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I think they’re incredibly boring and bland and vanilla and just kinda soporific. While I don’t usually gel with RateYourMusic, I think they don’t really like this band at all for a good reason. They’re great players, yes, but like you said, Audrey: there’s no energy or excitement at all, and this kind of glacial folk-indie-Americana thing is just not my find 🤗🥲

An excellent year for albums: 1. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Automatic 2. Pixies - Doolittle 3. The Smithereens - 11 4. The Pogues - Peace and Love 5. Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever 6. Lou Reed - New York 7. Lene Lovich - March 8. Peter Murphy - Deep 9. Faith No More - The Real Thing 10. FYC - The Raw and the Cooked

Yay! Automatic and Doolittle are my two fave albums of the year. They are both "six outa five stars". 😎

Disintegration hellz yeah💪

Now and Zen - Robert Plant

nah, dirty mind is easily top5

Cool episode. 🎉. Thanks for this

I was a fan of the debut album back in the day when it came out, but I never heard anything by them I liked after that, save for three songs on The Globe.

I love the way "C'mon Every Beatbox" begins with that spoken intro and then launches into some powerful music. But when the verses start up, it turns to shit.

I prefer the single version of "Rush." The album version gets interrupted by that "rhythm and melody" part.

1. R.E.M. - Green 2. Danielle Dax - Dark Adapted Eye* 3. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow 4. Divinyls - Temperamental 5. The Feelies - Only Life 6. The Smithereens - Green Thoughts 7. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man 8. They Might Be Giants - Lincoln 9. Tanita Tikaram - Ancient Heart 10. The Bangles - Everything * Basically a compilation, but I am making an exception because the albums from which these songs were compiled were practically impossible to find in the US at the time. Plus it's awesome . . . 😎

Spirit of Eden should be on my list.

TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 1988 10) Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman 09) Vivid - Living Colour 08) Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins 07) Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars - Edie Brickell & the New Bohemians 06) Rattle and Hum - U2 05) Naked - Talking Heads 04) Nothing's Shocking - Jane's Addiction 03) Peepshow - Siouxsie & the Banshees 02) Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine 01) Surfer Rosa - The Pixies

Sticky Fingers, Who's Next, Blue, Tarkus, Led Zeppelin IV, Imagine, What's Going On, The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys, Grateful Dead, Muswell Hillbillies, Maggot Brain, Santana III, In Search of Space, Tanz Der Lemminge, Tago Mago, Mountains, Teenage Head, Budgie, Naturally, Tapestry, Aqualung, The Yes Album, Fragile, Pearl, Bloodrock 3, USA, L.A. Woman, In the Land of Grey and Pink, Fireball, Ram, Relics, Meddle, Thin Lizzy, Love It to Death, Killer, Nursery Cryme, Madman Across the Water, A Space in Time, Nantucket Sleighride, Flowers of Evil, At Fillmore East (Allman Brothers), Message From the Country, Every Picture Tells a Story, Acquiring the Taste, Faust, Electric Warrior, Camembert Electrique, Moving Waves, The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory, Master of Reality, Quicksilver, Colosseum Live, Nazareth, The Concert for Bangladesh, Ash Ra Tempel

1. REM - Document 2. The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland 3. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands 4. 10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe 5. INXS - Kick 6. Sinead O'Connor - The Lion and the Cobra 7. U2 - The Joshua Tree 8. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust 9. Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor 10. The Wedding Present - George Best

8) Michael Jackson - Bad 7) Fleetwood Mac - Tango in the Night 6) Prince - Sign O' Times 5) George Michael - Faith 4) INXS - Kick 3) Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction 2) Whitesnake - Whitesnake 1) U2 - Joshua Tree Great video, guys!

Glad to see us line up on a few things Taavi, especially The Cure. 🤠

10) In My Tribe - 10,000 Maniacs 09) Jane's Addiction - Jane's Addiction 08) Earth, Sun, Moon - Love and Rockets 07) Strangeways Here We Come - The Smiths 06) ...Nothing Like the Sun - Sting 05) Through the Looking Glass - Siouxsie and the Banshees 04) Appetite for Destruction - Guns N' Roses 03) The Lion and the Cobra - Sinead O'Connor 02) The Joshua Tree - U2 01) Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me - The Cure

damn thats pretty harsh ngl

You did a great job on one of the hardest working icons to have graced our planet. Prince holds a very special place in my family and I's heart and you did a lot of his work justice. I've spent the past month going into his 40 studio albums myself and find most of your takes agreeable. -The fact that your #1 album (Gold Exp) is the one that pretty much started it all for me is pretty cool. I love P Control, Endophinmachine, and Now -My Name is Prince from Love Symbol is my earliest memory from the early 90's of hearing it in my Mom's car. It's such a statement song and it's a strong album. -You putting up Reve Un2 the Joy higher up is a good move, since his feature with Gwen Stefani and cover of Winding Road are undeniably among his better songs. -Xpectation is a great 40 minute instrumental to take a nice long stroll around your neighborhood to, which I recently did and found to be a calming experience. -HnR part 2 is definitely better than part 1 I thought Crystal Ball's first disc (aside from the first 2 tracks) were packed with consistent and great songs, rest of the long album was a chore though, especially Cloreen Bacon Skin... -I also had a hard time getting into Rainbow Children, it's a divisive album but maybe it's a grower. She Loves Me 4 Me and Last December made it a worthwhile listen. Keep doing what you're doing and props on the great video!

Saw them in Providence in the early 90s, and was sold right away. They were actually the start of my headlong dive into 4AD.

Powerline and Plans I Make are just OK. Perfect Example is AWFUL.

We are at odds regarding Side 2 of New Day Rising, V. I think "I Don't Know..." "How to Skin a Cat" and "Whatcha Drinkin'" are great and way better than anything on Side 1.

Notes from the TLM dive: 08) Land Speed Record (1981) 3/5 07) Candy Apple Grey (1986) 3/5 06) Flip Your Wig (1985) 3/5 05) Warehouse: Songs and Stories (1987) 3.25/5 04) Everything Falls Apart (1983) 3.5/5 03) New Day Rising (1985) 3.5/5 02) Metal Circus (1983) 3.75/5 01) Zen Arcade (1984) 4.5/5 Ratings Scale: 0 stars - irredeemably terrible/insultingly bad/the worst .5 stars - terrible 1 star - bad 1.5 stars - pretty bad 2 stars - fair 2.5 stars - meh 2.75 stars - "It's OK, but quit playing it." 3 stars - OK/decent 3.25 stars - pretty good 3.5 stars - good 4 stars - very good 4.5 stars - excellent 5 stars - rooms full of gold Chronological Order: 1981 - 3.00 - Land Speed Record 1983 - 3.50 - Everything Falls Apart 1983 - 3.75 - Metal Circus 1984 - 4.50 - Zen Arcade 1985 - 3.50 - New Day Rising 1985 - 3.00 - Flip Your Wig 1986 - 3.00 - Candy Apple Grey 1987 - 3.25 - Warehouse: Songs and Stories Notes: * Never got into Hüsker Dü before I heard all their studio albums for this week. I heard them in passing but never latched on. I do dig some of Bob Mould's solo stuff and I especially love Copper Blue (5 stars) which he did with his later band Sugar. I've been into that one since it came out in '92 but I'm not crazy about most of their other stuff. * This was a challenging listen for me because I have conflicting feelings about this music. I love it when I'm drunk, but when I'm sober it can be irritating. I love the chaotic, running-off-the-rails feeling you get from hardcore punk, so it was confusing when I wasn't always getting turned on by Hüsker Dü. I can understand how some people only hear noise, but to me, hardcore punk serves a purpose - releasing anger, aggression, energy. For the right person, it can be quite cathartic. But I have to be in the right mood for it. * The guitar tone on these albums is sooooo harsh and abrasive, especially on Zen Arcade, but even more so on New Day Rising. I never really got it when people would talk about "ear fatigue" but I really felt that listening to New Day Rising with its relentless, overpowering guitar noise and smashing cymbals. * I think they were better at making punk music than writing pop songs, although I'm sure many of these tunes would sound great if pretty vocals and production were substituted in place of Bob Mould's wail and noise. * I dig the unbridled chaos of their earliest three releases. Land Speed Record (1981), the live debut, doesn't have much in the way of actual tunes, but it's good for scraping out the ole cranium and rebooting. * Everything Falls Apart has more in the way of songs, some cool solos and a ton of energy. * Metal Circus is even better and I especially love the guitar craziness heard on "Out on a Limb." * Zen Arcade is a hardcore punk extravaganza with some other elements like piano interludes, a tape experiment and acoustic guitar thrown in for color. Some people call it a concept album, and there is indeed an interesting loose narrative in there. The line "I love it/ I hate it" from "Masochism World" captures the mixed feelings I have about it. "Dreams Recurring" reminds one of Hendrix's "3rd Stone from the Sun." "Indecision Time" repulses me if I'm not in the mood to hear it, but it's got a wailing solo. "The Tooth Fairy and the Princess" is a good approximation of a dream state, while "Reoccurring Dreams" is both rocking and irritating. It sounds like going mental. But what you mostly get here is top notch hardcore punk and the seeds of alt rock. * New Day Rising is surely their noisiest album. "Plans I Make" sounds like they're trying to be as noisy as possible. Sometimes Mould's vocals are strangely subdued, like on "Perfect Example," which is awful. * Over the course of their albums, they gradually moved away from hardcore punk towards something more like melodic alt-rock. * Especially on their later albums, I tend to think Grant Hart's songs are better. * "The Baby Song" on Flip Your Wig annoys the bejesus out of me. * Cheers Mates!!!!!!!!!!

Love Skylarking

Appreciated the Tinderbox shoutout Taavi. 🥳

Top 10 Albums of 1986 Had to leave off so much great stuff including some of the best thrash of all time. 10) Skylarking - XTC 09) Book of Love- Book of Love 08) Throwing Muses - Throwing Muses 07) So - Peter Gabriel 06) Black Celebration - Depeche Mode 05) Express - Love & Rockets 04) Notorious - Duran Duran 03) The Queen is Dead - The Smiths 02) Lifes Rich Pageant - R.E.M. 01) Tinderbox - Siouxsie & the Banshees

1. Sign O The Times 2. Parade 3.The Gold Experience 4. Purple Rain 5. Lovesexy Nice to see someone giving TGE the respect it deserves.

Melt The Guns is a turd of a song on an otherwise killer album - English Settlement. Skylarking is my favorite overall and Drums And Wires is probably my favorite of the new wave era

10) Once Upon a Time - Simple Minds 09) This is the Sea - The Waterboys 08) Immigrant - Gene Loves Jezebel 07) Love - The Cult 06) Fables of the Reconstruction - R.E.M. 05) The Dream of the Blue Turtles - Sting 04) Little Creatures - Talking Heads 03) Hounds of Love - Kate Bush 02) Meat is Murder - The Smiths (American version including "How Soon is Now?") 01) The Head on the Door - The Cure

First! lol

1. Midnite Vultures 2. Modern Guilt 3. Mutations

Clay, the creepy music goes away after a few minutes

I dunno what's happening. I must have listened to this song but I don't remember it

:3

the title track of port of morrow is actually my favorite

Well as an OG FAM it’s not surprising to disagree completely with half this list and nearly fully agree on the other half. Taste and context and expectations and age and even ethnicity and region all play factors. Respect either way. IMO 1978-1996 he’s the overall GOAT in music and I cannot think of another artist in the entirety of the rock and roll era who had a longer run at the top of the food chain in terms of talent and artistic high ground. Sales and popularity have zero to do with that. FAM are the most educated and diverse in terms of their grasp of modern music IMO. Cause that dude pushed you beyond any boundaries of what was supposed to be. He led me to artists in the 80s who I wouldn’t have discovered, like Cocteau Twins and Kate Bush. Let alone Santana, Zeppelin, Joni Mitchell and Miles Davis. I knew who they all were but never would’ve gone there. I grew up on Funk and soul and some 80s rock and hip hop. And he was mad stylin’, hysterical, fearless, unapologetic, free and talented AF. 💜💜💜♊️♊️♊️

Had to leave off a bunch of albums that I love (like usual) 10) The Smiths - The Smiths 09) ...All the Rage - General Public 08) Psychic...Powerless...Another Man's Sac - Butthole Surfers 07) Ocean Rain - Echo & the Bunnymen 06) Sparkle in the Rain - Simple Minds 05) Treasure - Cocteau Twins 04) 1984 - Van Halen 03) Hyaena - Siouxsie and the Banshees (American version including "Dear Prudence") 02) The Top - The Cure 01) The Unforgettable Fire - U2

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Nice list. It's great to see Gold Experience so high up, as it's one of my favourites. I'm not sure if you've ever listened to the New Power Generation (NPG) albums, but they're essentially Prince albums in all but artist name. As you're a big fan of The Gold Experience, I can't stress enough that you really need to listen to the NPG album 'Exodus', which was made around the same time and has a similar vibe. You can find the full album on TH-cam.

10) Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks - Brian Eno 09) Murmur - R.E.M. 08) Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads 07) Porcupine - Echo & the Bunnymen 06) Feast - The Creatures 05) Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes 04) Blue Sunshine - The Glove 03) Japanese Whispers - The Cure 02) Synchronicity - The Police 01) War - U2

You need a bigger water bottle A.

"Cockatoe Twins?" Uh, no. "cock-toe" twins.

Heard some things I agree with, heard some things I disagree with.

My top 5 for the year: 1. The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat 2. Elvis Costello - Trust 3. Tom Petty - Hard Promises 4. The Cars - Shake It Up 5. ELO - Time

Great video! Looking forward to seeing more ❤

Laugh Track at the bottom is TRAGIC 😢 Space Invader is a top 20 National track for me

Juju!

10) Computer World - Kraftwerk 09) My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Brian Eno/David Byrne 08) Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones 07) Freeze-Frame - J. Geils Band 06) Ghost in the Machine - The Police 05) Heaven Up Here - Echo & the Bunnymen 04) Faith - The Cure 03) October - U2 02) Juju - Siouxsie & the Banshees 01) Moving Pictures - Rush

There's a ridiculous amount of great albums in 1980. Had to leave off so much good stuff. 10) Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys 09) I Just Can't Stop It - The English Beat 08) Boy - U2 07) Back in Black - AC/DC 06) Uprising - Bob Marley and the Wailers 05) Zenyatta Mondatta - The Police 04) Remain in Light - Talking Heads 03) Wild Planet - The B-52s 02) Seventeen Seconds - The Cure 01) Kaleidoscope - Siouxsie & the Banshees