PUBLIC IMAGE LTD - FIRST ISSUE (1978)

Studio album by Public Image Ltd.
Released	December 8, 1978
Recorded	July-November 1978 The Manor Studio (Shipton-on-Cherwell) Wessex Studios, Gooseberry Sound Studios, Townhouse Studios, Advision Studios, London
Genre	Post-punk
Length	39:54
Label	Virgin Records
Producer	Public Image Ltd

The album was recorded between July and November 1978 at different studios. The song "Public Image" was recorded first (the backing track at Advision Studios plus vocals and mixing at Wessex Studios) in July 1978. The whole of the first side of the record was then recorded in autumn at Townhouse Studios and The Manor Studio. The last three songs on the second side were recorded at Gooseberry Sound Studios, a cheap demo studio used because the band ran out of money.

On 9 February 1979, Warner Bros. Recording Studios in North Hollywood manufactured a test pressing of the album for PiL's U.S. label Warner Bros. Records. The sound of the record was considered as too uncommercial for an American release and PiL were asked to re-record parts of the album.^[1] Although the band recorded new versions of some tracks between March and May 1979,^[2] the album was never released in the U.S.

Track Listing:

1. "Theme" – 9:05
2. "Religion I" – 1:40
3. "Religion II" – 5:40
4. "Annalisa" – 6:00
5. "Public Image" – 2:58
6. "Low Life" – 3:35
7. "Attack" – 2:55
8. "Fodderstompf" – 7:40

PRIZE: 150.000 IDR

BLONDIE - PLASTIC LETTERS (1978)

Studio album by Blondie
Released	February 1978
Recorded	June–July 1977 at Plaza Sound Studio, New York
Genre	New Wave, punk rock
Length	34:46
Label	Chrysalis (1166)
Producer	Richard Gottehrer

Plastic Letters is the second studio album by American New Wave band Blondie, released in February 1978 on Chrysalis Records. It was the second and final Blondie album to be produced by Richard Gottehrer. "Denis", a cover of the Randy & the Rainbows' 1963 hit "Denise", was a hit all over Europe; reaching no.2 in March 1978 in the United Kingdom. "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" was the second single from the album, reaching no.10 in the UK in May 1978. The song was written by the band's original bass guitar player Gary Valentine, shortly before his departure from the band prior to the album being recorded (which necessitated Chris Stein playing bass as well as guitar). The album peaked at no.10 in the UK and has been certified Platinum by the BPI.

Track Listing:

• "Fan Mail" (James Destri) – 2:38
• "Denis" (Neil Levenson) – 2:19
• "Bermuda Triangle Blues (Flight 45)" (Chris Stein) – 2:49
• "Youth Nabbed as Sniper" (Stein) – 3:00
• "Contact in Red Square" (Destri) – 2:01
• "(I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear" (Gary Valentine) – 2:43
• "I'm on E" (Deborah Harry, Stein) – 2:13
• "I Didn't Have the Nerve to Say No" (Destri, Harry) – 2:51
• "Love at the Pier" (Harry) – 2:27
• "No Imagination" (Destri) – 2:56
• "Kidnapper" (Destri) – 2:37
• "Detroit 442" (Destri, Stein) – 2:28
• "Cautious Lip" (Stein, Ronnie Toast) – 4:24

 PRIZE: 100.000 IDR

THE CARS - THE CARS (1978)

Studio album by The Cars
Released	June 6, 1978 (1978-06-06)
Recorded	AIR Studios, London, February 1978 (1978-02)
Genre	Rock, New Wave
Length	35:40
Label	Elektra
Producer	Roy Thomas Baker

The Cars is the debut album by the Boston-based American new wave band The Cars, released in 1978. With the popular tracks "Just What I Needed" and "My Best Friend's Girl" getting heavy airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations, the album sold one million copies by the end of the year and steadily climbed the charts, peaking at #18 on the Billboard 200 in March 1979. The album was ranked #4 on Billboard's Top Pop Albums of 1979 year end chart. The Cars remained on the album chart for 139 weeks with four more tracks — "Good Times Roll", "You're All I've Got Tonight", "Bye Bye Love" and "Moving in Stereo" — becoming AOR radio favorites.
The album was re-issued as a Deluxe Edition on April 20, 1999, containing demos of the entire album alongside five previously unreleased demos.
Rolling stone's magazine ranked the album 279 in 500 best albums of all time.
The cover model is Natalya Medvedeva, a Russian-born model, journalist, and musician who died in 2003.

Track listing:

• "Good Times Roll" – 3:44
• "My Best Friend's Girl" – 3:44
• "Just What I Needed" – 3:44
• "I'm in Touch with Your World" – 3:31
• "Don't Cha Stop" – 3:01
• "You're All I've Got Tonight" – 4:13
• "Bye Bye Love" – 4:14
• "Moving in Stereo" (Greg Hawkes, Ocasek) – 4:41
• "All Mixed Up" – 4:14

PRIZE: 125.000 IDR

BUZZCOCKS - ANOTHER MUSIC IN A DIFFERENT KITCHEN (1978)

Studio album by Buzzcocks
Released	10 March 1978
Recorded	December 1977 – January 1978, Olympic Studios, London
Genre	Punk rock
Length	44:24 (CD)
Label	United Artists (original UK release) I.R.S. (1994 USA CD release with Love Bites) Nettwerk (2001 USA CD re-release)
Producer	Martin Rushent

Another Music in a Different Kitchen was Buzzcocks' first album, released in 1978 and including the hit single "I Don't Mind", which reached #55 in the United Kingom singles chart in May 1978.^[1] The corresponding CD was released in March 1994 on the same record label. This was the second line-up of Buzzcocks, with Pete Shelley singing, following the departure of original leader Howard Devoto.
"It's all very surreal and Dada", says Pete Shelley. "All those elements that we were exploring back then. The first Buzzcocks album title was a kind of cut-up of the title of one of Linder [Sterling]'s other pieces of art. We called it 'Another Music In A Different Kitchen' which partially came from a Linder piece called Housewives Choosing Their Own Juices In A Different Kitchen".^[2]
  
Track listing

1. "Fast Cars" (Howard Devoto, Steve Diggle, Pete Shelley) – 2:26
2. "No Reply" (Shelley) – 2:16
3. "You Tear Me Up" (Devoto, Shelley) – 2:27
4. "Get on Our Own" (Shelley) – 2:26
5. "Love Battery" (Devoto, Shelley) – 2:09
6. "Sixteen" (Shelley) – 3:38
7. "I Don't Mind" (Shelley) – 2:18
8. "Fiction Romance" (Shelley) – 4:27
9. "Autonomy" (Diggle) – 3:43
10. "I Need" (Diggle, Shelley) – 2:43
11. "Moving Away from the Pulsebeat" (Shelley) – 7:06

PRIZE: 125.000 IDR