The Golden Years - 1982 (dancing, depeche mode, ambient, blues, hardcore)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 10-10-2007, 11:02 AM

Taking my cue from a Bowie song the whole premise of this is so simple i'm surprised I didn't think of it before.
Every week i'll post a year , all you have to do is come out with some albums from that year that you think are good with a few words saying why you like them. Doesn't matter if they are classic , forgotten gems or albums that are deeply personal to you , just list them.
Anyway given that rock music has been around for about 50 years I decided to start slap bang in the middle of this time period , 25 years ago ...1982.

The Birthday Party - Junkyard

Difficult as hell to get into but once you do you can really appreciate the chaos and energy that make up this record. Swamp based blues drowned out in an angry punk rage with Nick Cave's unmistakable vocals shieking , howling & droning over the noise behind it.There isn't a single band in the world who sound like anything like The Birthday Party and this album was them at their peak.

The Cure - Pornography

Robert Smith sounds like he's about to burst into tears at the best of times but this album is just so bleak & depressing you actually come out of it glad you don't have things as bad as he obviously does. It doesn't really have the energy of the albums that came before it but it does sound as though the band had matured , and the Cure's early 80s output has always been my favourite period in their history.

Black Flag - Damaged

This album actually feels like being punched in the face , the words brutal & uncompromising spring to mind. I have a feeling that the band knew that they could never top this which is probably why they became more muso & less immediate in subsequent albums. If I have one fault with it it's the production. I recently heard some of the demo's recorded for this album & they sounded even more brutal than the finished product.

The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

Obviously!

What can i say about this album without using every superlative in the english dictionary? Well it's an hour long , it has 2 drummers , it's exactly an hour long and it's the very best of the early Fall albums before Brix Smith got her claws into M.E.S & turned the Fall into a pop band.No duff tracks despite it's length and is a wonderful introduction to the wild & wonderful world of The Fall.

jackhammer · 10-10-2007, 11:49 AM

G.B.H- City Baby Attacked By Rats.

America had Black Flag. Britain had G.B.H, two highly influential bands and the fathers of Hardcore punk. This album still sounds fast and furious 25 years on, and represents evrything about Punk that I love-brutal simplicity.

Hawkwind-Choose Your Masques.

This is when Hawkwind started adopting a harder edge with some tracks flirting on the Heavy Metal tag. However this is the first Hawkwind album I heard. So it hold's a special place for me. Solitary Mind Games is a brilliant slice of ambient space rock and Waiting For Tomorrow is a classic rock song.

Scientist-Wins The World Cup

Huge in Dub circles and a prolific artist. His work with the Mad Professor is the stuff of legend. Light a fat one and chill out!

cardboard adolescent · 10-10-2007, 05:51 PM

Talking Heads - Name of this Band is Talking Heads

Their best output, imo.

Violent Femmes - S/T

Great geeky angst rock.

The Descendents - Milo Goes to College

Another pinnacle of pop-punk.

Univers Zero - Ceux de Dehors

Disturbing avant-garde chamber music.

23 Skidoo - Seven Songs

Awesome kind of industrial post-punk, see blog.

stakeraiser · 10-11-2007, 12:33 PM

I found this list from CNFY in Canada, their best of 1982

1. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
2. Duran Duran - Rio
3. Roxy Music - Avalon
4. The Spoons - Arias And Symphonies
5. ABC - Lexicon Of Love
6. Joe Jackson - Night And Day
7. Peter Gabriel - Security
8. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
9. Flock Of Seagulls - Flock Of Seagulls
10. Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever
11. Clash - Combat Rock
12. The Beat - Special Beat Service
13. Men At Work - Business As Usual
14. Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now
15. Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's
16. UB40 - UB44
17. Haircut 100 - Pelican West
18. China Crisis - Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms
19. Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
20. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
21. The Jam - The Gift
22. Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter
23. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
24. Rough Trade - Shakin The Foundations
25. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless
26. XTC - English Settlement
27. New Order -Temptation
28. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
29. Blue Peter - Up To You
30. Human League - Dare (Domestic Release)
31. Gang Of Four - Songs Of The Free
32. Stray Cats - Built For Speed
33. Joe ****er - Sheffield Steel
34. Fashion - Fabrique
35. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
36. Musical Youth - Youth Of Today
37. Thompson Twins - In The Name Of Love
38. Leisure Process - Love Cascade
39. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
40. Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band...
41. Pete Shelley - Homosapien
42. Billy Idol - Billy Idol
43. Payolas - No Stranger To Danger
44. B Movie - Nowhere Girl
45. Spandau Ballet - Diamond
46. Associates - Sulk
47. Captain Sensible - Women And Captains First
48. Fun Boy Three - Fun Boy Three
49. Romeo Void - Benefactor
50. Pat Metheny - Off Ramp
51. Black Uhuru - Chill Out
52. Altered Images - Pinky Blue (I Could Be Happy)
53. Heaven 17 - Let Me Go
54. Grandmaster Flash - The Message
55. Level 42 - Level 42
56. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going
57. Rush - Signals
58. Ultravox - Quartet
59. The Fixx - Shuttered Room
60. New Musik - Warp
61. Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock
62. Gil Scott-Heron - Moving Target
63. Bill Nelson - The Love That Whirls
64. Icehouse - Primitive Man
65. Phil Manzanera - Primitive Guitars
66. Visage - The Anvil
67. Flash And The Pan - Headlines
68. Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me
69. Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision
70. The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording
71. Soft Machine - Land Of ****ayne
72. Men Without Hats - Rhythm Of Youth
73. Steel Pulse - True Democracy
74. King Crimson - Beat
75. Nash The Slash - And You Thought You Were Normal
76. Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino
77. Lene Lovich - No Man's Land
78. Secret Service - Cutting Corners
79. Way Of The West - Don't Say That's Just For White Boys
80. Falco - Einzelhaft
81. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
82. Rational Youth - Cold War Night Life

I like a lot of songs from those albums, but I really can't pick a whole album to nominate

jackhammer · 10-11-2007, 02:17 PM

Any list with a Phil Collins album immediately becomes null and void to me.

10-10-2007, 11:02 AM	#1 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	The Golden Years - 1982 Taking my cue from a Bowie song the whole premise of this is so simple i'm surprised I didn't think of it before. Every week i'll post a year , all you have to do is come out with some albums from that year that you think are good with a few words saying why you like them. Doesn't matter if they are classic , forgotten gems or albums that are deeply personal to you , just list them. Anyway given that rock music has been around for about 50 years I decided to start slap bang in the middle of this time period , 25 years ago ...1982. The Birthday Party - Junkyard Difficult as hell to get into but once you do you can really appreciate the chaos and energy that make up this record. Swamp based blues drowned out in an angry punk rage with Nick Cave's unmistakable vocals shieking , howling & droning over the noise behind it.There isn't a single band in the world who sound like anything like The Birthday Party and this album was them at their peak. The Cure - Pornography Robert Smith sounds like he's about to burst into tears at the best of times but this album is just so bleak & depressing you actually come out of it glad you don't have things as bad as he obviously does. It doesn't really have the energy of the albums that came before it but it does sound as though the band had matured , and the Cure's early 80s output has always been my favourite period in their history. Black Flag - Damaged This album actually feels like being punched in the face , the words brutal & uncompromising spring to mind. I have a feeling that the band knew that they could never top this which is probably why they became more muso & less immediate in subsequent albums. If I have one fault with it it's the production. I recently heard some of the demo's recorded for this album & they sounded even more brutal than the finished product. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour Obviously! What can i say about this album without using every superlative in the english dictionary? Well it's an hour long , it has 2 drummers , it's exactly an hour long and it's the very best of the early Fall albums before Brix Smith got her claws into M.E.S & turned the Fall into a pop band.No duff tracks despite it's length and is a wonderful introduction to the wild & wonderful world of The Fall. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

10-10-2007, 11:49 AM	#2 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	G.B.H- City Baby Attacked By Rats. America had Black Flag. Britain had G.B.H, two highly influential bands and the fathers of Hardcore punk. This album still sounds fast and furious 25 years on, and represents evrything about Punk that I love-brutal simplicity. Hawkwind-Choose Your Masques. This is when Hawkwind started adopting a harder edge with some tracks flirting on the Heavy Metal tag. However this is the first Hawkwind album I heard. So it hold's a special place for me. Solitary Mind Games is a brilliant slice of ambient space rock and Waiting For Tomorrow is a classic rock song. Scientist-Wins The World Cup Huge in Dub circles and a prolific artist. His work with the Mad Professor is the stuff of legend. Light a fat one and chill out! __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

10-11-2007, 12:33 PM	#4 (permalink)
stakeraiser Music Addict Join Date: May 2006 Location: WV Posts: 188	I found this list from CNFY in Canada, their best of 1982 1. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) 2. Duran Duran - Rio 3. Roxy Music - Avalon 4. The Spoons - Arias And Symphonies 5. ABC - Lexicon Of Love 6. Joe Jackson - Night And Day 7. Peter Gabriel - Security 8. Kate Bush - The Dreaming 9. Flock Of Seagulls - Flock Of Seagulls 10. Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever 11. Clash - Combat Rock 12. The Beat - Special Beat Service 13. Men At Work - Business As Usual 14. Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now 15. Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's 16. UB40 - UB44 17. Haircut 100 - Pelican West 18. China Crisis - Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms 19. Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out 20. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay 21. The Jam - The Gift 22. Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter 23. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold 24. Rough Trade - Shakin The Foundations 25. Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless 26. XTC - English Settlement 27. New Order -Temptation 28. Soft Cell - Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing 29. Blue Peter - Up To You 30. Human League - Dare (Domestic Release) 31. Gang Of Four - Songs Of The Free 32. Stray Cats - Built For Speed 33. Joe **er - Sheffield Steel 34. Fashion - Fabrique 35. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame 36. Musical Youth - Youth Of Today 37. Thompson Twins - In The Name Of Love 38. Leisure Process - Love Cascade 39. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom 40. Talking Heads - The Name Of This Band... 41. Pete Shelley - Homosapien 42. Billy Idol - Billy Idol 43. Payolas - No Stranger To Danger 44. B Movie - Nowhere Girl 45. Spandau Ballet - Diamond 46. Associates - Sulk 47. Captain Sensible - Women And Captains First 48. Fun Boy Three - Fun Boy Three 49. Romeo Void - Benefactor 50. Pat Metheny - Off Ramp 51. Black Uhuru - Chill Out 52. Altered Images - Pinky Blue (I Could Be Happy) 53. Heaven 17 - Let Me Go 54. Grandmaster Flash - The Message 55. Level 42 - Level 42 56. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going 57. Rush - Signals 58. Ultravox - Quartet 59. The Fixx - Shuttered Room 60. New Musik - Warp 61. Nina Hagen - Nunsexmonkrock 62. Gil Scott-Heron - Moving Target 63. Bill Nelson - The Love That Whirls 64. Icehouse - Primitive Man 65. Phil Manzanera - Primitive Guitars 66. Visage - The Anvil 67. Flash And The Pan - Headlines 68. Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me 69. Van Morrison - Beautiful Vision 70. The Buggles - Adventures In Modern Recording 71. Soft Machine - Land Of **ayne 72. Men Without Hats - Rhythm Of Youth 73. Steel Pulse - True Democracy 74. King Crimson - Beat 75. Nash The Slash - And You Thought You Were Normal 76. Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino 77. Lene Lovich - No Man's Land 78. Secret Service - Cutting Corners 79. Way Of The West - Don't Say That's Just For White Boys 80. Falco - Einzelhaft 81. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out 82. Rational Youth - Cold War Night Life I like a lot of songs from those albums, but I really can't pick a whole album to nominate __________________ http://WWW.FLASHBACKALTERNATIVES.com Playing classic alternative, new wave, punk, etc, taking requests all day

10-11-2007, 02:17 PM	#5 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Any list with a Phil Collins album immediately becomes null and void to me. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

10-10-2007, 05:51 PM	#3 (permalink)
cardboard adolescent ;) Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CA Posts: 3,503	Talking Heads - Name of this Band is Talking Heads Their best output, imo. Violent Femmes - S/T Great geeky angst rock. The Descendents - Milo Goes to College Another pinnacle of pop-punk. Univers Zero - Ceux de Dehors Disturbing avant-garde chamber music. 23 Skidoo - Seven Songs Awesome kind of industrial post-punk, see blog.