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A friend and I are getting together for an annual event where we play back our top ten records from a given year (determined by choosing numbers from a hat). Anyway, the year I chose is 1980. Coming up with obvious choices — Remain In Light, Second Edition, Entertainment, Closer, Crazy Rhythms, etc.) is easy enough, but I am looking for some hidden gems.

― mohair (jon kapper), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:37 (twenty-one years ago)

you don't know what your top ten choices are?

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Eddie Rabbitt - "Drivin' My Life Away"

― Broheems (diamond), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

well, yeah, i could easily come up with ten. but it's been 20+ years. so i'm curious if there's something i may have forgotten about. for the record, those under consideration include the following: Captain Beefheart: Doc at the Radar Station
Prince: Dirty Mind
Young Marble Giants: Colossal Youth
John Lennon/Yoko Ono: Double Fantasy
Michael Hurley: Snockgrass
Pretenders: s/t
X: Los Angeles
Specials: s/t
Chic: Real People
Rockpile: Seconds of Pleasure
Suburbs: In Combo
Undertones: Hypnotised
Swell Maps: Jane from...
The Fall: Totales Total Turn

― mohair (jon kapper), Friday, 7 May 2004 19:59 (twenty-one years ago)

plus the five i listed previously

― mohair (jon kapper), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Devo - Freedom of Choice!
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Kaleidoscope!

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It! (I'm listening to it now.)
David Bowie - Scary Monsters!

1980 was a good year.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Mercedes, Young Ladies . . . 1980 (a C700 Go! presentation)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

(a resource)

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Gary Numan - Telekon
Peter Gabriel - III

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

http://home.clara.net/antoni/firsta.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I've heard of them.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

MX-80 - Out of the Tunnel (ILM reminded me.)
Elvis Costello - Get Happy
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field

I'm leaving this thread for people who actually remember the 80's.

Isn't that 1981, Alex?

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it was recorded in 1980.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

After I posted that I kind of felt bad for doubting you about something Killing Joke related.

― stephen morris (stephen morris), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(well, you were technically correct, Stephen...I owe you a beer now, dammit).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

THE WAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT!

― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

"TESTIFY, BROTHER UH!"

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― Charlotte in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 7 May 2004 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

it was only a matter of time, wasn't it?

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't actually own any KJ albums yet (though I'm told I should), but I've heard "The Wait", which is the rulzors.

― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

xtc, "black sea"
george jones, "i am what i am"
the jam, "sound affects"
the clash, "sandinista!"
the blasters, "american music"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:16 (twenty-one years ago)

ooh, and i almost forgot:

various, "wanna buy a bridge"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

one more, dammit, probably above all others i've mentioned:

linton kwesi johnson, "bass culture"

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Iron Maiden, "Prowler"

― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Pop Group - For how longer do we tolerate mass murder?
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

― Ds (ikue mori), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:57 (twenty-one years ago)

YES, amen to Fresh Fruit

― uh (eetface), Friday, 7 May 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

new musik - from a to b
soft boys - underwater moonlight
buggles - age of plastic

― Michael Dubsky, Friday, 7 May 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

damn. maybe we need to expand our list to top 20. anyone know if wanna buy a bridge will ever be reissued? need to track down LKJ'
s bass culture. Was Sandinista 1980? London Calling is technically 1979, right?

― mohair (jon kapper), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

after reviewing matos' 1980 (a C700 Go! presentation) link above, my list is lacking the funk, big time.

― mohair (jon kapper), Friday, 7 May 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

OMD::Organisation!!!

― minolta (minolta), Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Michael, you like that first Buggles album? I didn't like the second one when I spent some trade credit on a four dollar copy of it recently.

Anyone for the Stones' Emotional Rescue?

― Tim Ellison, Saturday, 8 May 2004 03:55 (twenty-one years ago)

One of my favorite Cure albums, "Seventeen Seconds", and Echo & The Bunnymen's debut, "Porcupine".

― Seb (Seb), Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, I meant Echo & The Bunnymen's debut "Crocodiles" (those damn animal titles...)

― Seb (Seb), Saturday, 8 May 2004 04:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice Cooper "Clones (We're All)"

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Gary Numan - We Are Glass
John Foxx - Plaza

― the music mole (colin s barrow), Saturday, 8 May 2004 05:43 (twenty-one years ago)

FUNKYTOWN

― Jacob (Jacob), Saturday, 8 May 2004 10:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yello: "Bostich"
Kurtis Blow: "The Breaks"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Saturday, 8 May 2004 10:35 (twenty-one years ago)

welll......

Dexys Midnight Runners - 'Searching for the young soul rebels' (imo, the best debut evah...)
Prince - 'Dirty Mind'
Elvis Costello - 'Get Happy!!'

not particularly obscure but super mega.

tom waits - 'heartattack and vine' is no half bad either.

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Saturday, 8 May 2004 10:38 (twenty-one years ago)

damn! i see EC and Prince were mention above, but hell! guys how could U miss out DMR?

― Robbie Lumsden (Wallace Stevens HQ), Saturday, 8 May 2004 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Alice Cooper "Clones (We're All)"

-- donut bitch (do...), May 8th, 2004. (later)

Nice!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 8 May 2004 11:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Not one mention of Motorhead's "Ace Of Spades" yet????

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 May 2004 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Huh, so the first Killing Joke album wasn't released until 1981, really? I was just about to suggest "Requiem".... (maybe that single was released in '80?)

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 8 May 2004 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Matos wayyy OTM. My own Imaginary Popscape 1980 (just completed) includes the following:

Prince--"When You Were Mine"
AC/DC--"You Shook Me All Night Long"
Change--"The Glow of Love"
Talking Heads--"Once In a Lifetime"
Hall & Oates--"Kiss On My List"
English Beat--"Best Friend"
Springsteen--"Hungry Heart"/"Two Hearts" (live) (slightly cheating)
Liliput--"Split"
X--"The World's a Mess, It's In My Kiss"
Genesis--"Behind the Lines"
Roxy Music--"Oh Yeah"
Kool & the Gang--"Celebration"
Specials--"Little Bitch"
English Beat--"Mirror in the Bathroom"
Pearl Harbour & the Explosions--"You Got It (Release It)"
Embarassment--"Patio Set"
Prince--"Sister"
Glenn Branca--"Lesson #1"
Bob Marley--"Redemtion Song"

alternates: The Dance--"Do Dada"; English Beat--"Twist & Crawl"; Liliput--"Hitch-hike"

albums of note: Specials, Prince, AC/DC, English Beat, Change

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Saturday, 8 May 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

four years pass...

AMG has their 1980 feature up right now, and I was pleasantly surprised to see many I haven't heard yet. Anyone know much about Yukihiro Takahashi? In order of my immediate interest:

Glaxo Babies - Nine Months to the Disco
Bernard Szajner - Some Deaths Take Forever
Yukihiro Takahashi - Murdered by the Music
Freddie McGregor - Bobby Bobylon
Diesel - Watts in a Tank
Robert Fripp - God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners
Jezzreel - Great Jah Jah
Skafish - Skafish
The Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy
Lio - Premier Album
Phil Seymour - Phil Seymour
Snakefinger - Greener Postures
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
Diana Ross - Diana
General Echo - 12″ of Pleasure
Rupert Holmes - Adventure
Ronald Shannon Jackson & the Decoding Society - Eye on You
Nic Jones - Penguin Eggs
Robert Palmer - Clues
Chaka Khan - Naughty
UB40 - Signing Off
Bobby Bare - Drunk & Crazy

― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 5 April 2009 22:24 (sixteen years ago)

eight years pass...

Hit a randomizer to pick a year and it came up 1980 so I spent my eight-hour shift listening to albums that came out that tyear. This is what I wound up playing in order...

Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Chrome - Red Exposure
The Wipers - Is This Real?
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
Motörhead - Ace Of Spades
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
Joy Division - Closer
Black Flag - Jealous Again
Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel ("Melt")
Judas Priest - British Steel

― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Friday, 11 August 2017 19:56 (eight years ago)

Blue Oyster Cult - Cultosaurus Erectus
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
Gaznevada - Sick Soundtrack
Wipers - Is This Real?
New York Gong - About Time
Doc at the Radar Station
ABBA - Super Trouper
Dirty Mind
Creation Rebel - Starship Africa
Moebius + Plank - Rastakrautpasta

― the underground is pass-agg (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 11 August 2017 22:05 (eight years ago)

The Units - Digital Stimulation
Laurie Spiegel - The Expanding Universe

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 11 August 2017 22:40 (eight years ago)

The Units - Digital Stimulation

Nice call, I only discovered this last year! Excellent sub-Devo electro-punk.

― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 11 August 2017 22:46 (eight years ago)

Yes! The opening track "High Pressure Days" is so immense it's hard to believe it's nearly 40 years old. Wasn't quite sure whether to nominate the whole album (which is p. fun, don't get me wrong) or just that track. Speaking of which, some tracks, off the top of my head and trying to avoid anything already mentioned...

Kano "I'm Ready"
Family Fodder "Savoir Faire"
Fehlfarben "Ein Jahr (Es geht voran)"

― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 11 August 2017 22:56 (eight years ago)

Pretenders - Pretenders
Total Sex - Whitehouse
Dirty Mind - Prince
Seventeen Seconds - The Cure
Gaucho - Steely Dan
The Return of the Durutti Column - The Durutti Column
Double Fantasy - John Lennon & Yoko Ono
McCartney II - Paul McCartney
Black Sea - XTC
Remain in Light - Talking Heads

― flappy bird, Saturday, 12 August 2017 03:01 (eight years ago)

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