***OMFG IT'S THE TOTALLY TUBULAR ILX 1980s NOMINATIONS SUGGESTION THREAD***

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entreaties from people familiar with music released from 1980-1989 to people unfamiliar with music released from 1980-1989. lobby away nerds!

Darryl Strawberry (Darryl Strawberry), Friday, 26 August 2005 05:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Hold on loosely, but don't let it go!

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me!

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:39 (nineteen years ago) link

So softly... so sweetly... surrounding you completely..
Sing you a lullabye...

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:41 (nineteen years ago) link

Panic on the streets of London...

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link

all this scratching is making me itch

j blount (papa la bas), Friday, 26 August 2005 06:46 (nineteen years ago) link

What is the name to call?
For a different kinda girl
Who knows the feelings,
But never the words?

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:03 (nineteen years ago) link

All I needed was the love you gave
All I needed for another day
And all I ever knew
Only you

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 07:04 (nineteen years ago) link

like Ohh myy Gooddd..like really..remember the like totally square but awesome Square Pegs??!! For sure like totally..God..Pat Benatar so ROCKS!

OMG, Friday, 26 August 2005 07:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Why are there two threads for this? So confusing...

o. nate (onate), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:03 (nineteen years ago) link

This is just the suggestions thread. Not actual nominations.

Bigmouth Strikes Again - The Smiths
Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want - The Smiths
Take The Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven
It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) - R.E.M.
Ghosts - Japan
Behind The Wall Of Sleep - The Smithereens
Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns ‘N Roses
Let’s Go Crazy - Prince And The Revolution
Monkey Gone To Heaven - The Pixies
Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
The Mercy Seat - Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
Ceremony - New Order
Here Comes Your Man - Pixies
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
You Made Me Realise - My Bloody Valentine
William It Was Really Nothing - The Smiths
Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N’ Roses
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
I Can’t Go For That - Hall & Oates
I Can’t Take It - Cheap Trick
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
1999 - Prince And The Revolution
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Der Kommisar - After The Fire
Under Pressure - David Bowie & Queen
A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls
Love My Way - The Psychadelic Furs

billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Prince - Little Red Corvette
Prince - Kiss
Crowded House - Don’t Dream It’s Over
Dokken - In My Dreams

billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 26 August 2005 13:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Debbie Gibson - "Only In My Dreams"

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:23 (nineteen years ago) link

Grimm Reaper - See You In Hell

billstevejim (billstevejim), Friday, 26 August 2005 14:50 (nineteen years ago) link

First person to nominate Metallica's "One" or "Master of Puppets" (singles, both), I will allow to choose THREE ALBUMS that I will put on my ballot.

Leeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:56 (nineteen years ago) link

Also, it might help people sort out the official noms thread and the suggestion thread if the titles weren't in all caps.

Leeeeeeee (Leee), Friday, 26 August 2005 17:57 (nineteen years ago) link

Could we be much closer if we tried?
We could stay at home and stare
into each other's eyes
Maybe we could last an hour
Maybe then we'd see right through...
...always something breaking us in two

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:51 (nineteen years ago) link

No one looks
I walk by
Just an invitation would have been just fine...

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:54 (nineteen years ago) link

I don't know why sometimes I feel frightened...

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:55 (nineteen years ago) link

DANCE!! INTO THE FIRE!!
THAT FATAL KISS
IS ALL WE NEED
DANCE!! INTO THE FIRE!!
THE FATAL SOUND
OF BROKEN DREAMS

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

How can I explain when there are few words I can choose?
And how can I explain when words get broooooooke-e-e-e-n?

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:58 (nineteen years ago) link

xpost - nice!

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link

Now how am I going to get to sleep...?

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 05:59 (nineteen years ago) link

This grips me more than would a muddy river
or reclining Buddha
Thank god I'm only watching the game,
controlling it...

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:01 (nineteen years ago) link

The fire in your eyes... keeps me alive
The fire in your eyes... keeps me alive - keepsa me alive

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:02 (nineteen years ago) link

Two dozen other stupid reasons
Why we should suffer for this

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link

There's nothing I wouldn't do, including doing nothing...

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:05 (nineteen years ago) link

When I, you, and everyone we knew
Could beleive, do and share in what was true
And I say

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link

And when they ask me "what are you looking at"
I always answer, "nothing much" (not much)
I think they know that I'm looking at them
I think they think I must be out of touch

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:07 (nineteen years ago) link

COSMIC ALIGNMENT - "Dance Hall Days" was my next.

This track must be nominated. I am calling it a night, as there's no topping this joyous moment of ILX synergy

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:09 (nineteen years ago) link

I've done everything for you...
You've done nothing for me!

Rick (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link

what you do and what you don't, uhhuh
what you will and what you won't, uhhuh
what you can and what you cain't
this is what you need to know
loved you though it didn't show

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

This track must be nominated. I am calling it a night, as there's no topping this joyous moment of ILX synergy

yeah, I was pretty close to nominating it myself.

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:12 (nineteen years ago) link

nice call with thta Vega track, too.

Just like a car crash
Just like a knife
My favorite weapon
IS THE LOOK IN YOUR EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEES

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:14 (nineteen years ago) link

80's -
We push - we struggle!

We (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:16 (nineteen years ago) link

Just hold my hand while I come.......

(thanks rogermexico) (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:20 (nineteen years ago) link

All we've got is this moment
The twenty-first century's yesterday
You can care all you want
Everybody does, hey, that's OK...

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:21 (nineteen years ago) link

Keep this frequency clear...

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:22 (nineteen years ago) link

It ain't no use - we're headed for disaster
Our minds said no but our hearts were talking faster...

ohwhowasikiddingxico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:24 (nineteen years ago) link

Kick 'em when they up, kick 'em when they down...

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:27 (nineteen years ago) link

You want a piece of my heart
you better start from the start
you wanna be in the show
come on baby, LET'S GO!!!!!

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:28 (nineteen years ago) link

(like THAT hook won't be stuck in hy head all night now)

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:29 (nineteen years ago) link

We started dancing and love put us into a groove
As soon as we started to move

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:30 (nineteen years ago) link

Drivin' home this evening, coulda sworn we had it all worked out...

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:32 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I could do a quarter of justice to the scratching hooks in "Rockit" in text-only form.

You're so good
when we make love it's understood
it's more than a touch or a word we say
only in dreams could it be this way
when you love someone
really love someone...

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

I understand him, just a little
no comprende it's a riddle

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:38 (nineteen years ago) link

Then it's easy to believe
somebody's been lying to me
but when the right word
goes in the wrong word
I know you've been lying to me

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link

I wish I could do a quarter of justice to the scratching hooks in "Rockit" in text-only form.

Had the same problem with backbone riff in "She Sells Sanctuary" - lyrics a distant second best.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:42 (nineteen years ago) link

This means nothing to me......

Ohhh (frame24), Saturday, 27 August 2005 06:44 (nineteen years ago) link

And me!

http://www.thescourge.com/dio.html

Ronnie James Fucking Dio (rogermexico), Friday, 2 September 2005 05:48 (nineteen years ago) link

Damn. I've voted and I forgot about Altered Images.

Someone should nominate 'Don't Talk To Me About Love'.

Buffalo Stan (Buffalo Stan), Friday, 2 September 2005 10:56 (nineteen years ago) link

T'Pau - "Heart And Soul"
Samantha Fox - "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)"
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam - "I Wonder If I Take You Home"
Shannon - "Let The Music Play"
Michael Jackson - "The Way You Make Me Feel"
Janet Jackson - "When I Think Of You"
Janet Jackson - "Nasty"
Sheila E - "The Glamorous Life"
Adam and the Ants - "Stand And Deliver"

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Friday, 2 September 2005 11:53 (nineteen years ago) link

"Let The Music Play" has been nominated.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:42 (nineteen years ago) link

(hmm, that came off wrong, mods please insert a "yay!")

rogermexico (rogermexico), Friday, 2 September 2005 14:58 (nineteen years ago) link

so has "I Wonder if I Take You Home," but I encourage people to nominate it anyway so I can re-use one of my noms.

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 2 September 2005 19:38 (nineteen years ago) link

"Under the Milky Way" has still not been nominated :(

Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 3 September 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

Box Elder anyone?

Cunga (Cunga), Sunday, 4 September 2005 09:22 (nineteen years ago) link

Loose Ends - Hanging on a string

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Sunday, 4 September 2005 10:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Michael Torke - Color Music! Must be one of the most important orchestral works of the past 20-25 years. Just really fun to listen to.

Richard Thompson has been overlooked as well. "Waltzing's For Dreamers" maybe?

Back on the pop-rock tip, Eddie Money's "Two Tickets to Paradise" really needs to be there.

Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 4 September 2005 14:53 (nineteen years ago) link

Somebody nominate some of these singles, it's far too many for me to nominate.

Bruce Springsteen - Hungry Heart
Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
The Jam - Going Underground
The Korgis - Everybody's Gonna Learn Sometime
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Young Marble Giants - Final Day
Rick Springfield - Jesse's Girl
Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
ABC - All of My Heart
ABC - The Look of Love
The Pretenders - Brass in Pocket
The Pretenders - Message of Love
Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
Elvis Costello - Beyond Belief
Fleetwood Mac - Hold Me
Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway
Modern English - Melt With You
The Church - The Unguarded Moment
Toto - Africa
Yaz - Only You
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
David Bowie - Modern Love
Grandmaster Flash - White Lines
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place
The Smiths - This Charming Man
John Waite - Missing You
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
Kylie - I Should Be So Lucky
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
The Chills - Heavenly Pop Hit

whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Sunday, 4 September 2005 21:13 (nineteen years ago) link

it'd be really cool if nobody nominated "Going Underground" or "This Charming Man"

but yeah, "Melt With You," "Brass in Pocket," "Genius of Love," "Jesse's Girl," those are tragic misses.

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Sunday, 4 September 2005 23:17 (nineteen years ago) link

"Under the Milky Way" has still not been nominated :(

This song has to be nominated NOW!

daavid (daavid), Monday, 5 September 2005 02:40 (nineteen years ago) link

I know it's sort of an impossiblity, but I'll be sad if every great song from the 80's isn't nominated. I suppose I'm setting myself up for a letdown. For real, how has "Under The Milky Way" or "I Melt With You" not yet been chosen by someone? Then again I haven't nominated yet, so these very well may be my choices.

billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 5 September 2005 14:46 (nineteen years ago) link

here's my shortlist as it stands:

singles
Siouxsie & The Banshees 'Peek A Boo'
Happy Mondays 'WFL' (Wrote For Luck)
Happy Mondays 'Hallelujah'
Depeche Mode 'I Just Can't Get Enough'
Depeche Mode 'Personal Jesus'
Art Of Noise 'Close To The Edit'
Donna Summer 'Dinner With Gershwin'
Europe 'The Final Countdown'
Peter Gabriel 'Big Time'
Peter Gabriel 'Sledgehammer'
Pet Shop Boys 'Always On My Mind'
Pet Shop Boys 'Left To My Own Devices'
Murray Head 'One Night In Bangkok'
Soft Cell 'Say Hello Wave Goodbye'
Mel n' Kim 'Respectable'
Kraftwerk 'Tour De France'
Billy Ocean 'Loverboy'
Phuture 'Acid Trax'
Cabaret Voltaire 'Sensoria'
Simple Minds 'Theme For Great Cities'
Orange Juice 'Rip It Up'
Paula Abdul 'Straight Up'
Kylie Minogue 'I Should Be So Lucky'
Spagna 'Call Me'
Mantronix 'Bassline'
Rob n' Raz ft Leila K 'Got To Get'

albums
Nu-Shooz 'Poolside'
Pet Shop Boys 'Behaviour'
S Express 'Original Soundtrack'
Janet Jackson 'Control'
Janet Jackson 'Rhythm Nation 1814'

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link

Behaviour is 1990, no?

whenuweremine (whenuweremine), Monday, 5 September 2005 16:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Aerosmith - "Rag Doll"

And "The Spirit of Radio" should be there too, at the risk of splintering votes away from "Tom Sawyer". It came on the radio at work last night and sounded massive, a lot more than it usually does. It might have helped that it was right after a George Thorogood.

Sundar (sundar), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

remember that ROYAL TRUX'S self-titled debut album came out in 1988

gear (gear), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:01 (nineteen years ago) link

Behaviour is definitely 1990.

The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Monday, 5 September 2005 17:27 (nineteen years ago) link

At least one of Dollar's quartet of great singles from 81-82 needs nominated.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:10 (nineteen years ago) link

Kitchens of Distinction: The Third Time We Opened the Capsule (as well as the album that is off of; which is either Strange Free World or something else escaping my mind)

Cunga (Cunga), Wednesday, 14 September 2005 07:13 (nineteen years ago) link

since people are voting again... bump!

rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 15 September 2005 23:40 (nineteen years ago) link

Somebody nominate Pelican West please!!!

+ a few singles suggestions:
Jane - "It's A Fine Day"
Kate Bush - "Breathing"
Kate Bush - "The Sensual World"
Killing Joke - "Requiem"/"Change"
Dead Kennedys - "Holiday in Cambodia"

Jeff W (zebedee), Friday, 16 September 2005 10:30 (nineteen years ago) link

You know, it suddenly strikes me that perennial ILM whipping-boy Tom Petty had a string of greatness in the early-mid 80s, from "The Waiting" through "Runaway Trains."

Long After Dark might even be worth an album nom.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Saturday, 17 September 2005 04:58 (nineteen years ago) link

Might even be.

I remember flying out of London
I remember the feeling at the time
Out the window of the 747
Man there was nothin', only black sky

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 17 September 2005 05:36 (nineteen years ago) link

Very surprised that only 3 PSB singles have been nominated. "Always On My Mind" is still unaccounted for!!!!

Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Sunday, 18 September 2005 00:29 (nineteen years ago) link

G-Moth insanely OTM re: the best four lines on that entire album. Redneck's phrasing is not to be trifled with.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Sunday, 18 September 2005 06:36 (nineteen years ago) link

The Pretenders, "Kid"
The Undertones, "Teenage Kicks"

Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 20 September 2005 04:49 (nineteen years ago) link

LAY OFF NATALIE MERCHANT

rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:12 (nineteen years ago) link

'Teenage Kicks' great as it is came out in '78, and 'Kid' came out in '79.

Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Thursday, 22 September 2005 07:50 (nineteen years ago) link

rogermexico OTM - I very nearly nominated In My Tribe. Hope someone else will before Monday.

zebedee (zebedee), Thursday, 22 September 2005 10:48 (nineteen years ago) link

defend the indefensible: EDDIE MONEY

rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:33 (nineteen years ago) link

NO ONE ELSE IS GOING TO STEP UP. IT'S ON YOU. COWBOY UP.

http://www.anticoemoderno.it/Antico/Vinile/ingrandimenti/Survivor%20Rocky%20III%20-%20Eye%20of%20the%20tiger.jpg

rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 22 September 2005 18:35 (nineteen years ago) link

Top 100 hard rock singles of the 80s

rogermexico (rogermexico), Thursday, 22 September 2005 19:21 (nineteen years ago) link

"Personal Jesus" and "Eighties" still not nominated

älänbänänä (alanbanana), Thursday, 22 September 2005 20:35 (nineteen years ago) link

I can't even remember how that Krokus song goes!

Sundar (sundar), Friday, 23 September 2005 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link

i still haven't used my album noms & i hesitate to if there's nothing that i'll be voting for, but there should really be some steely dan in the poll, so someone should step up for gaucho or "hey nineteen"

andrew s (andrew s), Friday, 23 September 2005 01:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Somebody nominate "Always on my mind" please.

daavid (daavid), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:09 (nineteen years ago) link

someone should've imposed the 'maximum of three singles/albums by any one artist' rule

Sociah T Azzahole (blueski), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:20 (nineteen years ago) link

but then there wouldn't be 11 New Order songs on the list

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Friday, 23 September 2005 15:21 (nineteen years ago) link

the Adam Ant representation looks all wrong to me - no "Antmusic", no "Prince Charming", no "Ant Rap"!!!

zebedee (zebedee), Friday, 23 September 2005 16:15 (nineteen years ago) link

someone should've imposed the 'maximum of three singles/albums by any one artist' rule

Why should the value of certain songs/albums an artist records limit the value of other ones people want to nominate?

Cunga (Cunga), Friday, 23 September 2005 17:26 (nineteen years ago) link

Considering the fact they only have one song nominated as of now, can I nominate Green Eyes by Husker Du? If I can't I'll do Diane and/or Eight Miles High

Cunga (Cunga), Saturday, 24 September 2005 07:09 (nineteen years ago) link

The nominations deadline is today and there are lots of great singles not yet nominated! e.g.

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
PSB - Always on my Mind, It's a Sin, Domino Dancing
Stone Roses - Sally Cinammon
David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
Sandra - Maria Magdalena

daavid (daavid), Monday, 26 September 2005 02:17 (nineteen years ago) link

aside from "A View to a Kill," I think just about all the really big ones for me have been nominated. It's very impressive.

The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Monday, 26 September 2005 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link

Some albums still not nominated, yet worthy of consideration:

Arto Lindsay/Ambitious Lovers - Envy
Au Pairs - Playing With a Different Sex
Colin Newman - A-Z
David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel
Defunkt - Defunkt
Holger Czukay/Jah Wobble/Jaki Liebezeit - Full Circle
Lemon Kittens - We Buy a Hammer for Daddy
Minutemen - The Punch Line (and ahem! again, What Makes a Man Start Fires?)
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan - Shahen-Shah
Robert Wyatt - Nothing Can Stop Us
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us ; Psychedelic Jungle
The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Can We Tolerate Mass Murder? ; We Are Time
The Raincoats - The Raincoats (good god!!)
The Residents - Commercial Albums
The Slits - Return of the Giant Slits
VA - Darker Skratcher

These Robust Cookies (Robust Cookies), Monday, 26 September 2005 06:10 (nineteen years ago) link

...and no one seems concerned about the absence of Peter Gabriel's So. ILM, I kiss you.

rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 26 September 2005 06:13 (nineteen years ago) link

As the dealine nears, I am growing increasingly concerned about the absence of

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000005S07.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

rogermexico (rogermexico), Monday, 26 September 2005 21:08 (nineteen years ago) link

Could somebody please nominate 'They Don't Know' by Tracey Ullman. I am contemplating switching it for one of mine but it is making me hurt to do so. Grrrrr.

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:18 (nineteen years ago) link

(n.b. I have now switched it with 'Kiss Me' by Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy, so if someone wants to nominate that instead then that would be quite good.)

William Bloody Swygart (mrswygart), Tuesday, 27 September 2005 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link


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