Provisional 1978 Long List

Artist	Album
Althea & Donna	Uptown Top Ranking
Barry White	The Man
Blondie	Parallel Lines
Bob Marley	Kaya
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band	Stranger in Town
Brian Eno	Ambient 1: Music for Airports
Burning Spear	Social Living
Buzzcocks	Love Bites
Cars	The Cars
Chic	C'est Chic
Dennis Brown	Visions
Dr. Alimantado	Best Dressed Chicken in Town
Elvis Costello	This Year’s Model
Haroumi Hosono & Tadanori Yokoo	Cochin Moon
Kate Bush	Lionheart
Kate Bush	The Kick Inside
Keith Hudson	Rasta Communication
Kraftwerk	Man Machine
Leroy Hutson	Closer to the Source
Leroy Smart	Jah Loves Everyone
Linton Kwesi Johnson (Poet and the Roots)	Dread Beat & Blood
Love Unlimited Orchestra	My Musical Bouquet
Magazine	Real Life
Neil Young	Comes a Time
Only Ones	The Only Ones
Popol Vuh	Nosferatu
Motors	Approved By
Ann Peebles	The Handwriting is on the Wall
U Roy	Jah Son of Africa
Warren Zevon	Excitable Boy
Wire	Chairs Missing
Yellow Magic Orchestra	Yellow Magic Orchestra
Tangerine Dream	Cyclone
Cloud One	Funky Disco Tracks of Cloud One
Doobie Brothers	Minute By Minute
Hawklords	25 Years Ago
Martha Reeves	We Meet Again
Clash	Give 'Em Enough Rope
Jam	All Mod Cons
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers	You're Gonna Get It
Patterson Twins	Let Me Be Your Lover
Dire Straits	Dire Straits
Van Halen	Van Halen
Thelma Houston	Ready To Roll
Margie Joseph	Feeling My Way
Police	Outlandos D'Amour
Taste of Honey	A Taste of Honey
Bryan Ferry	The Bride Stripped Bare
Generation X	Generation X
Emotions	Sunbeam
Marlena Shaw	Acting Up
Magazine	Real Life
Z.Z. Hill	Let's Make a Deal
Rose Royce	Strikes Again
Bruce Springsteen	Darkness on the Edge of Town
Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove
Big Star	Sister Lovers
Talking Heads	More Songs About Buldings and Food
Rolling Stones	Some Girls
Steve Reich	Music for 18 Musicians
Buzzcocks	Different Music in a Different Kitchen
Marvin Gaye	Here, My Dear
X-Ray Spex	Germfree Adolescents
Patti Smith	Easter
Tom Waits	Blue Valentine
Captain Beefheart	Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller)
Bob Marley	Babylon by Bus
Saints	Eternally Yours
Stranglers	Black & White
Burning Spear	Social Living
Jacksons	Destiny
Neil Young	Comes a Time
Bob Dylan	Street Legal
Ultravox	Systems of Romance
Townes Van Zandt	Flyin' Shoes
Saints	Prehistoric Sounds
Prince Far I & The Arabs	Crytuff Dub Encounter Vol. 1
Queen	Jazz
Lee Scratch Perry	Return of the Super Ape
Culture	Harder Than the Rest
Lene Lovich	Stateless
Godley & Crème	L
Jane Birkin	Ex-Fan de Sixties
Dick Gaughan	Gaughan
Japan	Adolescent Sex
Abyssinians	Arise
Rachel Sweet	Fool Around
Original Soundtrack	Grease
Hot Chocolate	Every 1s a Winner
Nina Simone	Baltimore
Slave	The Concept
Japan	Obscure Alternatives
Breakwater	Breakwater
Cheryl Lynn	Cheryl Lynn
Teddy Pendergrass	Life is a Song Worth Singing
Grace Jones	Fame
Lee Dorsey	Night People
Creation Rebel	Dub from Creation
Norma Jean	Norma Jean
Black Sabbath	Never Say Die
Village People	Macho Man
Dan Hartman	Instant Replay
Allen Toussaint	Motion
Dexter Wansel	Voyager
Leo Sayer	Leo Sayer
AC/DC	If You Want Blood [Live]
Ali Farka Toure	Radio Mali
Crass	The Feeding of the 5000
David Bowie	Stage
Facts of Life	A Matter of Fact
Johnny Clarke	King In The Arena
Leroy Smart	Jah Loves Everyone
Love Unlimited Orchestra	My Musical Bouquet
Ned Doheny	Prone
Richard Pryor	Wanted
Steve Martin	A Wild & Crazy Guy
Stranglers	Live X-Cert
Syl Johnson	Uptown Shakedown
Terry Allen	Lubbock (On Everything)