Thatcher's crap 80's music!

Originally posted by stellspalfie
i always knew thatcher was to blame for crap 80's music!!!!

There was loads of GOOD music in the 1980s. And there's loads of bad music in every decade distracting from the good.

Name your 10 favourite albums from the decade and prove the '80s Music Was Crap' meme wrong, and get Thatcher off the hook!

Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes
Immaculate Fools - Dumb Poet
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way
XTC - Skylarking
Robert Wyatt - Dondestan
Peter Gabriel - So

Here's another 10...

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Punch The Clock
Crowded House - Temple of Low Men
Prince - Lovesexy
Paul Simon-Graceland
Del Amitri - Waking Hours
Keith Jarrett Trio - Standards
Grateful Dead - In The Dark
Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
The B-52's - Cosmic Thing
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

Tears for Fears..... Seeds of Love.
ABC - ABC.

-m.

Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full
Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction
Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique
Michael Jackson - Thriller
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Pixies - Doolittle/Surfer Rosa

and

Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Run DMC - Raising Hell
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
AC/DC - Back in Black
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

Police - Synchroncity / Ghost in the Machine
Prince - Purple Rain
REM - Murmur / Dcoument
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

And, at the other end of the spectrum:

Breakdance : You can do it

(It may not surprise you to know that I couldn't, but it is cathartic to be able to admit amongst friends that I once owned this album.)

I also wonder whether Margaret Thatcher is a more or less divisive figure than Michael Jackson?

Originally posted by Rank outsider
Police - Synchroncity / Ghost in the Machine
Prince - Purple Rain
REM - Murmur / Dcoument
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms

And, at the other end of the spectrum:

Breakdance : You can do it

(It may not surprise you to know that I couldn't, but it is cathartic to be able to admit amongst friends that I once owned this album.)

I also wonder whether Margaret Thatcher is a more or less divisive figure than Michael Jackson?

I think she did the best things for kids, for their own best interests; as opposed to ........ 🙄

-m. 😀

Stock, Aitken & Waterman
Bros
Erasure
The Petshop Boys

Plenty of excellent music from the 80s. Some of my favourites:

Swans - Children of God
Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Cocteau Twins - Treasure
Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun
King Crimson - Discipline
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always
Coil - Horse Rotorvator
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Originally posted by FMF
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes
Immaculate Fools - Dumb Poet
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Cocteau Twins - Heaven or Las Vegas
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Frank Zappa - Broadway The Hard Way
XTC - Skylarking
Robert Wyatt - Dondestan
Peter Gabriel - So

Here's another 10...

Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Punch The Clock
...[text shortened]... The Dark
Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
The B-52's - Cosmic Thing
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs

I'm down with maybe half of those.

Your taste is interesting.

"In the 80's, no one was looking back, we were all looking forward." - Bernard Sumner

In no particular order,

Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Pixies - Doolittle
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace
The Fall - Hex Induction Hour
NoMeansNo - Wrong
NoMeansNo - Sex Mad
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
NWA - Straight Outta Compton
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Joy Division - Closer
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love It
The entire Smiths discography
X - Los Angeles
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Lots of pioneering stuff in that time. 2 of my my favourite albums of all time were released in the 2nd half of 79 or I would have included them as well: The Specials S/T and Gang of Four's Entertainment!

Originally posted by FMF
Originally posted by stellspalfie
[b]i always knew thatcher was to blame for crap 80's music!!!!

There was loads of GOOD music in the 1980s. And there's loads of bad music in every decade distracting from the good.

Name your 10 favourite albums from the decade and prove the '80s Music Was Crap' meme wrong, and get Thatcher off the hook![/b]

its true, thatcher was unable to stop some good music being created in the 80's despite her unleashing her musical foot soldiers - scott,aitken and waterman to destroy music. while america bombed us with poodle haired, power chord playing, cheesy solo ridden boy band soft rock. some gems squeezed through.

my list -

bleach - nirvana
lifes rich pageant - rem
closer- joy division
the queen is dead - the smiths
surfer rosa - the pixies
brewing up with billy bragg - billy bragg
101 damnation's - carter the unstoppable sex machine
violent femmes - violent femmes
...24hr party people... - happy mondays
the stone roses - the stone roses

As many as ten? Ok ...

1. Your Funeral, My Trial - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
2. Tender Prey - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (The Mercy Seat: my vote for best 80s single)
3. Scary Monsters - David Bowie
4. Diesel and Dust - Midnight Oil
5. Smell of Female - The Cramps
6. The Head on the Door - The Cure [pity Kiss Me was so uneven: Just Like Heaven was a perfect song]
7. Halbe Mensch - Einstuerzende Neubauten
8. Bossanova - The Pixies [Doolittle was better but I liked this one more]
9. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
10. Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction

Honorable mention: The Correct Use of Soap - Magazine

The 80s are so very **** far away.

Originally posted by Bosse de Nage
Honorable mention: The Correct Use of Soap - Magazine

I also liked the Magazine album that came AFTER "The Correct Use of Soap", "Magic, Murder and the Weather (1981)" but I've never met anyone else who likes it and as far as I know it was panned by the critics and dismissed as a disappointing irrelevance ever since.

Originally posted by Rank outsider


I also wonder whether Margaret Thatcher is a more or less divisive figure than Michael Jackson?

Neither are popular with minors