Best 80s Albums

tactics

Yesterday on twitter somebody asked what was the best LP released between 1980 & 1989. I thought I won't do my obvious pick. So I did a little year by year list that didn't include Talking Heads, The Fall, The Birthday Party, Prince, The Church, The Triffids, The Smiths, Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine or The Pixies.

My pick in the end was My Houdini from Tactics but it could have been any of these or like a hundred others. Ever since I started this blog I've been meaning to write an article in praise of My Houdini. Maybe the time has come to finally put pen to paper about this undervalued post-punk/new wave classic.

1980- Out Of The Tunnel - MX-80 Sound

1981- My Houdini - Tactics

1982- Ice Cream For Crow - Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band

1983- Head Over Heels - Cocteau Twins

1984 - Let It Be - The Replacements

1985- At Home With You - X (The Australian band not the inferior one)

1986- Three Virgins - Axemen

1987- Children Of God - Swans

1988- Sixty Nine - AR Kane

1989- Max Q - Max Q

Friday On My Mind

Todd Terry Remix in 89 for Michael Hutchence and his motley cru.

Zero 2.0 

Max Q

Concrete

Max Q

My fave along with the Todd Terry remix of Ghost of the year but thats not

up on the youtube.

From the same era: Humanoid - Humanoid stakker
But this time from the UK

There are so many versions of this track and some are

completely different but I think this might be the

original 7". Who knows?

Grrr....

Anyway I'm gonna shutup  about that book now.  There will be my 5 or 6 posts about the major omissions coming up soon.  Apart from that these are my final words on the matter.

Where were these acts The New Christs, The Moodists, Celibate Rifles, The Hard Ons, The Stems, TISM, Diviynls, Spiderbait, Snout, Sea Scouts, The Frustrations Cosmic Psychos, King Snake Roost, The Fauves, San Hose Cow Muzak, Pray TV, The Glory Box, Harem Scarem, Max Merritt & The Meteors, The Atlantics, Purple Hearts, Spectrum, Madder Lake, Tamam Shud, Buffalo, Khavas Jute, Goanna, Fabulous Diamonds, Ooga Boogas, Sand Pebbles, Black Cab, Snowman, Machine Translations,Tumbleweed, Essendon Airport, Laughing Hands, Asphixiation, Severed Heads, Snog, Not Drowning Waving, Makers of The Dead Travel Fast, Laughing Clowns, Max Q  etc. put your favourite band's name here ____________ from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and the 00s.

I probably would have had Wa Wa Nee over Savage Garden, at least they had the funk. Apparently the authors can only deal with 80s synth pop/dance/funk/industrial with irony and from a distance of many years ie. Regurgitator, Empire of The Sun, Presets etc.  Give me a fuckn' Eurogliders album over Missy fuckn' Higgins anyday. Anyone remember Vita Beats?