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Post by greendemon on Apr 12, 2023 15:55:18 GMT 1
'With Or Without You' is my fave (predictable choice) but those two are definitely in my top 5.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Apr 12, 2023 16:02:49 GMT 1
'With Or Without You' is my fave (predictable choice) but those two are definitely in my top 5. I do love all the singles off 'The Joshua Tree', but there's something about really early U2 that stands out for me. I went off them some time in the mid 90s I think.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 12, 2023 18:28:58 GMT 1
9 The Police - Synchronicity
This, though very predictable, only shock is it isn't higher. Straight away, I will say this album has the best singles of any Police album, especially "King of Pain" and "Wrapped Around Your Finger" but it is let down by consistency on side one, Side two is close to perfection. This was their fifth and final album, and it was number one all over the world, selling over 10 million, 8 million in the US alone.
4.5/5 I rank this below Ghost In The Machine, but 'King Of Pain' is the best thing The Police ever recorded and you can't change my mind so do I , it was #5 of the year in 1981 and totally agree 'King Of Pain' is the best!
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 12, 2023 18:37:37 GMT 1
5 John Cougar Mellencamp - Uh-Huh
Of all the John Mellencamp albums of the 80s this was not one I expected to be so high. This was his 4th album and I just can't find any fault in it, it's maybe better than 'American Fool' but with three albums to come that I was even more familiar with I don't know what is going to happen, but they are unlikely to beat this peak even if they are 5-star albums as well. Featuring the singles "Crumblin' Down" and "Pink Houses" it reached #9 in the US and a minor hit in UK reaching #92
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 12, 2023 18:43:24 GMT 1
4 Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
This is another predictable one, not sure if you can get the top 3, although I think 2 are guessable. This was their fifth album and not one I knew before this "Burning Down the House" was not one of my favourite Talking Heads singles so was not sure what I was going to get here but this is their best album yet and features my new favourite Talking Heads song "This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)", it was 'Once In A Lifetime' for maybe 40 years, but that has ended. The record peaked #21 in UK and #15 in the US.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 12, 2023 18:55:06 GMT 1
3 The The - Soul Mining
Talk about a change of fortune, they have gone from being my least favourite album of 1981 to being my 3rd favourite. My flat mate at Uni was a massive The The fan, he shoved them down our throat, some I hated, some was good and some was brilliant. I made a compilation of my favourite tracks, and it was pretty much 'Soul Mining' and a few other songs. I do now have it on vinyl, aong with my top 2. Got them all super cheap years ago, can't imagine what they would cost now, think this and my number one were £1.99. Now I don't care what anyone says this is The The's best album, 'Infected' has its moments and 'Dusk' was great but this is just quality. It's just brilliant 80s pop music, yeh it's a bit arty, but it's still pop and that maybe scared Matt away from it until 'Dusk'. 'Uncertain Smile' is my favourite The The song only track that comes close is 'Slow Emotion Replay' but that's another decade. All these songs are amazing, and only my number one has been played more often from this year.
Their debut proper reached just #27 in the UK, but was a good seller.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Apr 12, 2023 19:07:44 GMT 1
I think I can guess the 2 albums left, and both are brilliant.
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Post by smokeyb on Apr 12, 2023 20:09:16 GMT 1
Albums I own from 1983 not on your list, unless they are in your top 2
ELO - Secret Messages Tears For Fears - The Hurting Ultravox - Monument
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Post by raliverpool on Apr 12, 2023 20:36:44 GMT 1
I think I can guess the 2 albums left, and both are brilliant. So can I. I think.
{Spoiler} I think both are debut albums, they are/were the 19th & 23rd Best Selling UK albums of 1983.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 13, 2023 7:19:53 GMT 1
I think I can guess the 2 albums left, and both are brilliant. So can I. I think.
{Spoiler}I think both are debut albums, they are/were the 19th & 23rd Best Selling UK albums of 1983. You are probably right, where did you get that info, the UK end of year lists would have been useful. I am bound to miss something major, so far nothing that drastic. But yes smokeyb this was still to come. 2 Tears For Fears - The Hurting
And yes also it is a debut album, and we will see where the next one finishes, have not listened to it for a very long time but I suspect this will still be my favourite. My head/brain has recently switched from a music listener to a lyric listener, not a change, pardon the pun, I particularly enjoy. And what I loved most about this album is the music, the sound, atmosphere, production just so incredible, but now I listen to lyrics so I now hear this is quite a dark record, not sure that helps it, but it was always going to be my #2 or #3. Musically and vocally, it has everything fantastic about the 80s and still sounds incredible today. 'Change' is one of my all-time favourite 80s songs. The record was a huge success, going to #1 in the UK and #73 in the US.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 13, 2023 7:38:56 GMT 1
I missed the ELO record, and I am not including Live albums, I am pretty sure raliverpool has got this. One of the most important albums to me in my life. My number one album of 1983Big Country - The Crossing
I guess it was obvious when it was nowhere in my top 30. But no understatement, this album changed my life. Before I heard this think it was maybe 1985, I had heard two of the singles on the top 40, I listened to the top 40 almost every week like most of us here, but I didn't buy music really, or follow any bands, just listened to what I heard, kind of like your regular playlist streamer these days I guess. But I was staying in my cousin's room, he was at college, and I started digging through his tapes. This was the first I grabbed, also Thompson Twins, The Cars Best Of, Bryan Adams can't remember what else. That was it, I was missing so much, I never watched The Tube as I found it too edgy, and I was missing all this great music by doing that. So that was it I was going to be a proper music fan and absorb and experience everything.
Anyway back to the album. I had of course been brought up on folk and Gaelic music but this album made it cool. I had heard this before on the song 'Into The Valley' I didn't know the connection as I said I just listened. But the guitars on this were incredible, all the songs had great hooks and you could sing along and that would have been enough until I heard 'Chance' for the first time, this song was beautiful and still is, one of my all-time favourite songs. As for the other tapes affects, just you wait....
This was their debut album, they will have plenty more to come. It reached #3 in the UK and #18 in the US, where they just lapped it up.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 13, 2023 7:49:39 GMT 1
So 1984 coming very soon, I am trying to keep my lists to 110 max so anything rated lower will fall off, this is proving hard for 1985 but I have managed to do it for 1984. A very high standard, as all but one of my bubblers is a 3/5.
110 Kim Wilde - Teases & Dares
2.5/5 (Hopefully she will make the cut next time)
All 3/5s
109 Lou Reed - New Sensations
108 Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
107 Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent
106 The Go-Betweens - Spring Hill Fair (they definitely will do better)
These are just unlucky to be pushed out by records I found later
105 Bucks Fizz - I Hear Talk
104 Heaven 17 - How Men Are
103 Meat Loaf - Bad Attitude
102 The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue
101 Run-D.M.C. - Run-D.M.C.
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Post by Whitneyfan on Apr 13, 2023 12:49:56 GMT 1
Oh I love that Bronski Beat album! I guess nothing else on it matches 'Smalltown Boy' or 'Why' though.
I was right about your top 2. Big Country were just amazing back then, I just love everything about that album.
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Post by smokeyb on Apr 13, 2023 19:53:45 GMT 1
I missed the ELO record, and I am not including Live albums, I am pretty sure raliverpool has got this. One of the most important albums to me in my life. My number one album of 1983Big Country - The Crossing
I guess it was obvious when it was nowhere in my top 30. But no understatement, this album changed my life. Before I heard this think it was maybe 1985, I had heard two of the singles on the top 40, I listened to the top 40 almost every week like most of us here, but I didn't buy music really, or follow any bands, just listened to what I heard, kind of like your regular playlist streamer these days I guess. But I was staying in my cousin's room, he was at college, and I started digging through his tapes. This was the first I grabbed, also Thompson Twins, The Cars Best Of, Bryan Adams can't remember what else. That was it, I was missing so much, I never watched The Tube as I found it too edgy, and I was missing all this great music by doing that. So that was it I was going to be a proper music fan and absorb and experience everything.
Anyway back to the album. I had of course been brought up on folk and Gaelic music but this album made it cool. I had heard this before on the song 'Into The Valley' I didn't know the connection as I said I just listened. But the guitars on this were incredible, all the songs had great hooks and you could sing along and that would have been enough until I heard 'Chance' for the first time, this song was beautiful and still is, one of my all-time favourite songs. As for the other tapes affects, just you wait....
This was their debut album, they will have plenty more to come. It reached #3 in the UK and #18 in the US, where they just lapped it up.
5/5
Good choice, I like them a lot, but I don't have this album in my collection. I first saw Stuart Adamson with the Skids back in 1977 at the Bellville Hotel in Dunfermline, they were a bit raw & edgy, but they had something that made you sure they would make it. Chance is indeed a great song along with In A Big Country and Fields Of Fire.
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Post by smokeyb on Apr 13, 2023 19:57:32 GMT 1
So can I. I think.
{Spoiler}I think both are debut albums, they are/were the 19th & 23rd Best Selling UK albums of 1983. You are probably right, where did you get that info, the UK end of year lists would have been useful. I am bound to miss something major, so far nothing that drastic. But yes smokeyb this was still to come. 2 Tears For Fears - The Hurting
And yes also it is a debut album, and we will see where the next one finishes, have not listened to it for a very long time but I suspect this will still be my favourite. My head/brain has recently switched from a music listener to a lyric listener, not a change, pardon the pun, I particularly enjoy. And what I loved most about this album is the music, the sound, atmosphere, production just so incredible, but now I listen to lyrics so I now hear this is quite a dark record, not sure that helps it, but it was always going to be my #2 or #3. Musically and vocally, it has everything fantastic about the 80s and still sounds incredible today. 'Change' is one of my all-time favourite 80s songs. The record was a huge success, going to #1 in the UK and #73 in the US.
5/5I have nearly all their albums, including their most recent (which is excellent I must say), every track on this is great , no filler here. Mad World, Pale Shelter, Change the list goes on.
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 15, 2023 8:32:36 GMT 1
Ok let's kick off and making the cut this time is 100 Chicago - Chicago 17
This is their fourteen album and makes my list thanks to it being out when I started listening to more music, and also it features two of their best hits "Hard Habit to Break" and "You're the Inspiration". This is peak 80s Chicago and other than buying their compilation out on a few years, this was the best option. Again, like all Chicago, if I made this list 30 years ago, it would probably be in my top 50. I just don't like really soft AOR rock so much now. This album reached #4 in the US and #24 in the UK, It sold 6 million in the US crazy numbers. 3/5
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 15, 2023 8:38:14 GMT 1
99 Pseudo Echo - Autumnal Park
The debut album from the Australian new wave band. A band I never came across until their cover of 'Funky Town' from 1987. They are kind of like a hyperactive INXS. This album was totally new to me, and it's a pretty decent synth pop album, not doing anything earth-shattering, but it's fine, I think though if I had known it at the time, I would probably have got into and really liked it. The album reached #11 in Australia. 3/5 but a grower I suspect
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 15, 2023 8:44:21 GMT 1
98 Twisted Sister - Stay HungryA band that I totally dismissed at the time, just assumed they were really heavy and never bothered finding out anymore. But they really were not, this was their third album and features their two most well known songs We're Not Gonna Take It" and "I Wanna Rock". The former which has become very much part of pop culture due to featuring in so many movies and TV shows. It's all quite fun and silly, and it doesn't feel as forced as some late 80s hair metal will become. This was their most successful album and reached #15 in the US and #34 in the UK. Another big seller 3 million in the US. 3/5
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Post by TheThorne on Apr 15, 2023 8:51:11 GMT 1
97 Hanoi Rocks - Two Steps From the Move
After failing to make the list for a few years, the Finnish glam rock/metal band return with their fifth album. Their best album yet both in songs and production, although I am still not wild about Michael Monroe's voice, the weak link, they had everything else but if he had a voice like David Coverdale or Jon Bon Jovi, they could have been huge. The album did well though, reaching #28 in the UK but will sadly be their last for many years as the death of their drummer in a car accident caused them to split. 3/5
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