I want to make a playlist based on great 80s music, but there is probably a lot I've never heard or even know about, so please post your favourite album/song from the 80s y'all. What I have in mind so far is Talking Heads and XTC
Essential 80s
Jack Brown
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Angel Garcia
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
The Replacements - Tim
The Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
Xavier Garcia
Jason Reed
nice, i actually have never heard of The Go-Betweens but i like the sound, will check out the rest as well
Grayson Edwards
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
King Crimson - Discipline
This Heat - Deceit
Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance
David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
Pixies - Doolittle
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Penguin Cafe Orchestra
Pere Ubu - The Art of Walking
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - Magnetic Flip
Adrian Richardson
most of these are too experimental
please post more accessible music
thank you :)
Owen Garcia
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Jaxson Cox
thanks
this is one of my favorite albums
David Wilson
Motorhead
Liam Ramirez
Jonathan Russell
i have no idea why killing joke are as relatively underrated as they are
the 1980 s/t, night time and what's this for are as good as anything that pil or the fall or the sisters of mercy or the cure ever put out and yet killing joke don't seem to be nearly as revered as any of those bands
Angel Perry
Hey OP you ever listened to the best 80s album?
Jordan Reed
Sonic youth bad moon rising and evol
butthole surfers psychic powerless another man's sac
Ethan Diaz
Killing Joke were embarrassingly inconsistent. First 2 albums are incredible. Nighttime is great. Brighter Than A Thousand Suns (which got the most promotion) suuuuuuuuuucked.
Extremities, Dirt & Various Repressed Emotions was such a great album.
So, yeah. Killing Joke= 4 iconic albums, S/T, WTF, EDAVRE, Nighttime. A few good albums (Pandemonium, Fire Dances) and some really shitty (or at the very least inconsistent) albums.
If you ever wonder why Killing Joke never made it big in the 80's listen to Brighter Than 100 Suns for as long as you can stand to.
Jaxson Turner
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This thread has made me depressed that I'm never going to get to be a college radio DJ in the 80s.
Samuel Cooper
Juan Martin
Rebel Yell is legit one of the best pop albums of the 80s.
Fucking Duran Duran have received their critical reappraisal, so I don't see why Billy Idol hasn't received his yet.
Austin Edwards
Robert Robinson
Lucas Rodriguez
fuck I forgot Red Shoes (the Lily link) was 93
have another
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Chase Ramirez
James Sanchez
So many good artists. It's too bad 80s nostalgia shit like those VH1 "Best of 1987" or whatever specials only covers plebian stuff like Madonna and GNR.
Luis Ramirez
this
also Prefab Sprout and Aztec Camera
Nicholas Thompson
The Stone Roses- The Stone Roses
The Smiths- Strangeways Here we Come
The Jesus and the Marychain- Psychocandy
Sonic Youth- Daydream Nation
Spacemen 3- The Perfect Prescription
The Pet Shop Boys- Please
The Cure- Disintegration
Brian Eno- Ambient 4
Joy Division- Closer
Depeche Mode- Music For the Masses
Excessive but essential imo
Angel Thompson
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Props on posting this. Wire's 80s output is unbelievably underrated.
Leo Brooks
SQUEEZE
WHY DOES NOBODY TALK ABOUT SQUEEZE
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Jordan Phillips
I dunno, pretty much all of the people I know who are into PIL and The Fall are also familiar with KJ.
The Sisters Of Mercy and The Cure eventually became huge arena-filling pop bands, so it makes sense a lot of their audience wouldn't be familiar with these sorts of more underground bands.
I will never not defend Brighter Than A Thousand Suns desu.
That album was ruined when the band's record label brought in a second producer to remix and soften the record up against the band's wishes. The original mix of the album is still obviously not as good as Night Time, but it makes a lot more sense than the remixed version which was initially released in 1986.
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Cameron Gonzalez
>The Replacements - Tim
"Here Comes A Regular" is a masterpiece on every level.
>WELL A PERSON CAN WORK UP
>A MEAN MEAN THIRST
>AFTER A HARD DAY OF NOTHING MUCH AT ALL
>THE SUMMER'S PASSED, IT'S TOO LATE
>TO CUT THE GRASS
>THERE AIN'T MUCH TO RAKE ANYWAY IN THE FALL