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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 7, 2023 20:48:33 GMT 1
The only bad track on The Queen Is Dead is "Never Had No One Ever", otherwise it's a perfect album.
Superlative tracks on it include "I Know It's Over" which has always been my favourite.
I do like the fact that it is interspersed with jangly pop songs.
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 8, 2023 7:47:15 GMT 1
That just shows how great it is if we all have a different least liked track, well this is a bit weird my number one has been in this position since 1986 but trying to listen to it with fresh ears, I had to admit one album that wasn't even in my top 3 before is better. 2 Huey Lewis and The News - Fore
Nostalgia can only get you so far and to be honest, it has got this record as far as you can go. It was one of their first albums I bought with my own money, the singles I loved and 'Hip To Be Square' is the number one reason why I started my chart, it was a travesty that it missed the top 40. I know things have been put right since, it must be their biggest selling song now maybe more than 'The Power Of Love', no not even close yet it has 4x times more streams but still 100 million is very impressive. Why is this album not my favourite anymore, its side B especially apart from 'I Know What I Like' I just don't get the same buzz out of it. Side A is still perfection though but those more loungey tracks like 'Naturally' and 'Simple As That' just not my thing anymore. But when it is great it is brilliant Jacob's Ladder, Stuck With You, Doing It All for My Baby and Hip to Be Square all perfect pop rock songs.
Anyway this was their fourth album and biggest seller thanks to the increased profile from 'The Power Of Love' which is included in my version giving side 2 a major boost. The album was a number one in the US and #8 in the UK and sold over 3 million in the US. If you have done your maths, you should know what my number one is, and I didn't see it coming either.
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 8, 2023 8:00:58 GMT 1
So my number goes to an album that I did buy a single from, but never heard it in full until the download era. My Number One Album of 1986Peter Gabriel - So
Yep a new favourite album, the single I bought was 'Big Time' which as you know is a very similar track to 'Sledgehammer' same kooky production and energy, Those were the tracks I loved then rather than the ballads but that has changed over the years. Thanks especially to the movie 'Say Anything', probably in my top 3 teen movies if not number one! 'In Your Eyes' is one of my favourite songs of the 80s easily in my top 10 and with that it gave me a whole new appreciation of the album. The album is just brilliant every song until maybe the last which is a bit weaker is a total classic. I even love 'Don't Give Up' when I dismissed it in 1986 due to Kate Bush, that was of course dumb, it is a beautiful perfect duet, I was an idiot. Peter Gabriel's best album of his 'pop' era and I feel he kind of chases this album's success for a while. Listen to the stuff he is making now, the best since the 80s I'd say, now he just does it for his fans.
This was his fifth album and biggest seller reaching #1 in the UK and #2 in the US selling over 6 million worldwide, 5 million in the US.
So my number one is a download era listen well apart from all the singles, I wonder if that will happen again.
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 8, 2023 8:02:33 GMT 1
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Post by Earl Purple on Jun 8, 2023 10:51:41 GMT 1
I think 1986 is underrated as a year for music, I have long considered it the best year of the 1980s for music because of some of the huge albums released that year, but I guess in 1986 when I was 21 I was more likely to buy an album than I was in the early 80s when I would be more interested in singles.
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 8, 2023 12:13:14 GMT 1
I think 1986 is underrated as a year for music, I have long considered it the best year of the 1980s for music because of some of the huge albums released that year, but I guess in 1986 when I was 21 I was more likely to buy an album than I was in the early 80s when I would be more interested in singles. I actually think 1987 is even better, I have 3.5 albums not making even my bubbling under list, 1988 isn't looking great, but I have a long way to go, there maybe some surprises but even my provincial top 3 seem like there must be better out there. My top 14 in 1987 destroy them.
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 8, 2023 12:54:56 GMT 1
Before we even go into the ones that just miss the top 100, these acts all miss even that list and they are all good 3 or 3.5 albums
Spear of Destiny, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Clannad, Primal Scream, Sting (I know mad), Laura Branigan and The Kane Gang
Also missing but not so well known are The Call and Swimming With Sharks
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 8, 2023 13:01:20 GMT 1
110 Hoodoo Gurus - Blow Your Cool!
Power Pop, Garage Rock
109 Sonic Youth - Sister
Noise Rock, Alternative Rock
108 The Grapes of Wrath - Treehouse
Jangle Pop, Indie Rock, Indie Pop
107 White Lion - Pride
Glam Metal, Hard Rock
106 John Waite - Rover's Return
AOR
105 In Tua Nua - Vaudeville
Big Music, Celtic Rock
104 Sammy Hagar - I Never Said Goodbye
Hard Rock
103 Thrashing Doves - Bedrock Vice
Jangle Pop, Pop Rock
102 Microdisney - Crooked Mile
Jangle Pop, Pop Rock, Sophisti-Pop
101 Curiosity Killed the Cat - Keep Your Distance
Sophisti-Pop
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Post by greendemon on Jun 8, 2023 14:10:15 GMT 1
I haven't actually heard that Peter Gabriel album but I should do as I love both 'In Your Eyes' (released the day I was born!) and 'Don't Give Up'.
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Post by smokeyb on Jun 8, 2023 19:55:05 GMT 1
So my number goes to an album that I did buy a single from, but never heard it in full until the download era. My Number One Album of 1986Peter Gabriel - So
Yep a new favourite album, the single I bought was 'Big Time' which as you know is a very similar track to 'Sledgehammer' same kooky production and energy, Those were the tracks I loved then rather than the ballads but that has changed over the years. Thanks especially to the movie 'Say Anything', probably in my top 3 teen movies if not number one! 'In Your Eyes' is one of my favourite songs of the 80s easily in my top 10 and with that it gave me a whole new appreciation of the album. The album is just brilliant every song until maybe the last which is a bit weaker is a total classic. I even love 'Don't Give Up' when I dismissed it in 1986 due to Kate Bush, that was of course dumb, it is a beautiful perfect duet, I was an idiot. Peter Gabriel's best album of his 'pop' era and I feel he kind of chases this album's success for a while. Listen to the stuff he is making now, the best since the 80s I'd say, now he just does it for his fans.
This was his fifth album and biggest seller reaching #1 in the UK and #2 in the US selling over 6 million worldwide, 5 million in the US.
So my number one is a download era listen well apart from all the singles, I wonder if that will happen again.
5/5I would have been amazed if this was not in your top 3, so called that right. This is a brilliant album, I have it on CD.
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 8:17:54 GMT 1
So 1987 the year I started buying music regular, we will start with a very controversial artist, it was so close between her and Curiousity for my 100 spot but I gave it to her because I did buy one of her singles, actually no I didn't!! I actually won the top 3 singles that week from my local radio station, it was her, Aswad and Iron Maiden. Must have been the Network Chart it could've been... no pun intended worse it could have been, oops again, Bros. but we have a missing album so unlucky!!! 101 Tiffany - Tiffany
Sorry Tiffers, and to be fair in a world today, where I love red heads fake or real more than anything else, I would probably have loved her more at the time, but I was in my blonde phase hehe. It is hard to argue a case for her over Debbie, she does covers, her voice is a bit whiny, she wore way too much denim. But she was alright. This album is fine, nothing really horrible, although "I Saw Him Standing There" is a little painful. But I do love "I Think We're Alone Now" and "Feelings of Forever" was an underrated track. But Debbie had more talent in her little finger than ole Tiffs and was way cuter. Her debut album went to #1 in the US and #5 in the UK and sold 7 million worldwide, that is very impressive sales for a pop record in this time. I wouldst normally talk to so much about my #100 but you can understand why this is an exception, and it was not planned, this is just where she landed, it was here or #101. But look at this we are off the bad at.
3.5/5 (Yep this is a great top 100)
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 8:27:20 GMT 1
100 The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
Their second album and a struggle with this band, they seem to have 3 sounds, quirky and silly political , awkward and political and classic pop. The last of which they just don't do enough off, they of course put that right big style with 'The Beautiful South'. So it's left to the quirky songs, and they are good maybe not as good as the debut tracks, but they are good, that just leaves a third of the album that is kind of hard to get into, it's fine but I think I would have to send a bit of time with the record to appreciate them, in many ways they are like The Smiths in that sense. 'Build' though is a brilliant song. The record reached #9 in the UK and #177 in the US. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 8:35:05 GMT 1
99 Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Still in the lower end of 3.5s, we have the thirteenth album from Pink Floyd. A band we have not seen until now as their last release in 1983 past me by entirely, oops as it was supposed to be better than this one. This though was the first album I really heard by them so that gives them an edge. I was working in Virgin Megastore Easter 1988 so I heard so many albums, that does have an impact on these 2 years. I have since of course heard many of their 70s records and this does not come close to any of them, it is really a bit dull, it has its moment and is always nice to listen to, but it is a low 3.5, like the last 2 records. It reached #3 in the UK and US and sold over 10 million worldwide 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 8:54:24 GMT 1
98 Cock Robin - After Here Through Midland
The second album from the Californian sophisti-pop group, they are really one of the few successful acts in that genre from the US. Now a duo, the album was a hit all over Europe with some big singles like "Just Around the Corner". No real impression in the UK sadly as I really like this, it has that Deacon blue/Prefab Sprout sound and with more time, this could climb up this list. Multiple top 10 s on Continental Europe and just #166 in the US. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 9:01:02 GMT 1
97 The Railway Children - Reunion Wilderness
One of the bands this project was made for. I knew they were good before they had their hit, but apart from one or two songs never really explored them. This is their debut album and was pretty much what I expected, a bit Smiths, a bit Echo but made special with Gary Newby voice coming through, which prevents them just being an indie landfill band for their time. Just love his voice, but it will get better on future records. It was an indie chart number one. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 16:09:55 GMT 1
96 Squeeze - Babylon and On
Their seventh album and pretty much the last time I really paid them much attention, although they will have one hit in the 90s.'Hourglass' was very unexpected, their best single for many years and the other singles are pretty good as well. The second half is maybe not that interesting but it's fine. The record reached #15 in the UK.
3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 16:16:04 GMT 1
95 Thompson Twins - Close to the Bone
Their sixth album and the first as a duo and they really fell out of favour with this one. I bought the single 'Get That Love' think it is excellent and there are plenty are good tracks on this album. It is definitely not innovative for them, but did not deserve to flop as badly as it did. I think they made the right decision, reinventing their sound in the 90s though. The record only made '90 in the UK and #75 in the US. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 16:22:58 GMT 1
94 Paul Carrack - One Good Reason
His 3rd album and the first appearance on my list for the ex-Squeeze and Mike & The Mechanics singer. There is one good reason why this album made my top 100 and that is "Don't Shed a Tear", a brilliant single which made the top 10 in the US but it is not the only thing but it is the best, side A has a lot of good moments although after "Don't Shed a Tear" it all kind of merges into one. Decent US style rock but could be better, some superb songs that could have been great but sound a bit lazy. The record reached #67 in the US. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 16:28:18 GMT 1
93 Loverboy - Wildside
Their fifth album and a big drop down the list for me. This is not a poor record, far from it but Loverboy gave up everything that made them sound unique to jump on the Bon Jovi bandwagon. And yes they carry it off well especially on the single "Notorious" but this is more 'Bon Jovi' than 'Slippery When Wet'. It would be a good album to play in the car but why would you when all their previous albums are better. The record reached #42 in the US and it was the end of the band for some time returning 10 years later. 3.5/5
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Post by TheThorne on Jun 10, 2023 16:34:33 GMT 1
92 The Cars - Door to Door
Also having a bit of an oof moment are The Cars with their sixth album. This album really got a bashing with a very low score on RYM and their lowest charting album to date. I actually think it's fine but I am starting to feel I have been a bit generous with those 3.6s think some should be 3s, it is hard to review fine/good/ok/decent albums. Can't say I remember anything from this album now but I thought it was good enough at the time but that is not what you want from The Cars, you need at least two songs to stay with you, you won't find them here. This is no 'Heartbeat City'. The record reached '26 in the US and #72 in the UK and like the band above, it will be their last album for some time. 3.5/5
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