Darkness on the Edge of Town
1978
Three years of litigation kept Springsteen out of a studio, and when he got back in he gave away most of the catchy songs.
★ 8.2
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This Year's Model
1978
Costello had been working as a computer operator two years earlier. The sleeve was printed deliberately off-center with the camera and tripod showing.
★ 6.7
One Nation Under a Groove
1978
The title track runs sixteen minutes and was cut with the band playing together in the room, audience noise dubbed on afterward.
★ 6.4
The Last Waltz
1978
Martin Scorsese shot it with seven cameras and a written shot list keyed to the lyrics. Neil Diamond and Muddy Waters both turn up.
★ 6.3
52nd Street
1978
Joel brought in jazz session players and a horn section, and this became the first album anywhere to be released commercially on compact disc.
★ 5.1
Outlandos d'Amour
1978
Made in scraps of studio time for about fifteen hundred pounds, and Roxanne is named after a poster the band walked past in Paris.
★ 5.0
Waiting for Columbus
1978
Tower of Power's horn section joined them for these shows, and a good deal of it was quietly fixed in the studio afterwards.
★ 4.8
Ice Pickin'
1978
Collins tuned his guitar to a minor chord and moved a capo around it, which no one else did, and it accounts for the sound.
★ 2.9