Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1983!!

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A less impressive selection this time around--not a dig at Michael's list; just an acknowledgement that 1983 wasn't as strong as 1980-2--but She's So Unusual remains a template for how a debut pop record should be done.

Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Saturday, 4 May 2019 03:49 (five years ago) link

script of the bridge

:∵·∴·∵: (crüt), Saturday, 4 May 2019 05:28 (five years ago) link

Meat Puppets ii is '84

you are right, there must be an error in my access database of music purchases. that means my 1983 fave must be something else.

sorry to say i'm going to continue pissing you off :) if somebody has something interesting to say about "kill 'em all" please don't let me stop you, but i don't.

i told you not to listen to me ;-)

to be honest i don' t know most of the albums here very well, so i will try to check some of them out. i think i'll start with the aztec camera.

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Saturday, 4 May 2019 12:20 (five years ago) link

As usual for this era, lots of stuff that I like, nothing that I really love. I'll have to mull it over.

pomenitul, Saturday, 4 May 2019 12:24 (five years ago) link

Hm, Def Leppard vs Philip Glass vs REM vs Sonic Youth. Btw, did REM have an 'anti-synth' stance, aside from just not using synths? Honestly curious if they said something like that.

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 4 May 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link

Went for Confusion Is Sex in the end, of course.

All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Saturday, 4 May 2019 15:22 (five years ago) link

I dont think REM had an avowed anti-synth stance

. (Michael B), Saturday, 4 May 2019 15:33 (five years ago) link

Listening Script of the Bridge and a) goddamn Up the Down Escalator is good and ii) how did Interpol get away with it?

Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Saturday, 4 May 2019 16:18 (five years ago) link

early on Michael Stipe had a synthy side project, Tanzplagen (Wikipedia informs me he played Farfisa organ, but that may have been the closest he could get to a synth in 1980-81)

Brad C., Saturday, 4 May 2019 18:13 (five years ago) link

Hard to argue with Murmur or Speaking in Tongues, but I'm voting Synchro System.

Replacements Hootenanny missing from list.

stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Saturday, 4 May 2019 20:28 (five years ago) link

This may be my favourite year for music in the 80s. From the list I'm going with Before Hollywood, the Go-Betweens most hungry, astringent and poetic album. I never get tired of it.

The most important album of 1983 for me (and befitting my nom de ILX) was Stavros Xarhakos' remarkable original soundtrack for Kosta Ferris's film Rebetiko. He managed to craft deeply soulful music which existed simultaneously in 1933 and 1983, reinvigorating a genre that was trapped in amber by revivalists. When I heard it, and contemporaneous albums by Nikos Papazouglou, Haris Alexiou, Aki Panou and others, I knew it was the music I wanted to play. It changed my life and led me on a fantastic and continuing musical journey.

Ρεμπετολογια, Saturday, 4 May 2019 20:58 (five years ago) link

Sonic Youth – Confusion is Sex
Suicidal Tendencies – s/t
Swans – Filth
Talking Heads – Speaking in Tongues
U2 – War
Violent Femmes – s/t

are my top 6.

nicky lo-fi, Sunday, 5 May 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link

Oh hey, i see my favorite Wipers album on the list

Western® with Bacon Flavor, Sunday, 5 May 2019 04:57 (five years ago) link

The most important album of 1983 for me (and befitting my nom de ILX) was Stavros Xarhakos' remarkable original soundtrack for Kosta Ferris's film Rebetiko.

i loved the film which introduced me to rembetiko to. especially the end where they sing rembetiko and dance around the grave of marika, the main character impressed me very much at the time. rembetiko - the music of the refugees from asia minor esp. smyrna (izmir) after the turkish independence 1920 - is so strong and deep, sad and lively at the same time, i think the comparison with the blues is quite apt.

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 5 May 2019 10:17 (five years ago) link

I remember 1983 well, it would be a final pick from Punch The Clock, Cafe Bleu and Power, Corruption and Lies.

PCL it is.

Mark G, Sunday, 5 May 2019 17:29 (five years ago) link

Much easier than '82, Rain Parade, no hesitation.

MaresNest, Sunday, 5 May 2019 19:04 (five years ago) link

By sheer coincidence was listening to the P Funk Allstars album from ‘83 this afternoon...probably not the best album of the year but sounded pretty pretty good...

X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Monday, 6 May 2019 01:09 (five years ago) link

I tell you what: I'm checking put that 100 Flowers album mentioned upthread rn and it sounds like a total front-to-back classic punk album. Lots of different ideas bumping up against each other

think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Monday, 6 May 2019 07:28 (five years ago) link

first answer was the correct one.

Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 6 May 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link

(i voted high land)

Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 6 May 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link

i tried aztec camera again, i like his voice but the music just does zero for me.

je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Monday, 6 May 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link

Maybe you are more Hollywood than Westwood

Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Monday, 6 May 2019 19:32 (five years ago) link

I voted Aztec Camera, too.

Have you tried Night of Olay? (I M Losted), Monday, 6 May 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link

could vote for any of these, this is absurdly hard:

Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain
Echo and The Bunnymen – Porcupine
ESG – Come Away with ESG
King Sunny Ade and His African Beats – Synchro System
Madonna – s/t
Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
R.E.M. – Murmur
The Go-Betweens – Before Hollywood
The The – Soul Mining
Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
Violent Femmes – s/t
William Onyeabor – Good Name
ZZ Top – Eliminator

Murmur, Before Hollywood, and Koyaanisqatsi jump out, but Aztec Camera and Madonna are nipping at their heels

i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Monday, 6 May 2019 22:54 (five years ago) link

ZZ Top, Def Leppard, The Police, Dio, Motley Crue & U2 were my tapes of these back in the day.

earlnash, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link

maresnest so otm

campreverb, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 02:43 (five years ago) link

Tough one. Would have gone for Tears for Fears - The Hurting, were it listed. The Police, U2, Def Leppard were the hard-to-evict residents on my tape deck that year. Picked The The due to falling hard for the "Uncertain Smile" 12".

the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 20:38 (five years ago) link

voted for Power, Corruption and Lies, it is my favorite New Order album and one of my favorite albums ever

Dan S, Tuesday, 7 May 2019 23:33 (five years ago) link

Decided to pick Philip Glass to pick to pick decided to pick Philip to pick Philip Glass

i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 7 May 2019 23:45 (five years ago) link

Madonna vs Cyndi, just as it was in 1983

Josefa, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link

Out of Step was such an incredible record

Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:01 (five years ago) link

also remember loving the 100 Flowers album and The Rain Parade

Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link

Metal Circus meant so much to me, those guitars

Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link

Diane

Dan S, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 02:22 (five years ago) link

Got to be Eliminator.

A lot of rock ordinaire on that list, it must be said.

does it look like i'm here (jon123), Wednesday, 8 May 2019 09:08 (five years ago) link

Murmur is my real favourite but it will get loads of love fron everyone else so voted for Billy Bragg

thomasintrouble, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 09:46 (five years ago) link

Went with Talking Heads
over U2 and Violent Femmes

nicky lo-fi, Wednesday, 8 May 2019 12:43 (five years ago) link

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

Sonic Youth album is all-time amazing as well.

nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 9 May 2019 00:31 (five years ago) link

Murmur crushes everything else on here like a grape and yall know it. A disco-rock classic! Dance! Dance, you fuckers!

Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 9 May 2019 11:23 (five years ago) link

Torn between High Land Hard Rain and Hearts and Bones

in twelve parts (lamonti), Thursday, 9 May 2019 14:53 (five years ago) link

I might be the only vote for the Bad Brains album but I think it really is my favorite here

Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link

Cocteau Twins a close second, both records were personally huge for me back then

Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Thursday, 9 May 2019 16:05 (five years ago) link

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

System, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:01 (five years ago) link

ha ha, you were right!

Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:17 (five years ago) link

Murmur really is a great album

Dan S, Friday, 10 May 2019 00:42 (five years ago) link

Wow the Violent Femmes debut got zero points. There's a band that's fallen out of fashion. Along with REM, they would've been the critics fave new US band of '83

. (Michael B), Friday, 10 May 2019 06:14 (five years ago) link

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1984!!

. (Michael B), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:12 (five years ago) link

They meant pretty much jack shit in the UK, though.

(xpost)

Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:36 (five years ago) link

I agree about the production on Steeltown. It's weird, because Lillywhite did such a great job on The Crossing.

Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 17 May 2019 14:56 (five years ago) link

Could be the band wanted a change in sound?

Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link

Yeah, it could well have been - and plausible - that the band wanted to make a different kind of record. I just don't think Steeltown sounds all that great - unusual for Lillywhite in that era.

Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 17 May 2019 15:09 (five years ago) link

one year passes...

1. R.E.M.: Murmur
2. OMD: Dazzle Ships
3. The Three O’Clock: Sixteen Tambourines
4. The Fun Boy Three: Waiting
5. The The: Soul Mining
6. XTC: Mummer
7. White Door: Windows
8. Republika: Nowe sytuacje
9. Tears for Fears: The Hurting
10. Captain Sensible: The Power of Love
11. Dolly Mixture: The Demonstration Tapes
12. Serious Drinking: The Revolution Starts at Closing Time
13. The Gist: Embrace the Herd
14. A Flock of Seagulls: Listen
15. Nits: Omsk
16. Eddie & Sunshine: Perfect Strangers
17. Soft Cell: The Art of Falling Apart
18. New Order: Power, Corruption and Lies
19. Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
20. Heaven 17: The Luxury Gap
21. Madonna: Madonna
22. Aviador Dro: Sintesis
23. The Church: Seance
24. Glamour: Guarda tus lágrimas
25. Nacht und Nebel: Beats of Love
26. Andreas Dorau: Die Doraus und die Marinas geben offenherzige Antworten auf brennende Fragen
27. ESG: Come Away With the ESG
28. Bauhaus: Burning From the Inside
29. Cocteau Twins: Head Over Heels
30. Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes

zeus, Thursday, 14 January 2021 20:32 (three years ago) link


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