What is your favorite 80s album?

Random Friday question.

I would pick Disintegration most of the time.

My favorite growing up was definitely

edit for oh shit hotlinked image: Remain in Light

And it's still one of my favorites. But I don't think I can just pick an album of the decade.

purple rain prolly.

nebraska came to my mind first.

Without checking my stack of albums, 2 sprung (instantly) to mind

Sisters of Mercy - Floodland and Slayers Reign In Blood.

I'd agree The Cure made some great records too. These answers are without doing any homework.

edit: yeah Nebraska too. It Takes a Nation ....(PE), dunno there's quite a few

Would would have to be either:

New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies

Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back

Eric B. and Rakim - Paid In Full

Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses

I liked the cure back then up until Desintegration. haven't been a fan since.

no Neubauten or Throbbing Gristle? where are you hardcore members?

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  On 6/8/2012 at 11:20 PM, Rubin Farr said:

no Neubauten or Throbbing Gristle? where are you hardcore members?

lol

Can't pick one. Here are the ones I listen to most:

Peter Gabriel - So

a-ha - Scoundrel Days

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

Eloy - Performance

King Crimson - Three of a Perfect Pair

Genesis - Invisible Touch or Abacab

Nik Kershaw - Human Racing

Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues

Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino

Metallica - And Justice For All

I do love a lot of 80s metal and industrial stuff; I'm just not in the mood to listen to it very often. A good pop or prog record, however, does it for me every time.

Also, Invisible Touch is electronic as FUCK. Everything is processed beyond recognition into one of the most insanely crisp albums of the 80s.

Actually I guess that says a lot about my music taste. All of those albums have beautiful, perfect production.

Oh fuck! Forgot about Killing Joke and New Order! Aargh it's impossible for me to pick even ten.

Gary Numan - Telekon

Siouxsie & the banshees - Kaleidoscope

Pixies - Surfer Rosa

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden

Smiths - The Queen is Dead

Stone Roses - Stone Roses

Roxy Music - Street Life

NIN - Pretty Hate Machine

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

I like the Police, Duran Duran, Prince and others, but I end up listening more to recent compilations than actual studio albums. I generally prefer 70's Kraftwerk and David Bowie, and 90's Depeche Mode. I'm sure I'm missing a lot of greats...

  On 6/8/2012 at 11:21 PM, Dan C said:

 

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  On 6/8/2012 at 11:20 PM, Rubin Farr said:

no Neubauten or Throbbing Gristle? where are you hardcore members?

 

lol

good choices bro

I think Spleen and Ideal might be tied with Within the Realm... for me, but Within the Realm is fucking necessary music.

Too many to choose from:

Cocteau Twins: all of the 4AD albums

The Cure: Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography

New Order: Movement, PCL, Low-life

The Smiths: The Smiths, Meat Is Murder

Matt Johnson/The The: Burning Blue Soul, Soul Mining

Easterhouse: Contenders

The Fall: Grotesque, Hex Enduction Hour, Perverted By Language, The Wonderful And Frightening World Of, This Nation's Saving Grace, Bend Sinister

Associates: Sulk

Microdisney: Everybody Is Fantastic, The Clock Comes Down The Stairs

Bauhaus: The Sky's Gone Out

Soft Cell: The Art Of Falling Apart

Momus; Circus Maximus

The Happy Family: The Man On Your Street

Sonic Youth: Confusion Is Sex, Bad Moon Rising, EVOL, Sister

Human League: Travelogue

The Jesus And Mary Chain: Psychocandy

Stewart Copeland: Rumblefish

Echo & The Bunnymen: Crocodiles, Heaven Up Here

The Teardrop Explodes: Kilimanjaro, Wilder

Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds: Kicking Against The Pricks, Your Funeral... My Trial

Kitchens Of Distinction: Love Is Hell

Couldn't leave one of those out, and probably missed a few as well. Damn, the 80s were good.

This thread actually made me realize something: most of my favorite albums are from any decade but the 80s. Most are 90s or 00s releases (i.e. when I grew up) or classics from the 60s and 70s. Then I remembered U2 was my first "favorite" band as a young child. My dad listened to quite a few bands but U2 (and R.E.M. a bit later) really stuck with me. I love specific songs from all of U2's 80s releases but Joshua Tree is the only one I consider absolutely solid. It doesn't have quite the same overly epic stadium rock moments as Rattle and Hum or Unforgettable Fire. The sound and scope is more groundbreaking than their early material. It's grandiose, lyrically and sonically, in a good way. Back then Bono still kind of sounded like he was part of band, not just a frontman with 3 other dudes playing all the instruments. I always cite the production of Eno and Lanois in defense of the album...as I am here. I'm sure the shared name of the album and myself had it's superficial appeal to me when I was 4.

Nostalgia is still my main reason for picking it. It's probably the first entire album I would listen to intently from start to finish (save B-52s debut and Supertramp's Breakfast In America, but both are from 1979). I listened to it so many times back then just hearing a song from it on the radio lets childhood memories rush in. So there you go. There are plenty of 80s albums I love, but mostly ones I've heard as a young adult in college. Too many runner ups to try making a top ten list.

This thread made me feel awkward because I realized I don't know hardly any 80s music that is not rock, hard rock or metal. Most of this stuff I did not really discover until the mid90s as I got old enough to work petty jobs to buy albums.

I still want to participate though. If I was forced to pick one it would probably be Sodom.

Hmmm... I have a lot of catching up to do as far as 80's music goes. I just got into The Cure and can't wait to acquire Disintegration --it's next on my list. Some favorites that come to mind:

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Slayer - Reign in Blood

Metallica - ...And justice For All

Metallica - Master of the Puppets

Ministry - Land of Rape and Honey

Ministry - The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste

NIN - Broken

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

  On 6/9/2012 at 3:19 AM, couch said:

Ridiculous question, impossible to narrow down to even 20.

  On 6/8/2012 at 9:11 PM, Rubin Farr said:

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I would pick Disintegration most of the time.

I went into this thread thinking,~~ "if I say Disintegration, I will be called names by watmmites..."

thanks for giving me the strength to be okay with liking The Cure

I'm going on record saying I fucking hate The Cure, not that anyone should care.

I'm going on record saying that The Cure have at least four albums on my top 100 80s albums.