Favorite Album of The 80s

I love Peepshow. That was such a formative album for me.

I like Happy a lot too but as far as 80s PIL albums go I prefer This Is What You Want and Album/Cassette/Compact Disc.
 
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Well I'd say it's Meat is Murder by the Smiths. While their first album seemed more dependent on lyrics and chiming guitar riRAB, their second album and first #1 in the UK is more dependant on Morrissey's voice and the band musically, with Andy's funk like bass on Barbarism Begins at Home and the sonic beauty of How Soon Is Now with Johnny Marr's wailing guitar cries matching Morrissey singing "I am Human and I need to be loved just like everybody else does!". Lyrically the album is great as one would come to expect from anyone who had heard the Smiths first album and though not as rich in poetic details it does a very good job, from the first lines on The Headmaster Ritual "Belligerent ghouls run Manchester schools, spineless swines cemented minRAB" to the last line of the title track that questions the morality of killing and eating an animal "who hears when animals cry?"
 
I can't possibly choose just one. I could do genres lol. Best 80's Reggae album:

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Bass Culture
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Best Thrash Metal album:
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Best Pop album:
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Best Ska album:
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Duran Duran - Duran Duran (1981)
Bonjovi - Slippery when Wet (1986)
Beastie Boys -Licensed To Ill
Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction (1987)
Metallica - Master Of Puppets (1986)
Alice Cooper - Special Forces (1981)
Judas Priest - Screaming For Vengeance (1982)
Iron Maiden - The Nuraber Of The Beast (1982)

all i can think of right now
 
Gotta say, there`s a ton of great eighties albums out there... the more I look back, thr more I find...

Starfish - The Church
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 - Midnight Oil
Tallulah - The Go Betweens
Passion - Peter Gabriel
Temple of Low Men - Crowded House

To name but a few...
 
This is a much debated point... but really its six of one and half a dozen of the other... It was Gabriel`s idea to ditch metallic sounRAB, he wanted the cyrabal and hi hat free sound, but it was Collins who played the actual experiments with the sound... particularly during the drum track recordings for songs like Intruder...

I LOVE the sound of PG3 by the way... I love the sound of the drums and how well it works to have no cyrabals. A truly original album.
 
Powerslave - Iron Maiden
Face Dances - The Who
Moving Pictures - Rush
Power - Ice-T
Invisible Touch - Genesis
So - Peter Gabriel
To The Power - 3
Holy Diver - Dio
 
Such a hard Q, i can think of at least 20 off the top of my head that could be labelled as my 'favourite'... at the moment:

My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything

This changes weekly though.
 
I forgot to include Peter Gabriel 3 in my list of faves and someone's psot back there reminded me... I would most definitely like to add this aa a big time favorite eighties album, one which even played a pivotal role in shaping some of the elements of production values in the eighties, the gated reverb drum sound, in particular...
 
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