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Top 100 Albums of the 80s

MB's Top 100 Albums of the 80s - Rate Your Music

CURRENT LIST ^

Okay this is going to be a giant collaborative effort and the goal is at the end to have the top 100 albums from the 60s to the 00s. I figure we should start with the 80s just because. So everyone should post what they think the best albums of the 80s are. I'm not going to give you a size regulation or anything you could post 100 or you could post 1. If you think someone nominated an album that isn't worthy then we'll argue it out and decide whether or not it belongs there. I've kind of composed a fairly extensive list already, let me know if you have any objections to the picks on there and suggest your own!

Please note, this list is completely tentative. Some of these albums I just mentioned because they tend to get but I don't feel they should be on. Once we compose a decent sized list then we can start knocking stuff off.

10,000 Maniacs "In My Tribe"
10,000 Maniacs "Blind Mans Zoo"
AC/DC "Back in Black"
Arvo Pärt "Tabula Rasa"
Astor Piazzolla "Tango: Zero Hour"
B52s "Wild Planet"
Bad Brains "Rock For Light"
Bathory "Blood Fire Death"
Bauhaus "In the Flat Field"
Bauhaus "The Sky's Gone Out"
Beastie Boys "Licensed to Ill"
Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique"
Big Black "Songs About ****ing"
Black Flag "Damaged"
Black Flag "My War"
Bob Marley & The Wailers "Uprising"
Boogie Down Productions "Criminal Minded"
Bruce Springsteen "Born in the U.S.A."
Cabaret Voltaire "Red Mecca"
Candlemass "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus"
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band "Doc at the Radar Station"
Cocteau Twins "Treasure"
Daniel Johnston "Songs of Pain"
David Bowie "Let's Dance"
De La Soul "3 Feet High and Rising"
Dead Kennedys "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"
Death "Scream Bloody Gore"
Def Leppard "High 'N' Dry"
Dexy's Midnight Runners "Searching for the Young Soul Rebels"
Dinosaur Jr. "Bug"
Dinosaur Jr. "You're Living All Over Me"
Dio "Holy Diver"
Discharge "See Nothing, Hear Nothing, Say Nothing"
Echo and the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain"
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians "Shooting Rubberbands At The Stars"
Eric B. & Rakim "Paid in Full"
Elvis Costello "Trust"
Embrace "Embrace"
EPMD "Unfinished Business"
Faith No More "The Real Thing"
Fishbone "Truth And Soul"
Frank Zappa "Them or Us"
Fugazi "13 Songs"
G.B.H "City Baby Attacked By Rats"
George Harrison "Cloud Nine"
Glenn Branca "The Ascension"
Guns and Roses "Appetite For Destruction"
Husker Du "New Day Rising"
Husker Du "Zen Arcade"
Iron Maiden "The Number of the Beast"
Iron Maiden "Powerslave"
Jane's Addiction "Nothing's Shocking"
John Zorn "The Big Gundown"
Joy Division "Closer"
Killing Joke "Night Time"
King Crimson "Discipline"
King Crimson "Three of a Perfect Pair"
Lemonheads "Lick"
Lemonheads "Hate Your Friends"
Linton Kwesi Johnson "Bass Culture"
Living Colour "Vivid"
Madness "Absolutely"
Madness "The Rise and Fall"
Marillion "Script for a Jester's Tear"
Mass "Labour Of Love"
Meat Puppets "Meat Puppets II"
Metallica "Master of Puppets"
Metallica "...And Justice for All"
Michael Jackson "Thriller"
Miles Davis "Tutu"
Minor Threat "Minor Threat"
Ministry "Land Of Rape And Honey"
Mission of Burma "Vs."
Minutemen "Double Nickels on the Dime"
Morrissey "Viva Hate"
Moss Icon "Lybernum"
Mudhoney "Superfuzz Bigmuff"
Mudhoney "Mudhoney"
My Bloody Valentine "Isn't Anything"
Napalm Death "Scum"
Naked City "Naked City"
New Order "Power, Corruption & Lies"
New Order "Low Life"
Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds "From Her To Eternity"
Nine Inch Nails "Pretty Hate Machine"
Nirvana "Bleach"
NoMeansNo "Wrong"
NWA "Straight Outta Compton"
Peter Gabriel "3"
Peter Gabriel "Security"
Peter Gabriel "So"
Pentagram "Day Of Reckoning"
Pet Shop Boys "Please"
Pet Shop Boys "Introspective"
Pixies "Doolittle"
Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
Prince "Dirty Mind"
Prince "Purple Rain"
Prince "Sign 'o' Times"
Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
Public Image LTD "Flowers of Romance"
Queensryche "Operation: Mindcrime"
Ramones "End of the Century"
Red Hot Chili Peppers "Mother's Milk"
REM "Lifes Rich Pageant"
Run DMC "Raising Hell"
Rush "Moving Pictures"
Rush "Permanent Waves"
Rites of Spring "Rites of Spring"
Sam Cooke "The Man and His Music"
Sebadoh "The Freed Man"
Sisters Of Mercy "First and Last and Always"
Slayer "Reign In Blood"
Slayer "South of Heaven"
Slayer "Hell Awaits"
Slayer "Show No Mercy"
Slick Rick "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"
Social Distortion "Mommy's Little Monster"
Sonic Youth "Confusion Is Sex"
Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation"
Sonic Youth "EVOL"
Spacemen 3 "Playing With Fire"
Steve Roach "Structures From Silence"
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble "Couldn't Stand the Weather"
Stranglers "Black And White"
Swans "Cop"
Talk Talk "The Colour of Spring"
Talking Heads "Fear of Music"
The Birthday Party "Junk Yard"
The Butthole Surfers "Locust Abortion Technician"
The Clash "Combat Rock"
The Clash "Sandinista!"
The Cramps "Songs the Lord Taught Us"
The Cure "Boys Don't Cry"
The Cure "Disintegration"
The Cure "Pornography"
The Cure "The Head on the Door"
The Cult "Love"
The Damned "Strawberries"
The Damned "The Black Album"
The Descendents "Milo Goes to College"
The Durutti Column "The Return Of The Durutti Column"
The Fall "This Nation's Saving Grace"
The Feelies "Crazy Rhythms"
The Melvins "Gluey Porch Treatments"
The Misfits "Walk Among Us"
The Pogues "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash"
The Police "Synchronicity "
The Replacements "Let It Be"
The Residents "The Commercial Album"
The Smiths "The Queen is Dead"
The Smiths "Louder Than Bombs"
The Smiths "Meat is Murder"
The Smiths "The Smiths"
The Soft Boys "Underwater Moonlight"
The Stone Roses "The Stone Roses"
The The "Soul Mining"
The The "Mind Bomb"
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Psychocandy"
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Darklands"
This Heat "Deceit"
Tim Berne "Fractured Fairly Tales"
Tom Waits "Rain Dogs"
Tom Waits "Swordfishtrombones"
Traveling Wilburys "Volume I"
U2 "The Joshua Tree"
Ultramagnetic MC's "Critical Breakdown"
Van Halen "1984"
Van Halen "Fair Warning"
Violent Femmes "Violent Femmes"
Wipers "Is This Real?"
X "Los Angeles"
XTC "Skylarking"
Young Marble Giants "Colossal Youth"

REMOVED
Bad Brains "Bad Brains"
Bad Brains "I Against I"
Bruce Springsteen "Nebraska"
Cindi Lauper "She's So Unusual"
Circle Jerks "Group Sex"
Dead Kennedys "Plastic Surgery Disasters"
Death "Leprosy"
Gorilla Biscuits "Start Today"
Fields of the Nephilim "Fields of the Nephilim"
Joe Satriani "Surfin with the Alien"
Madonna "Like a Virgin"
Pantera "Metal Magic"
REM "Murmur"
Queen "The Works"
Queen "The Game"
Slayer "Hell Awaits"
Slayer "Show No Mercy"
Sonic Youth "Confusion Is Sex"
Sonic Youth "EVOL"
Steve Vai "Flex-Able"
Talking Heads "Remain In Light"
Tears for Fears "The Hurting"
The Pogues "Red Roses for Me"
The Replacements "Pleased to Meet Me"
The Replacements "Tim"
The Smiths "Strangeways, Here We Come"
The Sisters of Mercy "Floodland"

Also I'm not too familiar with some of these artists (The Fall, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus, New Order, etc) so I just took what, if I remember right, is generally considered their "masterpiece" so if you're more familiar with some artist and feel the album/albums I put weren't justified correct me on it. Also there's no limit to how many artists can be on one album. Also there's a huge lack of metal on this I know that's because I don't like metal. I know Maiden, Motorhead and all that released good albums in the 80s so if Selzter or jackhammer could take an interest here that'd be great.

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Originally Posted by Crowquill (Post 425955)

Okay this is going to be a giant collaborative effort and the goal is at the end to have the top 100 albums from the 60s to the 00s. I figure we should start with the 80s just because. So everyone should post what they think the best albums of the 80s are. I'm not going to give you a size regulation or anything you could post 100 or you could post 1. If you think someone nominated an album that isn't worthy then we'll argue it out and decide whether or not it belongs there. I've kind of composed a fairly extensive list already, let me know if you have any objections to the picks on there and suggest your own!

Bad Brains "Bad Brains"
Bad Brains "I Against I"
Bauhaus "In the Flat Field" The skys gone out is better
Beastie Boys "Licensed to Ill"
Beastie Boys "Paul's Boutique"
Big Black "Songs About ****ing"
Black Flag "Damaged"
Black Flag "My War"
Circle Jerks "Group Sex"
Cocteau Twins "Treasure"
Daniel Johnston "Songs of Pain"
De La Soul "3 Feet High and Rising"
Dead Kennedys "Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables"
Dead Kennedys "Plastic Surgery Disasters" mehhhhhhh
Dinosaur Jr. "Bug"
Dinosaur Jr. "You're Living All Over Me"
Echo and the Bunnymen "Ocean Rain"
Eric B. & Rakim "Paid in Full"
Elvis Costello "Trust"
Faith No More "The Real Thing"
George Harrison "Cloud Nine"
Husker Du "New Day Rising"
Husker Du "Zen Arcade"
Joy Division "Closer" d efinate
Meat Puppets "Meat Puppets II"
Minor Threat "Minor Threat"
Mission of Burma "Vs."
Minutemen "Double Nickels on the Dime"
My Bloody Valentine "Isn't Anything"
Morrissey "Viva Hate"
New Order "Power, Corruption & Lies"
NWA "Straight Outta Compton" hell yeah nigga
Pet Shop Boys "Please"
Pet Shop Boys "Introspective"
Pixies "Doolittle"
Pixies "Surfer Rosa"
Prince "Dirty Mind"
Prince "Purple Rain"
Prince "Sign 'o' Times"
Public Enemy "It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back"
Ramones "End of the Century"
REM "Murmur"
Run DMC "Raising Hell"
Rites of Spring "Rites of Spring"
Sonic Youth "Confusion Is Sex"
Sonic Youth "Daydream Nation"
Sonic Youth "EVOL"
Talk Talk "The Colour of Spring"
Talking Heads "Remain In Light"
The Birthday Party "Junk Yard"
The Cure "Boys Don't Cry"
The Cure "Disintegration"
The Cure "Pornography" YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
The Descendents "Milo Goes to College"
The Fall "This Nation's Saving Grace"
The Feelies "Crazy Rhythms"
The Replacements "Let It Be"
The Replacements "Pleased to Meet Me"
The Replacements "Tim"
The Smiths "The Queen is Dead"
The Smiths "Meat is Murder"
The Smiths "The Smiths" <3 Morrissey
The Stone Roses "The Stone Roses"
The The "Mind Bomb"
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Psychocandy"
The Jesus and Mary Chain "Darklands"
Tom Waits "Rain Dogs"
Tom Waits "Swordfishtrombones"
Ultramagnetic MC's "Critical Breakdown"
Violent Femmes "Violent Femmes"
Wipers "Is This Real?"
X "Los Angeles"

Some albums I wanted to put up for debate, I mean they're all up for debate but I was undecided on these.

EPMD "Unfinished Business"
Gorilla Biscuits "Start Today"
The Misfits "Walk Among Us"
The Smiths "Strangeways, Here We Come"
Slick Rick "The Great Adventures of Slick Rick"
Social Distortion "Mommy's Little Monster"

Also I'm not too familiar with some of these artists (The Fall, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus, New Order, etc) so I just took what, if I remember right, is generally considered their "masterpiece" so if you're more familiar with some artist and feel the album/albums I put weren't justified correct me on it. Also there's no limit to how many artists can be on one album. Also there's a huge lack of metal on this I know that's because I don't like metal. I know Maiden, Motorhead and all that released good albums in the 80s so if Selzter or jackhammer could take an interest here that'd be great.

good list

Do you think both the Sky's Gone Out and Flat Field could go on there? That's like 70 albums at most there, we have room.

yeah
the skys gone out is very good
unknown pleasures, was that 79' or 80
Gary Numan would be good.
You could put Rites of Spring's ep too

Unknown Pleasures was 79, what Numan album?

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Rites of Spring "Rites of Spring"

repreZENT

Reign In Blood
South of Heaven
Hell Awaits
Show No Mercy - All by Slayer
Leprosy - Death
Bleach - Nirvana

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Originally Posted by Crowquill (Post 425955)

Also I'm not too familiar with some of these artists (The Fall, Jesus and Mary Chain, Bauhaus, New Order, etc) so I just took what, if I remember right, is generally considered their "masterpiece" so if you're more familiar with some artist and feel the album/albums I put weren't justified correct me on it. Also there's no limit to how many artists can be on one album. Also there's a huge lack of metal on this I know that's because I don't like metal. I know Maiden, Motorhead and all that released good albums in the 80s so if Selzter or jackhammer could take an interest here that'd be great.

I think you're OK with those Fall /Mary Chain / New Order albums. Most diehard Fall fans would choose Hex Enduction Hour over This Nations Saving Grace but This Nations Saving Grace seems to be the most popular in general.

As for Motorhead all their best stuff came out in the 70s but Orgasmatron is their biggest album of the 80s. It's OK but I wouldn't say it's one of the best.