wednesday if you're luicky, i have barely started compling, so maybe think thursday realistically if not then then saturday

I'll pm you my list monday, I have to mull over it all the week end.

1. The Wipers - Over the Edge
2. Venom P. Stinger - Meet My Friend Venom
3. Half Japanese - Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts
4. Einstürzende Neubauten - Zeichnungen des Patienten O.T.
5. The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
6. Beat Happening - Beat Happening
7. v/a "The Elephant Table Album"
8. Les Thugs - Radical Hystery
9. The Ex - Joggers and Smoggers
10. Tales of Terror - Tales of Terror
11. Feedtime - Shovel
12. Sonic Youth - Sister
13. The Clean - Compilation
14. Savage Republic - Tragic Figures
15. Flipper - Generic Flipper
16. Really Red - Teaching You the Fear
17. No Trend - Too Many Humans...
18. Chrome - 3rd from the Sun
19. Smegma - Nattering Naybobs of Negativity
20. Severed Heads - Since the Accident
21. Bathory - Under the Sign of the Black Mark
22. Tall Dwarfs - Hello Cruel World
23. Celtic Frost - Morbid Tales
24. The Cure - Faith
25. Gauze - Fuckheads

Damn, when I saw that I was reminded and went back to edit again, but I just can't find anything worthy of being removed. 25 is way too few options!

Damn, great unique list. Bands like Savage Republic, the Clean, No Trend, and especially Venom P. Stinger (the noisiest hardcore band ive ever heard) are all stuff we love but often forget about when it comes to lists.

Can only do 20:

1. The Cure - Disintegration
2. Sonic Youth - Daydream nation
3. The Cure - Faith
4. Sonic Youth - Sister
5. Joy Division - Closer (I prefer Substance though)
6. The Smiths - The Queen is dead (I prefer Hatful of hollow though)
7. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Juju
8. Cocteau Twins - Treasure
9. Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
10. U2 - The Joshua Tree
11. The Cure - Pornography
12. Metallica - Master of puppets
13. Sonic Youth - Evol
14. David Bowie - Scary monsters
15. Pixies - Doolittle
16. Leonard Cohen - I'm your man
17. Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
18. Noir Désir - Veuillez rendre l'âme (à qui elle appartient)
19. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Imperial bedroom
20. Dinosaur Jr - You're living all over me

great list, but space ritual came out long before the 80s

True. And it's shit. Two good reasons not to include it.

Pookie, do you like ANYTHING? Do you even listen to music? Seriously...


I like DJ Rick's list, that guy is hella cool.

Boo. Down with Pookie criticism. Boo I say.

Oh come on, I've never heard the guy say anything positive about any band discussed.

Too bad you think so, "Space Ritual" is my pick for most epic live recording ever. But it came out in 74, how the fuck could anyone think it was from the 80s? The inside cover features tons of shots of a young Lemmy, who by the 80s was old and already in Motorhead for years. So the person who thought it was made in the 80s has obviously never seen the actual physical copy of the album, and therefore assumed that the Fururist Sci-Fi Glam-Psych Prog Rock general headfuckery could never be made prior to 1980. But amazingly, this shit was mid 70s, 74' if I assume correct.

Meh. He makes me laugh. I'm sure he like some music. I don't think I've ever known him to post anything that made me despair for the state of the world as we know it, and there's not many people doing that at the moment.

Edit: I looked through some of his threads. He likes the Cramps. And anyone liking the Cramps doesn't have to be positive about anything else, because the Cramps are fucking awesome. It would seem he likes Takemitsu as well, which is a fair sign of having better taste than most of the turd that's dredged about here.

if so, then I'll replace it with Negativland - Escape From Noise

both derek and glice are right! and so too is pookine but escape from noise only a replacement...shame on you signpost!

30-something albums in no particular order. I'll reassemble at some point.

Sonic Youth - Evol
Sonic Youth - Sister
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
Bogshed - Step On It
Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Black Flag - Damaged
Husker Du - New Day Rising
Einsturzende Neubauten - Kollaps
SPK - Leichenschrei
Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Swans - Cop
MDC - Millions of Dead Cops
Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussy Horse
Big Black - Atomizer
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush The Show
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
Meat Puppets - Monsters
Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
Rapeman - Two Nuns and a Pack Mule
Nirvana - Bleach
Black Uhuru - Red
Camper Van Chadbourne
Test Dept with the South Wales Striking Miners' Choir - Shoulder To Shoulder
Nomeansno - Small Parts Isolated and Destroyed
Nomeansno - Wrong
Suicidal Tendencies
Killdozer - Twelve Point Buck
Membranes - Songs of Love and Fury
John Cooper Clarke - Snap, Crackle & Bop
Public Image Ltd - Flowers of Romance
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole
Crass - Stations of the Crass
The June Brides - There Are Eight Million Stories
Negativland - Helter Stupid
Stupids - Peruvian Vacation
LL Cool J - Bigger and Deffer

Bogshed? Fucking Bogshed? I don't believe I've just seen that name here, I really don't.

Wow Pookie has good taste.

Top 10 Artists of the 80s:

1. The Fall
2. The Angry Samoans
3. Game Theory
4. Pussy Galore
5. Black Flag
6. The Minutemen
7. Sonic Youth
8. Half Japanese
9. Metallica
10. Blue Humans

I don't believe my musical tastes are being questioned by a reeky rough-hewn giglet.

Also wow, I just looked properly back at my list, and, much as it's probably expected on this board, serious pasty white guitars alert...

Most black musicians in "R&B" in the 80s made pasty white pop music, too.

Kool & the Gang sang "Joanna"
Lionel Richie sang "Penny Lover"
Philip Bailey broke from Earth Wind & Fire to duet w/ Phil Collins

It was a real travesty, that decade. (by and large, anyway)

yeah, but you also got hip hop. take the good with the bad, and for underground rock the 80s still cant be beat.

yeah, but on the other hand you could do a top 25 of 80s hiphop records and you'd have more than enough amazing records to choose from.



EDIT: too slow!

I haven't heard enough 80's music to do many, but here's some I'd consider my top ten:
1. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
4. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
5. Husker Du - New Day Rising
6. Sonic Youth - Sister
7. Big Black - Atomizer
8. Fugazi - 13 Songs
9. Big Black - Songs About Fucking
10. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

Overall top 5 Prediction (no order):
You're Living All Over Me
Surfer Rosa
Daydream Nation
Songs About Fucking
Isn't Anything

I win an internet and a half if I'm right.

i was goin to say 13 songs is a comp but i used the minor threat album two epes on one album so i don't have any room to talk.

It's a bit of a gray area I guess. panto said that EP's were fine, and it's two put together so haha. Otherwise I can just vote for the EP's separately.

If we're including EPs, then I'm going to add Metal Circus to my list.

Pookie has great tastes.

I'm not saying anything bad about hip hop...I specifically singled out R&B....it died an ugly death in the 80s.

There's a high chance that Sister, EVOl and Bad Moon Rising could also be in or around the top five.

Yeah, you're probably right actually. I haven't read anyone elses responses though, so it was a blind guess.

1. The Replacements – Let It Be
2. Wipers – Youth of America
3. Black Flag - Damaged
4. Flipper – Generic Flipper
5. Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales
6. Alan Vega – Alan Vega
7. Negative Approach – S/T EP
8. Napalm Death – Scum
9. Angry Samoans – Back From Samoa
10. Adolescents - Adolescents
11. Descendents – Milo Goes To College
12. The Replacements – Sorry Ma
13. Venom – Welcome To Hell
14. Redd Cross – Born Innocent
15. Void / Faith Split (only for the Void side)
16. Angry Samoans – Inside My Brain
17. Royal Trux – Royal Trux
18. Slayer – Reign In Blood
19. Husker Du – New Day Rising
20. Saint Vitus – Born Too Late
21. The Replacements – Tim
22. Pussy Galore – Right Now
23. D.R.I – Dirty Rotten LP
24. Venom – Black Metal
25. Dio – Holy Diver

I think I said Pixies were for women, gays and indie kids.

It's interesting to see the differences between the lists of people who aren't old enough to remember the 80s and old fellas like me who most definitely are.

I would always choose Kollaps by Einsturzende Neubauten (as opposed to the albums other people have listed), Rembrandt Pussyhorse (over Locust Abortion Technician or Hairway To Steven), Yo! Bum Rush The Show (over It Takes A Nation...), Cop (over Filth) and so on, because I remember these albums coming out.

In each case these records were my first exposure to these bands and I clearly remember the impact each had on me.

And I'm not saying that it means my selections are better. Even though they clearly are.

I was about to argue that point, on the basis that Pixies rocked my soul when they first came on the scene, until I remembered that at that time I was an indie kid. Mind you, all the Blast First crew were very appealing to indie kids at the time, they were a different breed to what they are now. Those were the days when "indie" still referred to a way of releasing music, rather than a type of music. Indie died when all the indie bands started wanting careers in music, rather than music being an artistic outlet. I blame The Smiths.

I already predicted a SY clean sweep of the 80's top 5 in the 90's thread. Though I guess Isn't Anything might edge out either Confusion or Bad Moon.

I'm looking forward to the 70's list, because at least that one won't be clogged up with SY albums...

yeah i was hoping someone would do a 70s list