THE ILX 1980s ALBUM POLL CLIPS!!

On the 1980 album poll result thread it has been mentioned that the utube clips make the thread unwieldy and slow to load. This new thread is the place where to post clips of exemplary songs from the albums. Let's go.

#100 to #96 -> other thread

95. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking (79 points, 7 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xh-5FI21s6M

94. Def Leppard - Pyromania (80 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNOZegkVXo
hilarious rubbish.

I would've gone with Foolin', but that's me.

93. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless (80 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP1RTAft_B8

97. Big Black - Atomizer

A studio version of Kerosene

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r5zTZthbFo

like joy division they were much more intense live, weren't they?

98. Foetus - Hole

my favorite from the album, Satan Place:

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

also my favorite song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAEFpo5broY&feature=related

really great crazy explosive album, esp when you realize plenty of it is tape loop based

93. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
I Scare Myself
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKlBPHkZpW0
quite relaxing despite the title

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDS-CHUEWlI&feature=related

best song ever ppl

92. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships (80 points, 9 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJ89sikbbPs

92. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Dazzle Ships (80 points, 9 votes)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaXQP2V8z4A

what a great shaky song

90. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II (81 points, 9 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJrLOAVd19M
this is neither the best song (that would be aurora borealis in front of plateau) nor is it the version on the album but i didn't find an original version from any song of the record.

89. Prince and the Revolution - Parade (83 points, 10 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yw2SVb4Er8c
just a piano instrumental version. there seem to be copyright problems with all/most songs from this album. and i thought prince liked the net. probably his old record label doesn't.

Er, are you kidding? Prince and his lawyers allow none of his music to exist on the net unauthorized, and they've actually made a couple Prince fan sites to close down because they have "illegally" used copyrighted material (mostly just album and single covers). What Prince thinks he's gaining from alienating his fans like this, I have no idea.

making lawyers happy instead of fans, a business plan that is doomed to fail.

prince fans already have the music.

You can play "Parade" all the way through once on lala, if you haven't heard it.

http://www.lala.com/#album/360569445169287876/Prince/Parade_-_Music_From_The_Motion_Picture_Under_The_Cherry_Moon

Satan Place from that Foetus album recently came up on my ipod shuffle and blew my MIND

although Finely Honed Machine (a bonus track) is the real head-scrambler

― my fave thing to do on the computer is what im doing right now (acoleuthic), Monday, 23 November 2009 18:53 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

"I Scare Myself" isn't from The Golden Age of Wireless, it's from Dolby's second album The Flat Earth.

But thanks, Alex, for posting the Youtube of "Airwaves," one of his most beautiful tracks.

93. Thomas Dolby, "Europa" (GAOW)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMJv-kiyh-E

thanks for the correction concerning "i scare myself", paul. i got confused by a user comment on the other thread.

84. (tie) Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine (87 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cV2EUUF47Ms

83. David Bowie - Scary Monsters [1980] (89 points, 6 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLBlFq4oE2I

82. Scraping Foetus off the Wheel - Nail [1985] (91 points, 5 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPPsAu2ReY

81. The Beat (aka The English Beat) - I Just Can't Stop It [1980] (91 points, 13 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTNpaaPHENE

78. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy & the Lash [1985] (93 points, 16 votes)
*SPOILER*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aToYZaJjT8Y&feature=related

72. The Chills - Kaleidoscope World [1986] (98 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhMckVUyrpo
23 views. Unbelievably sad.

71. Roxy Music - Avalon [1982] (99 points, 10 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXshJ_xwMiQ

here we go:

89. Prince and the Revolution - Parade (83 points, 10 votes)

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5zf7h_prince-sometimes-it-snows-in-april_music

81. The Beat (aka The English Beat) - I Just Can't Stop It [1980] (91 points, 13 votes)

track 3: "Two Swords"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx748je-x0g

god i love pink frost.

can i just...

71. Roxy Music - Avalon [1982] (99 points, 10 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5t0H7zdTDY

another megajam-

79. The The - Soul Mining [1983] (93 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnduohfNq_Y

70. Laurie Anderson - Big Science [1982] (99 points, 11 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzYu88jIDYs
this went up to #2 on the uk single charts in 1981!

69. Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche 85 [1985] (100 points, 7 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThlLWyply5U

68. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies [1983] (100 points, 16 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBmM3smCVBs

67. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes [1983] (101 points, 12 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhedKAhHqK8

66. Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen [1985] (104 points, 10 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O68vkLeWhVk

65. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly [1982] (105 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvDlRLkI2Ho

Holy shit, The The sounds nothing like I expected it to sound. For some reason I've always thought they were a guitar-lead "alternative rock" band. Is the rest of the album like that one tune?

76. U2 - The Joshua Tree [1987] (95 points, 7 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q65iSpG1DgQ

"giant" is not really representative, on that song they sound quite new waveish with the synthesizer (thomas leer plays it), almost like new order. on "uncertain smile", their absolute masterpiece it is bass, guitar, keyboards and the long piano solo which make the song. check also "this is the day" with a phantastic melody and a temporary folky feel due to fiddle. that album is so perfect, seriously it belongs in the top 20, maybe even top 10.

63. (tie) Tom Waits - Rain Dogs [1985] (106 points, 12 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5xXf43yleg

63. (tie) Cocteau Twins - Treasure [1984] (106 points, 12 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-AWEkkgoko

wow i had seen o superman mentioned on ilm but never heard it till just now. htf was that a hit single??

i have no clue how that happened. even massive john peel airplay should not have been enough to propel to #2. i think it was the longest hit single too with over eight minutes.

to propel it to #2.

62. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing [1981] (106 points, 12 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVa1T9N62hQ

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

This live performance of "Demolition Man" is ridiculously awesome!

61. Arthur Russell - World of Echo [1986] (108 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEX2kKp6U6I

60. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid In Full [1987] (111 points, 8 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo84dWcl74k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOGVBN3Ph6Y&feature=fvw

59. Mekons - Fear and Whiskey [1985] (111 points, 8 votes, 2 first place votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5_rAJcWfCk
that's all i found. is all the album like that? may a fan post a good song from it please.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtIuq2QhXls

57. Arvo Pärt - Tabula Rasa [1984] (112 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OwdlKiB_ro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owT5LDNoStE&feature=PlayList&p=129E8F3DA783A7DB&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=7

x-post: nicky, three clips is enough, i think

concerning tabula rasa: i hope the dancing does not distract too much from the music...

56. R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant [1986] (112 points, 12 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2RXwPk8ZJc

55. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me [1987] (115 points, 13 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln8XsL6veaU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLIPTOUH51I

^ first Dinosaur jr. song I ever heard, still my favourite thing they ever did.

pretty good but what about "freak scene"? like boston was "more than a feeling", dinosaur jr. was/is "freak scene" in my book.

I like the really slurred and smudged quality of the singing on 'Little Fury Things'. And the tune is sweet! Lyrically it obviously makes no sense at all, but paradoxically I think it also does a better job of communicating whatever the hell it is that Dinosaur are about than 'Freak Scene' does (which is much more explicit, but is maybe a little handicapped by its self-consciousness - less authentic perhaps?). I dunno, but LFT speaks directly to some weird emo bit of my brain.

the first song i heard of them was "freak scene", so maybe this first experience thing has got to do with it. the tune is stronger, more addictive, more obvious if you which, you can't escape it. the noisy bits seem more civilized, cleaner, less raw.

"freak scene" is great, maybe their best, but bug is pretty uneven compared to ylaom. and i duno if it's the most representative dino jr. track if you fell in love with mascis's heavy/hazy/stoney guitar freakouts on the debut

53. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska [1982] (120 points, 14 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmT-jlL8ZiY

I don't much care for Bruce Springsteen, but I love love love the Arthur Baker remix of "Dancing in the Dark":

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

That one and "Streets of Philadelphia" are the best Springsteen tunes I've ever heard.

Haha, never heard that before, so many 80's strands just piling right in there. But, christ that guy dances like a cock eh?

'State Trooper' is great though btw.

The drum rolls at the start of that are fantastic. Bruce always reminds me of a young Kevin Keegan in that video.

52. Brian Eno / David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts [1981] (120 points, 17 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=do8wR0MA1ww
World music has never been sexier.

51. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man [1988] (121 points, 11 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sZzJAxfD-4
live version from the late 80s i'd say.

that 'dancing in the dark' remix just pushes it way too far

Tuomas it's an amazing album. there's a thread here The The Soul Mining: C/D

and it's all on Spotify. Get past the angry first track and there's a fair few rays of sunshine n rainbows on there.

50. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms [1980] (123 points, 13 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSo3wgmbFQc

49. The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane [1988] (125 points, 9 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGUxZvuRe9k

And because it is one of the best pop songs of all time and I want to listen to it now and see the video clip now! Grant McLennan, we miss you!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bqAWH5JWWI

I'm really late on this but that clip of Grace Jones doing Demolition Man is the best thing I've ever seen!

I've never seen that Was There Anything I Could Do clip. Grant is so wonderfully awkward in one of their stabs at mainstream success.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUDU8omvqD4

44. The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace [1985] (136 points, 13 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxDq5KKNVbA
what a great disco/dance track by the unlikeliest dance band around

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CaN4thI5w&feature=related

...and a 3rd, because 3 is...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0irL1M15DH8&feature=related

Yes it is.

We need more "schoolhouse Rock" samples and references.

I love that album. Thing this one gets overlooked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJBVRrqgq4c&feature=related

ugh "think" not "thing"

35. ABC - The Lexicon of Love [1982] (173 points, 11 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jh38VUtubcc
Let's requote what Dr.C wrote about this song a couple of years ago:

I'm sitting at my desk at work. I'm totally drained, feeling like I've run a marathon and close to tears. Why?

The reason is that I'm listening to The Lexicon of Love on headphones and I've just listened to All of My Heart as loud as I can stand. Isn't this song just the best fucking thing ever recorded? EVERYTHING about the track is perfect. Fry's vocals, the lyrics, the best intro ever - *that* opening chord, the piano arpeggios, David Palmer's thunderous snare thwack and skittering hi-hat, and the fretless bass prowling beneath. Fretless bass! - this track reclaims this godforsaken instrument from the clutches of the be-ponytailed session fop and turns it into a the sexiest sound imaginable.

The production - have keyboards ever sounded so epic and grand, yet without any trace of pomp? Anyone needs convincing that Horn is fucking god? Just play the 5 or so seconds after the first chorus which lead into the second verse about 5 different keyboard sounds collide and and burst into fragments. No, play ANY five seconds of this track.

Fry - a massive, massive voice, yet able to switch from despair to pleading to anger in a syllable. Listen the verse 2 "You'll be disappointed and I'll lose a friend" - oh God, overwhelming!

The strings - listen to the way they fade *slightly* 2/3 of the way through the chorus as Fry sings "Surrending, Remembering.." Also, the actual chords Ann Dudley uses for the string arrangement - simple, yet with a couple of twists which lift the vocals and let them fall.

I've lived with this album, this track for 20 years and it always has a similar effect. As well as the brilliance of the track itself it has, along with The Human League's 'Love Action', the ability to hit me with a feeling of nostalgia so tangible that I'm having to pinch myself to be sure that the last 20 years have really happened. I'm looking at my work colleagues, looking across at their desks and they're ghosts, strangers. From Martin Fry's opening line I'm back at University, walking across campus in the cold towards the lights of the Students Union. I'm with a group of friends - the girls look great, the boys are mucking about to impress, we've had a few drinks already and tonight we'll drink and dance and kiss and cry till we drop. That's the way I still feel. That's the way Martin Fry makes me feel. That's the way music makes me feel. I don't know what the question that I meant to ask is.

― Dr. C, 21. maaliskuuta 2002 3:00

34. The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow [1984] (173 points, 16 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSQlHItLnA
Morrissey shows us how to dance to Girl Afraid.

31. Sonic Youth - Sister [1987] (199 points, 21 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXzp57TZ0lc

angels are dreaming of you...

29. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth [1980] (200 points, 17 votes, 1 first place vote)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zn8H9XSgOOI
1st song in a live version.

16. New Order - Technique [1989] (273 points, 15 votes, 2 first place votes)

For New Order's TOTP appearance Barney mimed the "sophisticated laydeeee" bit in Fine Time, that was quite amusing. It sounds so colourful and crisp. I love this album.

― David Merryweather (DavidM), 21. lokakuuta 2003 21:13

And here is that TOTP appearance. Complete with Barney doing the Bez dance for a bemused, bewildered public.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkWxlb8EIYE

Gillian playing all the right notes just not necessarily in the right order there

12. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime [1984] (300 points, 15 votes, 3 first place votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAMFHT6BGO0
one of 45 songs, one of the longer ones

10. Pixies – Doolittle [1989] (323 points, 31 votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEPi5EQjEpw
Their first tv appearance in 1989.

If man is 5
Then the devil is 6
And if the devil is 6
Then God is 7

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

7. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation [1988] (356 points, 28 votes, 3 first place votes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_XiXv9Y210
Teenage Riot 21 years later. Thurston has not really changed, has he? I know the performance is not particularly amazing but still.

Black Francis' hair (and to a lesser extent Joey's) really bugs me in that clip. It reminds me of when I refused to watch older episodes of Frasier because I couldn't handle Kelsey Grammer's receding mullet.