I looked at about 1/2 the lists and there are some great albums here. I missed out on alot of it, but would LOVE to hear so much of what I see.

A few I didn't see in my quick check were

The The - Mindbomb
Bryan Ferry - Bete Noire
Neville Bros. - Yellow Moon
English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
XTC - Black Sea
Wire - The Ideal Copy (Chairs Missing was 1978, someone listed that)
Colin Newman - It Seems
Eno/Byrne - My life in the bush of ghosts
The Jam - Sound Affects
Wall of Voodoo - Dark Continent
King Crimson - Beat
Red Hot Chili's - Mother's Milk
Bad Brains - I Against I
Miles Davis - Amandla
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique, License to Ill
Madness - Absolutely
Urggh, A Music War - Compilation, several bands

gosh others, but I know my list is pretty weak compared to most all I've seen here. My 80s breadth isn't so expansive. However I AM disappointed not to see....

Boy George, Culture Club
Thompson Twins
The Human League
Flock of Seagulls
Ah-Ha
Soft Cell

Hahahahahahahahahaaa.......

Thinking about it, Travelogue should have been in my 50 item shortlist, but I forgot about it. It wouldn't have made the final 25, but it was a brilliant album. Heaven 17's Penthouse and Pavement could have merited an honourable mention too.

And Soft Cell's "This Last Night In Sodom" was pretty fantastic.

To tell you the truth, I really do like some of that cheesy 80s stuff too. Not that what you mentioned is, but some of it is embarrassing for me to admit.

Tainted Love ? :o :p Oh yeah, and Depeche Mode :rolleyes:

:D

Soul Mining over Mindbomb for me.

I honestly haven't had much time to really put together a list and haven't PM'ed my selections yet. Pangs me a bit considering I love so many albums that appeared in the eighties. Would like to do a top 100 again or at least a top 50. Maybe soon.

i forgot depeche Mode - Violator in my list but is it not 90's?

1990.

Very true. . .
though I fully expect the 60's to be clogged up with Velvet Underground albums

me too.

something like this...


1 Sonic Youth - Sister
2 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
3 R.E.M. - Reckoning
4 Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
5 R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
6 Laurie Anderson - Big Science
7 Sonic Youth - Evol
8 Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
9 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
10 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
11 The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs (compilation)
12 The Replacements - Let it Be
13 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
14 R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
15 R.E.M. - Murmur
16 Laurie Anderson - United States I-IV
17 Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
18 Prince & The Revolution - Around the World in a Day
19 David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
20 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
21 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Milk and Honey
22 Nirvana - Bleach
23 Pylon - Gyrate
24 Pylon - Chomp
25 Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
26 Duran Duran - Duran Duran
27 The Police - Ghost in the Machine
28 Peter Gabriel - Passion: Music for the Last Temptation
29 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
30 Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
31 R.E.M. - Document
32 Camper Van Beethoven - Camper Van Beethoven
33 Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
34 U2 - War
35 David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
36 Joy Division - Closer
37 Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
38 Talking Heads - Naked
39 Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun
40 Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
41 Minutemen - Double Nickels On the Dime
42 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
43 Duran Duran - Rio
44 Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
45 U2 - The Joshua Tree
46 The Police - Synchronicity
47 Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory
48 Black Flag - Who's Got the 10 1/2?
49 The Smiths - The Smiths
50 INXS - The Swing
51 Arcadia - So Red The Rose
52 Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
53 Camper Van Beethoven - II & III
54 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
55 The Cure - Pornography
56 Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
57 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
58 Black Flag - Damaged
59 Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
60 Bruce Springsteen - The River
61 Pixies - Doolittle
62 Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac
63 The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
64 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
65 Pixies - Surfer Rosa
66 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions To Hold Us Back
67 AC/DC - Back in Black
68 The Cure - Disintegration
69 Laurie Anderson - Home of the Brave Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
70 John Zorn - Naked City
71 Bad Brains - I Against I
72 Mudhoney - Mudhoney
73 Prince - Sign O' The Times
74 Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album
75 David Bowie - Let's Dance
76 Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
77 Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch
78 John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
79 Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade
80 The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
81 The Birthday Party - Junkyard
82 Glenn Branca - Lesson No. 1
83 David Byrne - Rei Momo
84 Kraftwerk - Computer World
85 Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche '85
86 Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
87 The Replacements - Tim
88 Laurie Anderson - Mister Heartbreak
89 The Cars - Heartbeat City
90 Guns 'N Roses - Appetite For Destruction
91 Mötley Crüe - Too Fast For Love
92 Metallica - Master of Puppets
93 XTC - English Settlement
94 Half Japanese - 1/2 Gentlemen Not Beast
95 The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
96 King Crimson - Discipline
97 Half Japanese - Charmed Life
98 My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
99 The Clash - Combat Rock
100 Gang of Four - Solid Gold

^^^There's some real gems there, atari - I am also v fond of the Feelies LP, Kate Bush's entry here and Brooce's "Nebraska".

There must be at least a few hundred more really good ones...

nutty when neither of Killing Joke's first two make a top one hundred

i cant beleive everyone has overlooked falco (me included)

Maybe cause Sonic Youth was one of the best bands in the 80's, and maybe cause their albums was among the best albums of this decade.
Maybe.
Stop complaining, please, you're on the SY board, what did you expect ?

the 80s was the best time for wierd and underground rock, period. even the mega pop stars like prince and madonna made very interesting and unique music. *sighs*, nostalgia for a time period i was barely alive for.

That said, SST is probably with ESP my pick for all time greatest record label/movement. SST was a movement, much more than a label. They defined what Underground Rock would be. People recording in shitty spaces, sleeping on floors, making records with pennies, traveling across the country in a van and sleeping not only on the floor but under toilets, and making music for none other than the love of it. They also established that "Indie Rock" wasn't a sound, just an idea. None of the SST bands sounded alike. Black Flag was the ultimate brutal and mysterious and captivating Hardcore Punk Rock band. The Descendents made melodic Power Pop that was appealing to people just getting into underground stuff. Dino Jr. brought in Classic Rock Riffs and Melodies to ther agressive guitar driven Hardcore sound. Saccharine Trust was the most insane band in California, period. I still think people don't really know how to rank Saccharine Trust in the scope of the 80s underground because they were just so damn wierd and hard to get. Sonic Youth introduced Noise, No Wave, and Avant sounds to a generation of most pit loving white kids with DOA shirts. Then there was Husker Du who could write melodies played faster than speeding bullets. The Meat Puppers, brining Psychedelia and Americana back into American Punk Rock. Speaking of Americana, The Minutemen was everything good about American Music since its inception; from old country Blues to CCR to Funk to Punk Rock and everything in between. It's kind of hard to fathom the amazing music produced by that tiny label in such a short span of time.

Try punctuation you twit.

You might have something worthwhile to say but who the fuck would know it?

you know i thought the specials debut album came out in 79 but i just checked the back of my cd and it's 1980. that's def. my favorite album of the 80's.

ok it came out in 1979 in england, but 1980 in the usa. does that count as an 80's album?

The Specials first album was released in 1979. The second album, More Specials was released in 1980.

EDIT AFTER YOUR EDIT: No it doesn't.

i'll just save it for the favorite 70's album list if there is one.

I'm sure there will be and I'm sure it will be in many people's lists when there is.

SSt had a lot of forgetable and forgotten bands.

They had many more bad bands than good. But the good bands were the very best.

I don't expect anything else, purely because they are the one common denominator that everyone here can agree on (to some degree anyway ;)).
And at least it'll be deserved for them to sweep the 80's list, rather than in the 90's & 00's lists where it was kinda daft really. Still, the only SY album I voted for this time was Walls Have Ears, because, as much as I love them, their other 80's LPs will hardly need any help placing, and there's a ton of other albums from the decade also worthy of recognition.

I was wondering the same thing about Metal Box - Dec '79 for the original metal-can version, Feb '80 for Second Edition, which was the first version distributed in most places outside the UK. Figured I'd just leave it for the 70's list though...

I just checked it. As far as message boards go, the puncuation was ok. So try reading, or ignoring, or shutting go on making pointless arguements. Fuck off.

Better. I read the whole of that and, considering the bad grammar and spelling, pretty much understood it all. Well done.

Have you ever thought about leading by example?

buwahahahahahaha
leave Batreleaser aloooooooooooooooooone!

I tend (vote for Sister)to agree (vote for Sister)with you (vote for sister) , man (vote for sister).










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I thought about making a list and include that album too, but then I couldn't be bothered. I wasn't sure if to go for that one or 'Dusk', which has some really good songs on it too.

Did anyone put Ministry's 'The Land of Rape and Honey' on their list? Great album.

yknow sarram..... i totally forgot about that album.. that is a great album!!!

off to find my copy in the attic right now!

2 records i totally forgot; mission of burma-vs and dead milkmen-eat your paisley

Oh yeah, one of many that come to mind after first thinking about this thread,



It may be too poppy or milquetoast for many here, but I loved it when it came out and still do !

I seriously hope I'm not the only one who put "Pretty Little Baka Guy" on
their list.

Everyone who didn't should receive 20 whip lashes.

I didn't.

as a heads up, don't send me lists for albums of the 70s, i am done with these lists

wait a minute. You mean, from, like, 1980 to 1990? Those 80s?

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