80s Album of the Week

[acidtripper666]

Here is where y'all post an 80s album a week.

[acidtripper666]

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy


1. Just Like Honey
2. The Living End
3. Taste the Floor
4. The Hardest Walk
5. Cut Dead
6. In a Hole
7. Taste of Cindy
8. Some Candy Talking
9. Never Understand
10. Inside Me
11. Sowing Seeds
12. My Little Underground
13. You Trip Me Up
14. Something's Wrong 
15. It's So Hard 

Bold = favourite tracks

Personal album rating: 8/10

[porkchop]

Pink Turns Blue - If Two Worlds Kiss
Full album was not available in one video, so i posted the opening track. You can find the entire youtube playlist for the album here.

1. I coldly Stare Out

2. After All

3. Walking On Both Sides

4. State Of Mind

5. When It Rains

6. If Two Worlds Kiss

7. That Was You

8. Missing You

9. A Moment Sometimes

10. When The Hammer Comes Down

[acidtripper666]

The Gun Club - Fire of Love (1981)
Side A

"Sex Beat" - 2:45

"Preaching the Blues" - 3:58

"Promise Me" - 2:35

"She's Like Heroin to Me" - 2:33

"For the Love of Ivy" - 5:31

"Fire Spirit" - 2:52

Side B

"Ghost on the Highway" - 2:43

"Jack on Fire" - 4:40

"Black Train" - 2:11

"Cool Drink of Water" - 6:10

"Goodbye Johnny" - 3:41

Bold = my favourite songs from the album, although it's good start to finish in my opinion with no bad songs.


Personal album rating: 10/10

[acidtripper666]

Christian Death - Catastrophe Ballet (1984)



A1 Awake At The Wall 3:45

A2 Sleepwalk 5:10

A3 The Drowning 3:55

A4 The Blue Hour 4:47

A5 Evening Falls 3:26

B1 Androgynous Noise Hand Permeates 1:15

B2 Electra Descending 4:21

B3 Cervix Couch 4:46

B4 The Glass House 3:10

B5 The Fleeing Somnambulist 4:10


Bold = favourite tracks

Personal album rating: 8.5/10

[Fritz]

One for Halloween...



Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party (1985)

1. Just Another Day
2. Dead Man's Party
3. Heard Somebody Cry
4. No One Lives Forever
5. Stay
6. Fool's Paradise
7. Help Me
8. Same Man I Was Before
9. Weird Science

Full album playlist link: Dead Man's Party

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Arguably, no band is more identified with Halloween than Oingo Boingo - their Halloween concerts were legendary.

Originally founded as the performance art group The Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo in 1972, in the 80s they would morph into the Ska/New Wave band Oingo Boingo, fronted by Danny Elfman. They released 8 albums between 1981 and 1994, but Dead Man's Party (1985) was unquestionably the high point of their career as a band.

Danny Elfman, of course, would go on to much greater fame as a TV and film composer and frequent collaborator with movie producer Tim Burton. He wrote "The Simpson's Theme" and many of the scores for Burton's films, including "Beetlejuice", "Edward Scissorhands", "The Nightmare Before Christmas", "Sweeney Todd", and most recently "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children".

As for Dead Man's Party, many people are familiar with the title track, featured in Rodney Dangerfield's "Back To School" (1986), and "Weird Science" (1985) from the film of the same name, but whole album is good imho.

[Fritz]

Duran Duran - Rio (1982)

1. Rio
2. My Own Way
3. Lonely In Your Nightmare
4. Hungry Like the Wolf
5. Hold Back the Rain
6. New Religion
7. Last Chance on the Stairway
8. Save a Prayer
9. The Chauffeur

Full album playlist link: Rio

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There are few groups as quintessentially 80s as Duran Duran and their second album, Rio, made them superstars on both sides of the pond.

Ironically, album did not do well in the United States at first. In the UK, EMI had promoted Duran Duran as a New Romantic band, but the New Romantic movement was barely known in the US, and EMI's American subsidiary Capitol Records was at a loss about how to market them. After Carnival (an EP of Rio's dance remixes) became popular with DJs in the fall of 1982, the band arranged to have most of the album remixed by David Kershenbaum. Re-branded as a Dance act and with the album's singles "Hungry Like the Wolf" and "Rio" getting heavy rotation on MTV, sales took off and never looked back.

Stylish and photogenic, "The band was a natural for music television," noted Rolling Stone magazine. "They may be the first rock group to ride in on a video wave."  The album ultimately peaked at #6 in the US and remained on the charts for a whopping 129 weeks. In 2003, Rio was listed at #65 in the NME 100 Greatest Albums of All Time list.

[Fritz]

Dire Straits - Making Movies (1980)

1. Tunnel of Love
2. Romeo & Juliet
3. Skateaway
4. Expresso Love
5. Hand in Hand
6. Solid Rock
7. Les Boys

Full album playlist link: Making Movies

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Dire Straits' 3rd album is just a gem. 

[MissChromeNun]

Haven't listened to much Dire Straits besides their debut, but I always found them to have such a clear, crystalline sound. Bizarrely enough I always associated the Dire Straits album with the smell of peppermint  Something in the combination of Mark's staccato like inflections in his singing and the cooling feel of his and David's guitars. Though as I understand it, David left the group during recording of Making Movies.

Thanks for posting this, the tracks here are just as crystalline - and pepperminty - as their debut.