The Great Blitz Album Survey…Favourite Albums Across The Years…The 80s

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I own more 80s stuff than I thought.

I still think its a dogshit decade. But I love the passion it brews and also how its fans and devotees openly recognise The Cheese and regard this as a total strength.

Respect.

Here goes…

1980

3 - Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine
2 - Blues Brothers Soundtrack
1 - AC/DC - Back in Black

1981

3 - Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
2 - Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy
1 - Muddy Waters - King Bee

1982

3 - Ted Hawkins - Watch Your Step
2 - LED ZEPPELIN - CODA!!!
1 - John Harrison - Creepshow OST

1983

3 - Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
2 - Elizabeth Cotton - Live
1 - SRV - Texas Flood

1984

3 - SRV - Couldn’t Stand The Weather
2 - Spinal Tap - This Is Spinal Tap
1 - Ghostbusters OST

1985

3 - Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
2 - Ry Cooder - Alamo Bay
1 - Hasil Adkins - He Said

1986

3 - Hasil Adkins - Out To Hunch
2 - Ted Hawkins - Happy Hour
1 - Ry Cooder - Crossroads OST

1987

3 - Hasil Adkins -The Wildman
2 - John Lee Hooker - Jealous
1 - The Fabulous Thunder Birds - Hot Stuff

1988

3 - NWA - Straight Outta Compton
2 - Public Enemy - It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
1 - Eazy E - Eazy Duz It

1989

3 - John Lee Hooker - The Healer
2- Snake Nation - Self Titled
1 - Nirvana - Bleach

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Sorry…I ran this through the register of good (or better) albums…and it failed to register.

Rumour has it that it was just a money grabber filled with stale, mouldy leftovers from much better albums.

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…and I fully accept your apology…

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I’ve gotta agree. Give me 13 and a half minute tunes with 2:30 sax solo outros.

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Are you referring to anyone in particular?

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Ramones

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I am not convinced that you are telling the truth here :crazy_face:

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And now we get into it.
I may adjust this later because there’s just. So. MANY.

1980
3 AC/DC - Back In Black
2 Billy Joel - Glass Houses
1 Kings Of The Wild Frontier - Adam and the Ants

Ridiculous omissions…The River, Clues, East, True Colours, The Boys Light Up, Remain, Unmasked truly was my Kiss album, era changing from Bowie…Icehouse…

Edit: and now I have to back and change ‘79 because I thought it was ‘80.

1981

3 Men At Work - Business As Usual
2 Australian Crawl - Sirocco
1 Duran Duran - Duran Duran

1982

3 Midnight Oil - 10-1
2 Laurie Anderson - Big Science
…fine, I’ll do it…
1 Michael Jackson - Thriller

1983 Difficult now and only going to get more difficulterer.

3 The Police - Synchronicity
2 Elton John - Too Low For Zero
1 Australian Crawl - Phalanx

HM to VF, and I’m very nervous I’ve missed someone…

1984 I hate this…
3 Prince - Purple Rain
2 INXS - The Swing
1 Midnight Oil - Red Sails In The Sunset
Kills me that I can’t push Alchemy, BitUSA and Sweet and Sour OST in there…man, or Queen’s The Works…or Two Minute Warning…

1985
3 INXS - Listen Like Thieves
2 Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
1 Prince - Around the World In A Day
HMs Tears For Fears, Sting, Talking Heads, Eurythmics, Suzanne Vega, Divinyls

1986
3 Paul Kelly - Gossip
2 Paul Simon - Graceland
1 Crowded House - Crowded House
HMs So, TMBG, The Bridge, A.O. Mod. T.V. Vers. Live 75/85, Final Wave, Circle and the Square etc etc etc

1987
3 INXS - Kick
2 Roger Waters - Radio KAOS
1 The Angels - Liveline
HMs Appetite, Sign, Strangeways, Bad, Hysteria, Faith, 1987

1988
3 Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking
2 R.E.M. - Green
1 Crowded House - Temple Of Low Men
HMs Tracy Chapman, R n H, Copperhead Road, Tender Prey, Hold On To Me, Kiss My Art

1989
3 Lou Reed - New York
2 Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
1 Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever

@swoodley done.

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Well, where do I start.

It was 40+ degrees outside, and Mrs. K. was at work. So I thought I’d broaden my horizons.

It was a complete and utter waste of time. I’ll just stay in my lane from now on.

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1980
3 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2 ACDC - Back in Black
1 B52s - Wild Planet

1981
3 Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys
2 Human League - Dare
1 Grace Jones - Nightclubbing

1982
3 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
2 Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
1 Cold Chisel - Circus Animals

1983
3 Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
2 Madonna - Madonna
1 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes

1984
3 Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
2 INXS - The Swing
1 The Smiths - The Smiths

1985
3 Taking Heads - Little Creatures
2 Hoodoo Gurus - Mars needs guitars
1 Paul Kelly - Post

1986
3 Hunters & Collectors - Human Frailty
2 Paul Kelly - Gossip
1 Paul Simon - Graceland

1987
3 The Cure - Kiss me, Kiss me, Kiss me
2 U2 - Joshua Tree
1 INXS - Kick

1988
3 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
2 Stephen Cummings - Lovetown
1 Go Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane

1989
3 Stone Roses - Stone Roses
2 Pixies - Doolittle
1 Cure - Disintegration

81 and 82 tough years to choose. 86-88 was tough to finalise from some great choices. 89 was a classic year.

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1980

3 - joy division - closer
2 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
1 - the police - zenyatta mondatta

1981

3 - Rick James - street songs
2 - Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
1 - Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys

1982

3 - Michael Jackson - Thriller
2 - Alan Parsons project - eye in the sky
1 - Roxy music - Avalon

1983

3 - Tears for fears - the hurting
2 - Billy Idol - Rebel yell
1 - Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood

1984

3 - style council - cafe Bleu
2 - Frankie goes to Hollywood - welcome to the pleasuredome
1 - inxs - the swing

1985

3 - Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
2 - Dire straits - brothers in arms
1 - Robert Palmer - riptide

1986

3 - the smiths - queen is dead
2 - Peter Gabriel - So
1 - Billy idol - whiplash smile

1987

3 - inxs - kick
2 - U2 - Joshua tree
1 - prince - sign o the times

1988

3 - sonic youth - daydream nation
2 - NWA - Straight Outta Compton
1 - U2 - Rattle & Hum

1989

3 - the cure - disintegration
2 - de la soul - 3 feet high and rising
1 - stone roses

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1981 sucked and Rick James album is amazing… no one picked it?
1980 and 83 were good years.

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Do you mean Speaking In Tongues?

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I haven’t seen this in anyone’s list…

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Yes Swoods, it will appear in mine when I get my lazy ar*e into gear.

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It’s on two lists so far :slight_smile:

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Oops yep…corrected post

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After reading this (and never having listened to it) I just listened to the album. After track 1, I was thinking…this is pretty good…might be a candidate for the playlist…but alas, the rest of the album didn’t hold up…so it’s not going onto the playlist and I can understand why others haven’t picked.

As for 1981 “sucking” I reckon I could have easily picked another 25-30 albums that I really love.

But that’s just my perspective for what it’s worth. :slight_smile:

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Chemistry is decent from ‘81.

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Song 1 Give it to me baby is definitely the hit but 2nd song ghetto life is my fav. Then you have super freak later on and then maybe the most wildly hilarious song fire and desire. The vocals are incredible/bizarre.

As for all these decade lists I’ve just been selecting eye openers and usually the first album I heard of the artist. Usually something that opened up to similar artists/sounds. Alas I’ve forgotton so many obscure albums since my albums/ hard drives are all in boxes. Spotify/tidal doesn’t really give me the album year details search.

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I’ve got a spreadsheet with all the albums that I’ve listened to over the years. (there might be a few missing but it’s pretty comprehensive)

Currently the total is sitting at 3190 albums listed by artist (list 1) and year of release (list 2).

And then there’s the list of albums I want to listen to…

…and now the list of albums from these threads so that I can go though and find more to listen to.

I do love a good list. :grin:

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