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The Music of the Eighties


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English Beat - Special Beat Service

R.E.M. - Murmurs

Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory

Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Tom Waits - Rain Dog

Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me

Spacemen 3 - Perfect Prescription

My Bloody Valentine

 

 

just a start

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these 2 are absolutely essential ... two of the greatest records ever made ...

Rave-Ups, Book of Your Regrets

Silos, Cuba

 

also brilliant:

Dumptruck, For the Country

Love Tractor, This Ain't no Outerspace Ship

Tommy Keene, Based on Happy Times

Tommy Keene, Places that Are Gone

Game Theory, Big Shot Chronicles

Game Theory, Lolita Nation

Game Theory, Two Steps from the Middle Ages

The dBs, Like This

Scruffy the Cat, Tiny Days

Smithereens, Especially for You

Reivers, Translate Slowly

Rainmakers, self-titled

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There's a lot of amazing Elvis Costello in the 80s. King of America, Blood & Chocolate, Imperial Bedroom, Trust and Get Happy! are all worth checking out

 

Bruce Springsteen - The River, Nebraska

Pixies - Doolittle

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique

The Cure - Disintegration

The Smiths - Meat is Murder, The Queen is Dead or any of the compilations

Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy

Donald Fagen - Nightfly

Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

any of the U2 or REM albums (War and Life's Rich Pageant are my favorites, respectively)

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Echo and the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain

Prince - Purple Rain

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pick up the children of nuggets box. tons of singles from great bands on that compilation and will provide you with a great resource to hear what you like and then delve deeper.

 

some of my favorites on their are the long ryders, the three o'clock, chesterfield kings, cramps, smithereens, and fuzztones off the top of my head.

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Get Sonic Youth's discography.

I agree, but since that alone is a HUGE task, you can't go wrong by starting with Daydream Nation. THe perfect mix of 80's style SY mixed with the 90's era sound. Their Magnum Opus in my (and about a million others') opinion!

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Some 80's records I have and listen to

 

Dylan- SHot Of Love, Infidels

 

George- Cloud nine, Somewhere In England, Gonne Troppo

 

ELO- Time

 

INXS- Kick, Listen like thieves

 

Madonna - like a virgin

 

Micheal Jackson- off the wall, Thriller

 

David Bowie-Let's Dance

 

Duran Duran- Rio

 

The Clash- Sandinista, Combat Rock

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I recently found a vinyl copy of this..I had been looking for one for years...I had many of the other Jam albums but was missing this one.

 

Lots of great stuff in the 80s.....alot of what was then called "alternative" but is now called indie.

 

It was hardly a bad decade at all...

 

LouieB

 

Did your vinyl come with the 7" "Bonus tracks"?

I have a vinyl copy as well, and it did. Too bad it's in storage in my crawlspace with the rest of my vinyl that I can't listen to since my (then) 2-year-old blew out my stereo which I haven't been able to replace yet because I have no money because I've been spending it all on words for run-on sentences like this one.

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10 personal favorites:

 

The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle (1981)

The Gun Club - Fire of Love (81)

The Undertones - Positive Touch (81)

Shonen Knife - Yama-no Atchan (84)

The Velvet Underground - VU (85)

Christine Lavin - Beau Woes (86)

Throwing Muses - st (86)

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands (87)

Lucinda Williams - st (88)

Pixies - Doolittle (89)

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