Top 5 albums of the 1980's ?

Probably the best decade for groups and albums (my opinion).So many fantastic albums to pick. Here is my choice.

1/ The Smiths - Strangeways here we come 2/ New Order - Technique 3/ Public Enemy - It takes a Nation of Millions... 4/ Happy Mondays - Bummed 5/ Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4

So what is everyone elses favourites, only pick one album by one artist.ie not 5 New Order albums.

:D

1] "Computerwelt" - Kraftwerk 2] "Power, Corruption & Lies" - New Order 3] "The Queen Is Dead" - The Smiths 4] "Album" - PiL 5] "Combat Rock" - The Clash

*edited so that edel don't pick on me no more about a certain album released in '90 though i could've sworn it wasn't THAT far in my childhood--i thought it was earlier.

sounded like it anyway.*

1. Stone Roses 1st album.
2. New Order 'Low Life'
3. Cocteau Twins 'Head Over Heels'
4. Jesus & Mary Chain 'Psychocandy'
5. Kraftwerk 'Computer World'

House Of Love's "Butterfly" (2nd) album should really be in there at No.1 but just scraped into early 1990 although it was prob recorded ( a lot of it re recorded) in 1989.

Squirrel And G-Man by The Mondays doesn't quite make the top 5 but it's close

and The Smiths Queen Is Dead is 7th

Document- REM Script of the Bridge- The Chameleons OMD- Architechture and Morality The Smiths- Strangeways Here We Come Gary Numan- Telekon

Uncle Liam wrote: Document- REM Script of the Bridge- The Chameleons OMD- Architechture and Morality The Smiths- Strangeways Here We Come Gary Numan- Telekon

script of the bridge-the chameleons spirit of eden-talk talk the queen is dead- the smiths violent femmes-violent femmes straight outta compton-N.W.A.

Script of the Bridge- The Chameleons

As well as Strange Times and What does anything mean basically.

Trans-Small-Town Order Express wrote:

5] "Violator" - Depeche Mode

That was released in 1990 dear

EdelBrock wrote:

Trans-Small-Town Order Express wrote:

5] "Violator" - Depeche Mode

That was released in 1990 dear

x.x <--hey, no beatin' up the kid tryin' to recall.

Didn't sound THAT recent to me, Edel. All I recall was that I was a kid when that video came out, and I had a stupid crush on Dave Gahan at the time.

*edited*

*moral of the story, kids: do NOT attempt thinking on childhood musical memories while trying to cook dinner--IT DOES NOT WORK.

...and no, i don't really listen to the clash's "combat rock" as much as i should...*

Trans-Small-Town Order Express wrote:

EdelBrock wrote:

Trans-Small-Town Order Express wrote:

5] "Violator" - Depeche Mode

That was released in 1990 dear

x.x <--hey, no beatin' up the kid tryin' to recall.

Didn't sound THAT recent to me, Edel. All I recall was that I was a kid when that video came out, and I had a stupid crush on Dave Gahan at the time.

*moral of the story, kids: do NOT attempt thinking on childhood musical memories while trying to cook dinner--IT DOES NOT WORK. *

Jesus, this makes less sense than any Edel Brocks jokes. well, maybe its not that bad, but still...

Don't you even start, young man...

I'll start whatever I want. The Post made no sense, so I must designate it as a FAILURE.

Anyway, nice to see some Chameleons love on here.

I am annoyed I forgot

Back in the DHSS- Half Man Half Biscuit London 0 Hull 4- The Housemartins Travelogue- The Human League Pet Shop Boys- Actually Depeche Mode- Black Celebration

But then that would have bene a top ten.

I'll mail you a nicer "FAILURE!" stamper with some red ink, so you can apply to any post your greatness has come across... just apply it directly to the computer screen... so what's yer address?

The Cure - Pornography New Order - Low Life Joy Division - Closer Dead Can Dance - s/t

Uncle Liam wrote: I'll start whatever I want. The Post made no sense, so I must designate it as a FAILURE.

Seconded. Enough with the rambling, failed-cutesy posts that make no sense.

EdelBrock wrote:

Trans-Small-Town Order Express wrote:

5] "Violator" - Depeche Mode

That was released in 1990 dear

Very good John...you keep on learning

Ger Boy wrote: So what is everyone elses favourites, only pick one album by one artist.ie not 5 New Order albums.

Search for them in the old threads since 2001!! ....you'll find my faves

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:

His Holiness, The Pope wrote:

Uncle Liam wrote: I'll start whatever I want. The Post made no sense, so I must designate it as a FAILURE.

Seconded. Enough with the rambling, failed-cutesy posts that make no sense.

Seconded...thirded and agreed...

fourthed... period... end of

oh you big bloody bullies. pick on someone your own size.

i'll have the housemartins too, but i can't think of what else just now. it's too early in the morning.

That's hard for me to choose, but here goes: (In not much particular order)

1.Technique/New Order 2.Music for the Masses/Depeche Mode 3.Please/Pet Shop Boys 4.Closer/Joy Division 5.Hatful of Hollow/The Smiths

Other albums I like from the 1980s: Brotherhood/New Order Low-Life/New Order Some Great Reward/Depeche Mode Voices and Images/Camouflage Actually/Pet Shop Boys The Queen is Dead/The Smiths Syncronicity/The Police Diamond Life/Sade

1 Joy Division - Closer 2 New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies 3 Stone Roses - Stone Roses 4 Happy Mondays - Bummed 5 The The - Infected

1. Technique - New Order
2. Seventeen Seconds - The Cure
3. Construction Time Again - DM
4. Please - Pet Shop Boys
5. Afterburner - ZZ Top

my other four:

smiths - strangeways pixies - doolittle cocteau twins - head over heels stone roses - stone roses

i think. what a boring and obvious selection.

New Order - Low Life Front 242 - Official Version Nitzer Ebb - That total age Nitzer Ebb - Belief Frontline Assembly - Gashed, Senses and Crossfire

Euuhm, yes, i was (and still are) quite into electronical stuff around those days:D

runner-up: NO -Technique

Andrès wrote:

EdelBrock wrote:

Trans-Small-Town Order Express wrote:

5] "Violator" - Depeche Mode

That was released in 1990 dear

Very good John...you keep on learning

taught by the best

Top 7, no - Top 8

First & Last And Always - The Sisters Of Mercy Faith - The Cure Closer - Joy Division Script Of The Bridge - The Chameleons Movement - New Order Crocodiles - Echo & The Bunnymen Juju - Siouxsie And The Banshees Here Comes Everybody - The Wake

Not sure what order in but

ju ju - siouxsie and the banshees heaven up here - bunnymen queen is dead - smiths pornography - the cure head over heels - cocteau twins

and add Technique and lowlife and i might even change to another 5 at weekend

Like a friend of mine would say now: I don't know all the albums of the 80s, so I can't tell what are the best...

But personally:

Simple Minds "Once upon a time" David Bowie "Let's dance" Pet Shop Boys "Please" Huey Lewis & The News "Fore" Peter Gabriel "So"

Oooh This is tough!!!

in no particular order

1 "Joshua Tree" U2 2."Appetite for Destruction" Guns n Roses 3."New Day Rising" Husker Du 4."Let It Be" The Replacements 5. "master of Puppets" Metallica

Ones that just missed

"Back in Black" AC/DC "Operation: Mindcrime" Queensryche "Pyromania" Def Leppard "Sign o' The Times" Prince

I thought you were serious until I saw Def Leppard

1. JD--Closer
2. Hüsker Dü--Zen Arcade
3. Mission of Burma--Vs.
4. New Order--PCL
5. Peter Schilling-Error in the System

Of course, there several others that could probably be listed at other times in my top five, depending on my mood.

Matt

dimpkins wrote: I thought you were serious until I saw Def Leppard

Apropos what about "The number of the Beast" by Maiden?

1. Joy Division - Closer
2. New Order - Power Corruption And Lies
3. The Cure - Pornography
4. A Flock of Seagulls - Listen
5. Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

dimpkins wrote: I thought you were serious until I saw Def Leppard

Snob....:p

all records that radically changed my tastes and opinions at the time. best...? i don't know.

Joy Division - Closer New Order- Power, Corruption + Lies The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World... Big Black - Atomizer Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation... House Hallucinates... Pump Up the World (various artistes) The Clash - Sandinista Husker Du - New Day Rising Peter Gabriel - 3rd Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio

Cheryl a rock opera - John Otway

Can't believe people can vote for FAT BOB

Joy Division - Closer The Cure - Pornography New Order - Low Life Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here The Sisters Of Mercy - First and Last and Always

New Order - Power Corruption And Lies The The - Soul Mining Malcolm Mclaren - Duck Rock Kraftwerk - The Man Machine OMD - Architecture And Morality

(honorable mentions for Doolittle by Pixies and Document by REM)

And some other albums that I like from the eighties....

Sad Lovers and Giants - Feeding the Flame Fields Of The Nephilim - The Nephilim The Chameleons - Script Of The Bridge Pixies - Doolittle Clan Of Xymox - Medusa The Mission - Children The Names - Swimming Nick Cave - Tender Prey Killing Jole - Night Time Bauhaus - Mask Siouxsie An dThe Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse

And Many More ....

A Secret Wish -Propaganda PC & L - New Order Soul Mining/Infected - The The (can't choose between the two) Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths

Top cds (clarification for those that go bonkers cause I listed compilations)

1. New Order - Substance
2. Cure -Disintegration
3. Depeche Mode -101
4. The Smiths - Louder than Bombs
5. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit, Dead Vegtables
6. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

Can't count so

PCL Technique Closer Stone Roses Soul Mining - The The Infected - The The Crocodiles - Bunnymen George Best- Wedding Present Psychocandy - JAMC Queen is dead Meat is murder Anything by the Chameleons Speaking in tongues- Talking Heads

1. Closer- JD
2. Fresh Fruits for Rotten Vegetables- Dead Kennedys
3. Technique- NO
4. Script of the Bridge- Chameleons
5. Louder than Bombs- The Smiths

all these votes for script of the bridge , its funny cos hooky thinks its the nearest anyone has come to sounding like joy division

1. CHAMELEONS - Script/What Does Anything mean (can't choose)
2. DEPECHE MODE - Black Celebration
3. OMD - Architecture & Morality
4. SMITHS - The Queen Is Dead
5. PET SHOP BOYS - Disco

Oh can I have another 5? COCTEAUS - Treasure HUMAN LEAGUE - Dare KRAFTWERK - Computerworld NO - Lowlife BIG COUNTRY - The Crossing

Bere wrote:

dimpkins wrote: I thought you were serious until I saw Def Leppard

Apropos what about "The number of the Beast" by Maiden?

that's the first album i ever bought, i wouldn't list it anywhere near the top 100 albums from the 80's now though

1. NO - SUBSTANCE
2. NO - TECHNIQUE
3. PSB - PLEASE
4. DEF LEPPARD - HYSTERIA
5. MICHAEL JACKSON - BAD

My list (only one album per artist):

1. ...And Justice For All - Metallica
2. Low Life - New Order
3. Electric - The Cult
4. Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses
5. Tears For Fears - The Hurting

Indeed!

Some great LPs we've not yet mentioned:

Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night A pity they didn't release Isn't It Midnight instead of Family Man.

Double - Blue The best album if you need to pull (or so I believe)...

Pet Shop Boys - Actually

Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again The Best protest album of all-time (or so I believe)...

Talk Talk - It's My Life

Simple Minds - New Gold Dream

New Order - Substance Pet Shop Boys - Actually Kraftwerk - Computervelt Human League - Dare OMD - Architecture and Morality

Low Life/New Order Ocean rain/Echo and the Bunnymen Dare/Human League Pornography/The Cure Stone Roses/Stone Roses

Bere wrote:

But personally:

" Huey Lewis & The News "Fore"

Was gonna say Human League - Reproduction.

But it was 1979 :\ohwell:

In no particular order..

Low Life - New Order

Bummed - Happy Mondays

Infected - The the (late 80's wasnt it )

Warehouse,Songs and stories - Husker Du

Force - ACR

top 5? how? hre's a top ten, but that's without any serious thought

house of love (creation one) surfer rosa (cd version with added c'mon pilgrim) queen is dead lifes rich pageant low life psychocandy this nations saving grace kilmanjaro treasure the stone roses

edit - & just realised left the the out, which is wrong