Keir]

Where are the NWOBHM crazies when you need them? This thread is getting pretty off-topic by a few posts

Sure there were a few broderline NWOBHM releases in '78 but the good stuff didn't come out until the next year. I mean, Urchin was OK but this is supposed to be the best of '78, not the mediocre of '78.

[GJ]

Def Leppard - EP

Urchin may have come from a different context than Alkana or whatever but all the same - metal it ain't!

[Avenger]

Where are the NWOBHM crazies when you need them? This thread is getting pretty off-topic by a few posts

Sure there were a few broderline NWOBHM releases in '78 but the good stuff didn't come out until the next year. I mean, Urchin was OK but this is supposed to be the best of '78, not the mediocre of '78.

You've got a good point there.

[Avenger]

Any other contributions?

I'm going to bump this once more before we move on.

[GJ]

I love this one for some reason:



Sort of gently-but-clumsily heavy and neat as hell.

[DaN]

This early in music history there's simply no competition - "Stained Class".

[Cochino]

I thought Poisonoise was form '78 but I see Metal Archives as '79 as a release date

[dford]

This early in music history there's simply no competition - "Stained Class".

Stained class followed by Rush's Hemispheres for me.
I would of been 8yrs old then, I remember around that time I had three lp's that I listened to all the time(I grew up in a household that always had some sort of music playing Rolling Stones, Sex Pistols, Clash, Beatles , Irish music)
1) Kiss Alive. My father gave it to me because I had a Kiss poster on my wall but had never heard them!
2) Black Sabbath Masters of Reality. My uncle was moving and he had stored a bunch of stuff at our house, I remember liking the cover so I "borrowed" it
3) Judas Priest Best Of. I don't remember where I go this but I do remember driving my family crazy by constantly playing it.