Top 100 Albums of the 80s

I'm just trying to represent everything fairly and when I have to do research on my own if I see an album constantly reoccurring on lists/articles I just assume it's worthy of mention. Thanks for your input I'll remove it. Any objections to Napalm Death "Scum"?
 
Germicide didn't really touch GI (79) but I'll swap out Group Sex for a Poison Idea album but they only had two releases neither of which I'm familiar with. Kings of Punk and War All the Time I'll letyou decide which stays.

Swapped out the Pogues album for Rum, Sodomy and the Lash as well as Remain In Light for Fear of Music. Removed the rest. I've also gone ahead and removed the following albums just because I think even fans of them would agree there's much better albums that belong on the list and I even listed reason.

Bruce Springsteen "Nebraska"
I don't care for Springsteen but I think Born in the USA is enough.

Dead Kennedys "Plastic Surgery Disasters"
Fresh Fruit was way way better.

Gorilla Biscuits "Start Today"
I don't really know why I added this in the first place.

Madonna "Like a Virgin"
Posted my reasoning.

Queen "The Works"
Queen started going downhill in the 80s, it started with this album.

Queen "The Game"
They weren't good in the 80s.

Tears for Fears "The Hurting"
:laughing: it's tears for fears

The Smiths "Strangeways, Here We Come"
The Smiths are my favorite band but even I don't care much for this album. It had some really really really good songs like Girlfriend in a Coma and A Rush and A Push etc but most of this album was stuff like I Won't Share You and Unhappy Birthday, which lost their novelty pretty fast and are some of the worst smiths songs.
 
I think that's a pretty long list but very comprehensive I guess. I was growing in that era and some of the mentioned albums were just really amazing to discover. thanks anyway!
 
talk talk - spirit of eden
the fall - grotesque
the feelies - crazy rythms
lydia lunch - queen of siam
talking heaRAB - remain in light
brian eno and david byrne - my life in the bush of ghosts
the birthday party - prayers on fire (Or junkyard. i prefer junkyard, but . . .)
echo and the bunnymen - ocean rain
mission of burma - signals, calls and marches
this heat - deceit
dead kennedy's - plastic surgery disaster
daniel johnston - hi, how are you?
tom waits - raindogs
concteau twins - treasure
husker du - zen arcade
minutemen - double nickels on the dime
the smiths - meat is murder or queen is dead
violent femmes - violent femmes
the jesus and mary chain - darklanRAB
the replacements - let it be
sonic youth - evol or sister
the cure - kiss me kiss me kiss me, disintegration or poronography
depeche mode - music for the masses
dinosaur jr - you're living all over me
pixies - surfer rosa or doolittle
spacemen 3 - the perfect prescription
galaxie 500 - today
stone roses - stone roses
a. r. kane - sixty nine

i'm probably forgetting a bunch, but these, at least, should be considered.

oh and seriously, michael jackson thirller!
 
I think you're OK with those Fall /Mary Chain / New Order albums. Most diehard Fall fans would choose Hex Enduction Hour over This Nations Saving Grace but This Nations Saving Grace seems to be the most popular in general.

As for Motorhead all their best stuff came out in the 70s but Orgasmatron is their biggest album of the 80s. It's OK but I wouldn't say it's one of the best.
 
Cindi Lauper "She's So Unusual"
Did Cindi Lauper even write her own music? Don't answer I don't really care because even if she does it doesn't excuse the fact that her music is awful. She epitomizes everything wrong with America in the 80s, terrible pop music and awful hair.

Madonna "Like a Virgin"
See Cindi Lauper.

Michael Jackson "Thriller"
See Cindi Lauper but throw in an overrated comment as well as a pedophile joke.


That was a 3 in one, I'm done for now.
 
They did a top 200 tracks of the 60s. They didn't even accept that it would be worth doing a top 100 LPs because supposedly "the LP didn't become the dominant format until the 70s".

Seems a lame reason to me, even if it's true (which I don't know).
 
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