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

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

^ *sighs* one of these!

I'm going with Flipper

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

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

Milo Goes To College

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

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

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

Blue Mask

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

on land, the only ambient album i need.

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

christ, how am i supposed to choose from those?

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

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

fuck it, voted "thermonuclear sweat"

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

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

Others I like that aren't here:

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

Nightfly, 1999, or New Gold Dream

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

I was tempted to add that one actually

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1982 was no 1981, but still a strong showing.

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

Voted Dexy's.

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

I know it's off topic

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

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

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

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rinsed my ears with some Thermonuclear Sweat.

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

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

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

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

ppl not feeling the pedo's itt

Thriller still bounces that's kinda silly

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

Imagination – In the Heat of The Night 1

just me??? guess that makes sense

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

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy)

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

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

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

scrap that “also”, I guess

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

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

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

1999 a worthy winner though.

1999 worthy no doubt.

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

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

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

He's the Australian Michael Jackson.

the Dolby album is way better than both of those

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

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

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

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

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

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

I mean the whole album is great though

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

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

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

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

xp to Stevolende

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

Just when you think you know someone...

Pedestrian smh

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

<3 <3 <3

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

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

ILM got to him in the end

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

boo I love Garlands

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

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me too

You could still do the 1970s though, mike

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

I listened to that Haircut 100 album a lot during lockdown

You had some fantastic days, then?