Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1980!!

The River

This being ILM, though, I can already predict that the Top 3 will be "1,000 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die" stalwarts such as Closer (which is a classic, but a very boring choice) and the overrated Remain in Light, as well as the patchy Gaucho.

― willem, Friday, April 12, 2019 8:20 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

perfect

will jandek be showing up on these polls ?

No.

cool, see you in 1990

*high fives*

Voted for Gaucho. But Diana really should have been on there too.

dang! didn't notice english beat before i voted for devo (just on account of my mood. cld just as easily gone for Prince, SD, X, or mayhap Get Happy)

where's the barbra streisand - Guilty album from 80? My mum had that

xp

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Barbra-streisand-guilty-album.jpg

that's the one. My mums 2 faves are Shirley Bassey and Barbra Streisand but she has some 80s Diana Ross albums and a greatest hits CD. None of that Supremes nonsense :D

Another classic from 1980. Shamefully out of print!

https://img.discogs.com/WthrWaNAkyC7q8DoYaZ44Q6He4c=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-7915709-1488976957-7059.jpeg.jpg

My #1 and #2 aren't here (Undertones' Hypnotised and Numan's Telekon), which means my vote will go to... Prince! Or maybe The B-52's.

Can't believe you forgot
https://i.imgur.com/neN6GWn.jpg

Freedom of Chemise

A real goodie bag:

https://img.discogs.com/Ox2ij5iXjRhR7HvfZz2bzrLrCck=/fit-in/600x598/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-11447137-1516492178-9728.jpeg.jpg

Mustn't forget this classic single by Scotland's own Sheena Easton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3vZYOYNYU

Bellshill Indie before it became cool

I love a bunch of stuff here but I'm going for the Units because I was surprised and delighted to see it on the list

(but also feeling kinda bad for not voting "Jane From Occupied Europe" or Bass Culture)

Closer

eyeroll at y'all talking shit about diana ross's 1980 record, it's a chic organization joint and it's fucking great

Some places list Slapp Happy's Acnalbasac Noom as a 1980 release. Bob Dylan's Saved would be another contender. I'd go with Doc at the Radar Station from this list. My favorite post-Trout-Mask Beefheart.

Acnalbasac Moon was indeed released in 1980, but recorded in 1974, and I personally wouldn't consider it eligible. Probably one of my top ten records of all time though.

i can never decide whether i like casablanca moon or acnalbasac noom better

i don't think of it as a 1980 release but i also don't think of "the modern lovers" as a 1976 release

a couple more 1980 records i've discovered recently and want to recommend:

don slepian - the sea of bliss
carambolage - s/t

but i also don't think of "the modern lovers" as a 1976 release

why?

Same reason, I assume.

Anyone else voting The Beat?

tom d otm, i think of it as an archival release

immediately made sure seventeen seconds was there. voted for it.

❤ Austin tho Gaucho is also on here.

glad somebody voted for seventeen seconds, it deserves love in this poll

was feeling torn between beefheart and the fall but uh i just put on "is this real?" and now i'm super torn ! torn to shreds by wipers

YOU BETTER BEWARE

I thought you said you wouldn't be around til 1990, you cunt

“Group Sex” vs. “Dirty Mind” is a really hard choice (and I’m not just making a joke)

both are all-time great

No other choice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjKGJ9RFo78

never understood any love the pretenders got. Her voice is like nails on chalkboard to me

I listened to it there a couple of days ago and it still sounds great. The bonus tracks on the extended version of the album are fantastic too.

I'd vote Los Angeles if it was on here, can make a case that Crocodiles is underrated and highly influential.

never understood any love the pretenders got. Her voice is like nails on chalkboard to me

― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Tuesday, April 16, 2019 12:29 PM (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't mind her voice and think they were a decent pop band in their prime, but 9.5 times out of 10 I'd rather listen to Blondie.

Remain In Light is top 20 all-time for me. Maybe top 10.

This is Talking Heads vs Colossal Youth, and they’re both amazing albums.

My vote goes to Colossal Youth because it was a more influential record to me, even if in reality it had no precedent or spiritual followers. It feels like a record outside of time and place and it’s pretty much perfect in its own terms.

This is Talking Heads vs Colossal Youth, and they’re both amazing albums.

My vote goes to Colossal Youth because it was a more influential record to me, even if in reality it had no precedent or spiritual followers. It feels like a record outside of time and place and it’s pretty much perfect in its own terms.

Albums not in this list that would be in mine:

Aqsak Maboul - Un peu de l'âme des bandits
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Max Roach - M'Boom
Pylon - Gyrate

I'd vote Los Angeles if it was on here

I dont get whats the big deal about X tbh

Seem like a band Americans like.

xxp

Max Roach - M'Boom

such a fine + underrated album is that!

eyeroll at y'all talking shit about diana ross's 1980 record, it's a chic organization joint and it's fucking great

??? where are the posts talking shit about this album cos I can't see any at all

re: X, I still remember my first time hearing Los Angeles

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

This is amazing footage, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwXebq6FMAw

Where's the 1981 poll? :D

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1981!!

Campreverb: no problem

In case folks are interested, did an 8-mix collection of post-punk/new wave from 1980:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/folder.jpg?w=1024

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/post-punk-1980-box-set/

A Certain Ratio · Animals & Men · The Associates · Au Pairs · Bauhaus · The Beat · The Blackouts · Blondie · Blancmange · David Bowie · Bow Wow Wow · The Boys Next Door · Glenn Branca · The Breakers · Buggles · Buzzcocks · The Cars · Chris Carter · Alex Chilton · Chrome · Colored Minds · The Comsat Angels · Elvis Costello & The Attractions · The Cramps · The Cure · Dalek I · Delta 5 · Deutsch Amerikanische Freundshaftt · Devo · The Diagram Brothers · Din a Testbild · Doctor Mix & The Remix · Dome · Dow Jones & The Industrials · The Durutti Column · Essendon Airport · Factrix · Fad Gadget · Family Fodder · The Feelies · Final Program · Fire Engines · Flowers · Flying Lizard · Free Agents · Friction · John Foxx · Peter Gabriel · Gang of Four · Girls At Our Best · The Gist · The Go-Go’s · The Gordons · Half Japanese · The Human League · Husker Du · Ike Yard · Implog · Indoor LifeIn Camera · INXS · The Jam · Japan · Grace Jones · Josef K · Joy Division · Kid Creole & The Coconuts · Killing Joke · Krisma · Lizard · Ludus · Magazine · Manicured Noise · Marilyn · Martha & The Muffins · Material · Minutemen · Missing Persons · Mission of Burma · Mr. Partridge · Moderne · The Mo-Dettes · The Monchrome Set · Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls · MX-80 Sound · Nasmak · Neonbabies · New Musik · Colin Newman · Gary Numan · Iggy Pop · The Only Ones · Orange Juice · Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark · Our Daughter’s Wedding · Pink Military · Pink Section · Plastics · Polyrock · Poly Styrene · The Pop Group · Pretenders · Prince · Psychedelic Furs · Pylon · Reptile Ranch · Martin Rev · Reversible Cords · Rinder & Lewis · The Room · Roxy Music · Ryuichi Sakamoto · The Selecter · Simple Minds · Siouxsie & The Banshees · The Slits · Smokey · Sods · Soft Cell · The Sound · The Specials · Squeeze · Richard Strange · The Stranglers · Swell Maps · Talking Heads · Teardrop Explodes · Television Personalities · Telex · This Heat · Tuxedomoon · Ultravox · Units · Urban Verbs · Les Vampyrettes · The Vapors · Alan Vega · Virgin Prunes · Visage · Scott WIlk & The Wall · Wipers · Xex · XTC · Yello · Y Pants · Yellow Magic Orchestra · Young Marble Giants

I voted for /Closer/, which I suppose makes it the 1980 album for people who don't care for 1980.

Tbf I may be the one who merely voted in spirit.