That’s a matter of opinion, as is my opinion that compilations don’t count
Thankfully, your opinion means as little as mine.
Thankfully, your opinion means as little as mine.
Sure. You're absolutely entitled to believe that a compilation of 1970s tracks is a 1980s album.
not the greatest but deserve a mention
Sade - Diamond Life
and
Three Man Army - A Third of a Lifetime, because rules are there to be broken...
thanks for all the contributions will be checking them out 🙂
Best Punk - Subhumans "From the Cradle To The Grave"
Best Non Punk - New Model Army "Thunder and Consolation"
No Wham? Am disappointed.
Marillion-Fugazi
Goodbye Mr MacKenzie -Good Deeds and Dirty Rags
Cure - Disintegration
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
ABC-Lexicon of Love
ZZtop-Eliminator
Sure. You’re absolutely entitled to believe that a compilation of 1970s tracks is a 1980s album
Me and the rest of the internet.
Best Punk – Subhumans “From the Cradle To The Grave”
Best Non Punk – New Model Army “Thunder and Consolation
Now we're talking. I was going to pick Impurity by NMA (or No Rest). If we were going for Dick Lucas I would have gone for Go Wild! But not sure if a mini album would count with some of the mad rules that people are making up 😂
Me and the rest of the internet.
At least two people on the internet disagree, so I'm afraid you're wrong on that one.
Though if you're going to use the logical fallacy of popularity, I'd suggest a 1970s compilation:
No worries, Have a great evening 🍻
Jeez, some people could have an unnecessary row in solitary confinement 🤣
I'm with bunnyhop on this,songs from the big chair
By tears for fears is the perfect 80s album.
The Stone Roses.
As produced by my mates father in law, I'm sure he'll be so chuffed for being bigged up on STW 🤣
Surprised by the number saying Doolittle over Surfer Rosa?
Can’t argue with statistics. (no idea who It was by though 😉 )
Well you can. That's a list of most popular, not the greatest. I got into the 700s before I found a "great" one. Of course that's just my opinion, but that's the point.
Not the greatest I know but at the time it was great because it was fun. Men at work… Business as Usual. Cargo was good too.
Of course 1980 is in the 80's. Say it out loud, does it say 'eighty' somewhere in there? Does nineteen ninety contain the sound 'eighty'
No way is Songs from the big chair a better album than the Hurting.
Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran
Could name 50 great albums but no 1 would be First and last and always - sisters of mercy
I was born in 80, from the back seat of our Gold Austin Meastro, it was either Please, or Actually by The Pet Shop Boys, or Tears For Fears as the greatest album of the 80s.
Actually I go with Tears for Fears the big chair
These threads are great, I've just listened to a few Grace Jones records having only known the obvious tracks previously
Oh my, I love Grace Jones's work. Possibly my favourite track of hers:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qk5vK34rQk8
Dare is ace.
We can all pick four/maybe five that’s the easy choice. It’s just one folks. Just one.
Just not possible. I wouldn’t even attempt it, there are so many great albums from so many great bands across so many different genres it’s daft to even consider it.
U2 The Joshua Tree, Peter Gabriel had three terrific albums out through the 80’s, one of them was the first CD I bought, because the vinyl version was so badly made, I returned three copies because they were unlistenable, and that was PG4: Security, from 1984 but there was PG3: Melt from 1980 and So from1986.
Then there’s Talk Talk - It’s My Life: 1984, The Colour Of Spring: 1986, Spirit Of Eden: 1988 - three extraordinary albums across a decade that are still cited as a huge influence on many artists, not least because Mark Hollis refused to bow to record company demands for hits and wouldn’t compromise his vision for what the band should create.
That now requires that I pour a large shot of Woodford Reserve bourbon, stick my headphones on, and put on some Talk Talk.
’Night all.
Greatest effect on me - Reflections, Gil Scott-Heron
My brother bought this record, but i played it to death - it was literally unlike anything i'd ever heard before. It was an opening up of what music was
Greatest effect on and beyond the 80's - Graceland, Paul Simon
Graceland was problematic, but ultimately it was a beginning of love over hate, and i genuinely think a contributory factor in the beginning of the end of Apartheid.
Also it tapped in to a growing feel for a musical world outside of the US and Europe, making 'World Music' a new genre.
It's also a fantastic piece of work, which helps.
every source I’ve checked says the 1980s started on 1/1/1980 and greatest hits albums are albums.
Check Wikipedia in about 5 minutes and you'll see that it completely agrees with me.
Dude, the 80's is anything that starts with an 8.
Wikipedia can kiss your ass until Sunday but that won't change nothing.
The The fans might want to think about Infected above Soul Mining.
Especially in light of the very 80's 'video album' vibe.
Infect me with your love.
Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout.
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From left, clockwise: The first Space Shuttle, Columbia, lifts off in 1981; US president Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev ease tensions between the two superpowers, leading to the end of the Cold War; The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 is considered to be one of the most momentous events of the 1980s; In 1981, the IBM Personal Computer is released; In 1985, the Live Aid concert is held in order to fund relief efforts for the famine in Ethiopia during the time Mengistu Haile Mariam ruled the country; Pollution and ecological problems persisted when the Soviet Union and much of the world is filled with radioactive debris from the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, and in 1984, when thousands of people perished in Bhopal during a gas leak from a pesticide plant ; The Iran–Iraq War leads to over one million dead and $1 trillion spent, while another war between the Soviets and Afghans leaves over 2 million dead.
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The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the 80s" or "the Eighties") was a decade that began January 1, 1980 and ended December 31, 1989.
Way too many to choose a definitive greatest.
And this still sound great now, despite being extremely odd in places
I can’t believe it got to 3 pages before someone (thank you Binners) mentioned OMD Architecture & Morality. Some of the most evocative, haunting melodies in one place. And yes, it still sounds great.
Special mention for me is the single Same Old Scene by Roxy Music, which seemed to sum up the feel of the decade before it had even really began.
Dear Christ, I can't even pick the greatest Iron Maiden album of the 1980s, and that's just one group in one genre.
I love so many of the albums mentioned. In the 80s, i hadn't even heard of many of the bands and wouldn't have listened to them anyway because they didn't fit with what I considered to be great music. As I've grown older my musical tastes have also grown and now my love of Reign In Blood sits happily alongside my love of other albums such as Brothers In Arms, Elizium, Thriller
Never really "got" the Stone Roses though 😜
the nephilim,
thunder and consolation,
first last and always,
love
scum
still some of my all time faves, cant choose between them (all depnds on mood)
Bob Marley - Confrontation. Great songs, political content, just a masterpiece
Absolutely agree with OP nothing has ever surpassed that album
I know I’ve had a go already, but my suggestion was released in 1980, so not sure if it counts now 🙂. So, another one would be The Trinity Session - Cowboy Junkies (1988).
Faith no More - The Real Thing
Some bedsit classics here...
Stone Roses is what popped in my head when I saw this thread, I must admit. Soul Mining was a far bigger deal for me. I was younger basically, living in a flats in Sheffield, and the bleakness and industrial sound kind of fit. But for "greatest album", Stone Roses you heard everywhere, and unlike The The it was everyone's music, part of a collective moment, and there aren't many albums you can say that about.
Not that I've listened to either for years/decades.
How about: Substance, New Order? (Compilation albums are albums). Or Paul's Boutique? Both still sound fantastic.
(The "collective moment" one from the 90s would be oasis's 2nd album, really not my thing but undeniable at the time. Walking into random London pubs and everyone is singing along to the jukebox. Could that even happen now? Welsh footy songs aside...)
So, another one would be The Trinity Session – Cowboy Junkies (1988).
I adore this record, lost my copy years ago so my wife bought me a mint original last Christmas. It's an absolute haunting and beautiful masterpiece.
Dare.
Well you can. That’s a list of most popular, not the greatest. I got into the 700s before I found a “great” one. Of course that’s just my opinion, but that’s the point
The Trinity Session – Cowboy Junkies (1988).
Exactly the album I was alluding to regrading my earlier comment.
Not cool and I will be alone in this but my favourite (I’d concede no one will consider it ‘the best’) was Poison’s open up and say ahh!
For a teenage boy living in Essex this band opened my eyes to a world of debauchery I could only dream of and this album was the soundtrack to those fantasies (along with about every other hair metal release at the time!)
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
The Smiths - Strangeways here we come
Public Enemy, It Takes a Nation of Millions to hold us back.
This thread should be " your favourite album" as there are many recommended that are not great at all. Music is too tied up with the associations we have with it for any of us to give an objective view
Objectively "Thriller"must be up there but I personally cannot stand it
