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Best album of the eighties? 20:02 - Oct 9 with 18243 viewsmarkrtid

U2's The Joshua Tree has been named the best album of the 1980s.

Is it though?
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Best album of the eighties? on 23:06 - Oct 9 with 2082 viewsstoweboy

Released December 79 here
USA January 80 .

Classed as 80’s album by rolling stone magazine
Still a brilliant album whatever decade
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Best album of the eighties? on 23:17 - Oct 9 with 2067 viewsCroydonCaptJack

Technique is a brilliant album. And would be a contender for me as it squeezed into that decade as did the moody but seminal Closer by Joy Division.

Some great albums already mentioned on this thread.
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Best album of the eighties? on 23:27 - Oct 9 with 2045 viewsBrianMcCarthy

Doolittle also in the conversation.

"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
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Best album of the eighties? on 23:31 - Oct 9 with 2040 viewsDannyPaddox



Certainly one of the best debut albums of the 80s - along with the Roses. People who knock UB40 are generally talking out of their arses.
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Best album of the eighties? on 23:47 - Oct 9 with 2033 viewsCamberleyR

Not a lot to dislike about UB40 from 1980-82 when they wrote their own stuff. Their first half dozen singles were top notch.

Plenty to dislike about them once they got to number 1 with a cover and then went down the path of becoming Reggaewaddywaddy.

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Best album of the eighties? on 00:01 - Oct 10 with 2014 viewsdistortR

albums that informed, changed and ruined any potential capitalist ability in me;

Damaged - black Flag

Suffer - Bad Religion

Zen Arcade - Husker Du

The Ungovernable force - Conflict

No rest - nma

but currently i have been listening to

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Best album of the eighties? on 00:07 - Oct 10 with 2016 viewsCamberleyR

My nominations would be:

More Specials
Sound Affects

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Best album of the eighties? on 00:13 - Oct 10 with 2005 viewsMrSheen

More Specials is a great lost album. I can’t stand it is one of the greatest songs ever.

The Jam were mostly shite.
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Best album of the eighties? on 00:56 - Oct 10 with 1975 viewsDannyPaddox

The first 3 UB40 albums are so strong. I don’t mind Labour of Love either. Then it was mostly about paying the bills. I remember seeing a photo of the band with their families and partners and kids and relations and roadies and it was like the population of a medium-sized town in Dorset. A lot of mouths to feed. I don’t begrudge whatever they did after Labour Of Love. Mind you I don’t listen to any of it either. And as for Reggaewaddywaddy 🤣 Brilliantly put.
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Best album of the eighties? on 01:12 - Oct 10 with 1974 viewsmarkrtid

So what is you are trying to say?
Just asking for my very pedantic friend.
Peace.
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Best album of the eighties? on 01:28 - Oct 10 with 1968 viewsmarkrtid

Was the 80's all that good?

Dancing to anything by 'The Human League' and Bela Lugosi's Dead" at The Padded Cell' each Saturday night seems a abit hollow now after a 5-4 QPR win.
Is this what getting old is?
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Best album of the eighties? on 02:25 - Oct 10 with 1948 viewslightwaterhoop

Its London Calling for me [i didnt buy it until 1980]
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Best album of the eighties? on 02:42 - Oct 10 with 1940 viewsSharpy36

Pink floyd the wall

Released 30th November 79, so it`s an almost. 41 years later, still filling stadiums. Can`t see Drake, Ariana grande and Dua lipa reaching that level.

'You didn't know that was wrong, but now you do. If you do it again, I'll know you are doing it on purpose.'

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Best album of the eighties? on 07:35 - Oct 10 with 1858 viewsBlackCrowe


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Best album of the eighties? on 07:42 - Oct 10 with 1852 viewsGloucs_R


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Best album of the eighties? on 07:57 - Oct 10 with 1843 viewsstevec

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Best album of the eighties? on 08:02 - Oct 10 with 1841 viewsOutWestR

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Best album of the eighties? on 08:17 - Oct 10 with 1830 viewsDannyPaddox



My bestest Fall Album was from the 80s
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Best album of the eighties? on 08:21 - Oct 10 with 1831 viewsOrthodox_Hoop

Master for me. Agree about the rawness of Ride and it's a close one but in my opinion I think Master was the apogee for Metallica and laid the foundations for their mega success with the Black album. Plus the last that they did with Cliff makes it all the more poignant... I still get a lump in my throat when I hear the opening bars to Orion.

But best 80s album for me has to be Reign in Blood by Slayer.
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Best album of the eighties? on 08:25 - Oct 10 with 1829 viewsCroydonCaptJack

100% this.
Thst first album is brilliant as were the first 4 or 5 singles. Red Red Wine was the turning point for me. I can't stand that track.
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Best album of the eighties? on 08:27 - Oct 10 with 1825 viewsCroydonCaptJack

Live at the Witch Trials for me but that was probably just the previous decade.
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Best album of the eighties? on 08:53 - Oct 10 with 1803 viewsstoweboy

The Pogues - If I should fall from grace with God

A huge catalogue of songs to choose from and some classics on the way
but this is there finest hour
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Best album of the eighties? on 10:18 - Oct 10 with 1754 viewsHAYESBOY

Just had a re-issue with all sorts of other recording at the time that were not released.

Also with alternative versions of songs like horns added on "The Ballad of Dorothy Parker".

I suppose Purple Rain should be mentioned but its not my favourite.

Smells like a trout farm in here

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Best album of the eighties? on 10:29 - Oct 10 with 1739 viewsSK_hoops

LTTI is hands down the best album from that scene. Aged far better than the rest imo. Should've been a bigger album. Saw their reunion a few years back and they still had it for sure.
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Best album of the eighties? on 10:31 - Oct 10 with 1736 viewsTW_R

Didn’t Prince have something like 200 songs to choose from for Sign o’ the times?
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