The Best of Top of the Pops '78

Infobox Album
Name = The Best Of Top Of The Pops '78
Type = Compilation Album


Artist = Top of the Poppers
Released = December 1978
Recorded = 1978
Genre = Pop, Rock, Disco
Label = Hallmark Records
Reviews =
* Allmusic rating|2.5|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:aifrxqtaldje link]
Last album = "The Best of Top of the Pops '77"
(1977)
This album = "The Best of Top of the Pops '78"
(1978)
Next album = "The Best of Top of the Pops '79"
(1979)

"The Best Of Top Of The Pops '78" is a 1978 compilation album released by the Top of the Poppers, who were well-known for their cover-versions of popular songs during the 1970s. Despite negative reviews, the album sold well, and was recently re-released on CD and iTunes. Today some reviewers have warmed up to the album, and it is considered by someweasel word|date=July 2008 to be an interesting time capsule. The album consists of tracks recorded by the Top of the Poppers during the year 1978.

Track listing

# Mull of Kintyre
# The Boy from New York City
# You're the One That I Want
# Figaro
# The Floral Dance
# Up Town Top Ranking
# Night Fever
# Three Times a Lady
# Dreadlock Holiday
# Take a Chance On Me
# Wuthering Heights
# Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs
# Too Much Too Little Too Late
# Substitute
# Summer Nights
# Rivers of Babylon
# Rat Trap

Reception

Dave Thompson of Allmusic says that "Eschewing the last few years' penchant for presenting only chart-toppers, the 17 tracks instead range across the six volumes issued that year and haul out a selection that really does represent all that the year had unleashed" but that "So, it's Top of the Pops' business as usual — but for the first time you can hear the rot creeping in".fact|date=July 2008

ee also

*The Best of Top of the Pops '69
*The Best of Top of the Pops '70
*The Best of Top of the Pops '71
*The Best of Top of the Pops '74
*The Best of Top of the Pops '76
*The Best of Top of the Pops '77
*The Best of Top of the Pops '79
*The Best of Top of the Pops '80
*Top of the Pops, Volume 18
*Top of the Pops, Volume 20