Soul Mining is a goto listen. Has to be a place in there for a Talk Talk album for me, just can’t decide between there three 80’s albums (Its my life; Colour of Spring or Spirit of Eden)
Chillis album was 91... Something by The Cure should be up there, maybe Pornography? George Best by The Wedding Present
Ok I’ll swap the Chillies for Head on the Door by The Cure and add All About Eve by All about Eve (only because I used to work with Andy the base player and he was a top man)
Billy Bragg-Lifes a riot with spy vs spy Stones Rose's-Stone Roses Tindersticks-Hungry Saw Joy Division-Closer Wedding Present-George Best The Smiths-The Smith's The Fall- The nations saving grace The Pogues-Rum Sodomy and the Lash The Cure-The head on the door James-Stutter Sorry nicked most of these! Sadly still have songs from all of these albums on my playlist, not sure if that means these were absolute classics, or just lost touch in the last 3 decades!
Like i say 90's was when I started buying albums but quick 80's faves - AC/DC - Back in Black R.E.M. - Murmur Iron Maiden - Seventh Son of a Seventh Son Judas Priest - British Steel GNR - Appetite for Destruction Queen - The Works Magnum - On a Storytellers Night R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant The Smiths - The Queen is Dead James - Strip Mine
No one has mentioned Bauhaus! Cure Joy Division Clash Crass Smiths Subhumans ... should be on all lists.
So that's your excuse - I was thinking it would be your dabbling in experimental substances that may have clouded your memory....
I’m a big REM fan too, and like you, was too young to appreciate the 80’s as it happened. My first album was out of time and I then investigated their older stuff. Good shout from Stan, Green is brilliant, maybe Reckoning would be my other notable mention. Did you ever listen to dead letter office?
If this had been for the 70s there would be a hundred here. But here goes: 1. Crosby Stiils and Nash - 'Daylight Again' 2. Neil Young - 'Freedom' 3. Gregg Almann - 'Just Before the Bullets Fly' 4. Roy Harper - 'Whatever Happened to Jugula' (with Jimmy Page) 5. The Pogues - 'If I Should fall from the grace of God' 6. Pink Floyd - 'The Final Cut' 7. U2 - 'Rattle and Hum' 8. Roy Harper - 'Loony on the Bus' 9. Lynton Kwesi Johnson - 'Bass Culture' 10. Steel Pulse - 'True Democracy'
I went from a boy to a man in the eighties. I was thirteen when I entered the decade and twenty-three when I left it. So I think your musical taste can vary fairly significantly as you mature. Here are ten albums that I purchased during the decade and were played endlessly on the old turntable. Probably not the best ten albums, but I enjoyed them and still do. 1. Level 42 - World Machine 2. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA 3. Japan - Tin Drum 4. OMD - Architecture & Morality 5. UB40 - UB44 6. The Faith Brothers - A Human Sound 7. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen 8. Tears For Fears - Songs from the Big Chair 9. Madness - Absolutely 10. Duran Duran - Notorious
