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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 25, 2022 12:36:54 GMT -6
 Damn, they really did blow up the Chicken Man in Philly that night (listening to Nebraska) |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 25, 2022 12:37:12 GMT -6
That would make such a hard album cover
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 25, 2022 12:54:14 GMT -6
Top 5 verses / choruses from Nebraska (the best singer-songwriter record of the 80s) that cut straight to your soul. Bruce really freaked it on this one, didn't he.  "They declared me unfit to live / Said into that great void my soul be hurled They wanted to know why I did what I did / Sir, I guess there's just a meanness in this world" "I catch him when he's strayin' like any brother should / Man turns his back on his family, he ain't no good" "Maybe you got a kid, maybe you got a pretty wife / The only thing that I got's been bothering me my whole life" "I walked up the steps and stood on the porch A woman I didn't recognize came and spoke to me through a chained door I told her my story and who I'd come for She said "I'm sorry son but no one by that name lives here anymore" "Struck me kinda funny, funny, yeah, to me / How at the end of every hard-earned day people find some reason to believe" |
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Post by doso on Aug 25, 2022 19:31:58 GMT -6
This is the best Prince album imo. Top 10 for me. Might be Top 5 or 3, actually. What's ur fave track on it? Probably “Strange Relationship”, but there are sooooo many great songs on this record. You? |
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Post by scoots on Aug 25, 2022 19:59:48 GMT -6
My brothers and my sister thankfully had decent taste in music and largely influenced how I listen to music right now, so I'm going to go off of what were the most important acts to me during the 80s. I'll list some albums later, but these are the artists that I listened to a ton with my siblings:
REM
The Replacements
INXS
Bon Jovi
Guns n' Roses
The Go Gos
Aerosmith
Pat Benatar
Tears for Fears
Echo and the Bunnymen
My brother had a Kick poster on his wall and I remember rocking out with him to that album when I was a kid. My sister had a poster of Jon Bon Jovi and said she was going to marry him. Good times.
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Post by nanatod on Aug 25, 2022 21:28:31 GMT -6
I and doso and ten15 were all present when they broke up at taste of chicago, but we hadn't met yet. |
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Post by zircona1 on Aug 26, 2022 7:22:55 GMT -6
My sister had a poster of Jon Bon Jovi and said she was going to marry him. Good times. In the small town where I spent my single digit years, this girl who I was with friends had Bon Jovi posters all over her room. She let me borrow Slippery When Wet and I put 'Raise Your Hands' on the very first mixtape I ever made for myself. |
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Post by goodson on Aug 26, 2022 8:13:39 GMT -6
monasterymonochrome you should give "ono djevwe" by chief sally young and "alo alo, comp va?" by jorge ben a listen, i think you'd like them
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Post by scoots on Aug 26, 2022 8:18:37 GMT -6
My neighbor was a huge Aerosmith fan and let me borrow his Angel single when I was like 6 for some reason? I loved that song at the time, but holy shit this video
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Post by ten15 on Aug 26, 2022 8:54:29 GMT -6
My list is up if you are interested in a peek into "Ten15 - The Formative Years".  |
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Post by zircona1 on Aug 26, 2022 9:07:31 GMT -6
My list is up if you are interested in a peek into "Ten15 - The Formative Years". Oooh, I forgot that Ice-T's 'Freedom of Speech...Watch What You Say' was an 80's album, that'll probably be on my list. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 9:36:43 GMT -6
monasterymonochrome you should give "ono djevwe" by chief sally young and "alo alo, comp va?" by jorge ben a listen, i think you'd like them Hell yea - will add them to my docket |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 9:42:06 GMT -6
 One of the more forward thinking hip hop records from the late 80s, and one that has been pretty underrated in the subsequent decades. Maybe because the group itself didn't have the staying power of their contemporaries? This was Kool Keith's come up, but - though he's a legend - he's very much enshrined in the underground canon. He sounds awesome here tho, true to form with off-kilter, off-rhythm flows and the occasional eyebrow-raising surrealist lyric. I'm less sold on the MC-style of Ced-Gee, the other main member of the group, he sounds good, but he also sounds like... well.. a late-80s rapper in terms of style and content. That said, he crushes the production on here, which is the real star of the show. This thing is positively littered with slick, funk samples. There's so much James Brown on here that it feels like he should be on the cover too. Unsurprisingly, the Bomb Squad cite this as a major inspiration, and it still sounds fresh in 2022. Can't imagine how wild it sounded in 1988. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 10:55:28 GMT -6
 The #1 album on 1015's list! He could probably do a better job talking Pixies than me, then, but I also really like this record. I love love love how fearlessly they put together a record full of massive (well, indie-massive) hits and weird-ass songs. I may not love each individual offering, but it makes such a compelling tapestry that it easily wins me over. Like, how many records can say they laid the foundation for fuckin' Nirvana (Gouge Away!)and early-era Modest Mouse (Silver!)? Not many, I'd reckon. I'm not the first to say it, but the MVP here is the menacing, thick bass playing of one Kim Deal. They make the perfect throughline for a sonically varied album - and a welcome anchor for Black Francis' unpredictable yelps. Very, very cool album. Oh yeah, and Debaser is on the shortlist for Best 80s rock tracks. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 11:19:25 GMT -6
 This is my favorite rap record from the 80s. Everything about it is on point. Erick and PMD sound like the two coolest dudes in the world - not afraid to buck the trend of energized, animated MCs from the late 80s and keep themselves cool and collected. That type of nonchalant, relaxed but precise flow is my personal favorite (see: Q-Tip, Guru, etc), and this is where it all comes from. There's also not a weak track on the entire album - with bold sampling grabbing from classic rock (Steve Miller on "You're A Customer"; Clapton on the title track; even ZZ Top shows up on here) as well as classic funk. I actually showed my dad "You're A Customer" once to explain to him what sampling was. He liked it! So yeah, a magnificent record. Concise, no wasted time - and the cultivation of a perfect vibe. EPMD are legends. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 11:42:44 GMT -6
 Liquid Liquid, aka the most influential band that James Murphy didn't shout out in "Losing My Edge." Seriously, just listen to this ( Optimo - it's only 13 minutes long and it's wildly innovative on so much dance music (and especially LCD music) to follow. Wild polyrhythms all over the place, layers on layers of percussion (inspired by the salsa music they heard pouring out of NYC apartments in the late 70s), and basslines to catchy and inscrutable that Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel infamously ripped off their track "Cavern" for their 1983 hit "White Lines." Spotify shuffled on ESG after I finished this listen, and any fan of one should immediately check out the other. Two legends in the alt-disco scene. And two essential records. |
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Post by clouddead on Aug 26, 2022 11:45:44 GMT -6
I was thinking about this recently and I think my favorite sample ever might be Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz sampling Steely Dan
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 11:49:34 GMT -6
I was thinking about this recently and I think my favorite sample ever might be Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz sampling Steely Dan Damn, Fagen and Becker took 100% of the publishing royalties over this. Brutal. Similarly, I love De La's "Eye Know" also sampling The Dan |
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Post by nanatod on Aug 26, 2022 12:42:51 GMT -6
I've put 32 albums from the 1980s in order in the other thread; there's no way I could list 100, maybe 35-40 if I had a couple more weeks.
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 12:45:52 GMT -6
 Probably my second favorite hip hop record of the 80s? Idk it'll be close between this, Nation of Millions... and Three Feet High and Rising. I'm having a hard time thinking about any album that's as fun to listen to as Paul's Boutique tho. Major credits, of course, to the Dust Brothers whose work here basically invented plunderphonics. But the Beasties are all over the place - non-stop energy, call-and-responses, absurd storytelling (Egg Man!!!), and bizarro insults (ahem.. "I was making records when you were still sucking your mother's dick"). It's just so fuckin' good. Also, speaking of samples - "The Sounds of Science" has to have the best Beatles flip I've ever heard. Thank god this record came out just before sampling got regulated to shit. Oh yeah, this is also probably my wife's favorite album of all time - so it scores extra points there too. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 12:48:09 GMT -6
Two more notes: 1.) I used to drop "5 Piece Chicken Dinner" into my radio shows at WHPK when I was doing mostly country/folk stuff. 2.) I went looking for the Paul's Boutique corner a few years ago and stumbled on this deliriously terrible mural. These mfers look like Kraftwerk.  |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 12:53:51 GMT -6
Also, by my count, I've written up 103 albums on here now. Not sure I'll hit my personal goal of reviewing everything on my Top 100 before the deadline (have 19 left, I think), but this has been a super fun exercise. Thanks for putting up with all this spam lmao.
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Post by zircona1 on Aug 26, 2022 13:43:03 GMT -6
I was involved in a car accident in 2009. I hit a van from the rear at a stoplight. My car was totaled. The newly released, remastered CD edition of Paul's Boutique was playing when it happened. The next day at the salvage yard, I removed the stereo and eventually took it apart piece by piece to get the CD out of there.
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Post by Pale Hose on Aug 26, 2022 14:16:28 GMT -6
My neighbor was a huge Aerosmith fan and let me borrow his Angel single when I was like 6 for some reason? I loved that song at the time, but holy shit this video They wrote this song just to be a radio single. It wasn't about anything or anyone real, so they don't like it and no longer play it live. It worked though, this was their highest charting single (#3) until they finally got a #1 hit with "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing". |
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Post by goodson on Aug 26, 2022 14:36:35 GMT -6
pauls boutique p easily the best rap album ot 80s for me
rakim is good at rapping or whatever but pb would sound nutso even if it dropped today
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 26, 2022 20:12:22 GMT -6
"alo alo, comp va?" by jorge ben One track into this and I'm already thinking about clearing a spot for it on my list |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 27, 2022 9:43:43 GMT -6
 New Order is one of *the* quintessential 80s bands, but honestly they work better as a singles band. And I don't think that's a particularly controversial opinion, considering the massive success of "Blue Monday" and their singles compilation Substance (which I debated considering for my list, but decided to keep it to traditional albums). That said, Power, Corruption, and Lies is a classic nonetheless. It features probably their best song, Age of Consent, and a panoply of other synth-forward bangers (Your Silent Face, Leave Me Alone, The Village). The synth sounds on Your Silent Face so lovely - truly like a majestic, soft carpet. Honestly, it sounds more new age than new wave. Now an anecdote: One of my college bands was practicing on stage at the uni's arts center (they'd moved the only drumset there for a performance that night). We were messing around with "Age of Consent" and my guitarist kept insisting it was a Joy Division song. I was like, nah man, it's New Order - but he was kind of a tool and didn't believe me. Then some dude setting up sound in the dark auditorium just yelled out of the dark: "He's right! It's New Order!" Sweet vindication. |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 27, 2022 9:57:01 GMT -6
 Look, give me a chunky punk riff, some aggro hi-hat forward hardcore drums, and a bunch of dudes going "WooOOOooAAAAaaaOOOOOHHHHH" and I'm gonna like it. It's really that simple. And the Woooaaaooohh quotient is absolutely off-the-charts here. So I'm willing to listen to songs about martians and zombies and vampires. In fact, I welcome it. WWOOOOOOAAAAOOOOOOAAAHOOOOOAAHHHOOOOOOOOHHHH |
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Post by monasterymonochrome on Aug 28, 2022 7:48:20 GMT -6
 I enjoy some Birthday Party tracks, and bits of early Cave records like From Her To Eternity, but this is his first record that I really love. Maybe because he scales back the chaos (relatively lmao) and makes the driving piano the focal point of his arrangements. But the chaotic moments here are fucking masterclasses. "The Mercy Seat," I mean, what a wholly perfect song. One of Cave's most harrowing and compelling songs in a discography littered with tracks very fitting of those superlatives. "City of Refuge" is another great bombastic track - and another one that highlights how he's maybe less focuses on being shocking and more about creating the absurdist southern gothic soundscapes that he would perfect in the 90s. But I also love the quiet murmurs of unease filtering through tracks like "Mercy" or "Watching Alice." All in all, it's an essential listen. |
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Post by nanatod on Aug 28, 2022 8:23:17 GMT -6
the only time I saw cave & the bad seeds, at metro, he hadn't yet recorded or released tender prey
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