Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1985 poll

the lack of support for Psychocandy kind of makes me sad :(

Don't be sad; I'm sure it will win

nah, 4th place

The Firstborn Is Dead, from Nick Cave's astonishing 80s run of perfect or nearly-perfect albums. An underpraised album in his catalog I think - "Knocking On Joe" finds him exploring the long ballad that'll become a big thing for him, "Tupelo" one of his all time propulsive jams, "The Black Crow King" a weird Junkyard feel to it, the "Wanted Man" cover's unbelievable (press at the time insisted that he'd gotten special dispensation from Dylan's publishers to do it - knowing what I know about publishing now, i.e. anybody can cover anything you just gotta pay the mechanicals, I think that was just a press hook, but maybe Dylan has some special deal idk), + 2 more weird ballads in "Say Goodbye to the Little Girl Tree" (the weakest song on the album, but still great) and "Blind Lemon Jefferson." well there you go I've broken down the tracks on The Firstborn Is Dead hope you enjoyed it have a great day everybody

although let's be honest neither Nick Cave nor anybody on this list is as awesome as Sam Cooke but I haven't heard the album in question

You haven't heard Live at the Harlem Square Club?!?!?! I can't recommend it highly enough. My favorite live album of all time.

yeah if i hadn't immediately eliminated the sam cooke and vu i'm pretty sure i would've voted one of them as much as i love new day rising.

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i'd also like to see up on the sun nominated. psychocandy is a brilliant album, and fables of the reconstruction is achingly sentimental to me. my choice still has to be hounds of love though.

curious to know how many will vote for Psychocandy.

Going This Is The Sea, though I'd be happy just owning a set of the records on this list.

New Day Rising over Radio and Rum/Sodomy/Lash for me. Just one of the great rock and roll record moments even if it can't sustain to the end. Fear & Whiskey done in by terrible '85 production, and Flip Your Wig and Tim are almost done, though I love "Swingin' Party" and "Games." Love moments of Psychocandy, Little Creatures, and This Nation's, and all of Sam Cooke and VU, just don't think of them as '85 albums. Never listened to Hounds of Love, I'll give it a try.

hard to call between these:

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
The Cure - The Head on the Door
LL Cool J - Radio

went with husker du

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holy shit an ILM poll with two Husker Du options that are both shut out of the top 5 -- someone check the site code, something is broken

just listened to rain dogs today, should have included it in my shortlist

Oh wow 2 canine albums over Psychocandy??

Don't understand how anyone can pick New Day Rising over Flip Your Wig. Other favorites that year were Naked Raygun - Throb Throb and Effigies - Fly On A Wire.

New Days Rising vs Flip Your Wig: New Day Rising
Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill vs Every Everything: Heaven Hill
I Apologize vs Makes No Sense At All: I Apologize
Folklore vs Hate Paper Doll: Folklore
If I Told You vs Green Eyes: Green Eyes
Celebrated Summer vs Divide And Conquer: Divide And Conquer
Perfect Example vs Games: Games
Terms Of Psychic Warfare vs Find Me: Terms Of Psychic Warfare
59 Times The Pain vs The Baby Song: 59 Times The Pain
Powerline vs Flexible Flyer: Powerline
Books About UFOs vs Private Plane: Books About UFOs
I Don't Know What You're Talking About vs Keep Hanging On: Keep Hanging On
Random bullshit at the end vs random bullshit at the end: New Day's

And Divide And Conquer vs Celebrated Summer was easily the toughest battle, imo

Would've voted for Hounds of Love.

I'd take Every Everything, Flexible Flyer and Private Plane.

i'm with da croupier the only dumb throwaway part of NDR is the cat skins for nothin part, and that's easy to avoid. FYW has Baby Song (which i can't listen to ever again), and Hate Paper Doll, which is my least favorite HD song of all time.

oops would def take flexible flyer over powerline
but who's counting

Don't understand how anyone can pick New Day Rising over Flip Your Wig. Other favorites that year were Naked Raygun - Throb Throb and Effigies - Fly On A Wire.

― Fastnbulbous, Monday, July 23, 2012 9:39 PM (Yesterday)

love the super shrill, tinfoil sound, think the songwriting's WAY better overall. tbh, i would have picked it for "terms of psychic warfare" alone, but i've always been on #teamgrant.

Rain Dogs is Tom Waits' best and probably the only album of his I would bother to listen to anymore if I still owned a copy lol but gtfo with these poll results

Agree with Fastnbulbous that Flip Your Wig is way better than New Day Rising. I do agree that Hate Paper Doll is terrible but it's a solid album. I really like Baby Song, not sure why though.

i think most people would agree with you, but there's something i just love about NDR. i said i liked the sound, but that's not entirely true. i love it because of how hard i had to work to like it in spite of the sound. and it contains the best batch of tunes grant ever wrote, imo: heaven hill, psychic warfare, books about ufos. all time, afaic. FYW is more developed and a hell of a lot easier on the ears, but i never bonded with it in the same way. not saying that NDR is the "superior album" or anything.

actually, though, i'd be really hard to choose between "terms of psychic warfare" and "green eyes" for the for my favorite song on the two

Funny, at the time when I was 15 I absolutely, passionately hated the singles from Tears For Fears and Sade at the time, and was pretty ambivalent about Prefab Sprout, Scritti Politti, Colourfield, Waterboys and Eurythmics, but am enjoying all that stuff now. I still have extremely mixed feelings about Sting though.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/07/08/vote-for-best-albums-of-1985/

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/08/01/best-albums-of-1985/

didn't vote in this one but would only replace INXS.

1. The Cure, The Head on the Door
2. The Smiths, Meat is Murder
3. New Order, Low-Life
4. The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy
5. R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction
6. Tears For Fears, Songs From the Big Chair
7. The Cult, Love
8. INXS, Listen Like Thieves
9. Kate Bush, Hounds of Love
10. The Replacements, Tim

13. Love and Rockets, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven

My list.

OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND.

of course i want to look

https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/a-game-that-anyone-can-play-best-of-1985/

found the list but you are missing Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven. ;-)

but this is still the Cure.

good list Alfred!

thank you!

Alfred's list automatically superior to the Acclaimed Music Top 30 on the grounds that his includes Songs From the Big Chair. When I dropped by my parents' new house last weekend, I was delighted to find my mom listening to it while unpacking.

not sure what happened but i didn't make a mistake as it was copy and paste.

live version: 16 1184 Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair