Top 5 80's albums:

Well, the 80's was probably the worst decade musically but The Pixies are one of my favorite bands, and I have to go with Doolittle. Guns N' Roses Appetite for Destruction is #2 behind AC/DC's Back and Black. Pyromania was a good album by Def Leppard and Metal Health by Quiet Riot. Also, you can't forget Blizzard of Oz!

 

Not from that era?

If you grew up back then, a lot of that stuff rocked.

 

REM - Murmur 1983
Police - Synchronicity 1983
Steely Dan - Gaucho 1980
Clash - Sandanista! 1980
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking 1988

 

These aren't my top 5 but I sure wore them out

Ratt - out of the cellar
Van Halen - 1984
Journey - escape
Bryan Adams - reckless
Beastie Boys - licensed to ill

 

Well there were some goods songs from the 80's but there were few albums that were solid. Raising Hell by Run DMC is another and Rust in Peace by Megadeth was Dave Mustaine's finest. Many of the bands in the early nineties got their starts in the 80's and Van Halen's first album in '78 was one of the best albums ever. But it was 2 years prior to the decade. And London Calling was '79. Sandinista was a great CD to.

 

how many of your albums made the top 100?

 

I am a big Sonic Youth Fan and listen to them on a constant basis, but to have them as singing the best album of the 80's is very flawed. My era of music is more of the grunge era so I saw them in concert several times and although very good, they aren't the best. about the Meat Puppets Great song writers but they couldn't sing for anything. If you here Nirvana sing Lake of Fire and listen to the Meat Puppets sing it, Nirvana puts the original to shame.

 

That list was AWESOME Larry. Some incredible records on there. I cannot believe that I forgot to add the Femmes, the Replacements & Husker Du to my list. For shame! I guess the weak excuse is that those were all midwestern style bands and I'm an east coast kid.


I'm glad someone else appreciates Teen Age Riot by Sonic Youth for what it was when it was released. I'll never forget the epiphany when I heard it the first time. Blaring on the stereo at that time were the Whitney Houston type ballads and loads and loads of awful hair metal. I had the Smiths, I had REM, I had the Cure - but they were written off for being too british, depressing or obscure. And then out of nowhere, I was at a party and someone slammed their copy of Daydream Nation into the boom box by the jacuzzi, and out flowed that spectacular, aggressively mellow intro to Teen Age Riot to arrest my booze groggy head. It was one of those defining moments, like Kim Gordon on top of a train on MTV. Changed my whole perspective.

The only thing I hold against Sonic Youth is something Kim said that pissed Billy Corgan off too. When SY started getting big, Kim griped about not intending their music for midwestern frat boys. As Billy correctly pointed out, that's who needed bands like SY the most.

The reviewer did get one other thing right - "the boy with the thorn in his side" is one of the best pop songs of all time.

 

Steely Dan - Gaucho
Eric Clapton- Journeyman
End of the Innocence- Don Henly
Surfing With the Alien- Joe Satriani
Eazy-Duz-It- Eazy-E

 

WTF???

That list is all alternative/gay music. Sonic Youth, XTC, The Minutemen?