What is your favorite 80s album?

Yeah I need to give Graceland another listen. Adrian Belew played on it!

  On 6/9/2012 at 2:46 AM, joshuatx said:

 

 

 

I mostly listen to Bochum Welt when I wanna hear the good things the 80s brought

  On 6/9/2012 at 7:35 AM, modey said:

Woah, what? I thought everyone universally loved The Cure? Just like Talking Heads.

I'm going on record saying I don't care for Talking Heads, not that anyone should care.

And Minor Threat's discog, as Smett said.

  On 6/13/2012 at 10:04 PM, Smettingham Rutherford IV said:

David Bowie-Scary Monsters

 

 

...Graceland..love the guitar rhythms and that hard 80s snaredrum!!

I know I originally nominated Scary Monsters (1980) and went with Doolittle as my FAVORITE but if I was going to have to go with what was the BEST or MOST IMPORTANT, I'd probably go with Scary Monsters.

That album was basically a template that almost every album in the early half of the 80s followed in some respect.

Even seeing it next to Graceland... I LOVE Graceland. It is no doubt a perfect record. In some ways, it's a better "album" than Scary Monsters, but fuck me if it would exist as it does without it.

I know Bowie did some high-gated drums on Breaking Glass off Low and a lot of music nerds and famous musicians like Depeche Mode and Gary Numan say Low is kinda the mark of what they were striving for (so in a way Low might ironically be the best 80s album ), but I always still listen to Scary Monsters and think "this is what the 80s sound is in its purest state".

I'm my opinion, from a macro view of his career, Bowie shot his load with that one and it was all downhill after it... although (I think) my actual fave of his is Station To Station. I'm a Bowie fanatic, btw. Surprise.

I forgot to also nominate Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis soundtrack.

Holy fuck. It doesn't get more 80s than that.

Pet Shop Boys - Please/Actually/Introspective and the amazing Disco (to pick just one) album of theirs, all top class stuff.

Maybe one of The Police albums.

Jean-Michel Jarre - Magnetic Fields/Rendez-Vous/Zoolook.

808 State - 90

With hind sight releases I have since discovered from the 80s

Vidna Obmana & PBK - Monument Of Empty Colours & Gathering In Frozen Beauty.

doc at the radar station - cb + the mb

computer world - kraftwerk

faith/void split lp (only the void stuff, dont like the faith shit much)

my life in bush of ghosts - eno/david byrne

rob hubbards cheesey c64 tunes + a bunch of other of those tunes (c64/amstrad themes etc) if they count as an album which they dont but i dont care

now thats what i call music 6

e2 - e4 - manuel gottsching (until he starts just playing guitar solos over it about halfway through)

surfer rosa - pixies

maybe thriller + bad for nostalgia purposes

probably more cant think right now. dont like the cure much either besides some nice guitar riffs + stuff (1st tune on the pornography lp for instance)

Scary Monster is indeed amazing jefferoo, might be my favorite.

Scary Monsters should be credited as a Bowie and Fripp album imo as Robert's performance is jaw-dropping.

A 10/10 album for sure.

  On 6/17/2012 at 3:32 PM, beerwolf said:

Scary Monsters should be credited as a Bowie and Fripp album imo as Robert's performance is jaw-dropping.

 

A 10/10 album for sure.

I'm always blown away by the solos on that LP.

Another thing about it, does anyone else think it is Bowie's best vocal album? The shit he does is insane, especially considering how his other albums are. It's like he really is pushing himself to his most expressive extreme, vocally. I was just listening to it again yesterday and after listening to the end of Teenage Wildlife, I thought "Thank god for the miracle of recording equipment". To think that performance actually happened in a studio (or anywhere else), to me, is mind blowing.

Mine's definitely this -

Can't believe how little it's dated (I first heard it in about '02 and thought the copyright date was a misprint)

DEVO - Shout and Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues

As far as impact...

Fuck it since no one else as mentioned it, and i don't care if its overrated

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

shit, no idea how i forgot this:

  On 6/17/2012 at 7:16 PM, dese manz hatin said:

  On 6/23/2012 at 4:52 PM, zaphod said:

shit, no idea how i forgot this:

 

Yes to both!

The talk of Scary Monsters reminds me of those Chu-Bops (had to google to remember their name) things knocking about in the early 80s, basically a 3" circular piece of pink chewing gum in a miniature album sleeve. I remember getting Scary Monsters and, for some reason lost in the mists of time, Neil Diamond's The Jazz Singer. Wish I'd bought a few and kept them mint and unchewed.

Tangential bollocks aside, I agree that Scary Monsters is an awesome album, listening to it again right now thanks to this thread.

Favorite '80s album...I guess mine would be Nine Inch Nails' first album - Pretty Hate Machine.

Way too many to choose from.

  On 6/23/2012 at 4:52 PM, zaphod said:

shit, no idea how i forgot this:

 

aaahh back when times new roman used to be gangsta

fuck yes

btw...this is a joke.

this is a good one for real.

http://youtu.be/5JDl9l9DaeA

Too many to choose from:

Coil - Horse Rotorvator

Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca

D.A.F. - Alles Is Gut

Virgin Prunes - ... If I Die, I Die

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Juju

Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret

The The - Soul Mining

Modern English - Mesh And Lace

Sepultura - Schizophrenia

Talking Heads - Remain In Light

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

House Of Freaks - Tantilla

Metallica - ..And Justice For All

Slayer - Reign In Blood

Faith No More - The Real Thing

These were just the first that came to mind, there are a lot more...