Album of The Year - Endgame

BjorgenFjorgen said:
Yup, basically. Any time during the week, before Sunday afternoon/evening when Woob tallies everything, you can make a list of your top 10 records for that year--top album getting 10 points, and tenth album getting 1 point. You can make your list whenever and edit it throughout the week. I normally make a playlist every Monday using other people's choices as a guide to check out some albums I've never heard before, get through as many as I can, and then make my list near the end of the week, but whatever works. I love this thread mainly for the discovery aspect, but some people don't need to think about it too much and just love making lists!
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i shudda worked that out - that’s standard voting procedure from these peeps !
:rolleyes:
 
Love this thread, thanks for restarting it.
  1. Bruce Springsteen - The River
  2. X - Los Angeles
  3. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
  4. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (III)
  5. Madness - Absolutely
  6. Oingo Boingo - Self Titled EP
  7. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  8. Tom Waits - Heartattack & Vine
  9. Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
  10. Genesis - Duke

HM:
Grateful Dead - Go To Heaven - more for the songs on the album and how good they were live, rather than the album itself.
AC/DC - Back in Black
Bob Marley & The Wailers - Uprising

And now can we talk about how 1980 had two classic soundtracks? Xanadu AND Flash Gordon?
 
Finally. We're home.

1980:
1. X - Los Angeles
2. Judas Priest - British Steel
3. REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
4. Journey - Departure
5. U2 - Boy
6. Van Halen - Women And Children First
7. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
8. Def Leppard - On Through The Night
9. Queen - The Game
10. Joy Division - Closer

Honorable mentions:
Journey - Dream, After Dream
Survivor - Survivor
Queen - Flash Gordon
Dire Straits - Making Movies
AC/DC - Back In Black
The Cars - Panorama
 
1) Talking Heads - Remain in Light (favorite album ever)
2) Kate Bush - Never for Ever
3) Joy Division - Closer
4) The B-52s - Wild Planet (Athens represent)
5) Bruce Springsteen - The River
6) Elvis Costello - Get Happy
7) The Clash - Sandinista (haven't listened to this in forever but remember loving it in high school)
8) David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
9) Suicide - The Second Album
10) X - Los Angeles

Hopefully something else comes up that I've missed
 
Badams said:
1) Talking Heads - Remain in Light (favorite album ever)
2) Kate Bush - Never for Ever
3) Joy Division - Closer
4) The B-52s - Wild Planet (Athens represent)
5) Bruce Springsteen - The River
6) Elvis Costello - Get Happy
7) The Clash - Sandinista (haven't listened to this in forever but remember loving it in high school)
8) David Bowie - Scary Monsters and Super Creeps
9) Suicide - The Second Album
10) X - Los Angeles

Hopefully something else comes up that I've missed
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+1 on Wild Planet. Their best, imo.
 
1980

1980

1. Talking Heads- Remain in Light
2. Joy Division- Closer
3. The Feelies- Crazy Rhythms
4. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band- Doc at the Radar Station
5. Magazine- The Correct Use of Soap
6. X- Los Angeles
7. The Jam- Sound Affects
8. The Birthday Party- The Birthday Party
9. Horace Andy- Showcase
10. David Bowie- Scary Monsters
 
My Favourite Albums of 1980:
  1. Talking Heads – Remain in the Light
  2. The Feelies – Crazy Rhythms
  3. Prince – Dirty Mind
  4. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel III
  5. AC/DC – Back in Black
  6. Bruce Springsteen – The River
  7. David Bowie – Scary Monsters
  8. Joy Division – Closer
  9. X – Los Angeles
  10. Steely Dan – Gaucho
 
This thread makes me realize just how much I don't know the 80s.

1. Talking Heads – Remain In Light
2. Judas Priest – British Steel
3. AC/DC – Back In Black
4. Rush – Permanent Waves
5. Tom Waits – Heartattack And Vine
6. Joy Division - Closer
7. The Clash - Sandinista!
8. Bruce Springsteen – The River
9. Dire Straits – Making Moves
10. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
 
1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
2. Joy Division - Closer (the superior Joy Division album, I BEG you to try and fight me on this)
3. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel / Peter Gabriel 3 / Melt
4. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
5. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
6. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
7. Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
8. Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
9. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
10. Brian Eno - Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror


That was... harder than expected lol. A very fair handful of albums that would slot comfortably in a "50 greatest albums of all time" list, but after that, the downticket gets more and more difficult - thank god we don't have to rank 20 because I don't even know if I could do that!

Also I recognize how blasphemous this is, given my avatar, but I really never cared for Scary Monsters And Super Creeps. Has some great songs on it but overall I just can't get into it the way most do (I don't even much care for Teenage Wildlife!). It's always been my Achilles heel with Bowie
 
  1. Joy Division - Closer
  2. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
  3. Suicide - The 2nd Album
  4. The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
  5. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
  6. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
  7. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
  8. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
  9. Budd/Eno - Ambient 2
  10. Chrome - Red Exposure
Thought it would be hard coming up with 10 but actually found it difficult cutting the list down from about 20.
 
So I think that’s this is about right for what I had posted on Monday...

1. Bruce Springsteen - The River
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
4. Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
5. AC/D.C. - Back In Black
6. U2 - Boy
7. Kate Bush - Never For Ever
8. The Jam - Sound Affects
9. Peter Gabriel (st but also know as III or Melt)
10. Tom Waits - Heartattack And Vine
 
Yes @Woob_woob!!! I was hoping this would make it over, thanks a lot buddy!

1980:

1. Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
2. Bruce Springsteen - The River
3. Queen - The Game
4. AC/DC - Back in Black
5. Harold Budd and Brian Eno - Ambient:2
6. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
7. Black Sabbath - Live At Last *
8. David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
9. Queen - Flash Gordon
10. Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier

*Funny one here as it made the charts but the band didn't actually know about its release, so some consider it a bootleg.
 
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