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.

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