Your favourite albums by decade: the 80s - Page 3

irishgrl · #31 08-15-2005, 07:48 AM

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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

geez, what a way to start a monday...

face of glass · #32 08-15-2005, 09:50 AM

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The Cure: Wish

Sorry Mary, but this is also from 1992.

GateandGarden · #33 08-15-2005, 10:09 AM

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 · #34 08-15-2005, 10:27 AM

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Originally Posted by 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 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 · #35 08-15-2005, 10:34 AM

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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 · #36 08-15-2005, 11:45 AM

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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 · #37 08-15-2005, 12:02 PM

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.

strandinthewind · #38 08-15-2005, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by 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

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3) The Motels - All Four One

Two of my fav.'s ever

Martha Davis' voice haunts me to this day.

dissention · #39 08-15-2005, 12:15 PM

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Two of my fav.'s ever

Martha Davis' voice haunts me to this day.

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

strandinthewind · #40 08-15-2005, 12:17 PM

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

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 · #41 08-15-2005, 12:26 PM

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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.

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 · #42 08-15-2005, 12:50 PM

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"

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 · #43 08-15-2005, 02:05 PM

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 · #44 08-15-2005, 05:53 PM

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 · #45 08-15-2005, 08:19 PM

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

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.