1980 in music. • Page 3

First time popping in one of these

1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
2. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
3. Kate Bush - Never For Ever

 

I've never heard of him, but that's an appealing description.

 

1. Talking Heads - Remain In light
2. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
3. Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs

 

I like end of the century

 

1. The Cure: Seventeen Seconds
2. X: Los Angeles
3. The Feelies: Crazy Rhythms

Toughest cuts:
4. Talking Heads: Remain in Light
5. Blondie: Autoamerican
6. Paul McCartney: McCartney II
7. Billy Joel: Glass Houses

Really love this year. It was kind of hard to make a top 3. The Cure was a pretty easy choice. I had to include X because songs from that album pop into my head all the time. I saw The Feelies at Pitchfork a few years ago and they were such a blast. This is definitely my favorite of the albums I’ve heard.

 

talking heads' remain in light wins with 22 pts. back in black in 2nd with 11 and glass houses in 3rd with 10

ill be traveling tomorrow so I'll post the new thread tuesday if that's okay

 

Listened to the Cheap Trick album and that’s a really interesting, quirky way to follow up your huge successes

 

Starting some ‘81 listening before the thread is up and 2 of the first 4 albums I went looking for aren’t streaming. Fuckin’ hell.

 

Which ones ?

 

Kid Creole and The Coconuts - Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places
The dB's - Stand for Decibels

 

They are up, but unavailable:

Which probably means rights disputes

 

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1981 thread

 

Have way more free time for music now that I'm back at work. Trying to compile a "to-listen" playlist. Doing the Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark S/T now.

 

Yeah this is excellent

 

Doing Bauhaus - In the Flat Field now. First song is cool

 

Listening to Peter Gabriel's Melt now. Wasn't big on the first few tracks but "Start" is excellent.

EDIT:
And from that point on I think I've liked/loved every other track. Good album

 

Doing Scary Monsters... now. Teenage Wildlife is a great song

 

Honestly one of the best Bowie songs I've ever heard. When I spun that album a month ago I was shocked I'd never heard of the song before.

 

he's pretty good. just my humble opinion.

 

Listening to Icehouse by Flowers (eventually known as Icehouse). The song "Icehouse" plays a pretty important role in The Shards by Bret Easton Ellis, which I am reading. Good stuff, I really liked "We Can Get Together"

 

The Greatest Guitar Riff Ever: 1980

 

Hell yeah, a Samson mention!

As always, great list. I would’ve included Call Me by Blondie in there as well.

 

ah man, it being on a soundtrack made it slip through the cracks