[Music] Radio 2 best albums of the 80’s

[AIT76]

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
The The - Soul Mining
REM - Document
Pixies - Surfer Rosa

 

[veuve]

Grace Jones, le vie en rosr
Bobby womack,poet
Human league, dare
Heaven 17,penthouse and pavements

 

[Nitram]

Stone Roses
Closer - Joy Division
Flesh and Blood - Roxy Music
Guns and Roses - Appetite for destruction
U2 - Joshua Tree
Talking heads - Little Creatures and Stop making Sense
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Springsteen - The River and Born in the USA

 

[Is it PotG?]

Elvis - Imperial Bedroom is a masterpiece.

The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

Obviously The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

 

[marcos3263]

No Pet shop Boys? Actually or Introspective

also Marillion Misplaced Childhood should get an honourable mention

but realistically all Talk Talk albums before they went weird in 90s

 

[Palacefinder General]

Music For The Masses - Depeche Mode
Black Celebration - Depeche Mode
A Secret Wish - Propaganda
Sue - Frazier Chorus
Green - REM
Nation of Millions - Public Enemy

 

[MattBackHome]

Faith
Bad
Back in Black
Appetite for Destruction
An Innocent Man
Strangeways
Nation of Millions

But they got No.1 right

 

[Dr Q]

Well, are they? What’s been missed and what shouldn’t even be in the list?

At least I know and have heard all of them!

Looks like a pretty good and wide selection to me. Gonna have to think about ones that didn’t make it that should have imo. I may have gone for Graceland as my No 1

Artist Title
1) U2 The Joshua Tree
2) Dire Straits Brothers In Arms
3) The Stone Roses The Stone Roses
4) Michael Jackson Thriller
5) Guns N' Roses Appetite For Destruction
6) The Human League Dare
7) The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
8) Paul Simon Graceland
9) ABC Lexicon Of Love
10) Prince Purple Rain

Ah, the Joshua Tree, the album where Bono found his A**hole and climbed in!!

 

[Palacefinder General]

Ah, the Joshua Tree, the album where Bono found his A**hole and climbed in!!

 

[lawros left foot]

Scary Monsters. David Bowie
Signing off. UB40
A Pagan Place. Waterboys
Hounds of Love. Kate Bush

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

What a decade. Went from being a 15 year old schoolboy to being married. Such huge changes and evolution in my personal music tastes. But a few popular and widely known albums I would add into the mix (without claiming any are the greatest of the decade) are:

AC/DC - Back in Black (nuf sed)
Phil Collins - Face Value (not a fan of the man, but a decade defining voice and style)
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasuredome (looking back I can see how influential this was)
Alison Moyet - Alf (what a voice)
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood (huge fan and their best album)
Kate Bush - Hounds of Love (what a creative talent. If you're interested in music, I'd recommend Guy Garvey's 6 music programme about this album)
Sade - Promise (has stood the test of time, didn;t realise at the time it was such sublime music. I just fancied the crap out of her)
George Michael - Faith (subsequently recognised as one of the great singer song writers - it started here)
Chris Rea - The Road to Hell (not even Top 500 of the Decade album probably but one track that elevates this album to a higher level)

 

[Gwylan]

The 80s was the decade that I pretty much stopped buying rock/pop music - looking at that list, I can see why

 

[Randy McNob]

Iron Maiden - 7th Son of a 7th son - their zenith

 

[zefarelly]

Oi, I still listen to the same old shit I was listening to when I was ten, thankyou very much

I do listen to new shit as well, Some of my music is so new its available on cassette tape.

I'll have to give some thought to the other 7 but these three were on hard rotation on my wheel of steel

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Automatic.
The Wonderstuff - 8 Legged Groove Machine.
Pop Will Eat Itself - Box Frenzy.


See the difference between me and most of you lot is I don't retrofit for show

Edit 4 down 6 to go:-

The Cropdusters - If only the sober go to heaven.


Edit II woooow wow we're half way there
and proof that I can be reflective


Lou Reed - New York.

 

[zefarelly]

The 80s was the decade that I pretty much stopped buying rock/pop music - looking at that list, I can see why

It kind of stopped in 83 for me, end of new wave etc, kicked off again 88/89 most of the 80's was overblown crap.

I suppose for all the great music in the 60's and 70's therre's more rubbish, it just gets forgotten and swept under the carpet.

 

[Ooh it’s a corner]

LLf beat me to it but this would be there for me for starters

 

[Igzilla]

Tin Drum - Japan

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

Sure, there are always going to be some BRILLIANT albums in any decade.

But let's be honest, overall, the 80's was RUBBISH compared to the 70's and the 90's.

*Walks away whistling

 

[ozzygull]

Peter Gabriel - So
Phil Collins - Face Value
Genesis - Genesis (self titled)
Yazoo - Up Stairs at Eric's

 

[Palacefinder General]

The 80s was the decade that I pretty much stopped buying rock/pop music - looking at that list, I can see why

It’s pandering to a Radio 2 middle aged, middle of the road, Ford car driving, largely never indulged in class A narcotics demographic, so has to be seen in that context.

In vaguely relayed news, the omission of Hounds of Love from their list is pretty outrageous.