Your favourite albums by decade: the 80s

[trackaghost]

Onto the plastic 80s, the era of new romantics, Phil Collins, big hair metal bands and shiny pop music.

Remember no Mac! And don't sneakily put Go Insane or Bella Donna in there either.

I'm keeping to a top 10 - it's the ranking that's key people!

Here's my favourite albums of the 80s:

1. Guns N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
2. Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
3. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
4. The Pixies - Surfer Rosa/Doolittle
5. Prince - Sign O' The Times/Parade
6. Faith No More - The Real Thing
7. Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
8. The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
9. Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
10. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska/The Smiths - Hatful Of Hollow

I've left out some awesome albums, but I make no apologies for putting Guns at number one. I totally loved that album back in the day.

[strandinthewind]

10,000 Maniacs "In My Tribe" - perfection

Go Go's "Beauty and the Beat" and "Vacation"

The Police "Ghost in the Machine" and "Synchronicity"

Prince - all of his stuff.

Sugar Hill Gang "Rapper Delight"

The Tom Tom Club

I also loved The Human League, Thomas Dolby, ABC, Whitney Houston (such a tragic waste) and many others. I never really got into The Clash, but owned Combat Rock.

[amber]

Paul Simon - Graceland

[dissention]

The Tom Tom Club


They're so fuuuuuuuuuun, but they're so baaaaaaaaaaad. :laugh: And I can't get over how they practically stole songs from Adrian Belew.

[ryan8472]

Lots of albums.

Talking Heads - Remain In Light, Speaking In Tounges, Stop Making Sense, Little Creatures

Blondie - Autoamerican

U2 - Boy, October, War, The Unforgetable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Rattle & Hum

Fleetwood Mac - Live, Tango In The Night

Michael Jackson - Thriller, Bad

R.E.M. - Murmur

The Pretenders - Pretenders :p

Dire Straits - Making Movies, Brothers In Arms

Madonna - Madonna, Like A Virgin, Like A Prayer


I could be here forever! Red = Best album EVER.

[strandinthewind]

They're so fuuuuuuuuuun, but they're so baaaaaaaaaaad. :laugh: And I can't get over how they practically stole songs from Adrian Belew.


He's the Genius of love - he's sooooo sweet

...

James Brown - James Brown

:laugh:

They had cool harmonies.

Also, at one point in my life and maybe even now - I could sing all the words to Wordy Rappinghood - which simultaneously is glorious and sooo bad :laugh:

[ryan8472]

They're so fuuuuuuuuuun, but they're so baaaaaaaaaaad. :laugh: And I can't get over how they practically stole songs from Adrian Belew.
How can anyone not love them? :D

[dissention]

1. Autoamerican - Blondie
2. Speaking In Tongues - Talking Heads ("Girlfriend Is Better"!!!)
3. Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
4. Pretenders II - The Pretenders
5. Heart Shaped World - Chris Isaak
6. Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday
7. The Catherine Wheel - David Byrne
8. Scary Monsters - David Bowie
9. Doolittle - Pixies
10. Hard Promises - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

Honorable mentions:

The Hunter - Blondie
KooKoo - Debbie Harry
Remain In Light - Talking Heads
Nick of Time - Bonnie Raitt
Traveling Wilburys Vol. 1 - Traveling Wilburys
The Ballad of Sally Rose - Emmylou Harris
Beauty Stab - ABC
Here's To Future Days - Thompson Twins
Fine Young Cannibals - Fine Young Cannibals
Something Wild soundtrack
Notorious - Duran Duran
Careful - The Motels
No Frills - Bette Midler

[dissention]

Also, at one point in my life and maybe even now - I could sing all the words to Wordy Rappinghood - which simultaneously is glorious and sooo bad :laugh:

I still can and do on a regular basis. :lol:

"Genius of Love" is really fantastic in Stop Making Sense. A lot of people don't seem to like it, but I LOVE it.

[lbelle1214]

Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet

Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA

Soundtrack - Eddie and the Cruisers

Hank Williams, Jr. - (The one with Born to Boogie)

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun

Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It

Van Halen - Fair Warning

Reo Speedwagon

Guns-n-Roses

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing

Hall & Oates

Culture Club

Rod Stewart -( Oh, help me here I can't remember the names of the albums!...Old feeble mind)

[MoonChilde]

1.The Police-Synchronicity
2.U2 the Joshua Tree
3Michael Jackson Thriller--can;t deny the talent
4Prince Purple Rain
5The Smiths the Queen is Dead
6Aerosmith Permant Vacation
7Cyndi Lauper Shes so Unusual
8Pat Benatar Crimes of Passion
9Heart..Heart
10b52s---Cosmic thing
11Diver Dowon Van Halen
12Madonna-Like a prayer

ughhhhhhh sorry couldnt break it down to 10...and I left out sooooooooo many

[77Rumours77]

In no order..

Madonna - Like A Prayer

U2 - Joshua Tree, Boy

Boston - Third Stage

Fleetwood Mac - Mirage, Tango In The Night

Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls

Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA

Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna, Wild Heart

Van Halen - 1984

[hayley]

No order!

1. REM- Murmur
2. My Bloody Valentine- Isn't Anything
3. Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy
4. The Smiths- The Queen is Dead
5. Kate Bush- Hounds of Love
6. XTC- Skylarking
7. Roxy Music- Avalon
8. Rickie Lee Jones- Flying Cowboys
9. Husker Du- Flip Your Wig/New Day Rising
10. Pixies- Surfer Rosa
11. Lucinda Williams- Lucinda Williams

[strandinthewind]

I still can and do on a regular basis. :lol:

"Genius of Love" is really fantastic in Stop Making Sense. A lot of people don't seem to like it, but I LOVE it.


Oh why not - if I screw them up it is because it is a little ahrd to understand what they are saying :laugh:

What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words

Words in papers, words in books
Words on tv, words for crooks
Words of comfort, words of peace
Words to make the fighting cease
Words to tell you what to do
Words are working hard for you
Eat your words but don’t go hungry
Words have always nearly hung me

What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words

Words of nuance, words of skill
And words of romance are a thrill
Words are stupid, words are fun
Words can put you on the run

Mots pressix, mots sensix,
Mots qui disent la vâýit? mots maudits, mots mentis,
Mots qui manquent le fruit d’esprit

What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words

Its a rap race, with a fast pace
Concrete words, abstract words
Crazy words and lying words
Hazy words and dying words
Words of faith and tell me straight
Rare words and swear words
Good words and bad words

What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words

Words can make you pay and pay
Four-letter words I cannot say
Panty, toilet, dirty devil
Words are trouble, words are subtle
Words of anger, words of hate
Words over here, words out there
In the air and everywhere
Words of wisdom, words of strife
Words that write the book I like
Words won’t find no right solution
To the planet earth’s pollution
Say the right word, make a million
Words are like a certain person
Who can’t say what they mean
Don’t mean what they say
With a rap rap here and a rap rap there
Here a rap, there a rap
Everywhere a rap rap

Rap it up for the common good
Let us enlist the neighbourhood
It’s okay, I’ve overstood
This is a wordy rappinghood, okay, bye.

What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words

What are words worth?
What are words worth? - words

He’ll stop ... don’t stop ... stop.

____________________________

and let's not forget ra ha ha ra ha ha doey doey doey ra ha ha :laugh:

[vermicious knid]

Ryan and Dissention both say Autoamerican by Blondie is good? This is interesting to me. I have never heard it, (aside from the two singles) but the allmusic.com review says it is "memorable only for its hits", and Rolling Stone called it "a terrible album" and gave it one star. I was never planning on getting it, but you say otherwise, so things could change.

[thepoetinmyhear]

This of course does not include any Stevie, Mac or other solo (regardless I don't think my top two would change)

1. Carly Simon - Coming Around Again (I've worn out this CD, TWICE)

2. Peter Gabriel - So (How can you not love this album? IN your eyes!)

3. U2 - War (better IMO than Joshua Tree)

4. Don Henley - End of the Innocence (like with the previous three albums, every track is great!)

5. Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Hard Promises (my first Petty album)

6. Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time (not as good as Luck of the Draw, but still a great album)

7. Starship - Knee Deep in the Hoopla (Between the ages of 5 and 7, their Sara was my favorite song)

8. Pat Benatar - Get Nervous (I love Anxiety, Fight it Out, little too late - just a fun and very crazy Pat album)

9. Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Way It Is (Mandolin Rain is one of my all time perfect songs)

10. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven on Earth (Circle in the Sand)

[Moony]

No order!

1. REM- Murmur
2. My Bloody Valentine- Isn't Anything
3. Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy
4. The Smiths- The Queen is Dead
10. Pixies- Surfer Rosa

! I love you!

[dissention]

Ryan and Dissention both say Autoamerican by Blondie is good? This is interesting to me. I have never heard it, (aside from the two singles) but the allmusic.com review says it is "memorable only for its hits", and Rolling Stone called it "a terrible album" and gave it one star. I was never planning on getting it, but you say otherwise, so things could change.

It gets derided because it was their most experimental and diverse album at that time, so most critics labeled it "pretentious." The thing that actually surprises me about it being labeled such is that Blondie was never a serious band, it was always about fun and their songs were, for the most part, tongue-in-cheek, kitschy, and some even came across as the musical equivalents of stories from Weekly World News. It's as if the critics forgot that. The fact that they can write songs about armed robberies, the bermuda triangle, boom booming in the zoom zoom room, or being a spy for the CIA and make it work, all while giving the listener a wink of the eye, is a testament to how great a band they are. Critics made the same sort of "pretentious" remarks about latter-day Emmylou Harris albums, so I take their opinions with a grain of salt.

It's a real grower of an album and you have to warm up to it, but it's a good showcase for how ahead of their time they were as a band. It works as a map for what would essentially become popular music over the next 20 years, and to me, it's rather unfortunate that it isn't treated as such. Yeah, their output is now regarded as being innovative and pioneering, but it's Autoamerican that did it moreso than any other. It goes from Europop to rap to dance to jazz to saloon-style crooning to reggae to urban, and the end result is something that you would never believe was released in 1980. Not to mention that the production is fantastic and the band sounds incredibly good.

[estranged4life]

A Kind of Magic-Queen
The Miracle-Queen
Powerslave-Iron Maiden
Live After Death-Iron Maiden
Somewhere in Time-Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast-Iron Maiden
Appetite for Destruction-Guns N Roses
Ride the Lightning-Metallica
Master of Puppets-Metallica
Couldnt Stand the Weather-Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
Whitesnake-Whitesnake
Blue Murder-Blue Murder
Perfect Strangers-Deep Purple
A Show of Hands-Rush
The Joshua Tree-U2
The Unforgettable Fire-U2
Mechanical Resonance-Tesla
Corridors of Power-Gary Moore
Victims of the Future-Gary Moore
Run For Cover-Gary Moore
Wild Frontier-Gary Moore
Diary of a Madman-Ozzy Osbourne
Tribute-Ozzy Osbourne
Fatal Portrait-King Diamond
Them-King Diamond
Abigail-King Diamond

[xdreamsunwindx]

1) The Pretenders - Pretenders
2) X - Los Angeles
3) U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
4) Blondie - Autoamerican
5) The Cure - Disintegration
6) Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
7) 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
8) Siouxsie & The Banshees - Peepshow
9) Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers - Hard Promises
10) Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

[xdreamsunwindx]

Ryan and Dissention both say Autoamerican by Blondie is good? This is interesting to me. I have never heard it, (aside from the two singles) but the allmusic.com review says it is "memorable only for its hits", and Rolling Stone called it "a terrible album" and gave it one star. I was never planning on getting it, but you say otherwise, so things could change.

Consider the sources. Allmusic.com? Lame. And Rolling Stone is a disgrace to music journalism. It's disgusting how insanely run-of-the-mill their articles have gotten.

But yeah. Autoamerican? Awesome.

[Wild_Heart03]

Wow, I think I might be here for an hour or so.... :laugh:

Duran Duran, Rio, Seven And The Ragged Tiger, Notorious - Duran Duran

Out Of The Blue, Electric Youth - Debbie Gibson

Crimes Of Passion, Precious Time - Pat Benatar

Beauty And The Beat - The Go-Go's

All Over The Place, Different Light - The Bangles

Madonna, Like A Virgin, True Blue, You Can Dance - Madonna

Martika - Martika

Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Disintegration - The Cure

Speak And Spell, Some Great Reward, Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode

Knee Deep In The Hoopla - Starship

[hayley]

! I love you!
:) Where's your list, Moony? You always have impeccable taste.

I like your new avatar, too. It's so small I can't tell what it is, but it looks like the cover of Loveless.

[TheBlueLamp]

1. Tina Turner - Private Dancer (best album of the 80s)
2. Blondie - The Hunter (my favourite Blondie album)
3. Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight
4. Madonna - Like A Virgin
5. Carly Simon - Come Upstairs
6. Kate Bush - Never For Ever (Hounds of Love has a great side 1, but side 2 disappoints me)
7. Debbie Harry - Koo Koo
8. Cher - Cher (1987)
9. Eurythmics - Savage
10. Blondie - Autoamerican (some of their best, but a couple of weaker songs on it puts it lower on my list)
11. Carly Simon - Coming Around Again

[trackaghost]

God, I can't believe I forgot Bowie's Scary Monsters, Jesus & Mary Chain and Husker Du!! D'oh!

[face of glass]

Laurie Anderson: Mr. Heartbreak
The Birthday Party: Junkyard
Arthur Brown: Requiem
Kate Bush: The Dreaming
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds: The First Born Is Dead
Cocteau Twins: Treasure
Coil: Horse Rotorvator
The Fall: Perverted By Language
Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (III)
The Jam: Sound Affects
Joy Division: Closer
King Crimson: Discipline
John Lennon/Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy (in spite of Yoko's contributions)
New Order: Power, Corruption & Lies
New Order: Technique
Pixies: Doolittle
Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen
Public Enemy: Fear Of A Black Planet
Lou Reed: The Blue Mask
The Smiths: Strangeways Here We Come
Talk Talk: Colour Of Spring
Talk Talk: Spirit Of Eden
Talking Heads: Remain In Light
Van Halen: 1984
Tom Waits: Rain Dogs
Brian Wilson: Brian Wilson

After this it gets tougher. Maybe mentally I'm an old fart of a muso.

[BombaySapphire3]

originally posted by dissention Critics made the same sort of "pretentious" remarks about latter-day Emmylou Harris albums, so I take their opinions with a grain of salt. hmmmm I'm a huge Emmylou fan and if you're referring to Wrecking Ball and Red Dirt Girl I really have seen nothing but near universal critical praise for these albums .It seems that Stumble into Grace was not quite as rhapsodized over by the critics but IMO it was the least left field of the three.I know she is supposed to be working on a new one that is even more experimental than the others so I'm dying to hear it as well when it surfaces.

[ryan8472]

Thought of more...

Stevie - Bella Donna, The Wild Heart, Rock A Little

Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction

Talking Heads - True Stories

Berlin - Pleasure Victim <3

Duran Duran - Rio

And of course....The Flashdance soundstrack. :nod: :laugh:

As for Autoamerican ~ There is not one bad song on that album. I wouldn't trust anything that those critics say. If you like Blondie, you'll like that album. It's perfection. :nod: AND, the bonus' on the new CD (Call Me, Suzy & Jeffrey, Rapture disco mix) are amazing too. :)

[irishgrl]

no particular order (its too hard to rank them):

Mr. Mister: Welcome to the Real World
Stevie Winwood: (Album with Higher Love--dont have my albums any more, forgot the title)
Stevie Ray Vaughn: Couldnt Stand the Weather, Texas Flood
Europe: Final Countdown
Phil Collins: Face Value
The Cure: Wish
Scorpions: The Mercury Years (yes its an anthology)
Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust


EDIT: I was notified that certain of my original picks were in the WRONG (gasp) decade, and therefore, they will wait until tomorrow's 90's thread.
My apologies to one and all.

[trackaghost]

no particular order (its too hard to rank them):

Mr. Mister: Welcome to the Real World
Stevie Winwood: (Album with Higher Love--dont have my albums any more, forgot the title)
Stevie Ray Vaughn: Couldnt Stand the Weather, Texas Flood
Europe: Final Countdown
Phil Collins: Face Value
The Cure: Wish
Gin Blossoms: New Miserable Experience
Counting Crows: August and Everything After
Big Head Todd and the Monsters: Sister Sweetly
Live: Throwing Copper
Spin Doctors: Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Scorpions: The Mercury Years (yes its an anthology)
Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust
Metallica: Metallica
Meat Loaf: Bat out of Hell

ahhhh.....Im sure I missed some........

Some of these are from the 1990s (sorry!)
Live - Throwing Copper is 1994
Crowing Crows - August And Everything After is 1993
Big Head Todd and the Monsters: Sister Sweetly is 1993
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience is 1992
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full Of Kryptonite is 1991
The self-titled Metallica album is also 1991

Oh and Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell is 1977 (the follow-up was in 1993)

The Steve Winwood album with Higher Love was Back In The Highlife. That's 1986, so that's okay

Sorry bout that :)

[irishgrl]

Some of these are from the 1990s (sorry!)
Live - Throwing Copper is 1994
Crowing Crows - August And Everything After is 1993
Big Head Todd and the Monsters: Sister Sweetly is 1993
Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience is 1992
Spin Doctors - Pocket Full Of Kryptonite is 1991
The self-titled Metallica album is also 1991

Oh and Meat Loaf's Bat Out Of Hell is 1977 (the follow-up was in 1993)

The Steve Winwood album with Higher Love was Back In The Highlife. That's 1986, so that's okay

Sorry bout that :)

thanks for exposing my mistake :eek: geez, what a way to start a monday...

[face of glass]

The Cure: Wish
Sorry Mary, but this is also from 1992. :)

[GateandGarden]

This thread has really made me realize how 95% of my CDs are from the 90s (if you don't count the Mac and some of their solo offerings)

Carly Simon Spoiled Girl
Carly Simon Coming Around Again (I wore this one out just like Michael)
Carly Simon Greatest Hits Live
The Police Synchronicity
Sting Nothing Like the Sun
Reba McEntire What Am I Gonna Do About You?
Reba McEntire Live

[thepoetinmyhear]

This thread has really made me realize how 95% of my CDs are from the 90s (if you don't count the Mac and some of their solo offerings)

Carly Simon Coming Around Again (I wore this one out just like Michael)

Isn't this album just perfect? There isn't a bad song on it and Carly just belts 'em out (not really a rockin' album, but certainly heartfelt and with some amazing lyrics)!

[GateandGarden]

Isn't this album just perfect? There isn't a bad song on it and Carly just belts 'em out (not really a rockin' album, but certainly heartfelt and with some amazing lyrics)!I love it. I've read some awful reviews of it that were so harsh I couldn't believe it. I remember one saying that "Do the Walls Come Down" is "too melodramatic." Oh, how I love that song. I think it's perfect, actually. I had the tape of this album when I was a kid and I literally wore it out and I finally bought the CD a few years ago. "Give Me All Night" and "All I Want is You" never get old as far as I'm concerned.

[dissention]

hmmmm I'm a huge Emmylou fan and if you're referring to Wrecking Ball and Red Dirt Girl I really have seen nothing but near universal critical praise for these albums .It seems that Stumble into Grace was not quite as rhapsodized over by the critics but IMO it was the least left field of the three.I know she is supposed to be working on a new one that is even more experimental than the others so I'm dying to hear it as well when it surfaces.

I read some vicious reviews for Red Dirt Girl (again, I think it is one of the greatest albums ever recorded), and almost all of those bad reviews savaged "Bang the Drum Slowly," saying that she got too caught up in self-conscious artiness and veered towards being pretentious with such a dramatic shift in her music. There were some unkind reviews of Wrecking Ball where they essentially said the same thing. I, of course, wholly disagree with those opinions, but I rarely agree with critics, anyway.

Personally, I think critics confuse growth as an artist with pretentiousness.

[chiliD]

The 80's...I don't recall that being a very big era in music for me...but, we'll how it goes with the list (omitting the obvious FMac related ones):

1) Roxy Music - Avalon
2) (tie) Concrete Blonde - Concrete Blonde (1st album) & ZZ Top - Eliminator
3) The Motels - All Four One
4) Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
5) Eric Clapton - August
6) George Harrison - Cloud Nine
7) Sting - Dream Of The Blue Turtles
8 ) U2 - The Joshua Tree
9) David Bowie - Let's Dance
10) Paul McCartney - Flowers In The Dirt

MORE-than-honorable mentions:

XTC - Oranges & Lemons
Genesis - ABACAB
Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School
John & Yoko - Double Fantasy
Jackson Browne - Lawyers In Love (w/Rick Vito on lead guitar)
Bryan Ferry - Boys & Girls
Pete Townshend - All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Soul To Soul
Dukes Of Stratosphear (aka XTC) - Chips From The Chocolate Fireball
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Roger Daltrey - Under The Raging Moon
ZZ Top - Afterburner
Little Feat - Let It Roll
Pretenders - Pretenders
Pretenders - Pretenders II
Pretenders - Learning To Crawl
Concrete Blonde - Free


Well, in retrospect, I guess it was better than I thought. :shrug:

[strandinthewind]

The 80's...I don't recall that being a very big era in music for me...but, we'll how it goes with the list (omitting the obvious FMac related ones):

1) Roxy Music - Avalon

. . .

3) The Motels - All Four One

Two of my fav.'s ever :nod: Martha Davis' voice haunts me to this day.

[dissention]

Two of my fav.'s ever :nod: Martha Davis' voice haunts me to this day.

Did you get her solo album from last year? Damn, it's amazing. :shocked:

[strandinthewind]

Did you get her solo album from last year? Damn, it's amazing. :shocked:

I need to look for it as I have been meaning to get it - Actually, there is a record store near the gym - so, I may go tonight!

[dissention]

I need to look for it as I have been meaning to get it - Actually, there is a record store near the gym - so, I may go tonight!

It's called "So the Story Goes" and it kicks ass. She is one bitter, angry woman on that album. It's very dark and very original. :nod:

Don't expect anything like The Motels, though.

(If you can't find it, let me know and I'll send you some of the tracks.)

[chiliD]

Her first solo album (with "Tell It To The Moon") was great, too...but, there wasn't any differentiation between her sound on that and The Motels.

In my "alternate history", Stevie & Lindsey quit Fleetwood Mac at the end of the Tusk tour...Fleetwood Mac gets Bob Welch to return along with Todd Sharp on guitars and Martha Davis to join (bringing along fellow Motel-ian, Marty Jourard on sax & secondary keyboards). Now THAT would've been one helluva "Fleetwood Mac" :thumbsup: At that point, chronologically, all those Motels "hits" would've been Fleetwood Mac songs. "Only The Lonely", "Take The L", "Mission Of Mercy", "Where Do We Go From Here", "Suddenly Last Summer". How cool would THAT have been?

And, just think what Mick & John (with Bob Welch & Todd Sharp on guitars & Christine on keyboards) have done with "Envy"?!? YIKES!

[shackin'up]

1. Masters of Reality- the blue garden
2. Fischer-Z- Going Deaf For A Living/Red Skies Over paradise
3. John Watts- The Iceberg Model/No More Twist
4. Kate Bush- The Dreaming
5. Peter Gabriel-So
6. Lou Reed- New York
7. Neil Young- Freedom
8. Guns & Roses- Appetite for Destruction
9. Sonic Youth-Evol/ Daydream Nation
10.Buffalo Tom-Buffalo Tom
11.Talking heads-Remain in Light
12.U2- Boy
13.Urban Dance Squad-mental Floss For the Globe
14.Neil diamond-The Jazzsinger
15.Van Halen- 1984
16. B52's-Wild Planet
17. Bauhaus- Mask
18. Pete Townshend- White City
19. Doe Maar- Skunk
20. Men At Work- Business as usual

[CreepingDeath]

I'm really late to this thread, but whatever.

1. Metallica- Master Of Puppets & Ride The Lightning
2. Slayer- Reign In Blood
3. Megadeth- Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
4. U2- War & The Joshua Tree
5. Iron Maiden- Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Powerslave, & Piece Of Mind
6. Guns n' Roses- Appetite For Destruction
7. Ozzy Osbourne- Blizzard Of Ozz & Diary Of A Madman
8. Queensryche- Operation: Mindcrime & Rage For Order
9. Motley Crue- Shout At The Devil
10. Def Leppard- Pyromania
11. Pink Floyd- A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

[Dark Angel]

Oh god! The 80's is still my favorite era. :laugh:

Duran Duran - Duran Duran - Big Thing
Inxs - Shabooh Shoobah - Kick
Madonna - Madonna - Like A Prayer
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual - A Night To Remember
Sheena Easton - A Private Heaven & The Lover In Me
Prince - Dirty Mind - Sign O' The Times
Blondie - Autoamerican
Berlin - Pleasure Victim/Love Life/Count Three And Pray
Heart - Bad Animals & Heart
Pat Benatar - Get Nervous/Precious Time/Crimes Of Passion
Bon Jovi - 7800 Degrees Fahrenheit - New Jersey
Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
Def Leppard - Hysteria & Pyromania
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Motley Crue - Theatre Of Pain
Howard Jones - Dream Into Action
A-Ha - Hunting High And Low
The Cure - Boys Don't Cry - Disintegration
The Bangles - All Over The Place - Everything


And way too much other stuff too add. :lol:

[Wild_Heart03]

Thought of more...

Berlin - Pleasure Victim <3

Ahhhh, how could I forget that one?! Sex (I'm A...), Masquerade and The Metro.... my kingdom for a synthesizer. :laugh:

And speaking of more that I forgot, here's a few I was reminded of after reading others' posts.....

My Kind Of Country, What Am I Gonna Do About You, Sweet Sixteen - Reba McEntire

Avalon - Roxy Music

Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush

[strandinthewind]

Ahhhh, how could I forget that one?! Sex (I'm A...), Masquerade and The Metro.... my kingdom for a synthesizer. :laugh:

One of my fav. lyrics is "I remember HATING you for loving me" :eek: I loved that record!!!!!!

[ryan8472]

Ahhhh, how could I forget that one?! Sex (I'm A...), Masquerade and The Metro.... my kingdom for a synthesizer. :laugh:
I <3 that album sooooooooooooooooo much. :nod:

[Wild_Heart03]

I was actually just listening to that one on the way to work today, and singing along, haha. I'm sure I got looks from the people at the red light while singing the line "I'm a little girl when we make love together"...... :eek:

[ryan8472]

I was actually just listening to that one on the way to work today, and singing along, haha. I'm sure I got looks from the people at the red light while singing the line "I'm a little girl when we make love together"...... :eek:
I'm so glad my mother has never heard me belting that one out. :laugh: Which I do. :p

[Moony]

:) Where's your list, Moony? You always have impeccable taste.

I like your new avatar, too. It's so small I can't tell what it is, but it looks like the cover of Loveless.
Yep, that's what it is :nod:

Ah, since I got a personal request, I guess I'll attempt this...even though, truth be told, I don't own many 80's albums either...

...in no particular order....

Psychocandy by The Jesus And Mary Chain
Darklands by The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Queen is Dead by the Smiths
Murmur by REM
Hard Promises by Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
War & the Joshua Tree & Boy by U2
Doolittle by Pixies
Kick by INXS (heh)
Isn't Anything by My Bloody Valentine
Reckoning by REM

[Neal]

Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Erasure - The Innocents
Erasure - Wild!
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna - True Blue
Madonna - Like A Virgin
New Order - Substance
Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse Of Reason

[wondergirl9847]

I'm so glad my mother has never heard me belting that one out. :laugh: Which I do. :p

Which part do you hope she doesn't hear worse...the making love part or I'm a little girl part? :lol:

[ryan8472]

Which part do you hope she doesn't hear worse...the making love part or I'm a little girl part? :lol:
Um, the whole song. :laugh:

Feel the fire, feel my love inside you it's so right
There's the sound and the smell of love in my mind
I'm a toy, come and play with me, say the word now
Wrap your legs around mine and ride me tonight

I'm a man - I'm a goddess
I'm a man - Well I'm a virgin
I'm a man - I'm a blue movie
I'm a man - I'm a bitch
I'm a man - I'm a geisha
I'm a man - I'm a little girl
And we make love together

Slip and slide in your wet delight, feel the blood flow
Not too fast, don't be slow, my love's in your hands

I'm a man - I'm a boy
I'm a man - Well I'm your mother
I'm a man - I'm a one night stand
I'm a man - Am I bi
I'm a man - I'm a slave
I'm a man - I'm a little girl
And we make love together

Skin to skin, tongue to oooh! Come on honey hold tight
Come inside, it's a passion play just for you
Let's get lost in that magic place all alone now
Drink your fill from my fountain of love, wet your lips

I'm a man - I'm a teaser
I'm a man - Well I'm a virgin
I'm a man - I'm a one night stand
I'm a man - I'm a drug
I'm a man - Well I'm your slave
I'm a man - I'm a dream divine
And we make love together

I'm a man - I'm a goddess
I'm a man - I'm a hooker
I'm a man - I'm a blue movie
I'm a man - I'm a slut
I'm a man - I'm a geisha
I'm a man - I'm babe
I'm a man - I'm a dream divine
And we make love together
And we'll make love forever

Yeah. :shocked: :laugh:

[Hippocampus]

Excluding all things Fleetwood Mac related:


Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin
Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
The Bangles - All Over The Place
The Bangles - Different Light
Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
Mylène Farmer - Cendres De Lune
Mylène Farmer - Ainsi Sois-Je
Niagara - Encore Un Dernier Baiser
Niagara - Quel Enfer
Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers

[strandinthewind]

. . .
Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever
Culture Club - Colour By Numbers

SIGHS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE THEM

"Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chameleon . . . . " :] :] :] :] :]

[Neal]

The Bangles - All Over The Place
The Bangles - Different Light


Neither of those albums are as good as Everything... :p

'In Your Room' is their best song ever! :nod:

[Hippocampus]

Neither of those albums are as good as Everything... :p

'In Your Room' is their best song ever! :nod:

Egads... I think "Everything" is their weakest effort and I usually skip "In Your Room" :sorry:

No wonder they broke up after this album ;)

[The Tower]

Ahhhh, how could I forget that one?! Sex (I'm A...), Masquerade and The Metro.... my kingdom for a synthesizer. :laugh:
Those were the days.... boy, oh boy.

Add to it others from that era:

Spring Session M - Missing Persons
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Rio - Duran Duran
Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads
Upstairs at Eric's - Yazoooooooo
Kissing To Be Clever - Culture Club ("You're white- dance like an enemy!")
Touch - Eurythmics

The Psychedelic Furs
Wall of Voodoo
Howard Jones

Lots and lots of stuff.

The Bangles - Different Light
Best song: "Following" - dyke obsession at it's most OCD zenith.

[Wild_Heart03]

Spring Session M - Missing Persons
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads
Upstairs at Eric's - Yazoooooooo
Kissing To Be Clever - Culture Club ("You're white- dance like an enemy!")
Touch - Eurythmics
Even more that I missed..... :rolleyes: Especially "Upstairs at Eric's", I've always loved Allison Moyet's voice.

[strandinthewind]

I LOVE Yaz - Upstair's at Eric's is my fav.

LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!

[The Tower]

Even more that I missed..... :rolleyes: Especially "Upstairs at Eric's", I've always loved Allison Moyet's voice.
I LOVE Yaz - Upstair's at Eric's is my fav.

LOVE THEM!!!!!!!!!

"Looking from the window above, it's like a story of love...."

"All I needed was the love you gave-
All I needed for another day
And I all I ever knew.....
Only you.."

Ohhhhhh, that album was such as soundtrack to my teenage years.

[strandinthewind]

"Looking from the window above, it's like a story of love...."

"All I needed was the love you gave-
All I needed for another day
And I all I ever knew.....
Only you.."

Ohhhhhh, that album was such as soundtrack to my teenage years.

I know - I need to download it into my Itunes. I have such fond memories of that song and all my friends in college, when everything was just so new and exciting. One of my best friends lived in a cool warehouse apt. in New Orleans and we were all in awe of her place. She used to play Yaz, Go West, etc. and we would just have so much fun at her place. I get a little teary thinging about it now - I am such a sap :laugh:

[Wild_Heart03]

"Looking from the window above, it's like a story of love...."

"All I needed was the love you gave-
All I needed for another day
And I all I ever knew.....
Only you.."

Ohhhhhh, that album was such as soundtrack to my teenage years.

*sigh* Only You, oh how I love that song....

Don't Go is my chosen obsession from that album though, as of late.

[strandinthewind]

*sigh* Only You, oh how I love that song....

Don't Go is my chosen obsession from that album though, as of late.

LOL - I LOVE Don't Walk Away From Love as well.

Then there "outside - inside - feel the difference" :laugh:

I love those two records so much.

[macmar71]

Lindsey Buckingham~~Go Insane
Christine McVie~~Christine McVie
Stevie Nicks~~The Wild Heart
Fleetwood Mac~~Mirage
Fleetwood Mac~~Tango
Journey~~Escape
Journey~~Frontiers
Steve Perry~~Street Talk
Def Leppard~~Pyromania
Def Leppard~~Hysteria
John Cougar~~American Fool
Pat Benatar~~Crimes Of Passion
Pat Benatar~~Precious Time
Heart~~Passionworks
Heart~~Heart
GTR~~~GTR
Asia~~~Asia
Sammy Hagar~~Three Lock Box
Sammy Hagar~~Standing Hampton
Boston~~Third Stage
Triumph~~Thunder Seven
Van Halen~~5150
Van Halen~~Diver Down
Bonnie Tyler~~Faster Than The Speed Of Night
Tina Turner~~Private Dancer
Prince~~1999
Prince~~Purple Rain
John Waite~~No Brakes
The Babys~~Union Jacks
Eric Clapton~~Behind The Sun
Pink Floyd~~The Final Cut
Pink Floyd~~The Divison Bell
Patty Smyth & Scandal~~The Warrior

[chiliD]

Pink Floyd~~The Divison Bell


Was released in 1994. :sorry:

[macmar71]

I went overboard....whoops!!!!! Forgive me for going past ten. You can see what era I grew up in. :)

[macmar71]

Was released in 1994. :sorry:


I stand corrected....thanks. I didn't put a few others down as I was not sure where they fell into as I discovered some things after the fact.