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In 2013, we shall peruse the depths of the greatest decade of all, the 1980s!

This month, we will continue with the much maligned but actually incredible 1981.

So go on and post a list of your favorite songs and/or albums of 1981. Only 15 will be given points, but the more, the merrier!

Feel free to check out the recommendation thread to find out some hidden gems or share some of your own! It's a great spot for preliminary lists.

The deadline is midnight (UMT) on April 1st.

To advance to the final list, songs/albums must have a minimum of 2 votes. In case of a tie, a tie-breaker will be set up.

Please use the following format when posting your list:

Rank. Artist - Album/Song

EPs and compilations are not allowed. Quibbles about release dates will be settled by RateYourMusic.

Now get to listening and voting!
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Albums

1. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
2. Rick James - Street Songs
3. The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
4. Prince - Controversy
5. The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
6. Rush - Moving Pictures
7. The Cure - Faith
8. Japan - Tin Drum
9. Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
10. Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes
11. Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
12. New Order - Movement
13. George Strait - Strait Country
14. X - Wild Gift
15. The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash

16. Pretenders - Pretenders II
17. The Human League - Dare!
18. King Crimson - Discipline
19. Fela Kuti - Original Sufferhead
20. Wailing Souls - Fire House Rock
21. Motorhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
22. Todd Rundgren - Healing
23. Riot - Fire Down Under
24. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
25. Rush - Exit...Stage Left
26. Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime
27. Venom - Welcome to Hell
28. Elvis Costello - Trust
29. Genesis - Abacab
30. Adolescents - Adolescents
31. Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
32. The Police - Ghost in the Machine
33. Phil Collins - Face Value
34. Nils Lofgren - Night Fades Away
35. The Teardrop Explodes - Wilder
36. The Blasters - The Blasters
37. Journey - Escape
38. Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
39. Ultravox - Rage in Eden
40. The Sound - From the Lions Mouth
41. The Comsat Angels - Sleep No More
42. The Birthday Party - Prayers on Fire
43. Black Flag - Damaged
44. U2 - October
45. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hard Promises
46. Agent Orange - Living in Darkness
47. John Anderson - John Anderson 2
48. Teena Marie - It Must Be Magic
49. Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
50. The Cramps - Psychedelic Jungle
51. Squeeze - East Side Story
52. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Technodelic
53. Wipers - Youth of America
54. Bobby Womack - The Poet
55. Elvis Costello - Almost Blue
56. Scientist - Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires
57. Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
58. Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry
59. Al Jarreau - Breakin' Away
60. John Cale - Honi Soit
61. Fela Kuti - Coffin for Head of State
62. Scientist - Scientists Meets the Space Invaders
63. Raven - Rock Until You Drop
64. The Church - Of Skins and Heart
65. Iron Maiden - Killers
66. Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
67. The Gun Club - Fire of Love
68. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
69. Van Halen - Fair Warning
70. Jerry Harrison - The Red and the Black
71. Electric Light Orchestra - Time
72. Ryuichi Sakamoto - Left Handed Dream
73. Accept - Breaker
74. David Lindley - El Rayo-X
75. John Foxx - The Garden
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1. Marquis de Sade - Rue De Siam
2. This Heat - Deceit
3. The Psychadelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
4. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
5. X - Wild Gift
6. The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
7. U2 - Boy
8. Elvis Costello - Trust
9. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
10. King Crimson - Discipline
11. The Human League - Dare!
12. Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell
13. The Cure - Faith
14. The Associates - Fourth Drawer Down
15. Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
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There is an issue with Fela's Black President album. Although t's on AMG top 3000 it's not really an album but more a compilation (and it is classified as such by RYM) meant for the European market. So I think it is not eligible, whereas Original Sufferhead and Coffin For Head Of State are.
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Here's my list in progress

Only 6 albums so far !!

So I'll have to look at the recommmendation thread!
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1981
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01. The CRAMPS - Psychedelic Jungle
02. MOTÖRHEAD - No Sleep ´Til Hammersmith
03. DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
04. The WIPERS - Youth Of America
05. The BIRTHDAY PARTY - Prayers On Fire
06. FRANK ZAPPA - You Are What You Is
07. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN - Heaven Up Here
08. MEREDITH MONK - Dolmen Music
09. The GUN CLUB - Fire Of Love
10. VENOM - Welcome To Hell
11. TUXEDOMOON - Desire
12. KILLING JOKE - What´s THIS For...!
13. ALLEZ ALLEZ - African Queen
14. GLENN BRANCA - The Ascension
15. EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN - Kollaps
16. YELLO - Claro Que Si
17. DER PLAN - Normalette Surprise
18. SIMPLE MINDS - Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call
19. ESKATON - 4 Visions
20. KING CRIMSON - Discipline
21. TELEVISION PERSONALITIES - ...And Don´t The Kids Just Love It
22. The RAYBEATS - Guitar Beat
23. YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA - Technodelic
24. RIP, RIG + PANIC - God
25. DEUTSCH-AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT - Alles Ist Gut
26. The CURE - Faith
27. EEK-A-MOUSE - Wa-Do-Dem
28. The RAINCOATS - Odyshape
29. THIS HEAT - Deceit
30. JAMES BLOOD ULMER - Free Lancing
31. ETOILE DE DAKAR - Vol. 4: Xaley Étoile
32. SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES - Juju
33. JOSEF K. - The Only Fun In Town
34. SNAKEMAN SHOW - The Snakeman Show
35. AL DiMEOLA, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN & PACO DE LUCIA - Friday Night In San Francisco
36. SECOND LAYER - World Of Rubber
37. The AU PAIRS - Playing With A Different Sex
38. SQUEEZE - Eastside Story
39. EYELESS IN GAZA - Photographs As Memories
40. FISCHER Z - Red Skies Over Paradise
41. GRACE JONES - Nightclubbing
42. SCIENTIST - Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires
43. The dB´s - Stands For Decibels
44. PHIL COLLINS - Face Value
45. VARIOUS ARTISTS - Some Bizzare Album
46. DAVID THOMAS - The Sound Of The Sand
47. The REPLACEMENTS - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
48. GRAUZONE - Grauzone
49. CREATION REBEL/NEW AGE STEPPERS - Threat To Creation
50. NEW ORDER - Movement
51. JOHN FOXX - The Garden
52. WALL OF VOODOO - Dark Continent
53. IRON MAIDEN - Killers
54. The BLASTERS - The Blasters
55. PETER HAMMILL - Sitting Targets
56. HEAVEN 17 - Penthouse And Pavement
57. The FALL - Slates
58. ROBYN HITCHCOCK - Black Snake Diamond Role
59. MARINE GIRLS - Beach Party
60. PRINCE - Controversy
61. CLOCK DVA - Thirst
62. The DURUTTI COLUMN - L.C.
63. BAUHAUS - Mask
64. GIRLSCHOOL - Hit And Run
65. The BARRACUDAS - Drop Out With The Barracudas
66. KRAFTWERK - Computer Welt
67. The SOUND - From The Lion´s Mouth
68. PALAIS SCHAUMBURG - Palais Schaumburg
69. U2 - October
70. ART BEARS - The World As It Is Today
71. The PLIMSOULS - The Plimsouls
72. SOFT CELL - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
73. LUTHER VANDROSS - Never Too Much
74. LOUNGE LIZARDS - Lounge Lizards
75. CRASS - Penis Envy
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Moonbeam wrote: This month, we will continue with the much maligned but actually incredible 1981.
I'm sorry, but compared to 1980, '81 is like a barren wasteland.
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ALBUMS

1. The Replacements / Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
2. Journey / Escape
3. Go-Go’s / Beauty and the Beat
4. The Psychedelic Furs / Talk Talk Talk
5. Rush / Moving Pictures
6. The Human League / Dare
7. Prince / Controversy
8. Motley Crue / Too Fast For Love
9. Depeche Mode / Speak & Spell
10. The Cure / Faith
11. Elvis Costello / Trust
12. The Plimsouls / The Plimsouls
13. Men At Work / Business As Usual
14. The Police / Ghost In The Machine
15. New Order / Movement

16. Iron Maiden / Killers
17. Duran Duran / Duran Duran
18. Madness / 7
19. Soft Cell / Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
20. Squeeze / East Side Story
21. Fela Kuti / Coffin For Head Of State
22. Black Sabbath / Mob Rules
23. Y&T / Earthshaker
24. The Cars / Shake It Up
25. Daryl Hall & John Oates / Private Eyes
26. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers / Hard Promises
27. Echo and the Bunnymen / Heaven Up Here
28. OMD / Arcitecture & Morality
29. Stray Cats / Stray Cats
30. Oingo Boingo / Only A Lad
31. Def Leppard / High ‘n’ Dry
32. Black Uhuru / Red
33. Wipers / Youth Of America
34. Ozzy Osbourne / Diary Of A Madman
35. Foreigner / 4
36. Genesis / Abacab
37. Rick James / Street Songs
38. Wailing Souls / Fire House Rock
39. U2 / October
40. Phil Collins / Face Value
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Albums:
1. Kim Carnes - Mistaken Identity
2. Men At Work - Business As Usual
3. The Human League - Dare!
4. Roky Erickson and the Aliens - The Evil One
5. Rod Stewart - Tonight I'm Yours
6. Brian Eno - David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
7. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Almost Blue
8. Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
9. Marquis de Sade - Rue De Siam
10. The Sound - From The Lions Mouth

Songs:
1. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
2. The Human League - Don't You Want Me
3. Rod Stewart - Young Turks
4. Men At Work - Down Under
5. Kim Carnes - Miss You Tonight
6. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
7. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
8. Fela Kuti - Coffin for Head of State (Vocal)
9. Bob Dylan - Every Grain Of Sand
10. Kraftwerk - Computer Liebe
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Albums:

1. The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
2. The Stranglers - La Folie
3. Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
4. Marquis de Sade - Rue de Siam
5. Van Halen - Fair Warning
6. Tuxedomoon - Desire
7. Fischer-Z - Red Skies Over Paradise
8. Urban Verbs - Early Damage
9. UFO - The Wild, the Willing and the Innocent
10. The Cure - Faith
11. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
12. Bauhaus - Mask
13. Charlélie Couture - Poèmes Rock
14. The Durutti Column - LC
15. The Police - Ghost in the Machine

Pere Ubu - 390 Degrees of Simulated Stereo, Vol. 1
Taxi Girl - Seppuku
Hubert-Félix Thiéfaine - Dernieres balises (avant mutation)


Songs:

1. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
2. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
3. Tuxedomoon - Desire
4. Marquis de Sade - Wanda's Loving Boy
5. Echo and the Bunnymen - With A Hip
6. Van Halen - Mean Street
7. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
8. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
9. Marquis de Sade - Cancer and Drugs
10. Laurie Anderson - O Superman
11. The Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk to Fuck
12. TC Matic - O La La La
13. Fischez Z - Multinationals Bite
14. he Damned - Disco Man
15. New Order - Ceremony

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
The Specials - Ghost Town
Tom Tom Club - Wordy Rappinghood
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
Jo Lemaire + Flouze - Je suis venue te dire que je m'en vais
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Jirin wrote: 7. U2 - Boy
This one's from 1980. Got a replacement?
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Songs

1. Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble
2. Todd Rundgren - Healing Part I
3. Grateful Dead - Friend of the Devil (Live)
4. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
5. Scientist - The Mummy's Shroud
6. The Cure - Faith
7. OMD - Souvenir
8. Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' for You
9. Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
10. Rick James - Make Love to Me
11. Marvin Gaye - Heavy Love Affair
12. Japan - Still Life in Mobile Homes
13. Raven - Lambs to the Slaughter
14. Ultravox - Stranger Within
15. Ryuichi Sakamoto - The Left Bank

16. Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
17. New Order - Dreams Never End
18. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
19. Black Sabbath - Turn Up the Night
20. The Church - Fighter Pilot...Korean War
21. Black Flag - Depression
22. Rickie Lee Jones - Living It Up
23. The Human League - Don't You Want Me
24. Kraftwerk - Computer Love
25. Fela Kuti - Power Show
26. George Strait - If You're Thinking You Want a Stranger (There's One Coming Home)
27. The Psychedelic Furs - She is Mine
28. The Rolling Stones - Waiting on a Friend
29. Nils Lofgren - Dirty Money
30. Luther Vandross - You Stopped Loving Me
31. Prince - Private Joy
32. Daryl Hall & John Oates - Mano a Mano
33. Genesis - Keep It Dark
34. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach for My Revolver
35. Motorhead - Stay Clean (Live)
36. Riot - Altar of the King
37. Teena Marie - Square Biz
38. Bobby Womack - If You Think You're Lonely Now
39. The Replacements - Johnny's Gonna Die
40. John Anderson - The Same Old Girl
41. ABC - Tears Are Not Enough
42. Pretenders - The Adultress
43. Rush - Red Barchetta
44. King Crimson - Matte Kudasai
45. The Cramps - The Crusher
46. David Lindley - Ain't No Way
47. Toto - Turn Back
48. Billy Squier - I Need You
49. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Seoul Music
50. Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - It's for You
51. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Insider
52. Al Jarreau - We're in This Love Together
53. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Clubland
54. John Cale - Strange Times in Casablanca
55. Wailing Souls - Fool Will Fall
56. The Comsat Angels - Be Brave
57. The dB's - Black and White
58. The Teardrop Explodes - Tiny Children
59. The Police - Omegaman
60. Ozzy Osbourne - You Can't Kill Rock & Roll
61. The Blasters - No Other Girl
62. Bauhaus - Mask
63. The Sound - Sense of Purpose
64. Tom Verlaine - Always
65. Grace Jones - Demolition Man
66. Accept - Son of a Bitch
67. The Birthday Party - Nick the Stripper
68. Jerry Harrison - The New Adventure
69. The Gun Club - Sex Beat
70. John Carpenter - Main Title (Escape from New York)
71. Wipers - Youth of America
72. Rush - La Villa Strangiato (Live)
73. Squeeze - Woman's World
74. Venom - Red Light Fever
75. X - White Girl
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MUCH better year than I used to think ... peel back the layers, there is a ton of great experimental music in '81. (Plus some long-time guilty pleasures...)


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ALBUMS

[01] This Heat | Deceit
[02] Glenn Branca | The Ascension
[03] Fela Kuti | Coffin for Head of State
[04] Scientist | Scientist Rids The World of The Evil Curse of The Vampires
[05] Rush | Moving Pictures
[06] Meredith Monk | Dolmen Music
[07] The Raincoats | Odyshape
[08] Van Halen | Fair Warning
[09] ABBA | The Visitors
[10] Kraftwerk | Computer World
[11] The Sound | From The Lion's Mouth
[12] Rip, Rig and Panic | God
[13] Ludus | The Seduction
[14] Art Bears | The World As It Is Today
[15] The Lounge Lizards | The Lounge Lizards

[16] The Wipers | Youth of America
[17] The Associates | Fourth Drawer Down
[18] Siouxsie and The Banshees | Juju
[19] King Crimson | Discipline
[20] The Gun Club | Fire of Love
[21] Joe McPhee | Topology
[22] Au Pairs | Playing With a Different Sex
[23] Derek Bailey | Aida
[24] Penguin Café Orchestra | Penguin Café Orchestra
[25] Elvis Costello and The Attractions | Trust
[26] Eddie Palmieri | Eddie Palmieri
[27] Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Architecture & Morality
[28] Japan | Tin Drum
[29] Grace Jones | Nightclubbing
[30] David Byrne and Brian Eno | My Life in The Bush of Ghosts
[31] Gang of Four | Solid Gold
[32] The Police | Ghost In The Machine
[33] Pat Metheny | As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
[34] Gil Scott-Heron | Reflections
[35] Yellow Magic Orchestra | Technodelic
[36] Prince | Controversy
[37] The Human League | Dare!
[38] Public Image Ltd. | Flowers of Romance
[39] Squeeze | East Side Story
[40] Material | Memory Serves


SONGS

[01] Julius Eastman | The Holy Presence of Joan d'Arc
[02] Laurie Anderson | O Superman
[03] This Heat | Paper Hats
[04] The Wipers | Youth of America
[05] Rip, Rig and Panic | Bob Hope Takes Risks
[06] Glenn Branca | The Ascension
[07] Fela Kuti | Coffin for Head of State
[08] The Raincoats | Only Loved At Night
[09] ESG | U.F.O
[10] ABBA | Like an Angel Passing Through My Room
[11] Kraftwerk | Computer Love
[12] Ludus | The Escape Artist
[13] R.E.M. | Radio Free Europe
[14] Elvis Costello and The Attractions | Clubland
[15] Flipper | Sex Bomb
[16] Meredith Monk | Dolmen Music
[17] Scientist | Your Teeth In My Neck
[18] The Police | Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
[19] The Go-Go's | Our Lips Are Sealed
[20] Pigbag | Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
[21] New Order | Ceremony
[22] The Associates | A Girl Named Property
[23] Van Halen | Unchained
[24] The Sound | Winning
[25] Eddie Palmieri | El Día Que Me Quieras
[26] Tom Tom Club | Genius of Love
[27] Alfred Schnittke | Symphony No. 3
[28] The Lounge Lizards | Do The Wrong Thing
[29] The Stranglers | Golden Brown
[30] Trouble Funk | Drop The Bomb
[31] Japan | Ghosts
[32] Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five | The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on The Wheels of Steel
[33] The Human League | Don't You Want Me
[34] Rush | Limelight
[35] The Specials | Ghost Town
[36] This Heat | S.P.Q.R.
[37] David Byrne and Brian Eno | The Jezebel Spirit
[38] Taana Gardner | Heartbeat
[39] Glenn Branca | Light Fields (In Consonance)
[40] Siouxsie and The Banshees | Arabian Knights
[41] Gal Costa | Acai
[42] Art Bears | The Song of Investment Captial Overseas
[43] Mission of Burma | That's When I Reach for My Revolver
[44] Minor Threat | Screaming at a Wall
[45] The Gun Club | She's Like Heroin To Me
[46] Joe McPhee | Age
[47] Derek Bailey | Paris
[48] Squeeze | Is That Love?
[49] King Crimson | Thela Hun Ginjeet
[50] Au Pairs | Headache (For Michelle)
[51] Dr. Jeckyll and Mr. Hyde | Genius Rap
[52] Grace Jones | Pull Up To The Bumper
[53] The Ramones | The KKK Took My Baby Away
[54] Ozzy Osbourne | Flying High Again
[55] Pat Metheny | As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls
[56] Cybotron | Alleys of Your Mind
[57] Black Flag | Rise Above
[58] Etoile de Dakar | Alboury
[59] Yoko Ono | Walking on Thin Ice
[60] ABBA | The Visitors
[61] The Bush Tetras | You Can't Be Funky
[62] Nyboma | Double-Double
[63] Penguin Café Orchestra | Air a Danser
[64] Gang of Four | What We All Want
[65] The Fall | Leave The Capitol
[66] Van Halen | Mean Street
[67] The Gun Club | Sex Beat
[68] Hall and Oates | I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
[69] ESG | Moody
[70] Material | Square Dance
[71] Yellow Magic Orchestra | Neue Tanz
[72] Gil Scott-Heron | B-Movie
[73] Liliput | Eisiger Wind
[74] Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark | Souvenir
[75] Rush | Tom Sawyer
[76] The Red Crayola with Art and Language | An Old Man's Dream
[77] Rip, Rig and Panic | Knee Deep In Shit
[78] Stevie Nicks | Edge of Seventeen
[79] Fela Kuti | Original Sufferhead
[80] Afrika Bambaataa and Soul Sonic Force | Jazzy Sensation
[81] Devo | Beautiful World
[82] The Psychedelic Furs | Pretty in Pink
[83] The Cramps | Goo Goo Muck
[84] The Who | You Better, You Bet
[85] Scientist | Beam Down
[86] The Raincoats | Shouting Out Loud
[87] Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five | Scorpio
[88] 8 Eyed Spy | Lazy in Love
[89] Phil Collins | In The Air Tonight
[90] Heaven 17 | (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
[91] Pharoah Sanders | Rejoice
[92] Television Personalities | This Angry Silence
[93] Public Image Ltd. | Under The House
[94] Ronald Shannon Jackson | Black Widow
[95] Genesis | Abacab
[96] Elvis Costello and The Attractions | From a Whisper to a Scream
[97] Prince | Controversy
[98] X | We're Desperate
[99] The Misfits | London Dungeon
[100] Soft Cell | Tainted Love
[101] Rush | YYZ
[102] The Sound | New Dark Age
[103] Adam and The Ants | Kings of The Wild Frontier
[104] Glenn Branca | The Spectacular Commodity
[105] The J. Geils Band | Centerfold
[106] Rosanne Cash | Seven Year Ache
[107] Kim Carnes | Bette Davis Eyes
[108] Rick James | Super Freak
[109] U2 | Gloria
[110] Bob Dylan | Every Grain of Sand
[111] The Pretenders | Message of Love
[112] The Passions | I'm In Love With a German Film Star
[113] Rick Springfield | Jessie's Girl
[114] The Police | Secret Journey
[115] AC/DC | For Those About To Rock - We Salute You
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ALBUMS:
1. The Police - Ghost in the Machine
2. Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde
3. The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
4. Rod Stewart - Tonight I'm Yours
5. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
6. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
7. Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
8. Phil Collins - Face Value
9. Men at Work - Business as Usual
10. Pointer Sisters - Black and White
11. Sister Sledge - All American Girls
12. Duran Duran - Duran Duran
13. The Stranglers - La Folie
14. Prince - Controversy
15. Pretenders - Pretenders II

SINGLES:
1. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross - Endless Love
2. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
3. Kim Wilde - Cambodia
4. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
5. Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only
6. Paolo Conte - Via con me
7. Rod Stewart - Young Turks
8. Lime - Your Love
9. Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before
10. Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand
11. Olivia Newton-John - Physical
12. Prince - Controversy
13. Champaign - How 'bout Us
14. Pretenders - I Go to Sleep
15. Men at Work - Down Under
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bonnielaurel wrote:ALBUMS:
1. The Police - Ghost in the Machine
2. Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde
3. The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
4. Rod Stewart - Tonight I'm Yours
5. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
6. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture & Morality
7. Hall & Oates - Private Eyes
8. Phil Collins - Face Value
9. Men at Work - Business as Usual
10. Pointer Sisters - Black and White
11. Sister Sledge - All American Girls
12. Duran Duran - Duran Duran
13. The Stranglers - La Folie
14. Prince - Controversy
15. Pretenders - Pretenders II

SINGLES:
1. Lionel Richie & Diana Ross - Endless Love
2. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
3. Kim Wilde - Cambodia
4. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
5. Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only
6. Paolo Conte - Via con me
7. Rod Stewart - Young Turks
8. Lime - Your Love
9. Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before
10. Pointer Sisters - Slow Hand
11. Olivia Newton-John - Physical
12. Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
13. Prince - Controversy
14. Champaign - How 'bout Us
15. Pretenders - I Go to Sleep
I love your lists! Just to let you know, you don't have to restrict the song list to just singles!
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Moonbeam wrote:
I love your lists! Just to let you know, you don't have to restrict the song list to just singles!
Thanks. Btw I have a question about that. If a song is on an album in 1981, and becomes a single in 1982, does that song count for 1981?
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bonnielaurel wrote:
Moonbeam wrote:
I love your lists! Just to let you know, you don't have to restrict the song list to just singles!
Thanks. Btw I have a question about that. If a song is on an album in 1981, and becomes a single in 1982, does that song count for 1981?
Yes. The earliest release date of a song is what is used here. If the song is rerecorded and significantly different as a single to its album version, though, you can vote for that version in whatever year it was released.
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bonnielaurel wrote: 12. Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
This song is from 1980 (released on Making Movies).
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Songs of 1981

1 : Au Pairs : Headache for Michelle
2 : The Specials : Ghost Town
3 : Yoko Ono : Walking on Thin Ice
4 : Vivien Goldman : Launderette
5 : Bush Tetras : Can't Be Funky
6 : 23 Skidoo : The Gospel Comes To New Guinea
7 : Elvis Costello & The Attractions : Good Year For The Roses
8 : The Astronauts : Protest Song
9 : The Embarrassment : Celebrity Art Party
10 : Soft Cell : Memorabilia
11 : The Jones Girls : Nights Over Egypt
12 : The Deep Freeze Mice : Path to You
13 : Tuxedomoon : Desire
14 : Blue Orchids : The Flood
15 : Pel Mel : No Word From China

16 : Toyah : It's A Mystery
17 : Medium Medium : Hungry, So Angry
18 : Soft Cell : Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
19 : Flipper : Sex Bomb
20 : The Art Bears : The Song of Investment Capital Overseas
21 : The Passions : I'm in Love With a German Film Star
22 : Daniel Johnston : Living Life
23 : Honeymoon Killers : Route Nationale 7
24 : Eyeless In Gaza : From A to B
25 : King Crimson : Elephant Talk
26 : Aztec Camera : We Could Send Letters
27 : Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five : The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash On the Wheels of Steel
28 : The Lounge Lizards : Incident On South Street
29 : The Raincoats : Shouting Out Loud
30 : Heaven 17 : (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
31 : John Cale : Dead Or Alive
32 : Brian Eno & David Byrne : The Jezebel Spirit
33 : Die Krupps : Wahre Arbeit - Wahrer Lohn
34 : The Embarrassment : Elizabeth Montgomery's Face
35 : Robert Wyatt : Heathens Have No Souls
36 : The Durutti Column : Never Known
37 : Klaus Nomi : Total Eclipse
38 : The Deep Freeze Mice : Vera
39 : Clock DVA : 4 Hours
40 : The Cardboards : Electrical Generator
41 : Public Image Ltd. : Flowers Of Romance
42 : Madness : It Must Be Love
43 : Brian Eno & David Byrne : Mea Culpa
44 : Romeo Void : Never Say Never
45 : The Durutti Column : One Christmas For Your Thoughts
46 : The Birthday Party : Release The Bats
47 : Inner Life : Ain't No Mountain High Enough
48 : Rip Rig + Panic : Bob Hope Takes Risks
49 : Peter Gordon : The Fruit of the Original Sin
50 : The Jam : Funeral Pyre
51 : Maureen Tucker : I'll Be Your Baby Tonight
52 : 23 Skidoo : Last Words
53 : The Names : Nightshift
54 : The Soft Boys : Only the Stones Remain
55 : Out on Blue Six : Party Mood
56 : Bauhaus : The Passion of Lovers
57 : The Gun Club : Sex Beat
58 : The Joneses : Summer Groove
59 : Black Uhuru : Youth of Eglington
60 : The Method Actors : Bleeding
61 : Phew : Doze
62 : Essential Logic : Fanfare In The Garden
63 : The Gun Club : For the Love of Ivy
64 : Malaria! : Gewissen
65 : The Pretenders : Message Of Love
66 : The Pinkies : Open Commune
67 : The Clean : Point that Thing Somewhere Else
68 : The Psychedelic Furs : Pretty In Pink
69 : The Dancing Cigarettes : Puppies In A Sack
70 : Palais Schaumburg : Rote Lichter
71 : The Pinkies : Target Searching
72 : ESG : You're No Good
73 : Negativland : The Answer Is
74 : Social Climbers : Chicken 80
75 : Pylon : Crazy
76 : Universal Two : Dancing Heart
77 : Television Personalities : Diary of a Young Man
78 : Material : Disappearing
79 : New Order : Dreams Never End
80 : The Cleaners From Venus : Helpless
81 : Gil Scott-Heron : Is That Jazz?
82 : The Durutti Column : Jacqueline
83 : Out on Blue Six : Johnny - Mogadon Sunday
84 : The Stranglers : Let Me Introduce You To The Family
85 : Liaisons Dangereuses : Los Niños Del Parque
86 : Etat Brut : Malaise
87 : Laurie Anderson : O Superman
88 : Šarlo Akrobata : Ona se budi
89 : Wipers : Pushing The Extreme
90 : Cabaret Voltaire : Raising The Count
91 : The Associates : Tell Me Easter's On a Friday
92 : Bush Tetras : Things That Go Boom In The Night
93 : Tuxedomoon : Weihnachtrap
94 : Ami Marie : Wir sind zufrieden
95 : Wah! Heat : 7000 Names Of Wah
96 : Gayle Adams : Love Fever (Instrumental)
97 : Red Crayola with Art & Language : The Milkmaid
98 : The Ex : War Is Over (Weapons for El Salvador)
99 : Deutsche Wertarbeit : Der Grosse Atem
100 : Die Tödliche Doris : Tanz im Quadrat
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I view the 80s primarily through the prism of Top 40 radio in the USA. Based on that, I would rank 1981 as the second weakest year of the decade. Of course, 1981 had many fine moments!

1. Rolling Stones- Start Me Up
2. Rick Springfield- Jessie's Girl
3. J. Geils Band- Centerfold
4. Human League- Don't You Want Me
5. Squeeze- Tempted
6. Tom Tom Club- Genius of Love
7. Kim Carnes- Bette Davis Eyes
8. Rosanne Cash- Seven Year Ache
9. Queen & David Bowie- Under Pressure
10. Men at Work- Down Under

11. Rick James- Superfreak
12. Marty Balin- Hearts
13. Hall and Oates- I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
14. George Harrison- All Those Years Ago
15. Men at Work- Who Can It Be Now
16. Genesis- Abacab
17. Lindsay Buckingham- Trouble
18. Stevie Nicks & Don Henley- Leather and Lace
19. Phil Collins- In the Air Tonight
20. Christopher Cross- Arthur's Theme (The Best That You Can Do)

21. Hall and Oates- Private Eyes
22. Elvis Costello- From a Whisper to a Scream
23. Soft Cell- Tainted Love
24. Prince- Controversy
25. The Police- Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
26. Champaign- How 'Bout Us
27. Journey- Don't Stop Believin'
28. Elvis Costello- You'll Never Be a Man
29. Prince- Do Me, Baby
30. Elvis Costello- Watch Your Step

31. Dan Fogelberg- Leader of the Band
32. Billy Joel- She's Got a Way (Live)
33. Commodores- Oh No
34. Billy Vera and the Beaters- At This Moment
35. Go-Gos- Our Lips Are Sealed
36. Smokey Robinson- Being With You
37. Journey- Open Arms
38. .38 Special- Hang On Loosely
39. The Who- You Better You Bet
40. Billy Idol- Dancing With Myself

41. Elvis Costello- New Lace Sleeves
42. The Specials- Ghost Town
43. Psychedelic Furs- Pretty in Pink
44. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts- I Love Rock n Roll
45. Prince- Private Joy
46. Prince- Sexuality
47. Elvis Costello- Fish and Chip Papers
48. Stevie Wonder- That Girl
49. Elvis Costello- Sad About Girls
50. Earth Wind and Fire- Let's Groove

51. Hall and Oates- Did It in a Minute
52. Joey Scarbury- Theme From Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)
53. Rick James- Give It to Me Baby
54. Mission of Burma- That's When I Reach for My Revolver
55. Foreigner- Waiting on a Girl LIke You
56. Pointer Sisters- Slow Hand
57. Rod Stewart- Young Turks
58. Def Leppard- Bringin' on the Heartbreak
59. Greg Kihn Band- The Breakup Song (They Don't Write 'Em)
60. Kim Wilde- Kids in America

61. Eric Clapton- I Can't Stand It
62. Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty- Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
63. Prince- Jack U Off
64. The Police- Invisible Sun
65. Sheena Easton- For Your Eyes Only
66. Quarterflash- Harden My Heart
67. Rush- Tom Sawyer
68. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers- The Waiting
69. One Hundred Ways- Quincy Jones/James Ingram
70. Junior- Mama Used to Say

71. Paul Davis- '65 Love Affair
72. Olivia Newton-John- Make a Move on Me
73. Japan- Ghosts
74. Rolling Stones- Waiting on a Friend
75. Depeche Mode- Just Can't Get Enough
76. ABC- Tears are Not Enough
77. Juice Newton- Queen of Hearts
78. Stevie Nicks- Edge of Seventeen
79. Air Supply- The One That You Love
80. Lee Ritenour- Is it You?

81. Diana Ross and Lionel Richie- Endless Love
82. Ray Parker, Jr. & Raydio- A Woman Needs Love
83. Dan Fogelberg- Same Old Lang Syne
84. Kool and the Gang- Get Down On It
85. The Pretenders- Message of Love
86. Scritti Politti- The Sweetest Girl
87. Journey- Who's Crying Now
88. Billy Squier- The Stroke
89. George Benson- Turn Your Love Around
90. Al Jarreau- We're in This Love Together

91. Luther Vandross- Never Too Much
92. Rick Springfield- I've Done Everything for You
93. Gary Wright- Really Want to Know You
94. Romeo Void- Never Say Never
95. Blue Oyster Cult- Burnin' for You
96. Styx- Too Much Time on My Hands
97. Dan Fogelberg- Hard to Say
98. J. Geils Band- Freeze Frame
99. Carl Carlton- She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)
100. Phil Collins- I Missed Again
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Listyguy wrote:
bonnielaurel wrote: 12. Dire Straits - Romeo and Juliet
This song is from 1980 (released on Making Movies).
I just replaced it by "Down Under" (Men at Work).
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01. BOW WOW WOW-ORANG OUTANG (from See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Go Ape Crazy!) Listen Here
02. PIGBAG-PAPA'S GOT A BRAND NEW PIGBAG (single-Postpunk) Listen Here
03. NEW ORDER-EVERYTHING'S GONE GREEN ("12" VERSION) (single-Postpunk)
04. The WIPERS-YOUTH OF AMERICA (from Youth Of America-Alt./Indie Rock)
05. ART BEARS-FREEDOM (from The World As It Is Today-Experimental)
06. KRAFTWERK-COMPUTER LOVE (from Computer World-Krautrock)
07. DEAD KENNEDYS-WE'VE GOT A BIGGER PROBLEM NOW (from In God We Trust Inc.-Punk) Listen Here
08. SNAKEMAN SHOW- 愛のチャンピオン号 (from The Snakeman Show-Comedy) the Japanese Monty Python.
09. The GUN CLUB-GHOST ON THE HIGHWAY (from The Fire Of Love-Garage Rock)
10. SIMPLE MINDS-THEME FOR GREAT CITIES (from Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call-Postpunk) Listen Here

11. DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO-THE JEZEBEL SPIRIT (from My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts-Postpunk)
12. NORMAL BRAIN - M-U-S-I-C (from Ready Made-Japanese Postpunk/Synthpop) Listen Here
13. The PARTISANS-POLICE STORY (single-Punk)
14. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN-OVER THE WALL (from Heaven Up Here-Postpunk)
15. JAH WOBBLE, JAKI LIEBEZEIT & HOLGER CZUKAY-HOW MUCH ARE THEY? (single-Postpunk) ex-PIL meets ex-Can. Listen
16. HAIRCUT 100-FAVOURITE SHIRTS ("12" VERSION) (single-Pop/New Wave) Listen Here
17. SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES-ARABIAN KNIGHTS (from Juju-Postpunk)
18. MEREDITH MONK-GOTHAM LULLABY (from Dolmen Music-Experimental)
19. The PASSIONS-I'M IN LOVE WITH A GERMAN FILMSTAR (from 30.000 Feet Over China-Postpunk) Listen Here
20. KING CRIMSON-THELA HUN GINJEET (from Discipline-Pop/Rock)

21. DEUTSCH-AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT - ALS WÄR'S DAS LETZTE MAL (from Alles Ist Gut-Postpunk) Listen Here
22. ESKATON-ÉCOUTE (from 4 Visions-French Avantprog)
23. EURYTHMICS-NEVER GONNA CRY AGAIN (from In The Garden-Synthpop) Listen Here
24. TELEVISION PERSONALITIES-LA GRAND ILLUSION (from ...And Don't The Kids Just Love It-Alt./Indie Rock)
25. ALAN VEGA-I BELIEVE (from Collision Drive-Postpunk) Listen Here
26. FRANK ZAPPA-YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS (from You Are What You Is-Pop/Rock)
27. The WIPERS-WHEN IT'S OVER (from Youth Of America-Alt./Indie Rock)
28. INEZ ANDREWS-COURAGE LORD (from I Made A Step-Gospel) Listen Here
29. LUDUS-THE ESCAPE ARTIST (from The Seduction-Postpunk) Listen Here
30. DURAN DURAN-PLANET EARTH (from Duran Duran-Synthpop)

31. EEK-A-MOUSE - GANJA SMUGGLING (from Wa-Do-Dem - Reggae) Listen Here
32. MARTHA & THE MUFFINS-SWIMMING (from This Is The Ice Age-New Wave)
33. GANG OF FOUR-PARALYSED (from Solid Gold-Postpunk)
34. CAMEO-KNIGHTS BY NIGHT (from Knights Of The Sound Table-Soul/Funk)
35. ALLEZ ALLEZ-SHE'S STIRRING UP (from African Queen-Belgian Postpunk)
36. GLENN BRANCA-THE SPECTACULAR COMMODITY (from The Ascension-Experimental)
37. SPANDAU BALLET-CHANT NO. 1 (from Diamond-Synthpop) Listen Here
38. TYGERS OF PAN TANG-GANGLAND (from Spellbound-Metal)
39. The SOUND-JUDGEMENT (from From The Lion's Mouth-Postpunk)
40. PRINCE-DO ME, BABY (from Controversy-Disco/Funk)

41. MICHAEL NYMAN-BIRD LIST SONG (from Michael Nyman-Experimental)
42. DER PLAN-RENATE (from Normalette Surprise-Postpunk)
43. RICK JAMES-SUPER FREAK (from Street Life-Soul/Funk)
44. KIRSTY MacCOLL-THERE'S A GUY WORKS DOWN THE CHIP SHOP SWEARS HE'S ELVIS (from Desperate Character) Listen
45. YELLO-SHE'S GOT A GUN (from Claro Que Si-Postpunk/Synthpop)
46. The UNDERTONES-IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN (from Positive Touch-New Wave)
47. B-MOVIE - MOLES (from Some Bizzare Album-Synthpop) Listen Here
48. JAPAN-GHOSTS (from Tin Drum-Postpunk)
49. The DURUTTI COLUMN-NEVER KNOWN (from L.C.-Postpunk) Listen Here
50. KLAUS NOMI-TOTAL ECLIPSE (from Klaus Nomi-Synthpop)

51. THIS HEAT-A NEW KIND OF WATER (from Deceit-Postpunk)
52. LIAISONS DANGEREUSES-LOS NIÑOS DEL PARQUE (from Liasons Dangereuses-Postpunk) Listen Here
53. The RAYBEATS-TONE ZONE (from Guitar Beat-Alt./Indie Rock)
54. U2-GLORIA (from October-Rock/Postpunk)
55. SNAKEMAN SHOW- 愛の嵐(バラ肉のタンゴ (from The Snakeman Show-Comedy)
56. KILLING JOKE-UNSPEAKABLE (from What's THIS For...!-Postpunk)
57. UB 40-ONE IN TEN (from Present Arms-Reggae) Listen Here
58. MAXIMUM JOY-SILENT STREET (single-Postpunk)
59. WAH!-THE SEVEN THOUSAND NAMES OF WAH! (from Nah=Poo-The Art Of Bluff - Postpunk) Listen Here
60. PHIL COLLINS-IN THE AIR TONIGHT (from Face Value-Pop/Rock)

61. The AU PAIRS-HEADACHE FOR MICHELLE (from Playing With A Different Sex-Postpunk) Listen Here
62. JOSEF K.-SORRY FOR LAUGHING (from The Only Fun In Town-Postpunk)
63. DURAN DURAN-GIRLS ON FILM (from Duran Duran-Synthpop)
64. 23 SKIDOO-LAST WORDS (single-Postpunk) Listen Here
65. SECOND LAYER-ZERO (from World Of Rubber-Postpunk)
66. EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN-STEH AUF BERLIN (from Kollaps-Postpunk)
67. FLIPPER-SEX BOMB (single-Alt./Indie Rock)
68. BOW WOW WOW-SINNER, SINNER, SINNER (from See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang, Go Ape Crazy!)
69. PETE SHELLEY-HOMOSAPIEN (from Homosapien-New Wave) Listen Here
70. R.E.M.-RADIO FREE EUROPE (single-Alt./Indie Rock)

71. The CRAMPS-GOO GOO MUCK (from Psychedelic Jungle-Garage Rock) Listen Here
72. JOE ARROYO-CON GUSTO Y GANA (from Con Gusto Y Gana-World/Latin/Colombia)
73. DEPARTMENT S.-GOING LEFT RIGHT (single-Postpunk) Listen Here
74. The POLICE-SPIRITS IN THE MATERIAL WORLD (from Ghost In The Machine-New Wave)
75. HOLGER CZUKAY-ODE TO PERFUME (from On The Way To The Peak Of Normal-Avantrock)
76. EYELESS IN GAZA-KNIVES REPLACE AIR (from Photographs As Memories-Postpunk) Listen Here
77. MONSOON-EVER SO LONELY (single-World/Pop) Listen Here
78. AL DiMEOLA, JOHN MCLAUGHLIN & PACO DE LUCIA-FREVO RASGADO (from Friday Night In San Francisco-Fusion)
79. TUXEDOMOON-DESIRE (from Desire-Postpunk)
80. VENOM-LIVE LIKE AN ANGEL, DIE LIKE A DEVIL (from Welcome To Hell-Metal)

81. SOFT CELL-TAINTED LOVE (from Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Synthpop)
82. The TEARDROP EXPLODES-THE GREAT DOMINIONS (from Wilder-Postpunk) Listen Here
83. ETOILE DE DAKAR - SAMA GUENTH-GUI (from Vol. 4: Xaley Étoile-World/Africa/Senegal)
84. LAURIE ANDERSON-O SUPERMAN (single-Experimental)
85. BLACK UHURU-SPONJI REGGAE (from Red-Reggae)
86. HEAVEN 17-FASCIST GROOVE THANG (from Penthouse And Pavement-Synthpop)
87. The RAINCOATS-ONLY LOVED AT NIGHT (from Odyshape-Postpunk)
88. MOTÖRHEAD-WE ARE THE ROAD CREW (LIVE) (from No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith-Metal)
89. GRAUZONE-FILM 2 (from Grauzone-Swiss Postpunk) Listen Here
90. LUTHER VANDROSS-SUGAR AND SPICE (from Never Too Much-Soul/Funk)

91. DAVID BYRNE & BRIAN ENO-HELP ME SOMEBODY (from My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts-Postpunk)
92. PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA-TELEPHONE AND RUBBER BAND (from Penguin Cafe Orchestra-Experimental)
93. ROKY ERICKSON-IF YOU HAVE GHOSTS (from The Evil One-Pop/Rock)
94. BAUHAUS-HOLLOW HILLS (from Mask-Postpunk)
95. DAVID THOMAS-SOUND OF THE SAND (from The Sound Of The Sand-Postpunk) solo debut by Pere Ubu frontman.
96. MINOR THREAT-I DON'T WANNA HEAR IT (from Minor Threat-Punk)
97. MARINE-LIFE IN REVERSE (single-Belgian Postpunk) Listen Here
98. The HUMAN LEAGUE-DON'T YOU WANT ME (from Dare!-Synthpop)
99. FISCHER Z-RED SKIES OVER PARADISE (from Red Skies Over Paradise-New Wave)
100. The BIRTHDAY PARTY-ZOO MUSIC GIRL (from Prayers On Fire-Postpunk)

101. SQUEEZE-LABELLED WITH LOVE (from East Side Story-New Wave)
102. JAMES BLOOD ULMER-PLEASURE CONTROL (from Free Lancing-Fusion/Jazz)
103. SCIENTIST-THE MUMMY'S SHROUD (from Scientist Rids The World Of The Evil Curse Of The Vampires-Reggae)
104. The RESIDENTS-THE NEW MACHINE (from Mark Of The Mole-Experimental)
105. DEUTSCH-AMERIKANISCHE FREUNDSCHAFT - DER MUSSOLINI (from Alles Ist Gut-Postpunk)
106. SAMSON-RIDING WITH THE ANGELS (from Shock Tactics-Metal) Listen Here
107. YELLOW MAGIC ORCHESTRA-KEY (from Technodelic-Synthpop)
108. The CLEAN-POINT THAT THING SOMEWHERE ELSE (from Boodle, Boodle, Boodle-New Zealand Indie)
109. VOICE FARM-ELEVATE (single-Postpunk/Synthpop) Listen Here
110. The REPLACEMENTS-CUSTOMER (from Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash-Rock/Punk)

111. The dB's-BLACK AND WHITE (from Stands For Decibels-Alt./Indie Rock)
112. CLOCK D.V.A.-SENORIUM (from Thirst-Postpunk)
113. SIMPLE MINDS-LOVE SONG (from Sons And Fascination/Sister Feelings Call-Postpunk/Synthpop)
114. PAOLO CONTE-VIA CON ME (from Paris Milonga-Italian Popular)
115. TRIO-SABINE SABINE SABINE (from Trio-Synthpop)
116. CREATION REBEL/NEW AGE STEPPERS-EUGENIC DEVICE (from Threat To Creation-Reggae)
117. The CURE-ALL CATS ARE GREY (from Faith-Postpunk)
118. G.B.H.-DEAD ON ARRIVAL (from Leather, Bristles, Studs And Acne-Punk)
119. JOHN FOXX-IN THE GARDEN (from The Garden-Postpunk/Synthpop) Listen Here
120. The FALL-FIT AND WORKING AGAIN (from Slates-Postpunk)

121. ROBYN HITCHCOCK-I WATCH THE CARS (from Black Snake Diamond Role-Alt./Indie Rock) ex-Soft Boys.
122. The FLESHTONES-THE DREG (single-Garage Rock) Listen Here
123. SISTER SLEDGE - ALL-AMERICAN GIRLS (from All-American Girls - Disco/Soul)
124. A CERTAIN RATIO-WINTER HILL (from To Each...-Postpunk)
125. BUSH TETRAS-RITUALS (single-Postpunk) Listen Here
126. PORTSMOUTH SINFONIA-CLASSICAL MUDDLY (single-Experimental)
127. The SPECIALS-GHOST TOWN (single-Ska Revival/New Wave)
128. GIRLSCHOOL-WATCH YOUR STEP (from Hit And Run-Metal)
129. The MONOCHROME SET-STRAITS OF MALACCA (single-New Wave)
130. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN-ALL MY COLOURS (from Heaven Up Here-Postpunk)

131. PETER HAMMILL-SITTING TARGETS (from Sitting Targets-Pop/Rock)
132. HIKASHU-NEW TRIBE (from Human Being-Japanese Postpunk) Listen Here
133. The CRAMPS-A NEW KIND OF KICK (single-Garage Rock)
134. The BLASTERS-BORDER RADIO (from The Blasters-Pop/Rock)
135. ULTRAVOX-THE VOICE (from Rage In Eden-Synthpop)
136. The PASSAGE-DEVILS AND ANGELS (single-Postpunk) Listen Here
137. KIP HANRAHAN-SKETCH FROM TWO CUBAS (from Coup De Tête-Fusion/Jazz)
138. The STRANGLERS-GOLDEN BROWN (from La Folie-New Wave)
139. B-MOVIE - REMEMBRANCE DAY (single-Synthpop) Listen Here
140. NAHAWA DOUMBIA-NIANIMANJOUGOU (from Na Hawa Doumbia-World/Africa/Mali)

141. The BEAT-TOO NICE TO TALK TO (single-Ska Revival/New Wave)
142. X-WHITE GIRL (from Wild Gift-Punk)
143. WALL OF VOODOO-CRACK THE BELL (from Dark Continent-Postpunk)
144. IRON MAIDEN-MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (from Killers-Metal)
145. BLURT-THE FISH NEEDS A BIKE (single-Postpunk) Listen Here
146. The BARRACUDAS-I SAW MY DEATH IN A DREAM LAST NIGHT (from Drop Out With The Barracudas-Garage Rock)
147. NEW ORDER-CEREMONY (single-Postpunk)
148. T.C. MATIC-OH LA LA LA, C'EST MAGNIFIQUE (from TC Matic-Belgian Postpunk) Listen Here
149. WAS (NOT WAS)-GO...NOW! (from Was (Not Was)-Pop/Rock)
150. CRASS-WHERE NEXT, COLUMBUS? (from Penis Envy-Punk)

151. DEPECHE MODE-PHOTOGRAPHIC (SOME BIZZARE VERSION) (from Some Bizzare Album-Synthpop) Listen Here
152. The EXPLOITED-PUNKS NOT DEAD (from Punks Not Dead-Punk)
153. PALAIS SCHAUMBURG-WIR BAUEN EINE NEUE STADT (from Palais Schaumburg-Postpunk)
154. RUSH-TOM SAWYER (from Moving Pictures-Metal/Prog)
155. MARQUIS DE SADE-SILENT WORLD (from Rue De Siam-French Postpunk)
156. THICK PIGEON-SUBWAY (from A Day In October-Postpunk)
157. SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES-SPELLBOUND (from Juju-Postpunk)
158. The NITS-RED TAPE (from Work-Dutch Wave)
159. LOUNGE LIZARDS-INCIDENT ON SOUTH STREET (from Lounge Lizards-Fusion/Experimental)
160. MATERIAL-UPRIVER (from Memory Serves-Postpunk/Experimental)

161. EARTH, WIND & FIRE-LET'S GROOVE (from Raise!-Soul/Funk)
162. The ASSOCIATES-TELL ME EASTER'S ON FRIDAY (from Fourth Drawer Down-Postpunk)
163. SCARS-OBSESSIONS (from Author! Author!-Postpunk)
164. SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK-CHILE RUN YOUR WATERS RED THROUGH SOWETO (from Good News-Folk)
165. JOY DIVISION-ICE AGE (from Still-Postpunk)
166. MEDIUM MEDIUM-SO HUNGRY, SO ANGRY (from The Glitterhouse-Postpunk) Listen Here
167. THIONE SECK-BAMBA (World/Africa/Senegal)
168. The ROLLING STONES-START ME UP (from Tattoo You-Pop/Rock)
169. D.O.A.-UNKNOWN (from Hardcore '81-Punk)
170. RIP, RIG + PANIC-SHADOWS ONLY THERE BECAUSE OF THE SUN (from God-Postpunk)

171. GRANDMASTER FLASH & THE FURIOUS FIVE-SCORPIO (single-Hiphop)
172. RAVEN-LAMBS TO THE SLAUGHTER (from Rock Until You Drop-Metal)
173. EXMO STARS-ETTE PETTE (single-World/Latin/Suriname)
174. GRACE JONES-NIGHTCLUBBING (from Nightclubbing-Disco/Soul)
175. MEKANIK KOMMANDO-MICROBES (from It Would Be Quiet In The Woods If Only A Few Birds Sing-Dutch Postpunk)
176. MARINE GIRLS-HE GOT THE GIRL (from Beach Party-Alt./Indie Pop) Tracey Thorn's first group.
177. IAN DURY-SPASTICUS AUTISTICUS (from Lord Upminster-New Wave)
178. SCRITTI POLITTI-THE SWEETEST GIRL (single-Postpunk) Listen Here
179. RED ZEBRA-WE LOST THE ART OF CONVERSATION (from Bastogne-Belgian Postpunk)
180. TOM TOM CLUB-GENIUS OF LOVE (from Tom Tom Club-New Wave)

181. NEVILLE BROTHERS-HEY POCKY WAY (from Fiya On The Bayou-Soul/Funk) Listen Here
182. VIVIEN GOLDMAN-LAUNDERETTE (single-Postpunk)
183. The PLIMSOULS-NOW (from The Plimsouls-Alt./Indie Rock)
184. KIM WILDE-CAMBODIA (single-Pop)
185. CABARET VOLTAIRE-LANDSLIDE (from Red Mecca-Postpunk)
186. The FABULOUS THUNDERBIRDS-TIP ON IN (from Butt Rockin'-Pop/Rock)
187. COMSAT ANGELS-IT'S NO SECRET (from Sleep No More-Postpunk)
188. BLACK FLAG-RISE ABOVE (from Damaged-Punk)
189. LIQUID LIQUID-LOCK GROOVE (IN) (from Successive Reflexes-Postpunk)
190. CYBOTRON-ALLEYS OF YOUR MIND (single-Electro)

191. The SLITS-EARTHBEAT (from Return Of The Giant Slits-Postpunk)
192. HANOI ROCKS-LOST IN THE CITY (from Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks-Metal)
193. ANDREAS DORAU & DIE MARINAS-JUNGER MANN (from Blumen Und Narzissen-Postpunk)
194. E.S.G.-UFO (from E.S.G.-Postpunk/Disco)
195. PUBLIC IMAGE LTD.-BANGING THE DOOR (from Flowers Of Romance-Postpunk)
196. EARTHLING-YOU GO ON NATURAL (from Dance-Japanese Postpunk/Synthpop) Listen Here
197. TAV FALCO'S PANTHER BURNS-BOURGEOIS BLUES (from Behind The Magnolia Curtain-Garage Rock)
198. NEIL YOUNG-SHOTS (from Re.actor-Pop/Rock)
199. GIRLS AT OUR BEST!-SHE FLIPPED (from Pleasure-New Wave)
200. HALF JAPANESE-NEW BRIDES OF FRANKENSTEIN (from Loud-Postpunk)
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Last month I haven't found the time to edit my 1980 lis and I was planning to edit my 1981 list but I finally decided to keep it like it was (including the comment I did about my #1 song).

ALBUMS:

1. JAPAN “Tin Drum” (#36 in my all-time list)
2. THE CURE “Faith”
3. BRIAN ENO - DAVID BYRNE “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts”
4. KING CRIMSON “Discipline”
5. KRAFTWERK “Computerwelt”
6. THE HUMAN LEAGUE “Dare!”
7. JOE JACKSON “Jumpin’ Jive”
8. ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS “Almost Blue”
9. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN “Heaven Up Here”
10. SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES “Juju”
11. RAMONES “Pleasant Dreams”
12. SOFT CELL “Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret”
13. DEPECHE MODE “Speak & Spell”
14. HEAVEN 17 “Penthouse and Pavement”
15. JAVIER KRAHE/JOAQUÍN SABINA/ALBERTO PÉREZ “La Mandrágora”
16. SQUEEZE “East Side Story”
17. RICKIE LEE JONES “Pirates”
18. PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA “Penguin Cafe Orchestra”
19. THE CRAMPS “Psychedelic Jungle”
20. THE ROLLING STONES “Tattoo You”
21. BLACK FLAG “Damaged”
22. CAMARÓN con PACO DE LUCÍA y TOMATITO “Como el agua”
23. FRANCO BATTIATO “La voce del padrone”
24. GRUPPO SPORTIVO “Pop! Goes the Brain”
25. YMO “Technodelic”


SONGS:

1. RAMONES “The KKK Took My Baby Away” (#127 in my all-time list)
2. SOFT CELL “Tainted Love” (#181)
3. JAPAN “Visions of China” (#187)
4. BRIAN ENO - DAVID BYRNE “Regiment” (#237)
5. THE SPECIALS “Ghost Town”
6. PARÁLISIS PERMANENTE “Autosuficiencia”
7. NEW ORDER “Ceremony”
8. THE CURE “All Cats Are Grey”
9. JAPAN “Ghosts”
10. JOHN FOXX “Europe After the Rain”
11. MADNESS “Shut Up”
12. THE HUMAN LEAGUE “Don’t You Want Me”
13. BOW WOW WOW “Chihuahua”
14. SPANDAU BALLET “Chant No.1 (I Don’t Need This Pressure On)”
15. HAIRCUT 100 “Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)”
16. JOE JACKSON “Jumpin’ Jive”
17. THE STRAY CATS “Rock This Town”
18. THE ROLLING STONES “Waiting on a Friend”
19. CAMARÓN “Como el agua”
20. ELVIS COSTELLO & THE ATTRACTIONS “Good Year for the Roses”
21. BOB DYLAN “Every Grain of Sand”
22. PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA “The Ecstasy of Dancing Fleas”
23. LAURIE ANDERSON “O Superman (For Massenet)”
24. KRAFTWERK “Computerliebe”
25. KING CRIMSON “Elephant Talk”
26. IAN DURY “Spasticus (Autisticus)”
27. THE PSYCHEDELIC FURS “Pretty in Pink”
28. THE POLICE “Invisible Sun”
29. ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN “All My Colours”
30. SIOUXIE AND THE BANSHEES “Spellbound”
31. THE CURE “The Drowning Man”
32. SQUEEZE “Vanity Fair”
33. THE STRANGLERS “Golden Brown”
34. AZTEC CAMERA “We Could Send Letters”
35. MADNESS “It Must be Love”
36. PATA NEGRA “Los managers”
37. THE BIRTHDAY PARTY “Release the Bats”
38. THE CRAMPS “Goo Goo Muck”
39. DEAD KENNEDYS “Too Drunk to Fuck”
40. R.E.M. “Radio Free Europe”
41. SIMPLE MINDS “The American”
42. SCRITTI POLITTI “The Sweetest Girl”
43. DEPECHE MODE “Just Can’t Get Enough”
44. HEAVEN 17 “Play to Win”
45. ADAM & THE ANTS “Picasso Visita el Planeta de los Simios”
46. ALASKA Y LOS PEGAMOIDES “Otra dimensión”
47. FRANCO BATTIATO “Centro di gravita’ permanente”
48. KING CRIMSON “Frame by Frame”
49. DJAVAN “A ilha”
50. VAINICA DOBLE “El tigre del Guadarrama”

FAVOURITE COMPILATION: SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES “Once Upon a Time: The Singles”

Some comments about my #1 one song that reveals some advantages of music nerdery (a theme that showed up in a previous post). “The KKK Took My Baby Away” has always been my favourite Ramones tune, with the typical “stupid” but charming typical lyrics from Joey Ramone. But when last year (edit: that means 2007) I saw the excellent documentary about Ramones “End of the Century: The Story of The Ramones” I could see the story behind. Let’s see. Joey was a weird kid with an obsessive-compulsive disorder and, despite being a rock ‘n’ roll star, he got many problems to find a girlfriend. When at last he found Linda he transformed himself in a happy and gentle man. But after a time together Linda cheated Joey and began a relationship with Johnny Ramone (that ended in marriage). The first verse of the song alludes directly to this cheat:
“She went away for the holidays
Said she’s going to L.A.
But she never got there”

This fact created a confrontation between Joey and Johnny that lasted till the singer’s death. Despite they continued playing in the band for several years, they stopped talking each other. And, due to the well-known political differences (Joey showed sympathy for the left while Johnny was overtly conservative), Joey referred to him is his song as “The KKK”.
“The KKK took my baby away
They took her away, away from me”

So you all know, the KKK was no other than Johnny Ramone. And that’s the advantage of music nerdery: I already liked the song before, but now I like it even more.
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Albums
1. Mission Of Burma - Signals, Calls and Marches
2. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Trust
3. The Cure - Faith
4. The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
5. U2 - October
6. Brian Eno - David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
7. X - Wild Gift
8. INXS - Underneath the Colours
9. The Police - Ghost In The Machine
10. The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
11. Sunnyboys - Sunnyboys
12. The Human League - Dare!
13. Men at Work - Business as Usual
14. Kraftwerk - Computer Welt
15. The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk

Songs
1. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
2. The Human League - Don't You Want Me
3. Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
4. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
5. New Order - Ceremony
6. The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
7. The Cure - Primary
8. David Bowie - Under Pressure
9. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
10. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
11. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
12. U2 - Gloria
13. The Church - The Unguarded Moment
14. Midnight Oil - Don't Wanna Be
15. INXS - Stay Young
16. Gun Club - For the Love of Ivy
17. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
18. Kim Carnes - Betty Davis Eyes
19. Rick James - Superfreak
20. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink (Original Version)
21. Kim Wilde - Kids In America
22. Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
23. Mission Of Burma - Academy Fight Song
24. The Rolling Stones - Waiting On A Friend
25. This Heat - Paper Hats
26. Prince - Controversy
27. Brian Eno And David Byrne - Regiment
28. Men At Work - Down Under
29. Split Enz - History Never Repeats
30. X - We're Desperate
31. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
32. Kraftwerk - Computerlove
33. Inxs - Fair Weather Ahead
34. U2 - October
35. Billy Squier - The Stroke
36. The Cars - Shake It Up
37. The Police - Spirits In The Material World
38. Squeeze - Tempted
39. Icehouse - Love In Motion
40. Sunnyboys - Alone with you
41. J. Geils Band - Centrefold
42. The Swingers - Counting The Beat
43. The Human League - The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
44. Black Flag - Rise Above
45. The Police - Invisible Sun
46. Gun Club - Sex Beat
47. The Psychedelic Furs - Dumb Waiters
48. This Heat - S.P.Q.R.
49. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
50. Kool & The Gang - Get Down On It
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Albums
1.Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
2.Kraftwerk - Computer Welt
3.Bill Evans - You must believe in spring
4.The Sound - From the lion's mouth
5.Meredith Monk - Dolmen Music
6.David Byrne & Brian Eno - My life in the bush of ghosts
7.Keith Hudson - Playing it cool & playing it right
8.Wayne Jarrett - Showcase Vol 1
9.Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia - Friday night in SF
10.Paco De Lucia - Solo quiero caminar
11.Gun Club - Fire of Love
12.Scientist - Rids the world of the evil curse of the vampires
13.Allez Allez - African Queen EP
14.David Lindley - El Rayo-X
15.Gang Of Four - Solid Gold
16.Jon Hassell - Fourth World, vol. 2 Dream Theory in Malaya
17.Black Uhuru - Red
18.Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections
19.Fela - Coffin for head of state
20.Rolling Stones - Tattoo You

Songs
1.Gil Scott heron - B Movie
2.Grace Jones - I've seen that face before
3.The Human League - Love/Action
4.Kraftwerk - Computer Love
5.Grace Jones - Walking in the rain
6.Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
7.Gang of Four - Paralysed
8.Grace Jones - Pull up to my bumper
9.The Sound - Sense of purpose
10.The Specials - Ghost Town
11.Laurie Anderson - O superman
12.The Passions - I'm in love with a german film star
13.Allez Allez - African Queen
13.Gun Club - Ghost on the highway
14.Rolling Stones - Tops
15.Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
16.Simple Minds - Love Song
17.Doe Maar - 32 jaar
18.Japan - Ghosts
19.Muddy Waters - Champagne & Reefer
20.Kraftwerk - Its more fun to compute
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ALBUMS
1. X - Wild Gift
2. Squeeze - East Side Story
3. Black Flag - Damaged
4. The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
5. The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
6. Elvis Costello and the Attractions - Trust
7. The Gun Club - Fire of Love
8. The dB's - Stands for Decibels
9. Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
10. The Human League - Dare!

Not my favorite year for albums - I can only truly say that I love #'s 1-4. Great year for songs, though. That list will be forthcoming.
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Albums

1. Joan Manuel Serrat - En tránsito (Spain)
2. Joe Jackson - Jumpin´ Jive (UK)
3. Franco Battiato - La voce del padrone (Italy)
4. Javier Krahe, Álberto Pérez, Joaquín Sabina - La mandrágora (Spain)
5. Elvis Costello - Trust (UK)
6. Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It (UK)
7. The Human League - Dare! (UK)
8. Stukas - Hazañas Bélicas (Spain)
9. King Crimson - Discipline (UK)
10. Penguin Café Orchestra - Penguin Café Orchestra (UK)
11. The Cure - Faith (UK)
12. The Barracudas - Drop Out with The Barracudas (UK)
13. Triana - Un mal sueño (Spain)
14. Luis Eduardo Aute - Fuga (Spain)
15. Donovan - Lady of the Flowers (UK)

16. Neil Diamond - On the Way to the Sky
17. Kraftwerk - Computer World
18. Paolo Conte - Paris Milonga
19. The Who - Face Dances
20. Mamá - El último bar
21. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture and Morality
22. Maria del Mar Bonet - Jardí tancat
23. Raphael - En carne viva
24. Sister Sledge - All American Girls
25. Mocedades - Desde que tú te has ido
26. Teddy Bautista & Pepe Robles - Radioactivo
27. Men at Work - Business as Usual
28. Pata Negra - Pata Negra
29. Azul y Negro - La edad de los colores
30. King's Singers - Believe in Music
31. David Byrne - The Catherine Wheel
32. Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
33. Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
34. Phil Collins - Face Value
35. David Byrne & Brian Eno - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
36. Frank Zappa - You Are What You Is
37. Jerry Harrison - The Red and the Black
38. Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
39. Vainica Doble - El tigre del Guadarrama
40. Los Secretos - Los Secretos

Cover albums:
Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Glen Branca - Ascension
Rickie Lee Jones - Pirates
Stukas - Hazañas bélicas
Barracudas - Drop Out with the Barracudas

E.P: Alaska y Los Pegamoides - Otra Dimensión

Disappointment: The Kinks - Give the People What They Want
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Songs

1. Franco Battiato - Centro di gravitá permanente (Italy)
2. The Barracudas - Don’t Let Go (UK)
3. The Human League - Don’ You Want Me (UK)
4. The Barracudas - I Can’t Pretend (UK)
5. The Cure - Primary (UK)
6. Franco Battiato - Cucurrucucu (Italy)
7. Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir (UK)
8. Joan Manuel Serrat - Hoy puede ser un gran día (Spain)
9. Soft Cell - Tainted Love (UK)
10. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe (USA)
11. The Cure - The Holy Hour (UK)
12. Madness - It Must Be Love (UK)
13. The Barracudas - Violent Times (UK)
14. Stukas - Hazañas bélicas (Spain)
15. The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up (UK)

16. Joe Jackson - Jack, You’re Dead
17. Stukas - Atrapado
18. Joan Manuel Serrat - Una de piratas
19. Joe Jackson - We The Cats (Shall Hep Ya)
20. Joan Manuel Serrat - Esos locos bajitos
21. Joe Jackson - Jumpin’ With Symphony Syd
22. Pata Negra - Rock del Cayetano
23. The Cure - Charlotte Sometimes
24. Television Personalities - World of Pauline Lewis
25. Joe Jackson - Five Guys Named Moe
26. Joe Jackson - Is You is or is You Ain't My Baby
27. Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now
28. Paolo Conte - Via con me
29. Franco Battiato - Il Sentimiento Nuevo
30. Elvis Costello - Watch Your Step
31. Joan Manuel Serrat - A usted
32. Raphael - En carne viva
33. María Del Mar Bonet - El pi de Formentor
34. Franco Battiato - Bandiera Bianca
35. Orchestral Manouvres in the Dark - Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans)
36. Penguin Café Orchestra - Pythagoras’ Trousers
37. King Crimson - Elephant Talk
38. Elvis Costello - Strict Time
39. Sister Sledge - All American Girls
40. Raphael - Qué sabe nadie
41. Joan Manuel Serrat - No hago otra cosa que pensar en ti
42. Mamá - El show empieza
43. Triana - Una noche de amor desesperada
44. The Human League - The Thing That Dreams Are Made of
45. María del Mar Bonet - La balanguera
46. Luis Eduardo Aute - Vailima
47. The Human League - Love Action (I Believe in Love)
48. Teddy Bautista & Pepe Robles - Beatriz
49. Mocedades - Andar, andar
50. Television Personalities - A Family Affair
51. The Who - You Better You Bet
52. The dB’s - Black and White
53. Neil Diamond - Yesterday’s Songs
54. Donovan - The Actor
55. Kraftwerk - Computer Love
56. Pata Negra - Blues de los niños
57. Triana - Corre
58. Men at Work - Down Under
59. Smokey Robinson - Being with You
60. Luis Eduardo Aute - Siento que te estoy perdiendo
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SONGS: I wish we counted Top 100.....

1. Mission Of Burma / That's When I Reach For My Revolver
2. The Plimsouls / A Million Miles Away
3. R.E.M. / Radio Free Europe
4. The Cure / Charlotte Sometimes
5. Squeeze / Tempted
6. Rush / Limelight
7. Soft Cell / Say Hello Wave Goodbye
8. Def Leppard / Bringin' On The Heartbreak
9. Madness / It Must Be Love
10. Phil Collins / In The Air Tonight
11. Depeche Mode / Just Can't Get Enough
12. The Human League / Don't You Want Me
13. Hall & Oates / I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
14. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / The Adventures Of Grandmaster Flash On The Wheels Of Steel
15. Journey / Stone In Love

16. Queen & David Bowie / Under Pressure
17. The Police / Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
18. Rush / Tom Sawyer
19. New Order / Procession
20. Men At Work / Down Under
21. Rick James / Super Freak
22. Split Enz / History Never Repeats
23. Funky Four Plus One / Rock This Joint
24. The Replacements / Takin' A Ride
25. Genesis / Abacab
26. The Clash / This Is Radio Clash
27. Psychedelic Furs / Pretty In Pink
28. Judas Priest / Heading Out To The Highway
29. Simple Minds / The American
30. Def Leppard / High 'N Dry (Saturday Night)
31. Journey / Still They Ride
32. Black Flag / TV Party
33. Elvis Costello / From A Whisper To A Scream
34. Bob Dylan / Every Grain Of Sand
35. Prince / Controversy
36. Ramones / The KKK Took My Baby Away
37. The Sugarhill Gang / 8th Wonder
38. Stray Cats / Stray Cat Strut
39. The Rolling Stones / Waiting On A Friend
40. Elvis Costello / Good Year For The Roses
41. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers / The Waiting
42. The Cars / Since You're Gone
43. OMD / Joan Of Arc
44. The Cure / Other Voices
45. Go-Go's / Our Lips Are Sealed
46. The Church / The Unguarded Moment
47. The Tubes / Talk To Ya Later
48. The Human League / Love Action (I Believe In Love)
49. U2 / Gloria
50. INXS / The Loved One
51. Robyn Hitchcock / The Man Who Invented Himself
52. Go-Go's / Lust To Love
53. Earth, Wind & Fire / Let's Groove
54. The Replacements / I'm In Trouble
55. The Beat / Doors Of Your Heart
56. Motley Crue / Too fast For Love
57. Kim Carnes / Bette Davis Eyes
58. The Cure / Primary
59. Soft Cell / Tainted Love
60. Ultravox / The Thin Wall
61. The Specials / Ghost Town
62. Van Halen / Unchained
63. Marvin Gaye / Praise
64. Rush / Red Barchetta
65. Black Sabbath / The Mob Rules
66. Kool & The Gang / Get Down On It
67. The Plimsouls / Zero Hour
68. The Human League / Open Your Heart
69. Ultravox / The Voice
70. Squeeze / Is That Love?
71. Haircut One Hundred / Favorite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
72. Prince / Sexuality
73. Men At Work / Who Can It Be Now
74. The Cars / Shake It Up
75. Bobby Womack / Secrets
76. Saga / On The Loose
77. Go-Go's / This Town
78. The Cure / Holy Hour
79. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts / I Love Rock 'N Roll
80. Duran Duran / Girls On Film
81. The Police / Invisible Sun
82. Gang Of Four / To Hell With Poverty
83. The Jam / Absolute Beginners
84. Black Uhuru / Youth Of Eglington
85. New Order / Dreams Never End
86. Red Rider / Lunatic Fringe
87. The Teardrop Explodes / Reward
88. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five / It's Nasty (Genius Of Love)
89. U2 / Fire
90. Depeche Mode / Photographic
91. Prince / Let's Work
92. Minor Threat / Minor Threat
93. Spandau Ballet / Glow
94. The Time / Cool
95. Con Funk Shun / Too Tight
96. Killing Joke / Follow The Leaders
97. ABC / Tears Are Not Enough
98. Iron Maiden / Purgatory
99. The Police / Secret Journey
100. Minor Threat / Straight Edge
101. Heaven 17 / (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
102. Prince / Do Me, Baby
103. Hank Williams Jr. / A Country Boy Can Survive
104. Motley Crue / Piece Of Your Action
105. Brian Eno & David Byrne / Regiment
106. Carl Carlton / She's A Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)
107. Foreigner / Urgent
108. Smokey Robinson / Being With You
109. Ozzy Osbourne / You Can't Kill Rock 'N Roll
110. The Gap Band / Yearning For Your Love
111. Rick Springfield / Jessie's Girl
112. J. Geils Band / Centerfold
113. Hall & Oates / Private Eyes
114. Journey / Mother, Father
115. Fela Kuti / Coffin For Head Of State
116. Van Halen / Mean Street
117. Lindsay Buckingham / Trouble
118. Santana / Winning
119. Blue Oyster Cult / Burnin' For You
120. Stevie Nicks / Edge Of Seventeen
121. The Wipers / Youth Of America
122. AC/DC / For Those About To Rock (We Salute You)
123. The Jam / Funeral Pyre
124. Madness / Shut Up
125. The Stranglers / Golden Brown
126. .38 Special / Hold On Loosely

...I Think when you hit .38 Special that's a good time to stop. Could have gone another 100 or so deep before having to think about whether I like that song enough...
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Songs

1. The Rolling Stones / Start Me Up
2. Foreigner / Waiting For a Girl Like You
3. Todd Rundgren / Compassion
4. The Human League / Don't You Want Me
5. Journey / Don't Stop Believin'
6. Todd Rundgren / Time Heals
7. Soft Cell / Tainted Love
8. Squeeze / Tempted
9. Phil Collins / In The Air Tonight
10. Squeeze / In Quintessence
11. Pretenders / Talk of the Town
12. The Police / Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
13. Squeeze / Woman's World
14. Journey / Who's Crying Now
15. Foreigner / Urgent
16 Janet Baker, Philip Ledger Gounod: Ave Maria
17 Ray Parker Jr. A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)
18 Pretenders Message of Love
19 Rush Tom Sawyer
20 The Go-Go's Our Lips Are Sealed
21 Rick James Super Freak
22 Pat Benatar Fire and Ice
23 Journey Open Arms
24 Santana Winning
25 The Police Spirits In the Material World
26 Todd Rundgren Healing Part II
27 The Rolling Stones Waiting on a Friend
28 Todd Rundgren Healing Part III
29 James Taylor Her Town Too
30 Todd Rundgren Tiny Demons
31 Hall and Oates Kiss On My List
32 Depeche Mode Just Can't Get Enough
33 Barbra Steisand The Way We Were
34 Diana Ross Endless Love
35 Gover Washington Jr. Just the Two of Us
36 Kim Carnes Betty Davis Eyes
37 Pat Benatar Promises in the Dark
38 REO Speedwagon Take It On the Run
39 Rick James Give It To Me Baby
40 Squeeze Is That Love
41 Stray Cats Rock This Town
42 Ronnie Laws Solid Ground
43 Squeeze Piccadily
44 The Isley Brothers Hurry Up and Wait
45 Squeeze Mumbo Jumbo
46 Todd Rundgren Healing Part 1
47 The Rolling Stones Hang Fire
48 Todd Rundgren Healer
49 Squeeze Messed Around
50 Rush Limelight
51 Squeeze Labelled with Love
52 Eric Clapton I Can't Stand It
53 Hall and Oates Private Eyes
54 Haircut 100 Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)
55 Hall and Oates I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
56 Luther Vandross Never Too Much
57 Men At Work Down Under
58 ABC Tears Are Not Enough
59 R.E.M. Radio Free Europe
60 Roseanne Cash Seven Year Ache
61 Smokey Robinson Being With You
62 The Cars Shake It Up
63 The Rolling Stones Tops
64 Todd Rundgren Golden Goose
65 Tom Petty Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
66 Queen and David Bowie Under Pressure
67 The Reels Quasimodo's Dream
68 Tom Petty The Waiting
69 The Pointer Sisters Slow Hand
70 REO Speedwagon In Your Letter
71 Loverboy Working for the Weekend
72 Taj Mahal Take a Giant Step
73 Spandau Ballet Glow
74 Soft Cell Say Hello, Wave Goodbye
75 Prince Controversy
76 Madness The Return of the Los Palmas 7
77 Joan Jett I Love Rock 'n Roll
78 Billy Joel She's Got A Way
79 Air Supply The One That You Love
80 .38 Special Hittin' and Runnin'
81 Brian Eno and David Byrne Regiment
82 Earth, Wind & Fire Let's Groove
83 Kraftwerk Computer World 2
84 Pretenders I Go to Sleep
85 Rush XYZ
86 Rick James Fire and Desire
87 The Go-Go's Lust to Love
88 The Human League Love Action
89 The Psychedilc Furs Pretty in Pink
90 The Rolling Stones No Use Crying
91 The Stranglers Golden Brown
92 Van Halen Unchained
93 Tom Petty A Woman In Love (It's Not Me)
94 The Rolling Stones Heaven
95 The Jam A Town Called Malice
96 The Go-Go's This Town
97 Stevie Wonder That Girl
98 Squeeze Some Else's Bell
99 New Order Ceremony
100 Coati Mundi Me No Pop I
101 Men At Work Who Can It Be Now?
102 .38 Special Honky Tonk Dancer
103 Billy Squier In the Dark
104 Department 5 Is Vic There?
105 Elvis Costello Watch Your Step
106 Godley & Crème Under Your Thumb
107 Joan Jett Crimson and Clover
108 Mission of Burma That's When I Reach For My Revolver
109 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark Joan of Arc
110 REO Speedwagon Tough Guys
111 Rick James Mr. Policeman
112 Rod Stewart Young Turks
113 Scritti Politti The Sweetest Girl
114 Stevie Nicks Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove)
115 Taj Mahal Ain't Gwine Whistle Dixie (Any Mo')
116 The Cramps Goo Goo Muck
117 The Specials Ghost Town
118 The Teardrop Explodes Reward
119 Tom Tom Club Genius of Love
120 Tommy Tutone 867-5309/Jenny

Albums

1. Todd Rundgren / Healing
2. Squeeze / East Side Story
3. The Rolling Stones / Tattoo You
4. Pretenders / Pretenders II
5. Journey / Escape
6. The Beat / Wha'ppen?
7. The Police / Ghost in the Machine
8. Foreigner / 4
9. The Human League / Dare!
10. Hall and Oates / Private Eyes
11. Rush / Moving Pictures
12. Tom Petty / Hard Promises
13. Soft Cell / Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
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Albums
[1] Rick James – Street Songs
[2] The Cramps – Psychedelic Jungle
[3] Wipers – Youth of America
[4] The Replacements – Sorry Ma, Forgot to take out the Trash
[5] Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
[6] X – Wild Gift
[7] The Gun Club – Fire of Love
[8] Mission of Burma – Signals Calls & Marches
[9] The Ramones – Pleasant Dreams
[10] Glenn Branca – The Ascension
[11] Gang of Four – Solid Gold
[12] Echo & the Bunnymen – Heaven up Here
[13] D.O.A. – Hardcore 81
[14] The Minutemen – The Punch Line
[15] Black Flag – Rise Above


Songs
[1] The Ramones – The KKK Took My Baby Away
[2] Mission of Burma – That’s When I Reach for My Revolver
[3] Rick James – Superfreak
[4] Wipers – Youth of America
[5] Flipper – Sex Bomb
[6] Rick James – Give it to Me
[7] The Gun Club – Sex Beat
[8] The Cramps – The Natives are Restless
[9] Black Flag – Louie Louie
[10] Grace Jones – Pull up to the Bumper
[11] Loverboy – Working for the Weekend
[12] X – We’re Desperate
[13] Kool & the Gang – Get Down On It
[14] Prince – Controversy
[15] The Replacements - Raised in the City
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SONGS

1. Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach for My Revolver
2. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
3. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
4. Black Flag - TV Party
5. Squeeze - Tempted
6. The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
7. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic
8. The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
9. X - Adult Books
10. Men at Work - Who Can It Be Now?
11. .38 Special - Hold on Loosely
12. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
13. The Human League - Don't You Want Me
14. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
15. Rush - Tom Sawyer
16. Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
17. Foreigner - Urgent
18. Rick James - Super Freak
19. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes
20. The Psychedelic Furs - All of This and Nothing
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Albums:

1. Soft Cell – Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
2. The Human League – Dare!
3. The Rolling Stones – Tattoo You
4. This Heat – Deceit
5. Adam and the Ants – Prince Charming
6. The Pretenders – Pretenders II
7. The Police – Ghost in the Machine
8. Prince – Controversy
9. X – Wild Gift
10. Kraftwerk – Computer World


Songs:
1. Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
2. Soft Cell – Tainted Love
3. The Rolling Stones – Start Me Up
4. Oingo Boingo – Little Girls
5. The Pretenders – I Go to Sleep
6. Kraftwerk – Computer Love
7. Billy Idol – Dancing with Myself
8. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Spellbound
9. The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
10. The Pretenders – Message of Love
11. The Human League – Seconds
12. Joan Jett – I Love Rock 'n Roll
13. Adam and the Ants – Stand and Deliver
14. Journey – Don’t Stop Believin’
15. The Human League – Don't You Want Me
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I cannot continue to punish myself by listening to music from this year. I might as well get a head start on '82.
Off the record, I listened to more songs and albums that I've listed, but only these deserve votes.

Songs:
1. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
2. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
3. Queen and David Bowie - Under Pressure
4. Def Leppard - Bringin' On the Heartbreak
5. Foreigner - Juke Box Hero
6. R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
7. Duran Duran - Girls on Film
8. U2 - I Threw a Brick Through a Window
9. Foreigner - Urgent
10. Prince - Controversy
11. The Cure - The Holy Hour
12. Duran Duran - Careless Memories
13. Tommy Tutone - 8675309/Jenny
14. The Cure - Doubt
15. X - Universal Corner

Albums:
1. Duran Duran - Duran Duran
2. Penguin Café Orchestra - Penguin Café Orchestra
3. U2 - October
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
5. X - Wild Gift
6. The Cure - Faith
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Listyguy wrote:I cannot continue to punish myself by listening to music from this year. I might as well get a head start on '82.
Off the record, I listened to more songs and albums that I've listed, but only these deserve votes.

Albums:
4. Rush - Moving Pictures
Not much consensus this year, as we have an underwhelming overlap of a single album on our lists :whistle:
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Albums
1. Black Uhura - Red
2. X - Wild Gift
3. Psychedelic Furs - Talk, Talk, Talk
4. The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
5. The Squeeze - East Side Story
6. Flipper - Album – Generic Flipper
7. The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
8. Black Flag - Damaged
9. Prince - Controversy - Prince
10. Elvis Costello - Trust
11. The Neville Brothers - Fiyo on the Bayou
12. The Police - Ghosts in the Machine

Songs
1. The Specials – Ghost Town
2. Psychedelic Furs – Pretty in Pink
3. R.E.M. – Radio Free Europe
4. X – We’re Desperate
5. Black Uhuru – Youth of Eglington
6. The Rolling Stones – Start Me Up
7. The Police – Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
8. Black Uhuru – Puff She Puff
9. Human League – Don’t You Want Me
10. Squeeze – Tempted
11. Flipper – Ever
12. The Go-Go’s – Our Lips Are Sealed
13. Prince – Controversy
14. David Bowie and Queen – Under Pressure
15. Black Flag – Rise Above
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Thanks to Dan for my #1 & #9 Albums

Albums
1. Dick Gaughan – Handful Of Earth
2. Au Pairs – Playing With a Different Sex
3. Girls At Our Best! – Pleasure
4. The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
5. The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
6. The Sound – From The Lions Mouth
7. The Cure – Faith
8. Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Trust
9. Théo Blaise Kounkou - Zenaba
10. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Juju
11. Tuxedomoon – Desire
12. Marquis de Sade - Rue de Siam
13. Echo and the Bunnymen – Heaven Up Here
14. Japan - Tin Drum
15. Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Almost Blue

Songs
1. Au Pairs - Headache For Michelle
2. The Specials – Ghost Town
3. The Stranglers - Golden Brown
4. Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Good Year For The Roses
5. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
6. New Order – Ceremony
7. The Jam - Funeral Pyre
8. Girls At Our Best! – Goodbye To That Jazz
9. The Jam - Tales From The Riverbank
10. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Spellbound
11. Echo and the Bunnymen – All My Colours
12. The Cure – The Drowning Man
13. Elvis Costello and The Attractions – Shot With His Own Gun
14. Japan - Ghosts
15. The Rolling Stones – Start Me Up
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DaveC wrote:Thanks to Dan for my #1 & #9 Albums
Hooray! It’s always nice when someone else shares your appreciation of a more obscure album or two. I really like the world and folk music that can usually be found amid the ace rock picks on your lists, DaveC.

You’ve mentioned before that you’re British. If you like the folk of Dick Gaughan, it might be worth your while to go to the Celtic Connections music festival in Glasgow one year. It’s a folk festival held in January and February, but there’s also other rootsy music, jazz and world music (I saw Mulatu Astatke this year and Orchestra Baobab last year).

And I don’t even work for the Scottish Tourist Board.
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Hi Dan

I am English (of Scottish heritage - my middle name is Robertson), but I live in Auckland, New Zealand (where forum time = real time!). I have a neice who lives in Glasgow and is always eager to sing it's praises, so maybe I'll get there one day. I've always enjoyed folk & world music (John Peel & Nick Kershaw helped with that), but my horizons have been much expanded with the advent of Spotify. This forum is immensely helpful too. Keep those recommendations coming.
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Albums :

1) Kraftwerk - Computer World
2) Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
3) The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
4) Minor Threat - Minor Threat EP
5) X - Wild Gift
6) Black Flag - Damaged
7) The Wipers - Youth of America
8) Gang of Four - Solid Gold
9) Bauhaus - Mask

I am in the middle on an interview marathon for a new job so I didn't listen to as many albums as I wanted to (there are 3 or 4 that I guess I might have liked) but it's hard to find anything I like in this year out of the (hardcore) punk scene. Computer World, probably in my top 10 albums of the decade, wins in a landslide.
The mostly unlistenable album award of the year goes to Einstürzende Neubauten but the disappointment of the year goes to Glenn Branca, I really loved "Lesson n°1" and the noisy Ascension came as a huge letdown.

I will vote in any year where I love at least 5 albums... 82 and 83 might be a bit problematic and I probably won't go back to a 15 albums list before 86 at best.

That being said, every 80s year is awesome for songs ! So for that matter I will be happy to vote.

Songs :
1) Kraftwerk - Computer Love
2) The Clean - Tally Ho
3) Kraftwerk - Computer World
4) Hall & Oates - I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
5) Brian Eno & David Byrne - Regiment
6) Renaud - Manu
7) The Stranglers - Golden Brown
8) Minor Threat - Minor Threat
9) Kraftwerk - Numbers/Computer World 2 (the Pitchfork 500 counted them as one song, but put all the points for Numbers if necessary)
10) Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
11) The Wipers - Youth of America
12) Black Flag - Rise Above
13) The Human League - These Are the Things Dreams Are Made Of
14) Brian Eno & David Byrne - Mea Culpa
15) Psychedelic Furs - Hit On You Like A Train

16) The Human League - Don't You Want Me
17) Mission of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
18) Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love
19) Bauhaus - Mask
20) Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
21) Jean-Jacques Goldman - Il Suffira d'Un Signe
22) Minor Threat - Screaming at a Wall
23) The Rolling Stones - Hats
24) Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
25) X - We're Desperate
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We start to come to my early years... so some songs are not necessarily good but means a lot to me (Les lacs du Conemara for example, one of the favorite of my Grandfather songs.)

Albums :
1. Prince - Controversy
2. The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
3. Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
4. Alain Bashung - Pizza
5. Marquis de Sade - Rue De Siam
6. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts
7. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
8. Charlélie Couture - Poèmes Rock
9. Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell
10. Elvis Costello - Trust
11. The Rolling stones - Tattoo You
12. Trust - Marche ou crève
13. Japan - Tin Drum
14. The Cure - Faith
15. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing

Songs :
1. The Specials - Ghost Town
2. Prince - Controversy
3. Alain Bashung - Vertige de l'amour
4. Soft Cell - Tainted Love
5. Renaud - Manu
6. Charlélie Couture - Comme un avion sans aile
7. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough
8. Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
9. Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
10. Alain Souchon - Somerset Maugham
11. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Love Rock n Roll
12. Human League - Love Action
13. The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
14. Serge Gainsbourg - La Nostalgie Camarade
15. Michel Sardou - Les lacs du Conemara
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I've still a couple of albums I HAVE to listen to (especially 2 cover albums that sound terrific : Joe Jackson's Jumpin' Jive , Costello's Almost Blue)
with 1981 I'm entering in an danger zone (which means that there'll be a lot of world, roots and retro albums on top of my lists, with some exceptions)
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Just songs for me this time around. Not exactly my favorite year, though the songs in the top 7 or so are totally unique and brilliant.

01 | The Gun Club | She's Like Heroin to Me
02 | Laurie Anderson | O Superman
03 | Wipers | Youth of America
04 | This Heat | Paper Hats
05 | Black Flag | TV Party
06 | The Specials | Ghost Town
07 | Wipers | When It's Over
08 | The Gun Club | Sex Beat
09 | New Order | Ceremony
10 | The Human League | Don't You Want Me
11 | Rush | Tom Sawyer
12 | The Kinks | Better Things
13 | Mission of Burma | That's When I Reach For My Revolver
14 | This Heat | S.Q.P.R
15 | Hall & Oates | You Make My Dreams
16 | The Gun Club | Fire Spirit
17 | Tom Tom Club | Genius of Love
18 | Rush | YYZ
19 | Soft Cell | Tainted Love
20 | Au Pairs | Headache For Michelle
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Hopefully this isn't too confusing... I have a couple EP's in here that I saw on other lists and wanted to make sure they were included if eligible. Numbering indicates rank of albums only.

Albums:
1 . The Gun Club - Fire Of Love
. Minor Threat - Minor Threat [EP]
. Minor Threat - In My Eyes [EP]
2 . Black Flag - Damaged
3 . Echo And The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
4 . The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
5 . Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Trust
. Mission Of Burma - Signals, Calls & Marches [EP]
6 . Television Personalities - ...And Don't the Kids Just Love It
7 . Glenn Branca - The Ascension
8 . Wipers - Youth of America
9 . Gang Of Four - Solid Gold
10 . Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
11 . This Heat - Deceit
12 . The Human League - Dare!
13 . The The - Burning Blue Soul
14 . Motörhead - No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith
15 . The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
16 . The Cure - Faith
17 . Fred Frith - Speechless
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Songs:
1 . The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin To Me
2 . Saccharine Trust - Human Certainty
3 . The Gun Club - For The Love Of Ivy
4 . The Gun Club - Sex Beat
5 . The Clean - Anything Could Happen
6 . The Gun Club - Ghost On The Highway
7 . Black Flag - Rise Above
8 . Husker Du - Data Control
9 . The Gun Club - Fire Spirit
10 . The Jam - Funeral Pyre
11 . Dead Kennedys - We've Got A Bigger Problem Now
12 . X - Once Over Twice
13 . Black Flag - Depression
14 . The Replacements - I'm In Trouble
15 . R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe

16 . Minor Threat - Filler
17 . Minor Threat - In My Eyes
18 . The Clean - Billy Two
19 . R.E.M. - Sitting Still
20 . Pylon - Crazy
21 . Stiff Little Fingers - Roots, Radicals, Rockers and Reggae
22 . The Gun Club - Preaching The Blues
23 . Anti-Nowhere League - Streets Of London
24 . The Replacements - Takin' A Ride
25 . X - We’re Desperate
26 . Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off
27 . Television Personalities - Jackanory Stories
28 . This Heat - Sleep
29 . The Gun Club - Goodbye Johnny
30 . Minor Threat - Minor Threat
31 . U2 - Gloria
32 . The Exploited - S.P.K.
33 . Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Black Sails In The Sunset
34 . The Clean - Tally Ho!
35 . Black Sabbath - Turn Up The Night
36 . Elvis Costello & The Attractions - New Lace Sleeves
37 . Echo And The Bunnymen - All My Colours
38 . The Jam - Tales From The Riverbank
39 . Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
40 . The Clean - Point That Thing Somewhere Else
41 . Stiff Little Fingers - Just Fade Away
42 . Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Clubland
43 . Minor Threat - Straight Edge
44 . Robyn Hitchcock - Brenda's Iron Sledge
45 . Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Pretty Words
46 . The Cramps - Goo Goo Muck
47 . Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver
48 . Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Watch Your Step
49 . The Exploited - Mucky Pup
50 . Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk To Fuck
51 . TSOL - Sounds Of Laughter
52 . The Wipers - Youth Of America
53 . The Replacements - Johnny's Gonna Die
54 . The Exploited - Army Life
55 . Minutemen - The Punch Line
56 . Minor Threat - Screaming At A Wall
57 . Altered Images - Happy Birthday
58 . Adam & The Ants - Stand and Deliver

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Good question on the EPs. What has been done in the past?
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Brad wrote:Songs:
1 . The Gun Club - She's Like Heroin To Me
Go Brad! I wonder if we'll be enough to advance this track. It seems like several more under-the-radar songs have multiple #1's this month...."KKK Took My Baby Away," "That's When I Reach For My Revolver," and most surprisingly of all, "Headache For Michelle" (which introduced me to that song).
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Albums

1. Kraftwerk - Computerwelt
2. The Cure - Faith
3. Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
4. Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
5. Depeche Mode - Speak and Spell
6. Eurythmics - In the Garden
7. Simple Minds - Sons and Fascination
8. The Human League - Dare!
9. Duran Duran - Duran Duran
10. Electric Light Orchestra - Time
11. Rick James - Street Songs
12. Ebba Grön - Kärlek & uppror
13. King Crimson - Discipline
14. The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
15. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Ju Ju

Songs
1. The Specials - Ghost Town
2. Kraftwerk - Pocket Calculator
3. Prince - Controversy
4. Eurythmics - Take Me to Your Heart
5. Hall & Oates - I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
6. Japan - Ghosts
7. The Human League - Love Action
8. Kraftwerk - Home Computer
9. Kraftwerk - Computer Love
10. The Cure - The Holy Hour
11. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Regiment
12. Secret Service - Flash in the Night
13. Adolphson & Falk - Blinkar blå
14. Laurie Anderson - O Superman
15. Rick James - Super Freak

I miscalculated the time this month, so unfortunately I haven't listened to other's recommendations the way I wanted. My lists are the same as in the beginning of the month when I posted the songs list in the recommendation thread.

It seems like a battle between fans of US-dominated rock/punk and fans of Europe-dominated synth-pop. Most of us seem to prefer the music where we're from.
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Albums:

1 | Kraftwerk | Computerwelt
2 | ABBA | The Visitors
3 | Théo Blaise Kounkou | Zenaba
4 | Bill Evans | You Must Believe in Spring
5 | Nyboma | Doublé Doublé
6 | Soft Cell | Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret
7 | The Rolling Stones | Tattoo You
8 | Chico Buarque | Almanaque
9 | The Human League | Dare!
10 | Electric Light Orchestra | Time
11 | Fela Kuti | Original Sufferhead
12 | Rick James | Street Songs
13 | Mohamed Mounir | Shababeek
14 | The Klezmer Conservatory Band | Yiddishe Renaissance
15 | Dick Gaughan | Handful of Earth

16 | Grace Jones | Nightclubbing
17 | Robin Williamson | Songs of Love and Parting
18 | David Grisman | Mondo Mando
19 | Fela Kuti | Coffin for Head of State
20 | Pablo Lubadika Porthos | Ma Coco
21 | Phil Seymour | Phil Seymour
22 | Merle Haggard | Big City
23 | Depeche Mode | Speak & Spell
24 | Japan | Tin Drum
25 | Prince | Controversy

Songs:

1 | Soft Cell | Tainted Love
2 | Kraftwerk | Computer Love
3 | The Human League | Don't You Want Me
4 | ABBA | Like an Angel Passing Through My Room
5 | The Specials | Ghost Town
6 | The Rolling Stones | Start Me Up
7 | Secret Service | Flash in the Night
8 | The Stranglers | Golden Brown
9 | Prince | Controversy
10 | Kim Wilde | Cambodia
11 | Rick James | Super Freak
12 | ABBA | Head over Heels
13 | Phil Seymour | Precious to Me
14 | Paolo Conte | Via con me
15 | Queen & David Bowie | Under Pressure

16 | Kim Carnes | Bette Davis Eyes
17 | Mohamed Mounir | El Leila Ya Samra
18 | Théo Blaise Kounkou | Massy
19 | Kraftwerk | Numbers
20 | Nyboma | Pepe Bougier
21 | Robin Williamson | Verses in Stewart Street
22 | Bill Evans | The Peacocks
23 | Kraftwerk | Pocket Calculator
24 | Rick James | Give It to Me Baby
25 | Electric Light Orchestra | Hold On Tight
26 | Pigbag | Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag
27 | ABBA | Soldiers
28 | Dick Gaughan | Song for Ireland
29 | Mohamed Mounir | El Koon Koloh Beydoor
30 | Joan Jett and the Blackhearts | I Love Rock 'n Roll
31 | ABBA | One of Us
32 | Mike Cross | Elma Turl
33 | Grace Jones | Pull Up to the Bumper
34 | Eurythmics | Take Me to Your Heart
35 | Men at Work | Down Under
36 | Daryl Hall and John Oates | I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)
37 | The Gun Club | She's Like Heroin to Me
38 | R.E.M. | Radio Free Europe
39 | Depeche Mode | New Life
40 | Chico Buarque | Tanto Amar
41 | The Pointer Sisters | Slow Hand
42 | Kraftwerk | Home Computer
43 | Nyboma | Asso Mbele
44 | Duran Duran | Planet Earth
45 | Lindsey Buckingham | Trouble
46 | Rod Stewart | Young Turks
47 | Lime | Your Love
48 | Adolphson & Falk | Blinkar Blå
49 | Camarón de la Isla | Como el agua
50 | Renaud | Manu
...will keep us together.
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Re: Songs and Albums of 1981 Poll

Post by Moonbeam »

Back to the EP question. My feeling is that EPs should not be eligible. I don't believe they have been eligible for previous decades, although I'll defer to those who have run these polls before and ask for their expertise.

On the other hand, I feel bad that EPs hardly get any recognition here. There are some great ones and I feel a poll for EPs would be very interesting and unpredictable.
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