Acclaimed Music Top 25 Albums from 1985 poll

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