Poll--The Weakest Link: BEST SELLING RECORDS OF THE 1980s Round 4

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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,764
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    Odd to see The Wall winning.  Springsteen's record was WAY huger where I was back in the day.  But, I guess a lot of you were still in training wheels in the early 80's, right? lol!
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  • Pap
    Pap Serres, Greece Posts: 30,147
    Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.

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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,814
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    mickeyrat said:
    mrussel1 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    the poll is on best selling of 80's

    not one with most singles


    thinking this comes down to age of poster. I was 12 when the wall came out. saw the movie in theaters too. so it was a part of my musical taste formation. which tends to be primarily classic rock. Bruce fits there too, to be sure. just not like PF LZ Jimi etc......
    The selections he made were were the best selling record of each year in the decade, then go from there.  If the point was to choose the best selling record of the 80s, well then it wouldn't be a poll.  I'm calling out the singles as an example of how popular the record was/is. 

    I don't know if it's an age thing or not.  BITUSA was a record that was a smash in the pop and the rock world.  The Wall is completely different.  It's a rock opera with a distinct stoner base.  

    popular doesnt equate to best.

    poison was popular. milli vanilli was too
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  • Hobbes
    Hobbes Pacific Northwest Posts: 6,438
    Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.
    Simply fucking brilliant!

    I've got a little black book with my poems in
    Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in
    When I'm a good dog
    They sometimes throw me the bone in

    I got elastic bands keepin' my shoes on
    Got those swollen hand blues
    I got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from
    I've got electric light

    And I've got second sight
    I got amazing powers of observation
    And that is how I know, when I try to get through
    On the telephone to you, there'll be nobody home

    I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm and the inevitable pinhole burns
    Now all down the front of my favorite satin shirt
    I've got nicotine stains on my fingers, I've got a silver spoon on a chain
    Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains

    I've got wild staring eyes
    And I've got a strong urge to fly, but I got nowhere to fly to
    Ooh, babe when I pick up the phone there is still nobody home
    I've got a pair of Gohills boots and I got fading roots

  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,965
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    Hobbes said:
    Simply fucking brilliant!

    I've got a little black book with my poems in
    Got a bag with a toothbrush and a comb in
    When I'm a good dog
    They sometimes throw me the bone in

    I got elastic bands keepin' my shoes on
    Got those swollen hand blues
    I got thirteen channels of shit on the TV to choose from
    I've got electric light

    And I've got second sight
    I got amazing powers of observation
    And that is how I know, when I try to get through
    On the telephone to you, there'll be nobody home

    I've got the obligatory Hendrix perm and the inevitable pinhole burns
    Now all down the front of my favorite satin shirt
    I've got nicotine stains on my fingers, I've got a silver spoon on a chain
    Got a grand piano to prop up my mortal remains

    I've got wild staring eyes
    And I've got a strong urge to fly, but I got nowhere to fly to
    Ooh, babe when I pick up the phone there is still nobody home
    I've got a pair of Gohills boots and I got fading roots

    It is genius, but I can't necessarily relate to what's in Roger's head.  These lyrics are precisely how I grew up, outside of Cleveland in a fading industrial town where the jobs were leaving.  It's a snapshot in time of America. I relate to these..

    I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
    Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
    I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
    He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
    This is your hometown
    This is your hometown
    This is your hometown

    In '65 tension was running high at my high school
    There was a lot of fights between the black and white
    There was nothing you could do
    Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
    Words were passed in a shotgun blast
    Troubled times had come to my hometown
    My hometown
    My hometown
    My hometown

    Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
    Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
    They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
    Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown
    Your hometown
    Your hometown
    Your hometown

    Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
    talking about getting out
    Packing up our bags maybe heading south
    I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
    Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
    This is your hometown
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,167
    Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.
    Bruce was reporting the external in his way.
    Roger confessing the internal in his way.

    I happen to identify with the wall which is why its the stronger of the 2. I feel it as true to me and my experience. that beginning
    sense of separateness leads to more only drug and alcohol induced separateness. inability to connect.
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,965
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    mickeyrat said:
    Bruce was reporting the external in his way.
    Roger confessing the internal in his way.

    I happen to identify with the wall which is why its the stronger of the 2. I feel it as true to me and my experience. that beginning
    sense of separateness leads to more only drug and alcohol induced separateness. inability to connect.
    That's a good analogy.  And I think it speaks to why some people connect so closely with Roger and others with Bruce.  When I read/listen the lyrics to songs My Hometown, Growin' Up, Thunder Road, Sandy and so many others, it just shoots me back mentally to my youth and where I grew up.  I love Pink Floyd, particularly Meddle through Animals, but it's so cynical that it can be a very heavy burden at times.  Bruce is closer to PJ, where you ride the waves between joy, sadness, life, birth, death, etc.  It's more real to me. 
  • tbergs
    tbergs Posts: 10,497
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    I guess it's The Wall. Oh well.
    It's a hopeless situation...
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 45,167
    Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.
     https://youtu.be/GGGO9nPO0Po

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    memories like fingerprints are slowly raising.................................... first niagara center buffalo '13
    another man ..... moved by sleight of hand...................................... joe louis arena detroit '14
  • MedozK
    MedozK Tennessee Posts: 9,212
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    And the winner is THE WALL.
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,965
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    MedozK said:
    And the winner is THE WALL.
    1979
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,956
    Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.
    mrussel1 said:
    MedozK said:
    And the winner is THE WALL.
    1979

    Hahahah.  Bitter Bruce fan comment. 
    It was the best selling record of 1980. 

    So long as Jackson did not win I am happy, although the 1979 album was the one I would have picked from the start.
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,965
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    F Me In The Brain said:
    mrussel1 said:
    MedozK said:
    And the winner is THE WALL.
    1979

    Hahahah.  Bitter Bruce fan comment. 
    It was the best selling record of 1980. 

    So long as Jackson did not win I am happy, although the 1979 album was the one I would have picked from the start.
    I'm mostly just kidding.  Obviously this doesn't matter.  FWIW, I own three different copies of the Wall but only two of BITUSA.  They couldn't be any more different.  
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,956
    Bruce Springsteen, Born in the U.S.A.
    mrussel1 said:
    F Me In The Brain said:
    mrussel1 said:
    MedozK said:
    And the winner is THE WALL.
    1979

    Hahahah.  Bitter Bruce fan comment. 
    It was the best selling record of 1980. 

    So long as Jackson did not win I am happy, although the 1979 album was the one I would have picked from the start.
    I'm mostly just kidding.  Obviously this doesn't matter.  FWIW, I own three different copies of the Wall but only two of BITUSA.  They couldn't be any more different.  

    Yeah, I knew that and was laughing back. 
    Agree on them being very different records....
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,814
    Pink Floyd, The Wall
    I missed out on voting, oh well.  

    I don't own any of these records anyways...
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