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Off Topic Best Albums of the 80s

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  1. Sooperhoop

    Sooperhoop Well-Known Member

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    Loved Marillion, always felt they'd arrived in the wrong decade...
     
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    You'll like this from my collection then....

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    That's brilliant, I notice on side 2 a copy of 'Sounds' which I bought every week from it's 1st edition 50 years ago. F*ck me, things like that really make you think...
     
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    I was an NME reader, from age of 13 I'd guess. Loved the big broadsheet, then they changed to a ****ty little magazine. Still bought it most weeks, but when it went free and was given away alongside Metro and other ****e it really went downhill.
     
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    Sad really, the Internet is quietly killing the printed media. Back in the 70s the music press was really vibrant, the adverts were nearly as good as the articles...
     
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    Q Magazine died this year, something you just assume would never be possible.
     
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    I read yesterday that Paul Heaton made a sizeable donation to them before they closed (to help pay bills and staff).

    I'm really not a fan of the Beautiful South but have to give huge credit to him for that.
     
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    Steels - in the words of Kevin keegan I Love it!
     
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    Hasn't Q magazine just gone under ?

    Ooppss....should of read further down
     
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    Totally with you there Steels. I had both NME and Sounds weekly. Couldn’t be done without in my eyes. Did the occasional Melody Maker, but it was always a distant third for me.
     
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    Honourable mentions for Gang of Four - Entertainment! And Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy.

    In my day NME was the punk/new music paper; Sounds was heavy metal/rock and Melody Maker was nothing much.
     
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    Yes I like a bit of Jesus and Mary Chain.
     
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    I still buy their LPs and listen to ‘em regular like. Hogarth is an excellent singer and they’ve done some very much underrated stuff post-Fish. The ‘Marbles’ album is a masterpiece.
     
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    Just looked Sounds up on Wiki and their first edition was on 10th October 1970, 50 years ago yesterday! I never knew my memory was so accurate, I have trouble remembering what happened 50 minutes ago...:grin:
     
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    It was very much the 'musicians' magazine. Plenty of funny ads for band members, I knew a few who got gigs from ads on a regular basis...
     
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