Kate Bush - The Dreaming (listening at the moment; what a record! a great oddity of approach)The Associates - SulkSimple Minds - New Gold DreamHaircut 100 - Pelican WestThe Fall - Hex Education HourScritti Politti - Songs To RememberPaul McCartney - Tug Of War (which however uneven in parts, has too much that's damn great to deny it a place)
― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:31 (nineteen years ago) link
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― chris herrington (chris herrington), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link
Laurie Anderson: Big Science**The Cure: Pornography*Ornette Coleman: Of Human Feelings**R.S. Jackson & the Decoding Society: Mandance**King Sunny Ade and His African Beats: Juju Music**The Roches: Keep on Doing**
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:54 (nineteen years ago) link
Was "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" '82? That's one of those albums that I've been on the verge of buying so many times...
― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 19:57 (nineteen years ago) link
― luobn, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:28 (nineteen years ago) link
― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:31 (nineteen years ago) link
― rw, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:33 (nineteen years ago) link
― chris andrews (fraew), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:41 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:44 (nineteen years ago) link
SPK: Leichenschrei
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 20:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― chocolatepiekid (chocolatepiekid), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:34 (nineteen years ago) link
http://www.comborecords.com/catalogue/B-205.jpg
Eddie Palmieri: Eddie Palmieri, featuring Cheo Feliciano.
― Rockist Scientist, Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:41 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:47 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Nag! Nag! Nag! (Nag! Nag! Nag!), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:51 (nineteen years ago) link
I'd forgotten "On Land"... with "Apollo" my favourite of the Eno ambient releases. I've strangely never heard the Dexy's album (the ubiquity of that single can't have helped), and I don't suspect it'll measure up for me to "Don't Stand Me Down" which I love. Never particularly liked the Stranglers, though will concede "Golden Brown" has its appeal; I liked Marcello's descriptions around that record in his 1982 singles piece: made me rethink my impressions of it certainly.
And Nag! Nag! Nag!; yes, what a record that OJ one is... deserves to be rated with "Pelican West" and "High Land High Rain" in that very wonderful cycle of fresh, summery/autumnal 82-83 pop records. Do people know of any other albums that fit with these three... from the 1981-4 period? It is a strain that I feel like I want to hear more of.
― Tom May (Tom May), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 21:58 (nineteen years ago) link
and, if compilations countStevie Wonder - Original Musiquarium Vol. I
― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 25 May 2004 23:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
still it counts, cause Ibought it in January,soon my whole school ROCKED)
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 00:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:04 (nineteen years ago) link
― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Rockist Scientist (rockistscientist), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― o. nate (onate), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 01:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Flipper, 'Generic'The Replacements, 'Stink' (do EPs count? Someone listed the Bangles one, also great, upthread)
― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 04:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 07:24 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream2. Associates - Sulk3. ABC - The Lexicon Of Love4. Psychic TV - Force The Hand Of Chance5. Derek Bailey - Aida6. John Cale - Music For A New Society7. Cecil Taylor - Garden8. Siouxsie & the Banshees - A Kiss In The Dreamhouse9. Laurie Anderson - Big Science10. Haircut 100 - Pelican West11. Shalamar - Friends12. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay13. Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision14. Placebo (not Brian Molko's lot; this was a Newcastle duo) - England's Glory15. Mike Westbrook Orchestra - The Cortege16. Imagination - In The Heat Of The Night17. Roxy Music - Avalon18. Bobby Womack - The Poet19. Lester Bowie - The Great Pretender20. King Sunny Ade - Juju Music21. Ben Watt - North Marine Drive22. Tom Verlaine - Words From The Front23. Birthday Party - Junkyard24. Madness - Rise And Fall25. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame26. Rip Rig & Panic - I Am Cold27. 23 Skidoo - Seven Songs28. Gil Scott-Heron - Moving Targets29. Killing Joke - Revelations30. The Cure - Pornography31. Cocteau Twins - Garlands32. XTC - English Settlement33. Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Tropical Gangsters34. Defunkt - Thermonuclear Sweat35. The Passage - Degenerates36. Tracey Thorn - A Distant Shore37. Glenn Branca - The Ascension38. Bucks Fizz - Are You Ready39. Scritti Politti - Songs To Remember40. Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five - The Message ("for the singles only")41. Dollar - The Dollar Album ("for the singles only")42. Art Ensemble of Chicago - Urban Bushmen43. The Gun Club - Miami44. Tom Verlaine - Words From The Front45. Michael Smith - Mi Cyan Believe It46. The Jam - The Gift47. Michael Jackson - Thriller48. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly49. Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land50. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Needless to say, 22 years later I would be inclined to alter some of these positions radically...
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Sami Jylhankangas, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:38 (nineteen years ago) link
also from
fast 'n' bulboushttp://www.fastnbulbous.com/rock_f.htm#1982
198210
Mission Of Burma * VS. (Ace Of Hearts) Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band * Ice Cream For Crow (Virgin) The Birthday Party * Junkyard (Virgin) 10-
Dream Syndicate * Days of Wine and Roses (Big Time) Trouble Funk * Drop The Bomb (Sequel) X * Under The Big Black Sun (Elektra) The Clean * Compilation (Homestead) Elvis Costello & the Attractions * Imperial Bedroom (Columbia) Rip Rig + Panic * I Am Cold (Virgin) Liliput (Rough Trade/Kill Rock Stars) Minutemen * What Makes A Man Start Fires? (SST) Chrome * 3rd from the Sun (Siren) James Blood Ulmer * Black Rock (Columbia) Lora Logic * Pedigree Charm (Rough Trade) King Sunny Ade * Juju Music (Mango) Massacre * Killing Time (Celluloid) 9+
Kate Bush * The Dreaming (EMI) Orange Juice * You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (Polydor) Comsat Angels * Fiction (Polydor) Fela Kuti * Original Suffer Head (Capitol) Fun Boy Three (Chrysalis) The Fall * Hex Education Hour/Hip Priests And Kamerads (Kamera/Situation Two) Bruce Springsteen * Nebraska (Columbia) Husker Du * Everything Falls Apart (Reflex) Lydia Lunch * Honeymoon In Red (Atavistic) Cabaret Voltaire * 2 X 45 (Mute) Nina Hagen * Nunsexmonkrock (Columbia) James White & the Blacks * Sax Maniac (Ze/Infinite Zero) Discharge * Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing (Clay) Dead Kennedys * Plastic Surgery Disasters (Alternative Tentacles) The Jam * Extras (Polydor) The Jam * Dig The New Breed (Polydor) Savage Republic * Tragic Figures (IP/Fundamental) Einsturzende Neubauten * Kollaps (Zick Zack) Devo * Oh No! It's Devo (WB/Infinite Zero) Siouxsie & The Banshees * A Kiss In The Dreamhouse (Polydor/Geffen) Scritti Politti * Songs To Remember (Virgin) The Cure * Pornography (Elektra) Gang of Four * Songs of the Free (WB) Au Pairs * Sense And Sensuality (Kamera) New Age Steppers * Foundation Steppers (On-U Sound) Big Black * Lungs EP (Homestead) Descendents * Milo Goes To College (SST) Chrome * No Humans Allowed (Siren) Richard Hell & the Voidoids * Destiny Street (Red Star) Laurie Anderson * Big Science (WB) Mission of Burma * The Horrible Truth About Burma (live) (Ace of Hearts) Brian Eno * On Land (EG) Killing Joke * Revelations (EG) The Vandals * Peace Thru Vandalism (Suite Beat) Black Uhuru * Chill Out (Mango) MDC * Millions of Dead Cops (Radical R.) Crass * Christ - The Album (Crass) Bauhaus * Press the Eject & Give Me The Tape (Beggars Banquet) Orange Juice * Rip It Up (Polydor) Wall Of Voodoo * Call Of The West (IRS) Robert Wyatt * Nothing Can Stop Us (Gramavision) The dB's * Repercussion (EMI) John Cale * Music For A New Society (Rhino) Psychedelic Furs * Forever Now (Columbia) The Replacements * Stink EP (Twin/Tone) T.S.O.L. * Thoughts Of Yesterday (Posh Boy) T.S.O.L. * Beneath the Shadows (Restless) Roxy Music * Avalon (Atlantic) The English Beat * Special Beat Service (IRS) The Clash * Combat Rock (Epic) Associates * Sulk (V2) Bad Religion * How Could Hell Be Any Worse? (Epitaph) The Birthday Party * It's Still Living: Live (Virgin) XTC * Waxworks: 1977-1982 (Geffen) King Crimson * Beat (WB) Iron Maiden * The Number Of The Beast (Capitol) Joe Jackson * Night And Day (A&M) Anvil * Metal On Metal (Attic) 9
The Sound * All Fall Down (Korova/Renascent) The Gun Club * Miami (IRS) 23 Skidoo * Seven Songs (Fetish) Simple Minds * New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) (Virgin) The Exploited * Troops Of Tomorrow (Captain Oi!) Subhumans * The Day The Country Died (Bluurg) Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band * A Carrot Is As Close As A Rabbit Gets To A Diamond 1974-1982 (Virgin) Rush * Signals (Polygram) Witchfinder General * Death Penalty (Heavy Metal) Soft Cell * The Art Of Falling Apart (Mercury) Motörhead * Iron Fist (Castle) Tank * Filth Hounds Of Hades (Action Music) New Order * 1981-1982 EP (Factory) The Damned * Strawberries (Virgin) The Glove * Blue Sunshine (Rough Trade) The Teardrop Explodes * Everybody Wants To Shag (Fontana) Lora Logic * Pedigree Charm (Rough Trade) R.E.M. * Chronic Town EP (IRS) Japan * Oil On Canvas (Virgin) Stiff Little Fingers * Now Then . . . (Chrysalis) The Church * The Blurred Crusade (Arista) Fear * The Record (Slash) The Names * Swimming (Factory) Lou Reed * The Blue Mask (RCA) G.B.H. * City Baby Attacked By Rats (Clay) Prince * 1999 (WB) Kid Creole & the Coconuts * Wise Guy (Sire) Lydia Lunch * 13.13 (Ruby) Pere Ubu * Song Of The Bailing Man (Geffen) Misfits * Walk Among Us (Plan 9) Flipper * Generic Flipper (Subterranean/American) Anti-Nowhere League * We Are...The League (WXYZ) Modern English * After The Snow (Sire) Robert Wyatt * The Animals Film (Rough Trade/Thirsty Ear) Iggy Pop * Zombie Birdhouse (IRS) Killing Joke * Birds Of A Feather EP (EG) Killing Joke * Ha EP (EG) Tom Waits * One From The Heart (Columbia) Bauhaus * The Sky's Gone Out (Beggars Banquet) Dream Syndicate * Dream Syndicate EP (Down There) Gang of Four * Another Day/Another Dollar EP (WB) Tuxedomoon * Divine (Operation Twilight) 9-
Venom * Black Metal (Neat/Combat) Altered Images * Pinky Blue (Portrait) The B-52's * Mesopotamia (WB) Diamond Head * Borrowed Time (MCA) XTC * English Settlement (Geffen) Agent Orange * Bitchin' Summer EP (Posh Boy) Circle Jerks * Wild In The Streets (Frontier) Adam Ant * Friend Or Foe (Epic) Ruts D.C. * Rhythm Collision Dub (ROIR) George Clinton * Computer Games (Capitol) Richard & Linda Thompson * Shoot Out The Lights (Hannibal) 8+
The Beastie Boys * Polly Wog Stew EP (Ratcage/Grand Royal) Meat Puppets * Meat Puppets (SST) Mercyful Fate * Melissa (Roadrunner) Duran Duran * Rio (Harvest) Talk Talk * The Party's Over (EMI) Depeche Mode * A Broken Frame (Sire) Torch * Fireraiser (Metal Blade) U.K. Subs * The Singles: 1978-1982 (Progressive)
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 08:49 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:03 (nineteen years ago) link
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:06 (nineteen years ago) link
(nothing against DB, it's just I'd never heard of him at the time)
"Signals" would have been a bit lower down my list - not one of my favourite Rush LPs
― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:07 (nineteen years ago) link
Peter Gabriel - 4 [aka "Security"]http://userpages.cheshire.net/~melkins/pg4.html
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:18 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:19 (nineteen years ago) link
― Jeff W (zebedee), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link
if i were doing this now i would also put in "Imperial Bedroom" somewhere. Can't think how or why I left it out of the original list.
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:23 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 09:24 (nineteen years ago) link
Zero Boys - Vicious CircleTheatre of Hate - WestworldDavid Thomas/Pedestrians - Sound of the SandJody Harris/Robert Quine - Escape (NO AMG MENTION OF THIS ALBUM!?!?)Die Kreuzen - InternalFelt - Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:05 (nineteen years ago) link
Also, self-correction: Placebo's album was called England's Trance.
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:11 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 26 May 2004 14:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 06:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 27 May 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link
Meanwhile I did check my own '82 lists last night. In addition to the aforementioned Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? by The Waitresses, the only other record on there not so far mentioned is the Tom Tom Club album. Which surprised as much as it's probably surprising you. So I dug it out and played it again. Obviously the first two singles stand out and nothing else comes close to matching these, but it's not bad. There are some embarrassing cod reggae rhythms here and there, but there's something odd about every track, which keeps you interested. And I swear the second half of "Under the Boardwalk" is proto house music - would totally fit into (say) a DJ Koze mix today.
― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:43 (nineteen years ago) link
My "pressing" is in fact one of those Island 1+1 cassette thingies. You know, where you got a prerecorded album on one side and you could tape whatever you wanted on the other.
Nostalgia, eh? What is it good for?
― Jeff W (zebedee), Thursday, 27 May 2004 09:48 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Thursday, 27 May 2004 10:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dr. C (Dr. C), Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― briania (briania), Thursday, 27 May 2004 12:12 (nineteen years ago) link
Angry Samoans - Back from SamoaBellamy Brothers - Greatest HitsBoney M - BoonoonoonoosCharlene - I've Never Been to MeJohn Cougar - American FoolThe Fall - Hex Enduction HourGirlschool - Screaming Blue MurderMichael Jackson - ThrillerGrandmaster Flash and the Furious Five - The MessageOlivia Newton-John - Greatest Hits, Vol. 2Nichts - Tango 2000Ray Parker Jr. - The Other WomanRay Parker Jr. - The Very Best OfTrouble Funk - Drop the BombTwo Man Sound - Capitol Tropical
― chuck, Thursday, 27 May 2004 15:58 (nineteen years ago) link
Little bitch-ass dumbasses.
― Unknown User, Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:39 (nineteen years ago) link
― thesplooge (thesplooge), Thursday, 27 May 2004 17:47 (nineteen years ago) link
So that's why it hasn't been mentioned in a thread entitled Great ALBUMS of 1982.
Why do you care so much? Are you Jefferson Hack or somebody?
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 28 May 2004 08:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― mzui, Friday, 28 May 2004 08:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 28 May 2004 08:26 (nineteen years ago) link
― mzui, Friday, 28 May 2004 08:41 (nineteen years ago) link
1. Nightingales - 'Pigs On Purpose'2. 23 Skidoo - '7 Songs'3. Crispy Ambulance - 'The Plateau Phase'4. Clash - 'Combat Rock'5. Blue Orchids - 'The Greatest Hit' (surprised this one's not been mentioned already)6. Haircut 100 - 'Pelican West'7. Section 25 - 'In The Key Of Dreams'8. Adam Ant - 'Friend or Foe'9. Dexys - 'Too-Rye Aye'10. Scritti - 'Songs To Remember'11. ABC - 'The Lexicon of Love'12. Placebo - 'England's Trance'13. Elvis Costello - 'Imperial Bedroom'14. Hall and Oates - 'H2O' (can't remember the HTML to write this properly)15. Associates - 'Sulk'16. Lilliput - s/t17. Dollar - 'The Dollar Album'18. Go-Betweens - 'Send Me A Lullabye'19. Joni Mitchell - 'Wild Thiongs Run Fast'20. v/a - 'Pillows and Prayers'
― Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 28 May 2004 10:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tim (Tim), Friday, 28 May 2004 10:44 (nineteen years ago) link
Did anyone say this already? Half of it's so good.
― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Sunday, 30 May 2004 02:59 (nineteen years ago) link
I so rarely listen to the radio, but I was driving with classic rock on and they played Eddie Money's "Shakin'". Not even remotely a great song, but I hadn't heard it in probably over 30 years, and kind kicked off a 1982 playlist spree.
Looking at some of the 1982 lists, was surprised to see both Birthday Party and Gun Club in the NME list. I assumed they were under everyone's radar at the time except for maybe Trouser Press.
Looks like some of my favorites changed quite a bit in the last decade, reassessed many of these after they were reissued:
Dome – Will You Speak This Word (Dome/Grey Area) The Bongos – Drums Along The Hudson (Cooking Vinyl)Orchestra Baobob – Pirates Choice (Nonesuch/World Circuit)Monoton – Monotonprodukt 07 (Desire)The Monochrome Set – Eligible Bachelors (Virgin/Cherry Red)Pentagram – Relentless (Peaceville/Snapper)Pagan Altar – Judgement Of The Dead (Cruz Del Sur)Sad Lovers and Giants – Epic Garden Music (Cherry Red/Midnight Music)More – Blood & Thunder (Atlantic/Wounded Bird)The Individuals – Aquamarine (Plexus/Bar/None)The Buggles – Adventures In Modern Recording (ZTT/Salvo)Martha and the Muffins – Danseparc (RCA/Muffin Music) Billy Squier – Emotions In Motion (Capitol/American Beat)
Still can't get on board with Donald Fagen. The Fixx - The Shuttered Room I go back and forth with, as they're sometimes horrible, but every so often I still want to hear 'em!
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 26 January 2015 05:40 (nine years ago) link
Curiously unmentioned thus far this thread:
Philip Glass - GlassworksSolid Space - Space MuseumAntena -Camino del solThomas Dolby - The Golden Age of WirelessRational Youth - Cold War Night Life Eyeless in Gaza - Drumming the Beating HeartCharanjit Singh - Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco BeatDeux Filles - Silence & WisdomMichael Nyman - The Draughtsman's Contract OST
― excreting zeitgeist (Sanpaku), Monday, 26 January 2015 07:31 (nine years ago) link
The Nits - Work
― Nekomizu don't work (MaresNest), Monday, 26 January 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link
A few weeks ago, Richard Shaw’s #5albums Twitter poll focused on 1982, which inspired me to assemble a playlist. I’ve also been following Pete Pardo’s Sea Of Tranquility daily YouTube series of quickie snapshots of albums following themes like spooky albums in October, important hard rock & metal in November, 1971 prog in December, favorite 1972 albums in January, and Feb 1, 1982 albums. I’d already been listening to my 1982 playlist on repeat for the 5albums poll, so I gave this daily countdown a whirl. Here's what I have so far:
10. The Cure – PornographyRobert Smith aimed to create the ultimate fuck-off statement of despair and horrible guitar tones, and succeeded.
11. Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band – Ice Cream For Crow12. The Birthday Party – Junkyard13. Rush – Signals14. The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour15. Siouxsie & The Banshees – A Kiss In The DreamhouseThe last in a trilogy with guitarist John McGeoch sees Sioux & co. at their psychedelic peak, and most experimental.
16. Wayne Jarrett – Bubble Up (Showcase Vol. 1)17. Judas Priest – Screaming For Vengeance18. Bad Brains – Bad BrainsSpeed of lightning, roar of thunder, Bad Brains were D.C. superheroes who transformed hardcore punk, shattering expectations and limitations.
19. Junior Delahaye – Showcase20. Wall Of Voodoo – Call Of The West21. Elvis Costello & The Attractions – Imperial Bedroom22. Kate Bush – The DreamingThe student becomes the master. Precocious Peter Gabriel acolyte arrives with her first full blown self-produced tour de force, bringing out the madness on her most challenging album.
23. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 424. Scorpions – Blackout25. Au Pairs – Sense And Sensuality26. The Comsat Angels – Fiction27. Laurie Anderson – Big Science28. Virgin Prunes – If I Die, I Die
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 20 February 2022 05:55 (two years ago) link
UGH. Links fixed.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 20 February 2022 05:58 (two years ago) link
Can’t believe ‘The Nightfly’ wasn’t mentioned once in that thread.
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Sunday, 20 February 2022 10:05 (two years ago) link
Looks like it was in Marcello Carlin's list in Isis magazine. It's around 129 in my list. Having heard the album as a tween, and dismissed it as bland adult contemporary, it's taken a while to warm up to it. Similarly with Joe Jackson's Night and Day, which did crack my top 100.
9. King Sunny Adé – Juju MusicThe Yorùbán king of jùjú blows open the gates of the West and blazes a trail for future Afro pop stars.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 20 February 2022 14:17 (two years ago) link
8. The Dream Syndicate – The Days of Wine and RosesThe Paisley Underground figureheads fuse 60s garage psych, The Velvet Underground, Television and Crazy Horse into their career defining debut.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 21 February 2022 12:25 (two years ago) link
7. Mission Of Burma – Vs.Guitar colossus: a Boston band blazes trails in post-punk, noise rock and post-hardcore.
6. The Gun Club – Miami L.A.’s punk blues/garage noir pioneers release their most poetic, powerful batch of songs into the wild frontier.
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 13:37 (two years ago) link
Miami, so powerful and poetic, indeed. Mark Lanegan recorded a fantastic version of "Carry Home". Funny seeing you reference Sixteen Horsepower, the first time I heard a song of theirs on the radio I remember thinking "What is this? An unreleased Gun Club song?"
― willem, Wednesday, 23 February 2022 15:08 (two years ago) link
Great albums from the greatest year in music that have not yet been mentioned on this thread:
Sparks - Angst in My PantsGame Theory - Blaze of GloryBilly Joel - The Nylon CurtainThe Happy Family - The Man on Your StreetCaptain Sensible - Women and Captains FirstSteve Reich - TehillimBill Nelson - The Love That Whirls (Diary of a Thinking Heart)Oingo Boingo - Nothing to FearNina Simone - Fodder on My WingsCleaners from Venus - Midnight CleanersThe Three O’Clock - Baroque Hoedown EP
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Thursday, 24 February 2022 06:08 (two years ago) link
Ya, Sixteen Horsepower did cover "Fire Spirit" on Hoarse, a song from the Death Party EP (1983). 40 years later I'm still hearing stuff from that year that's new to me, like hearing Glassworks in it's entirety for the first time, Solid Space, Rational Youth, Antena, Deux Filles. I'd heard fragments of Eyeless in Gaza but dove into the albums.
5. Horace Andy – Dance Hall Style/ExclusivelyReggae legend travels from Jamaica to Queens to record his greatest album with Bullwackie.
― Fastnbulbous, Thursday, 24 February 2022 14:12 (two years ago) link
4. XTC - English SettlementXTC transitions to a studio band with their most complex, intricate work on their fifth, a double album that could have been a triple.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 25 February 2022 15:07 (two years ago) link
I've really tried to get into that Happy Family album, but no, too tedious. I did enjoy Momus' comments when he participated on ILX, but I just can't get into his vocal style. I had all that Oingo Boingo stuff and keep forgetting about them. They really showed their XTC influence on Nothing to Fear, which I enjoy.
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 25 February 2022 20:05 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, Momus isn't really suited to that singing style at all (as I think he soon realized), but the band/arrangements sound great and I love the songs so much that the vocals generally don't bother me.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 25 February 2022 21:37 (two years ago) link
companion thread: Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1982!!
― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Friday, 25 February 2022 22:14 (two years ago) link
That thread is probably the reason I checked out those Bill Nelson and Cleaners from Venus albums in the first place.
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Friday, 25 February 2022 23:01 (two years ago) link
Klaus Nomi's Simple Man should be on any 1982 list.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2XbBP6RTxk
― "Spaghetti" Thompson (Pheeel), Saturday, 26 February 2022 00:01 (two years ago) link
The Cure - PornographyIron Maiden - The Number of the BeastDead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery DisastersJudas Priest - Screaming for VengeanceBad Brains - S/t (ROIR Tape)Accept - Restless and WildMisfits - Walk Among UsMission of Burma - Vs.Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say NothingLaurie Anderson - Big ScienceScorpions - BlackoutRush - SignalsDescendants - Milo Goes to CollegeFlipper - Album: Generic FlipperDuran Duran - RioCrass - Christ: The AlbumVenom - Black MetalTank - Filth Hounds of HadesWitchfinder General - Death PenaltyMotörhead - Iron FistFear - The RecordGBH - City Baby Attacked by RatsDiamanda Galás - The Litanies of SatanPlasmatics - Coup d'étatThe Lords of the New Church - The Lords of the New ChurchChrome - 3rd From the SunThe Exploited - Troops of TomorrowTwisted Sister - Under the BladeToxic Reasons - IndependenceAnvil - Metal on MetalV/A - Metal MassacreBad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?Aldo Nova - Aldo NovaTalas - Sink Your Teeth Into ThatMercyful Fate - Mercyful Fate (EP)Metallica - No Life 'til Leather (Demo)The Replacements - Stink (EP)Hose - Hose (EP)
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 26 February 2022 00:56 (two years ago) link
#3 Orange Juice – You Can’t Hide Your Love ForeverOut of the vapor trails of post-punk came the sound of young Scotland, literate indie jangle pop.
― Fastnbulbous, Saturday, 26 February 2022 18:04 (two years ago) link
2. X - Under the Big Black SunThe greatest American band of 1982 take a deep dive into mourning and heartbreak with their most personal, poetic, passionate music.
― Fastnbulbous, Sunday, 27 February 2022 16:18 (two years ago) link
i like the way this list bounces a lot, fastbulbous.
also i completely forgot how at the time i mentally felt a xtc-oingo relation, too. i heard a danny elfman interview recently and i was like, "this guy is both conventional boring and deep-weird background, simultaneously, what a character."
― The Hon. Christian Sharia (R - MO) (Hunt3r), Sunday, 27 February 2022 16:43 (two years ago) link
By no means their best, but I had a special fondness for ‘Oh No, It’s Devo’ from ‘82.
― BlackIronPrison, Sunday, 27 February 2022 17:00 (two years ago) link
If CAPTCHAs hadn't mentioned Blaze of Glory I would've.
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 27 February 2022 18:07 (two years ago) link
Danny and Steve from Boingo were both obsessed with XTC Steve still plays in an XTC tribute project around LA with other major session heads
― kurt schwitterz, Sunday, 27 February 2022 19:10 (two years ago) link
Love that, the much more famous Elfman paying tribute to XTC. Oingo Boingo will make an appearance in tomorrow's bubbling under piece.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 28 February 2022 06:51 (two years ago) link
1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the BeastOn their third album with a hotshot new singer, Maiden expands their audience through MTV and challenges Judas Priest as the quintessential heavy metal band.
1982 Countdown: Bubbling UnderAlbums that just missed the top 28 include ones by Simple Minds, Philip Glass, Brian Eno, and Oingo Boingo.
― Fastnbulbous, Monday, 28 February 2022 13:51 (two years ago) link