Best Single/Album of the Eighties

[Uncle Spielberg]

There's no A-Ha there so it is seriously flawed.

Every breath you take by the Police is the best single of the 80's everyone knows that.

 

[Mr Burns]

What a load of crap. How can you have a list of best singles from the 80s and not include The Goldstone Rap!!!!

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

What the!

No Morris Minor and the Majors

What a travesty.

 

[Mr Burns]

When the whistle blows, and the fans cheer / you can hear the roar from the Palace pier
Push the ball Through the gap and pull it back / make a run up the center to the point of attack
when you make that cross you're gonna cross it fine / give the ball to the player on the dead ball line
The (unaudible) he's learned / he'll knock it in the box and make a shot on the turn

Theres a shot at the goal and the fan's go wild / you can hear them singing from the 7 dials
Theres a flash of colour and its blue and white / and its in the back of the net to the fans delight
Now the skippers going deep and theres a run on the wing / (ABSOLUTELY UNAUDIBLE) gonna feel that sting
Give us 1 more, 1 more, the temperature starts to rise / now we found a space and we got the pace to catch them on a big surprise

The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap

The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap

Now we're staying on attack, keep our (something) on the rack / till the ref gives his final blow
Now we won't look back, like a bullet from a gun / we'll make a killing with every show
Now the fans clap with every pass / and theres action on the bench
Theres a dreamy ball thats floating down / and we've all got a thirst to quench

Its a goal, its a goal, its a goal can you hear the noise
Its a goal, its a goal, its a goal for the brighton boys

The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap

The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap


The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap


The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap


The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap



The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap



The Goldstone Rap, the Goldstone Rap

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Sorely dissapointed 'Soul Mining' by The The isnt on there.
Now thats a class album.

Part pop, part post-punk, part poet for the disillusioned under the Thatcher regime, Matt Johnson's The The were an uncompromising collective who defied simple pigeonholing. 'Soul Mining' is perhaps Johnson's most accessible work, helped in no small part by the commercial appeal of verse-chorus songs like 'Perfect', 'This Is The Day' (aided by both accordion and flute) and 'Uncertain Smile' which - featuring a glorious piano coda - contains Jools Holland's most valuable contribution to a piece of music. Otherwise the remainder of the album ripples with menace and tension; as Johnson broods and snarls his way through diatribes of self-doubt ("How can anyone know me, when I don't even know myself") and thinly-veiled attacks on the powers that be ("I'm just a symptom of the moral decay that's gnawing at the heart of the country"). As outstanding musically as it is angry, 'Soul Mining' is a landmark 80's album.

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The genius that is Matt Johnson's tortured soul.

 

[Beach Hut]

Single - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Album - The Joshua Tree

 

[Gwylan]

Any decade that has a U2 album as no1 has to be a shit decade for music

Any decade that has an album by U2 anywhere in its top 50 it has to be a shit decade for music.

A list like that reminds me why I stopped listening to pop music in the mid-80s; I thought it was because I'd turned 30 but in reality it was because there was so much crap out there.