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Great Rock Albums of the 80's


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That is exactly what I thought as a 17 year old watching it "{censored} this is the eighties how about some color?". Pretentious even in their film choice.

 

 

I think the plan was that it would go colour after a while, but the Edge looked really stupid in a lion costume and Bono went off in a strop because there weren't enough rubies on his slippers. So that put paid to that plan. Adam Clayton, interestingly, has carried on method acting as the Tin Man ever since, and hardly anyone has noticed.

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One issued/problem/fact, as evidenced by some remarks on this thread, is the 80s were when people really started to get hung up on little labels and categories and subgenres.


What passed for "rock" in the 60s and 70s was pretty broad.


{censored} it, from now on rock and roll to me means Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Bill Haley, and Gene Vincent and His Blue Caps.



Hmmm 80's? CHECK
Rock? CHECK

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the 80s rocked hard!

Iron Maiden-Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden-KIllers-
Iron Maiden-Number of the Beast
Iron Miaden-Piece of Mind
Iron Maiden-Powerslave
Iron Maiden-Live after Death
Iron Maiden-Somewhere in Time
Billy Joel-Glass Houses
Metal Church - Ton of Bricks
Venom- Welcome to hell
Agent Orange- Living in Darkness
The Misfits-walk among us
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Juju
Dwight Yoakam- Hillbilly Deluxe
Dead Kennedys- Frankenchrist
Black Flag- Slip it in
Slayer- South of Heaven
Fugazi-13 songs
Pretenders-Pretenders

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Doolittle/Surfer Rosa - Pixies
Let It Be - Replacements
Double Nickels on a Dime - Minutemen
S/T - Stone Roses


And if Talking Heads and Sonic Youth count as rock...

Daydream Nation/Sister/Evol - Sonic Youth
Remain in light - Talking Heads

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This should be a VERY short thread.


But it probably won't.



^ This sums it up very well. ^ :thu:



Looking through this thread I see that for the most part the '80s really sucked music wise. :facepalm:

I'd forgotten just how bad it was.

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^ This sums it up very well. ^
:thu:



Looking through this thread I see that for the most part the '80s really sucked music wise.
:facepalm:

I'd forgotten just how bad it was.

I think perspective has a lot to do with it. I "came of age" in the 80's and think the 90's and current music sucks for the most part. If you came of age in the 60's or 70's I can see where you'd look down your nose at the music that followed.

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..I'd forgotten just how bad it was.

 

I haven't. These were my formative years musically. However I spent the decade listening to Hendrix, Zep, Stones and my Dad's massive jazz collection (no choice on that last one, but I dug some of it).

 

I did work experience at a recording studio when I was at school. A very successful (domestically) Australian pop band were recording a big selling album at the time. They flounced around in their '80s gear while I sat in the corner with my black Fender t-Shirt and jeans on. I knew they hated me and I bailed after 3 days of being totally ignored. This sums up the 80s for me.

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BUTTHOLE SURFERS- Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's SAC
BIG BLACK- Songs About {censored}ing
JESUS LIZARD- Goat
SUPERSUCKERS- The Songs All Sound The Same
THE LEE HARVEY OSWALD BAND- s/t ep
DINOSAUR, JR.- Bug/You're Living All Over Me
HUSKER DU- Zen Arcade
MINUTEMEN- Double Nickels On The Dime
POWER OF THE SPOKEN WORD- Language Of A Dying Breed
MISFITS- Walk Among Us
THE CRAMPS- Stay Sick!
BLACK FLAG- My War/Slip It In
ST. VITUS- anything they did
MOTORHEAD- anything they did
THE REPLACEMENTS- Stink/Let It Be
BONGWATER- Too Much Sleep
BOREDOMS- Soul Discharge
LOOP- A Gilded Eternity
MISSION OF BURMA- vs.
DWARVES- Blood, Guts And {censored}
MELVINS- Bullhead
TRAGIC MULATTO- Hot Man {censored}
PIXIES- Surfer Rosa
THE FLAMING LIPS- Telepathic Surgery
CRUCI{censored}S- Wisconsin
FLIPPER- Generic
MEAT PUPPETS- II
JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS- Bad Reputation
TOM PETTY AND THE HEARTBREAKERS- Hard Promises/Long After Dark
VAN HALEN- Fair Warning (their most rocking and interesting album IMO)
COWS- Daddy Has A Tail
DIE KREUZEN- s/t
JESUS & MARY CHAIN- Psychocandy
TENPOLE TUDOR- Eddie, Old Bob, Dick And Gary / Let The Four Winds Blow
DAVID BOWIE- Scary Monsters
THE VAPORS- New Clear Days/Magnets
BAD BRAINS- Rock For Light

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Well that took a bit longer than I expected.


How could a band called "The Police" ever be considered Rock? DQ'd on the name alone. As for the cool pop they produced, to call it Rock would be like introducing a dancer from the Bolshoi as the Sergeant at Arms of the Hells Angels.

 

 

Some of their stuff seems pretty rockin' to me:

 

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