Sonic Youth – Confusion is SexSuicidal Tendencies – s/tSwans – FilthTalking Heads – Speaking in TonguesU2 – WarViolent Femmes – s/t
are my top 6.
― nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 5 May 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
Oh hey, i see my favorite Wipers album on the list
― Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 5 May 2019 04:57 (five years ago) link
The most important album of 1983 for me (and befitting my nom de ILX) was Stavros Xarhakos' remarkable original soundtrack for Kosta Ferris's film Rebetiko.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 5 May 2019 10:17 (five years ago) link
I remember 1983 well, it would be a final pick from Punch The Clock, Cafe Bleu and Power, Corruption and Lies.
PCL it is.
― Mark G, Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link
Much easier than '82, Rain Parade, no hesitation.
― MaresNest, Sunday, 5 May 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link
By sheer coincidence was listening to the P Funk Allstars album from ‘83 this afternoon...probably not the best album of the year but sounded pretty pretty good...
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Monday, 6 May 2019 01:09 (five years ago) link
I tell you what: I'm checking put that 100 Flowers album mentioned upthread rn and it sounds like a total front-to-back classic punk album. Lots of different ideas bumping up against each other
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 6 May 2019 07:28 (five years ago) link
first answer was the correct one.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 6 May 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
(i voted high land)
i tried aztec camera again, i like his voice but the music just does zero for me.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 May 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
Maybe you are more Hollywood than Westwood
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Monday, 6 May 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link
I voted Aztec Camera, too.
― Have you tried Night of Olay? (I M Losted), Monday, 6 May 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
could vote for any of these, this is absurdly hard:
Aztec Camera – High Land Hard RainEcho and The Bunnymen – PorcupineESG – Come Away with ESGKing Sunny Ade and His African Beats – Synchro SystemMadonna – s/tPhilip Glass - KoyaanisqatsiR.E.M. – MurmurThe Go-Betweens – Before HollywoodThe The – Soul MiningTom Waits – SwordfishtrombonesViolent Femmes – s/tWilliam Onyeabor – Good NameZZ Top – Eliminator
Murmur, Before Hollywood, and Koyaanisqatsi jump out, but Aztec Camera and Madonna are nipping at their heels
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Monday, 6 May 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link
ZZ Top, Def Leppard, The Police, Dio, Motley Crue & U2 were my tapes of these back in the day.
― earlnash, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
maresnest so otm
― campreverb, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link
Tough one. Would have gone for Tears for Fears - The Hurting, were it listed. The Police, U2, Def Leppard were the hard-to-evict residents on my tape deck that year. Picked The The due to falling hard for the "Uncertain Smile" 12".
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link
voted for Power, Corruption and Lies, it is my favorite New Order album and one of my favorite albums ever
― Dan S, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link
Decided to pick Philip Glass to pick to pick decided to pick Philip to pick Philip Glass
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link
Madonna vs Cyndi, just as it was in 1983
― Josefa, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
Out of Step was such an incredible record
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:01 (five years ago) link
also remember loving the 100 Flowers album and The Rain Parade
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link
Metal Circus meant so much to me, those guitars
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link
Diane
― Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link
Got to be Eliminator.
A lot of rock ordinaire on that list, it must be said.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link
Murmur is my real favourite but it will get loads of love fron everyone else so voted for Billy Bragg
― thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link
Went with Talking Heads over U2 and Violent Femmes
― nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:43 (five years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
Sonic Youth album is all-time amazing as well.
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link
Murmur crushes everything else on here like a grape and yall know it. A disco-rock classic! Dance! Dance, you fuckers!
― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link
Torn between High Land Hard Rain and Hearts and Bones
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 9 May 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link
I might be the only vote for the Bad Brains album but I think it really is my favorite here
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link
Cocteau Twins a close second, both records were personally huge for me back then
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link
https://img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net/tenant/amp/entityid/BBW4IwX.img
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
ha ha, you were right!
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:17 (five years ago) link
Murmur really is a great album
― Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link
Wow the Violent Femmes debut got zero points. There's a band that's fallen out of fashion. Along with REM, they would've been the critics fave new US band of '83
― . (Michael B), Friday, 10 May 2019 06:14 (five years ago) link
Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1984!!
― . (Michael B), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link
They meant pretty much jack shit in the UK, though.
(xpost)
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link
"Blister In The Sun" was a 90s indie disco staple
― . (Michael B), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:58 (five years ago) link
Somehow I feel like we've had this conversation before?
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:10 (five years ago) link
It managed to get snuck into a couple of ads in the '90s, but that was many years later.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
― . (Michael B)
The first time I heard Blister In The Sun was when The Wannadies covered it in the mid 90s. It was definitely played a lot in indie clubs when I started going to them the late 90s.
― kitchen person, Friday, 10 May 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
The first I heard of 'em was also in the late '90s, through a combination of 'Blister in the Sun' being on some advert and the fact that they kept being cited by American music nerds. I mean, I've said this before, but they were definitely an American phenomenon.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:44 (five years ago) link
I don't particularly want to open this can of worms again but they seem to have been markedly more popular in the US. As for meaning 'jack shit' in the UK, well, that's fair enough if the Go-Betweens, for example, or any number of well-regarded 'indie' bands who never quite broke through to the mainstream are also described as meaning 'jack shit'. I think it's a bit harsh, personally.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:57 (five years ago) link
... well-regarded indie bands in the 80s, that is.
i heard blister in the sun in a pub in glasgow last time i was home in september.
― findom haddie (jim in vancouver), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:00 (five years ago) link
I suppose one of the genuinely good things about the internet is that it's allowed the music of the likes of The Go-Betweens to reach ears that it otherwise wouldn't have done. I mean, we can comfortably say now that they should have been on the same level career-wise as The Smiths in the UK in the '80s, but it would be inaccurate to say that they actually were at the time. The first Violent Femmes album is regularly touted on the internet as a classic, and I guess in a way its visibility has only increased over time outside of American music geek circles (appearances in 1,000 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die etc., a regular staple on "best albums of the '80s" lists, Gordon Gano allowing 'Blister in the Sun' to advertise all kinds of stuff), while not quite getting critical blowjobs on the same level as the Go-Betweens.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 18:17 (five years ago) link
Perverted by LanguageMark Stewart + the Maffia - Learning to Cope with CowardiceConfusion is SexGood Name100 Flowers s/t hahaThe Raincoats - MovingCircle X - PrehistoryEmergency Third Rail Power TripLost in SpaceYellowman - GuzungguzungguguzungguzengNona Hendryx - NonaShe's So UnusualThree O'Clock - Sixteen TambourinesCome Away with ESGNeil Young - TransB-52s - Whammy
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 10 May 2019 20:04 (five years ago) link
I don't know the 0 votes get ordered, but the right album ended up at the bottom of the list.
― enochroot, Friday, 10 May 2019 20:14 (five years ago) link