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]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

The Tom Tom Club

They're so fuuuuuuuuuun, but they're so baaaaaaaaaaad. 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

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]

Originally Posted by dissention

They're so fuuuuuuuuuun, but they're so baaaaaaaaaaad. 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



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

[ryan8472]

Originally Posted by dissention

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

How can anyone not love them?

[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]

Originally Posted by strandinthewind

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

I still can and do on a regular basis.

"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)

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]

Originally Posted by dissention

I still can and do on a regular basis.

"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

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.

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

[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.