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

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

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good showing for colossal youth

Oh my! Like, what a fuckin' surprise!

joy division 1 vote

Joy Division with only 1 vote! Shocking!

Yes, that was a surprise. Two out of three ain't bad, as Meat Loaf once sang.

I can think of about 40 albums released in 1980 that mean more to me than Remain in Light, but whatever.

to ilx they are just demos for the real project

Ha! Yeah, I can see how one would think that...

ilx is of course wrong

sorry to the lone voter for The Beat, I know it's as good as Crocodiles but 'All That Jazz' came on shuffle recently and I lost my mind.

I voted for Closer, which I suppose makes it the 1980 album for people who don't care for 1980.

This is amazing footage, imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwXebq6FMAw

Where's the 1981 poll? :D

Best Album on My Favourite Albums of......1981!!

Campreverb: no problem

In case folks are interested, did an 8-mix collection of post-punk/new wave from 1980:

https://musicophilia.files.wordpress.com/2018/12/folder.jpg?w=1024

https://musicophilia.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/post-punk-1980-box-set/

A Certain Ratio · Animals & Men · The Associates · Au Pairs · Bauhaus · The Beat · The Blackouts · Blondie · Blancmange · David Bowie · Bow Wow Wow · The Boys Next Door · Glenn Branca · The Breakers · Buggles · Buzzcocks · The Cars · Chris Carter · Alex Chilton · Chrome · Colored Minds · The Comsat Angels · Elvis Costello & The Attractions · The Cramps · The Cure · Dalek I · Delta 5 · Deutsch Amerikanische Freundshaftt · Devo · The Diagram Brothers · Din a Testbild · Doctor Mix & The Remix · Dome · Dow Jones & The Industrials · The Durutti Column · Essendon Airport · Factrix · Fad Gadget · Family Fodder · The Feelies · Final Program · Fire Engines · Flowers · Flying Lizard · Free Agents · Friction · John Foxx · Peter Gabriel · Gang of Four · Girls At Our Best · The Gist · The Go-Go’s · The Gordons · Half Japanese · The Human League · Husker Du · Ike Yard · Implog · Indoor LifeIn Camera · INXS · The Jam · Japan · Grace Jones · Josef K · Joy Division · Kid Creole & The Coconuts · Killing Joke · Krisma · Lizard · Ludus · Magazine · Manicured Noise · Marilyn · Martha & The Muffins · Material · Minutemen · Missing Persons · Mission of Burma · Mr. Partridge · Moderne · The Mo-Dettes · The Monchrome Set · Pauline Murray & The Invisible Girls · MX-80 Sound · Nasmak · Neonbabies · New Musik · Colin Newman · Gary Numan · Iggy Pop · The Only Ones · Orange Juice · Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark · Our Daughter’s Wedding · Pink Military · Pink Section · Plastics · Polyrock · Poly Styrene · The Pop Group · Pretenders · Prince · Psychedelic Furs · Pylon · Reptile Ranch · Martin Rev · Reversible Cords · Rinder & Lewis · The Room · Roxy Music · Ryuichi Sakamoto · The Selecter · Simple Minds · Siouxsie & The Banshees · The Slits · Smokey · Sods · Soft Cell · The Sound · The Specials · Squeeze · Richard Strange · The Stranglers · Swell Maps · Talking Heads · Teardrop Explodes · Television Personalities · Telex · This Heat · Tuxedomoon · Ultravox · Units · Urban Verbs · Les Vampyrettes · The Vapors · Alan Vega · Virgin Prunes · Visage · Scott WIlk & The Wall · Wipers · Xex · XTC · Yello · Y Pants · Yellow Magic Orchestra · Young Marble Giants

I voted for /Closer/, which I suppose makes it the 1980 album for people who don't care for 1980.

Tbf I may be the one who merely voted in spirit.