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Bowie ~ Scary Monsters

Kate Bush ~ The Dreaming

Talking Heads ~ Little Creatures

Tom Waits ~ Rain Dogs

Laurie Anderson ~ Big Science

Peter Gabriel ~ self titled

Roches ~ Keep On Doing

David Lindley ~ El Rayo-X

Jim Carroll Band ~ Catholic Boy

REM ~ Lifes Rich Pageant

Rickie Lee Jones ~ Pirates

Lou Reed ~ The Blue Mask

Roxy Music ~ Avalon

Joni Mitchell ~ Shadows and Light

 

I love everyone of these, and still listen to them.

 

This one too!

 

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Sinead O'Conner-Lion and the Cobra

:yes

 

Good lists. In addition to much of what's already listed, I would like to add:

 

Missing Persons - Spring Session M

Berlin - Pleasure Victim, Love Life

Bruce Cockburn - Humans, Inner City Front, Trouble With Normal, Stealing Fire

Stones - Emotional Rescue, Tattoo You

Steely Dan - Gaucho

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Zappa - You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore, Vol. I-II

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No 80s list would be complete with such great bands as the Thompson Twins, Haircut 100 and Bananarama.

 

Ok, I'm just kidding.

 

No, really, I am.

 

 

Hold on, I just thought of one.......the debut album by The Sugarcubes....that one was pretty interesting if you can ignore the male singer....Bjork is pretty damn weird though, which is good.

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some good discs listed here, and at least the 80's gave me REM, but I already have as many 21st century discs as 80's, and definitely way more 70's and 90's

 

probably equally as many 60's . . .

 

Ya know, I dont think I have any discs from this decade. I think I gotta stop collecting vinyl, boots and field recordings and get with the times.

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A little Metal love !!!

Holy Diver and The Last in Line - Ronnie James Dio

Fair Warning - Van Halen (their last real album) :rock

 

The Specials - More Specials

Madness - Madness

The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It, Special Beat Service

Various Two-Tone artists - This Are Two-Tone

 

Yep, I had me a porkpie hat and a skinny tie.

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Michael Jackson might have a lot of fans.......

But Eddie Money has a lot of friends.

 

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1. Two Tickets To Paradise

2. You've Really Got A Hold On Me

3. Wanna Be A Rock 'N' Roll Star

4. Save A Little Room In Your Heart For Me

5. So Good To Be In Love Again

6. Baby Hold On

7. Don't Worry

8. Jealousys

9. Got To Get Another Girl

10. Gamblin Man

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that was, er, not a true Clash album.

 

I know. But, I mean, at the time it was considered to be. The band didn't even officially dissolve for another two years after its release. It's not a Clash album, but the Clash are all still responsible for its existence.

 

Anyway, yeah, all the real Clash albums do fucking rule.

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Bowie ~ Scary Monsters

Kate Bush ~ The Dreaming

Talking Heads ~ Little Creatures

Tom Waits ~ Rain Dogs

Laurie Anderson ~ Big Science

Peter Gabriel ~ self titled

Roches ~ Keep On Doing

David Lindley ~ El Rayo-X

Jim Carroll Band ~ Catholic Boy

REM ~ Lifes Rich Pageant

Rickie Lee Jones ~ Pirates

Lou Reed ~ The Blue Mask

Roxy Music ~ Avalon

Joni Mitchell ~ Shadows and Light

 

I love everyone of these, and still listen to them.

 

This one too!

 

music_phases10-1.jpg

 

 

I saw the Furs play at the "tripping fields" at SUNY New Paltz when I was in 10th grade. Forever Now had just come out. The field was very muddy. I saw an English teacher at our school smoking a fatty. And the band was incredible. I miss those guys.

 

I can't believe it...not one mention of Frankie Goes To Hollywood "Welcome To The Pleasure Dome"

That album pretty much sums up the 80's for me...

I liked that album. I used to walk around the halls of my high school with it on my very first Sony Walkman.

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Once again, VC reminds me of the great pleasures of listening to cool music, even in the 1980s.

 

For me:

 

Springsteen, The River and Nebraska

Young, Freedom

U2, Unforgettable Fire and Joshua Tree

Clash, Sandinista

Elvis Costello, Get Happy, Trust, Almost Blue, Imperial Bedroom, King of America

REM, just about all releases

Roxy Music, Avalon

Petty, Full Moon Fever

Prince, 1999, Sign of the Times

Dylan, No Mercy

 

Just a few that come to mind, pre-AWATT....

 

:rock

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