Favorite 80's album?

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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    tybird wrote:
    g under p wrote:
    There's a ton since that was the height of my music loving and concert going.

    London Calling....THE CLASH
    Purple Rain/1999.....PRINCE
    Black In Black.........AC/DC
    Master Of Puppets/...And Justice For All......METALLICA
    The Unforgetable Fire/War/The Joshua Tree....U2
    So......PETER GABRIEL
    Vivid.........LIVING COLOUR
    Remain In Light/Speaking In Tongues......TALKING HEADS
    Run DMC........RUN DMC
    Shaboo Shabaah/Listen Like Thieves....INXS
    Skylarking.......XTC
    1984/5150.....VAN HALEN
    Thriller.....MICHAEL JACKSON
    The Principle In Moments/Now and Zen.....ROBERT PLANT
    Private Dancer.....TINA TURNER
    Lisensed to Ill......THE BEASTIE BOYS
    Red............BLACK UHURU
    Computer World......KRAFTWERK
    Abacab/Three Sides Live...GENESIS
    Let's Dance.....DAVID BOWIE
    Hysteria/Pyromania.......DEF LEPPARD
    Traveling Wilbury's Vol. I.......THE TRAVELING WILBURYS
    The Specials.........THE SPECIALS
    Disintergration.....THE CURE
    Paid In Full.....ERIC B & RAKIM
    Nothing's Shocking...JANE'S ADDICTION
    It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back....PUBLIC ENEMY
    Ghost In The Machine/Synchronicity......THE POLICE
    3 Feet High and Rising...DE LA SOUL
    Empty Glass.......PETE TOWESEND
    Radio.......LL COOL J



    I can't think of anymore right now but I'm forgetting a few I'm sure of it.

    Peace
    Excellant, excellant call on "Abacab" and "Three Sides Live"....the artistic height of that band in the post-Gabriel era.

    "Ghost in the Machine" is my favorite album by the Police...big fan back in the day....saw them live on that tour.

    "So"....Peter Gabriel's big money making album, not my favorite of his...but glad to see him rake in the bucks.

    "Unforgettable Fire" = My favorite U2 disc...despite never wanting to hear "Pride (In the Name of Love) ever again.

    I would add King Crimson's "Three of a Perfect Pair," Rush's "Moving Pictures," and Kate Bush's "Hounds of Love."

    Now I know when I was making this list it was late and I was tired, I also knew I was forgetting somebody major and that was RUSH. I don't know how I could forget g under p RUSH'S.....Grace Under Pressure
    ....http://i564.photobucket.com/albums/ss82 ... essure.jpg

    I mainly love the album Moving pictures through the song *The Camera Eye* man I wish I could play that song on drums.

    As for The Police and The Ghost In The Machine Tour which I saw was In VA at a smalll club was a great show.

    PG *So* album I didn't like at first in fact I returned it then 2 months later I bought it back at a pawn shop after hearing again a couple songs I couldn't believe were on there.

    Genesis I completely worn those vynil albums/cassettes out in the 80's-90's I couldn't get enough of those two. I think I saw them 5-6 times.

    For me U2 ruled the 80's there were the top of the heap as far as bands go. The first band I traveled to go and see, The War and Unforgetable Fire tours they gave the most memorable shows of all the U2 Tours, lots of energy back then. Have you ever seen The US FESTIVAL 1983 during the song Electric Co. ? AWESOME!

    Peace great stuff :D
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    g under p wrote:
    PG *So* album I didn't like at first in fact I returned it then 2 months later I bought it back at a pawn shop after hearing again a couple songs I couldn't believe were on there.

    Genesis I completely worn those vynil albums/cassettes out in the 80's-90's I couldn't get enough of those two. I think I saw them 5-6 times.

    For me U2 ruled the 80's there were the top of the heap as far as bands go. The first band I traveled to go and see, The War and Unforgetable Fire tours they gave the most memorable shows of all the U2 Tours, lots of energy back then. Have you ever seen The US FESTIVAL 1983 during the song Electric Co. ? AWESOME!

    Peace great stuff :D
    It took me a couple of years to warm up to "So", simply because the hits got played a wee bit too much. I actually still don't own the album....have every other Gabriel disc except for the live albums and "The Rabbitproof Fence" soundtrack. I have a lot of the material from "So" on "Hit/Miss."

    Still own my cassette copy of "Three Sides Live." Has a big drag spot in the middle. :P

    Never have seen any Us Festival footage. :( ....do love the Live Aid version of "Bad"
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    tybird wrote:
    Never have seen any Us Festival footage. :( ....do love the Live Aid version of "Bad"


    i think it's on vh1 tomorrow..or maybe fuse...there are clips on youtube :)
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    tybird wrote:
    g under p wrote:
    PG *So* album I didn't like at first in fact I returned it then 2 months later I bought it back at a pawn shop after hearing again a couple songs I couldn't believe were on there.

    Genesis I completely worn those vynil albums/cassettes out in the 80's-90's I couldn't get enough of those two. I think I saw them 5-6 times.

    For me U2 ruled the 80's there were the top of the heap as far as bands go. The first band I traveled to go and see, The War and Unforgetable Fire tours they gave the most memorable shows of all the U2 Tours, lots of energy back then. Have you ever seen The US FESTIVAL 1983 during the song Electric Co. ? AWESOME!

    Peace great stuff :D
    It took me a couple of years to warm up to "So", simply because the hits got played a wee bit too much. I actually still don't own the album....have every other Gabriel disc except for the live albums and "The Rabbitproof Fence" soundtrack. I have a lot of the material from "So" on "Hit/Miss."

    Still own my cassette copy of "Three Sides Live." Has a big drag spot in the middle. :P

    Never have seen any Us Festival footage. :( ....do love the Live Aid version of "Bad"

    At the time in the early 80's U2 had a strong underground following and Bono to me made it clear he wanted to make a breakthrough in America. Especially with the upcoming release of the *WAR* album. So they gave the talk of the town at the huge US Festival out in California with this outrageous performance. I have the bootleg of their entire performance there. He (BONO) carried this energy into the War Tour which I saw opening night in Norfolk, VA. This is nice to see back when *THE EDGE* had hair. :D

    U2 US Festival 1983.....Electric Co.

    U2 BAD LIVE AID 1985

    *The Rabbitproof Fence* is a great movie and I have that album too along with every release by PG. He brings out some very emotional shows like the last one I saw at the Capital Centre in Landover MD.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


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  • Thoughts_ArriveThoughts_Arrive Melbourne, Australia Posts: 15,165
    No Soundgarden, No Nirvana? Why?
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  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    No Soundgarden, No Nirvana? Why?

    No breakthrough albums until 90's from either band.



    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • WWSWWS Ontario Posts: 459
    U2 Joshua Tree


    Honourable mentions:

    Janes Addiction - Nothing Shocking
    RHCP- Mothers Milk
    Van Halen 1984
    The Police - Syncronycity
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  • FlaggFlagg Posts: 5,856
    Van Halen - Fair Warning
    Metallica - Master of Puppets
    Guns 'n' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

    My fav 3 80s albums.
    DAL-7/5/98,10/17/00,6/9/03,11/15/13
    BOS-9/28/04,9/29/04,6/28/08,6/30/08, 9/5/16, 9/7/16, 9/2/18
    MTL-9/15/05, OTT-9/16/05
    PHL-5/27/06,5/28/06,10/30/09,10/31/09
    CHI-8/2/07,8/5/07,8/23/09,8/24/09
    HTFD-6/27/08
    ATX-10/4/09, 10/12/14
    KC-5/3/2010,STL-5/4/2010
    Bridge School-10/23/2010,10/24/2010
    PJ20-9/3/2011,9/4/2011
    OKC-11/16/13
    SEA-12/6/13
    TUL-10/8/14
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Ozzy Osbourne-"Diary of a Madman"
    Peter Gabriel-"Security"
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • gabersgabers Posts: 2,787
    The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

    You did say album

    Otherwise pretty much anything from the Smiths, U2, and the Police. There are others, but those are probably the best.
  • Back_PedalBack_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses.
    Amen...I like to think of it as a bridge between hair metal and grunge. Great album.
    Thanks EPOTTSIII!
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  • LONGRDLONGRD Posts: 6,036
    Tim, Let It Be, Please to Meet Me - all by The Replacements.

    you can say, I'm a fan. ;)
    PJ- 04/29/2003.06/24,25,27,28,30/2008.10/27,28,30,31/2009
    EV- 08/09,10/2008.06/08,09/2009
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    I hadn't listened to Genesis ~ Three Sides Live in years. Hell, I haven't listened to Genesis for years.

    Pulled out the cassette over the weekend because of this thread, and listened to it this morning on the way to work. Great stuff. Think I'll put Abacab on for the ride home.
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • normnorm Posts: 31,146
    merkinball wrote:
    I hadn't listened to Genesis ~ Three Sides Live in years. Hell, I haven't listened to Genesis for years.

    Pulled out the cassette over the weekend because of this thread, and listened to it this morning on the way to work. Great stuff. Think I'll put Abacab on for the ride home.


    cassette?!?! :shock:

    hard core old school right there!! :lol::lol::mrgreen:
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    merkinball wrote:
    I hadn't listened to Genesis ~ Three Sides Live in years. Hell, I haven't listened to Genesis for years.

    Pulled out the cassette over the weekend because of this thread, and listened to it this morning on the way to work. Great stuff. Think I'll put Abacab on for the ride home.
    The bad news is that the current CD version does not include the studio side. :evil:
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    tybird wrote:
    merkinball wrote:
    I hadn't listened to Genesis ~ Three Sides Live in years. Hell, I haven't listened to Genesis for years.

    Pulled out the cassette over the weekend because of this thread, and listened to it this morning on the way to work. Great stuff. Think I'll put Abacab on for the ride home.
    The bad news is that the current CD version does not include the studio side. :evil:

    That is correct that is why I STILL listen to my cassette versions. :) Love singing Abacab on my way to the beach I could never figure out what the hell they were singing about.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    g under p wrote:
    tybird wrote:
    The bad news is that the current CD version does not include the studio side. :evil:

    That is correct that is why I STILL listen to my cassette versions. :) Love singing Abacab on my way to the beach I could never figure out what the hell they were singing about.

    Peace
    The current re-mastered versions of the non-live Genesis albums are all pretty sweet...own them all up to Abacab.
    All the world will be your enemy, Prince with a thousand enemies, and whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you, digger, listener, runner, prince with the swift warning. Be cunning and full of tricks and your people shall never be destroyed.
  • pirlo21pirlo21 Posts: 534
    Tough to pick just one!! Any one of these maybe!

    Pixies - Doolittle & Surfer Rosa
    REM - Murmer (or pretty much all their 80s albums)
    Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me & Bug
    Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
    Jesus & Mary Chain - Psychocandy
    Nirvana - Bleach
    Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
    Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
    Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
    Stone Roses - Stone Roses
    Cymru Am Byth

    PJ albums, at the moment!! -
    1,Vs 2,Vitalogy 3,No Code 4,Yield 5,Ten 6,Backspacer, 7Pearl Jam 8,Binaural 9,Riot Act.
  • oldermanolderman Posts: 1,765
    can't say one is favorite but i remember listening to 'tunnel of love' and thinking that bruce had hit on some emotions, concerning love and relationships, both clear and dark, about which he had never before written.

    i sometimes wonder if 'brilliant disguise' is his best song.

    it's full of truth for me, that's for sure.
    Down the street you can hear her scream youre a disgrace
    As she slams the door in his drunken face
    And now he stands outside
    And all the neighbours start to gossip and drool
    He cries oh, girl you must be mad,
    What happened to the sweet love you and me had?
    Against the door he leans and starts a scene,
    And his tears fall and burn the garden green
  • merkinballmerkinball Posts: 2,262
    norm wrote:
    merkinball wrote:
    I hadn't listened to Genesis ~ Three Sides Live in years. Hell, I haven't listened to Genesis for years.

    Pulled out the cassette over the weekend because of this thread, and listened to it this morning on the way to work. Great stuff. Think I'll put Abacab on for the ride home.


    cassette?!?! :shock:

    hard core old school right there!! :lol::lol::mrgreen:

    I've got a crate of cassettes I never got rid of, nor bothered to upgrade to cd.

    Looking through them provided a few WTF was I thinking moments (yes 3rd bass cassette, I'm talking about you).
    "You're no help," he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

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  • youngsteryoungster Boston Posts: 6,576
    For me, it's AC/DC Back in Black.
    He who forgets will be destined to remember.

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    5/17/10 Boston, 10/15/13 Worcester, 10/16/13 Worcester, 10/25/13 Hartford
    8/5/16 Fenway, 8/7/16 Fenway
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  • battan1120battan1120 Posts: 310
    Its pretty simple 80's music blows....come on bands like Flock of Seagulls.....Bryan Adams...the fuckin GoGo's please....Culture Club...shall I go on. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
    The bus came by and I got on!!!!!
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,209
    battan1120 wrote:
    Its pretty simple 80's music blows....come on bands like Flock of Seagulls.....Bryan Adams...the fuckin GoGo's please....Culture Club...shall I go on. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    If so why were you listening to them?

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,456
    If I have to pick one and only one I'll go with U2's "The Joshua Tree." That is an album that has been in my continual listening rotation for 22 years.

    A very close 2nd would go to The Police's "Synchonicity." Again, another regular rotator and so many good songs.

    Some very easy honorable mentions go to:
    "Diesel and Dust" - Midnight Oil
    "Permanent Waves" - Rush
    "Moving Pictures" - Rush
    "Sports" - Huey Lewis & The News
    "Back for the Attack" - Dokken
    "Crowded House" - Crowded House
    "Thriller" - Michael Jackson (and not just because he just died)
    "War" - U2
    "1984"- Van Halen
    "Pretty Hate Machine" - Nine Inch Nails
    "Liquidizer" - Jesus Jones
    "Who Made Who" - AC/DC

    I could probably go on, but I'll spare. Just trying to name some that haven't been named yet that are still top favorites of mine.
  • HIwideHIwide Posts: 46
    I broke my U2 War cd -- from playing it too much.
  • intodeepintodeep Posts: 7,240
    pirlo21 wrote:
    Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me

    It took 4 pages but at least one of you finally found the right answer :D

    lots of other good choices, but for my money i'll take you're living all over me
    Charlotte 00
    Charlotte 03
    Asheville 04
    Atlanta 12
    Greenville 16, Columbia 16
    Seattle 18 
    Nashville 22
    Ohana Festival 24 x2
  • Appetite for Destruction. all other 80s albums pale in comparison.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,494
    some very interesting choices
    man I was all over the place in the eighties

    REM-reckoning
    Talking heads-little creatures/stop making sense (didnt see any heads records mentioned yet)
    Beasties-paul's boutique
    Rush-moving pictures
    U2-joshua tree
    Van Halen-fair warning
    Stevie Ray Vaughn couldnt stand the weather
    Ozzy-blizzard of oz
    AC/DC-back in black
    The police-zenyatta
    Donald Fagen-nightfly
    Iron Maiden-number of the beast
    Genesis-abacab/three sides
    Phil collins-face value

    man picking one is tough
    they all got LOT of time on the record player in my house.
  • ilockyerilockyer Posts: 2,271
    I can't pick from these:

    Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
    The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & The Lash
    Pixies - Doolittle
    The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
    The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
    Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
    Metallica - Master Of Puppets
    Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
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