Great 80s albums

[(marc)]

Jump!!

 

[UpDownAeroplane]

necessary listening.

 

[pooryou]

 

[iSaint]

My brother loves Pat Metheny. It's rubbed off on me as well.

 

[obeygiant]

Just listened to this yesterday..

New Order - Technique

 

[Kieranic]

Best selling album... of all time.

 

[AEP]

Sill makes me feel young!

 

[®îçhå®?]

I loves it. 'Nuff said

 

[Tomorrow]

That brings back some memories.

Some of my favorites:

 

[Melrose]

Just listened to this yesterday..

New Order - Technique

True Faith is one of my favourite songs. Different album, but still a great group

 

[nick1516]

Easily my top 4 albums-
1.Metallica- ...And Justice for all
2.Metallica- Kill 'em all
3.Metallica- Ride the Lightning
4.Metallica- Master of Puppets
Necessary listening for anybody who likes metal/hard rock.

 

[iStudentUK]

I'm just and ageing drummer boy,
And in the wars I used to play...

 

[dmr727]

^^^ great call!

 

[pooryou]

My brother loves Pat Metheny. It's rubbed off on me as well.

Don't know if you've heard Song X but it's not a typical Pat Metheny album.
It's a collaboration with Ornette Coleman and it will melt your face. It's awesome.

 

[125037]

I'm only 20. My mom was around 10 in 1980. So basically I have NO idea, haha. In fact, I don't think my mom would know either!

 

[Berlepsch]

This thread isn't complete without this masterpiece:

 

[OllyW]

5 of my favourites.

 

[Blue Velvet]

The xx have been winning tons of plaudits this year for their debut album 'xx'. But the groundwork was laid about 30 years ago with:

Young Marble Giants
Colossal Youth

Lo-fi and low key for rainy days and quiet times. Sounds like nothing you've really heard before. Play quietly.

 

[bartelby]

5 of my favourites.

You have good taste for an old man!

 

[Hellhammer]

 

[iSaint]

Don't know if you've heard Song X but it's not a typical Pat Metheny album.
It's a collaboration with Ornette Coleman and it will melt your face. It's awesome.

Not sure if he has, either. I'll check it out. Thanks.

I'm just and ageing drummer boy,
And in the wars I used to play...

Great one! Probably one of my favorites that I tend to neglect. The recording is good, but needs to be remastered to modern standards. e.g. it's not loud enough

 

[VideoFreek]

I'm on my way, I'm making it.

 

[dXTC]

Just listened to this yesterday..

New Order - Technique

True Faith is one of my favourite songs. Different album, but still a great group

I agree that Technique is perhaps their most consistent album; I have it and the "Fine Time" and "Round & round" 12" singles.

"True Faith", as featured on their Substance compilation, is also a classic.

But my fave New Order song of all is "Bizarre Love Triangle", from their otherwise pedestrian album Brotherhood. Shep Pettibone's extended remix of "Triangle" gets my vote for best remix, any song, any genre, ever.

Other 80s synthpop/new wave/alt-dance classic albums:

Pure Energy!

Freedom Of Choice rocks, too.

Bouncing Off The Satellites deserves a mention here as well.

(Depeche Mode's best album IMHO, Violator, was released in 1990 and thus falls just outside this discussion)

The pinnacle of 80s Italo Hi-NRG.

And my absolute favorite album of all time:

I could wax poetic about 80s music all day long. Keep 'em comin', folks!

YET ANOTHER EDIT:

Nitzer Ebb - That Total Age
...

Where... Is The YOUTH!

Kraftwerk - Computer World
...

Lovingly minimal and picture perfect-- the logical continuation to KW's The Man-Machine.