Best Records of 1980

[xxxMidgexxx]

Black Sabbath 'Heaven and Hell'
Judas Priest 'British Steel'
Pretenders debut LP
Ozzy 'Blizzard of Ozz'
Iron Maiden s/t first album
Wipers 'Is this Real'?
Angelwitch s/t first album
Motorhead 'Ace of Spades'
Rush 'Permanent Waves'
Devo 'Freedom of Choice'
Killing Joke s/t debut album
Circle Jerks 'Group Sex'
Damned 'Black Album'
Half Japanese '1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts'
Journey 'Departure'

[Knutsen]

The Sound - Jeopardy

[FormerLurker]

G.G Allin - Always Was, Is, and Always Shall Be.

[xxxMidgexxx]

G.G Allin - Always Was, Is, and Always Shall Be.

[JGJR]

The Sound - Jeopardy

Bigly. Also, these:

Graham Parker and the Rumour - The Up Escalator
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Get Happy!!
The Clash - Sandinista!
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
Joy Division - Closer
The Specials - More Specials
Prince - Dirty Mind
XTC - Black Sea
The Undertones - Hypnotised
Subhumans (CA) - Incorrect Thoughts
D.O.A. - Something Better Change
Squeeze - Argybargy
The Sleepers - Painless Nights
The Selecter - Too Much Pressure
The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Psychedelic Furs - s/t
The Nuns - s/t
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
Joe Jackson Band - Beat Crazy
The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
Dickies - Dawn of the Dickies
DKs - Fresh Fruit
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
Alex Chilton - Like Flies on Sherbert
Bowie - Scary Monsters
The Jam - Sound Affects
SLF - Hanx!
Jim Carroll Band - Catholic Boy
Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Minutemen - "Paranoid Time" 7"
Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Klark Kent - s/t 10"
Pointed Sticks - Perfect Youth
X - Los Angeles
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Comsat Angels - Waiting for a Miracle
Big Boys/Dicks - split Lp
Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
Kid Creole and the Coconuts - Off the Coast of Me
Suicide - s/t 2nd album
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
AC/DC - Back in Black

It might be my favorite year in music ever. Wow.

[xxxMidgexxx]

It might be my favorite year in music ever. Wow.

Lots of great stuff there, but some of those albums had great 'songs' while the album as a whole wasn't terrific.

ie:
Bowie
The Clash (4 or 5 great songs for a triple LP is not very good)
Psychedelic Furs
Soft Boys

[JGJR]

It might be my favorite year in music ever. Wow.

Lots of great stuff there, but some of those albums had great 'songs' while the album as a whole wasn't terrific.

ie:
Bowie
The Clash (4 or 5 great songs for a triple LP is not very good)
Psychedelic Furs
Soft Boys

I gotta disagree with you on all of those. Underwater Moonlight is an all-timer for me. Sandinista! is a huge favorite, too. I wouldn't claim every song is great, but it's not really about that. Scary Monsters is great from start to finish IMO.

[xxxMidgexxx]

I gotta disagree with you.

Excuse you? Who's thread is this??

[patient_ot]

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/pa ... ss.rd/1980

[xxxMidgexxx]

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/patient_ot/strm_relyear,ss.rd/1980

Harold Budd / Brian Eno "Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror"


Totally!

[JGJR]

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/patient_ot/strm_relyear,ss.rd/1980

Harold Budd / Brian Eno "Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror"


Totally!

Big omission on my part; incredible album; been getting into Budd's work a lot in general, The Moon and The Melodies (with Cocteau Twins), Ambient 2, and The Pavilion of Dreams, in particular, are the ones I've listened to and I like them all a lot, but I just don't have physical copies of any of it yet.

[JGJR]

https://rateyourmusic.com/collection/patient_ot/strm_relyear,ss.rd/1980

Thanks for posting that. Colossal Youth, Group Sex (which I didn't include because it was on midge's list), and Nobody's Heroes are all albums I love and own (2 of those 3 in mulitple formats though I used to have GS on CD, too) and should've included. PG III, too. Some other good ones in there that I didn't include, too, like the Hassell/Eno, Siouxsie, Skids, Tom Waits, etc.

[patient_ot]

Big omission on my part; incredible album; been getting into Budd's work a lot in general, The Moon and The Melodies (with Cocteau Twins), Ambient 2, and The Pavilion of Dreams, in particular, are the ones I've listened to and I like them all a lot, but I just don't have physical copies of any of it yet.

Around 2004 or so most of Eno's core back catalog and the Budd collaboration albums were remastered on CD. These are not shitty loudness war remasters, but are very well done with good dynamic range. I'd recommend those editions to most people. Trying to get that kind of a delicate music on vinyl is going to be a potential exercise in frustration.

Budd/Eno's the Pearl is a great one if you haven't checked that out yet. I've liked some of Budd's later work too, but don't own any of it. Some of it is OOP and has been for awhile.

[JGJR]

Big omission on my part; incredible album; been getting into Budd's work a lot in general, The Moon and The Melodies (with Cocteau Twins), Ambient 2, and The Pavilion of Dreams, in particular, are the ones I've listened to and I like them all a lot, but I just don't have physical copies of any of it yet.

Around 2004 or so most of Eno's core back catalog and the Budd collaboration albums were remastered on CD. These are not shitty loudness war remasters, but are very well done with good dynamic range. I'd recommend those editions to most people. Trying to get that kind of a delicate music on vinyl is going to be a potential exercise in frustration.

Budd/Eno's the Pearl is a great one if you haven't checked that out yet. I've liked some of Budd's later work too, but don't own any of it. Some of it is OOP and has been for awhile.

I can't recall if I've heard The Pearl, likely in passing. I agree with what you wrote about ambient music being difficult to translate onto vinyl sometimes and sounding great on CD. I have Music for Films and No Pussyfooting on CD (old '80s versions) and they both sound great, but I am also fine with my vinyl copies of Ambient 4 (On Land) and some of Eno's recent stuff like the piano suite Lux, which I particularly like, even though it has a few pops/clicks.

I think I had the 2004 European CD of Another Green World from the series you mentioned and recall it sounding good, too.

[jaybird]

K-Tel Rock '80.

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[version sound]

Joy Division - Closer
The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
X - Los Angeles
Echo And The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Image Publique S.A. - Paris Au Printemps
The Clash - Sandinista!
Dead Kennedys ‎– Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
The Cramps ‎– Songs The Lord Taught Us
Bauhaus ‎– In The Flat Field
Devo ‎– Freedom Of Choice
Sleepers - Painless Nights
Circle Jerks - Group Sex
B-52’s - Wild Planet
Various ‎– The Decline Of Western Civilization