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

Fair enough.

lotta good albums but it's a battle between prince, the minutemen, and meat puppets for me.

damn let it be and reckoning are in there too...

between husker du and saint vitus

Prince vs Husker Du vs Manuel Gottsching

that Hoodoo Gurus album is great rock n'roll fun, everyone should check it out

Purple Rain just over Reckoning, Ocean Rain and Some Great Reward.

Here's an old top 25 of mine from facebook

Bathory - Bathory ,
Black Flag - My War ,
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.,
Butthole Surfers - Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac
Cirith Ungol - King of the Dead ,
Echo and The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain ,
Husker Du - Zen Arcade,
Julian Cope - Fried ,
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions - Rattlesnakes
Manuel Göttsching - E2-E4 ,
Meat Puppets - II,
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath ,
Metallica- Ride the Lightning ,
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime ,
Paul Chain Violet Theater - Detaching From Satan,
Prince - Purple Rain
Saint Vitus - Saint Vitus ,
Scott Walker - Climate Of Hunter
Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel - Hole,
Swans - Cop,
The Replacements - Let It Be ,
The Smiths - The Smiths ,
Trouble - Psalm 9,
U2 - Unforgettable Fire

As for favourites of 1984 that aren't represented here, well, for once I can't think of many and this list mostly seems to have it covered, but the ones that aren't represented are:

Blancmange - Mange Tout
Heaven 17 - How Men Are
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Junk Culture
Rush - Grace Under Pressure
Soft Cell - This Last Night in Sodom (my actual favourite LP of 1984)
Talk Talk - It's My Life
The Stranglers - Aural Sculpture
XTC - The Big Express

Purple Rain

This might be my favourite year of the '80s for albums, there are a dozen records that would be the best in another year. Can't decide between Let It Be and Treasure.

It's no 1980 or 1981, but yes, still a great year.

Voted for A Walk Across The Rooftops. My second Blue Nile vote of the day!

Ocean Rain - advertised as 'the best album ever made' which for me is the truth!

as much as I wanna be the one guy voting for something stupid it's gonna be Purple Rain for me

1983 featured far fewer of my favorite albums than I expected. This one is back up there, with 18 or 20 albums I love. Gonna be tough.

Purple Rain & Born in the USA are a tie for me. though the contrarian in me wants to vote for the best U2 album.

The production on Ocean Rain is absolutely sublime.

Purple Rain & Born in the USA are a tie for me. though the contrarian in me wants to vote for the best U2 album.

― campreverb, Friday, May 10, 2019 5:39 PM (five minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

You'll have to wait until the 1993 poll to do that!

double nickels might not be the very best album on this, but it certainly the most album on this list. and i adore the whole thing, even the dumb parts (especially the dumb parts). gonna roll with that, save my prince vote for a different year.

You'll have to wait until the 1993 poll to do that!

a common misconception!

that Hoodoo Gurus album is great rock n'roll fun, everyone should check it out

― . (Michael B), Friday, 10 May 2019 16:32 (one hour ago) Permalink

Absolutely, pretty sure I played it more than Prince, Huskers, 'Mats, or Minutemen.

ok, let's take a look at '84

alaska y dinarama - deseo carnal
alport astazio and the kwana-moto band - rugare
arthur moreira lima - ernesto nazareth: brazilian tangos and waltzes
biting tongues - libreville
camera obscura - s/t
v/a - repo man soundtrack
v/a - soft selection 84
v/a - hold up omnibus
diethelm & famulari - valleys in my head
v/a - break the silence tape
haruomi hosono - video game music
iron maiden - powerslave (??? why not on your list ???)
john greaves - parrot fashions
v/a - zulu jive umbaqanga
karantamba - ndigal
kirk lightsey & harold danko - shorter by two
kukl - the eye
leticia garcia - magamaquiaverica em canturbano
marco antonio araujo - lucas
matia bazar - aristocratica
maurice deebank - inner thought zone
miharu koshi - parallelisme
neil - neil's heavy concept album
pale cocoon - cocoon
pekka airaksinen - buddahs of golden light
piry reis - caminho do interior
rimarimba - on dry land
saccharine trust - surviving you always
skeleton crew - learn to talk
spinal tap - this is spinal tap
telectu - rosa-cruz
tony scott - african bird
"weird al" yankovic - in 3-d
ichiko hashimoto - beauty

boy, pickings are sure starting to get thin! and '85 is going to be even worse in terms of the music i can suggest...

voted bronski beat as one of the three records that overlapped between my prelim list and yours

I voted "Fried"!

I know!

Sophie’s choice between Brilliant Trees and Swoon but in the end Sylvian by a whisker

It's between Purple Rain and It'll End in Tears for me. Since Prince is probably going to get a lot of votes, thought I'd put in a vote for an underdog and voted the latter. But I'm pulling for Purple Rain to win.

Missing:

Berlin - Love Life
Lizzy Mercier Descloux - Zulu Rock
Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
Thompson Twins - Into the Gap
XTC - The Big Express

Still, I went with Sade. 1st place is wrapped up by Purple Rain, I assume.

My missing faves are The Orange Juice and Cristina's Sleep It Off, but neither of those would be top 10 for me - all of those are here (Replacements, Bruce, Smiths, Sade et al.). Vote goes to REM again, though.

no Nick Cave , From Her To Eternity?

I'm no big U2 fan, but you have to respect the murk of Unforgettable Fire. But the correct answer here is Double Nickels.

easy choice here: brilliant trees.

been meaning to listen to that again

Why wasn’t “Love Wars” on this list?

Ouch... yeah, very big omission.

quite a year innit : purple rain, who's afraid of the art of noise?, reckoning, bathory, e2-e4...

but meat puppets - II

yes, the orange juice 3rd album, still played regularly and loved dearly

if I go with the album I loved the most at the time it would be Zen Arcade

Between 1984 and Swoon for me, going with the former

voted The Fall, but there are like ten all-time favorites here

Goddamn the 1980s were amazing.

Lots of great things here, but I feel compelled to choose "The Painted Word" just in case no-one else does.

Goddamn the 1980s were amazing.

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, May 13, 2019 6:58 AM (four hours ago)Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

They mostly were, although there's a lot of shit, too, like there has been in every decade.

Curiosity Killed the Cat, for example.

Treasure or It’ll End In Tears, of course there are a few more i could also vote for ie The Top.

Voted for Husker Du in the end.

me too

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Went sentimentally for Let It Be. There's a load of great albums in there but nothing that jumped out at me like in 82.

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

Minutemen? Really?

I think people were just convinced at their allegation that it was based on Pink Floyd's "Ummagumma". Because really who wouldn't vote for that?

Would've voted for Depeche Mode in 1984 but went with Blue Nile, that album is timeless.

35 votes for Minneapolis-Saint Paul

i missed this poll. prob would have voted E2-E4 or Heartbeat City

I missed this poll too, and I would've totally voted for Brilliant Trees! Fuck!

8 for Arvo Pärt? Nice!

I've tried getting into Zen Arcade and Double Nickels on the Dime repeatedly, in vain.

Springsteen?

Ahead of Let It Be, to boot…

Voted Born in the USA, depending on what day of the week it would be either Prince or Springsteen.
prefer Hootenanny to Let it Be tbh