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BBC best albums of the 80's poll results

A quick scan of the shelves and here's 10 of my favourites that I don't think have come up yet:
Costello - King of America
Dylan - Empire Burlesque
R+L Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Byrne and Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Grateful Dead - Reckoning
Fela - Shuffering and Shmiling
Rico - Jama
Prince Far I - Jamaican Heroes
LKJ - Bass Culture
Singers and Players - Staggering Heights
 
Rob998 said:
Reported for Phil Collins.

14 of those too
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Get the personal stuff out of the way...him being a smarmy, smug tory twat etc, and I don't get the downer on Collins that so many have if we take just his actual work as a musician I must say!
Face value has great songs, a studio band tighter than a ducks arse, The Phoenix Horns, experimental new techniques such as gated drums and use of Fairlight CMI, it's varied with instrumentals like "Droned"...

Each to their own. I absolutely don't get the love of The Fall for example... all i hear is a tuneless 6th form level band backing a drunk Mancunian who talks his way through it in a quite bizarre affected lilt! Lots of people who I have a lot of time for think they're great so obvs there's "a something" to it I "don't get". probably like jazz "if it has to be explained to you you'll never get it" but if anyone want's to try I'm all ears:)
 
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Black Uhuru - Black Uhuru
Bobby Womack - The Poet
Ini Kamoze - Ini Kamoze
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Dennis Brown & Gregory Isaacs - Judge Not
Gregory Isaacs - More Gregory
Womack & Womack - Love Wars
Chet Baker & Paul Bley - Diane
 
Natara said:
The Jam - All Mod Cons
Black Uhuru - Black Uhuru
Bobby Womack - The Poet
Ini Kamoze - Ini Kamoze
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Dennis Brown & Gregory Isaacs - Judge Not
Gregory Isaacs - More Gregory
Womack & Womack - Love Wars
Chet Baker & Paul Bley - Diane
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Some nice stuff there:)
 
U2 wise "Live-Under a Blood Red Sky" could sneak in if it was top 25 maybe... It needs to be played at antisocial volume to really work IME.
 
Kraftwerk - Computer World

Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back, Yo! Bum Rush The Show

Metallica - Master Of Puppets, Kill ‘Em All, Ride The Lightning

Gary Numan - Telekon

Dub Syndicate- Tunes From The Missing Channel

Kate Bush - The Dreaming, Hounds of Love, Never For Ever, The Sensual World...:)

The Human League - Travelogue

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Prince - LoveSexy - Sign ‘O’ The Times

Japan - Tin Drum, Gentlemen Take Polaroids

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters

The B-52’s - Wild Planet

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit In Foreign Places

Fad Gadget - Fireside Favourites, Incontinent, Under The Flag, Gag.

Grace Jones - Nightclubbing, Living My Life

Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction, Stranger Than Fiction

That must be about 20 that I would have as my 80’s top 20.
 
Arkless Electronics said:
U2 wise "Live-Under a Blood Red Sky" could sneak in if it was top 25 maybe... It needs to be played at antisocial volume to really work IME.
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A big favourite of my brothers we used to play it very loud especially 'Wire' when our parents went out on Friday night it would help to drown out the sound of Adam and The Ants coming out of my Sister's room!
 
The The - Infected
Half Pint & Michael Palmer - Joint Favourites
Various Artists - Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit
Todd Terry Project - To The Batmobile, Lets Go
A Guy Called Gerald - The Peel Sessions
 
Arkless Electronics said:
And now, to bring some common sense into it:D First five roughly in order and then random after that.

Prefab Sprout - Swoon
The Stone Roses
Prefab Sprout - Protest songs
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!
Deacon Blue - Raintown
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's
Lou Reed - New York
Phil Collins - Face Value
Heaven 17 - From Penthouse to Pavement
Human League - Dare
Billy Bragg - Brewing up With Billy Bragg
Big Country - The Crossing
Elvis Costello - Spike
Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
The Blue Nile - Hats
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Radio
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Prince - Purple Rain
Fairground Attraction - The First of a Million Kisses

Loads of omissions and things I'd no doubt change if asked again next week of course!

IMHO it needs to have reached the top 100 to be included folks... A soundtrack of the 80's we can all share even if we profoundly disagree rather than "Who? Never 'erd of 'em!"
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All that bellyaching about techno/house/trance etc. and then you go and put Phil Collins in your Top 20 :D
 
Roughly in order

U2 - Joshua Tree
Peter Gabriel - IV
Peter Gabriel - III
Kate Bush - This Sensual World
Joy Division - Closer
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
Johnny Clegg & Savuka - Third World Child
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Talk Talk - It's My Life
The The - Soul Mining
New Order - Power Corruption and Lies
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Latin Quarter - Modern Times
Human League - Dare
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Soft Cell - The Art of Falling Apart
Lou Reed - New York
OMD - Dazzle Ships
 
I only bought one from that list BITD, Born in the USA. The wealth of great records in the 80s really showed up the dross of the mainstream.

Wot, no Pogues anyone?

Definitely Rain Dogs too.
 
Here’s mine, no particular order and probably some glaring omissions


New Order - Technique

Sonic Youth - Sister

The Cramps - A Date With Elvis

Killing Joke - Killing Joke

Human League - Travelogue

Pixies - Doolittle

Stranglers - Feline

The The - Infected

The Damned - The Black Album

The Clash - Sandinista

The Gun Club - Fire Of Love

Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Bauhaus- The Sky’s Gone Out

The Jam - Sound Affects

The Fall - This Nations Saving Grace

OMD - Organisation

Big Audio Dynamite - No. 10, Upping St.

Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap

Nirvana - Bleach

Joy Division - Closer
 
I scored 19.

And would have found space for

introducing the hardline according to Terrence Trent Darby

Pelican West

Timbuk3

Picture Book
 
Rob998 said:
FFS...

Curmudgeon Corner should be a Jez only area...
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How very dare you :D

I've only have 8 out of that top 20, and 3 of those were inherited. Heard all of them though.

All of these best of lists are a bit meh to me too as all it's all down to our personal tastes yada, yada, yada, but if I could be bothered to do one these haven't had a mention yet and would make mine.

Maria McKee - Maria McKee
The Cure - Disintegration
The Lilac Time - The Lilac Time
The Railway Children - Recurrence
China Crisis - Flaunt The Imperfection
Paul Simon - Hearts and Bones
Jennifer Warnes - Famous Blue Raincoat (cheating a bit as it'd be the 2007 20 year anniversary edition)
 
It hasn't got Back in the DHSS, so as a 'best albums of the 80s' list it's worthless. I can't be arsed with putting a list together, but apart from that, it must include all The Smiths studio albums, ditto all The Fall albums released in that decade. That probably takes the total up to twenty. Oh, and some Julian Cope, especially Fried.
 
I suspect the vote was fixed, in that listeners weren’t allowed to suggest albums, but simply voted to move items around in a preselected list of 100, in the same way that a great many list programmes from Channels 4 & 5 are created.

Mick
 
There are some good albums in there but I cannot stand U2.

REM produced at least 5 albums in the 80s which are better than anything else in that list with the odd exception.

I am not sure The Stone Roses album is even that good either.
 
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