Top 50 Albums from 1979

Name the top fifty albums from 1979 according to www.rateyourmusic.com as of May 2019.
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Artist
Album
#1: Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
#2: The Clash
London Calling
#3: Pink Floyd
The Wall
#4: Talking Heads
Fear of Music
#5: Gang of Four
Entertainment!
#6: Wire
154
#7: Motörhead
Overkill
#8: Public Image Ltd
Metal Box
#9: This Heat
This Heat
#10: Sun Ra and His Arkestra
Sleeping Beauty
#11: Michael Jackson
Off the Wall
#12: AC/DC
Highway to Hell
#13: The B-52's
The B-52's
#14: Thin Lizzy
Black Rose: A Rock Legend
#15: Elvis Costello & the Attractions
Armed Forces
#16: The Damned
Machine Gun Etiquette
#17: Supertramp
Breakfast in America
#18: The Specials
Specials
#19: The Jam
Setting Sons
#20: Fleetwood Mac
Tusk
#21: Various Artists
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
#22: Stiff Little Fingers
Inflammable Material
#23: The Pop Group
Y
#24: Jerry Goldsmith
Star Trek: The Motion Picture
#25: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Damn the Torpedoes
Artist
Album
#26: XTC
Drums and Wires
#27: Camarón
La Leyenda del Tiempo
#28: Tubeway Army
Replicas
#29: The Philip Glass Ensemble
Einstein on the Beach
#30: Wiener Philharmoniker / Carlos Kleiber
Symphonien No. 8 »Unvollendete« · No. 3
#31: Scorpions
Lovedrive
#32: Rory Gallagher
Top Priority
#33: Yellow Magic Orchestra
Solid State Survivor
#34: Gary Numan
The Pleasure Principle
#35: Univers Zéro
Hérésie
#36: Joe Jackson
Look Sharp!
#37: Graham Parker
Squeezing Out Sparks
#38: Van Morrison
Into the Music
#39: The Fall
Live at the Witch Trials
#40: Zé Ramalho
A Peleja do Diabo com o Dono do Céu
#41: Black Uhuru
Showcase
#42: Motörhead
Bomber
#43: Crack
Si Todo Hiciera Crack
#44: The Undertones
The Undertones
#45: Contortions
Buy
#46: Sparks
N° 1 in Heaven
#47: Chrome
Half Machine Lip Moves
#48: Serú Girán
Grasa de las Capitales
#49: Linton Kwesi Johnson
Forces of Victory
#50: Tangerine Dream
Force Majeure
2 Comments
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Level 85
May 13, 2019
The patrons of www.rateyourmusic.com have weird taste.
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Level 26
May 13, 2019
yeah indeed they do. though i don't agree with a decent amount of the charts, it's still a great platform for discovering music i haven't heard.