"Each critic votes for between zero and 10 'yea' records per month and awards each one 10 (masterpiece), 8, 7 (recommended purchase), 5 (borderline), 3, 2, or 1 (shades of listenable) votes."
Perry Meisel's votes:
YEA: Boz Scaggs: 'Down Two, Then Left' (Columbia) 7; Merle Haggard: 'A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today' (Capitol) 5; Eric Gale: 'Multiplication' (Columbia) 5; 'Stan Getz Presents Jimmy Rowles: The Peacocks' (Columbia) 5; James Talley: 'Ain't It Somethin' ' (Capitol) 5; Steve Khan: 'Tightrope' (Columbia/Tappan Zee) 3; Odyssesy: 'Rare Gems' (Casablanca) 3.
February 6, 1978:
YEA: Joe Tex: 'Rub Down' (Epic) 7; Kool and the Gang: 'The Force' (De-Lite) 5; Art Garfunkel: 'Watermark' (Columbia) 3; Muddy Waters: 'I'm Ready' (Blue Sky) 3; Elvis Costello: 'My Aim is True' (Columbia) 2; Bette Midler: 'Broken Blosssoms' (Atlantic) 1.
March 6, 1978:
YEA: 'The Best of Jerry Lee Lewis, Volume II' (Mercury) 8; Elvin Bishop: 'Raisin' Hell' (Capricorn) 7; Fenton Robinson; 'Hear Some Blues Downstairs' (Alligator) 5; Vibrators: 'Pure Mania' (Columbia) 5; Muddy Waters: 'I'm Ready' (Blue Sky) 5; Johnny Rivers: 'Outside Help '(Soul City) 3.
NAY: Manhattan Transfer, 'Pastiche' (Atlantic) -2.
April 3, 1978:
YEA: Allen Toussaint: 'Motion' (Warner Bros.) 7; Original Texas Playboys: 'Live and Kickin' ' (Capitol) 7; Maria Muldaur: 'Southern Winds' (Warner Bros.) 5; Average White Band: 'Warmer Communications' (Atlantic) 5; Little Feat: 'Waiting for Columbus' (Warner Bros.) 3; 'Foster Sylvers' (Capitol) 3; NRBQ: 'At Yankee Stadium' (Mercury) 3; Delbert McClinton: 'Second Wind' (Capricorn) 3; Dexter Wansel: 'Voyager' (Philadelphia International) 2; Bobby Womack: 'Pieces' (Columbia) 2.
May 1, 1978:
YEA: Ramones: 'Rocket to Russia' (Sire) 8; 'Ramones Leave Home,' (Sire) 7; 'Ramones' (Sire) 7; Elvis Costello: 'This Year's Model' (Columbia) 5; 'Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols' (Warner Bros.) 3; Tower of Power: 'We Came to Play' (Columbia) 3; Tower of Power: 'We Came to Play' (Columbia) 3; 'Cornell Dupree's Saturday Night Fever' (Versatile) 2.
June 5, 1978:
YEA: Elvis Costello: 'This Year's Model' (Columbia) 8; The Band: 'The Last Waltz' (Warner Bros.) 8; 'Ellen McIlwaine' (United Artists) 7; Brian Auger and Julie Tippetts: 'Encore' (Warner Bros.) 7; Wings: 'London Town' (Capitol) 5; Aretha Franklin: Almighty Fire' (Atlantic) 5; Willie Nelson: 'Stardust' (Columbia) 3; Edie Hinton: 'Very Extremely Dangerous' (Capricorn) 3; Bonnie Bramlett: 'Memories' (Capricorn) 3.
July 3, 1978:
YEA: Charlie Parker: 'The Very Best of Bird' (Warner Bros.) 10; Koko Taylor: 'The Earthshaker' (Alligator) 8; Graham Parker & the Rumour: 'The Parkerilla' (Mercury) 7; Freddie Hubbard: 'Super Blue' (Columbia) 7; Rolling Stones: 'Some Girls' (Rolling Stones) 5; Bruce Springsteen: 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' (Columbia) 5; Dave Mason: 'Marlposa de Oro' (Columbia) 3; David Sanborn: 'Heart to Heart' (Warner Bros.) 3; George Duke: 'Don't Let Go' (Epic) 2; Wendy Waldman: 'Strange Company' (Warner Bros.) 2.
NAY: Ry Cooder: 'Jazz' (Warner Bros.) - 3; John McLaughlin: 'Electric Guitarist' (Columbia) - 3.
August 7, 1978:
YEA: Bob Dylan: 'Street-Legal' (Columbia) 10; 'Carlene Carter' (Warner Bros.) 7; Merle Haggard: 'Eleven Winners' (Capitol) 7; Cheap Trick: 'Heaven Tonight' (Epic) 5; Teddy Penergrass: 'Life in a Song Worth Singing' (Philadelphia International) 5; 'Larry Carlton' (Warner Bros.) 5; Rahsaan Roland Kirk: 'Boogie-Woogie Stringalong for Real' (Warner Bros.) 5; 'DMZ' (Sire) 3; Billy Cobham/Steve Kahn/Tom Scott/Alfonso-Johnson: 'Alivemutherforya' (Columbia) 3; John Abercrombie/Dave Holland/Jack DeJohnette: 'Gateway 2' (ECM) 2.
September 4, 1978:
YEA: 'David Gilmour' (Columbia) 8; Screamin' Jay Hawkins: 'I Put a Spell on You' (Versatile) 8; Saints: 'Eternally Yours' (Sire) 7; Jesse Winchester: 'A Touch on the Rainy Side' (Bearsville) 7; Criminals: 'The Kids Are Back' (Sing Sing single) 7; Debby Boone: 'Midstream' (Warner Bros.) 5; Bill Chinnock: 'Badlands' (Atlantic) 3; Ohio Players: 'Jass-Ay-Lay-Dee' (Mercury) 3; Jim Krueger: 'Sweet Salvation' (Columbia) 3; 'The Writers' (Columbia) 2.
October 9, 1978:
YEA: 'The Pop' (Automatic) 7; Talking Heads: 'More Songs About Buildings and Food' (Sire) 7; Willie Nelson: 'Face of a Fighter' (Lone Star) 7; Zwol: 'New York City' (EMI/America single) 5; Frankie Valli is the Word' (Warner Bros.) 5; City Boy: 'Book Early' (Mercury) 3; Dixie Dregs: 'What If' (Capricorn) 2; Billy Cobham: 'Simplicity of Expression-Aptness of Thought' (Columbia) 2.
November 6, 1978:
YEA: Dexter Gordon: 'Manhattan Symphonie' (Columbia) 8; Pete Christlieb/Wayne Marsh Quintent: 'Apogee' (Warner Bros.) 8; Son Seals: 'Live and Burning' (Alligator) 7; Bryan Ferry: 'The Bride Stripped Bare' (Atlantic) 7; Carl Perkins: 'Ol' Blue Suede is Back' (Jet) 5; 'The Very Best of Dave Mason' (ABC) 5; Tom Scott: 'Intimate Strangers' (Columbia) 3; Boston: 'Don't Look Back' (Epic) 3; Pierce Arrow: 'Pity the Rich' (Columbia) 2.
December 4, 1978:
YEA: The Clash: 'Give 'Em Enough Rope' (Epic) 8; Ramones: 'Road to Ruin' (Sire) 8; 'Bob Mover' (Vanguard) 7; Southside Johnny & the Asbury Dukes: 'Hearts of Stone' (Epic) 7;
Stan Getz: 'Another World' (Columbia) 7; Billy Swann: 'At His Best' (Monument) 7; Elvin Bishop: 'Hog Heaven' (Capricorn) 5; Kool and the Gang: 'Everybody's Dancin' (De-Lite) 5.
