Lifes Rich Pageant > Candy Apple Grey > The Queen is Dead > Brotherhood, but they're all A+.
At the time, probably Licensed to Ill
Missing: Kaleidoscope World, but I'm OK with compilations not counting, and... True Blue?
― dorsalstop, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
One of these, no question.Anita Baker – RaptureJanet Jackson - ControlPrince – Parade
― breastcrawl, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
I would've included Kaleidoscope World but its a comp
― . (Michael B), Friday, 24 May 2019 19:17 (four years ago) link
hard to get past rapture
― american bradass (BradNelson), Friday, 24 May 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
I don't know Rapture or even Anita Baker so I guess I have someone to listen to
I'll have to choose between Horse Rotorvator, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, and Throwing Muses. Evol's great of course but not a favorite.I don't have any blatant omission to point to, which is very weird. Ok a few still:- Poison - Into the Abyss- Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian- Michael Palmer - Half Pint - Joint Favourites- Hotline - You are mine
― Nabozo, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:29 (four years ago) link
Gone to earth vs rapture vs master of puppets vs le mystére des voix Bulgares
― brimstead, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:33 (four years ago) link
But if I could liveSafe and soundIn God given fieldsOr mountains of steel
― brimstead, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:36 (four years ago) link
Talk Talk vs ChameleonsTalk Talk vs ChameleonsTalk Talk vs ChameleonsHad to go Chameleons, that album meant the world to me when I was doing my first job.
― ascai, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link
missing Game Theory's Big Shot Chronicles, one of 3 CVB releases, and The Church's best album.Going with Atomizer.
― campreverb, Friday, 24 May 2019 19:49 (four years ago) link
Throwing Muses. But what a list.
― Mule, Friday, 24 May 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
This is tough
Bad Brains – I Against IBig Black – AtomizerButthole Surfers - Rembrandt PussyhorseCameo – Word Up!Candlemass – Epicus Doomicus MetallicusCocteau Twins - VictorialandCoil - Horse RotorvatorHüsker Dü - Candy Apple GreyMetallica – Master of PuppetsSaint Vitus – Born Too LateSlayer – Reign in BloodSonic Youth – EVOLSpacemen 3 - Sound of ConfusionSwans – GreedTalk Talk – The Colour of Spring
Any of those but candlemass just over saint vitus just over big black
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 24 May 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
Parade for sure, Sonic Youth & Coil close seconds
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 24 May 2019 20:17 (four years ago) link
Gone To Earth. I'm always putting Ocean Rain by Echo & the Bunnymen on the highest pedestal as my fave album ever/greatest album ever made, but sometimes I do wonder if GTE is secretly the true answer.
― Valentijn, Friday, 24 May 2019 20:23 (four years ago) link
I'd say this year marks a bit of a step up from '85 - Parade, Skylarking, Colour of Spring, EVOL and Lifes Rich Pageant are all 10/10 albums for me for starters.
― Gavin, Leeds, Friday, 24 May 2019 20:30 (four years ago) link
Metals big year where's NYCNative?
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Friday, 24 May 2019 20:32 (four years ago) link
Only ones of these albums I’ve listened to in the past year are The Go-Betweens and The Feelies. Voting for the The Go-Betweens - starts strong with Spring Rain, ends strong with Apology Accepted. And plenty of quality in between.
― that's not my post, Friday, 24 May 2019 20:36 (four years ago) link
Big Shot Chronicles & Camberwell Now's The Ghost Trade are imo the big omissions here (also UT's Conviction but it's long been OOP, practically forgotten)
...anyways, Sonic Youth over Throwing Muses. No way this list isn't one of the best cases ever made for 86.
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 24 May 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
Ghost Trade is so incredible, good catch
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 24 May 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link
(still not as good as Parade imo)
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Friday, 24 May 2019 21:17 (four years ago) link
How the fuck do I choose between Colour of Spring and Reign in Blood?
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 24 May 2019 21:51 (four years ago) link
also UT's Conviction but it's long been OOP, practically forgotten
reissued last month.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 24 May 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
My two favourite Aussie albums...went with Go Betweens but Born Sandy Devotional is amazing too.
― yugi ex, Friday, 24 May 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, May 24, 2019 6:13 PM (thirty-seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
REALLY?????
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Friday, 24 May 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
https://utmusic.bandcamp.com/album/conviction
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Friday, 24 May 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
Oh I think I'm voting for C86.
― Mark G, Friday, 24 May 2019 23:12 (four years ago) link
Electric Cafe
― big gym sw0les (crüt), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:02 (four years ago) link
Victorialand, one of my favourite albums.
― jmm, Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:09 (four years ago) link
― big gym sw0les (crüt), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:02 (eleven minutes ago) Permalink
Its got a bad rep and it's not as strong as previous efforts but I love it
― . (Michael B), Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:15 (four years ago) link
Word Up just ahead of Skylarking. They're both in my all time top 20. The Colour of Spring, Parade and Liberty Belle and the Black Diamond Express are ridiculously perfect records too.
― kitchen person, Saturday, 25 May 2019 01:19 (four years ago) link
Parade over Rapture just but Rapture is a pretty flawless record
― X-Prince Protégé (sonnyboy), Saturday, 25 May 2019 02:35 (four years ago) link
ok i feel like we got some genuine good shit here after the horror of '85, let's go
achwgha ney wodei - s/tafrika bambaataa - planet rock the albumakina nakamori - fushigiandrzej panufnik - symphony no. 9 'sinfonia di speranza'astor piazzolla - tango: zero hourbanda elastica - 2the cleaners from venus - living with victoria greycurtis hairston - s/tdagmar krause - supply & demanddead - musical abortionsdwarr - animalselektradrive - over the spacegauze - equalizing distorthirax - hate, fear, and powerhotline - you are mineluzbel - pasaporte al infiernomarlon cherry - life after theatremoonriders - don't trust over thirtymotorhead - orgasmatronnews from babel - letters homenobuo uematsu & takashi uno - cruise chaser blasstypauli carman - dial my numberran blake - short life of barbara monkroberta eklund - the process of recognitionrobyn hitchcock - element of lightsiekiera - nova aleksandriasodom - obsessed by crueltyx-creta - patronizing the heterodoxyawning man - the birth of solrosa luxemburg - puri purikou machida - wild and crazy guysakiko yano - brooch
ok kind of an odd (and pretty limited genre-wise) mix but i really do like a lot of the noms here as well, voted "parade", it's one of prince's best imo
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 May 2019 03:37 (four years ago) link
Horse Rotorvator, Atomizer, Rembrandt Pussyhorse, Born Sandy Devotional, So
& a couple of personal favourites not on the list:
The Cramps - A Date With ElvisCrime & The City Solution - Room of LightsNick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Kicking against the Pricks AND Your Funeral, My TrialSPK - Zamia LehmanniThe Sisterhood - Gift
― StanM, Saturday, 25 May 2019 05:24 (four years ago) link
xp Supply And Demamd is not good imho, dry amd sterile and unexciting
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Saturday, 25 May 2019 14:36 (four years ago) link
i get your criticisms - it's got that very '80s production to it - but dagmar krause is a good singer and a good interpreter of brecht/weill/eisler imo.
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 May 2019 14:46 (four years ago) link
Oh totally, I love her other work (Slapp Happy) especially) but just can't connect w/ that one
― Emperor Tonetta Ketchup (sleeve), Saturday, 25 May 2019 15:28 (four years ago) link
what do you think of the news from babel record from '86?
― Flood-Resistant Mirror-Drilling Machine (rushomancy), Saturday, 25 May 2019 16:48 (four years ago) link
i think our friend morrissey is going to fare better in this one
― Trϵϵship, Saturday, 25 May 2019 16:50 (four years ago) link
Reign in Blood & Chocolate
(Why are the two EC albums one entry? Idgi)
― mitt the hoopla (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 25 May 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link
(xps) Tank Battles is better.
― Ned Caligari (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
King of America gets my vote all on its own.
― Herman Woke (cryptosicko), Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
Parade will win this.
I voted for Slayer though.
― does it look like i'm here (jon123), Saturday, 25 May 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
This is The Chameleons "Strange Times", my favorite album ever.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 25 May 2019 18:15 (four years ago) link
I turned 17 in 1986 which is of course makes this year one of the best ever.These are all pretty much unfuckwithable for me:
Bad Brains – I Against IBeastie Boys – Licensed to IllBig Black – AtomizerCandlemass – Epicus Doomicus MetallicusHüsker Dü - Candy Apple GreyMegadeth – Peace Sells…But Who’s Buying?Metallica – Master of PuppetsPeter Gabriel – SoPIL – AlbumRun DMC - Raising HellSaint Vitus – Born Too LateSlayer – Reign in BloodSonic Youth – EVOLSwans – GreedThe Feelies – The Good EarthXTC – Skylarking
Most of them I was actually listening to at the time. I didn't get exposed to Big Black, Swans and The Feelies until later on, but the rest I was listening to as a teenager.
I have to go with Slayer because Reign in Blood was a lot more than just a record a teenaged Brian loved, it is such a cornerstone album for extreme music.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Saturday, 25 May 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link
I love another 17 albums on this list, including XTC's "Skylarking" which I find a bit overrated. I'd go with "Big Express" over it but that's a minority opinion and one colored by the fact that "Big Express" was my gateway LP.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 25 May 2019 20:08 (four years ago) link
Probably Lifes Rich Pageant, but Skylarking is up there too.
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 25 May 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
I still listen to both of these pretty regularly
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 25 May 2019 20:27 (four years ago) link
In the end, I decided on Horse Rotorvator, because I have a dark heart.
― Every Day Is Talk Like a Pirate day. 'Cos RRRRRRR (I M Losted), Saturday, 25 May 2019 23:01 (four years ago) link
Depeche Mode – Black CelebrationKraftwerk – Electric CafeMetallica – Master of PuppetsNew Order – BrotherhoodPet Shop Boys – PleasePeter Gabriel – SoPrince – ParadeREM - Lifes Rich PageantTalk Talk – The Colour of SpringThe Fall – Bend SinisterThe Smiths – The Queen is DeadXTC – Skylarking
^ One of these!
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Saturday, 25 May 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
Voting Skylarking; even though it's only like my 4th or 5th favorite XTC record,it's the one I've played most from this list.
― While My Guitar Gently Wheedly-Wheedly-Wheedly-Weeps (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:23 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Thursday, 30 May 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
It's not often that I find myself torn between Graceland and Reign in Blood.
― sctttnnnt (pgwp), Thursday, 30 May 2019 00:43 (four years ago) link
I’m torn between Control and Rapture (ha!) myself. Should I give it up and just give in?
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 May 2019 00:58 (four years ago) link
Old person here: I look at that list and wonder to myself, huh, in 30 years will someone have just as much trouble picking their favorite record of 2019 from 10/15/20+ serious legit candidates for Favorite Album of All Time that they've been listening to regularly for the previous 30 years?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 30 May 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
would be nice to think so
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 May 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
not so sure though
― Dan S, Thursday, 30 May 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
All you need to know:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soZl5t30Lhc
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 30 May 2019 02:23 (four years ago) link
As much as I hate to say it, I can't lie to myself and vote for anything other than The Queen is Dead.
― Bee OK, Thursday, 30 May 2019 02:34 (four years ago) link
Oh yes, Alfred, that is an all-time performance, and Rapture is a glorious album, but I decided to go with Control in the end for all the joy it’s given me over the years, and again when I played it this week, remixes and all.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 May 2019 15:34 (four years ago) link
Meanwhile in Turkey, after 1984’s Sen Ağlama album, Sezen Aksu continues to remake Turkish pop music in her image with Git.(not a million miles removed from Anita Baker at times, if I may be so bold.)
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 May 2019 15:42 (four years ago) link
Also, İbrahim Tatlıses releases one of the best of his mega-selling collections of popified arabesk and East Anatolian folk songs, Gülüm Benim/Gülümse Biraz......and in exile from Turkey, Kurdish troubadour Şivan Perwer releases his Lê Dilberê album.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link
I cant believe Mike forgot to include them
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 30 May 2019 17:53 (four years ago) link
Oh dear, pointless sarcasm, the best kind.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:04 (four years ago) link
for the 12" version of 'Sweet Bird of Truth' alone (its on the original cd edition of the album), it has to be Infected.
― mark e, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
But please, do update me about the guidelines on what kinds of music we are allowed to post about on ILM, so I (and everyone else) can behave accordingly.xp
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 May 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
xp
lol
i had 10 weeks of people complaining i had left out their faves in the 69-79 polls so it does get a tad annoying but cheer up i was only joking
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 30 May 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
Well, you see, I wasn’t complaining about this stuff being left out. One of the things I like most about these polls is people listing additional favourites of their own from that particular year. There always tend to be some things there that intrigue me, and the rest I ignore. Same as with the main list, basically. I don’t think in general this kind of thing is meant as a slight against the compiler. Everyone, including I’d hope the compiler themselves, understands that no selection of 50 albums will do a year justice. So it’s a form of crowdsourcing, to get a fuller picture of the year in question. I don’t really get why anyone would find this annoying, unless they somehow think everyone should adhere to the same limited canon.
― breastcrawl, Thursday, 30 May 2019 21:08 (four years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Friday, 31 May 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
You be you, Beastie. I love reading people's lists of what they feel was left out, often quite surprised (and informed by) how they differ from mine.
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 31 May 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
Oh look, XTC won. More power to my fellow Chameleons voter as well as the sole voters for The Fall and C86!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Friday, 31 May 2019 00:02 (four years ago) link
Depeche Mode – Black Celebration 0
*record scratch noise*
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Friday, 31 May 2019 00:19 (four years ago) link
I'd say Skylarking by a significant margin is just as (or even more) surprising!
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 31 May 2019 00:34 (four years ago) link
yes that surprises me too
― Dan S, Friday, 31 May 2019 01:23 (four years ago) link
Just one vote for So it seems — I am an album ILM de-ser-ted...
Don't give up — it's not the only poll
― eatandoph (Neue Jesse Schule), Friday, 31 May 2019 02:40 (four years ago) link
The results are fair. Several of the finalists are among the best albums in history. So too.
― recriminations from the nitpicking woke (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 31 May 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
Slightly disappointed to see I was the only vote for Cameo, but overall some great results. XTC winning is a nice surprise. Nice turnout for The Go-Betweens too.
― kitchen person, Friday, 31 May 2019 03:18 (four years ago) link
wow, pleasantly surprised to see throwing muses do so well
― J. Sam, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:51 (four years ago) link
Yep.
― pomenitul, Friday, 31 May 2019 14:52 (four years ago) link
I hate consensus
― campreverb, Friday, 31 May 2019 15:01 (four years ago) link
I'm glad Throwing Muses scored highly, not XTC.
Happy now?
― pomenitul, Friday, 31 May 2019 15:05 (four years ago) link
Late call: Various Artists - The House Sound of Chicago, the very first (I think) Chicago House compilation.
― breastcrawl, Friday, 31 May 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link
my vote wasn't counted. the poll is invalid. xtc winning is a joke anyways.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Friday, 31 May 2019 22:21 (four years ago) link
If you're one of the five other people who voted for The Colour of Spring and you're on Facebook, hmu for a friend invite! Same for the two of you who voted for Gone to Earth. You are all my very, very good friends.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Saturday, 1 June 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
I rank Pazz & Jop this year. Voters sure loved Elvis C, T-Bone Burnett, and Richard Thompson.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 4 November 2019 02:58 (four years ago) link
Man I hope I was present to record a vote for Parade on this one. Great year though. Thanks for the Pazz & Jop link. True Stories was an unbelievable disgrace, though Little Creatures did warn us.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Monday, 4 November 2019 18:49 (four years ago) link
"City of Dreams" keeps True Stories from being a total bust, for me.
― Maria Edgelord (cryptosicko), Monday, 4 November 2019 18:54 (four years ago) link
The hype around True Stories may have been my first feeling of New Jersey crestfalleness.
― file of unknown origin (bendy), Monday, 4 November 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
City of Dreams is not bad, I agree. It's just amazing that it's the same band that recorded Remain in Light. Is there any band that got so radically conservative so fast? I mean, Sonic Youth's Dirty is not even in the same category.
Love the BOC ref, Bendy.
― stop torturing me ethel (broom air), Monday, 4 November 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
Hahahahahahaha fuckin’ Robert Cray.
― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 5 November 2019 01:07 (four years ago) link