The Modernist wrote:1978 was more about singles for me. I agree with the gist of JC's post.
Yep, definitely, to both points. A great year for singles, especially, but not exclusively, in the UK, but nowt bar a load of gaseous emissions from the bloated corpse of mainstream rock (not that I didn't buy and enjoy one or two such LPs at the time ) – and here's an umpteenth vote for Shiny Beast.