The Soapbox Top Albums Of The 80s

you are a bloody wonderful man lenny.

my 80s list will be EPIC

I MAY EVEN CONTRIBUTE TO THIS

Done this pretty quickly though wasn't alot of choices to make for this decade for me. Got alot of records I kinda like but need to spend more time on, I'm not going to include anything I'm not totally familiar with to look cooler because what's the fucking point?

001 | The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses
002 | Pixies | Doolittle
003 | Dexys Midnight Runners | Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
004 | Television Personalities | ...and don't the kids just love it
005 | Guns 'N Roses | Appetite For Destruction
006 | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead
007 | The Vaselines | Dum Dum
008 | The Jesus & Mary Chain | Darklands
009 | The Jam | Sound Affects
010 | The Jam | The Gift

011 | Pixies | Surfer Rosa
012 | The Smiths | Strangeways, Here We Come
013 | The Smiths | Meat Is Murder
014 | Ramones | End Of A Century
015 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Exodus
016 | Nirvana | Bleach
017 | The Wedding Present | George Best
018 | Morrissey | Viva Hate
019 | Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band | Doc At The Radar Station
020 | New Order | Brotherhood

021 | Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band | Ice Cream For Crow
022 | Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | Tender Prey
023 | Stiff Little Fingers | Nobody's Heroes
024 | Julian Cope | Fried
025 | Bob Marley & The Wailers | Uprising
026 | R.E.M. - Green
027 | Primal Scream | Sonic Flower Groove
028 | The Jesus & Mary Chain | Psychocandy
029 | Public Enemy | It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
030 | The Pastels | Sittin' Pretty

040 | Beastie Boys | Paul's Boutique
041 | The Fall | Bend Sinister
042 | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation
043 | Orange Juice | You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
044 | Dexys Midnight Runners | Too-Rye-Ay
045 | Billy Bragg | Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
046 | The Creeps | Enjoy The Creeps
047 | Echo & The Bunnymen | Ocean Rain
048 | Happy Mondays | Bummed
049 | The Clash | Sandinista!
050 | N.W.A | Straight Outta Compton

Few others I could of included but after that the quality either takes a big dip or I'm not familiar enough to be putting them in a list like this. My 70's list shall be SUPERB

I did a rough list of this before when we were doing the others, I'll go through it and equate some list soon, I found the 80's had a lot of my all time favourite albums definitely, and lots of albums I love by the same artist, but not as many overal

im really looking forward to the 70s list too. up until about a year ago id say the 70s was the decade i had the least knowledge of but ive listened to tons of stuff from it lately and realised it has some amazing stuff. reckon my top 100 will be pretty amazing now.

been working on my 80s list since we were doing the 90s one on the old soapy though so ive spent a lot of time with each of the albums. i fucking love 80s indie music.

am going to work on this later this week

btw bruv, where the hell is closer by joy division

Never got into it, like bits of it but always struggled with that one. Prefer the debut by a long shot.

Oh yeah Yanks, no TCOTU Calling, it was released December 79, official

my thoughts exactly on that album tbh

though "ISOLATION" is immense.

might give it another listen tonight, see if it clicks

Atrocity Exhibition may be the greatest song of the 80's! Love Closer, prefer it to Unknown Pleasures, took some getting into though

both 10 outta 10 all neeeeet

I don't like the change of direction, the keyboard sounds seem horribly dated to me, a little out of place & almost ruin a few of the tracks. Agreed about Isolation, superb track. Hopefully one day it'll click and we can all LOL at me in this thread but every time I put it on It feels more like a chore than a good listen.

imagine if they carried on, making tunes like Ceremony....

Isolation probably has the cheesiest and most dated synth sounds on the album, the first half of the album is a chugging monolith, the second half really takes some patience, but its worth it

I remember when I was on this Dutch music forum and posten something like "haha what a shit album 3/10" and a 6 months later "one of my favourite albums ever lololool 10/10" it's one of the few albums that i completely hated at first and completely loved a while later

Well they didn't because the singer was a fucking loser who sucked at life.

Its probably obvious but there are some seriously dark lyrics on that album, but yet, utterly beautiful..