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.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:24 (eleven years ago) link
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
― the alternate vision continues his vision quest! (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:51 (eleven years ago) link
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
― contenderizer, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Fastnbulbous, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/07/08/vote-for-best-albums-of-1985/
― Fastnbulbous, Wednesday, 10 July 2013 03:33 (ten years ago) link
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/08/01/best-albums-of-1985/
― Fastnbulbous, Friday, 2 August 2013 14:29 (ten years ago) link
didn't vote in this one but would only replace INXS.
1. The Cure, The Head on the Door2. The Smiths, Meat is Murder3. New Order, Low-Life4. The Jesus and Mary Chain, Psychocandy5. R.E.M., Fables of the Reconstruction6. Tears For Fears, Songs From the Big Chair7. The Cult, Love8. INXS, Listen Like Thieves9. Kate Bush, Hounds of Love10. The Replacements, Tim
13. Love and Rockets, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven
― Bee OK, Sunday, 4 August 2013 05:17 (ten years ago) link
My list.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 August 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
OOPS! THAT PAGE CAN’T BE FOUND.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 August 2016 01:21 (seven years ago) link
of course i want to look
https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2016/08/03/a-game-that-anyone-can-play-best-of-1985/
― I look forward to hearing from you shortly, (Karl Malone), Thursday, 4 August 2016 01:23 (seven years ago) link
found the list but you are missing Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven. ;-)
but this is still the Cure.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 August 2016 01:24 (seven years ago) link
good list Alfred!
― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 August 2016 01:26 (seven years ago) link
thank you!
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 August 2016 01:26 (seven years ago) link
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.
― rhymes with "blondie blast" (cryptosicko), Thursday, 4 August 2016 03:01 (seven years ago) link
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
― Bee OK, Thursday, 4 August 2016 03:14 (seven years ago) link