5. Heart, Dog & Butterfly Dog & Butterfly was the second Heart album released in 1978. Sort of. The band that famously features the Wilson sisters, lead singer Ann and lead guitarist Nancy, released their debut album on Mushroom Records … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 5
6. Jethro Tull, Bursting Out Look. It’s Jethro Tull, the band that brought flute solos into rock ‘n’ roll. It’s a double live album, because it’s the nineteen-seventies and double live albums were the standard filler on the discography of … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 6
7. Neil Young, Comes a Time Comes a Time, released in October of 1978, was the ninth solo release credited to Neil Young. It was at once a departure and a return to form. After a batch of prickly, complex, … Continue reading College Countdown: The First CMJ Album Chart, 7
I got a call earlier today from my friend Sarah. Long-time listener, not a first time caller. She’s one of the few people I know who still makes radio broadcasting her profession, and she was nearing the end of her … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 8
9. Devo, Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! For any up-and-coming band, it’s useful to have some advocates who have already established themselves in the cutthroat music biz. Circa 1978, a band couldn’t do much better than … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 9
10. Talking Heads, More Songs About Buildings and Food I don’t mean to denigrate the very fine–underrated, even!–album Talking Heads: 77 when I note that More Songs About Buildings and Food seems like the real debut of the most important … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 10
11. Blondie, Parallel Lines “Heart of Glass” was the fourth single released from Blondie’s Parallel Lines. Okay, technically it was the third single released in the United States, their label, Chrysalis, opting against issuing “Picture This” as the opening … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 11
12. Sea Level, On the Edge The Allman Brothers Band was one of those groups that felt like they were fractiously apart more than they were together, practicing a brand of precarious camaraderie befitting their familial nature. When the band experienced their first formal break-up in the mid-nineteeen-seventies, several members were already poised to do their own thing. Sea Level was a clear, supported offshoot of the Allman Brothers Band, opening shows for the southern rock icons in 1975 and 1976. In the latter year, it became the main thing going as the tension between Gregg Allman and his bandmates … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 12
13. Bryan Ferry, The Bride Stripped Bare In the great mushy mess of classic rock chronology that exists in my head, there are a few standard patterns that I grab tightly on like handlebars that will help me steer through … Continue reading College Countdown, The First CMJ Album Chart, 13
14. Hall & Oates, Along the Red Ledge The conventional wisdom is that the duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates didn’t hit their commercial stride until the early-nineteen-eighties. That’s hard to argue with, given that they topped the chart … Continue reading College Countdown: The First CMJ Album Chart, 14
Coffee for Two 