Desert Island 80's!! 10 Discs You Can't Live Without!

Ripped o, er inspired by, Bobby Morrow's "Favorite 80's Album" polls, I thought it would be fun to list the 10 80's discs you could not live without on your desert island. Mine are (in no order)
1.No Parlez-Paul Young
2.The Innocents-Erasure
3.Love Life-Berlin
4.Madonna-Madonna
5.Deep Sea Skiving-Bananarama
6.She's So Unusual-Cyndi Lauper
7.Make it Big-Wham
8.Born in the USA-Bruce Springsteen
9.Bananarama-Bananarama
10.Dream Into Action-Howard Jones

 

Metallica-Master Of Puppets
Megadeth-Killing Is My Business...And Business Is Good
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Judas Priest-Defenders Of The Faith
Bob Dylan-Infidels
Van Halen-Fair Warning
Bruce Springsteen-Nebraska
Black Sabbath-Heaven and Hell
Slayer-Show No Mercy
Ozzy Osbourne-Diary Of A Madman

 

In no particular order:

The Replacements - Tim
Game Theory - Lolita Nation
Madonna - s/t
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
'Til Tuesday - Everything's Different Now
Prince - Purple Rain
The Cure - Disintegration

 

Heaven And Hell - Black Sabbath
Glass Houses - Billy Joel
Piece Of Mind - Iron Maiden
Shoot Out The Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson
Bob Welch - B0b Welch
Hard Promises - Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
Ride The Lightning - Metallica
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
Moving Pictures - Rush
Humanesque - Jack Green

 

The The - Soul Mining
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Genesis - Duke
Peter Gabriel - III
Eric Clapton - Behind The Sun
Yes - Big Generator
Paul McCartney - Press To Play
U2 - Rattle & Hum
Midge Ure - Answers To Nothing
ABC - Beauty Stab

 

Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Hambi and the Dance - Heartache
Chameleons - Strange Times
Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
GTR - GTR
Dead or Alive - Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know
Belinda Carlisle - Runaway Horses
Icicle Works - The Small Price of a Bicycle
Fortunate Sons - Karezza

... or something like that.

 

Just realized I forgot Fleetwood Mac's Tango in the Night and XTC's Black Sea. I could have made a list of 20 and would have still ended up leaving off a lot of amazing records.

 

Here are nine. I can't decide which of four million others gets the last slot. Some great jazz on Black Saint that got overlooked in the wake of the Marsalis tsunami.

Remain in Light -Talking Heads
Peter Gabriel III
Discipline - King Crimson

Mister Heartbreak - Laurie Anderson
Possible Musics: Fourth World Vol 1
Just the Facts and Pass the Bucket - Henry Threadgill

The Sixth Sense - Don Pullen Quintet
Home - David Murray Octet
Common One - Van Morrison

 

Metallica - Master of Puppets
U2 - Joshua Tree
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Prince - Purple Rain (edited out Night Ranger - Dawn Patrol)
Journey - Frontiers
Pat Benatar - Wide Awake In Dream Land
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Yes - 90125 (edited out Iron Maiden - Somewhere in Time)
Black Sabbath - Heaven & Hell (edited out Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna)

 

1-Phantoms- The Fixx
2-The Queen Is Dead- The Smiths
3-Doolitle- The Pixies
4-Skylarking- XTC
5-Speaking In Tongues- Talking Heads
6-Three Of A Perfect Pair- King Crimson
7-Moving Pictures- Rush
8-90125- YES
9-Frank Zappa Meets The Mothers Of Prevention- Frank Zappa
10-A Momentary Lapse Of Reason- Pink Floyd

 

Jennifer Warnes Famous Blue Raincoat
Joe Jackson Blaze of Glory
Elvis Costello King of America
Tom Petty Let Me Up
John Hiatt Bring the Family
Elton John Too Low For Zero
Purple Rain Prince
Dire Straits Live Alchemy
Frank Zappa You Can't Do That On Stage Vol. 1
Warren Zevon Sentimental Hygiene

 

X - Los Angeles
X- Wild Gift
XTC - Skylarking
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
Prince - 1999
Todd Rundgren - Nearly Human
NRBQ - Grooves in Orbit
Clash - Sandinista!
Marshall Crenshaw s/t
Steve Earle - Guitar Town

 

Off the top of my head*:
XTC - English Settlement
XTC - Mummer
XTC - Black Sea
Joe Jackson - Beat Crazy
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
The Police - Ghost in the Machine
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
King Crimson - Discipline
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Rush - Permanent Waves

*Subject to change at any given moment or mood.

 

Major props for actually realizing that R&R isn't the only music that was ever produced.

 

The 1980 's ?
The only thing I remember is MTV

 

Not in order of favoritism.
1. Rush - Permanent Waves
2. Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain
3. Bryan Adams - Reckless
4. Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
5. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
6. Queensrÿche - Rage for Order
7. Billy Squier - Signs of Life
8. Ozzy Osbourne - The Ultimate Sin
9. Van Halen - 1984
10. Peter Gabriel - III

 

McCartney. Tug of War
Prince. Purple Rain
Costello. Imperial Bedroom
Cure. Disintegration
XTC. Skylarking
Talking Heads. Remain in Light
Sonic Youth. Daydream Nation
REM. Document (or any of its predecessors)
Simon. Graceland
Anderson. Mister Heartbreak
Dylan. Oh Mercy!
Bush. Hounds of Love

In short, I'd sink the lifeboat with excess baggage and never make it to the island...

 

Context is pretty clear from OP ... Start up an '80s jazz top 10 thread and we'll get to it -- would be interesting ...

 

And isn't Mister Heartbreak just ideal for a desert island? Love that album...

 

Emerson Lake & Powell
3- To The Power Of Three
Peter Gabriel - So
U2 - War
Police- Syncronicity
Police - Zenyatta Monyatta
Roger Daltrey - Under A Raging Moon
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
Genesis - Duke
Pete Townshend - Emprty Glass

 

The 80s is my decade:

1) Motley Crue - Too Fast for Love
2) Journey - Escape
3) Priest - Screaming
4) Stray Cats - Built For Speed
5) Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
6) Huey Lewis - Sports
7) Great White - Once Bitten
8) Loverboy - Get Lucky
9) GnR - Appetite
10) Whitesnake - 87

 

Los Lobos 'How Will the Wolf Survive?'
Waterboys 'This is the Sea'
Long Ryders 'State of our Union'
Pink Floyd 'The Final Cut'
U2 'War'
The Police 'Zenyatta Mondatta'
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions 'Rattlesnakes'
David Bowie 'Let's Dance'
Dire Straits 'Making Movies'
Bob Seger 'Against the Wind'

maybe. Hard to think back that far.

 

Elton John - The Fox
Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night
George Harrison - Cloud Nine
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow
Journey - Escape
Motley Crue - Theatre Of Pain
Paul McCartney - Tug Of War
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Freaky Styley
Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble - Texas Flood
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe

 

Baba Maal and Mansour Seck - Djam Leeli
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
John Cale - Music For A New Society
Alexander O'Neal - Hearsay
Michelle Shocked - Short, Sharp, Shocked
Prince - Parade
Barney Wilen - La Note Bleue
Scritti Politti - Cupid and Psyche
Robert Wyatt - Mid Eighties
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

 

Avoiding 1980, and duplicate artists:

Donald Fagen - The Nighfly
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Blue Nile - Hats
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything