The Soapbox Top Albums Of The 80s

i exist on the best terms i can
the past is now part of my future
the present is well out of hand


cried so many timez to this late at night cutting myself

the stone roses - the stone roses
the replacements - let it be
dinosaur jr - bug
the replacements - tim
galaxie 500 - on fire
u2 - joshua tree
xtc - skylarking
the smiths - the queen is dead
the jesus and mary chain - darklands
the cure - disintergration
bruce springsteen - nebraska
paul simon - graceland
spaceman 3 - playing with fire
sonic youth - daydream nation
the feelies - forces at work
the smiths - strangeways here we come
the beastie boys - paul boutique
dramarama - cinema verite
dinosaur jr - you're all over me
de la soul - 3 feet high and rising
the jesus and mary chain - psycho candy
new order - power corruption and lies

off the top of my head NOT THE FINAL LIST

001 | Tom Waits | Rain Dogs
002 | Pixies | Surfa Rosa
003 | Sonic Youth | Daydream Nation
004 | Prince | Sign O The Times
005 | Pixies | Doolittle
006 | Violent Femmes | Violent Femmes
007 | Joy Division | Closer
008 | Dexy's Midnight Runners | Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
009 | Tom Waits | Swordfishtrombones
010 | The Beastie Boys | Pauls Boutique
011 | The Minutemen | Double Nickels on The Dime
012 | Sonic Youth | Sister
013 | Dinosaur Jr. | You're Living All Over Me
014 | Prince | Parade
015 | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour
016 | Prince | 1999
017 | The Smiths | The Queen Is Dead
018 | REM | Murmur
019 | De La Soul | 3ft High & Rising
020 | Public Enemy | It Takes A Nation Of Millions
021 | The Replacements | Let it Be
022 | Violent Femmes | Hallowed Ground
023 | Boogie Down Productions | By All Means Neccesary
024 | Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too Ray Aye
025 | The Fall | This Nations Saving Grace
026 | Husker Du | New Day Rising
027 | Prince | The Black Album
028 | The Minutemen | The Politics Of Time
029 | The Fall | Grotesque (After The Gramme)
030 | Squeeze | Argybargy
031 | Mission Of Burma | Signals, Calls & Marches
032 | Television Personalities | And Don't The Kids Just Love It
033 | Prince | Dirty Mind
034 | Sonic Youth | EVOL
035 | Tom Waits | Franks Wild Years
036 | Nick Cave | Tender Prey
037 | Bruce Springsteen | Nebraska
038 | Prince | Purple Rain
039 | The Smiths | Meat Is Murder
040 | REM | Lifes Rich Paegent
041 | Elvis Costello | Get Happy!
042 | The Vasalines | Dum Dum
043 | Camper Van Beathoven | Telephone Free Landside Victory
044 | REM | Document
045 | Stone Roses | Stone Roses
046 | Talking Heads | Little Creatures
047 | David Bowie | Scary Monsters
048 | Prince | Controversy
049 | The Cure | The Head On The Door
050 | Eric B & Rakeem | Paid In Full



..edited the list a tad..

you got round to listening to 'by all means necessary' kev! good man, it's a fine album

disappointed to see paid in full languishing at the bottom of your list though....i think it's my second or third favourite hip hop album of all time

Nice one kev, never ever occurred to me to check out Squeeze.

Tom Waits I predict I'll get into 2016.

Can't say I know enough 80s albums to make a worthwhile list but I'll be scouring these for recommendations. Still, Stone Roses at 45 Kev? Fourty fucking five? WTF?

the whole album is brilliant.

prefer unknown pleasures meself.

very close though. ;D

001 | The Fall | Perverted By Language |
002 | The Stone Roses | The Stone Roses
003 | The Smiths | The Smiths
004 | The Jesus & Mary Chain | Automatic
005 | Felt | The Splendour of Fear
006 | The Jesus & Mary Chain | Psychocandy
007 | The Fall | Slates
008 | Captain Beefheart | Doc at the Radar Station
009 | The Pale Fountains | ...From Across the Kitchen Table
010 | Shack | Zilch
011| Television Personalities | They Could Have Been Bigger Than The Beatles
012 | Johnny Thunders | Hurt Me
013 | The smiths | Meat is Murder
014 | The Jam | Sound Affects
015 | Felt | Me and a Monkey on the Moon
016 | The smiths | Strangeways, Here We Come
017 | Happy Mondays | Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Pary People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)
018 | Spacemen 3 | Playing With Fire
019 | The Smiths | The Queen is Dead
020 | Honolulu Mountain Daffodils | Tequila Dementia
021 | Spacemen 3 | The Perfect Prescription
022 | The Replacements | Pleased to Meet Me
023 | The Prisoners | The Last Fourfathers
024 | The Fall | Grotesque (After the Gramme)
025 | The Replacements | Let It Be
026 | The Jam | The Gift
027 | Television | The Painted Word
028 | The Fall | Hex Enduction Hour
029 | Felt | Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
030 | The Fall | The Frenz Experiment
031 | Dr. John | Plays Mac Rebennack
032 | The Durutti Column | The Return of The Durutti Column
033 | Joy Division | Closer
034 | Captain Beefheart | Ice Cream for Crow
035 | George Jones | I Am What I Am
036 | Sonic Youth | Evol
037 | Loop | Heaven's End
038 | Primal Scream | Sonic Flower Groove
039 | My Bloody Valentine | Isn't Anything
040 | Steve Earle | Guitar Town
041 | Gil Scott-Heron | Moving Target
042 | Rain Parade | Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
043 | New Order | Movement
044 | The Style Council | Introducing
045 | Nikki sudden | Groove
046 | Millie Jackson | Back to the Shit
047 | Curtis Mayfield | Honesty
048 | Half Man Half Biscuit | Back in the DHSS
049 | James Booker | Classified
050 | Black Uhuru | Red

all much loved albums by a handful of the same bands but its a shit decade innit

044

Great list ton-man, never even heard of Honolulu Mountain Daffodils , will look into them.

It's with Adrian Borland (The Sound).

please remove that avatar, i feel ill

BEST MUSICAL DECADE EVER

1; Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (1988)
2; The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)
3; The Wedding Present - George Best (1987)
4; Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever (1982)
5; The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead (1986)
6; The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)
7; Joy Division - Closer (1980)
8; The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands (1987)
9; The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme) (1980)
10; Captain Beefheart - Doc at the Radar Station (1980)
11; Josef K - The Only Fun in Town (1981)
12; The Pastels - Sittin' Pretty (1989)
13; Pixies - Doolittle (1989)
14; Dinosaur Jr - You're Living All Over Me (1987)
15; Fire Engines - Lubricate Your Living Room (1980)
16; The Birthday Party - Junkyard (1982)
17; Half Man Half Biscuit - Back in the DHSS (1985)
18; The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic (1989)
19; Mission of Burma - Vs (1982)
20; The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come (1987)
21; Television Personalities - And Don't the Kids Just Love it (1981)
22; Orange Juice – Rip it Up (1982)
23; Arthur Russell – World of Echo (1986)
24; The Smiths – Meat is Murder (1985)
25; The Vaselines – Dum Dum (1989)
26; Le Nimba De N’ Zerekore – Gon Bia Bia (1980)
27; Pixies – Sufer Rosa (1988)
28; The Replacements – Let it Be (1984)
29; Tom Waits – Rain Dogs (1985)
30; The Fall – This Nation’s Saving Grace (1985)
31; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Tender Prey (1988)
32; Beat Happening – Beat Happening (1985)
33; REM – Murmur (1983)
34; Talking Heads – Remain in Light (1980)
35; The Smiths – The Smiths (1984)
36; Sonic Youth – Sister (1987)
37; The Wedding Present – Bizarro (1989)
38; Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Your Funeral…My Trial (1986)
39 The Fall – Perverted by Language (1983)
40; Public Enemy – It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (1988)
41; The Fall – The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (1984)
42; The Replacements – Tim (1985)
43; Dinosaur Jr – Bug (1982)
44; Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique (1989)
45; This Heat – Deceit (1981)
46; Robert Wyatt – Nothing Can Stop Us (1982)
47; The Fall – Bend Sinister (1986)
48; The Raincoats – Odyshape (1981)
49; Husker Du – Zen Arcade (1984)
50; John Zorn – The Big Gundown (1986)
51;The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour (1982)
52;Nirvana – Bleach (1989)
53;The Pastels – Up For a Bit with the Pastels (1987)
54;Lou Reed – New York (1989)
55;The Fall – Slates (1981)
56;Tom Waits – Franks Wild Years (1987)
57;Beat Happening – Jamboree (1988)
58;The Field Mice – Snowball (1989)
59;American Music Club – Engine (1987)
60;Husker Du – Candy Apple Grey (1986)
61;Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain (1983)
62;NWA – Straight Outta Compton (1988)
63;REM – Lifes Rich Pageant (1986)
64;The Jam – Sound Affects (1980)
65;Derek Bailey – Aida (1981)
66;Husker Du – New Day Rising (1985)
67;The Fall – The Frenz Experiment (1988)
68;Glenn Branca – The Ascension (1981)
69;The Birthday Party – Prayers on Fire (1981)
70;The Housemartins – TCOTU 0 Hull 4 (1986)
71;REM – Fables of the Reconstruction (1985)
71;Primal Scream – Primal Scream (1989)
72;Brian Eno and David Byrne – My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1981)
73;Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – The Firstborn is Dead (1985)
74;Sonic Youth – Sonic Youth (1982)
75;REM – Document (1987)
76;Sonic Youth – Evol (1986)
77;Tom Waits – Heartattack and Vine (1980)
78;Daniel Johnston – Songs of Pain (1981)
79;Television Personalities – Mummy Your Not Watching Me (1982)
80;Galaxie 500 – Today (1988)
81;Beat Happening – Black Candy (1989)
82;Wipers – Is this Real? (1980)
83; Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones (1983)
84;REM – Green (1988)
85;The Teardrop Explodes – Kilimanjaro (1980)
86;Vic Godard and the Subway Sect – What’s the Matter Boy? (1980)
87;Gang of Four – Solid Gold (1981)
88;Half Man Half Biscuit – ACD (1988)
89;Wipers – Youth of America (1981)
90;Wire – A Bell is a Cup Until it is Struck (1988)
91;Robert Wyatt – Old Rottenhat (1985)
92;John Cooper Clarke – Snap Crackle and Bop (1980)
93;Treepeople – Guilt, Regret, Embarrassment (1989)
94;Iggy Pop – Zombie Birdhouse (1982)
95;Arthur Russell – Tower of Meaning (1983)
96;The Clash – Sandinista! (1980)
97;Wipers – Over the Edge (1983)
98;Galaxie 500 – On Fire (1989)
99;Wolfhounds – Unseen Ripples from a Pebble (1987)
100;Daniel Johnston – Hi, How Are You? (1983)

Heart Attack & Vine and Franks Wild Years above Swordfishtrombones

have to check some of them out. Always thought Automatic was pretty average by J&MC's standards.

darklands is better jp.

the 80's is great.

do my own sometime in the week.

where will rio come in the countdown.

look forward to it murphs.