Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1982!!

ABC – The Lexicon of Love
Associates - Sulk
Duran Duran – Rio
Michael Jackson – Thriller
Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel IV
Prince – 1999
Roxy Music – Avalon
Simple Minds – New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
The Cure – Pornography
XTC - English Settlement
Yazoo – Upstairs at Eric’s

^ *sighs* one of these!

I'm going with Flipper

Hex Enduction / On Land knee jerk response. 1999 is good too but I've not been in a Prince mood for years.

Lots of acts here where I preferred the album before or the album after tbh.

Milo Goes To College

... e.g. Rheingold. Never expected to see them in one of these polls. (xp)

man, some really fucking great albums here, but it comes down to Imperial Bedroom vs. Avalon for me. Leaning towards Costello cause I think Avalon is gonna get a lot of support, and also for the regal chord progression on Man Out of Time and the peerless situational imagery in Beyond Belief

gonna stan hard for that Thomas Dolby album, especially if you can get it in its original configuration. XTC and Costello are #2 and #3 for me.

Blue Mask

another great one-hit wonder album: Call of the West by Wall of Voodoo. very Devo-ish but there's still nothing quite like it out there

went with Richard and Linda, already wishing I'd picked 1999 instead. can't go wrong with Nebraska or King Sunny Ade either. I love The Fall too but honestly I can never remember which songs are on which album so I'll probably never vote for one of theirs in a poll like this.

at least I know 1983 won't be nearly this tough, that one's Murmur all the way.

Orange Juice, especially if you're combining their two records! Could also have easily voted Roxy, Rio, ABC or The Fall.

Orange Juice for me as well. Then Hex Induction Hour and Nikki Sudden's Waiting on Egyp.

t.

Went with Thomas Dolby over ABC. Play both weekly, but the Dolby particularly brings up pleasant college summer memories.

Choosing between Rio and Pornography is like choosing between my brothers, except I think I prefer Rio and Pornography

The Dreaming is probably the one I go to the most these days. Rio and The Nightfly also deserve consideration.

on land, the only ambient album i need.

On Land was my study music for a long time, easily the album here I've played the most.

christ, how am i supposed to choose from those?

while i mull it over, here's some more:

african head charge - environmental studies
akiki yano - ai ga nakucha ne
albert marceour - deux lions au soleil
aleksander rjabov & the synthesis ensemble - dialogues
alfonia tims & his flying tigers - future funk/uncut!
amos & sara - sara goes pop
balance - in for the count
bappi lahiri - disco dancer
begnagrad - s/t
bob theil - so far
bobb trimble - harvest of dreams
brigada kryzys - s/t
catastrophe - high dynamic
chet baker - peace
chiemi manabe - mysterious girl
devo - oh no! it's devo
discharge - hear nothing see nothing say nothing
v/a - colonial vipers
fausto bordalo dias - por este rio acima
hiroshi sato - awakening
v/a - peripheral vision
the honeymoon killers - les tueurs de la lune de miel
jed - merlin's song
le super djata band du mali - en super forme vol. 1
mark stewart - learning to cope with cowardice
mekanik kommando - dancing elephants
metallica - no life till leather
moonriders - mania maniera
nina hagen - nunsexmonkrock
pegauro - s/t
the prisoners - a taste of pink
raven - wiped out
the reels - beautiful
the roches - keep on doing
rupa biswas - disco jazz
steve elliott - completion of a miracle
super freego - pourquoi es-tu si mechant?
tatsuro yamashita - for you
ted hawkins - watch your step
tony carey - explorer
translator - heartbeats & triggers
void/faith - void/faith
von zamla - zamlaranamma
wall of voodoo - call of the west
oblachnyj kraj - oblachnyj kraj ii
yumi matsutoya - pearl pierce

fuck it, voted "thermonuclear sweat"

Another great album from 82 - 23 skidoo "seven songs"

To be honest, I really like about 20 albums on this list.

Others I like that aren't here:

Blancmange - Happy Families
Fad Gadget - Under the Flag
Gary Numan - I, Assassin
Paul McCartney - Tug of War
Rush - Signals
The Jam - The Gift
Visage - The Anvil
Split Enz - Time and Tide
Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going!
The Damned - Strawberries
George Clinton - Computer Games
Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out

Nightfly, 1999, or New Gold Dream

My favourite album not on the list is Pelican West by Haircut 100.

I was tempted to add that one actually

Robert Wyatt album is 'Nothing Can Stop Us' not 'Nothing Can Stop Us Now'

This is a tough one again, likely to go for Yazoo over ABC, Associates, Kate Bush and Roxy. Best thing Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet were involved in.

would normally be torn between a bunch of these, but i know i have to vote for in the heat of the night

Holy crap, there are some seriously perfect albums on this list - ABC, Thomas Dolby, XTC, Peter Gabriel, Roxy. And I've loved some of these for a very long time. And stuff like Mission Of Burma and The Associates I came to later but are equally adored. Will have to mull it over...

That Cleaners From Venus album is the real sleeper of this list.

Way too many to list missing albums I love but the real answer for me would be Bill Nelson - The Love That Whirls.

there are...a few versions of Golden Age of Wireless.

I'm torn between Hex Enduction Hour and Thriller. But in the end, I capitulated and voted for Thriller.

Some great albums here, but my vote went to Scritti, easy!

i didn't realize midnight cleaners had become the consensus cleaners from venus album. i tend to take "living with victoria grey" as their definitive effort! love "wivenhoe bells ii" though.

I dont know if it is or not. Its certainly the one I love best.

Flipper were amazing to see live, they had some kind of power over their audience, I've never seen anything like them

they were only EPs, but R.E.M. - Chronic Town and The Three O’Clock - Baroque Hoedown were both incredible

also loved Romeo Void - Benefactor, The Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now, The Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine and Roses

1982 was no 1981, but still a strong showing.

Here's 3 of my favorites that didn't make the list:
The Bongos - Drums Along The Hudson
Squeeze - Singles - 45's And Under
The Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine And Roses

Voted Dexy's.

t'm obsessed with Kendra Smith (The Dream Syndicate) and the idea that she chose a life of obscurity

I know it's off topic

Her subsequent recording of "Five Ways of Disappearing" from the woods of northern california is amazing though

so many classic albums and songs. ultimately, it's really between two: thriller and 1999.

and to that choice i have one thing, and one thing only, in reply:

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is a ridiculously good year, there are half a dozen records here I'd take over anything on the '81 list. Voted for Simple Minds.

holy fuck I didn't see Big Science, that's up with Rio and Pornography in the all-time pantheon

English Settlement, Hex Enduction Hour, New Gold Dream, The Dreaming and that Squeeze compilation also absurdly good

I am not sure about the point of these polls but this year is notably amazing for my formative taste

In the absence of David Darling, On Land. Then again, I've never felt much of a connection with the 80s, so it's easier to just spot the one or two records I genuinely like. Roxy Music and The Cure take the second and third places, respectively.

On Land, I think, such an amazing record, wasn't at all impressed when I first heard it sometime in the 90s, now I reckon it's almost perfect, I've moved recently and no live about an hours drive from Dunwich Beach, soon I will go visit.

On Land for me, too. That area around Dunwich Beach (what with the Sebald layering, too) is fantastic.

what is it with ilm losing its collective edge so monstrously as to overlook some of the best pop/rock albums of all time to vote for ambient fucken eno :P

"you'll realise some day, young pup" yeah whatever, i have curses upon ambient eno and they cannot be unhexed

Nah, I can't imagine you getting into wallpaper music any time soon, although On Land is the most dynamic of Eno's ambient albums. Conversely, I can't stand Big Science – it just reeks of faux avant, and I'll gladly remain a young grasshopper in the wrong forever as regards this one.

I suppose I also harbour a special hatred for all things spoken word.

(Oh, this isn't the 'post a controversial music opinion' thread?)

BECAUSE I'M A CAVEMAN

Well, I'm convinced and will forthwith change my vote.

See? Campaigning works!

i will listen to enodribble 4 at some point soon but don't expect anything more than a weak climbdown along the lines of 'eh i can see the appeal'

big science is the precise mixture of art-serious and fun-annoying that i would always really like tbh

Anything sounds pretentious with Eno, but with that in mind... There's something in the weight of Eno's dreaming (he wrote it in New York, homesick for Suffolk, for the past) that's both able to create nostalgia for a place one has never visited (albeit I have now) and, like the mage in Borges' 'Circular Ruins', somehow able to conjure a place before your very ears. The best art isn't really involved in representation but creation. This is the closest Eno got.

hmm

selling this as a recreation of the suffolk coast is more likely to make it appeal to me. we'll see

on land is def more than you think it is

This list starts with my two favourite albums of all time!

Too Rye Ay, Rio, Avalon, The Dreaming, You Cant Hide You Love Forever, New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84), The Golden Age Of Wireless and Upstairs at Eric’s are all perfect too.

In the absence of David Darling, On Land.

collin walcott

Glad you like it, Alex. It's one of my favourite ECM-ish ECM albums.

on land is def more than you think it is

We should start a petition to get imago to listen to On Land.

quite funny that i discovered on land when i was trying to find out which my favourite 1982 album was. it wasn't even in my initial top ten but none of those albums really convinced me a 100%. someone who used to post here as well suggested it in the comments and after a couple of listens plus reading of the liner notes i was converted.

Amazing year. Went with The Dreaming, just over Big Science, The Nightfly, and English Settlement.

Other big favorites that haven't been mentioned yet:
Sparks - Angst in My Pants
The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?
Game Theory - Blaze of Glory

Shout out for Tantra - Tantra II (mainly for side two), which is just about an album.

Hex Enduction Hour is one of my top 10 favorite albums of all-time but as it stands only barely manages to stave off 1999. Literally two of the best albums of the decade; the only other 80s album that touches either of them imo is EVOL

There are nine albums on this list I absolutely cannot get enough of, but we all know which album I ended up voting for. Let's just say I lived up to my stereotype.

I'm heavily considering voting for the same one! I've narrowed it down to Rio, Avalon and Pornography.

1982 NME Albums

1. Midnight Love - Marvin Gaye
2. Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello
3. The Lexicon Of Love - Abc
4. Combat Rock - The Clash
5. Too Rye Aye - Dexys Midnight Runners
6. Upstairs At Eric’s - Yazoo
7. The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
8. Juju Music - King Sunny Ade
9. Friends - Shalamar
10. Night Nurse - Gregory Isaacs
11. A Kiss In The Dreamhouse - Siouxie & The Banshees
12. Tropical Gangsters - Kid Creole & The Coconuts
13. Beautiful Vision - Van Morrison
14. The Message - Grandmaster Flash
15. Honesty - Curtis Mayfield
16. Nothing Can Stop Us Now - Robert Wyatt
17. The Poet - Bobby Womack
18. Sulk - The Associates
19. Avalon - Roxy Music
20. Kissing To Be Clever - Culture Club
21. Hex Education Hour - The Fall
22. Of Human Feelings - Ornette Coleman
23. Big Science - Laurie Anderson
24. The Rise And Fall - Madness
25. The Gift - The Jam
26. Moving Targets - Gil Scott-Heron
27. Thermo-Nuclear Sweat - Defunkt
28. In The Heat Of The Night - Imagination
29. Junkyard - The Birthday Party
30. The Great Pretender - Lester Bowie
31. New Chapter Of Dub - Aswad
32. Donna Summer - Donna Summer
33. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
34. Words From The Front - Tom Verlaine
35. Not Satisfied - Aswad
36. New Gold Dream - Simple Minds
37. Living My Life - Grace Jones
38. Strange Celestial Road - Sun Ra
39. Mi Cyan Believe It - Michael Smith
40. I Love Rock And Roll - Joan Jett
41. Urban Bushman - Art Ensemble Of Chicago
42. Wynton Marsalis - Wynton Marsalis
43. Miami - Gun Club
44. Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
45. 2 X 45 - Cabaret Voltaire
46. Agwaya - Orchestra Makassy
47. Computer Games - George Clinton
48. Sunrise In Different Dimensions - Sun Ra
49. Dr John Plays Mac Rebennack - Dr John
50. Fourth Drawer Down - The Associates

Melody Maker
NOTE! As Far As I Know, No Lists Appeared In MM For This Year.
BUT This List Did In The Feb 11th 1989 Issue Of MM.

• Orange Juice - You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever
• The Fun Boy Three - Fun Boy Three
• The Cure - Pornography
• Altered Images - Pinky Blue
• Roxy Music - Avalon
• ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
• The Blasters - The Blasters
• B.E.F. - Music Of Quality & Destinction
• Duran Duran - Rio
• The Associates - Sulk
• Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
• The Birthday Party - Junkyard
• Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric’s
• Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever
• Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
• Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
• Scritti Politti - Songs To Remember
• Siouxie & The Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse
• Prince - 1999
• John Cale - Music For A New Society
• Michael Jackson - Thriller
• Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love

OK, so I just noticed John Cale's "Music For A New Society" on the Melody Maker list and that's it's the first time it's been mentioned itt, shocking!

that is a great album, one of his best.

tom has posted in this thread multiple times so is it shocking he never mentioned it?

I haven't really got the time or inclination to go racking my brains for every album I liked that was released in 1982 tbh.

haha you did it throughout the 70s polls!

I didn't actually!

I love a lot of these. it was an important year for me but I don't have a strong preference. maybe it would be between Flipper and Mission of Burma

Combat Rock and Special Beat Service felt like a pop albums to me at the time, I think I listened to them more than any other albums on this list. KUSF wouldn't stop playing them

also Milo Goes To College, a favorite of both KUSF and KALX

Wait, Pinky Blue was 1982? And no one had listed it yet???
In that case, consider me a write-in vote for Altered Images -- that is one of my all-time favorites.

The Time's What Time Is It? is a glaring omission.

I voted Plastic Surgery Disasters without really thinking because that's one of my favourite albums of all time, but then so is Pornography.

The best thing about these polls is seeing two or three completely unfamiliar names among two dozen all-time favourites and then seeing people actually vote for these, prompting me to check them out - this time, that's Cleaners from Venus, Defunkt and Chrome for me (the first of these is already a wonderful discovery, have yet to try the others).

Defunkt are great too, happy to see Thermonuclear Sweat included here.

Voted Nightfly but that's a tough year. The OJ, The Fall, The Birthday Party, The Dexy's albums - I listened to them all a lot at the time.

Love is always scarpering or cowering or fawning
You drink yourself insensitive and hate yourself in the morning

A controversial opinion, I know, but the ornate, fussy arrangements on Imperial Bedroom have always put me off to the album as a whole. I’m not entirely sure about what it is about this style being applied to these songs that I don’t like—avowed Imperial Bedroom fan Aimee Mann’s two 90s albums feel indebted to this record, and I love those—but the presentation mostly stifles them, for me (it is only by hearing “Beyond Belief” and “Man Out of Time” in other settings that I have come to appreciate them as songs). As far as 80s Costello goes, I’ll take King of America and Get Happy!! anyday.

Obviously a great year with endless great records. But within the post-punk/new wave sphere, at least--quite a fall-off from the impossibly heady heights (and breadth) of 1981.

never actually knew of The Associates' Sulk until its reissue in 2000, listened to it heavily over a short period of time then but haven't heard it since

It's a great record stfu LJ :P

Three O’Clock - Baroque Hoedown

This is legit great but I'd rank even higher the Salvation Army LP that came out this year; there's no way it's not one of the most tuneful hardcore records ever

In fact, here's a list bcz I do have the inclination

Hex Enduction Hour
1999
Generic
Nebraska
Ice Cream for Crow
Lydia Lunch - 13.13
Translator - Heartbeats & Triggers*
REM - Chronic Town
The Salvation Army s/t
Interference - s/t**
New Age Steppers - Action Battlefield
Stan Hubbs - Crystal
Sonic Youth - s/t

(*Beaten to the punch by rushomancy yet again haha)
(** Slated for release by Neutral in 1982, I believe, but didn't actually see the light of day until 2010. Amazing af record regardless that deserves the shine)

I haven't heard the New Age Steppers album. Is it a kind of Slits gone dub thing?

Whoops I'll just revise and re-post this

Hex Enduction Hour
1999
Generic
Nebraska
Ice Cream for Crow
Lydia Lunch - 13.13
Translator - Heartbeats & Triggers
REM - Chronic Town
The Salvation Army s/t
Interference - s/t
New Age Steppers - Action Battlefield
The Crawling Chaos - The Gas Chair
Stan Hubbs - Crystal
Sonic Youth - s/t

xp yeah, Mike, in fact I'd even say it's a bit closer to an Ari Up solo record (though it's mostly roots covers) although Neneh Cherry is on it too

forgot about The Salvation Army, basically the same band as The Three O'Clock before it was forced to change its name?

it was really nice, especially "She Turns to Flowers"

I remember loving the Translator album, haven't heard it in a long time

didn't discover Sonic Youth until Evol (one of my favorite albums of all time)

I've been reading Goodbye 20th Century and it made me want to check out a lot of the early SY stuff I'd avoided as a teen; Confusion is Sex is easily top 3 of '83

Special Beat Service finds its way in the car for a couple weeks every Spring.

Also love Captain Beefheart, Kate Bush, and the CURE.

Voted 1999, my favorite Prince album.

A controversial opinion, I know, but the ornate, fussy arrangements on Imperial Bedroom have always put me off to the album as a whole. I’m not entirely sure about what it is about this style being applied to these songs that I don’t like—avowed Imperial Bedroom fan Aimee Mann’s two 90s albums feel indebted to this record, and I love those—but the presentation mostly stifles them, for me (it is only by hearing “Beyond Belief” and “Man Out of Time” in other settings that I have come to appreciate them as songs). As far as 80s Costello goes, I’ll take King of America and Get Happy!! anyday.

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, April 28, 2019 3:02 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

totally disagree about IB, but now i wanna listen to these aimee mann records

A controversial opinion, I know, but the ornate, fussy arrangements on Imperial Bedroom have always put me off to the album as a whole. I’m not entirely sure about what it is about this style being applied to these songs that I don’t like—avowed Imperial Bedroom fan Aimee Mann’s two 90s albums feel indebted to this record, and I love those—but the presentation mostly stifles them, for me (it is only by hearing “Beyond Belief” and “Man Out of Time” in other settings that I have come to appreciate them as songs). As far as 80s Costello goes, I’ll take King of America and Get Happy!! anyday.

― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Sunday, April 28, 2019 4:02 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Weirdly, the arrangements on King of America strike me as much more fussy and delicate -- even (or especially) when the band tries to self-consciously "loosen up" on "Glitter Gulch," "Lovable," and "Eisenhower Blues" -- as those on Imperial Bedroom.

IB feels like a looser record to me: Bruce Thomas does some batshit runs on "Shabby Doll," Pete Thomas gets Moony on "Beyond Belief," and "Tears Before Bedtime" has some of EC's best rhythm playing. In fact, many of the arrangements are pretty spare ("The Long Honeymoon," "Almost Blue," "Human Hands," "Kid About It," maybe throw "Human Hands" in there) and really let the band breathe, but the heavy orchestrations of some of the tracks seem to define (maybe overwhelm) the album, for whatever reason.

well, i just ended up saying fuck it and voted for midnight love because it has 'turn on some music' and that is a fine jam.

i feel like i've just made sophie's choice though.

and it is not a nice feeling.

Hex
Thriller
Thompsons

Voted English Settlement, 1982 was the year I really got into XTC. Many worthy second place contenders here though.

Almost went with XTC but had to go with Thomas Dolby. I still think every track on that album (both versions) is perfect.

At least 12 of these are among my absolute favorites, dang.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

oh fuck, good call on the stan hubbs drugs a. money, i totally forgot about that one (my mp3s are tagged 2011)

never got into the gas chair myself. if we're talking mutantsoundscore, though, i'm gonna go right ahead and namecheck mark tucker's "in the sack"

Finally went with Nebraska over Combat Rock, 1999 and Thriller. My actual favourite album of the year, however, is probably Vanity 6.

Nebraska for me, Clive.

I think Miami is my favourite record from that year.
& i think Tragic Figures was that year too.

What a good year. Went with the underrated Combat Rock. Kind of like Fables of the Reconstruction: two huge pop hits and then a lot of great weird stuff (Sean Flynn! Atom Tan!).

I much prefer this year to 1981 and could have happily gone for Sulk, LoL, YCHYLF, Imperial Bedroom or 1999 but in the end plumped for The Dreaming as it is just about my favourite album ever.

Just before we see the results I'd like to mention two more great albums not on the list (damn you anglosphere hegemony): Schlagende Wetter by Kowalski and Gold und Liebe by D.A.F.

Voted Sulk.

Agree with you in principle, dorsalstop (I voted for DAF’s previous album in the 1981 poll, and let me just remind everyone once more that Palais Schaumburg is where it’s at), but the Kowalski was the only album I ever bought I returned to the shop after listening to it. Didn’t like it at all.

xp

Oh well, I can't stand the Associates, so we're even :)

Have you tried again since? "Stahlmaschinen" and "Ein peinsame Zeit" are my favourites, and there are great versions from a gig in Nijmegen on YT.

fwiw discogs and wikipedia both say Gold und Liebe came out in 1981

No, never tried again. In fact, I may not have ever thought of them again until your post reminded me of my (very minor) Kowalski trauma. Will expose myself to those two tracks again though!

xp

(I’ll give you my favourite Sulk track in return: that would be “Skipping”)

So I listened to no less than five Kowalski tracks, but no. I think it felt like rock in Welle’s clothing to me then, and it still doesn’t do anything for me. I was also reminded of how much I actively disliked the vocals. My 1982 self was right in returning this record. I wouldn’t have enjoyed playing it at any point in my later musical life.

Rinsed my ears with some Thermonuclear Sweat.

Oh well :) Conversely, "Skipping" is pretty good.

fwiw discogs and wikipedia both say Gold und Liebe came out in 1981

― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:23 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

ppl not feeling the pedo's itt

Thriller still bounces that's kinda silly

More people would have complained if it had been left out than actually voted for it

Imagination – In the Heat of The Night 1

just me??? guess that makes sense

More people would have complained if it had been left out than actually voted for it

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy)

yeah, fair enough. great album and the idea that one can "cancel" it is ludicrous but (1) it's up against "the dreaming" and "1999" (2) it contains "the girl is mine", which combined with (3) the pedo thing was enough to get me to say "fuck it" and just vote thermonuclear sweat, because seriously that's an impossible choice

and 4) it’s not as good as Off The Wall.

(which suggests that the fact that OTW underperformed in the 1979 poll as well was also (3) related)

scrap that “also”, I guess

I've just noticed there's been no mention of Horace Andy's Dance Hall Style. This is unforgivable.

11 people quite happy to vote for the one with Rolf Harris on it.

Also, 0 votes for Avalon and Peter Gabriel IV is just WTF, particularly since the Thomas Dolby album placed so high, which isn't in the same league.

1999 a worthy winner though.

1999 worthy no doubt.

Also, 0 votes for Avalon and Peter Gabriel IV is just WTF, particularly since the Thomas Dolby album placed so high, which isn't in the same league.

Objectively, you're probably right. However, I've loved Dolby longer and somehow never tired of hearing those songs. That counts for a lot for me.

Would have voted Kate Bush. Don't know who Rolf Harris is (a muppet?)

He's the Australian Michael Jackson.

the Dolby album is way better than both of those

I might have known mine would be the casting vote between Pornography and Rio! They both deserved it tbh

Also, 0 votes for Avalon and Peter Gabriel IV is just WTF, particularly since the Thomas Dolby album placed so high, which isn't in the same league.

Have to admit, I'm kind of surprised at all the Dolby love too. My roommate at the time had it and played it a lot and I liked it, but it seemed kinda... lightweight? It didn't seem as "important" as the Roxy or Gabriel records at the time. Listening to it today for the first time in years and digging it, though.

I'll always love 'Flying North', which I think is a great song, but...

I hope there's some good stuff on the 83 list

for me it's all about Windpower, Cloudburst, and Europa. plus it has Akiko Yano on it. no brainer for me

I mean the whole album is great though

Agree with you in principle, dorsalstop (I voted for DAF’s previous album in the 1981 poll, and let me just remind everyone once more that Palais Schaumburg is where it’s at), but the Kowalski was the only album I ever bought I returned to the shop after listening to it. Didn’t like it at all.

xp

― breastcrawl, Thursday, May 2, 2019 5:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah I think I finally got to hear that last year or the year before after reading about it in one of my brother's stack of turn of the 80s NMEs and thought the metal percussion thing was supposed to be a lot more integral from that. & was therefore hoping to hear it for years.
I can remember not being very impressed by it but can't remember it too well.
Was it just pedestrian German rock with odd percussive elements.

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1983!!

Basically, yeah. See my “review” a few posts down from the post you replied to.

xp to Stevolende

Thomas Dolby – The Golden Age of Wireless 8
Roxy Music – Avalon 0

Just when you think you know someone...

Pedestrian smh

Wow, Avalon got 0 votes?! How the fuck did that happen? BTW, that was one of the other albums from this list I adore. Given that result I'm surprised my choice (Rio, as if you needed to ask) got as many votes as it did, though I was tempted ever so briefly to spam the online fan community to vote for Rio, thus lifting the album to the very top. I didn't, though a tiny, very guilty part of me wishes I had. (Also shocking me are the one lonely vote given to the Simple Minds and Scritti Politti albums on the list, who are on that list of "nine albums I cannot get enough of" (along with Avalon, Hex Enduction Hour, The Lexicon of Love, Combat Rock, Sulk, and the Peter Gabriel album on the list).

p.s.: If you also voted for Rio and are on Facebook, hmu for a friend request! All Duranies are my friends.

Yeah, Avalon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thomas Dolby wtf?

speak for yourself, they’re both great albums. Golden age of wireless is flawless

Hex Enduction Hour is one of my top 10 favorite albums of all-time but as it stands only barely manages to stave off 1999. Literally two of the best albums of the decade; the only other 80s album that touches either of them imo is EVOL

― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, April 27, 2019 10:33 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*sheepishly re-posts to admit that the user completely forgot about Surfer Rosa whoops*

would normally be torn between a bunch of these, but i know i have to vote for in the heat of the night

― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 26 April 2019 22:34 (one week ago) Permalink

<3 <3 <3

Had I not been thinking that Monotonprodukt 07 was released the following year I would have mentioned it here. But apparently it was 1982 which makes it even more insanely forward thinking.

If I was making this list today, I'd take out Garlands and Iron Maiden and put in China Crisis 'Difficult shapes and passive rhythms' and
Haircut 100 'Pelican West'

ILM got to him in the end

We never did do the reversal of me doing the 80s and you doing the 90s.

boo I love Garlands

Ahh, just checked and I did the 1970s and you did the 1980s and we shared the 1990s.

xp

me too

You could still do the 1970s though, mike

I doubt I'd have a 50 for most 70s years and it probably wouldn't differ much from your lists anyway!

I listened to that Haircut 100 album a lot during lockdown

You had some fantastic days, then?