***OMFG IT'S THE TOTALLY TUBULAR ILX 1980s NOMINATIONS SUGGESTION THREAD***

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entreaties from people familiar with music released from 1980-1989 to people unfamiliar with music released from 1980-1989. lobby away nerds!

― Darryl Strawberry (Darryl Strawberry), Friday, 26 August 2005 05:56 (twenty years ago)

****LAWDY LAWD IT'S THE STOOPID FRESH ILX 1980s MUSIX POLL NOMINATIONS THREAD****

― Darryl Strawberry (Darryl Strawberry), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

Hold on loosely, but don't let it go!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:39 (twenty years ago)

So softly... so sweetly... surrounding you completely..
Sing you a lullabye...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:41 (twenty years ago)

Panic on the streets of London...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

all this scratching is making me itch

― j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

What is the name to call?
For a different kinda girl
Who knows the feelings,
But never the words?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:03 (twenty years ago)

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:04 (twenty years ago)

like Ohh myy Gooddd..like really..remember the like totally square but awesome Square Pegs??!! For sure like totally..God..Pat Benatar so ROCKS!

― OMG, Friday, 26 August 2005 07:53 (twenty years ago)

Why are there two threads for this? So confusing...

― o. nate (onate), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

This is just the suggestions thread. Not actual nominations.

Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Take The Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
Ghosts - Japan
Behind The Wall Of Sleep - The Smithereens
Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns ‘N Roses
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince And The Revolution
Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
Ceremony - New Order
Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
You Made Me Realise - My Bloody Valentine
William It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
I Can’t Go For That - Hall & Oates
I Can’t Take It - Cheap Trick
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
1999 - Prince And The Revolution
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Der Kommisar - After The Fire
Under Pressure - David Bowie & Queen
A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls
Love My Way - The Psychadelic Furs

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:22 (twenty years ago)

Prince - Little Red Corvette
Prince - Kiss
Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over
Dokken - In My Dreams

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:24 (twenty years ago)

Debbie Gibson - "Only In My Dreams"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:23 (twenty years ago)

Grimm Reaper - See You In Hell

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:50 (twenty years ago)

First person to nominate Metallica's "One" or "Master of Puppets" (singles, both), I will allow to choose THREE ALBUMS that I will put on my ballot.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

Also, it might help people sort out the official noms thread and the suggestion thread if the titles weren't in all caps.

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Could we be much closer if we tried?
We could stay at home and stare
into each other's eyes
Maybe we could last an hour
Maybe then we'd see right through...
...always something breaking us in two

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:51 (twenty years ago)

No one looks
I walk by
Just an invitation would have been just fine...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:54 (twenty years ago)

I don't know why sometimes I feel frightened...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:55 (twenty years ago)

DANCE!! INTO THE FIRE!!
THAT FATAL KISS
IS ALL WE NEED
DANCE!! INTO THE FIRE!!
THE FATAL SOUND
OF BROKEN DREAMS

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

How can I explain when there are few words I can choose?
And how can I explain when words get broooooooke-e-e-e-n?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:58 (twenty years ago)

xpost - nice!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

Now how am I going to get to sleep...?

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:59 (twenty years ago)

This grips me more than would a muddy river
or reclining Buddha
Thank god I'm only watching the game,
controlling it...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

The fire in your eyes... keeps me alive
The fire in your eyes... keeps me alive - keepsa me alive

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:02 (twenty years ago)

Two dozen other stupid reasons
Why we should suffer for this

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

There's nothing I wouldn't do, including doing nothing...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:05 (twenty years ago)

When I, you, and everyone we knew
Could beleive, do and share in what was true
And I say

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

And when they ask me "what are you looking at"
I always answer, "nothing much" (not much)
I think they know that I'm looking at them
I think they think I must be out of touch

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:07 (twenty years ago)

COSMIC ALIGNMENT - "Dance Hall Days" was my next.

This track must be nominated. I am calling it a night, as there's no topping this joyous moment of ILX synergy

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:09 (twenty years ago)

I've done everything for you...
You've done nothing for me!

― Rick (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

what you do and what you don't, uhhuh
what you will and what you won't, uhhuh
what you can and what you cain't
this is what you need to know
loved you though it didn't show

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

This track must be nominated. I am calling it a night, as there's no topping this joyous moment of ILX synergy

yeah, I was pretty close to nominating it myself.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:12 (twenty years ago)

nice call with thta Vega track, too.

Just like a car crash
Just like a knife
My favorite weapon
IS THE LOOK IN YOUR EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEES

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

80's -
We push - we struggle!

― We (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:16 (twenty years ago)

Just hold my hand while I come.......

― (thanks rogermexico) (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

All we've got is this moment
The twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does, hey, that's OK...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:21 (twenty years ago)

Keep this frequency clear...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:22 (twenty years ago)

It ain't no use - we're headed for disaster
Our minds said no but our hearts were talking faster...

― ohwhowasikiddingxico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Kick 'em when they up, kick 'em when they down...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

You want a piece of my heart
you better start from the start
you wanna be in the show
come on baby, LET'S GO!!!!!

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:28 (twenty years ago)

(like THAT hook won't be stuck in hy head all night now)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:29 (twenty years ago)

We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Drivin' home this evening, coulda sworn we had it all worked out...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could do a quarter of justice to the scratching hooks in "Rockit" in text-only form.

You're so good
when we make love it's understood
it's more than a touch or a word we say
only in dreams could it be this way
when you love someone
really love someone...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

I understand him, just a little
no comprende it's a riddle

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:38 (twenty years ago)

Then it's easy to believe
somebody's been lying to me
but when the right word
goes in the wrong word
I know you've been lying to me

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

I wish I could do a quarter of justice to the scratching hooks in "Rockit" in text-only form.

Had the same problem with backbone riff in "She Sells Sanctuary" - lyrics a distant second best.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

This means nothing to me......

― Ohhh (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

at least it has lyrics, though.

man, I mangled that Fixx lyric. "wrong word / right ear".

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

I'D REALLY LOVE TO BREAK YOUR HEART

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:46 (twenty years ago)

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tukkatukka tukkatukka
tukkatukka tukkatukka
TUKTUK
tukkatukkaTUK
tukkatukkaTUK
tukkatukka tukkatukka
TUKTUK

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

You won't be able to screw, the only thing you can do
Is just kick her, so go take karate

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

Mission impossible, they said
She'll never join the JAMMs!

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:48 (twenty years ago)

hahahahahaha x-post

gone gone gone, she been gone so long
a-gone gone gone, she been gone

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:50 (twenty years ago)

Wish I knew what you were looking for...
Might have known what you would find...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:51 (twenty years ago)

If you wanna be rich...

YOU GOT TO BE A BITCH

Rich...

(you) BITCH

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

If I had a photograph of you
something to remind me
I wouldn't spend my life just wishing...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:52 (twenty years ago)

Open fire on my burning heart
I've never been lucky in love...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

The painted faces on the street
Caricatures of long ago
Oh they were young and oh so sweet...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:58 (twenty years ago)

All my life I've been waitin' in the rain
I've been waitin' for a moment that never ever came
Feels so close, but always disappears

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

Could I have loved someone like the one I see in you
I remember the good times baby now, and the bad times too...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:00 (twenty years ago)

WHEN I MET YOU IN THE RESTAURANT
YOU COULD TELL I WAS NO DEBUTANTE

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

^ mmm... that's delicious... thank you!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

Also both the Yaz and Flying Picketts "Only You". (although anyone picking the Yaz version should guess again)

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:06 (twenty years ago)

I now see that CLOSE READINGS OF ENTIRE THREADS IS FOR SUCKERS (although I will still stump for the Flying Picketts).

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

I never meant to be so bad to you
One thing I said that I would never do
One look from you and I would fall from grace
And that would wipe this smile right from my face

Do you remember when we used to dance
And incidence arose from circumstance
One thing lead to another we were young
And we would scream together songs unsung

{chorus}
It was the heat of the moment
Telling me what your heart meant
Heat of the moment shone in your eyes

And now you find yourself in 82
The disco hotspots hold no charm for you
You can’t concern yourself with bigger things
You catch the pearl and ride the dragon’s wings

{chorus}

And when your looks are gone and you’re alone
How many nights you sit beside the phone
What were the things you wanted for yourself
Teenage ambition you remember well

{chorus x2}

― End thread (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 07:26 (twenty years ago)

tommuy used to work on the docks

― andrew s (andrew s), Saturday, 27 August 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

stuff I thought about nominating but didn't (can't be bothered to search this thread)

Glenn Gould - Goldberg Variations (1981)

The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
U2 - Pride
Madonna - Material Girl
Pet Shop Boys - What have I done to deserve this?

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Saturday, 27 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

If you need a friend
don't look to a stranger
you know in the end
I'll always be there...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:25 (twenty years ago)

oooh why you try to put up a front for me
I'm a spy but on your side you see
step forward into any disguise
I'll still know you
look into my private eyes

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

It was fun for a while
There was no way of knowing
Like a dream in the night
Who can say where we're going...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:42 (twenty years ago)

Every time you call my name
I heat up like a burning flame
Burning flame, full of desire
Kiss me baby, let the fire get higher

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I am the freak-a-zoid
come on and wind me up

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 17:56 (twenty years ago)

The smell of wine and CHEAP PER-FYOOOOH-OOOOOOOM

― James.Cobo (jamescobo), Saturday, 27 August 2005 22:32 (twenty years ago)

Groan if you must, but somebody needs to nominate "Every Breath You Take".

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 27 August 2005 22:53 (twenty years ago)

groan.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 23:09 (twenty years ago)

I find it amusing that about 4/5 of lyrics of 80's songs include one or more of the following themes:

a) The Night
b) Fire
c) Desire
d) Your eyes
e) Touch

― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 28 August 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

standingatthemachineeverydayforallmylifeimusedtodoitandineedititstheonlythingiwantitsjustarush

push

cash

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 03:46 (twenty years ago)

And if I say save me, save me,
Be the light in my eyes,
And if I say ten Hail Marys,
Leave a light on in heaven for me ...

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Sunday, 28 August 2005 05:21 (twenty years ago)

And so the conversation turned
'til the sun went down...
and many fantasies were learned
on that day...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 28 August 2005 06:01 (twenty years ago)

You tell me that you want me
You tell me that you need me
You tell me that you love me
And I know that I'm right
'coz I hear it in the ni-eee-ight...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 28 August 2005 06:04 (twenty years ago)

Steve Reich - Tehillim
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
Fred Frith/Rene Lussier - Nous Autres
Ornette Coleman's Prime Time - In All Languages
Rush - Moving Pictures
Thinking Plague - In This Life
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Living Colour - Vivid
LL Cool J - Radio
Peter Gabriel - Security
Kate Bush - The Dreaming

Mica Paris - "My One Temptation"
XTC - "Wonderland"
Rush - "Tom Sawyer"
Journey - "Don't Stop Believin'", "Any Way You Want It"
Chicago - "Hard to Say I'm Sorry"
Billy Joel - "Uptown Girl"
Def Leppard - "Rocket"
Scorpions - "No One Like You"
Bonnie Tyler - "Total Eclipse of the Heart"
Pop Will Eat Itself - "Wise Up Sucker!"

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 August 2005 14:44 (twenty years ago)

Air Supply - "All Out of Love"
The Police -"Synchronicity", "So Lonely", "Bed's Too Big Without You" ("Every Breath You Take" is one of the few Police hits I wouldn't consider voting for.)
U2 - "New Year's Day" (That "October"/"NYD" thing they play on VH1 Classic is awesome.)

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I've already nominated The Dreaming Sundar!

― OleM (OleM), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

Oh cool. My mistake.

Van Halen - "Panama", "Dreams"
Prince - "Purple Rain" (the song)

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

"So Lonely" and "Bed's Too Big Without You" are 70's I think.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

xpost So they are! I totally forgot that the Police had anything out in the 70s. I always think of them as an 80s band.

(Well, I suppose I'd consider EBYT. Everyone should listen to Frith/Lussier though. It's really good and has lots of pretty and tuneful stuff inside it [lots of noize too, mind]. Robert Fripp's Exposure should probably be on there too.)

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 August 2005 15:48 (twenty years ago)

Never Tear Us Apart - INXS
Need You Tonight / Mediate - INXS
I'm Your Man - Wham!
The Edge Of Heaven - Wham!
Monkey Gone To Heaven - Pixies
Where Is My Mind - Pixies
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Freak Scene - Dinosaur Jr

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:04 (twenty years ago)

fuuuuck I should've nominated "Wise Up Sucker" or This is the Day, This is the Hour...This is This

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 28 August 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

Depeche Mode - "Master and Servant"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:00 (twenty years ago)

The Smiths - "There Is a Light That Never Goes Out"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:06 (twenty years ago)

Neunundneunzig Luftballons
Auf ihrem Weg zum Horizont
Hielt Man für Ufos aus dem All
Darum schickte ein General
'Ne Fliegerstaffel hinterher
Alarm zu geben, wenn's so wär
Dabei war'n da am Horizont
Nur neunundneunzig Luftballons

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

LIVED HERE MY WHOLE LIFE

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

lies lies lies lies
GOLD GOLD GOLD GOLD
GUNS GUNS GUNS GUNS
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 28 August 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

The Go-Go's - "Head Over Heels"
Tears for Fears - "Mad World"
Bananarama - "Cruel Summer"
Sandra - "Maria Magdalena"
Psychedelic Furs - "Love My Way"

― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:46 (twenty years ago)

Passion, Love, Sex, Money
Violence, Religion, Injustice, Death

― daavid (daavid), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:47 (twenty years ago)

Goddess on the mountain top
burning like a silvery flame
the summit of beauty of love

(so much better than the original)

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 28 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

In case anyone doesn't know it and is interested, this is the Mica Paris track. I don't know if it is considered great for its genre but I enjoy it:

http://s33.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3LEAJCOXZ2UUM3QAZWBY6DHRID

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:08 (twenty years ago)

I forgot:

Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X
Ornette Coleman's Prime Time - Virgin Beauty

(Yes, I'm done for today I think.)

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 28 August 2005 22:44 (twenty years ago)

These have not been nominated yet:

The Associates - Sulk
Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops
Blue Nile - Hats
The Bolshoi - Friends
Cabaret Voltaire - The Covenant, The Sword & The Arm of the Lord
Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown
Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Celtic Frost - Into the Pandemonium
China Crisis - Flaunt the Imperfection
Clan of Xymox - Medusa
Clan of Xymox - Clan of Xymox
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Comsat Angels - Fiction
Comsat Angels - Waiting for a Miracle
Julian Cope - Fried
The Cult - Dreamtime
The Cult - Love
Dif Juz - Extractions
Durutti Column - The Guitar And Other Machines
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Echo & the Bunnymen - Porcupine
Eno/Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Peter Gabriel - 3
Peter Gabriel - 4
John Foxx - The Garden
John Foxx - Metamatic
Fred Frith - Gravity
Front 242 - Front By Front
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah
Jon Hassell - Fourth World Volume Two : Dream Theory in Malaya
Jon Hassell - Fourth World Volume One: Possible Musics (with Brian Eno)
Hugo Largo - Mettle
It's Immaterial - Life's Hard and then you Die
Japan - Tin Drum
Killing Joke - Killing Joke
Killing Joke - Revelations
Killing Joke - Whats THIS For...!
Killing Joke - Fire Dances
King Crimson - Discipline
Latin Quarter - Modern Times
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares - Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares
Magazine - Correct Use of Soap
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marillion - Clutching at Straws
Marillion - Seasons End
The Mission - God's Own Medicine
Peter Murphy - Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
Colin Newman - A-Z
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Rites of Spring - Rites of Spring
Arthur Russell - World Of Echo
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche '85
Shriekback - Oil & Gold
Jane Siberry - The Walking
Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
Simple Minds - Sons of Fascination/ Sister Feelings Call
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss In The Dream House
The Sound - Jeopardy
The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture
The Stranglers - Dreamtime
The Stranglers - La Folie
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Flux & Mutability
David Sylvian & Holger Czukay - Plight & Premonition
That Petrol Emotion - Babble
The The - Soul Mining
23 Skidoo - Seven Songs
Univers Zero - Ceux du Dehors
Virgin Prunes - ... If I Die, I Die
Voivod - Dimension Hatross
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter
The Waterboys - This is the Sea
Wire - The Ideal Copy
The Woodentops - Giant

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

My fellow Americans, "Peter Gabriel 4" = "Security"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:14 (twenty years ago)

I think my single favourite album of the 80s is David Hykes and the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds. Seriously, one of the most beautiful albums I've ever heard. A whole choir of master overtone singers (able to sing melodies in overtones, hold fundamentals and change overtones, hold overtones and change fundamentals, etc.) singing in a resonant cathedral. Just some spectacular drones and sonics. Enveloping. Can feel like you're floating.

This might negate everything I just said but someone really ought to nominate "We Built This City" as well.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 29 August 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Here are a bunch of albums that need to be added:

Specials - More Specials
Special AKA - In The Studio
Selecter - Too Much Pressure
Squeeze - Argybargy
Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
Bauhaus - Mask
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind & others
Motorhead - No Sleep Till Hammersmith
Motorhead - Ace Of Spades

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:10 (twenty years ago)

Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
George Clinton - Computer Games

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 29 August 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

I know I said this on the noms thread, but won't someone think of the Violent Femmes s/t?

― Guayaquil, Monday, 29 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

Argh, I forgot Shannon's "Let the Music Play"!!!!!!!! Please please please someone nominate this.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move
-- rogermexico (tenthreaso...), August 27th, 2005 12:30 AM.

Don't say I didn't try to tell ya...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:14 (twenty years ago)

Not yet nominated!!!

Albums

XTC - Skylarking
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Pretenders - s/t
Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Steve Earle - Guitar Town (I would have nominated this but I have a feeling I'd be the only one voting for it--someone prove me wrong)

Songs:

The Cure - "In Between Days"
Public Enemy - "Don't Believe the Hype"
The Clash - "Rock the Casbah"
Madonna - "Lucky Star"
Michael Jackson - "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin"
NWA - "Fuck the Police"
Neil Young - "Rockin in the Free World"
Prince - "Uptown"
Kurtis Blow - "The Breaks"
Grandmaster Flash - "White Lines"
Elvis Costello - "High Fidelity"
Elvis Costello - "I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down"
Elvis Costello - "Clubland"
XTC - "Respectable Street"

― Keith C (lync0), Monday, 29 August 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

'Til Tuesday - "Voices Carry"

― daavid (daavid), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:00 (twenty years ago)

I second Erasure "Chains of Love" and demand "Beds are Burning."

― Guayaquil, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 04:06 (twenty years ago)

Good Doctor Bill triple on the mic above. Re: Regret over PWEI (credit also to Sundar), Big Black, and Nitzer Ebb.

If no-one nominates Kerosene - Big Black, in particular, I will be forced to make a new fake username and nominate it myself.

Did I just miss it, or did no-one nominate "Nemesis"/Oil and Gold - Shriekback? Please? Help?

― John Justen (johnjusten), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 05:38 (twenty years ago)

Joe Jackson: Is She Really Going Out With Him?
The Replacements: Left of the Dial
The La's- There She Goes (or debut album)

― Cunga (Cunga), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 06:24 (twenty years ago)

Laurie Anderson, "O Superman"
Big Country, "In a Big Country"
The Church, "Under the Milky Way"
The Cure, "Let's Go to Bed"
The Pretenders, "Brass in Pocket"
Stacey Q, "Two of Hearts"
Peter Schilling, "Major Tom (Coming Home)"
Bruce Springsteen, "Dancing in the Dark"
Talk Talk, "Life's What You Make It"
Tom Tom Club, "Genius of Love"
The Waitresses, "I Know What Boys Like"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 06:35 (twenty years ago)

Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"
Whitney Houston, "I Wanna Dance with Somebody"
Journey, "Don't Stop Believin'"
Simple Minds, "Don't You (Forget About Me)"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 06:45 (twenty years ago)

The two which I had to omit, after much agonising:

Rock Box - Run DMC
Under Mi Sleng Teng - Wayne Smith

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 10:59 (twenty years ago)

Thank you thank you thank you to Billy Dods for nomm-ing Sleng Teng.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 12:54 (twenty years ago)

MC Miker G & DJ Sven - Holiday Rap
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me

― Siegbran (eofor), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:33 (twenty years ago)

Someone needs to nominate Trio "Da Da Da".

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 14:45 (twenty years ago)

R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
Sinead O'Connor - "Mandinka"
Cure - "Lullaby"
Madonna - "Holiday"
Bangles - "Hazy Shade of Winter"
Jane's Addiction - "Jane Says"
'Til Tuesday - "Voices Carry"
Eddie Money - "Take Me Home Tonight"
Def Leppard - "Pour Some Sugar on Me"
Pet Shop Boys - "It's a Sin"
Lisa Stansfield - "All Around the World"
Don Henley - "Boys of Summer"
R.E.M. - "South Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"

― mr. drew (mr. drew), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Did "Weekend" by DJ Dick come out in '89???

Also, I didn't check to see if This Is The Day, This Is The Hour, This Is This! was nominated.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:13 (twenty years ago)

some albums I didn't have room to nominate:

Minutemen, What Makes a Man Start Fires?
Don Cherry & Ed Blackwell, El Corazón
Etron Fou Leloublan, Les Poumons Gonfles
James Blood Ulmer, Free Lancing
John Tchicai Trio, Real Tchicai
Fred Frith, Speechless
Material, Memory Serves
Mark Stewart + Maffia, Learning to Cope With Cowardice
Don Cherry and Bengt Berger, Bitter Funeral Beer
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Magnetic Flip
Flipper, Generic
Fred Frith, Cheap at Half the Price
Henry Threadgill Sextett, Easily Slip Into Another World
Holger Czukay, Der Osten Ist Rot
--, Movies
John Tchicai Group, Timo's Message

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

I know it won't be long
It won't be long before you find...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Don Henley - "Boys of Summer"

This was nominated already, otherwise I'd have done so.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 16:27 (twenty years ago)

I'd assumed Freelancing was 80s! The production should have tipped me off. That might be my #1 or #2.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

"was 70s", obv.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, and in some ways it's better than "Are You Glad", but for some reason the latter is always the first Ulmer I want to hear.

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:13 (twenty years ago)

IT'S IN THE TREES!
IT'S COMING!

― joseph (joseph), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Ask one who's known me if I'm really so bad...
I AM.

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 17:48 (twenty years ago)

joseph, can't speak for the track specifically, but Hounds of Love was among D-Straw's album noms to kick this thing off, and I suspect it will do pretty well in the voting...

Still egregiously absent:
- A Flock Of Seagulls, "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)"
- Berlin, "Masquerade"
- The Church, "Under The Milky Way"
- Josie Cotton, "Johnnie Are You Queer"
- Duran Duran, "A View To A Kill"
- Murray Head, "One Night in Bangkok"
- Donnie Iris, "Ah Leah"
- Loverboy, "The Kid Is Hot Tonite" OR "Workin' For The Weekend"
- Stevie Nicks, "Stand Back"
- Roxy Music, Avalon (thx jaymc for "More Than This")
- Tracey Ullman, "They Don't Know"
- Wall Of Voodoo, "Mexican Radio"
- Wang Chung, "Dance Hall Days"

Oh man, this is gonna be good...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Doh!

Rufus and Chaka Khan, "Ain't Nobody"

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Take a good look at me now
'cause I'll still be standing here
And you coming back to me is against all odds
That's the chance I've got to take...

Like George Michael's butt, Phil Collins simply cannot be denied.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

If any Phil Collins song gets nominated besides "In the Air Tonight" or "Against All Odds"...

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:38 (twenty years ago)

No, no, those should do nicely.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:48 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't quibble with "Sussudio" and a few Collins-led Genesis hits ("Follow You Follow Me", "Invisible Touch") either. Wouldn't necessarily vote for them, mind you...

― Sundar (sundar), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

ABACAB more deserving than any of the Collins material yet mentioned!

― Guayaquil, Tuesday, 30 August 2005 21:57 (twenty years ago)

not a chance.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 30 August 2005 22:00 (twenty years ago)

this whole exercise is ridiculous. here's the rest of my shortlist before i gave up. "tends to be weighted towards things i listened to then"

edie brickell and the new bohemians - "what i am"
peter cetera - "glory of love"
cheap trick - "the flame"
chicago - "you're the inspiration"
crowded house - "something so strong"
cutting crew - "(i just) died in your arms"
def leppard - "pour some sugar on me"
guns n' roses - "patience"
moving pictures - "what about me"
nine inch nails - "down in it"
o.m.d. - "if you leave"
nena - "99 luftballoons"
the pretenders - "my city was gone"
spandau ballet - "true"
tiffany - "i think we're alone now"
toto - "africa"
usa for africa - "we are the world"
suzanne vega - "luka"
suzanne vega - "tom's diner"
warrant - "heaven"
whitesnake - "here i go again"
whitney houston - "i wanna dance with somebody (who loves me)"

― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:43 (twenty years ago)

I know I already pimped for it, but I gotta say...

Left Of Center >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Luka/Tom's

hmmm... Hell Is For Children, What's The Matter Here, Luka... where oh where have all the great anti-childbeating radio hitz gone?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:48 (twenty years ago)

all three of those Vega songs are great, but "Tom's Diner" (the famous version, anyway) was '90, so moot point.

Second "True," "99 Luftballoons," "I Wanna Dance...," "I Think We're Alone Now," "Sugar," "Down In It" and "If You Leave"

Not Cutting Crew, USA for Africa, Warrant or Whitesnake though (change it to "Is This Love?" and I'm down)

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Oh, I forgot NIN existed during the 80s!

― Leeeeeeee (Leee), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:42 (twenty years ago)

This is a very serious message so all of you please listen.
There are some people living in this world
They have no food to eat
They have no place to go
But we all are God's children
We've got to learn to love one another

― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Little child dry your crying eyes
How can I explain the fear you feel inside
Cause you were born into this evil world
Where man is killing man and no one knows just why
What have we become just look what we have done
All that we destroyed you must build again

― andrew s (andrew s), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 01:53 (twenty years ago)

A few really essential singles that should still be nominated:

Man Parrish: "Hip Hop Be Bop (Don't Stop)"
Phuture: "Acid Trax"
Farley Jackmaster Funk: "Love Can't Turn Around"
808 State: "Pacific"

Several other house and techno classics are still not nominated either.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 03:13 (twenty years ago)

Could some fine person nominate Soft Cell's 'Art of falling apart'.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:10 (twenty years ago)

I am so looking forward to the actual vote.

I can see some of my nominations getting no votes at all. Even from me.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 09:25 (twenty years ago)

Iron Maiden is under-represented.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:34 (twenty years ago)

"Wasted Years", perhaps?

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Slayer's "Raining Blood" also.

― Sundar (sundar), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 15:24 (twenty years ago)

Why hasn't anybody nominated SLIPPERY WHEN WET yet?

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 31 August 2005 23:50 (twenty years ago)

Harlequin's "Innocence" rivals any track from SWW (which should be there, yes)!

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 1 September 2005 00:05 (twenty years ago)

imagination - just an illusion
paul hardcastle - 19
howard jones - what is love
nick kershaw - the riddle
falco - rock me amadeus
dead or alive - you spin me round (like a record)
...

― blunt (blunt), Thursday, 1 September 2005 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Holger Czukay, Der Osten Ist Rot

God, that is an awful album.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Thursday, 1 September 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

hmm... still only one 2 Live Crew track nom'd - everything up until Bannned In The USA remains fair game

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 September 2005 06:30 (twenty years ago)

Billy Ocean's "Loverboy" also still conspicuously absent. I'd kill to hear the Foreigner version of this song, since it's effectively straight-up rock'n'roll... oh... except for the frickin' scratching on the break! Yay 1984!

Actually, it's almost it's own Foreigner version, since the transition to the chorus lifts its melody directly from "Urgent"...

Can't stand the thought of you with somebody else
Got to have your love got to have it - all to myself

It's u-u-urgent!

Billy Ocean is endorsed by:
Thom Yorke
RZA
Miccio (Billy Ocean: C or D?)

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 September 2005 06:42 (twenty years ago)

I'M GOING CRAZY
I'M LOSING SLEEP
I'M IN TOO FAR
I'M IN WAY TOO DEEP

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:45 (twenty years ago)

Holger Czukay, Der Osten Ist Rot

God, that is an awful album.

And that's why I'm gonna hate the results of this poll.

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Thursday, 1 September 2005 15:50 (twenty years ago)

Until Sally I was never happy
I needed so much more
Rainclouds, oh, they used to chase me
Down they would pour...

― daavid (daavid), Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:26 (twenty years ago)

And that's why I'm gonna hate the results of this poll.

At least I'm going to vote for Gravity. (I think that was your nomination.)

― rockistscientistloggedout, Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:31 (twenty years ago)

(In fact, I might have nominated Gravity if you hadn't.) Also, I will probably vote for at least one of those Raincoats songs.

I'm surprised that there is going to be at least as much 80s stuff I'll want to vote for as there was for the 70s. At least, it looks like it's shaping up that way.

― rockistscientistloggedout, Thursday, 1 September 2005 16:36 (twenty years ago)

Would Fugazi's "Margin Walker" EP be a single or album?

― Sundar (sundar), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

Album, sez I.

PS - Extra points if you can ID the literary allusion in that title.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 1 September 2005 17:47 (twenty years ago)

The 10 Greatest Singles of the 80s

Have people used that topic at all for ideas?

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 2 September 2005 01:40 (twenty years ago)

That thread reminded me of these singles

Husker Du: Eight Miles High
House of Love: Christine
Gof: To Hell With Poverty
The Church: The Unguarded Moment

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 2 September 2005 01:46 (twenty years ago)

of yeah, Mission of Burma: Academy Fight Song

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 2 September 2005 01:52 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget Siouxsie & the Banshees "Christine"
and maybe The Creatures - Boomerang

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:05 (twenty years ago)

Hey Metalliheadz!!! Don't forget about the song that broke M*tallica into the MTV spotlight and turned us onto the path of the (BOB) Rock -- "One"!

― Metal Up Your Asss (Leee), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:30 (twenty years ago)

And unleash me, too!

― Yngwie Jesus Malmsteen (Leee), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

And me!

http://www.thescourge.com/dio.html

― Ronnie James Fucking Dio (rogermexico), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:48 (twenty years ago)

Damn. I've voted and I forgot about Altered Images.

Someone should nominate 'Don't Talk To Me About Love'.

― Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:56 (twenty years ago)

T'Pau - "Heart And Soul"
Samantha Fox - "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)"
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - "I Wonder If I Take You Home"
Shannon - "Let The Music Play"
Michael Jackson - "The Way You Make Me Feel"
Janet Jackson - "When I Think Of You"
Janet Jackson - "Nasty"
Sheila E - "The Glamorous Life"
Adam and the Ants - "Stand And Deliver"

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 September 2005 11:53 (twenty years ago)

"Let The Music Play" has been nominated.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

(hmm, that came off wrong, mods please insert a "yay!")

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

so has "I Wonder if I Take You Home," but I encourage people to nominate it anyway so I can re-use one of my noms.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:38 (twenty years ago)

"Under the Milky Way" has still not been nominated :(

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 3 September 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

Box Elder anyone?

― Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 4 September 2005 09:22 (twenty years ago)

Loose Ends - Hanging on a string

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:00 (twenty years ago)

Michael Torke - Color Music! Must be one of the most important orchestral works of the past 20-25 years. Just really fun to listen to.

Richard Thompson has been overlooked as well. "Waltzing's For Dreamers" maybe?

Back on the pop-rock tip, Eddie Money's "Two Tickets to Paradise" really needs to be there.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 4 September 2005 14:53 (twenty years ago)

Somebody nominate some of these singles, it's far too many for me to nominate.

Bruce Springsteen - Hungry Heart
Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
The Jam - Going Underground
The Korgis - Everybody's Gonna Learn Sometime
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Young Marble Giants - Final Day
Rick Springfield - Jesse's Girl
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
ABC - All of My Heart
ABC - The Look of Love
The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
The Pretenders - Message of Love
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief
Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me
Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway
Modern English - Melt With You
The Church - The Unguarded Moment
Toto - Africa
Yaz - Only You
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
David Bowie - Modern Love
Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place
The Smiths - This Charming Man
John Waite - Missing You
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
Kylie - I Should Be So Lucky
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:13 (twenty years ago)

it'd be really cool if nobody nominated "Going Underground" or "This Charming Man"

but yeah, "Melt With You," "Brass in Pocket," "Genius of Love," "Jesse's Girl," those are tragic misses.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:17 (twenty years ago)

"Under the Milky Way" has still not been nominated :(

This song has to be nominated NOW!

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:40 (twenty years ago)

I know it's sort of an impossiblity, but I'll be sad if every great song from the 80's isn't nominated. I suppose I'm setting myself up for a letdown. For real, how has "Under The Milky Way" or "I Melt With You" not yet been chosen by someone? Then again I haven't nominated yet, so these very well may be my choices.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

here's my shortlist as it stands:

singles
Siouxsie & The Banshees 'Peek A Boo'
Happy Mondays 'WFL' (Wrote For Luck)
Happy Mondays 'Hallelujah'
Depeche Mode 'I Just Can't Get Enough'
Depeche Mode 'Personal Jesus'
Art Of Noise 'Close To The Edit'
Donna Summer 'Dinner With Gershwin'
Europe 'The Final Countdown'
Peter Gabriel 'Big Time'
Peter Gabriel 'Sledgehammer'
Pet Shop Boys 'Always On My Mind'
Pet Shop Boys 'Left To My Own Devices'
Murray Head 'One Night In Bangkok'
Soft Cell 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye'
Mel n' Kim 'Respectable'
Kraftwerk 'Tour De France'
Billy Ocean 'Loverboy'
Phuture 'Acid Trax'
Cabaret Voltaire 'Sensoria'
Simple Minds 'Theme For Great Cities'
Orange Juice 'Rip It Up'
Paula Abdul 'Straight Up'
Kylie Minogue 'I Should Be So Lucky'
Spagna 'Call Me'
Mantronix 'Bassline'
Rob n' Raz ft Leila K 'Got To Get'

albums
Nu-Shooz 'Poolside'
Pet Shop Boys 'Behaviour'
S Express 'Original Soundtrack'
Janet Jackson 'Control'
Janet Jackson 'Rhythm Nation 1814'

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:00 (twenty years ago)

Behaviour is 1990, no?

― whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

Aerosmith - "Rag Doll"

And "The Spirit of Radio" should be there too, at the risk of splintering votes away from "Tom Sawyer". It came on the radio at work last night and sounded massive, a lot more than it usually does. It might have helped that it was right after a George Thorogood.

― Sundar (sundar), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

remember that ROYAL TRUX'S self-titled debut album came out in 1988

― gear (gear), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:01 (twenty years ago)

Behaviour is definitely 1990.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

At least one of Dollar's quartet of great singles from 81-82 needs nominated.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:10 (twenty years ago)

Kitchens of Distinction: The Third Time We Opened the Capsule (as well as the album that is off of; which is either Strange Free World or something else escaping my mind)

― Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

since people are voting again... bump!

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:40 (twenty years ago)

Somebody nominate Pelican West please!!!

+ a few singles suggestions:
Jane - "It's A Fine Day"
Kate Bush - "Breathing"
Kate Bush - "The Sensual World"
Killing Joke - "Requiem"/"Change"
Dead Kennedys - "Holiday in Cambodia"

― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:30 (twenty years ago)

You know, it suddenly strikes me that perennial ILM whipping-boy Tom Petty had a string of greatness in the early-mid 80s, from "The Waiting" through "Runaway Trains."

Long After Dark might even be worth an album nom.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 17 September 2005 04:58 (twenty years ago)

Might even be.

I remember flying out of London
I remember the feeling at the time
Out the window of the 747
Man there was nothin', only black sky

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 17 September 2005 05:36 (twenty years ago)

Very surprised that only 3 PSB singles have been nominated. "Always On My Mind" is still unaccounted for!!!!

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 18 September 2005 00:29 (twenty years ago)

G-Moth insanely OTM re: the best four lines on that entire album. Redneck's phrasing is not to be trifled with.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 18 September 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

The Pretenders, "Kid"
The Undertones, "Teenage Kicks"

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:49 (twenty years ago)

LAY OFF NATALIE MERCHANT

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:12 (twenty years ago)

'Teenage Kicks' great as it is came out in '78, and 'Kid' came out in '79.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:50 (twenty years ago)

rogermexico OTM - I very nearly nominated In My Tribe. Hope someone else will before Monday.

― zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 22 September 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

defend the indefensible: EDDIE MONEY

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO STEP UP. IT'S ON YOU. COWBOY UP.

http://www.anticoemoderno.it/Antico/Vinile/ingrandimenti/Survivor%20Rocky%20III%20-%20Eye%20of%20the%20tiger.jpg

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

Top 100 hard rock singles of the 80s

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

"Personal Jesus" and "Eighties" still not nominated

― älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I can't even remember how that Krokus song goes!

― Sundar (sundar), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

i still haven't used my album noms & i hesitate to if there's nothing that i'll be voting for, but there should really be some steely dan in the poll, so someone should step up for gaucho or "hey nineteen"

― andrew s (andrew s), Friday, 23 September 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

Somebody nominate "Always on my mind" please.

― daavid (daavid), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

someone should've imposed the 'maximum of three singles/albums by any one artist' rule

― Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

but then there wouldn't be 11 New Order songs on the list

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

the Adam Ant representation looks all wrong to me - no "Antmusic", no "Prince Charming", no "Ant Rap"!!!

― zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

someone should've imposed the 'maximum of three singles/albums by any one artist' rule

Why should the value of certain songs/albums an artist records limit the value of other ones people want to nominate?

― Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:26 (twenty years ago)

Considering the fact they only have one song nominated as of now, can I nominate Green Eyes by Husker Du? If I can't I'll do Diane and/or Eight Miles High

― Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 24 September 2005 07:09 (twenty years ago)

The nominations deadline is today and there are lots of great singles not yet nominated! e.g.

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
PSB - Always on my Mind, It's a Sin, Domino Dancing
Stone Roses - Sally Cinammon
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
Sandra - Maria Magdalena

― daavid (daavid), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:17 (twenty years ago)

aside from "A View to a Kill," I think just about all the really big ones for me have been nominated. It's very impressive.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:47 (twenty years ago)

Some albums still not nominated, yet worthy of consideration:

Arto Lindsay/Ambitious Lovers - Envy
Au Pairs - Playing With a Different Sex
Colin Newman - A-Z
David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel
Defunkt - Defunkt
Holger Czukay/Jah Wobble/Jaki Liebezeit - Full Circle
Lemon Kittens - We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
Minutemen - The Punch Line (and ahem! again, What Makes a Man Start Fires?)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahen-Shah
Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us ; Psychedelic Jungle
The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Can We Tolerate Mass Murder? ; We Are Time
The Raincoats - The Raincoats (good god!!)
The Residents - Commercial Albums
The Slits - Return of the Giant Slits
VA - Darker Skratcher

― These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Monday, 26 September 2005 06:10 (twenty years ago)

...and no one seems concerned about the absence of Peter Gabriel's So. ILM, I kiss you.

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 26 September 2005 06:13 (twenty years ago)

As the dealine nears, I am growing increasingly concerned about the absence of

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― rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 26 September 2005 21:08 (twenty years ago)

Could somebody please nominate 'They Don't Know' by Tracey Ullman. I am contemplating switching it for one of mine but it is making me hurt to do so. Grrrrr.

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

(n.b. I have now switched it with 'Kiss Me' by Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy, so if someone wants to nominate that instead then that would be quite good.)

― William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:25 (twenty years ago)

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