The Best Album Of The 80's

[Roland of Gilead]

Not just the best album of the 80's, but the best album ever is the Joshua Tree.

My Best of the 80's list would include;

INXS - Listen Like Thieves
The Lost Boys Movie Soundtrack
The Cure - Disintegration
Styx - Kilroy Was Here
Big Country - In a Big Country
Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl
The Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
New Order - Brotherhood (Substance is a great collection!)
The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash
Queen - A Kind of Magic

...shows you where my head was!

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[Salome]

U2 - Unforgettable Fire

Non U2:
R.E.M. - Out of Time
The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with God
The Pixies - Bossanova
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Sonic Youth - Sister

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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it

 

[Roland of Gilead]

Sorry Salome.

REM's Out of Time was 1991 release.

 

[david]

Sorry Salome The Pixie's Bossanova was released in the summer of 1990.

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The more of these I drink the more Bono makes sense.. - Bean from the KROQ Breakfast with U2.

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[ladywithspinninghead]

I agree with Roland - JT isn't just the best album of the '80's but the best album of all time - the album that changed my life!!!!

 

[Salome]

hehe,
well
I had this feeling about Out of Time
I was fairly sure about Bossanova though, but I'm not surprised I'm wrong

hmmm, I'll check my collection and come up with a list that makes sense later

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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it

 

[Michael Griffiths]

Best album of the 80s (and possibly of all time):
U2: The Joshua Tree

A few others (and I know I'm forgetting a lot here):

The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses
REM: Document
INXS: Kick

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The Tempest

 

[brettig]

Dire Straits- Making Movies, Love Over Gold and Brothers In Arms.

Paul Simon- Graceland

Midnight Oil- Blue Sky Mining, Diesel and Dust

 

[DrTeeth]

The Cure - Disintegration
U2 - October

 

[80sU2isBest]

Originally posted by MBH:
I think that October is U2's worst album. I know of four guys from Dublin whou would agree with me on this one. I realize that this is all just opinions anyway, but.....

Really? I wonder why they don't like that album, expecially why they like sometyhing like "Pop" more. I just don't get that at all. October rocks - how can anyone not love "Gloria" and "I Threw A Brick Through A Window"?

 

[80sU2isBest]

Originally posted by DrTeeth:
U2 - October

First, I agree with Fizzing not once, but twice. Now I find myself agreeing with Dr. Teeth on something. My gosh, what is the world coming to?

 

[Michael Griffiths]

I just thought of a couple others (how could I possibly forget the genius that is Leonard? Poet, philosopher, mystic, journeyman, countryman, comedian, lady's man, novelist, communicator of emotion beyond language...yet none of these at all...purely gifted by the wrath of his own sorrow, and lost inside the All, some would say lost inside the beautiful paradoxes of his intentions -- okay that's a little over the top

):

Leonard Cohen: Various Positions
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

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[jezebel]

Originally posted by Roland of Gilead:
Not just the best album of the 80's, but the best album ever is the Joshua Tree.

amen, brother

best non-U2 album: So by Peter Gabriel

 

[wannabe]

Originally posted by barlowdog:
Husker Du...Zen Arcade

I wanted to buy this, is it worth it?

 

[barlowdog]

Wannabe

Whether or not Zen Arcade is worth it may depend on what you've been weaned on. In other words, you don't go directly from mother's milk to steak. If you don't have any Husker Du, I think the one to start with is Candy Apple Grey.

 

[Salome]

Originally posted by Salome:
, I'll check my collection and come up with a list that makes sense later

well, I know all of you have waited for this

U2 - Unforgettable Fire

Non U2 (in no particular order):
The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with God
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
R.E.M. - Fables of the Reconstruction
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
AC/DC - Back in Black
Sonic Youth - Sister
Brian Eno + David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

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Salome
Shake it, shake it, shake it

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[BostonAnne]

U2 - Joshua Tree but I love all the 80's U2 albums including October.

Non U2 -
Peter Gabriel - So
Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair
Depeche Mode - Violator

I also listened to the Smiths, Cure and REM and had more than one albums from these bands, don't remember my favorite.

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"There's a lot of real rubbish going on about new music & old music, can I just say we play U2 music? Is that OK?" - Bono, Us Festival 5/30/83

 

[BB218]

U2: Joshua Tree, of course.

Non-U2: Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mother's Milk

 

[mikal]

I almost had a seizure when I saw that no one picked:


Faith No More - The Real Thing

 

[Jack4U]

U2: Unforgettable Fire

Non-U2: Depeche Mode - Violator

 

[U2live]

Joshua Tree and Unforgettable Fire.

 

[candyfloss]

Best U2 album:
Unforgettable Fire

Non U2 album(s):
Public Enemy - Nation of Millions
REM - Murmur
Replacements - Let It Be, Tim
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Blue Nile - Hats
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
G'n'R - Appetite for Destruction
and any Springsteen album

It sucks that when people think of 80's music the first to come to mind is all that crap that VH-1 plays on their big 80's flashbacks, when a ton of great music like Public Enemy, Replacements, etc. came from that decade.


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I miss the innocence I've known
Playin' KISS covers beautiful and stoned

 

[Shine * Like* Stars*]

Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire, War, October and Boy.

Non- U2: GNR Appetite for Destruction