The Very Best Albums of the 80's!
Submitted by dcstar on Thu, 10/09/2003 - 01:03
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- Remain in Light/ Talking Heads
- Double Nickels on the Dime/ Minutemen
- Murmur/ R.E.M.
- Let It Be/ The Replacements
- The Queen is Dead/ The Smiths
- Doolittle/ The Pixies
- Reckoning/ R.E.M.
- Graceland/ Paul Simon
- Rain Dogs/ Tom Waits
- Los Angeles/ X
- Purple Rain/ Prince & The Revolution
- Daydream Nation/ Sonic Youth
- Zenyatta Mondotta/ The Police
- Nebraska/ Bruce Springsteen
- Surfer Rosa/ The Pixies
- Speaking in Tounges/ Talking Heads
- The Joshua Tree/ U2
- Damn the Torpedoes/ Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
- Thriller/ Michael Jackson
- It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back/ Public Enemy
- Violent Femmes/ Violent Femmes
- Meat Puppets II/ Meat Puppets
- Milo Goes to College/ Descendents
- Power, Corruption, & Lies/ New Order
- Pretenders/ Pretenders
- Green/ R.E.M.
- Tim/ The Replacements
- Imperial Bedroom/ Elvis Costello
- Get Happy!/ Elvis Costello
- New Day Rising/ Husker Du
- PsychoCandy/ The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Substance/ Joy Division
- Appetite for Destruction/ Guns 'n Roses
Author Comments:
Suggestions welcome as always
I think Black Flag put out a couple good albums in the 80's also.. I'm not good with years though. Also, I think the Specials probably did some good work then.
and yet, none of these seem to be "80's" bands. is that intentional, or does it just serve as some sort of cultural statement that bands that define the genre did not even put out the best albums of the decade?
I don't condider the 80's to be a "genre". There were may great genres within the 80's. That being said, many of these greats are "80's" bands.
Surfer Rosa...
Added...
and Murmur might be my favorite album of the 80's for sure