Best albums from the late 70's and 80's?

I need some new CDs. :P

....was the perfect album.

It may not be the greatest album evar but every song on both sides is a good song.

Never got the appeal. Larry the Lounge Lizard for the 1970s sophisticated set.

:)

Snotty nosed aging punk rock kid...

and man do I/did I get a lot of crap for it! :rofl:

I like all kinds of stuff, but yeah my hippie & jazz friends think the punk stuff I love is crap, and my punk friends think Steely Dan and Pink Floyd are crap. My top 40 friends just have no taste. :)

Not easy for those of us who "walk between the tribes" so to speak.

:rofl: (ps I like Sheryl Crow's voice, too.) :hide:

I am a Sade fan though, and have been known to even listen to disco, although preferably just when actually disco dancing.

I know what you mean though about his writing skills and the pure studio sound. I just like the older, scrappier stuff.

Justin Hayward and John Lodge


GREAT stuff

and "Graceland". Plus a lot by Dire Straits.

and some classic Elvis Costello - toss up between My Aim is True and Armed Forces. But frankly, all of his albums from that time (and recent ones too!) are excellent.

Cotton Fields Creedence Clearwater

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS5dbdmVUEs

Credit to Buckwheat Zydeco

Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
1979





U2
Boy
1980





Echo & the Bunnymen
Crocodiles
1980





The Alarm
The Alarm
1983





Translator
Heartbeats and Triggers
1982

You've got excellent taste in music. :toast:

:thumbsup:

I can't listen to Unknown Pleasures anymore- too many memories.

1976 but I'm sliding it in there :D

:wow:

:puke:

:rofl:

besides the greatest album of all time (London Calling), I'm actually fond of Styx's Cornerstone and Paradise Theater albums.

Early 80s is a bit of slim pickin's but check out The Jam. Especially "Sound Affects". A trio with an Entwhistle loving bass player who rocked the SHIT out of his Rickenbacker. Worth a listen.

Dupe!

I love almost every song on the album.

We played "This Is The Sea" when we drove some land-locked relatives to the Pacific.

And of course no mention of The Waterboys would be complete without Fisherman's Blues:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VKouBHarIo

X Los Angeles, 1980
X, Wild Gift, 1981
PiL, Metal Box, 1979

and...
"What We Do Is Secret" (EP)...Germs



Tikki

Bruce Cockburn.

There is no other.

Metallica's "Kill Em All" in 1983.

AC/DC "Back In Black" in 1980.

:-)

"Spirits in the Material World" – 2:59
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" – 4:22
"Invisible Sun" – 3:44
"Hungry for You (J'aurais Toujours Faim de Toi)" – 2:52
"Demolition Man" – 5:57
"Too Much Information" – 3:43
"Rehumanize Yourself" (Sting, Stewart Copeland) – 3:10
"One World (Not Three)" – 4:47
"Ωmegaman" (Andy Summers) – 2:48 ("Omegaman" on some editions)
"Secret Journey"– 3:34
"Darkness" (Copeland) – 3:14

Produced by Rick Rubin, who is everywhere.

The greatest album by anyone, ever.

Hotel California by the Eagles

The Alan Parson Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Parsons_Project

Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976)
I Robot (1977)
Pyramid (1978)
Eve (1979)
The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980)
Eye in the Sky (1982)
Ammonia Avenue (1984)
Vulture Culture (1984)
Stereotomy (1985)
Gaudi (1987)

us statistics and asked what were the classes favourite albums. The majority said Rumours. I said so too though I had never heard of it before. Then I went out and quickly bought it.

Parallel Lines - Blondie

Pretenders - debut self titled album

Patti Smith - Horses (ok, it was 1976)

Low, Lodger, Heroes - David Bowie

More Songs About Buildings and Food - Talking Heads

# 1975: The Hissing of Summer Lawns
# 1976: Hejira
# 1977: Don Juan's Reckless Daughter
# 1979: Mingus


Smithereens Especially for You, and Green Thoughts - great crunchy power pop and rave-ups, and sweetly sentimental at times, too.

Dire Straits, the self titled 1978 album....revived my faith in rock and roll ;)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d.html/ref=redir_mdp_mobile/187-8662763-8404958?a=B00004Y6NW

Can't go wrong with any of those.

Others - Get The Knack - still say it's one of the greatest albums of all time. And just like their idols The Beatles and The Who, sadly half of this band too is now dead :evilfrown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LjsOoO0VdM

Billy Idol's old band Generation X was pretty damn good. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0xWU7e5yXk

And you gotta love Black Flag http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fUi1kFvL8g

Tikki

Have you all gone completely mad? Animals and The Wall?

And I will below.

and The Rolling Stones Tattoo You.

I think Some Girls is among the RS best albums. So many great songs: Miss You, far Away Eyes (my fave)Just My Imagination,When the Whip Comes Down, Beast of Burden etc. I know this, the show I was at from that our will NEVER EVER BE TOPPED.

And Animals was so freaking good. Without the Pathos that would later become the The Wall. Pigs on the Wing....

The second side of Tattoo You has a special place in my heart. Hard to explain. I never heard the Stones sound so touching and sensitive as that second side of the album. I know, the Stones aren't supposed to be touching and sensitive, LOL.

Showdown! Albert Collins, Robert Cray, and Johnny Copeland - 1987



Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood - 1983

One of the greatest ever.

Some of the best songs from the late 70s.
1. "FM (No Static At All)" - Steely Dan – 4:52
2. "Night Moves" - Bob Seger – 3:27
3. "Fly Like an Eagle" - Steve Miller – 3:04
4. "Cold as Ice" - Foreigner – 3:20
5. "Breakdown" - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – 2:44
6. "Bad Man" - Randy Meisner – 2:38
7. "Life in the Fast Lane" - Eagles – 4:46
8. "Do It Again" - Steely Dan – 5:54
9. "Lido Shuffle" - Boz Scaggs – 3:42
10. "More Than a Feeling" - Boston – 4:45
11. "Tumbling Dice" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:51
12. "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" - Linda Ronstadt – 4:15
13. "Livingston Saturday Night" - Jimmy Buffett – 3:10
14. "There's a Place in the World for a Gambler" - Dan Fogelberg – 5:41
15. "Just the Way You Are" - Billy Joel – 4:49
16. "It Keeps You Runnin'" - The Doobie Brothers – 4:13
17. "Your Smiling Face" - James Taylor – 2:43
18. "Life's Been Good" - Joe Walsh – 8:05
19. "We Will Rock You" - Queen – 2:04
20. "FM (Reprise)" - Steely Dan – 2:54

And the only album I have ever owned in vinyl, cassette and CD formats. Well, I did have Dark Side of the Moon in all of them, but the tape was a home copy and it sucked so bad, I tossed it after the first time I played it.

The Pretenders, David Bowie, The Ramones, The Psychedelic Furs,Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and many, many more.

Tons of wonderful music was made in this period.

There are several good compilations out there.

If anyone ever wonders where Green Day came from, listen to the Buzzcocks for, oh, two songs or so!

King Crimson "Discipline"
Bob Marley & the Wailers "Uprising"
The Tubes "The Completion Backward Principle"

Patti Smith 'Horses', any and all by Talking Heads, Television, Ramones.

Netherlands and Phoenix are pretty good,

Something nice and calming.

:woohoo:

songstress
Pat Benatar/In the Heat of the Night
Bonnie Raitt/Nick of Time

breakout solos
Phil Collins/Face Value
Sting/Dream of the Blue Turtles

groups
The Police/Synchronicity
Eagles/The Long Run

oldies and other notables
Supertramp/Crime of the Century
Jim Croce/Photographs and Memories
James Taylor/JT
Billy Joel/52nd Street
Queen/Night at the Opera

Some of it is a little early, I'm old!

the 80's pretty much sucked

'Live and Dangerous'

I don't think their radio songs do/did that band justice, as they had a lot more going on than just "Is She Really Going Out With Him" (although that is a good tune).

And just about anything from Elvis Costello from the same period is also pretty golden.

... REM's first EP ("ChronicTown") and first LP ("Murmur") - everything thru "Fables of the Reconstruction" (lots of bootlegs and re-collected singles in there)

It sucked only if you listened to the arch neo-Romantics too much

Oh, that reminds me: Neil Young, "Rust Never Sleeps"

really was a very innovative, even quirky time for music, even if a lot of the early 80's stuff sounds really dated now (but that's quirky, right? you can recognize it quickly?)

Joe's Garage, Sheik Yer Buti...Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Is, Tinseltown Rebellion...and about twenty others during this period...

Joe's Garage too. Great stuff!

"Waiting For The End Of The World" is such a magnificent song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPyO5nBadvQ

...This Year's Model....



Tikki

nice touch..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZhfFXEMMI4 :):)


Every song perfection...
Tikki

The "edit out the crowd sound" format was never copied or used again (as far as I know).

The half acoustic/half electric format was the shape of things to come.

Lyrically one of the best records by one of the greatest artists.