These are two albums of 1983 I listened to:
An album I already own (I own the CD):
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Everything Falls Apart by Hüsker Dü
Their second album and still very hardcore hardcore although the music itself has a more and more melodic flavour as is clear in the title track or the Sunshine Superman cover. But as said still very hardcore with Bob Mould barking away in tracks like Wheels, Target or MIC. I must say I really re-enjoyed this album so I moved it from the 43rd to the 30th rank. And I enjoyed the band so much that I spent the rest of yesterday evening to listen to Do You Remember Radio?, with concert renditions of 1985 and 1981.
An album on my wishlist:
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Emergency Third Rail Power Trip by Rain Parade
Some puzzle pieces fell into place when I read that one of the members, David Roback, later was one of the founders of Mazzy Star. A quiet but still very guitar based little gem this album is. It immediately enters my top chart of 1983 at the 18th rank.
Meat Puppets II by Meat Puppets
One for the controversial music opinions thread: I think that the latter day albums of Meat Puppets are more consistenly good than their earlier albums. And this also counts for this album which is esteemed to be a classic in indie circles. Of course this is a very good album and they're also very good tracks here but not all of them are and especially the instrumentals lack a bit of direction. But of course an important album and its rank increases from the 42nd to the 34rd rank of 1984 in my 1984 top chart.
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Fried by Julian Cope
The first song is great and even has some kind of danger in it but that doesn't go for the rest of the album which is not bad but not good enough to be in my top charts.
One for the controversial music opinions thread: I think that the latter day albums of Meat Puppets are more consistenly good than their earlier albums. And this also counts for this album which is esteemed to be a classic in indie circles. Of course this is a very good album and they're also very good tracks here but not all of them are and especially the instrumentals lack a bit of direction. But of course an important album and its rank increases from the 42nd to the 34rd rank of 1984 in my 1984 top chart.
Ha! Why am I NOT surprised! 😜
8'0s Meat Puppets is my favorite era for them, but I agree. There discography has NO expiration date!
Bad Moon Rising by Sonic Youth
All this album radiates is a bleak and dark atmosphere and in fact the first part of the album is just that with not really great tracks. That is, until Death Valley '69, one of their best tracks. They would really shine with the 5 classics which came after this but I suppose they couldn't have been made without this one preceding it. But it's no classic and therefore only rises from the 35th to 32nd rank of 1985.
An album on my wishlist:
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What Does Anything Mean? Basically by The Chameleons
This is a very good album which is maybe a little less dark than their previous one but with tracks like especially Home Is Where The Heart is, you can't go wrong. And you know what: the extended version is even better because it contains the single In Shreds/Nostalgia as a bonus. All in all, an album good for the 15th rank of the year.
In my opinion you should definitely get a copy of What Does Anything Mean? Basically. That was my all-time favorite non-XTC album for most of the 80s, and probably until Souvlaki took over in the mid-90s. (Currently sitting at #8, between 154 and Aladdin Sane.) I bought a whole bunch of guitar pedals trying to sound like their guitar player, Dave Fielding, but it was only a few years ago that I learned that he played a Micro Frets guitar that had been built only about 50 miles from where I grew up. Go figure! Micro Frets is back in business, sort of - their designs and licenses were sold to a guy who's been building them in Washington State, I think... Maybe there's still time...
This entry of 1986 is an entry with superlatives because I listened to two excellent albums of this year:
Lifes Rich Pageant by R.E.M.
This is a real highlight in rock music and they were here at the top of their abilities. For one thing: this album contains THE perfect pop song: Fall On Me: this is such a treasure of fantastic voices blending in a terrific way with a perfect song around it that this one receives my highest score. And I liked the album so much that I upped the scores of most other tracks. The great I Believe is in fact fantastic, the really good are These Days is in fact great, the good Begin The Begin, Cuyahoga, Hyena and The Flowers Of Guatemala are in fact really good and the ok songs are good. So there remains only one stinker stinker, Underneath The Bunker and this makes that this classic, however magnificent it is, still only is the 6th R.E.M. album. But it does go from the 11th to the 2nd rank of the year.
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Album by Public Image Ltd.
You'll remember that I wanted to make this round a theme round around PIL and decided to abandon it because I thought Flowers Of Romance was terrible and I thought nothing good would come after that. But I was wrong because they released this gem of an album of which, BTW, I know a lot of tracks already. Johnny Lydon assembled a good producer, Bill Laswell, an excellent guitarist, Steve Vai (and here he managed to let his guitar playing be in service of the songs and not the other way round) and even Ginger Baker joined in. The songs are more focused than ever and the hit Rise is even very good and it goes to the 13th rank of the year.
I know Madhattanjack advised Happy but that is an album of 1987 and I'll listen to that one as well.
A Momentary Lapse Of Reason by Pink Floyd
It certainly isn't part of their canon they started in the seventies but this is a surprisingly good albums. The guitars are vintage David Gilmour and sound shiny and crisp and the songs have a good flow. Not their best but decent and the album goes from the 56th tot 39th rank of 197.
An album on my wishlist and plodding on with PIL:
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Happy? by Public Image Ltd.
And again not a bad album on which Johnny goes dance (but more in the style of the Manchester bands). I would say half success, half not so much. Open and Revolving and Angry are the highlights and the album comes in at the 38th rank.
Instinct by Iggy Pop
Not his best but a good punk album and it goes from 35th to the 27th rank.
An album on my wishlist:
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The Land Of Rape And Honey by Ministry
I like this kind of dirty industrial metal and especially the first tracks and the title track are really good. Not the whole album is but enough to get this album at the 28th rank of my year chart.
Bleach by Nirvana (US)
There is one classic on this first Nirvana album: About A Girl, in which they already showed that they were more than this old new hardcore/punk band (nobody talked about grunge round that time). All in all I like the rest of the tracks more than I remembered them (especially Negative Creep is great) so the album goes from the 42nd to the 13th rank of the year.
And another PIL album:
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9 by Public Image Ltd.
The first two tracks are ok but then comes the bad stuff. Songs like Like That are just terrible. All in all an album I don't want on my top chart of 1989.
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