What is the best album of the 80s?

[leftist_rebel1569]

Daydream Nation, hands down.

Discuss.

[northzax]

1. Thriller

seriously. great, great, album.

[Loonman]

2. Psychocandy

Jesus & Mary Chain

[leftist_rebel1569]

5. this is a great album

good choice

[kick-ass-bob]

3. Ride the Lightning.

It's too bad they survived into the 90's though.

[leftist_rebel1569]

6. It's really too bad

they survived after this album, really.

Master of Puppets was okay, only because it seemed like it was Ride The Lightning over again.

[kick-ass-bob]

9. I was just thinking that -- which was better?

And I came to the same conclusion you did - so I picked the first one
:7

[leftist_rebel1569]

10. good man

:D

[WeRQ4U]

24. And Justice For All wasn't bad.

Their last true album. I loved the songs even though the didn't clean up the record very well. It's funny you guys say that Puppets and Lightning sound the same because I've always thought that the title track from Puppets and "For Whom teh Bell Tolls" always had a similar ring to them (no pun intended). Maybe every song sounds the same after the 6 minute mark.

[kick-ass-bob]

91. I agree 100% with you, on both counts.

That was the last good one (and the last vinyl album I ever bought)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. The Queen Is Dead (nt)

[Fenris]

14. Hear, hear!

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

21. We may disagree on Greek philosophers but we agree on 80's music

:thumbsup:

[Fenris]

22. HA!

:rofl :thumbsup:

[XNASA]

7. "Closer" - Joy Division

[leftist_rebel1569]

12. probably #2 on my list

what an amazing band, and what a mediocre band they became after Ian Curtis died.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

8. I hate to say it, Thriller.

[WindRavenX]

11. "War" U2; 1983

"Seconds" "New Year's Day" "Sunday Bloody Sunday"...fucking brilliant.

[Fenris]

19. I like "October" better.

:hide:;)

[WindRavenX]

73. either or

Really, they're both too fantastic for me to care which is genuinely better...
:hi:

[enigmatic]

13. "The Days Of Wine And Roses"- The Dream Syndicate

[leftist_rebel1569]

18. I have their best-of compilation

but I never really got into it :/

[Tikki]

15. Released early in 1980....

..this is the album from the 80's I play most often....




X.... Los Angeles .....



Tikki

[taterguy]

16. No such thing

My favorite album of that era depends on my mood. I like the following bands a lot: dB's, Husker Du, Replacements, Minutemen, the Right Profile (who never got around to releasing an album and are therefore disqualified from this exercise). Claiming that any album is hands down the best of anything is just silly.

[leftist_rebel1569]

17. or it's not

because Daydream Nation is truly that amazing

edit: granted, I don't listen to it when I'm sad or feeling really bad or whatever, but when I think of a great 80's album this will ALWAYS be the first to cross my mind.

[taterguy]

27. I beg to differ

Daydream Nation is a great album but I wouldn't claim it's the hands down best album of the 80s until I heard every other album released that decade. I hope there's some obscure gem from that era I haven't discovered yet.

[MsAnthropy]

20. Dire Straits Money for Nothing

[Parrcrow]

28. seconded!

:thumbsup:

[mac56]

31. Do you mean "Brothers in Arms"?

nm

[MsAnthropy]

34. Yup

[Parrcrow]

86. woops ---- me too

[anarch]

23. I guess I disagree with pretty much all the critics, but I like Sister

better than Daydream Nation.

There's just too many albums I really like from the 80's...I guess, though -- considering an album as a whole, coherent work -- I'll have to go with Spacemen 3's Playing With Fire, 1989.

[leftist_rebel1569]

26. Sister is great

but it's always been Daydream Nation for me, I guess I happen to coincide with the critics on this one.

[swag]

69. I'm with you. Evol and Sister were their peak,

[MrSlayer]

25. Reign in Blood

No question. The best Metal album ever.

[jandrok]

38. Good choice as far as metal goes.

That disk rocks ferociously. I could make a strong case for Metallica's "Master of Puppets" as the best metal album ever, but "RIB" is hard to argue against.

[WeRQ4U]

44. Scott Ian of Anthrax said that.............

If Hell had a soundtrack, Slayer's Reign in Blood would be it.

I had that album too. It's so hard it just give me a stomach ache. Loved it.

[borlis]

29. Bon Jovi - New Jersey

I have my anti-flame suit on so go ahead.

[qnr]

30. Breakfast In America

Just to annoy people.... though I do really like it.

[mac56]

33. That was back in '77, I believe.

Carry on.

[qnr]

36. Well, when you've been here since the Earth was cooling, they all

(decades) blend together.

Edit: Well, technically, the Earth is still cooling... so I guess I mean since it started cooling.

[WeRQ4U]

32. Appetite for Destruction - I still love "Rocket Queen" and "My Michelle"

Also, this list is eerily similar to another one. http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/80s/index10.shtml

[mac56]

35. "Murmur" by R.E.M.

nm

[Left Is Write]

39. IF I were to pick just one album (and that's a big "if")...

it would be this one. It is also the only REM album I own.

[driver8]

80. Gets my vote, too!!

Unbelievable album from start to finish. Nothing sounded like this record at the time...it was totally unique and wonderful.

I love everything about this album. It is my favorite album of all time.

[mac56]

81. I think so too.

I swear I had an out-of-body experience the first time I heard it.

[driver8]

84. I remember the first time I heard it. I was a college radio dj

and our music director had received a couple of copies of the RECORD. He told the few of us sitting around that we needed to hear it.

When I heard those songs and that music with Mitch Easter's production I was absolutely blown away. I made a cassette tape of it (before it got too beat up) and listened to it non stop for several days.

To this day I have still not heard anything that affected me the way that album did.

[jandrok]

37. Kate Bush's "The Dreaming". "Hounds of Love" a close second.

Groundbreaking. Nothing like it has been done before or since. Period. End of story.

[Texasgal]

41. ooooh!!! Ohhhh!!!

HOUNDS OF LOVE!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!

[jandrok]

49. A classic disk, isn't it?

Man, I knew you had good taste being a Horns fan and all, but you always seem to surprise me.

I love that disk a lot. I think that The Dreaming broke more stylistic ground, but Hounds was fully realized in so many ways.

Have you heard the new one yet? Kate's back in a big way.

[Texasgal]

53. Mr. Jandrok!

I OWN the new Kate Bush!!!! And I love it!!!

Wow... I think you and I are kindred spirts!!! :)

[jandrok]

56. I had preordered Aerial from Amazon....

....along with the import single of "King of the Mountain". It's got a "B" side of Kate doing Marvin Gaye's "Sexual Healing". It's cool. Aerial has been spinning in my CD player nonstop since it arrived.

Go here:

www.katebush.com

Yeah, I've been a Kate fan since back in the day. I even remember catching her on Saturday Night Live.

Yeah, you and I are definitely on the same wavelength!

[Texasgal]

57. Thanks for the link!

We need to do lunch with David sometime soon! I have GOT to meet you now!!! :)

[jandrok]

58. Yeah, we oughtta shoot for the week after Thanksgiving.

We'll see if David and Velma are available. We can bore them to death with Texas football and Kate Bush conversation. I'm looking forward to meeting you, too.

:D

[Texasgal]

59. yeah!

That would be fun!!!

Plus, we can give David some "gig'em" bullshit!! HA!!! :)

[Beaverhausen]

47. I agree

Most people like Hounds of Love better but for me The Dreaming really shows Kate at her most creative wackiness. I mean that in a good way!!!

[jandrok]

51. Yeah, Hounds was more commercial in some ways.

I think that people found it to be more accessible, but The Dreaming was such an exercise in conceptual sound that it stands out even in Bush's discography.

Like I said, nothing has ever been produced to rival it in terms of progressive music. It's completely out there on it's own.

[dolo amber]

40. Def Leppard - Hysteria

:rofl:

[XNASA]

42. Is nobody going to mention.....

'With Sympathy'? :cry:

[dolo amber]

43. What's that?

:shrug:

;)

[AntiCoup2K4]

64. Ministry's first album

Which sounds NOTHING like anything they recorded afterwards.

[no name no slogan]

75. You played on that one, didn't you?

I thought you mentioned that once. :D

[VelmaD]

45. OH MY GAWD!!!

Hey Little Bit. When did you reappear?

Good to see you around again. :)

[leftist_rebel1569]

87. I just did

I finally had time off from work :dunce:

[Floogeldy]

46. My band's album, of course!

1. video games

2. don't call me

3. hold out

4. she won't dance

5. dangerous life

6. i wanna be like you

Available on SoulSeek, username Floogeldy.

College pop dance new wave pogo bubble gum rock!

[GumboYaYa]

48. Dead Kennedys "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"

One of the great punk rock albums of all time. I think it was released in 1980.

[gmoney]

50. London Calling

Despite technically being released in December of 1979.

Dang, I miss Jimmy Jazz.

[Felix Mala]

60. sorry, 70's!

[merh]

66. If London Calling can be called the best album of the 80's

by Rolling Stone magazine, then that's good enough for most Clash fans.
:hi:

[underpants]

52. "Lolita Nation" by Game Theory

Still available at Amazon.

[gmoney]

65. I thought I was the only person who knew that album...

I should give that a spin again soon...

[Initech]

54. "Diary Of A Madman" by Ozzy Osbourne

[gollygee]

55. Music for the Masses? The Joshua Tree? Purple Rain?

Something by the Smiths? Oh so many choices!

[Felix Mala]

61. Missed by 17 days! The Wall was released on Dec. 14, 1999...

As much as I love 80's music, few albums compare to The Wall.

[calico1]

62. Thriller n/t

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

63. Seven and The Ragged Tiger

... a masterpiece

JMHO though.

DD is a very underrated and oft-ridiculed band, but their music is better than many of the so-called pop hits of today.

[-..__...]

67. Back in Black

I can't think of one song on it that I don't like

[Taverner]

68. Talking Heads "Remain in Light"

[progressoid]

74. YES!

Now I must play it.

[swag]

70. Pussy Galore - "Right Now!"

The reductio ad absurdum of rock and roll.

[MrScorpio]

71. Marvin Gaye - MIDNIGHT LOVE

[Threedifferentones]

72. I like the Pixies' Doolittle

Released in 89.

[driver8]

85. Definitely in my top 10!! I had a roommate who bought "Doolittle"

and when I first heard it, I hated it. I was taping some cds and somehow half of "Doolittle" ended up on my tape (it was a 6 cd changer). I never erased the music and the more I heard it the more I liked it and wanted more!! I ended up finally buying the cd and I can honestly say it is one of my most played cds.

The songs, production and Joey Santiago's guitar playing are amazing on this record.

[no name no slogan]

76. That one's in my top 5, mine's "Sleep No More" by Comsat Angels

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

77. No one's mentioned The Cure?!?

most would say 'Disentegration', but I would go with 'The Head on the Door', myself

[Rabrrrrrr]

78. Frankie Goes to Hollywood's whatever the fuck it was called album

Welcome to the Pleasuredome? I think that's the name.

Fucking awesome.

[driver8]

79. Daydream Nation? Sonic Youth? You are smoking crack, my friend.

REM -- Murmur

Hands down!!

[leftist_rebel1569]

88. YOU are smoking crack

Sonic Youth is one of the greatest bands.

Ever.

[driver8]

90. Sonic Youth couldn't tune REM's guitars! Actually, do the guys

in Sonic Youth know how to tune a guitar??

I'm kidding...Teenage Riot is one of my favorite songs, ever!

[leftist_rebel1569]

95. Probably not

and my internet sarcasm meter has long since broken.

[tuvor]

82. Simple Minds' New Gold Dream

No question for me.

[mtowngman]

83. Peter Gabriel (III) aka- melting face -1980

All songs written by Peter Gabriel.

"Intruder" - 4:54
"No Self-Control" - 3:55
"Start" - 1:21
"I Don't Remember" - 4:41
"Family Snapshot" - 4:28
"And Through the Wire" - 5:00
"Games Without Frontiers" - 4:06
"Not One of Us" - 5:22
"Lead a Normal Life Gabriel 4:14
"Biko" - 7:32

[swag]

89. A great record.

Another defining moment early in the decade. What else had ever sounded like that? Nothing.

[Burma Jones]

92. Paul Simon - Graceland

[DanCa]

93. June 4th 1984 - Born in the USA

Which proved what a thief Regan was when he stole the album to use it in his campaign. It's also springsteen at his best.

[taught_me_patience]

94. Pink Floyd - The Wall

also great albumns:

Metallica - Master of Puppets
Michael Jackson - Thriller

[flvegan]

96. Pffft...1989, "Paul's Boutique" by the Beastie Boys

Ask for Janice when you call there.