The Clash-Combat Rock Elvis Costello & The Attractions-Imperial Bedroom Marshall Crenshaw-Marshall Crenshaw The Dream Syndicate-The Days Of Wine & Roses Joe Jackson-Night And Day Prince-1999 R.E.M.-Chronic Town Lou Reed-The Blue Mask Roxy Music-Avalon Richard & Linda Thompson-Shoot Out The Lights
Roxy Music - Avalon Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom Ultravox - Quartet The Clash - Combat Rock English Beat - Special Beat Service Donald Fagen - The Nightfly Peter Gabriel - Security Cocteau Twins - Garlands XTC - English Settlement Siouxsie & the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse Simple Minds - New Gold Dream Yaz - Upstairs at Eric’s The Cure - Pornography
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going! Joe Jackson - Night & Day Imagination - In The Heat Of The Night Asia - Asia Michael Jackson - Thriller Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel IV Shakatak - Night Birds Pat Metheny Group - Offramp Associates - Sulk Toto - Toto IV
‘The Lexicon Of Love’ ABC ‘Choose Your Masques’ Hawkwind ‘Mechanix’ UFO ‘Shoot Out The Lights’ Richard & Linda Thompson ‘Abominog’ Uriah Heep ‘Tropical Gangsters’ Kid Creole & the Coconuts. ‘82 was a marvellous year for albums. These are the ones I fell heavily for at the time and still play today.
Supertramp - Famous Last Words Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain The Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky Led Zeppelin - Coda
Never noticed until now that my picks here are quite English. That wasn't my intention. Don't suppose many of these made much headway in the overseas markets. I still love 'em to bits though.
Accept - Restless & Wild Anvil - Metal On Metal Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance KISS - Creatures of the Night Misfits - Walk Among Us Motorhead - Iron Fist Plasmatics - Coup d'etat Scorpions - Blackout Twisted Sister - Under the Blade
Dream Syndicate Marshall Crenshaw REM EP Dream Syndicate can still make some great noise. KEXP show from a few years back is great.
The Who It's Hard Pete Townshend All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes Camel The Single Factor Neil Innes Off the Record Roxy Music Avalon King Crimson Beat The Roches Keep on Doing Toyah The Changeling Poco Ghost Town Al DiMeola Electric Rendezvous Asia s/t Mike Oldfield Five Miles Out Kate Bush The Dreaming Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out the Lights
Orange Juice - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever (“Ostrich Churchyard” would have been among my 1981 picks if Postcard had released it when it was recorded...) Haircut 100 - Pelican West Altered Images - Pinky Blue The Associates - Sulk The Three O’Clock - Baroque Hoedown (French version, which makes it more like an album than an EP) dB’s - Repercussion Weekend - La Variete Tracey Thorn - A Distant Shore Monochrome Set - Eligible Bachelors The Durutti Column - LC
