Top 5 80's albums:

Wow, lotsa good ones listed here.

5 of my 80's favorites, in no particular order:

Hysteria -- Def Leppard
New Jersey -- Bon Jovi
King of Rock -- Run DMC
Purple Rain -- Prince
Thriller -- Michael Jackson*





* - Back in the day. Since Michael has gone off the deep end, I've stopped listening to him.

 

I had it in my truck not too long ago. There's an amazing number of songs on that album that were released as singles.

 

Wow. I never realized I had so much in common with Larry.

- REM - Murmur (I still love A Perfect Circle) & Eponymous
- New Order - Substance (Blue Monday & Subculture!)
- The Smiths - Had them all at the same time, Queen is Dead slightly over Strangeways, Here We Come
- Depeche Mode - 101 (live double) or Music for the Masses & Black Celebration (studio)
- Cure - Disintegration & Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
- de la soul - 3 ft high & rising
- Beasties - Licensed to Ill
- Prince - Purple Rain
- Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
- Pixies - Doolittle
- Peter Murphy - Deep
- Sonic Youth - Goo or Daydream Nation if that came out in '90
- Janes Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
- Sioned O'Conner - the one Nothing Compares 2 U & Mandika were on
- Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
- Bauhaus - that '79-82 anthology, or Mask or Burning from the inside - I wore my copies out
- and for kitsch sake Duran Duran - Arena (live), because I wore that one out too listening The Chauffeur.

Honorable Mention: The Sundays, Love & Rockets, Psychadellic Furs, Siousxie & the Banshees, Jesus & Mary Chain & dozens and dozens of brit pop & alt acts I used to watch on Post Modern MTV.

 

AC/DC Back in Black
Springsteen The River, Born in the USA
Tom Petty Damn the Torpedos, Full Moon Fever
GNR Appetite for Destruction
Stones Tattoo You, Steel Wheels
Neil Young Freedom
Dire Straits Brothers in Arms
REM Lifes Rich Pagent, Green
Roxy Music Avalon
Pink Floyd Momentary Lapse of Reason
Stevie Ray Vaughn Texas Flood

So many more. Couldn't stop at 5.

 

those are the only four on your whole list that i didn't also own or wear out. i never owned doolittle, but i do like me some pixies on my mp3s.

someone else like sisters of mercy? i STILL listen to them. i forgot to put shreikback's "oil and gold" and guadalcana diary's three albums on my list.

and i had to order sinead o'connor's album when it first came out -- no stores in tallahassee carried it.

i grew up on 120 minutes, zang tum tumb records and the "just say..."
compilations.

 

chronic town-rem

 

love me some gardening at night.

 

Larry, I gotta buy you a beer the next time you're up this way. I could sit and talk about those bands all night (or all day on a messageboard), especially since most of my friends and coworkers now grew up on, and still listen to, "radio-friendly" music.

It amazes me just how well I remember every line of all those songs and how many personal memories are tied to them like they were the soundtrack for my life. Whether it's debating which Smith song holds up the best (currently it's William, It Was Really Nothing), or dropping trivia about which actress was in Depeche Mode's Halo video, I could bore you to tears or soak you in nostalgia, depending on your attitude towards it.

 

i haven't seen a whole lot of bands live, but i've seen depeche mode twice.

once in six flags at atlanta. ok, we didn't see them -- we only heard them. we just started working there and didn't know that we could go in. OMD was touring with them. i think it was 1988, the music for the masses tour.

the other was the world violation tour down in miami with nitzer ebb and -- i think -- the jesus and the mary chain -- opening (may 31, 1990).

that was AWESOME. me, my sister and my best friend stayed in coconut grove. i think i've got a shot of me with my mullet painting "violator" on the back of my sister's car for the trip down.

 

I saw them on the Song of Fath & Devotion tour. Dave looked sooo strung out.

You just reminded me of another - 10,000 Maniacs (In My Tribe). Another band I'll probably get teased for, but I loved them. Saw them at the Carowinds venue, about the same time as a HORDE show. Natalie Merchant closed the show doing duets with Michael Stipe, singing show tunes and other oddball stuff. Mike forgot the words and appeared drunk/high. It was great though.