DarthBalls
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The big one - Top Albums of The 1980s!New Order - Technique
Prince - Sign o' the Times
Living Colour - Vivid
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
NB - I set myself a pretty strict rule that it had to be an album that I first got and listened to in the 80s, other wise I'd have seemed like the coolest pre-teen ever as I was born in 1974. Frighteningly enough I did like Michael Jackson's Thriller when I was at primary school (that's how he works you know)!
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Blarno
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Most of my faves are from the 70's or 90's, but I'll have a go:
Metallica - Master Of Puppets.
RHCP - Mother's Milk.
Slayer - Reign In Blood.
Soundgarden - Louder Than Love.
Faith No More - The Real Thing.
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kraftwerk
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01. Brian Eno and David Byrne - My LIfe in the Bush of Ghosts
02. Kraftwerk - Computerworld
03. Kate Bush - The Hounds of Love
04. King Crimson - Discipline
05. The Blue Nile- A Walk Across the Rooftops
Thriller contains at least four bona fide classics, so no need to justify. Vivid was a big favourite at the time, as was the follow-up. I particularly liked their version of Talking Heads' Memories Can't Wait. I went right off them after seeing them at Barrowland in, what, 1993? Their jazz credentials to the fore, they just couldn't play a straight version of any of their tunes and ruined most of them with incessant noodling. Now, I like a noodle as much as, maybe even more than, the next man, but this was just awful.
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DarthBalls
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If that was the Stain tour then I was at the same Living Colour gig - I'm sure it was 1993.
They did go very noodly once Doug Wimbish replaced the mighty Muzz 'The Fireman' Skillings. I enjoyed that Barrowlands gig as Wimbish and Vernon Reid are two of my favourite musicians and I'd just started learning bass at the time and flashy playing impressed me then. I hated it when any of the bands I was in got all noodly - I used to piss them off by writing tunes with no room for guitar solos.
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Blarno
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Stain was 1994.
Living Colour are fucking awesome. Time's Up is an astonishing album.
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kraftwerk
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It's a regret that I missed Vernon Reid play at the Jazz Cafe a few years ago. Charles Shaar-Murray wrote a love letter review of it in The Times.
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franki68
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Here's my usual 5 (25 that is)
Prince, Sign of the times and purple rain
Faith no more ,epic
Neil Young ,Freedom
R.e.M ,Green,document,reckoming,murmur
Talking Heads,Stop making sense
The PIxies,Surfer Rosie and Doolittle
Michael Shencker Group,One night at Budokan
Iron Maiden,Iron Maiden,killers and Number of the beast
Niggaz with attitude,Straight outta compton
New MOdel Army,Vengance,NO rest and Green and grey
MJ,Thriller
Violent femmes,violent femmes
And I cannot believe the following have not been mentioned
ACDC,BAck in Black
The clash,London Calling
The Smiths,The queen is dead
The stone roses,The stone roses
and last but by no means least..Guns and roses,Appetite for destruction
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franki68
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I saw living colour but it was not memorable to be honest I think it was on the times up tour but may have been later,vivid is brilliant in parts and reid an astonishing guitarist.
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DarthBalls
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| Blarno wrote: | | Living Colour are fucking awesome. Time's Up is an astonishing album. |
I wish I was good enough to play the bassline for the title track of Time's Up - way better than anything Flea has come up with.
Sadly the 2003 Colloidoscope album was a bit pish, a few good songs and a cover of Back in Black and that's it apart from filler. They also haven't played anywhere in the UK outside of London since they reformed 
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Stuntman
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| kraftwerk wrote: | 05. The Blue Nile- A Walk Across the Rooftops
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Is that their first album or their second one?
I only have High, which contains some lovely songs, but I have read that their earlier work is better. Can you enlighten me further?
Anyway, back to the '80s - there's no way I can do a top 5, it's hard enought trying to limit it to one album per artist:
Adam & The Ants - Kings Of The Wild Frontier (first album I ever bought)
Soft Cell - Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
ABC - The Lexicon Of Love
Boston - 3rd Stage
FM - Indiscreet
Journey - Escape
GnR - Appetite For Destruction
Def Leppard - Pyromania
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
Marillion - Clutching At Straws
Fish - Vigil In The Wilderness Of Mirrors
Great White - Once Bitten
King Swamp - King Swamp (the best album in the world, evaaah)
White Lion - Pride
Living Colour - Vivid
Dan Reed Network - Slam
Magnum - On A Storyteller's Night
Masters Of Reality - Masters Of Reality (sometimes known as The Blue Garden)
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Ritchie Sambora - Stranger In This Town
Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
Tesla - Mechanical Resonance
Skin - Skin
Van Halen - 1984
Twisted Sister - You Can't Stop Rock n' Roll
Molly Hatchet - Double Trouble Live (best live album in the world evaah)
Thunder - Laughing On Judgement Day
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Duran Duran - Rio
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Zodiac Mindwarp & The Love Reaction - Tattoed Beat Messiah
Rocky Hill - Rocky Hill
Dream Theater - When Dream And Day Unite
Dire Straights - Brothers In Arms
Dio - Holy Diver
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasure Dome
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Foreigner - 4
If I absolutely had to pick a Top 5 it would be King Swamp, Masters Of Reality, Dream Theater, Magnum and ... I dunno. Probably Molly Hatchet, for variety.
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franki68
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I actually had a guilt dream last night..I left of
The redskins..neither washington nor moscow ..and looking at stunts list cannot believe I left off the soft cell album.
Kings of the wildfrontier was also my first album and I recently bought it on cd...but it isn't as good as my memory told me it was.
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