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Post by Joaquim on Feb 12, 2019 23:49:50 GMT
Moving on to the 80s. One of the weaker decades imo, but there's still lots of good stuff here.
• Send me a list by PM, not in the thread. • It should contain your Top 25 albums of the 80s, numbered from 1 – 25. If your lists are not numbered, I will count them as 1 – 25 in the order sent. • Your #1 will earn 25, #2 earns 24....and #25 will earn 1 point. You all know the drill. • Once you've voted, you can of course edit your vote by re-sending your ballot to me by PM. • This isn't specific to one genre, it spans all music. So you could have Madonna followed by Metallica. This will probably lead to a large number of albums getting mentioned but I'm sure things will be fine, especially considering this is limited to just one decade. However no composers, sorry. • While live albums are eligible, concert films are not.
Deadline is July 25 at midnight!
As always, please use this thread for FYCs and discussions/arguments.
Ballots received:
1. pacinoyes * 2. countjohn *
3. redhawk10 * 4. ibbi *
5. TheAlwaysClassy *
6. themoviesinner *
7. Viced * 8. DeepArcher * 9. Deceit *
10. ingmarhepburn * 11. Mattsby *
12. Joaquim *
13. Ugolin *
* = counted
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 12, 2019 23:50:35 GMT
FYCs coming up. This is gonna be loaded with heavy metal.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 13, 2019 0:17:49 GMT
Ah, the 80s, I was so young and the jeans were so stonewashed and the pop rocks were so um poppin'.
Look everybody knows I'm gonna FYC for the Mats/Husker Du/REM/Mission of Burma which to me is the peak of American Indie and American Rock beats the poor dental hygiene of the British limey's except in the 60s so easy on that Smiths/Cure/Joy Division ok?
I'm going to try the Machine Gun Etiquette thing again (you broke my heart MA'ers!!).
London Calling '79. Machine Gun Etiquette '79. The Jam Sound Affects '80 - these are the 3 best albums of the bands of the first wave of British punk and they came out within a year! So............FYC:
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 13, 2019 0:20:21 GMT
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 13, 2019 0:25:33 GMT
Can't believe I almost forgot this one:
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Post by Joaquim on Feb 13, 2019 0:27:45 GMT
Honestly tho, if there isn't at least 1 Metallica and Iron Maiden in our Top 50 I'm gonna be disappointed and I think there should be more than 1 from both of them in the Top 50.
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Post by countjohn on Feb 13, 2019 0:50:47 GMT
Ah, the 80s, I was so young and the jeans were so stonewashed and the pop rocks were so um poppin'. Look everybody knows I'm gonna FYC for the Mats/Husker Du/REM/Mission of Burma which to me is the peak of American Indie and American Rock beats the poor dental hygiene of the British limey's except in the 60s so easy on that Smiths/Cure/Joy Division ok? I'm going to try the Machine Gun Etiquette thing again (you broke my heart MA'ers!!). London Calling '79. Machine Gun Etiquette '79. The Jam Sound Affects '80 - these are the 3 best albums of the bands of the first wave of British punk and they came out within a year! So............FYC: Love Sound Affects. It'll be in my top ten.
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Post by DeepArcher on Feb 13, 2019 1:17:15 GMT
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Post by The_Cake_of_Roth on Feb 13, 2019 1:31:23 GMT
FYC:
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Post by Deceit on Feb 13, 2019 1:32:41 GMT
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Post by themoviesinner on Feb 15, 2019 18:51:46 GMT
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Post by Deceit on Feb 15, 2019 19:14:07 GMT
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Post by ingmarhepburn on Feb 15, 2019 23:27:25 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 16, 2019 1:04:07 GMT
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Post by themoviesinner on Feb 16, 2019 9:55:18 GMT
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Post by countjohn on Feb 18, 2019 6:26:12 GMT
This has taken me a long time to decide just because there's such a breadth of good stuff here and not a clear hierarchy like in some decades. I would guess that for the 60's/70's I had more genre diversity than most people, but this time aside from Thriller my list is entirely alternative/college rock and hardcore punk. I'll just do a bunch of FYC's here, more than I could actually fit on a ballot but all things I considered.
You're Living All Over Me by Dinosaur Jr. (also my favorite album of all time) Daydream Nation and Sister by Sonic Youth Imperial Bedroom, Get Happy!, and Blood and Chocolate by Elvis Costello Ocean Rain by Echo and the Bunnymen How Could Hell Be Any Worse? by Bad Religion All four Smiths albums Sound Affects by The Jam Zen Arcade, Candy Apple Grey, and Flip Your Wig by Husker Du Too Tough to Die by Ramones Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables and Plastic Surgery Disasters by Dead Kennedys Doolittle by Pixies Suicidal Tendencies by Suicidal Tendencies Disintegration and Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me by The Cure Combat Rock by The Clash Murmur and Reckoning by REM Juju by Siouxsie and the Banshees The Stone Roses by The Stone Roses Flowers of Romance by Public Image Ltd. Psychocandy by The Jesus and Mary Chain
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 18, 2019 14:09:15 GMT
2 more FYC's - the first a Velvet Underground for the 80s (one of them anyway), the second my favorite (alternative) pop album and the 80s had a lot of great pop too.
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Post by avnermoriarti on Feb 22, 2019 7:24:06 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 6, 2019 15:28:15 GMT
Another FYC - they were the Faces of the 80s in a way really. Playing on each others albums, independent of trends or fashion, great fun and wit, and they liked to drink a bit too and best of all you could feel their friendship in their songs (a Faces trademark, like all great bands, like a gang).
They really loved and knew Rock and Roll too. Holds up spectacularly well.......it actually sounds better now than it did then because nobody masters it this way now. A Lost Art really and their sole album under this collective name.......Rockpile : Seconds of Pleasure
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Post by countjohn on Mar 17, 2019 17:36:19 GMT
Forgot this one in my initial FYC's. It was lumped in with punk at the time just because it's so spare, but it's really on it's own island. Just vocals, 1-2 chord guitar parts, and organ/synth bass with no drums. I'm not even sure I'd classify it as rock music (kind of hard to do so to music with no drums) it just is whatever it is. I had it just outside the top ten on my ballot. Here is a sample-
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Post by Joaquim on Apr 5, 2019 1:33:20 GMT
Let's get some ballots
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Post by countjohn on Apr 8, 2019 6:47:21 GMT
Telephone Free Landslide Victory by Camper Van BeethovenThis didn't make my final ballot, but I'll still throw it an FYC. A mix of weird gypsy-punk instrumentals and melodic jangly 80's college rock tracks that might be the origin of the slacker rock thing groups like Pavement did in the 90's. The two signature songs-
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 16, 2019 16:35:32 GMT
I'll tell ya this........if The Replacements broke up after their first 3 records they'd still be remembered as a great band and Hootenanny would be considered their masterpiece - a Let It Be Jr. and this song would define them - what are the chords to that one part? Fncked 'em up......when this song ends they sound like a band who can't do anything right .........instead......they got even better.
Duluth to Madison........the glamorous life yanno.
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Post by DeepArcher on May 11, 2019 22:42:45 GMT
Voted.
Some additional FYCs:
Violent Femmes ~ Violent Femmes Apollo ~ Brian Eno Rain Dogs ~ Tom Waits All of This and Nothing ~ The Psychedelic Furs Tender Prey, Kicking Against the Pricks ~ Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds Tinderbox ~ Siouxsie and the Banshees The Sky's Gone Out ~ Bauhaus Concrete Blonde ~ Concrete Blonde
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Post by TheAlwaysClassy on May 15, 2019 18:10:14 GMT
C'mon folks get those ballets in- I wanna see how this poll plays out.
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