I'm going to impose a blanket ban on hair metal albums with the exception of ones already on the list right now.

ahh.. confused me with the first part saying 60s to 00s

they were influencial and hysteria was a top hit in the 80's like it or not

It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back by P.E.
Criminal Minded by Boogie Down Productions
Paid In Full by Eric B and Rakim

So? Poison was a top hit in the 80s (I thought it was a decade known for glorifying crappy music on the radio?) and I don't think influencing Avenged Sevenfold and Velvet Revolver counts for much.

Stuff that I think is missing:
Mudhoney - Superfuzz Bigmuff (yeah, I know it was supposed to be an E.P. but it plays like an L.P.) or their self titled debut
Madness - Absolutely / The Rise and Fall
The Cult - Love
The Cure - The Head on the Door (it's so hard to pick just one from the 80s)
B52s - Wild Planet
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
The Damned - Strawberries / The Black Album
Lemonheads - Lick / Hate Your Friends
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe / Blind Mans Zoo
The The - Soul Mining

Stuff that I'd change:
REM - Lifes Rich Pageant (rather than Murmur)
The Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always (rather than Floodland)

Stuff that I'd remove:
Fields of the Nephilim - even though I saw them a number of times in the 80s I'd no sooner put one of their albums forward than I would The Mission or Rose of Avalanche

add if I should fall from grace with god :D

Why would there be?

Thank god.

don't tell Tony Soprano , he loves Journey

or "loved" Journey, no one really knows


Don't Stop............

What no Nelson? :yikes:

updated

Alright guys, I'm going to start ordering this list and then I'll post the order and we'll debate and rearrange it. I'll try and have it up by the weekend.

EVOL by Sonic Youth is better than about 80% of that list, and yet it's removed. Strange.

I thought Crazy Rhythms came out in '90?


And Moss Icon-Lybernum. So influential and good. To me it's the clear shift from a melodic hardcore displayed with Rites of Spring, Embrace and Dag Nasty to clear definitive genre of emo.

Added and Crazy Rhythms came out in 1980, I'll start organizing this list when school work quits raping me.

I definitely agree with this one, nice choice.

After this is done, wouldn't it be cool to do something like this for the 60s? Personally I've never seen a 60s list that I liked before.

I plan to do one for each decade.

Didn't Pitchfork do some kind of list about the 60's?

Yeah and it probably sucks.

How can you count out a band that sold over 35 million albums in the US. You say that they are "hair metal shit, but that is the same as saying that Metallica are crappy hard rock. A band changing thier sound does not mean that they were always that genre. Def Leppard started out as NWOBHM and hit the US charts as such before Hysteria which was thier first real glam album.

Glam metal was awful and record sales don't mean good.

Says you.

How about High 'N' Dry or On Through The Night then?

High 'n' Dry I'll add.

Thank you.

Good to you have back Predator.

The Black Album by the Damned, anyone?

They did a top 200 tracks of the 60s. They didn't even accept that it would be worth doing a top 100 LPs because supposedly "the LP didn't become the dominant format until the 70s".

Seems a lame reason to me, even if it's true (which I don't know).

the ART OF NOISE debut was a influential album in terms of recording technique at least.

It's there - under The Damned...

So what happened to this? I was curious to see the results! Is somebody working on it behind the scenes?

Yes <.< I've been "working on it." >.>

Moving pictures is the be-all end all of all 80's albums

But let's have some other close contenders:

Dead Kennedys - "Frankenchrist"
Dead Kennedys - "Plastic Surgery Disasters"
Dead Kennedys - "Bedtime for Democracy"
King Crimson - "Beat"
Jethro Tull - "Crest of A Knave
Kreator - "Pleasure To Kill"

talk talk - spirit of eden
the fall - grotesque
the feelies - crazy rythms
lydia lunch - queen of siam
talking heads - remain in light
brian eno and david byrne - my life in the bush of ghosts
the birthday party - prayers on fire (Or junkyard. i prefer junkyard, but . . .)
echo and the bunnymen - ocean rain
mission of burma - signals, calls and marches
this heat - deceit
dead kennedy's - plastic surgery disaster
daniel johnston - hi, how are you?
tom waits - raindogs
concteau twins - treasure
husker du - zen arcade
minutemen - double nickels on the dime
the smiths - meat is murder or queen is dead
violent femmes - violent femmes
the jesus and mary chain - darklands
the replacements - let it be
sonic youth - evol or sister
the cure - kiss me kiss me kiss me, disintegration or poronography
depeche mode - music for the masses
dinosaur jr - you're living all over me
pixies - surfer rosa or doolittle
spacemen 3 - the perfect prescription
galaxie 500 - today
stone roses - stone roses
a. r. kane - sixty nine

i'm probably forgetting a bunch, but these, at least, should be considered.

oh and seriously, michael jackson thirller!

Crowquill...I cast a disdainfull look at you for removing "Murmur".

Life's Rich Pageant is excellent but man c'mon...MURMUR !!!

Murmur is probably going to go back on. I'm adding some of the removed ones, like EVOL for instance, and re-doing the list now. I'm going to put it in a rough order then post it to which everyone will debate what should be bumped up/down/swapped with etc

YAY!
Also, Crowded House - ST and Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love.

I'd put Yo! Bum Rush The Show up if you have room. I think it's a less culturally significant album than Nation, but almost as good, and it pioneered their sound.

Okay I added everything and I'm going to give a rough order later tonight and try and post it by tonight but I'm leaving for now so I want you to discuss whether the following albums are worthy of being on the list (we have upwards of 150)

Van Halen "1984"
Nine Inch Nails "Pretty Hate Machine"
The Lemonheads "Lick/Hate Your Friends"
Dio "Holy Diver"
The B-52s "Wild Planet"
Pet Shop Boys "Introspective"
10,000 Maniacs "In My Tribe"
The Cult "Love"
Ministry "In the Land of Rape and Honey"

Also should we allow compilations on here? There's only 2 of them, 13 Songs (Fugazi) and Louder Than Bombs (The Smiths)

Alright I'll leave Pretty Hate Machine because I trust Wayfarer, I've just never heard much about NIN's debut so I had no idea if it was good or not.

I'm making some executive decisions here so its a more manageable list and compilations are going to be hereby banned from the list.