Great 80's music?

OH YEAH! Massively great album!

 

The Pixies
INXS

John

 

Since 1986 during my college radio show, The Island of Living Puke by Zoogz has been a regular listen in my life. I never saw him referenced on a music forum until right now. It's good to see that someone out there still remembers Zoogz. SST was a wild label.

 

Any U2 album

 

For lost and forgotten 80's albums, I recommend Jean Beauvoir "Drums Along the Mohawk", 1986, Virgin Records. His personality shows through all over the album. It listens like an autobiography.

 

My Beatles: The Smiths. Not merely a discography unmarred (pun?) by a poor track, but of enormous significance in an historical context.

Oh lord, then I see JRJ's superb recommendation of the Pixies. Great art is fearless; I wish I could swagger through life with the confident, risk-taking panache of Black, Deal & Co.

 

Siouxsie & the Banshees. The best you’re gonna get.

 

Great discography, looking forward to the next one this fall

 

Mekons, Fear and Whiskey

 

ABC - Be Near Me.

 

Just so much music...

The Pretenders
R.E.M.
The Police
The B52's
Level 42
Toto
Eurythmics
The Smiths
Simple Minds
The Alarm
Depeche Mode
Midnight Oil
The Cult
The Cure

And so many others I'm just not reminding of...

 

Thanks for the suggestions guys!

Thanks for contributing sir

 

My favorite album of the 80’s is Rush’s Grace Under Pressure. Unlike most of their material, you don’t really have to be a Rush fan to enjoy it. The songwriting, performances, and production are great, especially for the era. I honestly think it would be thought of as a classic album if it didn’t carry all the baggage and expectations of being a Rush album.

 

I have that one. It felt more bleak compared to the other 80s albums but I love it regardless.

Wow, totally forgot about those guys. Only song I remember is Take Me On.

 

Kim Wilde s/t
Kim Wilde "Select"
Kim Wilde "Catch As Catch Can'
Kim Wilde "Teases & Dares"

 

Where do you start with some of those guys? Depeche Mode, I like some of their stuff but mostly their singles compilations.

Have some Police but only Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity

 

XTC - I am still in the honeymoon phase with these guys and cannot get enough of them.

 

If you like the sounds and grooves of 80's synthesisers then I think you're even more likely to enjoy many of their music, to my ears they were always great in creating really catchy synth drenched grooving melodies and also artful jamming at all, great music indeed. I think you won't go wrong beginning with their debut "Speak & Spell" and then going straight forward

Police's Zenyatta Mondatta and Ghost In The Machine are perhaps my favourites, on those two I find Copeland's drumming the most enjoyable. But then we have the '79 "Regatta de Blanc" with 'Walking On The Moon' and 'The Beg's Too Big Wihout You', so I think most of their discography is really good.

 

Nirvana...bleach

Rem....every 80s album is good

The cure

The police

 

Where would you start for Cure and REM?