# Best Pazz & Jop Critics Poll Album 1979

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 21, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1979/705270 "2014-11-21T17:09:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1979/705270/21 "2014-11-22T01:53:37Z")

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_Rust Never Sleeps_ is my favorite Neil Young album. However, I’d probably vote for it if it was 2 20-minute versions of _Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)_. Luckily, it’s great throughout.

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**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1979/705270/22 "2014-11-22T02:05:56Z")

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Neil Young. RNS is groundbreakingly phenomenal.

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**Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1979/705270/23 "2014-11-22T02:12:30Z")

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> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#):
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> And \*Dub Housing \*was also initially released as an import only–that’s the version I had. Was there a US release in 1979?

Actually, you might be right there. The earliest US release I could find does seem to be 1979.

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**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\
**Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1979/705270/24 "2014-11-22T04:18:38Z")

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Should have went with Tom Petty.

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**Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1979/705270/25 "2014-11-22T09:57:51Z")

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Talking Heads for me. Love the title as well.

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**Post date:** [November 23, 2014, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-pazz-jop-critics-poll-album-1979/705270/26 "2014-11-23T12:43:46Z")

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Tom Petty. I remember seeing the Heartbreakers on Saturday Night Live that year (my father would tape the shows with one if them newfangled Betamax thingies, and I’d enjoy them over Sunday breakfast), and recognizing that these guys could walk that fine line between pop and rock as sweetly as anyone.

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