ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL REDUX: Nomination Thread (nomination time ends on Sunday, November 1st)

For those who weren't around here then, back in 2005 we did a poll on the best singles and albums of the 1980s. The results for the singles poll can be found here. However, for some reason the results for albums poll were never released. Since the guy who did the poll isn't around anymore, we are now redoing the poll. The actual poll will be a closed email poll, but first we will have an open nomination process. So post you nominations in this thread.

Here are the rules for nominations:

* Everyone is allowed to nominate a maximum of 7 albums. (Why 7, you may ask? I just thought 5 would be too little and 10 too much.) You may also nominate less than 7 albums.

* The nomination process will end on Sunday, the 31st of October, at midnight GMT. No nominations after that point.

* You may nominate any album that was first released in the 1980s. Albums which, for example, were released in 1979 in the UK but only in 1980 in the USA (or vice versa) are not valid.

* Multi-artist compilations and mix albums are valid.

* Greatest Hits or Best Of type of single-artist compilations are valid, if they were first released in the 1980s. It doesn't matter if the individual tracks were released before the 1980s.

* "Lost" albums and other such records that were recorded before the 1980s, but only released in that decade, are valid.

* Reissues of albums that were released before the 1980s are not valid.

Go on then, start nominating!

Whoops, sorry, it looks like October 31st is not a Sunday but a Saturday. The nomination time will end on Sunday, November 1st then. I'll ask a mod to correct the thread title.

OK so I am deliberately not nomming a few of my absolute favorites because I'm so sure someone else will (lol if everyone does this and double nickels/spirit of eden don't make the list!)

So here are my seven:

The Blue Nile- A Walk Across The Rooftops
Prince- Purple Rain
Meat Puppets- Up On The Sun
Shriekback- Oil And Gold
Robyn Hitchcock and The Egyptians- Fegmania!
Tom Verlaine- Flash Light
Scott Walker- Climate Of Hunter

Pixies- Doolittle
U2- The Joshua Tree
The Cure- Disintegration
Cyndi Lauper- She's So Unusual
David Bowie- Scary Monsters
Midnight Oil- Red Sails in the Sunset
The Church- Starfish

^^^ found that Cyndi LP on the street a few months ago, it's a really solid listen front to back!

But Midnight Oil taught me the wrong pronunciation of the name Kocziusko...

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Here's my own nominations:

Prince - Lovesexy
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Thomas Maphumo - Corruption
Yello - One Second
Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle of Time
Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo

Btw, it'd be nice if you all write nominations in the form of ARTIST - ALBUM, because in some cases I might not know which is which.

The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
Wipers - Youth Of America
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
The Birthday Party
King Sunny Ade - Aura

Albums that aren't on the original list:

Stetsasonic - In Full Gear
Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint
Just-Ice - Back To The Old School

Albums that are that deserve to be re-nommed:

The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Breakdown
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Galaxie 500 - On Fire

Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum
The Ex - Blueprints For A Blackout
Nurse With Wound - Sylvie & Babs
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
Crass - Penis Envy
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
Sun City Girls - Torch Of The Mystics

That's eight.

I thought Torch Of The Mystics was 1990?

oops, so hard. cut the Sun City Girls I guess.

Hmm on SCG website it says 1990 in one place and 1989 in another...?

The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Brian Eno - On Land
Meat Puppets - II
Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Rattlesnakes
The Feelies - The Good Earth
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America

I'll leave out Sun City Girls, unless you disagree?

ILX user Sleeve should decide but there seems to be enough evidence to call it 'Eighties' if he so wishes!

Roxy Music - Avalon
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
OMD - [self-titled]
New Order - Brotherhood
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Kate Bush - The Dreaming

nah, leave it out. it was recorded in '88 but it might not have been released until 1990.

xp

DeBarge: In A Special Way
Jandek: Modern Dances
Pussy Galore: Dial 'M' For Motherfucker
Dinosaur Jr.: Bug
Bronski Beat: Truthdare Doubledare
Motorhead: Orgasmatron
Red Crayola with Art & Language: Kangaroo?
Plasmatics: New Hope For The Wretched

8 dude. but keep bug, plz.

Yeah, that's 8. Which one do you want to leave out?

Eh take out Jandek then. Someone else should add this:

The Frogs: It's Only Right and Natural

Hmm...

Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom
Bob Dylan - Saved
The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
X - Wild Gift
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

The Slapp Happy was recorded in 1973, but it wasn't released until 1980.

Oh shit the Nightfly yyyeahhhh!

so how many albums will we be able to put on our ballots when it's time to vote?

I was thinking 10. Or is that too few?

Peter Gabriel - Security [Peter Gabriel 4]
ABC - The Lexicon of Love
Adam Ant - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing of Summer Lawns
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Depeche Mode - Violator

xp 10 seems good

the hissing of summer lawns is from 75 or something

10 is too few imo. If people are nominating 7, that only gives them 3 other records they love.

Also, Hissing of Summer Lawns is an 80s record?

Yeah, Allmusic says 1975. Do you want to replace it with something?

xp Oh, right re: Hissing of Summer Lawns, all right replace that one with
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85

Also Kings of the Wild Frontier is by Adam and the Ants, not Adam Ant

Kate Bush – the Dreaming
Coil – Horse Rotovator
Japan – Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Sonic Youth – EVOL
Peter Gabriel – III
Devo – Oh No It's Devo!
King Crimson – Discipline

Indestructible Beat of Soweto - various
Capt. Beefheart/magic band - Doc @ the Radar Station
the replacements - let it be
the dB's - like this
Elvis Costello - trust
Chic - real people
mekons - rock'n'roll

Capt. Beefheart/magic band - Doc @ the Radar Station

This has already been nominated, wanna nom something else?

Abbot, The Dreaming has been already nominated too.

ack, sorry, beefheart already mentioned. great call on In a Special Way, Kevin. guess i'll go with Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts

I was thinking 10. Or is that too few?

Based on running the 60s polls, 10 is far too little. I'd suggest a minimum of 30 and preferably 40 or 50. People don't have to use the allocation if they can't find enough albums they want to vote for.

Will have to have a think about noms.

Oh, I think 30 or 40 or 50 is way too much. This isn't about voting for every album you like, only for the ones you think really are absolutely the best of the decade.

Maybe 20 is good enough compromise?

Sonny Sharrock - Guitar
Pat Metheny and Ornette Coleman - Song X
Steve Reich - Tehillim

You're saying twenty in order and weighted accordingly, or 20 with each one = 1 point?

Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Black Flag - Damaged
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Husker Du - Warehouse
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

20 in order would be the best, I think.

Indestructible Beat of Soweto - various

There are several volumes in this series, I assume you mean Vol. 1?

Wedding Present - George Best
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin
No Trend - Too Many Humans
Napalm Death - Scum
Lewd - American Wino
Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss

20 is perfect but in case of an order the weighing scheme shouldn't be too skewed. the first one 20 points and the last one one point would be not so good. my fave would never be 20 times as good as my no. 20. i am not sure if the poll needs any weighing, actually. what about 50 points you can distribute and the maximum per album would be five. and the minimum one. or something like that. what did we do in the other polls?

Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting From Home
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
R.E.M. - Reckoning
Sonic Youth - Sister
XTC - English Settlement
Paul Simon - Graceland
Steely Dan - Gaucho

It's gonna be a weighed poll, but I haven't still decided the weighing system. I'll consult the older decade polls for reference.

yessir, I. b. of Soweto is vol. 1. thanky. do we need to redo the lists that were already posted? mine wasn't necesarily completely in order of preference

uh sure Tuomas...how about Big Express by XTC?

Okay.

Btw, ILM rap fans, so far the only who's nominated rap albums is Samuel. Surely there there's more rap that belongs on the list?

Seven doesn't seem enough. Hopefully I'm avoiding anything already nommed.

The Cure - Pornography
Siouxsie & The Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
Nick Cave and the Badseeds - Your Funeral, My Trial
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field

do we need to redo the lists that were already posted? mine wasn't necesarily completely in order of preference

Yes, the actual poll will be done later on by email. This is just the nomination process to get a list of albums from which to vote, so it doesn't matter in which order you nominate them.

Hoping that all the others that I'd nom (most more popular than these) get hit by other ILXers (like some rap and maybe A Certain Ratio).

Robert Palmer—Clues
Au Pairs—Playing with a different sex
Human League—Dare
Go-Gos—Beauty and the Beat
Kid Creole—Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
Bruce Springsteen—Nebraska
Sparks—Angst in my Pants
Violent Femmes
Talking Heads—Speaking in Tongues
Slayer—Reign in Blood

Uh… Whups. That's 10. Leave off Dare and Beauty and the Beat, as someone else is sure to nom those now that I've been so clumsy.

Because someone's got to mention EPMD and Eric B. and Rakim later on, right?

f epmd, still no it takes a nation of millions to hold us back or raising hell or pauls boutique or

picking just-ice may have been stupid in hindsight.

New Order- Technique
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Bob Marley - Uprising
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Tom Tom Club - s/t
REM - Murmur
Pretenders - s/t

actually, i love just-ice and am glad its here. like how i would have nominated this if we re-did the singles poll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGYqIZUlD7c

Gladly stating some of the obvious ones:

Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
Butthole Surfers - Psychic ... Powerless ... Another Man's Sac
Flipper - Album/Generic Flipper
Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma (the Ryko comp)
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains

Uh… Whups. That's 10. Leave off Dare and Beauty and the Beat, as someone else is sure to nom those now that I've been so clumsy.

It's 7 nominations per poster, so you need to leave off one more album.

thanks for doing this Tuomas!

i think the perfect number would be 25 votes, my nominations will come later.

Bump.

will post 7 this weekend. lots of favourites have already been mentioned.

George Jones- I Am What I Am
Merle Haggard- Big City
Keith Whitley- I Wonder Do You Ever Think of Me
Steve Earle- Guitar Town
Dwight Yoakam- Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.
Lucinda Williams- ST
Randy Travis- Storms of Life

Btw, no Madonna or Michael Jackson on the list yet. ILX popists, now is your chance!

Also, no Asian or Latin American albums on the list at all. ILX Japanophiles and Cubanists, you can do it!

and no studio album by the smiths up to now. only compilations.

Based on running the 60s polls, 10 is far too little. I'd suggest a minimum of 30 and preferably 40 or 50. People don't have to use the allocation if they can't find enough albums they want to vote for.

― go in go hard brother (Billy Dods), Wednesday, October 21, 2009 3:52 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

seriously! even in a lot of the end-of-year album polls we were able to vote for more than 10 albums!

Yeah, I already said 20 would probably be the best option, with weighed votes.

Though if the nomination list will turn out to be big, I could consider 30 albums, but no more. Surely everyone can fit the absolute best of the 80s into a top 30? Like I said above, the point is not to vote for every album you like, just for the ones you think are truly among the greatest records of the 80s.

Limiting voters to the smallest possible number of options out of a provided list of nominations doesn't help you whittle down to the best of the best, it narrows the results down to the most obvious canonical choices without representing everyone's tastes any more accurately. But yeah, if you're open to expanding to 30 that'd be cool.

Well said! That's always been my problem with the Pazz & Jop.

I think it depends as much on the weighting as on the number of choices. The problem with giving too many choices is that after people have listed the stuff they really love they may tend to pad out their lists with the safe, canonical choices - so you could actually end up with a more predictable result.

Yeah, that's exactly what I remember doing in the previous polls.

"It's 7 nominations per poster, so you need to leave off one more album."

Aww, man. Violent Femmes, I guess.

It does seem kind of weird to redo the nominations after seeing that huge list…

Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar?
The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
Neil Young - Freedom
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Prince - Dirty Mind

I think it depends as much on the weighting as on the number of choices. The problem with giving too many choices is that after people have listed the stuff they really love they may tend to pad out their lists with the safe, canonical choices - so you could actually end up with a more predictable result.

― o. nate, Thursday, October 22, 2009 11:18 AM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this seems to be based on the assumption that most people here don't have 20 or 30 albums they flat out love from the entire 1980s, which, i think i'm less 80s-crazy than the average person on ILM and i don't see that being a problem for myself.

Since there must be a lot of posters who weren't around in 2005, I thought it would be fair to redo the nominations. Also, I'm not sure about other people, but at least in my case my nomination is rather different from what it was in 2005, due to both changes in taste and hearing more 80s albums. Only 2 of my nominations here were among my 2005 noms too.

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this seems to be based on the assumption that most people here don't have 20 or 30 albums they flat out love from the entire 1980s, which, i think i'm less 80s-crazy than the average person on ILM and i don't see that being a problem for myself.

I dunno, in my case I might be able to list about twenty 80s albums I really really love, but after 20 I'd probably start stuffing the list with safe, canonical choices. It must be a question of age too: people who were in their teens or older during the 80s probably have a lot easier time to come up with a long list than younger people like me, who've only discovered most of their 80s favourites in the 90s or 00s.

Assuming a certain double album also gets nominated, Prince looks on track to have the most albums nommed.

And Sonic Youth & New Order already with three...

Sonic Youth has four noms already.

I certainly hope someone will nominate the two obvious Prince double albums. I admit that my nomination for Lovesexy was partly strategic, because I'm quite sure those two will be nominated too.

I could probably come up with 20 to 30 albums I really like from the '80s, but to pick that many from a list of nominations from other people - many of which I will not have heard - might be hard - and unlike some on this board I'm old enough to remember the '80s (though I didn't really start buying music until the '90s).

Would everybody in this thread please stop fishing for surrogate nominations? Thanks!

I dunno, in my case I might be able to list about twenty 80s albums I really really love, but after 20 I'd probably start stuffing the list with safe, canonical choices. It must be a question of age too: people who were in their teens or older during the 80s probably have a lot easier time to come up with a long list than younger people like me, who've only discovered most of their 80s favourites in the 90s or 00s.

― Tuomas, Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:08 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well, at a certain point you'd have to start stuffing the list with safe, canonical choices at least in part because you'd be limited to a pre-approved list of nominations and not, say, your own record collection.

Well, yeah. But the point of the nomination process is to stop the votes from spreading too thin. All the previous decade poll were done like this, so I didn't feel any need to change it.

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
Metallica - Master of Puppets
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
AC/DC - Back in Black
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional

Since there must be a lot of posters who weren't around in 2005, I thought it would be fair to redo the nominations.

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2) Is it really that hard to come up with 7 albums and type their names here?

3) Like I already said, I wanted the posters who weren't here in 2005 to allow to fully take part in nominations, and even poster who were around in 2005 might have a different set of noms four years later.

thanks for the effort you are putting into this tuomas but i feel there is the danger that the new nominations list will be less complete than the old one. i have a compromise proposal: why don't we just join the two at the end?

Yeah, I considered that option. When this nomination process is over, if there are some totally essential albums missing from this list that were on the previous list, I'll probably add them to the final voting list. However, people shouldn't see this as an opportunity to only nominate some obscure stuff that wasn't on the previous list. Nominate what you think is essential, and don't pay too much attention to the previous list.

Anyway, I just counted that the old list had about 550 nominated albums. In this thread we've gotten over 170 nominations in 27 hours. So I trust the new list will be comprehensive enough.

Bump.

Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
Prince - Dirty Mind
Nikos Papazoglou - Xaratsi
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Bunny Wailer - Sings the Wailers

Womack and Womack - Love Wars
King Sunny Ade - Juju Music
Prince - Parade
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah

Also, no Asian or Latin American albums on the list at all. ILX Japanophiles and Cubanists, you can do it!

I want to give myself some time before I submit anything. But it's going to be Puerto Rico over Cuba, definitely. Was anything worthwhile happening in Cuban popular music in the 80s? (I'm not the person to ask since I don't like most Cuban music since Benny More's heyday.)

Leonard Cohen - Various Positions
Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood
Prince - Dirty Mind
Nikos Papazoglou - Xaratsi
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America
Bunny Wailer - Sings the Wailers

― ρεμπετις, 23. lokakuuta 2009 2:11 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Dirty Mind, Up on the Sun, and Miss America have all been nominated already. So you can add three more nominations, if you want to.

Alfred, since you nominated 4 albums, if you want to you can nominate 3 more later.

Bump.

Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death
The Wedding Present - Tommy
The Wedding Present - Bizarro
Morrissey - Vava Hate
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night

I assume the Morrissey album is called "Viva Hate"?

mekons - The Edge of the World
Prince - Sign o' the Times
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels
Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

also: no Pet Shop Boys noms yet? for shame, ilm.

I'm waiting for more people to nominate the big one so I can be sure to get some other noms in, though I might just give in shortly. PSB are on my list, but I've yet decided on which album (or maybe all three, unless I add Disco for a fourth).

yeah, i almost nominated Actually but decided to go for Strange Angels instead, since nobody else (presumably) would.

and where's Dirty Work? Alfred?

Based on running the 60s polls, 10 is far too little. I'd suggest a minimum of 30 and preferably 40 or 50.

Seconding this -- I could make do with 30 albums, but I'd much prefer to list 50 and order them accordingly.

There should also be an option for unranked lists, where each album is equally rated. I think once most of us here narrow down our favorites to a top 30 or so , the ordering/placing is pretty much arbitrary. Can one really say which of Daydream Nation or Purple Rain or Spirit of Eden or Dare or Nation of Millions, etc. is the best?

I'd much rather give each of my top 30 albums an equally weighted vote than try to pick my #1, #2 etc. album of the 1980s.

So you can add three more nominations, if you want to.

OK, then:
Hazel Dickens - It's Hard to Tell the Singer From the Song
Trouble Funk -Trouble Funk
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History

Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby
Venom - Welcome to Hell
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton
Vaselines - Dum-Dum
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan
Savage Republic - Tragic Figures
Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead (Capitol version w/ Black President & I.T.T. tracks)

The Fall - The Wonderful & Frightening World of the Fall
Diana Ross - Diana
Associates - Sulk
various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm
Pet Shop Boys - Please
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Once Upon a Time: The Singles

American Music Club - California
John Cale - Music For A New Society
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over me
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Run DMC - Tougher Than Leather
Televsion Personalities - And Don't The Kids Just Love It

various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm

I'm sorry, even though this one is a compilation of 80s tunes, as far as I know it only came out in 2005, so it's not valid. You may nominate another album instead.

New Order - Substance
Prince - 1999
Tones on Tail - Pop
Colourbox - Colourbox
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
ESG - Come Away with ESG
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club, 1963

Thanks for all the nominations, keep 'em rolling!

Good to see a few I cut from my list being nommed.

Was waiting to see what was nominated before doing mine since I knew lots i'd want nominated might be by others.

Husker Du - New Day Rising
Redd Kross - Neurotica
The Young Gods - L' Eau Rouge
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
Masters of Reality - Masters of Reality
Big Black - Atomizer

I'm happy to throw up six canonical albums to free up some space for others, in return for a bit of help on number seven:

The Smiths - Meat Is Murder
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Michael Jackson - Bad
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
Pet Shop Boys - Actually

I need help on:
Happy Mondays - Madchester Rave On
I was convinced this was a long player, but wikipedia tells me there were actually two EPs, Madchester Rave On and Hallelujah at around the same time. Can I squeeze it on or not?

Thank you for Hounds of Love.

Also i have no idea.

i have the Rave On 12"

Is that a 'no', then? I don't want to nominate Bummed because their peak is 'Hallelujah' I reckon, plus to be honest I don't actually like it very much.

This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears
Peter Gabriel - Passion
Spacemen 3 - Playing With Fire
Heidi Berry - Below the Waves
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand
Harold Budd & Cocteau Twins - The Moon & The Melodies
Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa

I suppose that seeing as how I don't know whether it's an album or not, I probably ought not to be nominating as the best album of any decade.

Violent Femmes -S/T
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
The Waterboys - This Is The Sea
the CURE - The Head On The Door
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full
The (English) Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk, Talk, Talk

good call on spacemen 3 and janes addiction, i forgot about them. Has a perfect prescription been nominated?

A few I toyed with and which so far as I can see remain unnominated: Sade 'Diamond Life', Whitney Houston 'Whitney Houston' and 'Whitney', Frankie Goes To Hollywood 'Welcome To The Pleasuredome', Fleetwood Mac 'Tango In The Night', Talking Heads 'The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads' and 'Stop Making Sense', Paul Simon 'Rhythm of the Saints'

Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau
Chris and Cosey - Heartbeat
Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
Sade - Stronger Than Pride
Jon Hassell - Power Spot
Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue

xpost- 'tango in the night' would've been #8 there, someone please give it a nod!

Big Black - Songs About Fucking (1987)
Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire (1981)
Chameleons - Strange Times (1986)
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mench (1985)
Arthur Russell - World of Echo (1986)
Swans - Children of God (1987)
Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses (1986)

Sorry about potentially splitting the vote on the Birthday Party and Big Black, but I really strongly believe these two are the better works. Nods to the nominators of Remain in Light, Computer World, Apollo, Murmur, Hatful of Hollow, Swordfishtrombones, Treasure, Horse Rotorvator, Daydream Nation, and Passion, those all would be on my short-list. Suggestions for others pressed for time: Killing Joke, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Juju, Upstairs at Eric's, Skylarking, Escape from Noise, Life's Too Good, Bird Wood Cage.

aztec camera - high land, hard rain
db's - repercussion
gary numan - telekon
yazoo - upstairs at eric's
marshall crenshaw - s/t
kid creole & the coconuts - wise guy
xtc - skylarking

Depeche Mode - Violator

― Paul in Santa Cruz

This one came out in 1990, didn't it?

various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm

I'm sorry, even though this one is a compilation of 80s tunes, as far as I know it only came out in 2005, so it's not valid. You may nominate another album instead.

Since Depeche Mode's Violator did indeed come out in 1990, please delete it from my list and substitute
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)

It was released as a six-track album (and, I think, 3x12" set) in '81.8

Okay, my bad. I'll add it to the list.

Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa

― Leee, 24. lokakuuta 2009 23:21 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

This is a piece of music that Pärt composed in 1977. I assume that you mean some specific 1980s recording of it, but I need to know which one before I add it to the list.

Oh, and Ismael, Madchester Rave On is indeed an EP - it even says so in the record cover. So it's not valid, you may nominate something else instead.

B-52s - Wild Planet
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic
Indigo Girls - s/t
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
OMD - Dazzle Ships
La's - s/t

dead kennedys - plastic surgery disasters
van halen - women and children first
bad brains - rock for light
faith no more - introduce yourself
fishbone - truth and soul
melvins - ozma
slayer - reign in blood

Apologies for causing you extra work, Tuomas. My number seven is therefore:

Fleetwood Mac - Tango In The Night

(#8 would've been 'The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads'. Not the others I mentioned because there I decided it's really the singles I like. A few further notable omissions for anyone looking for filler: Duran Duran 'Rio', Madonna 'Like A Prayer', Pet Shop Boys 'Introspective', Beastie Boys 'Licensed To Ill', The Human League 'Dare')

M the G: Plastic Surgery Disasters and Reign in Blood have both been nominated already. So you may nominate two other albums instead.

the cramps - songs the lord taught us
pet shop boys - introspective
dexy's midnight runners - don't stand me down
the specials - more specials
fingers inc. - another side
propaganda - a secret wish
virginia astley - from gardens where we feel secure

my apologies tuomas. in that case I will nominate:

john zorn - naked city
thinking plague - in this life

the la's album is from 1990 afaik.

btw i'd like someone to nominate lou reed's "new york". in my view his second last great album.

ah crap re. La's. Please replace it with

Ronnie Milsap - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2

ABBA - The Visitors
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
REM - Murmur
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You?

xpost- sweet! thanks for taking my 'tango' suggestion

just wanna throw some more ideas out there- francis bebey - 'akwaaba', 'synchro system' (unless it'll split the king sunny contingent even further), the clean - 'compilation', the verlaines - 'bird dog', 'e2-e4', 'fourth world vol. 1 - possible musics' (i'll definitely second the mention of 'my life in the bush of ghosts' too), and of course more talk talk and sade albums

Would everybody in this thread please stop fishing for surrogate nominations? Thanks!

― Paul in Santa Cruz, Thursday, 22 October 2009 17:18

Dog Latin, Raind Dogs and Murmur have been nominated already, you still have 3 nominations to use.

i don't really care about them but an 80s poll without synthpop gods depeche mode seems like going to the movies without popcorn.

ρεμπετις, I can't find any info on a Trouble Funk album called "Trouble Funk". Is it known by some other name?

Okay, here's a list of what's been nominated so far (don't mind the asterisks after the album titles, they just mean I've checked the album is valid):

A

ABBA - The Visitors*
ABC - The Lexicon of Love*
AC/DC - Back in Black*
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You*
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier*
American Music Club - California*
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels*
Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure*
The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex*
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain*

B

The B-52’s - Wild Planet*
Bad Brains - s/t*
Bad Brains - Rock for Light*
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field*
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique*
Heidi Berry - Below the Waves*
Big Black - Atomizer*
Big Black - Songs About Fucking*
The Birthday Party - s/t*
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire*
Black Flag - Damaged*
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops*
Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop*
David Bowie - Scary Monsters*
Bronski Beat - Truthdare Doubledare*
Harold Budd / Elizabeth Fraser / Robin Guthrie / Simon Raymonde - The Moon and the Melodies*
Kate Bush - The Dreaming*
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love*
Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac*

C

John Cale - Music for a New Society*
The Chameleons - Strange Times*
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie*
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station*
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial*
Chic - Real People*
Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat*
The Church - Starfish*
Cocteau Twins - Treasure*
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand*
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man*
Leonard Cohen - Various Positions*
Coil - Horse Rotorvator*
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes*
Colourbox - s/t*
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More*
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust*
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us*
Crass - Penis Envy*
Marshall Crenshaw - s/t*
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night*
The Cure - The Head on the Door*
The Cure - Disintegration*
The Cure - Pornography*
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds*

D

The dB's - Like This*
The dB's - Repercussion*
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising*
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters*
DeBarge - In a Special Way*
Def Leppard - Pyromania*
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau*
Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo*
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down*
Hazel Dickens - It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song*
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug*
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me*
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless*
Bob Dylan - Saved*

E

Steve Earle - Guitar Town*
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch*
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It*
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land*
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks*
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full*
ESG - Come Away with ESG*
The Ex - Blueprints for a Blackout*

F

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly*
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself*
The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)*
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace*
The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall*
Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?*
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms*
The Feelies - The Good Earth*
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word*
Fingers Inc. - Another Side*
Fishbone - Truth and Soul*
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night*
Flipper - Album / Generic Flipper*

G

Peter Gabriel - Passion*
Peter Gabriel - 3*
Peter Gabriel - 4 / Security*
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan*
Galaxie 500 - On Fire*
The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood*
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane*
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah*
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction*

H

Merle Haggard - Big City*
Jon Hassell - Power Spot*
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains*
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania!*
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4*
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death*
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar?*
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising*
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories*
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade*

I

Indigo Girls - s/t*
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast*

J

Michael Jackson - Bad*
Michael Jackson - Thriller*
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking*
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy*
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History*
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You?*
Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo*
George Jones - I Am What I Am*
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing*
Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space*
Just-Ice - Back To the Old School*

K

Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places*
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy / Tropical Gangsters*
King Crimson - Discipline*
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Aura*
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Juju Music*
Kraftwerk - Computer World*
Fela Anikulapo-Kuti - Original Sufferhead*

L

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual*
The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum*
The Lewd - American Wino*

M

Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap*
Thomas Maphumo - Corruption*
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising*
Masters of Reality - s/t*
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II*
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun*
The Mekons - The Edge of the World*
The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey*
The Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll*
Melvins - Ozma*
Metallica - Master of Puppets*
Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X*
Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset*
Ronnie Milsap - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2*
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime*
Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma (Rykodisc compilation)*
Morrissey - Viva Hate*
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears*
Motörhead - Orgasmatron*
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle of Time*

N

Napalm Death - Scum*
New Order - Brotherhood*
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies*
New Order - Substance*
New Order - Technique*
No Trend - Too Many Humans*
Gary Numan - Telekon*
Nurse with Wound - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion*
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton*

O

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America*
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby*
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever*
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - s/t*
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman*

P

Robert Palmer - Clues*
Nikos Papazoglou - Xaratsi*
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting from Home*
Pet Shop Boys - Actually*
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective*
Pet Shop Boys - Please*
Pixies - Doolittle*
Pixies - Surfer Rosa*
Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched*
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen*
Pretenders - s/t*
Prince - Dirty Mind*
Prince - Lovesexy*
Prince - 1999*
Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times*
Prince and the Revolution - Parade*
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain*
Propaganda - A Secret Wish*
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk*
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back*
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker*

Q

R

The Red Crayola with Art & Language - Kangaroo?*
Redd Kross - Neurotica*
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask*
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts*
Steve Reich - Tehillim*
R.E.M. - Murmur*
R.E.M. - Reckoning*
The Replacements - Let It Be*
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me*
Diana Ross - Diana*
Roxy Music - Avalon*
Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell*
Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather*
Arthur Russell - World of Echo*

S

Sade - Stronger Than Pride*
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late*
Savage Republic - Tragic Figures*
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole*
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85*
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar*
Shriekback - Oil and Gold*
Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue*
Paul Simon - Graceland*
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time: The Singles*
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom*
Slayer - Reign in Blood*
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow*
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder*
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead*
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen*
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret*
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising*
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation*
Sonic Youth - EVOL*
Sonic Youth - Sister*
Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears*
Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire*
Sparks - Angst in My Pants*
The Specials - More Specials*
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA*
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska*
Bruce Springsteen - The River*
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love*
Steely Dan - Gaucho*
Stetsasonic - In Full Gear*
The Stone Roses - s/t*
Swans - Children of God*

T

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring*
Talking Heads - Remain in Light*
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues*
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense*
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It*
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln*
Thinking Plague - In This Life*
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights*
Throwing Muses - s/t*
Tom Tom Club - s/t*
Tones on Tail - Pop*
Randy Travis - Storms of Life*
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional*

U

U2 - The Joshua Tree*
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire*
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown*

V

Van Halen - Women and Children First*
Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 1*
Various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm*
The Vaselines - Dum-Dum*
Venom - Welcome to Hell*
Tom Verlaine - Flash Light*
Violent Femmes - s/t*

W

Bunny Wailer - Sings the Wailers*
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs*
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones*
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter*
The Waterboys - This Is the Sea
The Wedding Present - Bizarro*
The Wedding Present - George Best*
The Wedding Present - Tommy*
Keith Whitley - I Wonder Do You Think of Me*
Lucinda Williams - s/t*
Wipers - Youth of America*
Womack & Womack - Love Wars*

X

X - Wild Gift*
Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin*
XTC - The Big Express*
XTC - English Settlement*
XTC - Skylarking*

Y

Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's*
Yello - One Second*
Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.*
Neil Young - Freedom*
The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge*
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth*

Z

John Zorn - Naked City*

If an album is known by two names, I included both. For example, "Wise Guy" and "Tropical Gangsters" by Kid Creole and the Coconuts appear to be the same album, or at least they have the same track list. However, I'm not that knowledeable on KCatC, so if someone here knows that it isn't the same album, please let me know.

Albums that weren't yet included on the list because they need confirmation:

* Trouble Funk - Trouble Funk. Does such an album exist?
* Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa. Which recording of Pärt's composition is this?

ρεμπετις, I can't find any info on a Trouble Funk album called "Trouble Funk". Is it known by some other name?

Drop the Bomb, maybe? 1982 on Sugarhill

tabula rasa

Oh yeah, one more thing! Contenderizer, you nominated this album:

Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead (Capitol version w/ Black President & I.T.T. tracks)

But I can't find any information that a version of this album with the bonus tracks you mention was released in the 80s. If you're talking about this comp, discogs.com says it was released in 1991. I've still included the two track version of Original Sufferhead in the list, but if you have more info on the version you mentioned, please let me know.

Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Faith No More - The Real Thing
Spacemen 3 - A Perfect Prescription
Joy Division - Closer
Metallica - Ride The Lightning

Drop the Bomb, maybe? 1982 on Sugarhill.

Okay, I'll include this on the list. And thanks for the Pärt info, Paul, I'll put that one on the list too. If other people are gonna nominate classical records, please include some more info than just the composer and the title, so we know which recording of the composition you're talking about.

oh shit can i take out Black Celebration and nominate Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden instead please?

oops that was me. my mate nominated those

Eh? Are you saying you are "state of the world today"? You can't use sockpuppets to nominate extra albums.

as i hate depeche mode and dont want anyone thinking its me!
xp

no no no, my mate uses that nick when hes over here.

Then why were you asking to take out Black Celebration if your mate nominated it?

because i resigned in to post on another thread and forgot to sign out and he posted scott/maria style!
I hate depeche mode why would I nominate them!

it's his log-in. I dont even know his password.

It's true I'm Harry and i am state of the world today. Hello.

I suspect the Trouble Funk is the album Drop the Bomb, as the one go-go album to enter the canon. Pärt's Tabula Rasa, like most his works, is known from the ECM recordingp (1984).

Curious about how these nominations compared to the critical consensus as tabulated on acclaimedmusic.net, I found only 29 albums in that sites 80s top 100 not represented here, with the highest at position 28: Licensed to Ill, So, Licensed to Ill, Dare!, Synchronicity, Imperial Bedroom, War, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Get Happy!!, Shoot Out the Lights, Document, New York, Like a Prayer, Tracy Chapman, Los Angeles, Sound Affects, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Criminal Minded, Club Classics Vol. 1/Keep On Movin', Low-Life, No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, Sandinista!, Green, Tim, Ocean Rain, Stop Making Sense, Brothers in Arms, Strangeways, Here We Come, The Real Thing. IMO, most of our omissions are flawed in uninteresting ways, so I think we're doing really well here.

I'm a bit confused... "Herman G. Neuname" didn't nominate Depeche Mode, an user called "state of the world today" did. I'm not gonna change the nomination unless that user asks me to.

(x-post)

I went with Ghetto Music over Criminal Minded because CR was nominated the first time around and I thought someone else would. Plus, Ghetto Music is just as good.

Not confusing at all, I just forgot to sign out of Kerr's name. I am not Kerr.
Tuomas could you please remove Depeche Mode - Black Celebration and nominate Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden instead?

Kerr secretly likes Depeche Mode, he has all their cds hidden under his bed.

Okay, Black Celebration is out and Spirit of Eden is in.

Thank you Tuomas. I don't have internet access at home,hence my sporadic posting, and I am round at his to watch the football as I don't have Sky.

^ a likely story

no true poster would ever be so polite

Peter Gabriel - So
Kix - Kix
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Get Happy!!
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
Laurie Anderson - Big Science
"Weird Al" Yankovic - "Weird Al" Yankovic In 3-D

This is not easy, but here goes:

Public Enemy - It Takes Nation of Millions
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Slayer - Reign In Blood
REM - Murmur

big up for Big Science.

xp

The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
The Fall - Perverted By Language
The Verlaines - Hallelujah All the Way Home
The Verlaines - Juvenilia
OMD - Architecture and Morality
INXS - Listen Like Thieves
The Chills - Brave Words

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
Husker Du - Flip Your Wig
Manuel Gottsching - E2-E4
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
The Young Gods - The Young Gods
The Human League - Dare

Tuomas how many albums can we vote for and how will it be weighted?

Oh yeah, one more thing! Contenderizer, you nominated this album:

Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead (Capitol version w/ Black President & I.T.T. tracks)

But I can't find any information that a version of this album with the bonus tracks you mention was released in the 80s. If you're talking about this comp, discogs.com says it was released in 1991. I've still included the two track version of Original Sufferhead in the list, but if you have more info on the version you mentioned, please let me know.

― Tuomas

Well, I see yr discogs mention and raise you one allmusic and an amazon. Mid 80s squares with my recollection, too. Maybe reissued in the early 90s?

I think those links are good enough to say it was the 80s.

Discogs is not complete by any means

Discogs is usually more trustworthy about release years than Allmusic, but all three sources seem to list only the 1991 CD reissue/compilation. Allmusic and Amazon say the original (presumably LP?) was released in 1984, but have no further info on it. This page does have someone selling an "Original Sufferhead" LP from 1984, but it there's no track list. I'm just gonna have to trust the 1984 has the same track list as the 1991 CD.

"the 1984 LP"

I'll add the information on what tracks this comp has to the list, so people won't confuse it with the 1981 Original Sufferhead LP.

Public Enemy - It Takes Nation of Millions
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Slayer - Reign In Blood
REM - Murmur

― Stew, 25. lokakuuta 2009 18:50 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

All seven albums you list here have been nominated already. So you still have 7 nominations to use.

You should post the whole list of what has been nominated so far again then so those who want to nominate in the remaining few hours dont nominate duplicates.

He only did it this afternoon! How hard is it to ctrl-F?!

well it seems others did fail to

There's still a week to go anyway - plenty more nannying for Tuomas to do

oh yeah so there is.

A quick link for everyone then
ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL REDUX: Nomination Thread (nomination time ends on Sunday, November 1st)

minor threat - Complete Discography or just the 1st LP if that's how we wanna do it.
Descendants- Milo Goes to College
Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
The Clash - Sandinista!
Beastie Boys - License to Ill
Replacements - Tim
The Police - Ghost In the Machine

hehe did you post that because of

Curious about how these nominations compared to the critical consensus as tabulated on acclaimedmusic.net, I found only 29 albums in that sites 80s top 100 not represented here, with the highest at position 28: Licensed to Ill, So, Licensed to Ill, Dare!, Synchronicity, Imperial Bedroom, War, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables, Get Happy!!, Shoot Out the Lights, Document, New York, Like a Prayer, Tracy Chapman, Los Angeles, Sound Affects, Yo! Bum Rush the Show, Criminal Minded, Club Classics Vol. 1/Keep On Movin', Low-Life, No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith, Sandinista!, Green, Tim, Ocean Rain, Stop Making Sense, Brothers in Arms, Strangeways, Here We Come, The Real Thing. IMO, most of our omissions are flawed in uninteresting ways, so I think we're doing really well here.

― Deliquescing (Derelict), Sunday, 25 October 2009 16:24

"mate"

Ha, I had 6 for this thread on Friday night but was sleeping on the last one, and now a bunch of those have been nominated, plus I realised one of mine was actually 1991 ;_; so I had EVEN MORE thinking to do! Here's five, may come back for the last two later if that's OK:

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window
Swell Maps - Jane from Occupied Europe
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss
Pixies - Surfer Rosa + Come On Pilgrim (sorry if anyone thinks this is cheating and/or rude but apparently from Surfer Rosa's original 1988 release the CD version always came with both, so it meets the rules. however, if enough people complain I'll split them up again)

Game Theory - Lolita Nation
Gun Club - Miami + Fire Of Love
Cramps - psychedelic jungle
Vietnam Veterans - catfish eyes and tales

All seven albums you list here have been nominated already. So you still have 7 nominations to use.

― Tuomas, Sunday, October 25, 2009 10:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Oops, sorry, I misread the nomination process. That was just 7 of my favourites. This is proving quite tricky now, but there are still some amazing records that haven't been mentioned yet. Behold:

Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs
Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us
Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat
Godflesh - Streetcleaner
Elvis Costello - Blood & Chocolate
Lou Reed - New York
Travellin' Wilburys - Vol 1

The Go-Betweens - Send Me A Lullaby
The Raincoats - s/t
The Pastels - Up For A Bit With...
Throwing Muses - House Tornado
Girls At Our Best! - Pleasure
Pylon - Gyrate
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World

Pixies - Surfer Rosa + Come On Pilgrim (sorry if anyone thinks this is cheating and/or rude but apparently from Surfer Rosa's original 1988 release the CD version always came with both, so it meets the rules. however, if enough people complain I'll split them up again)

Since Surfer Rosa has already been nominated, I think having both it and this comp on the list might lead to some vote-splitting. To me it would make more sense if you nominated Come on Pilgrim as a separate entry, but it's up to you to decide.

Oops, sorry Tuomas, you're quite right. I didn't think Surfer Rosa had been nominated (thought I'd ctrl-Fed all my entries but must've missed that one as it was a last-minute substitution). I will nominate Come On Pilgrim separately as you suggest.

Okay, I'll add it to the list.

the Raincoats album was a '79 release, wasn't it?

AMG says 1980, but both Discogs.com and Rate Your Music say 1979. Since AMG isn't always trustworthy when it comes to release dates, I think 1979 must be correct. So I removed the album from the list, you may nominate something else instead, Verhexen.

Bump.

how many albums nominated so far Tuomas?

and have you decided how many albums can be voted for and how it will be weighted yet?

According to the liner notes of the Geffen CD tne Raincoats 1st album came out Nov 1979

I hope there's lots of voting options, might make it more interesting in that it wont just be the usual ilm suspects. Makes the lower end of the poll more interesting too.

I think there's over 400 albums nominated by now.

I still haven't planned the exact voting system yet, but I'll probably make it so that you give either an weighed vote or even vote, where every album gets the same amount of points.

What if each voter gets one 'grand prix' vote that's worth say 5pts and 19 plain votes that are worth 1 pt?

that's probably a good idea as lots of people didn't like making an actual in order list when I ran the metal poll last year.

xp

nah i prefer the idea that some are allowed to vote in order.

plus im not sure 20 is enough considering there's over 20 to choose from. Otherwise the poll will just be the same old poll with the same old albums.

*over 400

No-one has really had problems with ranking stuff in my telly poll; I don't think it would be a problem. I'm not sure it would be too much to have a ranked one and one where you don't rank and tuomas just gives the median to each one. so if it went 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 for example, but you didn't want to give 1 record 10 and another 1 point, you could give them all 5.5?

As for the weighed vote, how would you feel about a systen where you can vote for 30 albums, and the weighing goes something like this:

1: 45 points
2: 30 points
3: 25 points
4: 20 points
5: 15 points
6-10: 10 points each
11-15: 7 points each
16-20: 5 points each
21-25: 3 points each
26-30: 2 points each

Or alternatively you can give an even vote for 30 albums, and each album gets 9 points. In both cases the number of points you can deal is 270. Does this sound good?

This would give your top album more weight than the rest of the top 5, and top 5 more weight than the rest of the list, but it would still be more proportionate than a simple system where your top album gets 30 points and album #30 gets 1 point.

i'm cool with that.

sounds ok to me

It was pretty hard to come up with the exact numbers, as I wanted to create a system where the top 5 gets more weight than the rest of list, but the total amount of points still needs to be a multiple of 30, so the even vote doesn't have to rely on decimals. If someone has a better system for a weighed vote, you can post it here.

Glenn is the guy for that kinda thing. He was awesome doing the actual work on the metal poll last year. Without him it wouldn't have happened.

You're making a lot of work for yourself there Tuomas. Looks good though - I like no.1s to get a bit of a premium.

(I also like decent points for getting a vote at all, but that doesn't matter so much if you're allowing votes for 30 different albums - it does seem a bit unfair in 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 polls where nine folk giving record X a point get outweighed by some loon pushing 'Shaddup You Face' for a lark)

Dom aint here ;)

I'm pretty sure I have my ballot saved from last time, so I'm probably just going to find that and nominate all of them again.

45 points for the top spot and only 2 for #26-30. that difference is much too big if you ask me. in that scenario one top vote can cancel out the votes of 22 people. that's nuts. the ratio between first and last album should not be bigger than 5:1 if you ask me. what do you think of:

#1: 10 points
#2: 8 points
#3: 6 points
#4-6: 5 points
#7-10: 4 points
#11-15: 3 points
#16-30: 2 points

all in all 100 points.

clearly we need a poll to decide this

45 points for the top spot and only 2 for #26-30. that difference is much too big if you ask me. in that scenario one top vote can cancel out the votes of 22 people. that's nuts.

The point is to give people the chance to put more weigh on the albums they really, really love. A number one vote can outweigh the votes of 22 people, yes, but I'm not sure how much they love the album that's in the 30th spot. Though if they do love all the albums on their list, they can always go for the equal points option.

In Blount's original 80s poll #1 spot got 300 points and the final spot 2 points, I thought my suggestion was balanced compared to that.

Boredoms - Soul Discharge
Nirvana - Bleach
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician
Fugazi - 13 Songs
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Madonna - Like A Virgin

in case we make a poll for the weighting scheme i propose to multiply all the points in my scheme by three. i.e. top spot 30 points, #2 24 points up to #16-#30 6 points. in that case the even split vote would give ten points to each of the 30 albums. no decimals needed.

I'm not gonna poll it, that's a bit ridiculous. People can tell me in this thread what sort of weighing scheme they prefer, and I'll make the final decision based on that.

1: 45 points
2: 30 points
3: 25 points
4: 20 points
5: 15 points
6-10: 10 points each
11-15: 7 points each
16-20: 5 points each
21-25: 3 points each
26-30: 2 points each

I like this. If it's harsh on #30, tough - should've been a better album then.

Okay then. To make the comparison easier here is my suggestion with the corrected weightings:

1: 30 points
2: 24 points
3: 18 points
4-6: 15 points each
7-10: 12 points each
11-15: 9 points each
16-30: 6 points each

In total 300 points. Therefore the split even vote would be 10 points for each of the 30 albums.

Fred Frith - Gravity
Jon Hasell/Brian Eno - Fourth World Vol.1: Possible Musics
Durutti Column - Return of the Durutti Column
Willie Rosario - The Salsa Machine
Hector Lavoe - Hector Lavoe Strikes Back
La Sonora Poncena – New Heights
Eddie Palmieri - Eddie Palmieri

Given a choice between (a) and (b), I prefer (a). I like the idea of weighted votes, but I don't want my #1 choice to weigh so much more than the next few.

(a)
1: 30 points
2: 24 points
3: 18 points
4-6: 15 points each
7-10: 12 points each
11-15: 9 points each
16-30: 6 points each

(b)
1: 45 points
2: 30 points
3: 25 points
4: 20 points
5: 15 points
6-10: 10 points each
11-15: 7 points each
16-20: 5 points each
21-25: 3 points each
26-30: 2 points each

I'm only going to pick about five albums anyway. This process has mostly made me rethink my rethink that maybe the 80s weren't so bad after all.

quick chart of those weighted systems the simple unweighted system:

http://i37.tinypic.com/2a0cne8.png

red seems most reasonable, yellow's kind of crazy imo

xp
i think you mean the simple weighted system with #1=30 points, #2=29 points, ... #30=1 point. the unweighted system would just be a horizontal line along 9 or 10 points.

Wouldn't the easiest thing just be to say that you can vote for up to 30 albums, and get, say, up to 40 points to distribute? That way, folks who want their tops to be weighted higher can do it, and folks who want to distribute their votes evenly can do it, and there's just a simple checksum for each column.

i hate the whole idea of people individually distributing their points, imo it should be the same for everyone's ballot. just seems to lead to a bunch of 'strategizing' that probably wouldn't make much of a difference anyway.

If the point system is fixed, the person doing the processing only has to know what albums in what order. If the point system is up to the voter, then the processor has to know not only the album but the number of points assigned to it. Could be (slightly) more headache-inducing. Plus makes voting more of a challenge -- not just a ranked list, but a division of points. Could reduce the number of responses. Not sure it makes a big difference either way...

I also like Paul's option (a).

Since that wasn't very clear, some dude OTM. Individual point distribution = no good.

Small club of people dump all their points on comical Rick Astley record, et voila.

^^^what they said.

xp hahah

Minutemen - The Punch Line
U2 - War
Dr. Alimantado - Born For a Purpose (perfect 1981 collection of '70s singles, one of my favorite reggae albums)
The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?
Madonna - Madonna
Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix
Van Halen - 1984

Some-buddy please nominate!:

The Velvet Underground - VU
Orchestra Baobab - Pirates Choice
Black Flag - The First Four Years
Beat Happening - Jamboree
Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
L.L. Cool J - Radio

I'm not gonna go for "decide the point distribution yourself" option exactly because of the reasons people point out above: it makes the voting process too complicated, and encourages "strategic" voting too much.

Basically I think Paul's system is okay, but I don't like the idea of numbers 16-30 all getting the same amount of points. Can anyone come up with a modified version, where 20-25 get a little bit less points than 16-20, and 26-30 get a little bit less than 20-25? Then total amount of points needs to be a multiple of 30.

Tuomas I suggest you decide points system for yourself and let everyone else live with it given that you're doing all the work. If anyone complains it's unfair just tell them "so is the SB system and it didn't stop you fuckers!"

How about this sort of point distribution:

1: 40 points
2: 30 points
3: 25 points
4: 20 points
5: 15 points
6-10: 11 points each
11-15: 8 points each
16-20: 6 points each
21-25: 5 points each
26-30: 4 points each

Which would add to 300 points, so if you choose the even vote, it's 10 points per album. This would be a compromise between my initial system and Alex's.

I think Alex's proposal is better. Makes more sense for there to be 5x different between albums 1 and 30 than 10x difference, and so forth. It's a much more evenly distributed weighting.

5x difference*

It might also lead to more ties, though, which could be a bit undramatic. Especially if #16-30 all get the same amount of votes. The less even distribution is also meant to make the poll more dramatic.

I see that perspective also. Makes no difference to me, really, as I'll most likely not rank my list anyway...

I second onimo's proposal. It's your poll Tuomas, grow a pair.

god damnit how could i forget beat happening?!

Think yr recent point distrib is fine, and that if you like it, you should just go with it. 10x difference between someone's single top album of the decade and the stuff they fill out the bottom 5 (of 30!) with seems perfectly reasonable.

I have for the longest time read psychgawsple as something that should be pronounced "psychswapple"

another plea for the nomination of "my life in the bush of ghosts". i am pretty sure it will do quite well (top 50 or better). concerning the rating system i think your last proposal is a good compromise, tuomas. out of laziness i will probably go for the even distribution anyways.

Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Vulgar Boatmen - You and Your Sister
The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right

van halen - fair warning
durutti column - another setting
kano - s/t
van morrison - inarticulate speech of the heart
chameleons - script of the bridge
ar kane - 69
daryl hall & john oates - ooh yeah!

can we get an updated list Tuomas?

Here's an updated list:

A

ABBA - The Visitors*
ABC - The Lexicon of Love*
AC/DC - Back in Black*
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You*
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier*
American Music Club - California*
Laurie Anderson - Big Science*
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels*
A.R. Kane - 69*
Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure*
The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex*
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain*

B

The B-52’s - Wild Planet*
Bad Brains - s/t*
Bad Brains - Rock for Light*
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field*
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill*
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique*
Heidi Berry - Below the Waves*
Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix*
Big Black - Atomizer*
Big Black - Songs About Fucking*
The Birthday Party - s/t*
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire*
Black Flag - Damaged*
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops*
Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop*
Boredoms - Soul Discharge*
David Bowie - Scary Monsters*
Bronski Beat - Truthdare Doubledare*
Harold Budd / Elizabeth Fraser / Robin Guthrie / Simon Raymonde - The Moon and the Melodies*
Kate Bush - The Dreaming*
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love*
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician*
Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac*

C

John Cale - Music for a New Society*
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge*
The Chameleons - Strange Times*
The Chills - Brave Words*
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World*
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie*
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station*
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window*
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial*
Chic - Real People*
Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat*
The Church - Starfish*
The Clash - Sandinista!*
Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land*
Cocteau Twins - Treasure*
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand*
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man*
Leonard Cohen - Various Positions*
Coil - Horse Rotorvator*
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes*
Colourbox - s/t*
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More*
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Get Happy!!*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust*
The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle*
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us*
Crass - Penis Envy*
Marshall Crenshaw - s/t*
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night*
The Cure - The Head on the Door*
The Cure - Disintegration*
The Cure - Pornography*
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds*

D

The dB's - Like This*
The dB's - Repercussion*
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising*
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters*
DeBarge - In a Special Way*
Def Leppard - Hysteria*
Def Leppard - Pyromania*
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses*
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward*
Descendents - Milo Goes to College*
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau*
Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo*
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down*
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels*
Hazel Dickens - It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song*
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug*
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me*
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless*
Dr. Alimantado - Born For a Purpose / Sons of Thunder*
The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses*
Durutti Column - Another Setting*
Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column*
Bob Dylan - Saved*

E

Steve Earle - Guitar Town*
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch*
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It*
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land*
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks*
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full*
ESG - Come Away with ESG*
The Ex - Blueprints for a Blackout*

F

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly*
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself*
Faith No More - The Real Thing*
The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)*
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour*
The Fall - Perverted by Language*
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace*
The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall*
Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?*
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms*
The Feelies - The Good Earth*
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word*
Fingers Inc. - Another Side*
Fishbone - Truth and Soul*
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night*
Flipper - Album / Generic Flipper*
Fred Frith - Gravity*
Fugazi - 13 Songs*

G

Peter Gabriel - 3*
Peter Gabriel - 4 / Security*
Peter Gabriel - Passion*
Peter Gabriel - So*
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan*
Galaxie 500 - On Fire*
Game Theory - Lolita Nation*
Girls at Our Best! - Pleasure*
The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood*
The Go-Betweens - Send Me a Lullaby*
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane*
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah*
Godflesh - Streetcleaner*
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4*
Gun Club - Fire of Love*
Gun Club - Miami*
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction*

H

Merle Haggard - Big City*
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Ooh Yeah!*
Jon Hassell - Power Spot*
Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol.1: Possible Musics*
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains*
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania!*
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4*
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death*
Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right*
The Human League - Dare!*
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar?*
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig*
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising*
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories*
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade*

I

Indigo Girls - s/t*
INXS - Listen Like Thieves*
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast*

J

Michael Jackson - Bad*
Michael Jackson - Thriller*
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking*
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy*
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture*
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History*
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You?*
Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo*
George Jones - I Am What I Am*
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing*
Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs*
Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space*
Joy Division - Closer*
Just-Ice - Back To the Old School*

K

Kano - s/t*
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places*
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy / Tropical Gangsters*
King Crimson - Discipline*
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Aura*
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Juju Music*
Kix - s/t*
Kraftwerk - Computer World*
Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead (1984 Capitol compilation with “Original Sufferhead”, “Sorrow Tears and Blood”, “Colonial Mentality” and “I.T.T.”)*

L

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual*
Héctor Lavoe - Strikes Back*
The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum*
The Lewd - American Wino*
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac*

M

Madonna - Like a Virgin*
Madonna - Madonna*
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap*
Thomas Maphumo - Corruption*
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising*
Masters of Reality - s/t*
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II*
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun*
The Mekons - The Edge of the World*
The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey*
The Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll*
Melvins - Ozma*
Metallica - Master of Puppets*
Metallica - Ride the Lightning*
Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X*
Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset*
Minutemen - The Punch Line*
Ronnie Milsap - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2*
Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1988 compilation)*
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime*
Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma (Rykodisc compilation)*
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart*
Morrissey - Viva Hate*
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears*
Motörhead - Ace of Spades*
Motörhead - Orgasmatron*
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything*
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle of Time*

N

Napalm Death - Scum*
New Order - Brotherhood*
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies*
New Order - Substance*
New Order - Technique*
Nirvana - Bleach*
No Trend - Too Many Humans*
Gary Numan - Telekon*
Nurse with Wound - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion*
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton*

O

Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America*
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby*
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever*
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - s/t*
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman*

P

Robert Palmer - Clues*
Eddie Palmieri - s/t*
Nikos Papazoglou - Xaratsi*
The Pastels - Up for a Bit with the Pastels*
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting from Home*
Pet Shop Boys - Actually*
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective*
Pet Shop Boys - Please*
Pixies - Come on Pilgrim*
Pixies - Doolittle*
Pixies - Surfer Rosa*
Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched*
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash*
The Police - Ghost in the Machine*
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta*
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen*
Pretenders - s/t*
Prince - Dirty Mind*
Prince - Lovesexy*
Prince - 1999*
Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times*
Prince and the Revolution - Parade*
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain*
Propaganda - A Secret Wish*
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk*
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back*
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker*
Pylon - Gyrate*
Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa (ECM 1984)*

Q

R

The Red Crayola with Art & Language - Kangaroo?*
Redd Kross - Neurotica*
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask*
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts*
Lou Reed - New York*
Steve Reich - Tehillim*
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant*
R.E.M. - Murmur*
R.E.M. - Reckoning*
The Replacements - Let It Be*
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me*
The Replacements - Tim*
Willie Rosario - The Salsa Machine*
Diana Ross - Diana*
Roxy Music - Avalon*
Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell*
Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather*
Arthur Russell - World of Echo*

S

Sade - Stronger Than Pride*
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late*
Savage Republic - Tragic Figures*
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole*
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85*
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar*
The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?*
Shriekback - Oil and Gold*
Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue*
Paul Simon - Graceland*
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time: The Singles*
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom*
Slayer - Reign in Blood*
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick*
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow*
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder*
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead*
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come*
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen*
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret*
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising*
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation*
Sonic Youth - EVOL*
Sonic Youth - Sister*
Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears*
Sonora Ponceña - New Heights*
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription*
Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire*
Sparks - Angst in My Pants*
The Specials - More Specials*
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA*
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska*
Bruce Springsteen - The River*
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love*
Steely Dan - Gaucho*
Stetsasonic - In Full Gear*
The Stone Roses - s/t*
Swans - Children of God*
Swell Maps - In “Jane from Occupied Europe”*

T

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring*
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden*
Talking Heads - Remain in Light*
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues*
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense*
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair*
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It*
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln*
Thinking Plague - In This Life*
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights*
Throwing Muses - House Tornado*
Throwing Muses - s/t*
Tom Tom Club - s/t*
Tones on Tail - Pop*
The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1*
Randy Travis - Storms of Life*
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional*
Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb*

U

U2 - The Joshua Tree*
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire*
U2 - War*
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown*

V

Van Halen - Fair Warning*
Van Halen - 1984*
Van Halen - Women and Children First*
Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 1*
Various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm*
The Vaselines - Dum-Dum*
Venom - Welcome to Hell*
Tom Verlaine - Flash Light*
The Verlaines - Hallelujah All the Way Home*
The Verlaines - Juvenilia*
Vietnam Veterans - Catfish Eyes and Tales*
Violent Femmes - s/t*
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss*
Vulgar Boatmen - You and Your Sister*

W

Bunny Wailer - Sings the Wailers*
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs*
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones*
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter*
The Waterboys - This Is the Sea*
The Wedding Present - Bizarro*
The Wedding Present - George Best*
The Wedding Present - Tommy*
Keith Whitley - I Wonder Do You Think of Me*
Lucinda Williams - s/t*
Wipers - Youth of America*
Womack & Womack - Love Wars*
Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us*
Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat*

X

X - Wild Gift*
Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin*
XTC - The Big Express*
XTC - English Settlement*
XTC - Skylarking*

Y

"Weird Al" Yankovic - In 3-D*
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's*
Yello - One Second*
Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.*
Neil Young - Freedom*
The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge*
The Young Gods - s/t*
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth*

Z

John Zorn - Naked City*

Some popular 80s artists with no albums nominated yet: Queen, Dire Straits, LL Cool J, Wham!/George Michael, Duran Duran, Janet Jackson, Huey Lewis & The News, Genesis/Phil Collins, Miami Sound Machine/Gloria Estefan, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Jungle Brothers.

Oh, and Bon Jovi.

I'm not saying all these should have nominations, though. But if you're looking for some obvious things to nominate...

No nominations for The Art of Noise either, I was pretty sure some was gonna nominate their first album at least. Well, there's still 4 days to go.

might have to allow bonus nominations then - seven was maybe too few

Well, there's still 4,5 days to go. So far about 80 people have posted their nominations, I'm sure there's still plenty of folks left who haven't nominated yet.

Anita Baker - Rapture
Bhundu Boys - Shabini
Everything But The Girl - Eden
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards
Madonna - Like A Prayer
The The - Soul Mining

Zoiks, no YMO! Good call.

Surprised no one has nominated a-ha's first two albums.

Are EPs elgible for this, Tuomas? I'm thinking Into Battle with The Art of Noise is the only korrekt AoN record to nominate.

No EPs, sorry. But since compilations are allowed, you could always nominate Daft, which compiles most of that EP and the first AoN album.

Hmmm, I'll let someone else ponder that idea. I have bigger fish to fry, viz:

Yes – Drama
Justified Ancients of MuMu - 1987 (What the Fuck's Going On?)
A Certain Ratio – Sextet
Squeeze - East Side Story
Was (Not Was) - s/t
Rush - Moving Pictures
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock

A.R. Kane - I
Cactus World News - Urban Beaches
Cocteau Twins - Head over Heels
Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Killing Joke - Night Time
Siouxsie & The Bansheses - Juju
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth

Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees
David Sylvian - Secrets of the beehive
Throbbing Gristle - The First Annual Report
Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine

(can't believe Sylvian hasn't been mentioned already!)

xpost damn djmartian :)

Alright, I'll take out my Head Over Heels and Eno/Byrne, and will seek two more

My substitutions:

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Sun City Girls - Sun City Girls

Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Duran Duran - Rio
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made of This
Eurythmics - Touch
Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira
Howard Jones - Human's Lib (lol vote to make up the 7)

No EPs, sorry.

Didn't someone nominate the Pixies' debut EP, Come On Pilgrim?

no lol, ledge! That's a pretty sweet album!

3 XTC albums have been nommed, but their best one thus far omitted...

Didn't someone nominate the Pixies' debut EP, Come On Pilgrim?

I did, but I think of it as a mini-album, since it has 8 tracks, and so do 4AD, since it has M-AD catalogue number.

But I nominated it in a fit of confusion mainly as I thought I could sneak in the two-fer with Surfer Rosa, except SR was already nominated. I'm quite happy to de-nominate it entirely.

(is probably the thing I listen to least out of my nominations, and it's not like the Pixies will go unrepresented otherwise)

Oh sorry, I thought Come on Pilgrim was a proper album. Because it's kinda hard to say what is an EP and what is a "mini-album", for fairness' sake I'm going to have to disqualify it. You may nominate something else instead, Spacecadet.

Happy Mondays-Bummed
Change-The Glow Of Love
Yellow Magic Orchestra-Naughty Boys
Cameo-Word Up
John Foxx-Metamatic
Grace Jones-Warm Leatherette
Associates-Sulk

Sure, no problem.

Curses, YMO - Solid State Survivor was 70s in Japan. Curses! Will think on this. (xpost, hooray, and now there is a YMO nomination)

Tuomas, I think someone nominated OMD - Architecture & Morality, but I didn't see it on the list, was that a mistake?

Oh yeah, that's a mistake, it should be on the list. I'll add it now. Thanks for pointing it out.

Because it's kinda hard to say what is an EP and what is a "mini-album", for fairness' sake I'm going to have to disqualify it.

For what it's worth, I'd imagine that 99% of sources refer to Surfer Rosa as the band's debut album.

No EPs = Hugo Largo screwed.

?

Drum and Mettle are both album-length releases.

I was thinking specifically of Drum and shit, you're right! Maybe it was a short album and that's why i am remembering it that way.

(The foregoing was not an intentional ploy to garner noms for Hugo Largo though they do deserve it).

AMG lists Drum as an EP, but Discogs.com says it's an LP. It think at 27,5 minutes it can be considered an LP, so feel free to nominate it. And Mettle is an LP by any definition.

I already did my 7.

any chance for bonus nominations, tuomas? i can think of at least 20 essential albums which are still missing. the album i miss most right now is the first self-titled house of love.

Ah, kudos to m the g for nominating In This Life!

any chance for bonus nominations, tuomas? i can think of at least 20 essential albums which are still missing.

Likewise.

No bonus nominations, but if the final list will not look comprehensive enough, I'll merge it with the 2005 nomination list.

But there's still 4 days to go, let's see what happens.

NWOBHM and Freestyle pretty underrepresented still!

The Cure - Standing on a Beach/Staring at the Sea
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
The House of Love - The House of Love
The Cult - Love
Tears for Fears - The Hurting

i could go on and on...

i want these on your list:

love & rockets - seventh dream of teenage heaven

bauhaus - burning from the inside

felt - the strange idols pattern and other short stories

kissing the pink - naked

the jungle brothers - done by the forces of nature

ssd - how we rock

slayer - south of heaven

maybe there should be a punk 80's poll! and a metal one! and a rap one! this one either needs more people or...something.

there are some great albums being nominated but i agree, there's a lot of strange omissions

We're not doing jazz and classical are we? Good albums not mentioned yet:

Arvo Part - Tabula Rasa
Glenn Branca - The Ascension
Eyeless in Gaza - Pale Hands I Loved So Well
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rockin' and Romance
Public Image Ltd - Flowers of Romance
This Heat - Deceit
Tuxedomoon - Desire

that arvo part album is on there, but i am with you on the branca and this heat

Filling some holes:

Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
XTC - Oranges and Lemons
XTC - Black Sea
The Feelies - Only Life
Bad Brains - I Against I

xpost - Yeah a bit surprised noone mention those two before. Mmm ok... scratch Arvo Part from my list and substitute with:

Butthole Surfers - Rembrandt Pussyhorse
Beat Happening - s/t

Rembrandt Pussyhorse is imho the surfers best but they already have two mentions in there so I'll go with Beat Happening instead.

Noo wait a second... please scratch Beat Happening as well. I just noticed noone has yet mentioned the Misfits:

The Misftis - Walk Among Us

The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story
Eyeless In Gaza - Caught In Flux
The Cure - Faith
Nick Cave - From Her to Eternity
The Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland
New Order - Movement
This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow

if the final list will not look comprehensive enough, I'll merge it with the 2005 nomination list.

This is not a good idea and pretty much defeats the purpose of this round of nominations. If an album isn't nominated in the next four days, it shouldn't be included in the poll. If an album should be included in this poll, then someone nominate it!

Things that are good that have not been nominated yet:

Fred Frith/Rene Lussier - Nous Autres
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
John Zorn - The Big Gundown
Glenn Branca - Symphony 6
Ornette Coleman and Prime Time feat Jerry Garcia - Virgin Beauty
Bernard Parmegiani - La Creation du Monde
Philip Glass - Glassworks
Voivod - Nothingface

Guess it falls to me to nominate:

R.E.M - Chronic Town EP
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Judas Priest - British Steel
Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
INXS - Kick

LOL I just checked my noms from 2005 - at least I'm consistent...

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Sinead O'Connor - The Lion And The Cobra
Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
REM - Chronic Town (EP)
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense

thanks for house of love, movement and faith. if someone could nominate the best german album of the 80s (and probably of all-time) i will shut up: Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag

EPs are deemed ineligible (see discussion of several cases upthread), Roger, if there's something you want to sub for Chronic Town.

Sundar, you've nominated 3 albums, so you still have 4 nominations left.

Thanks for the heads-up Paul. Travesty of a mockery of a sham poll now IMO and with a heavy heart I will sub:

Dire Straits - Making Movies

I don't see why people cant nominate as much as they like so there's a full list to choose from. You're bound to get "I wasn't on ilx so missed the nominations and I would've voted for etc etc"

I didn't include any classical or film scores simply because I figured it would make the whole thing too impossible and insane. For instance, the 80s was an insanely awesome time for film scores and i could do a whole 7 just on that.

I don't see why people cant nominate as much as they like

The number is always gonna be too few. The agony of what to exclude from yr list is part of the fun.

The number is always gonna be too few. The agony of what to exclude from yr list is part of the fun frustration.

Jon Lewis OTM. It's not like every 80s album that anybody liked has to be on the list. I already think I know which albums are gonna get the lion's share of points, and which the lambs...

My last four nominations are:

David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds (available cheap here: http://www.legalsounds.com/download-mp3/david-hykes-&-the-harmonic-choir/hearing-solar-winds/album_81939 and worth it)
Fred Frith/Rene Lussier - Nous Autres
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
Bernard Parmegiani - La Creation du Monde

I expect all of these to place in the top 10.

I totally forgot Nothingface! Someone please nominate it? Dimension Hatross is good but not the same IMO.

Okay, only 2 days and 10 hours left to post your nominations. Those who haven't done it already, now is the time to act!

Aaahh I was torn between Nothingface and Dimension H but in the end had to go with "Psychic Vacuum", favourite Voivod song everrr aka the first I ever heard.

I still have 3 nominations left but about 6 things I want to nominate, some of which are clearly not going to get very many votes but are so dear to me I can't bear not to (and can't believe I left them out of my previous batch of nominations)

"the 80s was an insanely awesome time for film scores"

--speaking of: Repo Man! (Somebody nominate!)

From Alcoholism, I'm assuming ppl are requesting stuff they'd actually vote for. Though I'm quietly happy Rio is on here, even if I won't vote it.

Yeah, I thought of nominating the Repo Man score. Then again, I also thought of nominating the Diva score, which is at least as good. Went with some other crap instead.

I was thinking more of stuff like Goldsmith's Poltergeist, Twilight Zone and First Blood, Basil Poledouris' Conan, Flesh + Blood and Cherry 2000, Elmer Bernstein's Heavy Metal, Trevor Jones' Dark Crystal, Horner's Something Wicked This Way Comes, and Koyaanisqatsi and Empire Strikes Back, but yeah you know what I mean.

I'm not suggesting that anyone vote for it, but what are your thoughts on the Scarface soundtrack? I've only seen the film once and that was years ago, but the score startled me at the time as almost comically inappropriate. I think I'd like it more now.

That album is a mix of Moroder songs and Moroder film score tracks, right? I think I'll download that this weekend. I'd also like to hear his Cat People and Midnight Express OST's. Can't remember what any of them sounded like in the films...

Cat People score is excellent, iirc, though it's been quite a while since I last saw the film. Very moody, humid, sexy, "exotic" -- in keeping with the film (or what it was trying to be).

diva, the film and the score was a pile of stinking shit. i'd prefer sitting through a wagner opera than to see that over the top film again.

(or what it was trying to be)

This is one of the things I love about a good film score-- you can listen to it and imagine a movie as it should've been instead of a movie as it was.

cat people soundtrack is some of my favorite moroder

Passion was nominated, Koyaanisqatsi and Mishima deserve to be nominated, and though I love them, I wouldn't spend some of my 30 votes for my other soundtrack faves from the decade, including Liquid Sky, Himmel Uber Berlin, or the various (somewhat indistinguishable) Micheal Nyman soundtracks for Peter Greenaway films (Draughtsman's Contract, A Zed & Two Noughts, Drowning by Numbers, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover)

diva, the film and the score was a pile of stinking shit. i'd prefer sitting through a wagner opera than to see that over the top film again.

― alex in mainhattan

Not a great film (though I thought it very sophisticated at age 15, along with Still Life With Woodpecker), but I still love the soundtrack.

Koyaanisqatsi definitely got nominated last time. Surely someone will come through before our ironfisted finnish overlords bar the gate.

scraping foetus off the wheel : nail
shriekback : jam science
cabaret voltaire : microphonies
art of noise : who's afraid of the art of noise
age of chance : 1000 years of trouble
thomas dolby : the flat earth
madness : 7

A rather large handful of surprising omissions, these all are classics... anyone want to nominate a couple?

a-ha - Hunting High and Low / Scoundrel Days
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Can - Delay 1968
Chrome - Chrome Box
Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles / Heaven Up Here / Porcupine
EPMD - Strictly Business
Eric B and Rakim - Follow the Leader
Galaxie 500 - Today
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
The Glove - Blue Sunshine
Joy Division - Substance
Kitchens of Distinction - Love Is Hell
Loop - Heaven's End / Fade Out
Love and Rockets - Express
Madonna - True Blue
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Modern English - After the Snow
Peter Murphy - Deep
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
REM - Document / Green
Scritti Politti - Provision
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads
v/a - Lonely Is an Eyesore

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Associates - Sulk is missing from the list of noms btw.

'Straight out the jungle' not yet been nominated. no ice t either. no janet jackson. no mc lyte. 'no more mr. nice guy'. Neither of the first two classic BDP albums. etc. etc.

Us autogoons suck at polls.

Anita Baker - Rapture
Egyptian Lover - On the Nile
EPMD - Strictly Business
Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime
Inner City - Paradise
Janet Jackson - Control
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July

If someone wanted to nom The Electric Spanking of War Babies and/or Computer Games, that would be dope imo

Reverend, Rapture has already been nominated, so you have one more nomination to use.

oh, I thought I caught all that type of stuff. in that case, let's spank some war babies

Bernard Parmegiani - La Creation du Monde

I expect all of these to place in the top 10.

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Sundar, I can't find any info on La Creation du monde being released in the 1980s. AMG gives the release year as 1996, and even Parmegiani's own site says it's 1991. So I'll have to disqualify it, you may nominate something else instead.

those must be re-releases, tuomas. the parmegiani is from 1984 according to wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Parmegiani

scaruffi says the same: http://www.scaruffi.com/avant/parmegia.html

Also, Le Bateau Ivre, you nominated The First Annual Report by Throbbing Gristle, but it appears to be a 2001 album of previously unreleased material recorded in 1975, so it's not an 80s album by any definition. You may nominate another album instead.

(x-post)

Okay, I'm gonna accept La Création du monde based on that.

So, here's the updated list of nominations:

A

ABBA - The Visitors*
ABC - The Lexicon of Love*
AC/DC - Back in Black*
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You*
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier*
Age of Chance - One Thousand Years of Trouble*
American Music Club - California*
Laurie Anderson - Big Science*
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels*
A.R. Kane - 69*
A.R. Kane - “i”*
The Art of Noise - (Who's Afraid of?) the Art of Noise*
Associates - Sulk*
Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure*
The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex*
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain*

B

The B-52’s - Wild Planet*
Bad Brains - s/t*
Bad Brains - I Against I*
Bad Brains - Rock for Light*
Anita Baker - Rapture*
Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside*
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field*
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill*
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique*
Heidi Berry - Below the Waves*
Bhundu Boys - Shabini*
Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix*
Big Black - Atomizer*
Big Black - Songs About Fucking*
The Birthday Party - s/t*
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire*
Black Flag - Damaged*
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops*
Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop*
Boredoms - Soul Discharge*
David Bowie - Scary Monsters*
Glenn Branca - The Ascension*
Bronski Beat - Truthdare Doubledare*
Harold Budd / Elizabeth Fraser / Robin Guthrie / Simon Raymonde - The Moon and the Melodies*
Kate Bush - The Dreaming*
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love*
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician*
Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac*

C

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies*
Cactus World News - Urban Beaches*
John Cale - Music for a New Society*
Cameo - Word Up!*
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie*
Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart*
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station*
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window*
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity*
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial*
A Certain Ratio - Sextet*
Change - The Glow of Love*
Chic - Real People*
Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat*
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge*
The Chameleons - Strange Times*
The Chills - Brave Words*
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World*
The Church - Starfish*
The Clash - Sandinista!*
Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land*
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll*
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels*
Cocteau Twins - Treasure*
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand*
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man*
Leonard Cohen - Various Positions*
Coil - Horse Rotorvator*
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes*
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required*
Colourbox - s/t*
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More*
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Get Happy!!*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust*
The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle*
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us*
Crass - Penis Envy*
Marshall Crenshaw - s/t*
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night*
The Cult - Love*
The Cure - Disintegration*
The Cure - Faith*
The Cure - The Head on the Door*
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me*
The Cure - Pornography*
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds*
The Cure - Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea: The Singles*

D

The dB's - Like This*
The dB's - Repercussion*
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising*
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters*
DeBarge - In a Special Way*
Def Leppard - Hysteria*
Def Leppard - Pyromania*
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration*
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses*
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward*
Descendents - Milo Goes to College*
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau*
Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo*
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down*
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels*
Hazel Dickens - It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song*
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug*
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me*
Dire Straits - Making Movies*
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth*
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless*
Dr. Alimantado - Born For a Purpose / Sons of Thunder*
The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses*
Duran Duran - Rio*
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger*
Durutti Column - Another Setting*
Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column*
Bob Dylan - Saved*

E

Steve Earle - Guitar Town*
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain*
The Egyptian Lover - On the Nile*
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch*
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It*
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land*
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks*
Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts*
EPMD - Strictly Business*
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full*
ESG - Come Away with ESG*
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)*
Eurythmics - Touch*
Everything But The Girl - Eden*
The Ex - Blueprints for a Blackout*
Eyeless in Gaza - Caught in Flux*
Eyeless in Gaza - Pale Hands I Loved So Well*

F

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly*
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself*
Faith No More - The Real Thing*
The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)*
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour*
The Fall - Perverted by Language*
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace*
The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall*
Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?*
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms*
The Feelies - The Good Earth*
The Feelies - Only Life*
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word*
Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories*
Fingers Inc. - Another Side*
Fishbone - Truth and Soul*
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night*
Flipper - Album / Generic Flipper*
John Foxx - Metamatic*
Fred Frith - Gravity*
Fred Frith / René Lussier - Nous Autres*
Fugazi - 13 Songs*
Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies*

G

Peter Gabriel - 3*
Peter Gabriel - 4 / Security*
Peter Gabriel - Passion*
Peter Gabriel - So*
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan*
Galaxie 500 - On Fire*
Game Theory - Lolita Nation*
Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime
Girls at Our Best! - Pleasure*
The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood*
The Go-Betweens - Send Me a Lullaby*
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane*
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah*
Godflesh - Streetcleaner*
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4*
Gun Club - Fire of Love*
Gun Club - Miami*
Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story*
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction*

H

Merle Haggard - Big City*
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Ooh Yeah!*
Happy Mondays - Bummed*
Jon Hassell - Power Spot*
Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol.1: Possible Musics*
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement*
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains*
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania!*
The House of Love - s/t*
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4*
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death*
Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right*
The Human League - Dare!*
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar?*
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig*
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising*
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories*
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade*
David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds*

I

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell*
Indigo Girls - s/t*
Inner City - Paradise*
INXS - Kick*
INXS - Listen Like Thieves*
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast*
Iron Maiden - Powerslave*

J

Janet Jackson - Control*
Michael Jackson - Bad*
Michael Jackson - Thriller*
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking*
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy*
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture*
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History*
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You?*
Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo*
George Jones - I Am What I Am*
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing*
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette*
Howard Jones - Human's Lib*
Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs*
Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space*
Joy Division - Closer*
Judas Priest - British Steel*
Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature*
Just-Ice - Back To the Old School*
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - 1987 What the Fuck's Going On?*

K

Kano - s/t*
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places*
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy / Tropical Gangsters*
Killing Joke - Night Time*
King Crimson - Discipline*
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Aura*
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Juju Music*
Kissing the Pink - Naked*
Kix - s/t*
Kraftwerk - Computer World*
Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead (1984 Capitol compilation with “Original Sufferhead”, “Sorrow Tears and Blood”, “Colonial Mentality” and “I.T.T.”)*

L

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual*
Héctor Lavoe - Strikes Back*
The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum*
The Lewd - American Wino*
The Lounge Lizards - s/t*
Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven*
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac*

M

Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock*
Madness - 7*
Madonna - Like a Prayer*
Madonna - Like a Virgin*
Madonna - s/t*
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap*
Thomas Maphumo - Corruption*
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising*
Masters of Reality - s/t*
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II*
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun*
The Mekons - The Edge of the World*
The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey*
The Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll*
Melvins - Ozma*
Metallica - Master of Puppets*
Metallica - Ride the Lightning*
Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X*
Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset*
Minutemen - The Punch Line*
Ronnie Milsap - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2*
Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1988 compilation)*
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime*
The Misfits - Walk Among Us*
Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma (Rykodisc compilation)*
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music*
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart*
Morrissey - Viva Hate*
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears*
Motörhead - Ace of Spades*
Motörhead - Orgasmatron*
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything*
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle of Time*

N

Napalm Death - Scum*
New Order - Brotherhood*
New Order - Movement*
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies*
New Order - Substance*
New Order - Technique*
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine*
Nirvana - Bleach*
No Trend - Too Many Humans*
Gary Numan - Telekon*
Nurse with Wound - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion*
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton*

O

Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra*
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America*
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby*
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever*
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - s/t*
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman*

P

Robert Palmer - Clues*
Eddie Palmieri - s/t*
Nikos Papazoglou - Xaratsi*
Bernard Parmegiani - La Création du monde*
The Pastels - Up for a Bit with the Pastels*
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting from Home*
Pet Shop Boys - Actually*
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective*
Pet Shop Boys - Please*
Pixies - Doolittle*
Pixies - Surfer Rosa*
Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched*
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash*
The Police - Ghost in the Machine*
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta*
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen*
Pretenders - s/t*
Prince - Dirty Mind*
Prince - Lovesexy*
Prince - 1999*
Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times*
Prince and the Revolution - Parade*
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain*
Propaganda - A Secret Wish*
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk*
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back*
Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers of Romance*
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker*
Pylon - Gyrate*
Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa (ECM 1984)*

Q

R

The Red Crayola with Art & Language - Kangaroo?*
Redd Kross - Neurotica*
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask*
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts*
Lou Reed - New York*
Steve Reich - Tehillim*
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant*
R.E.M. - Murmur*
R.E.M. - Reckoning*
The Replacements - Let It Be*
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me*
The Replacements - Tim*
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rockin' and Romance*
Willie Rosario - The Salsa Machine*
Diana Ross - Diana*
Roxy Music - Avalon*
Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell*
Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather*
Rush - Moving Pictures*
Arthur Russell - World of Echo*

S

Sade - Stronger Than Pride*
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late*
Savage Republic - Tragic Figures*
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole*
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Nail*
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85*
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar*
The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?*
Shriekback - Jam Science*
Shriekback - Oil and Gold*
Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue*
Paul Simon - Graceland*
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time: The Singles*
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland*
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom*
Slayer - Reign in Blood*
Slayer - South of Heaven*
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick*
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow*
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder*
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead*
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come*
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen*
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret*
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising*
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation*
Sonic Youth - EVOL*
Sonic Youth - Sister*
Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears*
Sonora Ponceña - New Heights*
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription*
Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire*
Sparks - Angst in My Pants*
The Specials - More Specials*
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA*
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska*
Bruce Springsteen - The River*
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love*
Squeeze - East Side Story*
SSD - How We Rock*
Steely Dan - Gaucho*
Stetsasonic - In Full Gear*
The Stone Roses - s/t*
Sun City Girls - s/t*
Swans - Children of God*
Swell Maps - In “Jane from Occupied Europe”*
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees*
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth*
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive*

T

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring*
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden*
Talking Heads - Remain in Light*
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues*
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense*
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro*
Tears for Fears - The Hurting*
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair*
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It*
The The - Soul Mining*
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln*
Thinking Plague - In This Life*
This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow*
This Heat - Deceit*
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights*
Throwing Muses - House Tornado*
Throwing Muses - s/t*
Tom Tom Club - s/t*
Tones on Tail - Pop*
The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1*
Randy Travis - Storms of Life*
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional*
Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb*
Tuxedomoon - Desire*

U

U2 - The Joshua Tree*
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire*
U2 - War*
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown*

V

Van Halen - Fair Warning*
Van Halen - 1984*
Van Halen - Women and Children First*
Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 1*
Various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm*
The Vaselines - Dum-Dum*
Venom - Welcome to Hell*
Tom Verlaine - Flash Light*
The Verlaines - Hallelujah All the Way Home*
The Verlaines - Juvenilia*
Vietnam Veterans - Catfish Eyes and Tales*
Violent Femmes - s/t*
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss*
Vulgar Boatmen - You and Your Sister*

W

Bunny Wailer - Sings the Wailers*
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs*
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones*
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter*
Was (Not Was) - s/t*
The Waterboys - This Is the Sea*
The Wedding Present - Bizarro*
The Wedding Present - George Best*
The Wedding Present - Tommy*
Keith Whitley - I Wonder Do You Think of Me*
Lucinda Williams - s/t*
Wipers - Youth of America*
Womack & Womack - Love Wars*
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July*
Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us*
Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat*

X

X - Wild Gift*
Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin*
XTC - The Big Express*
XTC - Black Sea*
XTC - English Settlement*
XTC - Oranges & Lemons*
XTC - Skylarking*

Y

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira / Akira (Original Soundtrack)*
"Weird Al" Yankovic - In 3-D*
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's*
Yello - One Second*
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys*
Yes - Drama*
Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.*
Neil Young - Freedom*
The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge*
The Young Gods - s/t*
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth*

Z

John Zorn - Naked City*

Only a day and a half left to nominate! If you haven't done it already, now is the time!

List of biggest UK sellers in an attractive comic sans here. Not seeing too many obvious omissions on there. I don't remember Gloria Estefan dominating 1989.

Hall & Oates - H2O
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow

philip glass -- solo piano
eric b and rakim -- follow the leader
can delay -- 1968
frankie goes to hollywood -- welcome to the pleasure dome
journey -- escape
janet jackson -- rhythm nation
john cougar -- american fool

(can - delay 1968)

Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
B-52s - B-52s
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Pet Shop Boys - Disco
R.E.M. - Document

Hi Tuomas. I think I have 3 nominations left as I nominated 5 originally and 1 was disqualified. So:

Units - Digital Stimulation
Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating
Voivod - Nothingface

I bet as soon as nominations close I think of a solid gold favourite ever 80s record and curse myself for nominating a bunch of stuff which may get no other votes, but that's the way it goes, right?

Just realised that I don't know if I'm half an hour too late or if there's 23.5 hours left. Well, do what you will with that, anyhow. Thanks for your hard work compiling it all.

Tuomas, my noms:

B-52's - Cosmic Thing
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
Klark Kent - Klark Kent (Music Madness from the Kinetic Kid)
Paul McCartney - Tug of War

Thanks for doing this, and don't mind the haters. I wasn't around for the first poll's noms anyhow so I'm glad to be able to chime in.

oh, but B-52's s/t is 1979, I'm sorry to say.

AHHHH, I'm terrible at remembering albums that I love, but I need to make sure these are nominated:
X - Under the Big Black Sun
X - Los Angeles
The Television Personalities - The Painted Word

George Carlin - A Place For My Stuff
Bob Dylan - Infidels
Billy Bragg - Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Misfits - Legacy of Brutality
Rites of Spring - End on End
Michelle Shocked - The Texas Campfire Tapes

The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again
Liquid Liquid - Successive Reflexes
The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China
The Sisters of Mercy - First And Last And Always
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex
Bauhaus - Mask

Just about everything has already been covered here, but wish to add:

The Durutti Column - LC
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Josef K - The Only Fun in Town
New Order - Low-Life

There's loads missing! Brothers in Arms, Whitney, Picture Book and Trans, to name a mere handful.

Well, everything that was on my mind when I saw the thread title. I'm but a small man.

I'd say if we're only missing Dire Straits, Whitney, Simply Red and Trans, we're done.

no Welcome to The Beautiful South = no cred imo

It's a pretty good list already ... but I dug up my ballot from the last (unfinished) 80's poll and want to nominate some albums that I voted for the last time :)

Galaxie 500 - Today
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion
Various - Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit
Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Skinny Puppy - Bites
Killing Joke - What's THIS For?

Think most everything has been covered, however a few omissions.

Blue Nile - Hats
Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
The Proclaimers - This is The Story
Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears
Todd Terry Project - To The Batmobile (Let's Go)
Win - Uh! Tears Baby

It'll End in Tears has already been nominated, so you have one more nomination to use.

A few more non-valid entries:

* The B-52's - The B-52's. This album is from 1979.

* Rites of Spring - End on End. All sources I checked say this a compilation that came out in 1991.

* Liquid Liquid - Successive Reflexes. This is an EP, so it's not valid.

People who nominated those can nominate something else instead.

Only 8 hours to go before nomination time ends! Now is your last chance!

Here's the current, updated list of nominations:

A

ABBA - The Visitors*
ABC - The Lexicon of Love*
AC/DC - Back in Black*
AC/DC - For Those About to Rock We Salute You*
Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier*
Age of Chance - One Thousand Years of Trouble*
American Music Club - California*
Laurie Anderson - Big Science*
Laurie Anderson - Strange Angels*
A.R. Kane - 69*
A.R. Kane - “i”*
The Art of Noise - (Who's Afraid of?) the Art of Noise*
Associates - Sulk*
Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure*
The Au Pairs - Playing with a Different Sex*
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain*

B

The B-52's - Cosmic Thing*
The B-52’s - Wild Planet*
Bad Brains - s/t*
Bad Brains - I Against I*
Bad Brains - Rock for Light*
Anita Baker - Rapture*
Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside*
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field*
Bauhaus - Mask*
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill*
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique*
Heidi Berry - Below the Waves*
Bhundu Boys - Shabini*
Big Audio Dynamite - Megatop Phoenix*
Big Black - Atomizer*
Big Black - Songs About Fucking*
The Birthday Party - s/t*
The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire*
Black Flag - Damaged*
The Blue Nile - Hats*
The Blue Nile - A Walk Across the Rooftops*
Boogie Down Productions - Ghetto Music: The Blueprint of Hip Hop*
Boredoms - Soul Discharge*
David Bowie - Scary Monsters*
Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry*
Glenn Branca - The Ascension*
Bronski Beat - Truthdare Doubledare*
Harold Budd / Elizabeth Fraser / Robin Guthrie / Simon Raymonde - The Moon and the Melodies*
Buggles - Adventures in Modern Recording*
Kate Bush - The Dreaming*
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love*
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician*
Butthole Surfers - Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac*

C

Cabaret Voltaire - Micro-Phonies*
Cactus World News - Urban Beaches*
John Cale - Music for a New Society*
Cameo - Word Up!*
Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie*
Camper Van Beethoven - Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart*
Can - Delay 1968*
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station*
Cardiacs - A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window*
George Carlin - A Place for My Stuff!*
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - From Her to Eternity*
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Your Funeral...My Trial*
A Certain Ratio - Sextet*
Change - The Glow of Love*
Chic - Real People*
Chris & Cosey - Heartbeat*
The Chameleons - Script of the Bridge*
The Chameleons - Strange Times*
The Chameleons - What Does Anything Mean? Basically*
The Chills - Brave Words*
The Chills - Kaleidoscope World*
The Church - Starfish*
The Clash - Sandinista!*
Close Lobsters - Foxheads Stalk This Land*
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll*
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels*
Cocteau Twins - Treasure*
Cocteau Twins - Victorialand*
Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man*
Leonard Cohen - Various Positions*
Coil - Horse Rotorvator*
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Rattlesnakes*
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required*
Colourbox - s/t*
Comsat Angels - Sleep No More*
Sam Cooke - Live at the Harlem Square Club 1963*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Blood & Chocolate*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Get Happy!!*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Imperial Bedroom*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust*
John Cougar - American Fool*
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow*
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session*
The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle*
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us*
Crass - Penis Envy*
Marshall Crenshaw - s/t*
Julee Cruise - Floating Into the Night*
The Cult - Love*
The Cure - Disintegration*
The Cure - Faith*
The Cure - The Head on the Door*
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me*
The Cure - Pornography*
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds*
The Cure - Standing on a Beach / Staring at the Sea: The Singles*

D

The dB's - Like This*
The dB's - Repercussion*
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising*
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters*
DeBarge - In a Special Way*
Def Leppard - Hysteria*
Def Leppard - Pyromania*
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration*
Depeche Mode - Construction Time Again*
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses*
Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward*
Descendents - Milo Goes to College*
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Mambo Nassau*
Devo - Freedom of Choice*
Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo*
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Don't Stand Me Down*
Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels*
Hazel Dickens - It's Hard to Tell the Singer from the Song*
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug*
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me*
Dire Straits - Making Movies*
Thomas Dolby - The Flat Earth*
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless*
Dr. Alimantado - Born For a Purpose / Sons of Thunder*
The Dream Syndicate - The Days of Wine and Roses*
Duran Duran - Rio*
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger*
The Durutti Column - Another Setting*
The Durutti Column - LC*
The Durutti Column - The Return of the Durutti Column*
Bob Dylan - Infidels*
Bob Dylan - Saved*

E

Steve Earle - Guitar Town*
Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles*
Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain*
The Egyptian Lover - On the Nile*
Einstürzende Neubauten - Halber Mensch*
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It*
Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land*
Brian Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks*
Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts*
EPMD - Strictly Business*
Eric B. & Rakim - Follow the Leader*
Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full*
ESG - Come Away with ESG*
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)*
Eurythmics - Touch*
Everything But The Girl - Eden*
The Ex - Blueprints for a Blackout*
Eyeless in Gaza - Caught in Flux*
Eyeless in Gaza - Pale Hands I Loved So Well*

F

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly*
Faith No More - Introduce Yourself*
Faith No More - The Real Thing*
The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)*
The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour*
The Fall - Perverted by Language*
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace*
The Fall - The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall*
Feederz - Ever Feel Like Killing Your Boss?*
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms*
The Feelies - The Good Earth*
The Feelies - Only Life*
Felt - Forever Breathes the Lonely Word*
Felt - The Strange Idols Pattern and Other Short Stories*
Fingers Inc. - Another Side*
Fishbone - Truth and Soul*
Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night*
Flipper - Album / Generic Flipper*
John Foxx - Metamatic*
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome*
Fred Frith - Gravity*
Fred Frith / René Lussier - Nous Autres*
Fugazi - 13 Songs*
Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies*

G

Peter Gabriel - 3*
Peter Gabriel - 4 / Security*
Peter Gabriel - Passion*
Peter Gabriel - So*
Diamanda Galas - The Litanies of Satan*
Galaxie 500 - On Fire*
Galaxie 500 - Today*
Game Theory - Lolita Nation*
Gang of Four - Solid Gold*
Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime
Girls at Our Best! - Pleasure*
Philip Glass - Solo Piano*
The Go-Betweens - Before Hollywood*
The Go-Betweens - Send Me a Lullaby*
The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane*
The Go-Betweens - Tallulah*
Godflesh - Streetcleaner*
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4*
Gun Club - Fire of Love*
Gun Club - Miami*
Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story*
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction*

H

Merle Haggard - Big City*
Daryl Hall & John Oates - H2O*
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Ooh Yeah!*
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes*
Happy Mondays - Bummed*
Jon Hassell - Power Spot*
Jon Hassell / Brian Eno - Fourth World, Vol.1: Possible Musics*
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement*
Robyn Hitchcock - I Often Dream of Trains*
Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians - Fegmania!*
The House of Love - s/t*
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4*
The Housemartins - The People Who Grinned Themselves to Death*
Keith Hudson - Playing It Cool & Playing It Right*
The Human League - Dare!*
Human Switchboard - Who's Landing In My Hangar?*
Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig*
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising*
Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories*
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade*
David Hykes & the Harmonic Choir - Hearing Solar Winds*

I

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell*
Indigo Girls - s/t*
Inner City - Paradise*
INXS - Kick*
INXS - Listen Like Thieves*
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast*
Iron Maiden - Powerslave*

J

Janet Jackson - Control*
Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814*
Michael Jackson - Bad*
Michael Jackson - Thriller*
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking*
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands*
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy*
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture*
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Making History*
Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You?*
Jon and Vangelis - The Friends of Mr. Cairo*
George Jones - I Am What I Am*
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing*
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette*
Howard Jones - Human's Lib*
Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs*
Jonzun Crew - Lost in Space*
Josef K - The Only Fun in Town*
Journey - Escape*
Joy Division - Closer*
Judas Priest - British Steel*
Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature*
Just-Ice - Back To the Old School*
The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu - 1987 What the Fuck's Going On?*

K

Kano - s/t*
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places*
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Wise Guy / Tropical Gangsters*
Killing Joke - Night Time*
Killing Joke - What's THIS For…!*
King Crimson - Discipline*
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Aura*
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats - Juju Music*
Kissing the Pink - Naked*
Kix - s/t*
Klark Kent - s/t*
Kraftwerk - Computer World*
Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead (1984 Capitol compilation with “Original Sufferhead”, “Sorrow Tears and Blood”, “Colonial Mentality” and “I.T.T.”)*

L

Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual*
Héctor Lavoe - Strikes Back*
The Legendary Pink Dots - Asylum*
The Lewd - American Wino*
Liquid Liquid - Successive Reflexes
The Lounge Lizards - s/t*
Love and Rockets - Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven*
Lyle Lovett - Pontiac*

M

Paul McCartney - Tug of War*
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock*
Madness - 7*
Madonna - Like a Prayer*
Madonna - Like a Virgin*
Madonna - s/t*
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap*
Thomas Maphumo - Corruption*
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising*
Masters of Reality - s/t*
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II*
Meat Puppets - Up on the Sun*
The Mekons - The Edge of the World*
The Mekons - Fear and Whiskey*
The Mekons - The Mekons Rock 'n' Roll*
Melvins - Ozma*
Metallica - Master of Puppets*
Metallica - Ride the Lightning*
Pat Metheny & Ornette Coleman - Song X*
Midnight Oil - Red Sails in the Sunset*
Ministry - The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Taste*
Minutemen - The Punch Line*
Ronnie Milsap - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2*
Minor Threat - Complete Discography (1988 compilation)*
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime*
The Misfits - Legacy of Brutality*
The Misfits - Walk Among Us*
Mission of Burma - Mission of Burma (Rykodisc compilation)*
Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music*
Van Morrison - Inarticulate Speech of the Heart*
Morrissey - Viva Hate*
This Mortal Coil - It'll End in Tears*
Motörhead - Ace of Spades*
Motörhead - No Sleep 'til Hammersmith*
Motörhead - Orgasmatron*
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything*
Amina Claudine Myers Trio - The Circle of Time*

N

Napalm Death - Scum*
New Order - Brotherhood*
New Order - Low-Life*
New Order - Movement*
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies*
New Order - Substance*
New Order - Technique*
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine*
Nirvana - Bleach*
No Trend - Too Many Humans*
Gary Numan - Telekon*
Nurse with Wound - The Sylvie and Babs Hi-Fi Companion*
N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton*

O

Sinéad O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra*
Mary Margaret O'Hara - Miss America*
Opal - Happy Nightmare Baby*
Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever*
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships*
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - s/t*
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman*

P

Robert Palmer - Clues*
Eddie Palmieri - s/t*
Nikos Papazoglou - Xaratsi*
Bernard Parmegiani - La Création du monde*
The Passions - Thirty Thousand Feet Over China*
The Pastels - Up for a Bit with the Pastels*
Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Broadcasting from Home*
Pet Shop Boys - Actually*
Pet Shop Boys - Disco*
Pet Shop Boys - Introspective*
Pet Shop Boys - Please*
Pixies - Doolittle*
Pixies - Surfer Rosa*
Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched*
The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God*
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash*
The Police - Ghost in the Machine*
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta*
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen*
Pretenders - s/t*
Prince - Dirty Mind*
Prince - Lovesexy*
Prince - 1999*
Prince - Sign ‘O’ the Times*
Prince and the Revolution - Parade*
Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain*
The Proclaimers - This Is the Story*
Propaganda - A Secret Wish*
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk*
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back*
Public Image Ltd. - The Flowers of Romance*
Pussy Galore - Dial 'M' for Motherfucker*
Pylon - Gyrate*
Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa (ECM 1984)*

Q

R

The Red Crayola with Art & Language - Kangaroo?*
Redd Kross - Neurotica*
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask*
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts*
Lou Reed - New York*
Steve Reich - Tehillim*
R.E.M. - Document*
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction*
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant*
R.E.M. - Murmur*
R.E.M. - Reckoning*
The Replacements - Let It Be*
The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me*
The Replacements - Tim*
Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers - Rockin' and Romance*
Rites of Spring - End on End
Willie Rosario - The Salsa Machine*
Diana Ross - Diana*
Roxy Music - Avalon*
Run-D.M.C. - Raising Hell*
Run-D.M.C. - Tougher Than Leather*
Rush - Moving Pictures*
Arthur Russell - World of Echo*

S

Sade - Stronger Than Pride*
Saint Vitus - Born Too Late*
Savage Republic - Tragic Figures*
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Hole*
Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Nail*
Scratch Acid - Just Keep Eating*
Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85*
Sonny Sharrock - Guitar*
Michelle Shocked - Short Sharp Shocked*
Michelle Shocked - The Texas Campfire Tapes*
The Shop Assistants - Will Anything Happen?*
Shriekback - Jam Science*
Shriekback - Oil and Gold*
Michael Shrieve - Transfer Station Blue*
Paul Simon - Graceland*
Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse*
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Once Upon a Time: The Singles*
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always*
The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland*
Skinny Puppy - Bites*
Slapp Happy - Acnalbasac Noom*
Slayer - Reign in Blood*
Slayer - South of Heaven*
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of Slick Rick*
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow*
The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs*
The Smiths - Meat Is Murder*
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead*
The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come*
The Smiths - The World Won't Listen*
Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret*
Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising*
Sonic Youth - Confusion Is Sex*
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation*
Sonic Youth - EVOL*
Sonic Youth - Sister*
Sonic Youth - Walls Have Ears*
Sonora Ponceña - New Heights*
Spacemen 3 - The Perfect Prescription*
Spacemen 3 - Playing with Fire*
Spacemen 3 - Sound of Confusion*
Sparks - Angst in My Pants*
The Specials - More Specials*
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA*
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska*
Bruce Springsteen - The River*
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love*
Squeeze - East Side Story*
SSD - How We Rock*
Steely Dan - Gaucho*
Stetsasonic - In Full Gear*
The Stone Roses - s/t*
Sun City Girls - s/t*
Swans - Children of God*
Swell Maps - In “Jane from Occupied Europe”*
David Sylvian - Brilliant Trees*
David Sylvian - Gone to Earth*
David Sylvian - Secrets of the Beehive*

T

Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring*
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden*
Talking Heads - Remain in Light*
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues*
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense*
Talking Heads - The Name of This Band Is Talking Heads*
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro*
Tears for Fears - The Hurting*
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair*
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It*
The The - Soul Mining*
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln*
Thinking Plague - In This Life*
This Mortal Coil - Filigree & Shadow*
This Heat - Deceit*
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights*
Throwing Muses - House Tornado*
Throwing Muses - s/t*
The Todd Terry Project - To The Batmobile Let's Go*
Tom Tom Club - s/t*
Tones on Tail - Pop*
The Traveling Wilburys - Vol. 1*
Randy Travis - Storms of Life*
The Triffids - Born Sandy Devotional*
Trouble Funk - Drop the Bomb*
Tuxedomoon - Desire*

U

U2 - The Joshua Tree*
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire*
U2 - War*
Ultramagnetic MC's - Critical Beatdown*
Units - Digital Stimulation*

V

Van Halen - Fair Warning*
Van Halen - 1984*
Van Halen - Women and Children First*
Various - Indestructible Beat of Soweto, Vol. 1*
Various - Mutant Disco: A Subtle Dislocation of the Norm*
Various - Techno! The New Dance Sound of Detroit*
The Vaselines - Dum-Dum*
Venom - Welcome to Hell*
Tom Verlaine - Flash Light*
The Verlaines - Hallelujah All the Way Home*
The Verlaines - Juvenilia*
Vietnam Veterans - Catfish Eyes and Tales*
Violent Femmes - s/t*
Voivod - Dimension Hatröss*
Voivod - Nothingface*
Vulgar Boatmen - You and Your Sister*

W

Bunny Wailer - Sings the Wailers*
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs*
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones*
Scott Walker - Climate of Hunter*
Was (Not Was) - s/t*
The Waterboys - This Is the Sea*
The Wedding Present - Bizarro*
The Wedding Present - George Best*
The Wedding Present - Tommy*
Keith Whitley - I Wonder Do You Think of Me*
Lucinda Williams - s/t*
Win - …Uh! Tears Baby*
Wipers - Youth of America*
Womack & Womack - Love Wars*
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July*
Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us*
Robert Wyatt - Old Rottenhat*

X

X - Los Angeles*
X - Under the Big Black Sun*
X - Wild Gift*
Xmal Deutschland - Tocsin*
XTC - The Big Express*
XTC - Black Sea*
XTC - English Settlement*
XTC - Oranges & Lemons*
XTC - Skylarking*

Y

Geinoh Yamashirogumi - Symphonic Suite Akira / Akira (Original Soundtrack)*
"Weird Al" Yankovic - In 3-D*
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's*
Yello - One Second*
Yellow Magic Orchestra - Naughty Boys*
Yes - Drama*
Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.*
Neil Young - Freedom*
The Young Gods - L'Eau Rouge*
The Young Gods - s/t*
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth*

Z

John Zorn - Naked City*

It'll End in Tears has already been nominated, so you have one more nomination to use.

OK, in that case I'll nom Soft Cell - The Art of Falling Apart.

Instead of the B-52's s/t, I'll nominate Tom Waits' "Frank's Wild Years"

Alright, I'll throw in my nominations:

a-ha - Hunting High and Low
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Dead Can Dance - The Serpent's Egg
Joy Division - Substance
Kitchens of Distinction - Love Is Hell
Loop - Fade Out
Peter Murphy - Deep

Can someone please nominate the following? (Shameless, I know.)

a-ha - Scoundrel Days
The Glove - Blue Sunshine
Madonna - True Blue
Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
Scritti Politti - Provision
Talk Talk - It's My Life

Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion
Accept - Balls to the Wall
Schoolly D - Saturday Night! - The Album
IQ - The Wake
Mercyful Fate - Melissa
3rd Bass - The Cactus Album
Stump - A Fierce Pancake

the cactus album was a 89 release? woah, good spot, i thought it was a 90s thing.

It helps if u can remember where you were when you bought it ;-)

Fopp, in Reading, about 4 years ago?

HMV, Birmingham, 1989.

Diamanda Galás - Masque of the Red Death
Nurse With Wound - Merzbild Schwet
Nuno Canavarro - Plux Quba
Lori & The Chameleons - I Love, I Love, I Love Japan EP
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe

* Liquid Liquid - Successive Reflexes. This is an EP, so it's not valid.

No EP's means no "Come On Pilgrim.." If I had the strength I would do an EP's poll.

No one likes Synchronicity :(

Tuomas, if its not too much trouble, I'd like to retract my nomination for Big Black - Songs about Fucking (Upon relistening, Atomizer is more than "Kerosene"), and substitute in its place Ry Cooder - Paris, Texas: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.

Or not: retractions would lead to all sorts of problems if it became the general rule. Your call.

R.E.M - Green
Julian Cope - St. Julian
The Bangles -- Different Light
Pretenders -- Learning to Crawl
Joe Jackson -- Night and Day
Genesis -- Abacab
Police -- Synchronicity

Police -- Synchronicity

Damn.. that was fast! And I'm pretty sure I would vote for Different Light.

If I knew someone was gonna retract their "Songs About Fucking" nomination, I would've done it.

Actually, I just went through the ballot I sent in 4 years ago and nominated the stuff that wasn't up there yet. Mighty Lemon Drops just missed the cut, unfortunately.

am i the only one that prefers mister heartbreak to the two other laurie anderson albums nominated?

Tuomas, thanks for doing this. I think you forgot to add my nod for Television Personalities' The Painted Word.

Also, I'll nominate Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show

ohhh
and
Kate Bush - The Sensual World

Rites Of Spring's "End On End" is a reissue of their 1985 album with four bonus tracks, pretty sure the S/T album is what was intended there.

billstevejim's comment is why I retract my retraction request, its unfair to others who nominated after me, and would lead to a cascading effect. The Paris, Texas OST should have more fans, though.

Kate Bush - The Sensual World

phew, that was a narrow squeak

Tuomas, thanks for doing this. I think you forgot to add my nod for Television Personalities' The Painted Word.

Sorry about that, I added it to the list.

Lori & The Chameleons - I Love, I Love, I Love Japan EP

Turangalila, I didn't add this to the list, because the title clearly says it's an EP, and EPs aren't valid. You still have 3 nominatios to use.

Rites Of Spring's "End On End" is a reissue of their 1985 album with four bonus tracks, pretty sure the S/T album is what was intended there.

Okay, I added Rites of Spring's self-titled album to the list. Mordy, if this isn't what you intended, and you want to change it to something else, let me know.

Only a 2 hours and 20 minutes time left, now is the final chance to nominate!

Looks like our list is already bigger and more comprehensive than the one in the 2005 poll, so you've done well! But there's still time to add some more albums to it.

I suddenly felt bad that there's no LouJag around lately. Would've liked to see his 80s picks.

Anyway, there's already a load of stuff nominated that I love and still more I haven't heard but would probably like, so, looking forward to it.

I'm going to go to sleep soon, so I won't be around when it's 12 o'clock GMT. So if there's still some nominations before tomorrow morning, I'm willing to accept them. I'll post here when I wake up to let you know nomination time has ended.

Is Louis coming back? I'd've liked to see his comedy 80s picks too.

If hes around online someone could post them on his behalf?

I'm fine with that.

he's not on msn or aim

How do you chaps find the time for multiple online presences?

Time's up, huh?

Yeah, the S|T is what I intended. My copy is the End of End version, so that's the name I went with, but it's the Self-Titled.

Okay, nomination time is up! No more nominations, I'll start a voting thread later today. Thanks for everyone who contributed to this!

The voting thread is here.

I guess there still were key albums missing, so I can't do my top 30. Shocked that the Jam was left out, bummed I can't get a vote in for The Sound.

The Jam - Sound Affects
The Sound - From The Lions Mouth
The Raincoats - Ody Shape
Martha and the Muffins - This Is The Ice Age
Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow

Some more badly missing classic albums:

Harold Budd & Brian Eno - Plateaux of Mirror
Cocteau Twins - Garlands
Lloyd Cole - Easy Pieces
DAF - Alles Ist Gut
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Fehlfarben - Monarchie und Alltag
Friedemann - Indian Summer
Joni Mitchell - Wild Things Run Fast
The The (Matt Johnson) - Burning Blue Soul
U2 - Boy
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
Yo La Tengo - New Wave Hot Dogs and/or President Yo La Tengo
Neil Young - Hawlks & Doves