Top Ten Albums Of The 80s

1) Nine Inch Nails – Pretty Hate Machine (1989)
2) The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses (1989)
3) Peter Gabriel – So (1986)
4) Bruce Hornsby & The Range – Scenes from the Southside (1988)
5) Bob Marley & The Wailers – Uprising (1980)
6) a-ha – Hunting High and Low (1985)
7) Michael Jackson – Thriller (1982)
8) Dire Straits – Love Over Gold (1983)
9) The Cure – Disintegration (1989)
10) Joe Satriani – Flying in a Blue Dream (1989)

 

In no particular order (except the top one):
Celestium - Sanctuary
ELO - Time
Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card
Mike Batt - The Hunting of the Snark
George Harrison - Cloud Nine
Klaatu - Magentalane
Steel Breeze - s/t
Autopilot - Rapid Eye Movements
Utopia - Oblivion
Aldo Nova - s/t

 

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son Of A Seventh Song
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Motley Crue - Too Fast For Love
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil

I could have done it by only one album by each artist but I didn't want too.

 

Fleetwood Mac - TANGO IN THE NIGHT
Michael Jackson - THRILLER
Paul McCartney - TUG OF WAR
Elvis Costello - BLOOD AND CHOCOLATE
U2 - THE JOSHUA TREE
George Harrison - CLOUD 9
Pink Floyd - A MOMENTARY LAPSE OF REASON
All About Eve - ALL ABOUT EVE
Sting - NOTHING LIKE THE SUN
Roy Orbison - MYSTERY GIRL

 

ace of spades
the birthday party
doc at the radar station
heaven and hell
scary monsters
vienna
end of the century
omd
the psychedlic furs
hex induction hour

 

Favourites of mine, not sure any of them would be called best by other people.

No particular order, like anybody else will care too much about these to argue.....

UFO - No Place To Run
UFO - The Wild, The Willing & The Innocent
Pallas - Arrive Alive
IQ - The Wake
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
The Bible - Walking The Ghost Back Home
Peter Hammill - Patience
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Gamma - Gamma 2
Gamma - Gamma 3

 

No order, tough to choose, so many great albums, including ones already mentioned
New Order-PCL
Xymox-Twist Of Shadows
Clan Of Xymox-Medusa
Nitzer Ebb-That Total Age
OMD-Dazzle Ships
Men Without Hats-Pop Goes The World
Cure-Head
Cocteau Twins-Blue Bell Knoll
Johnny Hates Jazz-Turn Back The Clock
Front 242-Official Version

 

The top 10 off the top of my head right now:
Pailhead - Trait
Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Sonic Youth - Sister
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen
Eric B. and Rakim - Paid in Full
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Metallica - Master of Puppets

Can we do this again tomorrow? So many great records from the 80s!!!

 

Kraftwerk - Computerworld
Dexys Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down
Lou Reed - New York
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Prince - Purple Rain
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel Of Love
The Jam - Sound Affects
Neil Young - Freedom
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden

 

The ones I come back to time after time...

Marshall Crenshaw - s/t
Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Kid Creole & Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
John Martyn - Grace and Danger
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
Orig Soundtrack - One From The Heart
Was (Not Was) - s/t
Working Week - Working Nights

I wish I could have redefined the meaning of the number 10 so could get Scary Monsters, Rapture, Tin Drum, Climate of Hunter, Spirit of Eden, Sacred Songs, Secrets of the Beehive, First meeting (M.Vitous), Mister Heartbreak in...but I can't.

 

Long Ryders 'Native Sons'
Waterboys 'This Is The Sea'
Los Lobos 'How Will the Wolf Survive'
Waterboys 'Fisherman Blues'
Ian Hunter 'Short Back & Sides'
The Police 'Zenyatta Mondatta'
Men At Work 'Business As Usual'
Dire Straits 'Making Movies'
Bob Dylan 'Infidels'
Bob Seger 'Against the Wind'

 

Zenyetta Mondata was definitely a runner up for me

 

Sonic Youth - Sister
Duran Duran - Rio
The Cramps - A Date With Elvis
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
AC/DC - Back In Black
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
Demented Are Go - Kicked Out Of Hell
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather
Van Halen - Fair Warning

 

How do you do ten? But for that decade and impact and my musical taste, in no particular order.

1. Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
2. Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
3. U2 - Joshua Tree
4. U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
5. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
6. Bowie - Scary Monsters
7. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
8. Paul Simon - Graceland
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller
10. The Cure - Disintegration

 

Jimi Hendrix - Nine To The Universe
The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
Bunny Wailer - Rock 'n' Groove
Aswad - New Chapter Of Dub
Earth Wind & Fire - Raise
Frank Zappa - Shut Up And Play yer Guitar
The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - Sign Of The Times
Neil Young - Freedom

 

some of my favorites

1. REO Speedwagon-Hi Infidelity
2. AC/DC-Back In Black
3. Def Leppard-Pyromania
4. Bryan Adams-Reckless
5. U2-Joshua Tree
6. KISS-(music from) The Elder
7. Van Halen-1984
8. Sammy Hagar-Standing Hampton
9. Journey-Escape
10. Night Ranger-Midnight Madness
11. Foreigner-Four
12. Motley Crue-Dr. Feelgood
13. Billy Squier-Don't Say No
14. Bon Jovi-Slippery When Wet
15. Boston-Third Stage

chad

 

From the top of my head, not in order:
- Prince Dirty Mind
- Prince 1999
- Prince Purple Rain
- Prince Parade
- Prince Sign Of The Times
- Paul Young No Parlez
- Paul Simon Hearts and Bones
- Kate Bush Never For Ever
- Housemartins London 0 Hull 4
- Guns n' Roses Appetite For Destruction

 

In honor of Spinal Tap, I'm cranking this list to "11"!

• Foreigner 4
• Don Henley - I Can't Stand Still
• AC/DC - Back in Black
• Styx - Paradise Theater
• Tommy Shaw - Girls with Guns
• Def Leppard - Hysteria
• Chicago 17
• Sammy Hagar - Standing Hampton
• Billy Squier - Emotions in Motion
• Eddie Money - No Control
• Van Halen - 5150

 

I see you're a Prince fan...BIG time.

 

Rush - Moving Pictures
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Marillion - Childhood's End
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Bad Religion - No Control
Candlemass - Epicus Doomicus Metallicus

 

My Top 15:
Aerosmith - Pump
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
The Go Go's - Beauty and the Beat
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
INXS - Kick
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Joan Jett - I Love Rock and Roll
Madonna - Madonna
George Michael - Faith
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Squeeze - Argybargy
Stray Cats - Built for Speed
Traveling Wilburys Volume 1
X - Los Angeles

 

Sonic Youth - Evol
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Brian Eno-David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Swans - Children of God
runners-up: Your Funeral ... My Trial, Born Sandy Devotional/Calenture, The Correct Use of Soap,
Miss America, and all The Fall albums of that decade.

 

In no particular order :

The Exploited-Punk's Not Deads
Venom-Black Metal
Plasmatics-No Hope For The Wretched
The Knack-Get The Knack
Sigue Sigue Sputnik-Flaunt It
GBH-City Baby Attacked By Rats
Crass-***** Envy
Kraftwerk- Computer World
The Police-Zenyatta Mondatta
Black Flag-Damaged

 

• Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
• R.E.M.: Murmur
• Talk Talk: Laughing Stock
• Replacements: Let it Be
• Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living...
• Pixies: Surfer Rosa
• Public Enemy: It Takes...
• Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique
• Kate Bush: Hounds of Love
• Mission of Burma: Vs.

 

Tattoo You: Stones
Avalon: Roxy
Stone Roses: Stone Roses
A Secret Wish: Propaganda
Speaking in Tongues: Heads
Disintegration: The Cure
Ocean Rain Echo and the Bunnymen
Murmur: REM
Technique: New Order
Scary Monsters: Bowie

A fun list to make, but it made me realize there really weren't a lot albums I liked all of the way through!