Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1982 poll

this is literally impossible

Thriller...Thriller /dave chappelle voice

Good year! I was so into Imperial Bedroom in high school. But then I grew up and discovered Combat Rock. 1999 and Juju Music also classics obviously

i love that i cut this off at number 25 as 20 would not have been enough and 26 to 30 just doesn't have enough to be included.

the number 25s, so far, have included Three Imaginary Boys, Zenyatta Mondatta, Street Songs and this entry The Dreaming all phenomenal albums.

eh you shoulda gone the full 50 options imo

^agree, but you've kept it consistent throughout; no shame in that.

I constantly get reminded that I need to hear Juju Music and Big Science. Still doubt anything will match The Nightfly for me.

love a lot of these (Music for a New Society, especially) but this has got to be Nebraska.

x2, with Big Science secnd.

Nebraska is p awesome

lexicon

so i'm come to a year where i feel like i can be objective, my Top 5:

1 Pornography
2 Avalon
3 Rio
4 The Lexicon of Love
5 Combat Rock

Upstairs at Eric's would be number two if included and i don't know 199, feel like i need to change that.

1999

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No votes for Rio?

yeah Pornography, i figured that album would get a few votes but not enough to place second.

love you ILM.

Blech. Nobody actually listens to Thriller, come on. Wait, if people here are claiming to enjoy Combat Rock, then maybe they actually enjoy Thriller too, I don't know, I can't imagine enjoying more than a track here and there off these things. The whole fucking albums?

My 1982 enduring faves: Hex Enduction Hour, Generic Flipper, Pinky Blue.

Juju Music is great of course, so I hope everyone will be ready to vote for Aura in 1984.

What I actually loved from 1982 whilst actually experiencing the wonders of 1982: Imperial Bedroom, On Land, Special Beat Service, Lexicon of Love, The Dreaming. I still like some songs from the last three - I think Martin Fry is an unacknowledged influence on Stephen Merritt, and of course there are riches on the Beat and Bush records - but within a year or two I realized that Imperial Bedroom is a real bad record. On Land I would have to hear again, on my copy the pops are louder than the music.

In 1982 my friends and I bought tickets for Asia on the basis the involvement of John Wetton and the other prog people in the group. Then the album came out. This band had so little material that they played "Heat of the Moment" during their concert, Carl Palmer did a revolving drum solo with a gong, and then for their encore they played: "Heat of the Moment." Afterwards we went back to my friend's house and ate mushrooms and listened to On Land.

Nobody actually listens to Thriller, come on.

lol at you and your face

I meant to vote for Rio, forgot. ;_;

It was certainly the album that meant the most to me at the time. LOL @ tweengirls etc.

^^ Me too, since I figured Prince was going to walk with this, I could vote my heart. Then I forgot to vote, and everyone lost. ;_;

Poor showing for Kate Bush.

tbh besides 1999, my top picks would be Hex and Album Generic, and I do not actually listen to Thriller anymore (besides Billie Jean of course)

It's Prince, but it's really Duran Duran.

― Julie Derpy (Phil D.), Wednesday, June 20, 2012 10:43 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM. Of stuff not on the ballot, Hex Enduction Hour and Golden Age of Wireless probably tie for album of the year for me. I ADORE English Settlement and 1999 but both are too long.

I never even heard of ABC. Really digging the first song so far off Lexicon of Love.

I forgot to vote in this one :(

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/05/01/best-albums-of-1982/

Nice list dude, I own 39 and have chunks of probably 20-30 more on compilations. I'd rank The Sound and Comsat Angels in my top 10 but it'd be really hard to rank some of these albums as any could be a renewed favorite today.

Good list but Associates, Kim Wilde, Klaus Nomi, Orange Juice and Scritti should be way higher.

Many acclaimed albums this year!.

Good little write up Alfred. You're right about this year and it's incredibly good, even looking at this poll and something like Rio doesn't even get a vote.