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
for me a tie between Horse Rotorvator and Atomizer
― Dan S, Saturday, 25 May 2019 23:23 (four years ago) link
For me it's between Sound of Confusion and Throwing Muses.
Honestly while I love a lot of bands that were on C86, the tape itself is mostly a letdown, a lot of it is b-sides or songs that would've been b-sides
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 25 May 2019 23:28 (four years ago) link
Given it's quite possibly my favorite album of all time, has to be Arthur Russell's 'World of Echo' for me.
A lot of excellent albums from this year, though.
― Soundslike, Saturday, 25 May 2019 23:46 (four years ago) link
Albums that I would have gladly considered voting for if they'd been present:
a-ha - Scoundrel Days (their best album)Duran Duran - NotoriousErasure - WonderlandGenesis - Invisible TouchMadonna - True BlueMinistry - TwitchOrchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - The Pacific AgePaul McCartney - Press to PlayThe Stranglers - Dreamtime
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Sunday, 26 May 2019 00:12 (four years ago) link
I hate most of those albums, turrican
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 26 May 2019 01:05 (four years ago) link
Almost voted for David Sylvian, but come on, there are zero guesses as to what I absolutely HAD to go for. Also, Michael B, if you hate Notorious I may have to shun you forever & ever.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 26 May 2019 01:13 (four years ago) link
"Notorious" is decent. "Seven and the ragged tiger" can do one though. I remember getting that for my 7th birthday and disliking it even back then.
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 26 May 2019 01:17 (four years ago) link
Meh, I'm a Duranie so I love nearly every one of their albums (the less we say about Red Carpet Massacre the better) and even I have to admit 7&TRT was their weakest album of the '80s. Still great, just not god-tier like the rest of them. :D
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 26 May 2019 01:47 (four years ago) link
haven't heard Throwing Muses in a long time, I really liked that album
didn't know about World of Echo until about 20 years after it was released
― Dan S, Sunday, 26 May 2019 06:17 (four years ago) link
Apparently I already voted but that list is solid and it could have been any one of maybe 20 of these. I do know it wasn't the Housemartins, but kinda feeling it should have been if only to spread the love around.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:17 (four years ago) link
Oh yes, The Housemartins' debut is also lovely.
Timely, and strangely not mentioned on this thread yet - this Pitchfork retro review
― dorsalstop, Sunday, 26 May 2019 11:47 (four years ago) link
throwing muses
― J. Sam, Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
Almost voted for David Sylvian, but come on, there are zero guesses as to what I absolutely HAD to go for.
Wait, I actually don't know. Depeche Mode?
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 26 May 2019 13:40 (four years ago) link
I don't know either!
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
Just in case you're not trying to be funny, check out my display name.
― The Colour of Spring (deethelurker), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:03 (four years ago) link
Oh, ha. I voted for Evol, probably predictably. I should listen to Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, though. Pat Metheny/Ornette Coleman - Song X is probably my favourite 1986 album not listed here, although I'm pretty bad at remembering release dates.
― All along there is the sound of feedback (Sund4r), Sunday, 26 May 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
not enough love for the feelies here. the good earth was my first album of theirs. such a pristine album of bukolic guitar freshness.
― je est un autre, l'enfer c'est les autres (alex in mainhattan), Sunday, 26 May 2019 18:09 (four years ago) link
Ohh yeah Song X is a great album too!
― think the toledo mud hens but for twitter (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 26 May 2019 21:53 (four years ago) link
Skylarking is one of my ten favorite albums ever, so that one
― frogbs, Sunday, 26 May 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
glad I hadn't gotten around to voting yet because I forgot that EVOL is on this list
― Dan S, Monday, 27 May 2019 00:08 (four years ago) link
http://www.youtube.com/embed/bGBtwLdwxDA?start=110&end=120&version=3
― Brad C., Monday, 27 May 2019 00:10 (four years ago) link
My favorite album from one of my all time favorite bands, Victorialand.
― LeRooLeRoo, Monday, 27 May 2019 02:10 (four years ago) link
This is a very strong year
― Siegbran, Monday, 27 May 2019 06:12 (four years ago) link
Completely out of character, this is the Triffids. Love that album.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Tuesday, 28 May 2019 07:25 (four years ago) link
Yes it is brilliant, isn't it...but then so is LBATBDE.
You may be interested in watching this if you haven't seen it already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=keYoFOnuHMU&t=133s
― yugi ex, Tuesday, 28 May 2019 12:18 (four years ago) link
It was likely Born Sandy Devotional I voted for, come to think of it. Sadly I never liked "Wide Open Road" (or the Calenture singles) as a child, so the greatness of this one still feels like a relatively recent revelation.
― Nag! Nag! Nag!, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 08:22 (four years ago) link
Stolen Property (and Hell of a Summer iirc) was my gateway.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:52 (four years ago) link
Sorry, watching them do those songs on The Tube in 1986 (or late 85 maybe?) was what I meant but somehow forgot to type.
― Elitist cheese photos (aldo), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:54 (four years ago) link
The Tear Garden s/t mini album made an impression on me in this year and I still have a fondness for it. Ophelia is an all-time great electro-goth song and The Centre Bullet is some excellent dubbed out bleeping to infinity electronica.
https://youtu.be/qzpsl9sOOSg
― Armand Frippanino (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:03 (four years ago) link
From here up to 1990 I'm gonna vote for a Pet Shop Boys album, if eligible.
― daavid, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:12 (four years ago) link
Throwing Muses
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 16:14 (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