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Your top 10 favorite 80's albums

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What are your top 10 favorite 80's albums?

Mine, sort of in order:

1. So, Peter Gabriel
2. 90125, Yes
3. Songs from the Big Chair, Tears for Fears
4. Go On, Mr. Mister
5. Green / Life's Rich Pageant, REM (tie)
6. Rattle & Hum, U2
7. Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, Kings X
8. Diesel & Dust, Midnight Oil
9. Hold Your Fire, Rush
10. Nervous Night, the Hooters
(11) Synchronicity, The Police
(12) Graceland, Paul Simon

Top 10 favorite CHRISTIAN 80's albums:
1. Doppelganger, Daniel Amos
2. Homeboys, Adam Again
3. Mannequin Virtue, Vector
4. Chase the Kangaroo / Circle Slide, The Choir (tie)
5. Art of the State, Kerry Livgren & AD
6. No Glasses Needed, In 3D
7. Island Release, 77's
8. Just Like Real Life, Prodigal
9. Reconciled, The Call
10. Secret of Time, Charlie Peacock
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Re: Your top 10 favorite 80's albums

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10. Nervous Night, the Hooters

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No Order:

1. The Cure - Disintegration
2. Peter Gabriel - So
3. The Police - Synchronicity
4. Sting - The Dream of the Blue Turtle
5. Rush - Presto
6. The Cure - Kiss me Kiss me Kiss me
7. Queensryche - Operation: Mindcrime
8. King Crimson - Discipline
9. Rush - Permanent Waves
10. Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
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=^-..-^= wrote:What are your top 10 favorite 80's albums?

Mine, sort of in order:

1. So, Peter Gabriel
2. 90125, Yes
3. Songs from the Big Chair, Tears for Fears
4. Go On, Mr. Mister
5. Green / Life's Rich Pageant, REM (tie)
6. Rattle & Hum, U2
7. Gretchen Goes to Nebraska, Kings X
8. Diesel & Dust, Midnight Oil
9. Hold Your Fire, Rush
10. Nervous Night, the Hooters
(11) Synchronicity, The Police
(12) Graceland, Paul Simon

Top 10 favorite CHRISTIAN 80's albums:
1. Doppelganger, Daniel Amos
2. Homeboys, Adam Again
3. Mannequin Virtue, Vector
4. Chase the Kangaroo / Circle Slide, The Choir (tie)
5. Art of the State, Kerry Livgren & AD
6. No Glasses Needed, In 3D
7. Island Release, 77's
8. Just Like Real Life, Prodigal
9. Reconciled, The Call
10. Secret of Time, Charlie Peacock
You know, that would be pretty dang close to my list too - both lists...

Replace the 77's Island Release with Pray Naked (or was that early 90's?) and add Level 42 in there somewhere. Circle Slide is a great album. The drums on that are incredible!
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77's Pray Naked - 1992

I saw them on this tour down at Taylor Upland. GREAT show! I got to yak with Mike Roe after the show, even though he was a little obnoxious. I talked a lot more with drummer Aaron Smith, one of my favorite drummers, about the making of Mannequin Virtue with Vector.
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Whatever list you compile, make sure to include the following:

Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Talking Heads - Remain In Light
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1. Fugazi - Fugazi.
2. Zappa - Shut Up N Play Yer Guitar.
3. Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking.
4. Minor Threat - Out Of Step.
5. Dylan and the Dead.
6. The Clash - Combat Rock.
7. Phish - Junta.
8. Metallica - Master Of Puppets.
9. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs.
10. I can't think of a tenth album- the 80's really sucked.
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Hutnick wrote:3. Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking.
Good - but what about Ritual De Lo Habitual ?
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In no particular order

Faith No More - The Real Thing
Rush - Signals (or Permanent Waves...decisions, decisions)
King's X - Gretchen Goes To Nebraska
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Asia - Asia
INXS - Shaboo Shoobah
BoDeans - Home
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Metallica - And Justice For All
Police - Ghost In The Machine
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MrSpall wrote:
Hutnick wrote:3. Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking.
Good - but what about Ritual De Lo Habitual ?
I loved Ritual..changed my life, but wasn't that from 1991? I don't remember, I've slept since then
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Hutnick wrote:
MrSpall wrote:
Hutnick wrote:3. Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking.
Good - but what about Ritual De Lo Habitual ?
I loved Ritual..changed my life, but wasn't that from 1991? I don't remember, I've slept since then
It was 1990.

no order..
1. Crass - Christ the Album
2. Minor Threat - Out of Step
3. Eric B and Rakim - Follow the Leader
4. Metallica - Master of Puppets
5. Cryptic Slaughter - Money Talks
6. Black Flag - Damaged
7. Run DMC - self titled
8. Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of..
9. Subhumans - The Day the Country Died
10. Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba

Well that's what came to mind, but I'll probably think of ones I like better as soon as I hit Submit. :lol:
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bwohlgemuth wrote:INXS - Shaboo Shoobah
Oh yeah! and more particularly, 'The One Thing.'
That song got me to start taking all that weird new MTV music more seriously because the song was so good. The band and a bunch of people were eating at a huge Baccanalean feast in the video. There were huge amounts of food (and kittens!) on the table.

The video for the last song on that album was cool, too. While the drummer is sitting half asleep at his kit, the synth opening is playing, and the rest of the band rolls in in the back of a pickup. The drummer wakes up and they play the song. - good times.
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Re: Your top 10 favorite 80's albums

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10. Nervous Night, the Hooters

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I was just about to post about The Smiths: The Queen is Dead. Great album.
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