NME/Melody Maker/The Face Albums Of 1984 POLL

Welcome To The Pleasuredome obviously the winner of that year's "released too late for the polls" award.

But for me it has to be Treasure.

Why? Because it helped save my life twice. That's all you need to know.

Treasure, Purple Rain, or Ocean Rain. I just can't decide. I still have a soft spot for Rattlesnakes too.

Pity that the SST albums that made the P&J didn't make it onto UK lists.

Zen Arcade also in "released too late for polls"-type situation.

ditto the first Run-DMC album.

SADE!

You have to remember that in the NME of 1984, the soulboys ruled.

SADE!

She would certainly deserve to win the most boring bland poll.

Ocean Rain

Hatful of Hollow or ('The') Reckoning. I need to ponder...

I refuse to participate as there is no Ride the Lightning.

This is a very tough call between Hole and Jonathan Sings.

1st Smiths album I went for in the end.

dudes, it is OBVIOUS that the choice is SHE'S SO UNUSUAL. i like a lot of albums on that list, but christ...

also, anyone who disses Sade can go kiss penguin cock.

I'm confused as to why the three lists are merged. Were they similarly merged in one of these magazines back then?

P.S. I love penguin cock. Yum yum!

cover is the album i have listened to the most of all these.

Treasure no contest except for Hatful Of Hollow but that one doesn't really count.

Best U2 album, sooooo that one.

although I do like that MTV promo that had Cyndi Lauper going "soooo unnnnUUUUUUUUSSSUUuuual"

first 3 seconds

http://youtube.com/watch?v=L-oeRLmxMmY

Any votes for the nme winner?

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Which new pop album will win?

Went for Jonathan. Not a good list, sub-par albums by good/great artists, and lots of unmitigated shite.

some truly great albums there - Scott Walker's record is, of course, called "Climate of Hunter".

love the Scott Walker, Blue Nile, Tom Waits, Cocteau, Smiths, Prefab, Lloys Cole and Price - among others!

anyway i voted for "Brilliant Trees" cos it's meant the most to me for the longest time.

there's seven albums there i couldn't live without but 'hole' (despite the fact that these days it is probably the one of the seven i listen to least) gets my vote for completely changing my entire world view.

Voted for Love Wars (just like in Pazz & Jop) but now I kind of wish I'd voted for Atom Drum Bop instead. (I wonder if anybody else will -- Nobody else has mentioned it on this thread yet.)

I was tempted by Walker & Waits, but I just don't think those albums stand up against some of their other works. I've actually not heard Hole - Foetus always appealed to me but I never got around to checking the stuff out.

I have never heard the Holger Czukay . Is it any good?

yes.

Any votes for the nme winner?

The first three tracks of Poet II (esp. "Love Has Finally Come At Last" with Patti Labelle) are astonishing, some of the deepest soul ever recorded despite the rather chintzy '80s arrangements. The rest of the album doesn't quite measure up to those but it's still very fine (including "Tell Me Why," one of Tony Blackburn's favourites from back in the '84 BBC Radio London day). Don't know that I would have put it right at the top though - from a Womackian perspective Love Wars is a more consistently good record ("Baby I'm Scared Of You" is awesome).

rattlesnakes all the way.

there's seven albums there i couldn't live without but 'hole' (despite the fact that these days it is probably the one of the seven i listen to least) gets my vote for completely changing my entire world view.

I voted for Hole, not because I rate it above Treasure, but because I figured it was such a great record that it deserved a vote and that no-one else would pick it.

Trent Reznor really ought to be paying Jim Thirlwell a hefty cut of all his profits.

Can't say I've ever heard Poet II. It's not an album you see in critics lists is it? NME was certainly a different beast back then.

>> I voted for Hole, not because I rate it above Treasure, but because I figured it was such a great record that it deserved a vote and that no-one else would pick it.

lol so did I! Oh well.

Yes, the old NME which had time for black music...

Out of these, "A Walk Across The Rooftops" is the best. A bit surprised "Some Great Reward" didn't make the cut back then though. It seems their 84-87 output has become more critically acclaimed in retrospect.

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Can't say I've ever heard Poet II. It's not an album you see in critics lists is it? NME was certainly a different beast back then.

-- The Twisted Pollstarter, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 13:14 (10 ho

Yes, the old NME which had time for black music...

-- Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 13 June 2007 13:26 (10 hours ago)

Not ILM though. No fucker voted for it!

ha ha!

I thought someone would have.

OK, I'll admit that I'm completely shocked to see "Hole" with such a strong showing, but I couldn't be happier with that result.

Just goes to show that some polls are unpredictable. Style Council in 2nd place? wow.

I'm surprised Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel beat Madonna and Prefab Sprout. Who have lots of fans on ILM. Quite a few surprising zero votes albums truth be told.

Technically they're tied for 4th but I'm still surprised to see it tie with Treasure, which I thought would walk this.

Number of polls in history that Foetus has won: this one?

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no ub40!

I thought it would be hatful of hollow that might win it, but I suppose the smiths vote got split. It's a good things the polls are being unpredictable I suppose.

This is a really odd EOY:

Melody Maker End Of Year Critic Lists - 1984

Albums

1. Ocean Rain - Echo & The Bunnymen
2. The Smiths - The Smiths
3. In The Studio - The Special AKA
4. Cypress - Lets Active
5. Hallowed Ground - Violent Femmes
6. Steeltown - Big Country
7. The Age Of Consent - Bronski Beat
8. The Unforgettable Fire - U2
9. Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen
10. Diamond Life - Sade

4. Cypress - Lets Active

who? what?

kind of B52s-ish new wave jangle pop iirc

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