when i say good 80's album i mean something really rockin or some nice dance pop or some funk or some shit but 80's please

avant-garage rock filled with gigantic hooks that would have been a huge hit in a just universe.
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it hardly gets more '80s than this, though you could pair this with a greatest hits album by the band VISAGE and have a totally gnarly time.

Posthumous said:

not to get all nit-picky, but wouldn't a lot of these songs date from the seventies?

it's still a cool recommendation. I have a Numan compilation tucked away somewhere that I haven't listened to in years. I used to really like doing the robot to My Shadow in Vain.

damosuzuki said:

well, yeah...you're right...but i'd recommend this over one of his studio albums to someone new to gary. everything on his GH is so tight, and he's not exactly a stranger to filler on some of his albums.

damosuzuki said:

That's the one with the should-have-been-a-hit Big Decision I've seen them in concert in 1993.
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jn2 said:

Damned right it should have been a hit. That riff was huge, gigantic, enormous, and the rest of the album's almost as good.

JANFAN4L said:

Only thing I remember from them was Happy Birthday, that was the jump off.

lilgish said:

You really should explore this album. It's Altered Images at their most mature and artistic. Clare Grogan is going to town with the vocals. Tracks like "Don't Talk To Me About Love", "Bring Me Closer" and "Love To Stay" are downright gorgeous. It was recently digitally remastered with retrospective commentary, bonus outtakes and extended mixes. Highly recommended.

Get Your Hands on any of the Tones on Tail stuff.

I'm a big fan of Collapsing New People, but I just heard the rest of this album, good stuff.

From an Amazon review:
The British pop scene was mostly dominated by synth-pop in the 1980s, but occasionally you had a band who rose above the norm by introducing a more soulful bent to their sound, the fact that most of them were white notwithstanding. ABC, Style Council, Go West, Cutting Crew & Simply Red (even if they didn't fall into the synth-pop category) were good examples of soul-pop from England that was truly worthy of the soul part of that equation. Hipsway was another such band, but because of their only one hit single, they've been forgotten except for really & truly fervent fans of pop music (yours truly included). Their 1986 self-titled debut was a masterpiece of white-boy soul that deserved a bigger chance by the fickle music-buying public.

With Roxy Music (a definite inspiration to 1980s synth- & soul-pop) defunct by the early 1980s, they still seemed to be the standard by which other soundalike & lookalike bands aspired to, with a sophisticated, squeaky-clean image & a singer doing his best Bryan Ferry impression. But for my money, Hipsway lead singer Grahame Skinner did the best job at it. HIPSWAY is mostly made up of ballads & midtempo numbers that Bryan Ferry could easily have given his distinctive treatment to. "Bad Thing Longing", "Long White Car", "Tinder" (with its film noir-ish horn section) & "Forbidden" (probably about a May-December romance) are songs where Skinner comes on oh-so-smoothly with a voice that will melt any woman's heart.

But it's on the uptempo numbers that Hipsway proves themselves the equal of any 1980s R&B band. "The Honeythief" was their only hit single, peaking at #19 in America. This white boys' version of hardcore funk (without losing the polish, of course) was also a hit in the dance clubs & I'm sure even Americans couldn't resist the urge to get down. "Ask The Lord", "The Broken Years" (I have no clue what this song is about), "Upon A Thread" & "Set This Day Apart" (who knew the English gave birth to great horn players?) are other songs (but not as fierce as "The Honeythief") that will make even the most staid listener do what the band's name claims.
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Einstürzende Neubauten - Haus Der Lüge



Esplendor Geométrico - La Zona



Coil - Horse Rotorvator

I was mostly thinking in terms of horses this time...

Sweetheart by rainy Davis is the shit! You can find it on Amazon.

are these really obscure? I've never heard of any of these bands except Gary Numan.

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Novabreaker said:

I like that record. Not as much as LSD or some of their mid-late nineties stuff, but it's pretty darn cool. Who else besides these guys and Scott Walker are cool enough to write songs dedicated to Pasolini?
[Edited 3/6/06 19:55pm]

virgin prunes-if i die,i die..



the smiths-the smiths


christian death-only theatre of pain


cocteau twins-garlands


the jesus and mary chain-psychocandy



siouxsie and the banshees-hyenae

Janet Jackson's Control album. Every song is awesome!

npgmaverick said:

OH HELL YEAH! This one too!

Rick James - Street Songs
Cameo - Cameosis
Roger - The Many Facets Of Roger
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
Bootsy Collins - The One Giveth, The Count Taketh Away
Prince - Sign O' The Times
[Edited 3/7/06 6:58am]

Those are Great picks! In addition to those already mentioned, some others (it's too hard to pick one!):




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Xavier23 said:

This one has got all of that

Xavier23 said:

paligap listed:

wait... ..did I spot a Kaja-Goo-Goo album somwhere in there?!








seriously, I don't have that one, so I can't say anything about it. still your inclusion is enough to be sure that this is a worthy album

Dancelot said:

I'll admit to having this one...



...White Feathers


Nick Beggs was a bad boy on bass.


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