Ok DUers get off her high-horses and tell me - what do you think were the top 10 albums of the 80s

[LynneSin]

Since clearly most of you are turning your noses up at the list Rolling Stone created.

I'm working on my list as we speak.

[Richardo]

1. Mine would include:

Ghost in the Machine - The Police
Be Yourself Tonight - Eurhythmics
Graceland - Paul Simon
Avalon - Roxy Music
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo
The Pretenders - The Pretenders
REM - Eponymous
Gaucho - Steely Dan
Special Beat Service - The English Beat

[Arugula Latte]

22. Oooh, I like your list a lot.

:thumbsup:

[Gidney N Cloyd]

24. Yours is a little more to my taste than Rolling Stone's.

On theirs I mainly liked the U2 and Springsteen entries.

[old mark]

42. Much better list! You should write for RS!...nt

[old mark]

44. OH, and...my horse is high on life....nt

[HopeHoops]

2. "Pleasure Victim" by Berlin

The CD has an eighth track - the extended version of "Sex".

Historical notes:

1) Terri Nun's credits on the album are listed as: "Vocals, BJs"

2) The first version of "Sex" was terrible. Terri's mother listened to it and said, "Girl, if you're going to do a song called 'Sex', at least do it right!" They made a new version that was done well enough to get it pulled from damn near every station.

[CBGLuthier]

3. In no particular order and subject to revision

Jean Michel Jarre Revolutions
Kraftwerk Computer World
Brian Eno Apollo
The Art of Noise (Who's Afraid of) the Art of Noise
Pet Shop Boys Please
Thomas Dolby Golden Age of Wireless
Information Society Information Society
Frankie Goes to Hollywood Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Synergy Audion
King Crimson Discipline


Lost my interest in most rock about the time I became an adult just before that decade.

[rbnyc]

33. Nice list (nt)

[dawg]

4. Off the top of my head.

1. Michael Jackson - Thriller
2. Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
3. U2 - The Joshua Tree
4. Yes - 90125
5. Def Leppard - Hysteria
6. The Police - Synchronicity
7. Genesis - Invisible Touch
8. Asia - Asia
9. Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now? (know by the rest of the world as Business As Usual)
10. Van Halen - 1984

And yes, yes I am serious. :rofl:

[KamaAina]

5. The Men at Work album is titled "Business as Usual"

Who Can It Be Now? was one of the singles.

Good choice, though!

[dawg]

9. Oh yes, you are right.

I can't believe I forgot. :shrug:

[LynneSin]

12. I absolutely LOVE Yes but there is no way I'd put 90125 in any top 10 list

It was a fun album but way too commericial

Invisible Touch sucked too unless you happened to have never heard vintage Genesis

[dawg]

14. It's my little way of being a rebellious prog nerd.

Admitting that I love the poppy stuff, too. Yes is my absolute favorite band, and if I'm being honest, 90125 is probably my favorite album they did in the 80's. (Not sure of release dates, but I think of Drama as a 70's thing.)

And Invisible Touch has Domino, and The Brazilian; and, sadly, Throwing It All Away and In Too Deep, which I have really been able to identify with these last two years.

But, on further reflection, Peter Gabriel's "So" would have been a more deserving pick.

[hifiguy]

19. Agreed on Invisible Touch.

Now "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway" "Selling England By The Pound" and even "Trick of the Tail" and "Wind and Wuthering" - now there's REAL Genesis. Everything went to hell when Steve Hackett left and Tony Banks decided he wanted to be a millionaire. Phooey on everything after "Seconds Out."

[KamaAina]

6. There's only one that really matters

:P

[Tikki]

7. Albums released in the 80's:

my favorites:
X…Los Angeles/Decline of Western Civilization
Urgh! A Music War
Gun Club…Fire of Love
Minutemen…Double Nickels On The Dime
Los Lobos….How Will The Wolf Survive?
Elvis Costello & the Attractions….Get Happy
Red Cross….EP
Black Flag….Damaged
PIL…Public Image Ltd.
Germs….What We Do Is Secret
English Beat…I Just Can't Stop It
Oingo Boingo….EP
many , many more…

There are many albums from the 70's I listened through into the 80's from bands like RAMONES, Clash, the Damned, Blondie, Buzzcocks, B-52's…

Tikki

[Fire Walk With Me]

8. Okay.

Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Skinny Puppy, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Telex, Neurovision
Steely Dan, Gaucho
Dead Milkmen, Big Lizard in my Backyard
Renaldo and the Loaf, Songs for Swinging Larvae
The Residents, Mole Trilogy
Tuxedomoon, Desire
SPK, Leichenschrei
Rites of Spring, Rites of Spring
Kraftwerk, Computerwelt
Afrika Bambaata, Planet Rock (single)
Trio, Da Da Da
Bauhaus, The Sky's Gone Out

And of course many I can't pull out of my head on an instant's notice.

Yes, I'm bipolar, and at the time, strongly enjoyed the collision of opposites. Not so much anymore, no sir :rofl:

[Richardo]

13. Penguin Cafe Orchestra!!

:thumbsup:

[Fire Walk With Me]

17. Love them to this day and always will.

Their catalogue was recently remastered; got 'em and love 'em! :hi:

[snooper2]

10. a couple that should be on the list

[gratuitous]

11. The list must include Humans

Or it has no credibility at all.

[some guy]

15. avoiding the RS list

while acknowledging some of the albums on it are very good.

In no particular order:

Joe Jackson had a great first few years of the 1980s -
Beat Crazy
Jumpin' Jive
Night & Day

Jeff Beck reappeared briefly in 1984
There and Back

A Lot of people mention Roxy Music Avalon. I prefer Flesh + Blood, from 1980.

Jesus and Mary Chain had a solid decade:
Psychocandy
Darklands
Automatic

Echo and The Bunnymen got a fair amount of play in my house, especially Ocean Rain

The other two Clash albums:
Sandinista
Combat Rock

Joni Mitchell had a weak decade, but did finish well with
Chalkmark In A Rainstorm

Have to include Joan Jett,
Bad Reputation
I Love Rock n Roll
Up Your Alley

Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms

Lucinda Williams - self titled

[Arugula Latte]

47. Jesus & Mary Chain -- yes indeed.

I've gotten into them more recently than I did in the 80s ... don' know why I missed so much of their stuff back then.

[hifiguy]

16. In no order whatsoever other than how fast I thought of them

My eclectic (read: schizy) list is as follows:

Avalon - Roxy Music
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits
Computerwelt/Electric Cafe (and anything else they released that decade) - Kraftwerk
BGM - Yellow Magic Orchestra
Fables of the Reconstruction - REM
Pretenders - The Pretenders
Reckoning - Grateful Dead (1980, IIRC)
Macalla - Clannad
Discipline - King Crimson
Hope In a Broken Heart - Virginia Astley

runners up:

Broadway the Hard Way - Frank Zappa
In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs (songs from which earworm me to this day)
Big Science - Laurie Anderson
Tin Drum - Japan


I am doubtless forgetting much deserving music :banghead:
edited to add Japan

[LynneSin]

20. Discipline would definately be on my list

It was a great album by King Crimson and my absolute favorite!

[Fire Walk With Me]

50. HFS- How could I overlook Big Science...

Consider me punished. It is the finest album of that decade.

[ceile]

18. I didn't think the list was bad.

That said, I despise Metallica and GNR.
If I could change them, I'd add Pixies "Doolittle" and Depeche Mode "101". I know "101" was a concert album, but it still was amazing.

[bluesbassman]

21. In no particular order.

Showdown! - Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Couldn't Stand The Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughn
In Step - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
Guitar Town - Steve Earl
Strong Persuader - Robert Cray
Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp
Pretenders - Pretenders
How Will The Wolf Survive - Los Lobos

[hobbit709]

29. Mine's pretty much like yours

Showdown! - Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Couldn't Stand The Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughn
In Step - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads
Guitar Town - Steve Earl
Fabulous Thunderbirds - Tuff Enough
Bob Marley - Uprising
Joe Ely -Musta Notta Gotta Lotta
Delbert McClinton - The Jealous Kind

[musette_sf]

62. 5, 7, 9 and 10

were big with me

but I always liked Delbert's 70s stuff much better

[Arugula Latte]

23. Some of the ones I love/d:

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
INXS - Shabooh Shoobah
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Paul Simon - Graceland
Roxy Music - Avalon
Elvis Costello - My Aim Is True
English Beat - Special Beat Service
Prince - Purple Rain
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
New Order - Substance

on edit ... Can't forget REM's Reckoning. I also love The Cure's Disintegration and U2's Joshua Tree (which were on the R.S. list).

[EOTE]

28. "My Aim is True" is from the 70s.

77 I believe. But it, like everything else Costello has done, is pure gold.

[Arugula Latte]

30. Oh crap, that's right.

It's more than 30 years old. :wow:

Oh, I also have to add this album:

[EOTE]

65. Squeeze definitely belongs there too.

Two of my favorite artists. One of my favorite songs is Squeeze's "Black Coffee in Bed" with Costello singing backup.

[Taverner]

25. My List:

1 - Talking Heads "Remain in Light"
2 - The Police "Ghost in the Machine"
3 - The Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
4 - Prince "Purple Rain"
5 - U2 "Joshua Tree"
6 - The Stone Roses
7 - Eno/Byrne "Life in the Bush of Ghosts"
8 - The Violent Femmes
9 - King Crimson "Discipline"
10 - REM "Reckoning"

[hifiguy]

26. Damn. "Remain in Light" is one of my

all time faves and I knew I was forgetting something terrific on my list.

Adrian Belew's guitar solo (processed through Eno-only-knows-what electronics) on "The Great Curve" is one of the best six-string freakouts ever!

[Taverner]

27. Most def! The overall song structure rocks too!

Melody + Countermelody + Harmony

[Arugula Latte]

31. Good choices.

Love the Stone Roses and the Femmes and, hell, all of 'em!

[rbnyc]

34. sweet (nt)

[rbnyc]

32. Fun!

Bauhaus - In the Flat Field (1980)
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds (1980)
Joy Division - Closer (1980)
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters (1982)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Nocturne (1983)
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder (1985)
Public Image Ltd - Album (1886)
Big Black - Atomizer (1986)
Throwing Muses - House Tornado (1988)
My Dad is Dead - Let's Skip the Details (1988)
Nirvana - Bleach (1989)

Released, but not recorded in 80s:

Velvet Underground - Another View (recorded 1967-69, released 1986)

Near Misses:

Adam and the Ants - Dirk Wears White Socks (1979)
Siouxsie and the Banshees - The Scream (1978)
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols (1977)

[SOteric]

35. Okay, whynot

Talking Heads, Speaking in Tongues
George Clinton - Computer Games
Captain Beef heart - Doc at the Radar Station
King Crimson - Discipline
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
Pretenders - Pretenders
ZZ Top - Eliminator
The Clash - London Calling
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
Pixies - Surfer Rosa

[pepperbear]

36. my personal top 10 (in no particular order)

paul simon - graceland
prince - sign o' the times
japan - tin drum
elvis costello - imperial bedroom
laurie anderson - mr. heartbreak
king crimson - disipline
roxy music - avalon
squeeze - east side story
rem - murmer
rush - moving pictures

[greendog]

37. Here's a couple I don't see on anyone's list.

[pepperbear]

57. +1

[stuntcat]

59. ahh Leo..

:loveya: Leonard :loveya:

[Orrex]

60. Rain Dogs was going to be first on my list, too

:thumbsup:

Rod Stewart should be catapulted for what he did to Downtown Train, and so should everyone else who's dared to cover it.

[Orrex]

61. Rain Dogs was going to be first on my list, too

In fact, I agree with you so wholeheartedly that I had to reply twice!

[Broken_Hero]

38. The top ten

80's tapes you would catch me with....

1. Master of Puppets-Metallica

2. Ride the Lightning-Metallica

3. Heartbeat City-The Cars

4. Pride-White Lion

5. Cuts Like A Knife-Bryan Adams

6. Back in Black-AC/DC

7. A Momentary Relapse of Reason-Pink Floyd

8. Skid Row-Skid Row

9. Appetite For Destruction-GNR

10. Saints and Sinners-WhiteSnake

[madinmaryland]

39. The Eagles did not win a Super Bowl in that decade, either. The Band, though,

may have played at the Vet.

:P

[taterguy]

43. The Band broke up in 1976 dumbass

If you capitalize the word it refers to that group of Canadians and one guy from Arkansas.

You don't capitalize it if you're using it in the generic sense.

[madinmaryland]

51. What the fuck are you talking about, Francis. Do you know any thing about the written word?

The FIRST letter of the FIRST word in a sentence is ALWAYS capitalized.

Dumbass!

[taterguy]

52. I was referring to the word band, which was the second word in the sentence in your post

:eyes:

[bluedigger]

40. No particular order...

U2 The Joshua Tree
Talking Heads Remain in Light
Paul Simon Graceland
Peter Gabriel So
The Clash London Calling
Elvis Costello Get Happy
The Robert Cray Band Strong Persuader
Sting Nothing Like the Sun
John Hyatt Bring the Family
XTC Skylarking

[Ghost in the Machine]

41. My Top Ten

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather

Guns~n~Roses - Appetite For Destruction

2 Live Crew - As Nasty As They Wanna Be

Eazy E - Eazy Duz It

AC/DC - Back In Black

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Live Alive

Journey - Escape

Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil

Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna

George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad To The Bone

[whistler162]

45. Well there was ... and then... um maybe this one....

sorry that is all I have.

[Forkboy]

46. As impossible as this is, I shall undertake the mission!

In no order though, because I can't count....

Nomeansno - Wrong
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste
Wargasm - Why Play Around
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Tad - God's Balls
Crass - Penis Envy
Sun City Girls - Horse Cock Phepner
Didjits - Hey Judester
Napalm Death - Scum

[rbnyc]

48. Great list. (nt)

[Initech]

49. Here's my list:

10. AC/DC - Back In Black
9. Beastie Boys - License To Ill
8. Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
7. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
6. Black Sabbath - The Mob Rules (Dio!!!!!!)
5. Michael Jackson - Thriller
4. Queensryche - Operation:Mindcrime
3. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley (they were a totally different band in the 80's and this album was produced by the great George Clinton)
2. Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son

And number one is...

1. Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way

Sure it's a completely live album, but Zappa created such scathing political commentary about the Christian right on this album - that is still relevant after all these years and is still completely true today.

[Hudgie DeRobertis]

53. Maybe not the best, but some of my favorites.

The Clash - London Calling
XTC - Black Sea
The Jam - The Gift
Warren Zevon - Sentimental Hygiene
Warren Zevon - Stand in The Fire
David Lindley - El Rayo-X
The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods
REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
Peter Gabriel - #3 (face melting)
Madness - Complete Madness

[Tikki]

54. Grand list...The Jam and XTC are some ...

of the best bands...EVER!!!


Tikki

[opiate69]

55. .....

1. Ozzy - Diary of a Madman
2. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
3. Faith No More - The Real Thing
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets
5. Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
6. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
7. Vai - Sex and Religion
8. Joe Satriani - Surfing with the Alien
9. Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
10. Van Halen - Women and Children First

[Bryan]

56. Sure! This will be fun

Only picking ten was very limiting, and I kept myself to a strict one-album-per-artist limit, but I think this is respectable:

Prince, Purple Rain
Talking Heads, Remain in Light
Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska
Elvis Costello, Imperial Bedroom
The Cure, Disintegration
Echo & The Bunnymen, Ocean Rain
The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
REM, Reckoning
The Pixies, Doolittle
Beastie Boys, Paul's Boutique

[greendog]

58. My 10

Shoot Out the Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson

I'm Your Man - Leonard Cohen

Raindogs - Tom Waits

Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams

Short Sharp Shocked - Michele Shocked

Yellow Moon - Neville Brothers

Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega

Aeriel Bounderies - Michael Hedges

New York - Lou Reed

Standing Eight - Bill Morrissey

[cemaphonic]

63. Ask me on another day, and my list will be different.

Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Prince - Purple Rain
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
REM - Document
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back (surprised no one has mentioned this one yet.)
Golden Palominos - Visions of Excess
Naked City - Naked City
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
U2 - The Joshua Tree

Agree with all the people listing King Crimson's Discipline. On another day, that could easily be on my list too. As much as the 80s gets shit on for a crappy musical decade, there really was a ton of great music released.

[Pool Hall Ace]

64. my list:, in no particular order:

U2 - War
Echo & the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
New Order - Technique
Public Image Limited - Album
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
INXS - Kick
B52's - Wild Planet
The Cars - Shake it Up