| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/14/2007 1:42:27 PM | Following on from Sammi's post about the Greatest Films, what are the everyones views on the Albums ??
Here are a few of my favourites
Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell Michael Jackson - Thriller Lionel Ritchie - Can't Slow Down Queen - Innuendo Robbie Williams - The ego has landed The Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band Paul Simon - Graceland Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters
I Wonder if This Will Get DELETED ???
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/14/2007 2:18:23 PM | Meatloaf - Bat out of Hell Michael Jackson - Thriller Michael Jackson - Off The Wall Led Zeppelin - Physical Grafitti Queen - A night at the Opera Queen - A Day at the Races Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Bread - The Sound of Bread Buddy Holly & Crickets - 20 Golden Greats Earth, Wind & Fire - The Best Of Earth, Wind & Fire Vol. 1 Simon & Garfunkel - Bridge Over Troubled Waters
Adam & the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier Human League - Dare Duran Duran - Duran Duran ABC - Lexicon of Love Yazoo - Upstairs at Erics Ultravox - Quartet Black Uhuru - Tear it Up Bronski Beat - The Age of Consent Wham - Fantastic Level 42 - True Colours Simply Red - Picture Book
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/14/2007 4:10:35 PM | Thompson Twins - Into the Gap Sade - Diamond Life Dire Straits - Brothers in arms Wham - Make it big Tears for fears - Songs from the big chair | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/14/2007 9:34:06 PM | Sgt. Peppers? Released in '67....(one of the best of all time)
Graceland is a great album, but I think The Rhythm Of The Saints is better....more innovative....
Here's a few I like....
Frank Zappa-Joe's Garage I, II, & III Yes-Fragile, and The Yes Album Genesis-A Trick Of The Tail (the only good 1 without Gabriel) Peter Gabriel-I and III Lynyrd Skynyrd-Second Helping Pink Floyd-Dark Side Of The Moon Bob Dylan-Blood On The Tracks George Harrison-The Concert For Bangledesh Eric Clapton-461Ocean Boulevard Lou Reed-New York ELP-Ladies and Gentlemen.... The Who-Who's Next Traffic-The Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys Tom Petty-Full Moon Fever Cat Stevens-Teaser And The Firecat Cat Stevens-Tea For The Tillerman John Lennon-New York | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 2:29:39 AM | My personal favs are :-
Off The Wall - Michael Jackson Oil On Canvas - Japan Dare - Human League Into The Gap - Thompson Twins | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 3:35:26 AM | "master of puppets" by Metallica
"ride the lightning" by Metallica
"the number of the beast" by Iron Maiden
"Michael Lee Firkins" By Michael Lee Firkins
"Mind's eye" By Vinnie Moore
"surfing with the alien" by Joe Satriani
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 4:26:44 AM | Bros - Push
Rick Astley - (cant remember what it was called)
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Alexander O Neil - Critcise
New kids on the Block - (Cant remember this one either!) | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 5:54:32 AM | Dare-Human League Cliff Richard-Mistletoe and wine(OMG!!! I bought that) SpandauBallet-Through the barricades Tears for fears-The Hurting The smiths- Howard Jones- Flock of seagulls
I remember I was going to marry Tony Hadley hahaha....So so sad!!! | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 7:13:52 AM | Darkside - Floyd The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses Master of Puppets - Metallica Songs From the Big Chair - Tears For Fears Pleasure Dome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Anything by Level 42, The Police, Madness, Lynard Skynard and The Eagles.
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 12:07:31 PM | no wonder the songs that get to the no1 spot get there with these choices y as no1 mentioned the great u2 albums
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 12:14:54 PM | Many thanx for everyones contribution to my post,
SpandauBallet-Through the barricades I love that song one of my favourites from Spandau
I remember I was going to marry Tony Hadley hahaha....So so sad!!!
Awwww how cute, but as you say Jules how sad
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 12:35:48 PM | Here are my favourites: 1978 Boomtown Rats - A tonic for the troops. 1979 Angelic Upstarts - Teenage Warning. 1982 The Exploited - The Troops of Tommorrow. 1982 Abrasive Wheels - When the punks go marching in. 1982 The Skeptix - So The Youth. 1984 Conflict - Increase The pressure. | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 12:41:59 PM | the cult - love fleetwood mac - rumours skid row - slave to the grind queensryche - operation:mindcrime led zeppelin - physical graffiti the cure - Disintegration slayer - reign in blood | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 2:16:56 PM | Rumors Fleetwood Mac
Brothers In Arms Dire Straits
Vol 1 The Traveling Wilburys
Full Moon Fever Tom Petty
Maybe not the greatest but, still stand the passage of time now & played regularly by me. | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/15/2007 2:40:31 PM | Two from the seventies that haven't been mentioned:
Hunky Dory - David Bowie (deffo my fav Bowie LP)
Songs In The Key Of Life - Stevie Wonder (also like Talking Book)
With regard to Trick of the Tail I slightly prefer And Then There WereThree. | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/16/2007 8:42:21 AM |
Tim Im sure Tonny would have...had I been a little older than 12 haha
ohhh a school girl crush then Jules awwwww
he was doing a show on cable saturday about the 50 top crooners & he even voted himself in at number 5 I know this much is Trueeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 4/16/2007 9:14:57 AM | P1ssed and Proud........Peter and The Test Tube Babies
Still sounds as good as it did then....a bit like Hovis but with attitude!!!!
thats the only one I can think of as I am too old to remember any more pmsl. | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 1/11/2008 6:36:07 AM | The Waterboys - This Is the Sea (1985) (With one of the BEST songs EVER: The whole of the moon!) ZZ TOP - Eliminator (1983) + ZZ TOP - afterburner (1985) (and all other albums of ZZ TOP)
My taste of music is really geat !  | |
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| Greatest Albums of the 70's & 80s Posted: 1/11/2008 6:43:32 AM | Dark Sidde of the moon - Pink floyd Another brick in the wall.....
And dire straits - brothers in arms... Money for nothing (what a track) | |
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