Name a better pop album from the 80's, I dare you

name a better pop album from the 80's, I dare you

Tears for fears a shit

*blocks your path*

this album is a very hard act to follow

Thriller

literally one good song

>You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my taste. But when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor.
>In '87, Huey released this; Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip To Be Square". A song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity and the importance of trends. It's also a personal statement about the band itself.

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>Tainted Love
>Sex Dwarf
>Entertain Me
>Chips on my Shoulder

thats 4 tho

The Hurting is better. Seeds of Love is their overall best.

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*blocks your path*

Hello mother
It's your son!
And aren't you proud?

crazy they had the best of the 80s and the 90s in a three year span

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>Seeds of Love is their overall best
Contrarian opinion, but a respectable one.

Good choices, but this is the right one.

I dont know which year was better 91 or 98. Fuck

You know Tears For Fears only has one song, right?

*obliterates your second-rate lowkey-contrarian hipsterpop choices with tight disco grooves post-punk energy and glam glitz*

Born in the USA

/thread

I love Tears for Fears but this album exists. So everything else is wrong.

>hasn't heard Shout
confirmed underage.

Nice get

Or, you know. I'm an American. Where these guys were a one hit wonder

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America's fault for having a short attention span.

10/10 but it's not a full album

They had several huge hits in America, you brain-dead fuck, and three of them were from "Songs From The Big Chair".

*blocks your path*

Checked

Yeah, two songs from that album went #1 in America lmao

Of all the 80's bands that could reasonably be argued as one hit wonders, why would you choose this one

This has some really great songs on it but there's too much filler in my opinion.

This is the only correct choice

This is good but its not a pop album

rock music is pop music

>Shout
>Woman in Chains
>Mad World
>Head over Heels
>Sowing the Seeds of Love
>Mothers Talk
>I Believe
>Pale Shelter
>Change

Not even Britbong.

Try telling that to mainstreamfags

popular music =/= pop music =/= music that is popular

even if were pop music this album blows hard

challenge accepted

Can't compete with this m8

>popular music =/= pop music
fake news

*obliterates u*

Hey look - it's one of those retards on the internet you hear about

it is, it is

He's not wrong. Grouping all popular music into the pop genre is incredibly retarded because it basically assumes that everything ever written is either "pop" or "indie" which is a terrible method of actually categorizing anything

this by miles

>because it basically assumes that everything ever written is either "pop" or "indie"
no it means that everything written is either Art music or pop music. which is correct way of thinking

t. lobotomized symphocuck

I can't tell if this is poptimist or anti-poptimist talk

your pop ditties aren't art, chum.

Yo wassup

Not the absolute best but i would have to say Martini Ranch - Holy Cow is THE most underrated 80's album

will also dump more honorable mentions

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I just found out liza mineli and petshop boys did "results" and it is amazing

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*teleports behind u*

お前はもう死んでいる

That's a big album.

Love that album but I also love Mr. Mister.

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This is a good choice, you seem like a man of good taste user

art is entertainment for people with a fragile ego

For you.

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Your gayness

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>This thread
Shaking my sequin glove to be quite honest, family.

this

I love Songs from the Big Chair, though for me Rio might juuusst surpass it.

is right, but at the same time Thriller is kind of a category of its own.

the right answer

Brilliant album, but I would hardly call it a pop album.

Ctrl+F
>No Police

C'mon anons... Synchronicity and Ghost in the Machine were Songs from the Big Chair a year or three before its release right down to the psychological themes.
Really, though the police were better as a hybrid pseudo reggae world music outfit and Zenyatta gets the nod as best.

My genre definitions are sloppy but fuck off:
>Anything Michael Jackson
>Anything Queen
>selective things Depeche Mode
>selective things from the post-Genesis constellation

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I love them but their productivity almost makes you forget when they were happening. When you look at the output it's pretty shocking. Recently the American drummer has made statements about wishing he had been nicer to Sting. Even when they ended they had more to give/say.

>no one has posted this yet
what the hell

No replies? You're kidding me! Great choice by the way.
Another classic
Album's cool, but it goes to hell after the third song. The rest is an ear ache.
What's with the vegetables?

Mind numbing shit.

SKYLARKING

Yeah thia

Yes

my NIGGA

It's in my top five and has been for just about forever. One of those incredible little secrets I'm shocked other people haven't found yet.

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this

the best pop album of that decade is the one that sounds like it belongs to the 60's, naturally.

This is clearly the winner.

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Fantastic, but I don't know if I'd rank it higher than Skylarking.

There's so many classics it's impossible to choose. Here's one that hasn't been posted though.

never heard of that and a few others...

looking at the list its almost like it has to have guitars... Sup Forums doesnt like pure synth

keep it going im torrenting as we speak

If we're talking synthpop, David Gahan's got you beat.

Peter Gabriel is more art-rock than pop though

this

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How has this not been posted?