modey Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 Yeah I need to give Graceland another listen. Adrian Belew played on it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berk Posted June 14, 2012 Share Posted June 14, 2012 One of my favourites. Not sure if I know too many album 80s albums. I mostly listen to Bochum Welt when I wanna hear the good things the 80s brought Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murve33 Posted June 15, 2012 Share Posted June 15, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 (edited) 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. Edited June 16, 2012 by jefferoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MDF Posted June 16, 2012 Share Posted June 16, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shit Attack Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 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) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
syd syside Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Scary Monster is indeed amazing jefferoo, might be my favorite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beerwolf Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 (edited) 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. Edited June 17, 2012 by beerwolf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J3FF3R00 Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dese manz hatin Posted June 17, 2012 Share Posted June 17, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcbpete Posted June 19, 2012 Share Posted June 19, 2012 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) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beholdapalehorse Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 DEVO - Shout and Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Anthrax Posted June 20, 2012 Share Posted June 20, 2012 (edited) As far as impact... Edited June 20, 2012 by Anthrax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dean789 Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 Fuck it since no one else as mentioned it, and i don't care if its overrated The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zaphod Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 shit, no idea how i forgot this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QBLA Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 shit, no idea how i forgot this: Yes to both! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caretstik Posted June 23, 2012 Share Posted June 23, 2012 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ambermonk Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Favorite '80s album...I guess mine would be Nine Inch Nails' first album - Pretty Hate Machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splesh Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Way too many to choose from. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr lopez Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 shit, no idea how i forgot this: aaahh back when times new roman used to be gangsta Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 fuck yes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
l1fef0rm Posted July 1, 2012 Share Posted July 1, 2012 btw...this is a joke. this is a good one for real. http://youtu.be/5JDl9l9DaeA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Silver Sound Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest TVHEAD Posted July 4, 2012 Share Posted July 4, 2012 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zlemflolia Posted May 22, 2021 Share Posted May 22, 2021 (edited) Edited May 22, 2021 by cyanobacteria 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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