Top Albums of the 80s - Page 2

Stephen · 02-03-2012, 02:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Doctorossi

Yeah, but find one that doesn't.

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

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 · 02-03-2012, 02:11 PM

No Metallica?

02-03-2012, 02:15 PM

At least they got U2 in the Top 10.

Doctorossi · 02-03-2012, 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Stephen

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.

dave · 02-06-2012, 03:55 PM

You can have just about the entire decade IMHO.

My best of the 80's list:

shilala · 02-06-2012, 04:02 PM

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 · 02-06-2012, 04:11 PM

No Bruce on the list? Travesty.

icehog3 · 02-06-2012, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by maninblack

No Bruce on the list? Travesty.

I thought "Nebraska" was in it?

Stephen · 02-06-2012, 07:05 PM

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Originally Posted by icehog3

I thought "Nebraska" was in it?

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

dave · 02-07-2012, 05:21 AM

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Originally Posted by Stephen

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 · 02-07-2012, 07:33 AM

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Originally Posted by Doctorossi

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

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 · 02-07-2012, 09:27 AM

Is there any Queensryche on there?

kydsid · 02-07-2012, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Eleven

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

Josh Jackson: born December 14, 1971

Beagleone · 02-07-2012, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Stephen

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

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?

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Originally Posted by 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?

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 · 02-07-2012, 11:00 AM

WTF? No Lawrence Welk?

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