Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1980!!

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/62/Barbra-streisand-guilty-album.jpg

that's the one. My mums 2 faves are Shirley Bassey and Barbra Streisand but she has some 80s Diana Ross albums and a greatest hits CD. None of that Supremes nonsense :D

Another classic from 1980. Shamefully out of print!

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My #1 and #2 aren't here (Undertones' Hypnotised and Numan's Telekon), which means my vote will go to... Prince! Or maybe The B-52's.

Can't believe you forgot
https://i.imgur.com/neN6GWn.jpg

Freedom of Chemise

A real goodie bag:

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Mustn't forget this classic single by Scotland's own Sheena Easton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_3vZYOYNYU

Bellshill Indie before it became cool

I love a bunch of stuff here but I'm going for the Units because I was surprised and delighted to see it on the list

(but also feeling kinda bad for not voting "Jane From Occupied Europe" or Bass Culture)

Closer

eyeroll at y'all talking shit about diana ross's 1980 record, it's a chic organization joint and it's fucking great

Some places list Slapp Happy's Acnalbasac Noom as a 1980 release. Bob Dylan's Saved would be another contender. I'd go with Doc at the Radar Station from this list. My favorite post-Trout-Mask Beefheart.

Acnalbasac Moon was indeed released in 1980, but recorded in 1974, and I personally wouldn't consider it eligible. Probably one of my top ten records of all time though.

i can never decide whether i like casablanca moon or acnalbasac noom better

i don't think of it as a 1980 release but i also don't think of "the modern lovers" as a 1976 release

a couple more 1980 records i've discovered recently and want to recommend:

don slepian - the sea of bliss
carambolage - s/t

but i also don't think of "the modern lovers" as a 1976 release

why?

Same reason, I assume.

Anyone else voting The Beat?

tom d otm, i think of it as an archival release

immediately made sure seventeen seconds was there. voted for it.

❤ Austin tho Gaucho is also on here.

glad somebody voted for seventeen seconds, it deserves love in this poll

was feeling torn between beefheart and the fall but uh i just put on "is this real?" and now i'm super torn ! torn to shreds by wipers

YOU BETTER BEWARE

I thought you said you wouldn't be around til 1990, you cunt

“Group Sex” vs. “Dirty Mind” is a really hard choice (and I’m not just making a joke)

both are all-time great

No other choice:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjKGJ9RFo78

never understood any love the pretenders got. Her voice is like nails on chalkboard to me

I listened to it there a couple of days ago and it still sounds great. The bonus tracks on the extended version of the album are fantastic too.

I'd vote Los Angeles if it was on here, can make a case that Crocodiles is underrated and highly influential.

never understood any love the pretenders got. Her voice is like nails on chalkboard to me

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I don't mind her voice and think they were a decent pop band in their prime, but 9.5 times out of 10 I'd rather listen to Blondie.

Remain In Light is top 20 all-time for me. Maybe top 10.

This is Talking Heads vs Colossal Youth, and they’re both amazing albums.

My vote goes to Colossal Youth because it was a more influential record to me, even if in reality it had no precedent or spiritual followers. It feels like a record outside of time and place and it’s pretty much perfect in its own terms.

This is Talking Heads vs Colossal Youth, and they’re both amazing albums.

My vote goes to Colossal Youth because it was a more influential record to me, even if in reality it had no precedent or spiritual followers. It feels like a record outside of time and place and it’s pretty much perfect in its own terms.

Albums not in this list that would be in mine:

Aqsak Maboul - Un peu de l'âme des bandits
Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
Max Roach - M'Boom
Pylon - Gyrate

I'd vote Los Angeles if it was on here

I dont get whats the big deal about X tbh

Seem like a band Americans like.

xxp

Max Roach - M'Boom

such a fine + underrated album is that!

eyeroll at y'all talking shit about diana ross's 1980 record, it's a chic organization joint and it's fucking great

??? where are the posts talking shit about this album cos I can't see any at all

re: X, I still remember my first time hearing Los Angeles

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not sure how Remain In Light is in both the 1979 and 1980 polls, always thought of it as from 1980, voting for it in this one

ok I forgot that thread title was a mistake

that will be confusing when searching for the real 1979 poll

I asked the mods to delete it

I hope they delete the right one! haha

i knew talking heads would walk it but 28 votes? wow

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

good showing for colossal youth

Oh my! Like, what a fuckin' surprise!