Best of 1978

Lots of choices for this year. I hadn't heard some of the ones already listed in years and had forgotten
just how good they were. Like Arc-En-Ciel, which always takes a back seat to Coses Nostres and
Sentiments by my accounting.

Other albums that would be in my top 15 or 20 include:

• Crosswind - s/t
• Edition Spéciale - Horizon Digital
• Energit - Piknik
• Fermáta - Huascaran
• Leb I Sol - s/t
• Mahagon - s/t
  
• Missus Beastly - Spaceguerilla
• Munju - Moon You
• National Health - s/t
• Predmestje - Danes Vceraj In...

Funny story about the Mahagon.... Originally I had a rip from vinyl, which starts with "Dny, Mesíce A Roky".
There is a 2 disc release of their 2 albums with 4 of 5 bonus tracks preceding it, but that was not the
version that was on my portable. The track starts with a sound, that if you're not anticipating it and have
the volume sufficiently cranked.... So I was driving on the interstate one night, a long drive too, and I
guess I'd gotten a little comfortable, and that track came on. My head almost hit the roof and it was
everything I could do to stay on the road. So I don't listen to Mahagon with car keys in my pocket anymore
and formed a group called Mother****ers Against Mahagon Driving. Look us up if you get a chance.

In the honorable mention, but just not strong enough or "fusion" enough to make the cut, we have:

• FSB - FSB II
• Heavy Joker - Caesar's Palace
• Leb I Sol - Leb I Sol 2
• Mini - Vissza A Városba
• National Health - Of Queues and Cures
  

Hard to leave the Mini out, which sports a monster fusion track in "Hangok És Jelek Egy Nem-Azonosított
Repülõ Tárgyról", but the rest of the album just doesn't measure up to it, IMO. Same for Nat'l Health and
"Dreams Wide Awake", but that's how my tastes align these days. And that's a side-effect of this exercise.
It's really a snapshot in time of our individual tastes, and 5 years from now these lists could be quite
different after the first few picks.

That wouldn't be the first time a label put the next year, for a late in the year release. Not that I know that's the case. I don't. I've seen it listed as both. Discogs has a 1978 date for it. And as for the LP. if you download and zoom in on the large pic of the actual vinyl here, www.todocoleccion.net/discos-vinilo/lp-iceberg-arc-ciel-bocaccio-records-1978-gatefold-vg~x55565220
it says 1978. So I don't know

Look at this date that the Apple cult has. Interesting.  itunes.apple.com/au/album/arc-en-ciel/986161733

Wayside has it as 1978 also, and that guy usually knows his stuff.

This reminds me of a time on the Fusenet mailing list back in the day, where I apparently really irked a dude. He was trying to say Sting's stuff was fusion because his records had Colaiuta, and I think, other occasional fusion guys on them. I posted that fusion players aside, Stings music was  "decidedly not fusion". That phrase must have rankled him, because he kept derisively using it anytime he could squeeze it in thereafter. 

Then there's this.

www.maxsunyer.com/discografia.html#iceberg