Top Albums of the 80s

[hotreds]

http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2012/02/the-80-best-albums-of-the-1980s.html

[icehog3]

What a bunch of crap! I would place less than 20 of those if the Top 100 albums of the decade. :2

[Eleven]

Wow. I bet the person who made that list didn't even LIVE in the 80's.

[irratebass]

Um....was this list composed by a college radio station........Talking Heads over Guns N Roses, Beastie Boys & Public Enemy.....:td

Thanks for sharing though Hugh

[forgop]

Appetite for Destruction is closer to the top 10 albums of all time and it comes out to #23 for the decade? Idiots anyway.

[miamicigarco]

Figured I would time in with my Top 5 of the 80s.

1. Metallica - Master of Puppets
2. Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
3. U2 - The Joshua Tree
4. Bob Marley - Legend
5. AC/DC - Back in Black

All of these are in a regular rotation for me...

[BeerAdvocate]

Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction

[hotreds]

What a bunch of crap! I would place less than 20 of those if the Top 100 albums of the decade. :2

Tell us how you really feel. Actually, I never heard of many of those groups!


Wow. I bet the person who made that list didn't even LIVE in the 80's.

I bet you're right!

[Doctorossi]

Guess I'm the odd man out here. I usually have nothing but enmity for lists like this, but I was actually surprised at how much I like this one.

[drjammer]

1. Slayer-Reign in blood :tu

[maninblack]

What a load of crap. Sooooo many great albums left out. Guess this list is for the hipsters.

[irratebass]

1. SLAYER-Reign in blood :tu

Fixt and :banger :banger :banger :banger

[Stephen]

Umm, well, I guess I should be happy that I'm not the only one who knows who the Stone Roses are. Other than that, it's not a stretch to say that this list leaves a lot to be desired...

[Doctorossi]

Other than that, it's not a stretch to say that this list leaves a lot to be desired...

Yeah, but find one that doesn't. :sh

[Starscream]

Site went too slow for me, so I stopped looking at it in the 70-60s range.

MJ's Thriller and Bad should be in the top ten.
Welcome to the Jungle should be in the top ten.
Where did these three place?

Fear of the Dark needs to be included too.

[Doctorossi]

MJ's Thriller and Bad should be in the top ten.

Thriller is. Bad didn't make the list.

Welcome to the Jungle should be in the top ten.

Appetite for Destruction was #23, I think.

[irratebass]

1. Slayer-Reign in blood :tu

Site went too slow for me, so I stopped looking at it in the 70-60s range.

MJ's Thriller and Bad should be in the top ten.
Welcome to the Jungle should be in the top ten.
Where did these three place?

Fear of the Dark needs to be included too.

I think Appetite was # 18

I disagree with FOTD, but Def Powerslave or Piece of Mind :banger

[Doctorossi]

I disagree with FOTD, but Def Powerslave or Piece of Mind :banger

Forget FotD and Powerslave. Piece of Mind or Number of the Beast. -(P

[irratebass]

Forget FotD and Powerslave. Piece of Mind or Number of the Beast. -(P

I thought about NOTB and I agree.

[icehog3]

Where is NWA's "Straight Outta Compton'? :rolleyes:

[Stephen]

Yeah, but find one that doesn't. :sh
I thought it was universally accepted that lists like these are put out to be universally panned and from that comes some interesting dialog.:sh

My biggest complaint about this particular list, and it's been confirmed with multiple posts in this thread, is that the genres that define the 80's are underrepresented. Not one female pop star, very little heavy metal/hair metal, and too much that is akin to fitting a square peg in a round hole (Nirvana and NIN on a best of 80's list? You're trying too hard...).

[chippewastud79]

No Metallica? :hm

[ChicagoWhiteSox]

At least they got U2 in the Top 10.

[Doctorossi]

My biggest complaint about this particular list, and it's been confirmed with multiple posts in this thread, is that the genres that define the 80's are underrepresented. Not one female pop star, very little heavy metal/hair metal, and too much that is akin to fitting a square peg in a round hole (Nirvana and NIN on a best of 80's list? You're trying too hard...).

A very astute point that encapsulates this list perfectly. :tu

[dave]

You can have just about the entire decade IMHO.

My best of the 80's list:

[shilala]

I was 18 in '85 and lived in National Record Mart. I had an entire wall of cassettes at work. We jammed 12 hours a day.
I never even heard of #1 and #2. Weird.
Granted, I was a bit gooned up, well, a lot gooned up, but really?

[maninblack]

No Bruce on the list? Travesty.

[icehog3]

No Bruce on the list? Travesty.

I thought "Nebraska" was in it?

[Stephen]

I thought "Nebraska" was in it?
So was, "The River." My favorite album from the Boss.

[dave]

So was, "The River." My favorite album from the Boss.

Didn't look at whole list, but I thought that I saw Born in USA also

[ktblunden]

Forget FotD and Powerslave. Piece of Mind or Number of the Beast. -(P

Number of the Beast is probably the most universally recognizable (in the metal world, at least), but I feel that Piece of Mind is the strongest album they ever put out.

Oh, and the list is crap. But they always are.

[Thrak]

Is there any Queensryche on there?

[kydsid]

Wow. I bet the person who made that list didn't even LIVE in the 80's.


Josh Jackson: born December 14, 1971

[Beagleone]

I thought it was universally accepted that lists like these are put out to be universally panned and from that comes some interesting dialog.:sh

My biggest complaint about this particular list, and it's been confirmed with multiple posts in this thread, is that the genres that define the 80's are underrepresented. Not one female pop star, very little heavy metal/hair metal, and too much that is akin to fitting a square peg in a round hole (Nirvana and NIN on a best of 80's list? You're trying too hard...).

I had the same thought. Very few people knew about NIN when the album was released, but I caught them opening for The Jesus & Mary Chain. But, Trent and company blew the headliners out of the water!!! As you stated, I would associate them more in the 90s than in 80s, and for the same reasons as Nirvana, it wasn't their first album that made them, but their subsequent releases that placed them on top. I also wondered why no Billy Idol, Def Leppard, or Duran Duran won't on the list?

I was 18 in '85 and lived in National Record Mart. I had an entire wall of cassettes at work. We jammed 12 hours a day.
I never even heard of #1 and #2. Weird.
Granted, I was a bit gooned up, well, a lot gooned up, but really?

I did hear many of these albums back in the day. Ihad a very large collectoin of tapes, that then went on to become CDs in the 90s, and now mp3s. This list is particular in the choice selections and the positions. However, this was one of the Smiths darkest albums, and the Pixies were the precursor to a lot of the alt rock groups of the 90s with their influence. I, however, wouldn't have placed them at #1.

[kelmac07]

WTF? No Lawrence Welk? :bh :bh :bh