10 Favorite Albums of the 80s (One Per Artist)

intodeep

Bruce Springsteen- Nebraska
Dinosaur Jr- You’re Living All Over Me
Metallica- Master of Puppets
Guns n Roses- Appetite for Destruction
Janes Addiction- Nothing Shocking
Pixies- Doolittle
Soundgarden- Louder then Love
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Neil Young- Freedom
REM-Murmer

Johnny Abruzzo

DewieCox wrote:

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

That music clearly stood out from the crap that everyone was making back then, but in light of the 90s and the like it doesn't hold up very well now.

Ridiculous...It stood out then and continues to stand out. I'll admit that GnR took it a little too far over the top with the UYI's, but they made some fantastic, timeless music all in all.

If that raunchy delay pattern and Axl's crazy noises came on the radio for the first time today, people would be picking their jaws off the floor the same way they did 25 years ago.

To me GnR was kinduva bridge from hair metal to the alternative boom. Not saying they were alternative in the least, but they just came to rock how they wanted to rock.

You know, My Michelle came on my iPod today, and listening to it, I said to myself "this song is pretty badass." Maybe I can back off my comments just a bit. I guess somebody with Axl's voice doesn't come along too often. I do still think they were kind of overrated though.

intodeep

GNR in my opinion was the best pure "rock" band of the 80's

They are just good ole fun RNR like the Stones, ACDC, and other similar bands.

What they did they did well.

I like a lot of the smaller bands from that era better but i respect them for what they were.

Loulou

YAAAAAAAY! someone likes Madness too!!!!

merkinball wrote:

Loulou wrote:

Madness- Absolutely

Yay! Love this album, it's on my 10 favorites too:

(no particular order)
Neil Young ~ Freedom
Lou Reed ~ New York
Madness ~ Absolutely
Oingo Boingo ~ Only a Lad
Tom Waits ~ Franks Wild Years
R.E.M. ~ Life's Rich Pageant
Peter Gabriel ~ IV (Security)
U2 ~ Unforgettable Fire
Police ~ Ghost in the Machine
Grateful Dead ~ Reckoning

Honorable Mentions: Dire Straits ~ Brothers in Arms, Dead Kennedys ~ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

tybird

1) "Hounds of Love"-Kate Bush
2) "Unforgettable Fire"-U2
3) "Ghost in the Machine"-The Police
4) "Diary of a Madman"-Ozzy Osbourne
5) "Three of a Perfect Pair"-King Crimson
6) "Moving Pictures"-Rush
7) "Appetite for Destruction"-Guns N' Roses
8) "Master of Puppets"-Metallica
9) "Making Movies"-Dire Straits
10) "5150"-Van Halen

tybird

merkinball wrote:

Loulou wrote:

Madness- Absolutely

Yay! Love this album, it's on my 10 favorites too:

(no particular order)
Neil Young ~ Freedom
Lou Reed ~ New York
Madness ~ Absolutely
Oingo Boingo ~ Only a Lad
Tom Waits ~ Franks Wild Years
R.E.M. ~ Life's Rich Pageant
Peter Gabriel ~ IV (Security)
U2 ~ Unforgettable Fire
Police ~ Ghost in the Machine
Grateful Dead ~ Reckoning

Honorable Mentions: Dire Straits ~ Brothers in Arms, Dead Kennedys ~ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Great call on the Peter Gabriel album!!!

Yefa

Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Joy Division - Closer
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Prince - Purple Rain
Guns n Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Metallica - Ride The Lightning
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me
Neil Young - Freedom

Honorable Mention: Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs And Stories, R.E.M. - Murmur, Faith No More - The Real Thing, Megadeth - Peace Sells, But Who's Buying?, Rush - Moving Pictures

curmudgeoness

My age is showing. I can come up with a lot more than ten favorites!

The Church -- Starfish
Violent Femmes -- Violent Femmes
REM -- Murmur
Roxy Music -- Avalon
Talking Heads -- Remain in Light
Hoodoo Gurus -- Mars Needs Guitars!
Everything But the Girl -- Love Not Money
Peter Gabriel -- So
Elvis Costello -- Punch the Clock
The Clash -- Sandinista!
Midnight Oil -- Diesel and Dust
U2 -- The Unforgettable Fire
The Style Council -- Cafe Bleu
And HOW could I forget: Lloyd Cole and the Commotions -- Rattlesnakes (This is why I should not be on-line when I'm half-asleep.)


Other good ones:
Kate Bush -- Hounds of Love
Sinead O'Connor -- The Lion and the Cobra
The Cure -- Kiss me, Miss Me, Kiss Me
Yaz -- Upstairs at Eric's
Depeche Mode -- Some Great Reward
New Order -- Low-Life
Echo and the Bunnymen -- Ocean Rain

No Coder

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Midnight Oil- 10-1
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Bon Jovi - New Jersey
Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
Jimmy Barnes - Frieght Train Heart
Transvision Vamp - Velveteen ( Guilty Pleasure)
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
John Cougar Mellencamp- Scarecrow

craigb

1. Murmur - REM
2. Combat Rock - The Clash
3. Stone Roses - Stone Roses
4. Appetite for Destruction - Guns N Roses
5. Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction
6. Doolittle - Pixies
7. Joshua Tree - U2
8. Let it Be - The Replacements
9. Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
10. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

gabers

Hard to find 10 for this decade. Most of the stuff I listened to in the 80's I don't really listen to any more. In no order except The Smiths at the top.

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Police – Synchronicity
Guns N’ Roses – Appetite for Destruction
Van Halen – 1984
The Cure – Disintegration
R.E.M. – Document
INXS – Kick
The Clash – Combat Rock
U2 – The Joshua Tree
Bruce Springsteen – Born in the U.S.A.

josevolution

Big Country
The Crossing .....


Come up screaming
Come up screaming

I’ve never seen you look like this without a reason
Another promise fallen through
Another season passes by you

I never took the smile away from anybody’s face
And that’s a desperate way to look
For someone who is still a child

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

I thought that pain and truth
Were things that really mattered
But you can’t stay here
With every single hope you had shattered

I’m not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

So take that look out of here it doesn’t fit you
Because it’s happened
Doesn’t mean you’ve been discarded
Pull up your head off the floor
Come up screaming
Cry out for everything you ever might have wanted

I thought that pain and truth
Were things that really mattered
But you can’t stay here
With every single hope you had shattered

I’m not expecting to grow flowers in a desert
But I can live and breathe
And see the sun in wintertime

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

In a big country dreams stay with you
Like a lover’s voice fires the mountainside
Stay alive

markymark550

Nirvana - Bleach
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Mother Love Bone - Apple

In terms of albums, that's about it.

pjhawks

1) Def Leppard - Pyromania - my 1st real favorite album as a kid - just awesome
2) Peter Gabriel - So
3) Dire Straits - Money for Nothing
4) Yes - 90125
5) Van Halen - 1984
6) Bruce Springsteen - The River
7) Genesis - Genesis
8) the Hooters - Amore (local philly group 1st independent record, good stuff)
9) Tommy Conwell and Young Rumblers - Rumble (local philly group, thought they'd be huge)
10) Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Soundtrack

craigb

R.E.M. - Document or Murmur (both are fantastic)
Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Stone Roses - Stone Roses
The Smiths - Meat is Murder
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
Pixies - Doolittle
Replacements - Tim
Nirvana - Bleach
Meat Puppets - II

g under p

The 80's the start of my diverse musical tastes....

















































That's all I can think of for the moment...

Peace

Johnny Abruzzo

Johnny Abruzzo wrote:

Newch91 wrote:

I don't even know if I have 10 favorite by one per artist.

I hear ya. I'm working on getting up to 10. The 90s will be a different story - I have a list of about 20 right now. :?

Here's what I have so far:
Aerosmith: Pump
Bruce: Born in the USA
Metallica: Ride the Lightning
The Police: Synchronicity
Queensryche: Rage for Order
REM: Green
Soundgarden: Louder Than Love
The Stone Roses
U2: The Unforgettable Fire

I"ve reassessed my list.

Bruce: Born in the USA
Metallica Ride the Lightning
Neil: Freedom
The Police: Syncronicity
Queensryche: Operation Mindcrime
REM: Lifes Rich Pageant
Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation
Soundgarden: Louder Than Love
Stone Roses: s/t
U2: The Unforgettable Fire

DewieCox

Appetite For Destruction
Master of Puppets
Moving Pictures
Back In Black
Joshua Tree
Blizzard of Oz
Coda

Guess I don't listen to much 80s music. I have some other stuff, but nothing that would qualify for such a list.

pandora

bluegrace

Here's my list, 14 of them. (Tried to narrow it down, but I couldn't )

1. Pixies – Doolittle
2. Joy Division – Closer
3. Sonic Youth – Daydream Nation
4. Nirvana – Bleach
5. U2 – The Unforgettable Fire
6. Echo and the Bunnymen – Ocean Rain
7. The Cult – Love
8. Kate Bush – The Dreaming
9. Depece Mode – Speak & Spell
10. Simple Minds – New Gold Dream
11. Duran Duran – Rio
12. The Smiths – The Queen is Dead
13. Cocteau Twins – Treasure
14. Madness – The Rise and Fall

No Coder

Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
G'N'R - Appetite for Destruction
Eurythmics - Revenge
Transvision Vamp - Velveteen
Living Color - Vivid
Crowded House - Crowded House
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow
Prince - Purple rain

Jason P

I just ordered 14 used CD's based on everyone's recommendations. Thanks for the tips!