Best albums of the decade

[LostDoggy]

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LOVED the 80s!!!!

[mighty_west]

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LOVED the 80s!!!!

Same...the 80's were my decade, the 90's was a mish mash of all sorts, a few good records here & there, but it was the 80's that had the biggest innfluence on my life..

[LostDoggy]

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Well yeah the 90's had some good stuff, but the 80's, now there was a decade for good music.

80s is a lot harder for me as I was too young and poor at the time.

Some of my personal favourites
The The - Soul mining
Talk Talk - The colour of spring
Guns N Roses - Appetite for destruction
U2 - Joshua Tree
REM - Green
Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
Faith No More- The real thing
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The stone Roses- The Stone roses
Pixes -Doolittle

BTW - The book '1001 albums you must hear before you die' is a good reference.

[mighty_west]

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My list of 80's is endless, but a few off the top of my head:

Joy Division - Closer
Devo - Oh No It's Devo, Freedom Of Choice
AC/DC - Back In Black
BDP - By All Means Necessary
Erik B & Rakim - Follow The Leader, Paid In Full
Mi Sex - Where Do They Go?
Real Life - Heartland
U2 - War, Under A Blood Red Sky, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree
Midnight Oil - 10-1, Red Sails, Diesel & Dust
INXS - Shabooh Shoobah, The Swing, Kick
New Order - Technique, Substance
Beatie Boys - Licenced To Ill
Models - The Pleasure Of Your Company, Out Of Mind Out Of Sight
Van Halen - 51/50
Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
Coldcut - Out To Lunch
Michael Jackson - Thriller

[chef]

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I was in my early teens when the eighties fishined. Here's my list.

Beastie Boys - Licenced to ill
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
The Cure - Staring at the sea
Nirvana - Bleach
Faith No More - The real thing
Janes Addiction - Nothing's shocking
Pixies - Surfer Rosa, Doolittle
Nine Inch Nails - Closer

[LostDoggy]

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[QUOTE=Sedat;129321]That's a quality list there Ernie, just adding a few more gems from the 90's:

Sebadoh - Bakesale, Harmacy
Archers of Loaf - Icky Mettle, Vee Vee, All the Nation's Airports

Two of my fave bands ever! what a way to start your list...

[Sedat]

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The irony of the 80's for me is that I never listened to my favourite albums from the 80's until after the decade had ended - my primary school and early high school years revolved around whatever was in the top 40 and on Countdown. Then I went into that 'Doors' phase that everyone seems to go through around Year 10-11. Apart from the ones already mentioned, some of my other late-discovered favourite 80's albums are:

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grave
My Bloody Valentine - Isn't Anything
The Cure - Disintegration
REM - Reckoning
They Might Be Giants - Lincoln
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Tender Prey
TISM - Great Truckin' Songs of the Renaissance

And just one more fantastic 90's album that sprang to mind:
Depeche Mode - Violator

[soupman]

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These are probably my favourites from this decade.

Bloc Party - Silent Alarm: Not a single bad song on it, even with 3 bonus tracks.
Bloc Party - A weekend in the city: Flows really well and doesn't have a bad song.
Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head: Some absolute classics on here and no songs I don't like
Coldplay - Viva La Vida: Good from start to finish, even if the song "Viva La Vida" was overplayed
Dandy Warhols - Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia: So much better than their other work I have. Some really good songs on here.
Foals - Antidotes: Got this not expecting much and loved it. Very distinct sound.
John Butler Trio - Three: Relatively short at 8 songs but very good.
John Butler Trio: Living: May be a live album but is what got me into them and is great to listen to, albeit a bit long
John Butler Trio: Sunrise Over Sea: Very good from start to finish.
Kings of Leon - Because of the Times: My favourite KOL album. Doesn't really have a bad song on it.
Muse - Absolution: Fantastic apart from Endlessly.
Muse - Origin of Symmetry: From New Born right through to Micro Cuts it absolutely kills it, while Dark Shines, Feeling Good and Megalomania all hold their own.
Radiohead - In Rainbows: Fantastic songs (except for Faust Arp)
Radiohead - Hail to the Thief: Some crap on here but mostly quality.
The Temper Trap - Conditions: Amazing debut album. Not a bad song on it.

[LostDoggy]

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Same...the 80's were my decade, the 90's was a mish mash of all sorts, a few good records here & there, but it was the 80's that had the biggest innfluence on my life..

This is a fun thread, but's it's really going backwards. Why stop there? We could just keep going backwards -- I would say the late '70s was pretty 'povo'* (other than maybe Jaco Pastorius's self-titled album) but the mid to late '60s and early '70s must surely still rank as the Golden Age of the type of music we're talking about on this thread (including some peripheral influences like Davis and some other free jazz cats).

*As an aside, it's also the guys from the mid to late '70s that keep popping up for these tribute tours that stink to high heaven (with all due respect to any Eagles fans).

[LostDoggy]

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The irony of the 80's for me is that I never listened to my favourite albums from the 80's until after the decade had ended

I know what you mean eh. I did music for my minor in grad school and was mostly listening to and writing jazz and avant-garde choral and orchestral music for good portions of several decades; didn't discover Joshua Tree until this century!

[mighty_west]

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I know what you mean eh. I did music for my minor in grad school and was mostly listening to and writing jazz and avant-garde choral and orchestral music for good portions of several decades; didn't discover Joshua Tree until this century!

WOW...just wow!

I remember knocking down the door at MARS in Williamstown as a pimply teenager eager to get my hands on the record, my old mate "Boodah" was expecting me!

25 years later, time flies...and i knock down the door at JB to grab the re-issue complete with full JT tour concert on DVD, was a MUST HAVE.

When you discovered it Lantern, did it sound like an album that old, or did it sound fresh? When With Or Without You was getting the airplay at the time, it just sounded so much different to anything else on the radio, alot of DJ's at the time were saying it was a brave choice for first single, it ended up being one of their all time greats, the second single was supposed to be Red Hill Mining Town, but Bono could never hit those high notes live, and to this day have never played that song live in any concert, they went with I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Instead!

[LostDoggy]

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WOW...just wow!

I remember knocking down the door at MARS in Williamstown as a pimply teenager eager to get my hands on the record, my old mate "Boodah" was expecting me!

25 years later, time flies...and i knock down the door at JB to grab the re-issue complete with full JT tour concert on DVD, was a MUST HAVE.

When you discovered it Lantern, did it sound like an album that old, or did it sound fresh? When With Or Without You was getting the airplay at the time, it just sounded so much different to anything else on the radio, alot of DJ's at the time were saying it was a brave choice for first single, it ended up being one of their all time greats, the second single was supposed to be Red Hill Mining Town, but Bono could never hit those high notes live, and to this day have never played that song live in any concert, they went with I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Instead!

Haha. I knew some of the songs off that album of course -- you can't really have lived in modern society and not heard With or Without You and the like.. but the whole album, I bought it a few years back and sat down with it to listen to the whole thing to see what the fuss was about, and it blew me away. It's still on high rotation on my morning commute -- it's just.. I don't know, a lot more than the sum of its parts, I think is the best way I can put it. I've never been huge on production quality (Mellon Collie and OK Computer aside), putting more stock in message and heart, and JT has the latter in spades. Musically, it's still the template for classic U2 -- Larry and Adam contribute immensely to the sound (a lot more than most give them credit for) and are both still strident but more musical than in War, the Edge is more polished these days but already hit his peak artistically then, and you just hear the desperation of truth in Bono's beseeching. Only Pop really has the same kind of raw emotional power, but JT remains their high-watermark, I think, the bravery of No Line On The Horizon notwithstanding (not that I'm a U2 expert or anything, my wife is the real hardcore fan. We've seen them on four continents now!)

I don't think I would have been able to appreciate JT back when it came out (in a different mental space musically in those days) but am thankful to have discovered it for myself.

[Sedat]

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Pretty good read on the best music of the decade on metacritic.com:

http://features.metacritic.com/features/2009/best-music-of-the-decade/