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Old 10.27.2008, 03:22 PM   #101
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I'm in the US until Saturday so I don't have access to my collection, and thus can't compile a "proper" top 25. So here's just a rattled "off the top of my head" attempt:
  1. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
  2. Pixies - Doolittle
  3. Sonic Youth - EVOL
  4. Glenn Branca - The Ascension
  5. Wire – Chairs Missing
  6. The Fall – Hex Endunction Hour
  7. Big Black – Songs About Fucking
  8. My Bloody Valentine – Isn’t Anything
  9. Sonic Youth – Confusion Is Sex
  10. Galaxie 500 - On Fire
  11. Minutemen – Double Nickels On The Dime
  12. Mission Of Burma – Signals, Calls and Marches
  13. Dinosaur Jr. – You’re Living All Over Me
  14. Young Marble Giants – Colossal Youth
  15. Tom Waits – Rain Dogs
  16. Talk Talk - Spirit Of Eden
  17. Ciccone Youth – The Whitey Album
  18. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
  19. Birthday Party – Junkyard
  20. Boredoms - Onanie Bomb Meets The Sex Pistols
  21. Beat Happening – Jamboree
  22. The Cure – Disintegration
  23. Butthole Sufers - Locust Abortion Technician
  24. Sebadoh – Freed Man
  25. Naked City - s/t
Well I'm horribly unsatisfied with that... Ah well.
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Old 10.27.2008, 04:26 PM   #102
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Old 10.27.2008, 04:58 PM   #103
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Also wow, I just looked properly back at my list, and, much as it's probably expected on this board, serious pasty white guitars alert...
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Old 10.27.2008, 06:25 PM   #104
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Most black musicians in "R&B" in the 80s made pasty white pop music, too.

Kool & the Gang sang "Joanna"
Lionel Richie sang "Penny Lover"
Philip Bailey broke from Earth Wind & Fire to duet w/ Phil Collins

It was a real travesty, that decade. (by and large, anyway)
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Old 10.27.2008, 07:45 PM   #105
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Most black musicians in "R&B" in the 80s made pasty white pop music, too.

Kool & the Gang sang "Joanna"
Lionel Richie sang "Penny Lover"
Philip Bailey broke from Earth Wind & Fire to duet w/ Phil Collins

It was a real travesty, that decade. (by and large, anyway)

yeah, but you also got hip hop. take the good with the bad, and for underground rock the 80s still cant be beat.
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Old 10.27.2008, 07:53 PM   #106
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yeah, but on the other hand you could do a top 25 of 80s hiphop records and you'd have more than enough amazing records to choose from.



EDIT: too slow!
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Old 10.27.2008, 10:46 PM   #107
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I haven't heard enough 80's music to do many, but here's some I'd consider my top ten:
1. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
4. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
5. Husker Du - New Day Rising
6. Sonic Youth - Sister
7. Big Black - Atomizer
8. Fugazi - 13 Songs
9. Big Black - Songs About Fucking
10. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
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Old 10.27.2008, 10:49 PM   #108
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Overall top 5 Prediction (no order):
You're Living All Over Me
Surfer Rosa
Daydream Nation
Songs About Fucking
Isn't Anything

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Old 10.27.2008, 10:49 PM   #109
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I haven't heard enough 80's music to do many, but here's some I'd consider my top ten:
1. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
2. Pixies - Doolittle
3. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
4. Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
5. Husker Du - New Day Rising
6. Sonic Youth - Sister
7. Big Black - Atomizer
8. Fugazi - 13 Songs
9. Big Black - Songs About Fucking
10. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation

i was goin to say 13 songs is a comp but i used the minor threat album two epes on one album so i don't have any room to talk.
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Old 10.27.2008, 10:56 PM   #110
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It's a bit of a gray area I guess. panto said that EP's were fine, and it's two put together so haha. Otherwise I can just vote for the EP's separately.
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Old 10.28.2008, 01:49 AM   #111
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If we're including EPs, then I'm going to add Metal Circus to my list.
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Old 10.28.2008, 04:47 AM   #113
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I'm not saying anything bad about hip hop...I specifically singled out R&B....it died an ugly death in the 80s.
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Old 10.28.2008, 05:13 AM   #114
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Overall top 5 Prediction (no order):
You're Living All Over Me
Surfer Rosa
Daydream Nation
Songs About Fucking
Isn't Anything

I win an internet and a half if I'm right.
There's a high chance that Sister, EVOl and Bad Moon Rising could also be in or around the top five.
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Old 10.28.2008, 05:19 AM   #115
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Yeah, you're probably right actually. I haven't read anyone elses responses though, so it was a blind guess.
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Old 10.28.2008, 05:27 AM   #116
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1. The Replacements – Let It Be
2. Wipers – Youth of America
3. Black Flag - Damaged
4. Flipper – Generic Flipper
5. Celtic Frost – Morbid Tales
6. Alan Vega – Alan Vega
7. Negative Approach – S/T EP
8. Napalm Death – Scum
9. Angry Samoans – Back From Samoa
10. Adolescents - Adolescents
11. Descendents – Milo Goes To College
12. The Replacements – Sorry Ma
13. Venom – Welcome To Hell
14. Redd Cross – Born Innocent
15. Void / Faith Split (only for the Void side)
16. Angry Samoans – Inside My Brain
17. Royal Trux – Royal Trux
18. Slayer – Reign In Blood
19. Husker Du – New Day Rising
20. Saint Vitus – Born Too Late
21. The Replacements – Tim
22. Pussy Galore – Right Now
23. D.R.I – Dirty Rotten LP
24. Venom – Black Metal
25. Dio – Holy Diver
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Old 10.28.2008, 05:52 AM   #117
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Nah, it was more in reference to something Pookie says quite a bit - if you were around at the time (I wasn't) Pixies were for gays.
I think I said Pixies were for women, gays and indie kids.

It's interesting to see the differences between the lists of people who aren't old enough to remember the 80s and old fellas like me who most definitely are.

I would always choose Kollaps by Einsturzende Neubauten (as opposed to the albums other people have listed), Rembrandt Pussyhorse (over Locust Abortion Technician or Hairway To Steven), Yo! Bum Rush The Show (over It Takes A Nation...), Cop (over Filth) and so on, because I remember these albums coming out.

In each case these records were my first exposure to these bands and I clearly remember the impact each had on me.

And I'm not saying that it means my selections are better. Even though they clearly are.
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Old 10.28.2008, 06:01 AM   #118
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I think I said Pixies were for women, gays and indie kids.
I was about to argue that point, on the basis that Pixies rocked my soul when they first came on the scene, until I remembered that at that time I was an indie kid. Mind you, all the Blast First crew were very appealing to indie kids at the time, they were a different breed to what they are now. Those were the days when "indie" still referred to a way of releasing music, rather than a type of music. Indie died when all the indie bands started wanting careers in music, rather than music being an artistic outlet. I blame The Smiths.
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Old 10.28.2008, 08:49 AM   #119
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There's a high chance that Sister, EVOl and Bad Moon Rising could also be in or around the top five.

I already predicted a SY clean sweep of the 80's top 5 in the 90's thread. Though I guess Isn't Anything might edge out either Confusion or Bad Moon.

I'm looking forward to the 70's list, because at least that one won't be clogged up with SY albums...
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Old 10.28.2008, 09:00 AM   #120
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yeah i was hoping someone would do a 70s list
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