Favourite SST Release of... 1984

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6nX0mGv7-4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSnfMBi4aRs

Bob's guitar on Turn On The News is fucking godlike. Brilliant song with brilliant guitar.

Eight Miles High

The pinnacle.

My first Husker purchase and possibly the best.

Fucking huge

Saint Vitus v Minutemen v Zen Arcade for me...

I voted Saint Vitus in the end just so they got a vote as they deserve it, but ZA is the best album here.

but you know what? I like them all.

what a year for a label.

1985 would also belong to SST. But what about 1986? I have a gut feeling that's when Homestead takes over?

Someone should figure out a labels best year in the 80s, then poll each labels best year against each other and see who wins.

i'm assuming def jam had some ridiculous ass year too but i'd have to look

you just volunteered!

hurrah!

Lol I think there's a specific year in the mid-80s where Sire would have been my champion label.

you volunteering to help him?

Nooooooooo

just name the labels here then he can compile a poll once we sorta agree on labels/years

SST
Homestead
Touch & Go
Def Jam
Sire

who else?

Sub Pop ?

Epic! (if one of the albums you put out in any given year is thriller, you're probably dominating that year no matter what else you or anyone else puts out)

Blast First
Dischord

http://www.bsnpubs.com/warner/distributed/sire.html

Here's a discography of Sire Records albums. '81, '83, '84 are all great.

I'm sure the Minutemen will win by a wide margin. For me, it's dead even between Meat Puppets II and "Eight Miles High." I want to vote, so I'll go with "Eight Miles High" as the one that had the greater effect on me at the time. I might be wrong, but I think it came out slightly in advance of Zen Arcade; I remember thinking that this was a far as you could possibly take something. And, as I've written elsewhere on this board, that's exactly how it played out for me; I thought a lot of Zen Arcade consisted of them doing stuff that they'd already moved past. And then they got great again with the next two albums, but only because they changed.

embarrassing, but i only know a handful of these records ... anyone want to make me a mix? SST 84!?

Voted for Saint Vitus in the end.

hmm there's not that one year of def jam i was really counting on....they didn't put out as many albums as i thought!

Wow that Sire catalog, yeah. I wonder how long I could sustain myself on only the Sire and SST catalogs 1980-1985.

Beggar's Banquet would probably need to be added to the list, no? Maybe Creation? Factory, obv.

xpost Tyler I am shocked!!!

i know the husker and minutemen stuff, but my war is the only Black Flag record from this list I have ... and for some reason I don't have any Meat Puppets!

that's fucked up dude, you'd love up II & especially on the sun

i meant you'd love II & especially upon the sun

up on the sun

i guess i gotta get it. always meant to get around to the meat puppets but never did.

i'd be super-shocked if you didn't like up on the sun

We can hip you to highlights of their later records later but yeah just start with II and Up.

voted live 84

i think every album might get at least one vote.

up on the sun is soooooo great.

i just bought it!

am i the only person who doesn't like meat puppets II? just totally doesn't work for me, hate the vocals.

it's not my favorite meat puppets record by any stretch, and now that i think about it i'd rank them: in a car > s/t > up on the sun > II

and i don't know if i've ever heard any of them past that. i guess i should check out huevos sometime?

xpost Naw, I just cannot get past those weak vox. Never understood the love at all.

great album, but i love all their 80s stuff bar the 1st one that i just couldnt get into.

vote!

was listening to II a bunch this weekend....that's a real dusty trip. love it.

Huevos wasn't "weird" enough for some old-school fans but it's pretty awesome zztop style driving boogie rock.

oh and yeah i can totally understand the singing being a block to enjoying II but it's all about the wailing axes

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Too High to Die is a good intro if you can't get past the vocals on the SST records. Leary did some good knob twiddling on them, and Kirkwood could sing better and its a very strong set of songs.

"Family Man" is my favorite Black Sabbath album!