This was difficult: 60's: Let It Bleed - Rolling Stones 70's: Ramones - Ramones 80's: Licensed to ill - Beastie Boys (closely followed by Flaunt It - Sigue Sigue Sputnik) 90's: We May Be Skinny and Wirey - The Crocketts 00's: Shut Up - Kelly Osbourne | |
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I'm really surprised by how many people list Thriller as their favourite album of the 80s. By all means, it's a great album, but I think that Bad is even better because MJ was more involved creatively in it. Of course, sales-wise, Bad did worse than Thriller, but you can't appeal to everyone. full lips, freckles, and upturned nose | |
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FullLipsDotNose said: I'm really surprised by how many people list Thriller as their favourite album of the 80s. By all means, it's a great album, but I think that Bad is even better because MJ was more involved creatively in it. Of course, sales-wise, Bad did worse than Thriller, but you can't appeal to everyone. Bad would be a close third for me (if we're discounting all Prince albums) but for me, Thriller is as close to perfect as anyone could realistically get. Well, replace The Girl Is Mine with Hot Street and it IS perfect. But Bad, though brilliant in itself, has a few songs that are only very good, rather than great. Of course, it's all personal taste, but Thriller is easily the best non Prince album of the 80's for me. Get rid of the Paul McCartney song and it might even be the greatest album of all time | |
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60's: The Beatles - Revolver 70's: Frank Zappa - One Size Fits All 80's: The Stone Roses - Stone Roses 90's: The Boo Radleys - C'mon Kids 00's: Arctic Monkeys - Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not
The world's problems like climate change can only be solved through strategic long-term thinking, not expediency. In other words all the govts. need sacking!
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Really good choice! Right up there as one of greatest albums ever The world's problems like climate change can only be solved through strategic long-term thinking, not expediency. In other words all the govts. need sacking!
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Glad to see that someone else here is giving this album some love. REM seems awfully neglected on this boad when people are talking about the greats. They had such an impressive run! | |
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60s: You Got My Mind Messed Up - James Carr
70s: (a REALLY prolific decade, hard to choose just one...) Court and Spark - Joni Mitchell OR Head to the Sky - EWF
80s: Nightclubbing - Grace Jones OR Promise - Sade
90s: (another really prolific decade!) The Velvet Rope - Janet
00s: Emancipation of Mimi - Mariah Carey OR Now - Maxwell
10s: Chamber Music Society - Esperanza Spalding OR Choose Your Weapon - Hiatus Kaiyote
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FullLipsDotNose said: I'm really surprised by how many people list Thriller as their favourite album of the 80s. By all means, it's a great album, but I think that Bad is even better because MJ was more involved creatively in it. Of course, sales-wise, Bad did worse than Thriller, but you can't appeal to everyone. It was impossible to improve the sales of Thriller. I guess this was the main problem with Michael Jackson: he made the best selling album of all time and there's no way you could ever top that. Yet he kept trying. That's his greatets tragedy. And that's why Prince was greater than Jackson: he never tried to "top" his last album, he just went on to the next...whether it sold a shitload or not... And he toured his ass off... | |
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I love that album specially Fly Like A Bird. | |
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Indeed, specially because it limited his artistic development in some way. | |
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NorthC said: FullLipsDotNose said: I'm really surprised by how many people list Thriller as their favourite album of the 80s. By all means, it's a great album, but I think that Bad is even better because MJ was more involved creatively in it. Of course, sales-wise, Bad did worse than Thriller, but you can't appeal to everyone. It was impossible to improve the sales of Thriller. I guess this was the main problem with Michael Jackson: he made the best selling album of all time and there's no way you could ever top that. Yet he kept trying. That's his greatets tragedy. And that's why Prince was greater than Jackson: he never tried to "top" his last album, he just went on to the next...whether it sold a shitload or not... And he toured his ass off... Are we talking about sales or music? FOOLS multiply when WISE Men & Women are silent. | |
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60s Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band 70s Led Zeppelin IV 80s The Smiths 90s Crazy Sexy Cool or The Chronic 00s The Fame Monster
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Graycap23 said: NorthC said: It was impossible to improve the sales of Thriller. I guess this was the main problem with Michael Jackson: he made the best selling album of all time and there's no way you could ever top that. Yet he kept trying. That's his greatets tragedy. And that's why Prince was greater than Jackson: he never tried to "top" his last album, he just went on to the next...whether it sold a shitload or not... And he toured his ass off... Are we talking about sales or music? Both. | |
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I played this a couple of weeks ago. I've been listening to them regularly since their reunion tour began early last year. I think they're still on tour, or at least they still were in February 2017. I hope they make a new record. You can take a black guy to Nashville from right out of the cotton fields with bib overalls, and they will call him R&B. You can take a white guy in a pin-stripe suit who’s never seen a cotton field, and they will call him country. ~ O. B. McClinton | |
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