Top 22 Music Albums of 1984
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My Top 10 songs of 1984:
10. Minutemen - History Lesson - Part II (Double Nickels On The Dime)
9. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (Various Positions)
8. Bruce Cockburn - Lovers In A Dangerous Time (Stealing Fire)
7. Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (Ocean Rain)
6. The Smiths - Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (Single)
5. The Chills - Pink Frost (Single)
4. The Replacements - Unsatisfied (Let It Be)
3. The Replacements - Answering Machine (Let It Be)
2. The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain (The Smiths)
1. The Replacements - Androgynous (Let It Be)
- Chart updated: 11/17/2019 09:45
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:46).
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"Look me in the eye and tell me that I'm satisfied. Were you satisfied?"
Favourite Tracks: Androgynous, Answering Machine, Unsatisfied, Sixteen Blue, I Will Dare [First added to this chart: 03/17/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Androgynous, Answering Machine, Unsatisfied, Sixteen Blue, I Will Dare [First added to this chart: 03/17/2017]
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1984
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7,311
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"Out of all those kinds of people, you got a face with a view. I'm just an animal, looking for a home, share the same space for a minute or two."
The original 9-track album, the one listed on this site, is a pretty OK live album, but the concert film that this is taken from, and the 1999 re-release of the album that contains all of the tracks from the film, is the kind of thing that will make you never be able to appreciate concerts the same way again because nothing will ever be able to compare to the absolute perfection that this is.
Favourite Tracks: Crosseyed And Painless, This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody), Take Me To The River, Life During Wartime, Heaven, Slippery People [First added to this chart: 07/28/2017]
The original 9-track album, the one listed on this site, is a pretty OK live album, but the concert film that this is taken from, and the 1999 re-release of the album that contains all of the tracks from the film, is the kind of thing that will make you never be able to appreciate concerts the same way again because nothing will ever be able to compare to the absolute perfection that this is.
Favourite Tracks: Crosseyed And Painless, This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody), Take Me To The River, Life During Wartime, Heaven, Slippery People [First added to this chart: 07/28/2017]
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1984
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4,253
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"We used it all to fight a war that neither side could win. Well, Vietnam was little league compared to where we've been."
Favourite Tracks: Newest Industry, Pink Turns To Blue, Turn on the News, Something I Learned Today, Whatever [First added to this chart: 01/20/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Newest Industry, Pink Turns To Blue, Turn on the News, Something I Learned Today, Whatever [First added to this chart: 01/20/2018]
Year of Release:
1984
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3,924
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"If we heard mortar shells, we'd cuss more in our songs, and cut down on guitar solos."
Favourite Tracks: History Lesson - Part II, The Glory Of Man, Corona, Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing, Viet Nam, My Heart And The Real World [First added to this chart: 05/07/2018]
Favourite Tracks: History Lesson - Part II, The Glory Of Man, Corona, Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing, Viet Nam, My Heart And The Real World [First added to this chart: 05/07/2018]
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1984
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4,653
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"I dreamt about you last night, and I fell out of bed twice."
Reel Around The Fountain is perfect.
Favourite Tracks: Reel Around The Fountain, This Charming Man, Still Ill [First added to this chart: 05/07/2017]
Reel Around The Fountain is perfect.
Favourite Tracks: Reel Around The Fountain, This Charming Man, Still Ill [First added to this chart: 05/07/2017]
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1984
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7,643
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"And everybody's got to live their life, and God knows I've got to live mine."
Technically it's a compilation, but it's not really a compilation. Although I prefer The Queen Is Dead, this is the essential Smiths album. Of the tracks that appear on both this and their self-titled, I generally prefer the versions from the self-titled, though I think this album is better because of the songs on it that the self-titled is missing.
Favourite Tracks: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, This Charming Man, William It Was Really Nothing, How Soon Is Now? [First added to this chart: 01/31/2017]
Technically it's a compilation, but it's not really a compilation. Although I prefer The Queen Is Dead, this is the essential Smiths album. Of the tracks that appear on both this and their self-titled, I generally prefer the versions from the self-titled, though I think this album is better because of the songs on it that the self-titled is missing.
Favourite Tracks: Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want, Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, This Charming Man, William It Was Really Nothing, How Soon Is Now? [First added to this chart: 01/31/2017]
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1984
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6,050
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"I feel I'm cheating when I sing shudder and can I and mourn and 'tis an arm for us."
Is Liz Fraiser even singing in English on this?
Favourite Tracks: Ivo, Persephone, Pandora, Donimo [First added to this chart: 09/04/2017]
Is Liz Fraiser even singing in English on this?
Favourite Tracks: Ivo, Persephone, Pandora, Donimo [First added to this chart: 09/04/2017]
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1984
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4,022
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"I know it might sound strange but I believe you'll be coming back before too long."
Favourite Tracks: (Don't Go Back To) Rockville, Harborcoat, So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) [First added to this chart: 03/17/2017]
Favourite Tracks: (Don't Go Back To) Rockville, Harborcoat, So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry) [First added to this chart: 03/17/2017]
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1984
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3,162
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"I might be a big baby but I'll scream in your ear 'til I find out, until I find out just what it is I am doing here."
Favourite Tracks: Nothing Left Inside, Three Nights, Scream, My War
Favourite Tracks: Nothing Left Inside, Three Nights, Scream, My War
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1984
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670
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"I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried to touch. I've told the truth, I didn't come to fool you. And even though it all went wrong, I'll stand before the Lord of Song with nothing on my tongue but Hallelujah."
Favourite Tracks: Hallelujah, Dance Me To The End Of Love, The Law
Favourite Tracks: Hallelujah, Dance Me To The End Of Love, The Law
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1984
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535
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Top 22 Music Albums of 1984 composition
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| The Smiths | 2 | 9% | |
| Current 93 | 2 | 9% | |
| Black Flag | 2 | 9% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 1 | 5% | |
| Metallica | 1 | 5% | |
| R.E.M. | 1 | 5% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 1 | 5% | |
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