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The least "rockist" of my lists. Not a lot of U2/R.E.M./Smiths here, instead the list is crowded with synthpop/New Romantics, at least as far as the first half of the decade goes:

1. Skylarking – XTC
2. Construction Time Again – Depeche Mode
3. Black Celebration – Depeche Mode
4. Temple Of Low Men – Crowded House
5. High Land Hard Rain – Aztec Camera
6. From Langley Park To Memphis – Prefab Sprout
7. Oranges And Lemons – XTC
8. Tin Drum – Japan
9. Quick Step & Sidekick – Thompson Twins
10. Some Great Reward – Depeche Mode
11. Rio – Duran Duran
12. Scoundrel Days – a-ha
13. So – Peter Gabriel
14. Imperial Bedroom – Elvis Costello & The Attractions
15. Sitting In The Park – Gangway
16. Hearts And Bones – Paul Simon
17. Psonic Sunspot – Dukes Of Stratosphear
18. 7 – Madness
19. Gentlemen Take Polaroids – Japan
20. Argybargy – Squeeze
21. Cupid & Psyche ’85 – Scritti Politti
22. Strength – The Alarm
23. Tug Of War – Paul McCartney
24. Spike – Elvis Costello
25. Flowers In The Dirt – Paul McCartney
26. The Visitors – ABBA
27. East Side Story – Squeeze
28. Romancing In The Dark – Freiheit
29. The Golden Age Of Wireless – Thomas Dolby
30. The Rise And Fall – Madness
31. Juba Juba – Knudsen & Ludvigsen
32. Lexicon Of Love – ABC
33. Sound Affects – The Jam
34. Dare – Human League
35. Quiet Life – Japan
36. Peter Gabriel (3) – Peter Gabriel
37. Deface The Music – Utopia
38. Sunday People – The Monroes
39. The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses
40. Mummer – XTC
41. Time – Electric Light Orchestra
42. Fantasy – Freiheit
43. A Kind Of Magic – Queen
44. A Broken Frame – Depeche Mode
45. Head On The Door – The Cure
46. Hounds Of Love – Kate Bush
47. Crowded House – Crowded House
48. Script For a Jester’s Tear – Marillion
49. Steve McQueen – Prefab Sprout
50. Peter Gabriel (4) – Peter Gabriel

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 March 2003 10:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Sinitta - Sinitta

― j0e (j0e), Thursday, 13 March 2003 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Wot no Djschingis Khan?

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 13 March 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

'The Flat Earth' DESTROYS 'Wireless'. 'Wireless' is good, true, (Anyone else catch the blatant "Submarines" sample on that Aphex Twin CD with 'Come to Daddy' etc on it?) but "She Blinded Me" is just unbearable. As is 'Hyperactive', but that one's on the end (whereas 'Science' is the lead track!), and the rest of 'FE' is just bliss. "I can't read/ my own writing"

― dave q, Thursday, 13 March 2003 11:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Geir's charts will be all that remains of the internet in 1000 years time - they will prove fascinating evidence of 21st century musical and cultural tastes in mass society to future civilisations

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 13 March 2003 12:06 (twenty-three years ago)

"The Flat Earth" is too "hi-NRG" for my taste. Too many digital synths. I prefer the old analog sound. Plus stuff like "Hyperactive" is considerably less melodic than his best early stuff too.

As for "Dschingis Khan", they were 1979, but they weren't quite close to my 70s list either. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 March 2003 12:29 (twenty-three years ago)

No 80s album list is complete without Upstairs at Erics.

― russ t, Thursday, 13 March 2003 12:58 (twenty-three years ago)

'Too many digital synths. I prefer the old analog sound'

???? 'Flat Earth' has mainly 'real instruments' on it! Don't mean to get all contentious on this point but 'FE' is just such a neglected classic, needs all the props I can give it! "Screen Kiss" HI-NRG? WTF!? That song, like, makes me DIE

― dave q, Thursday, 13 March 2003 13:37 (twenty-three years ago)

???? 'Flat Earth' has mainly 'real instruments' on it!

I thought they were all samples. Although they do sound like real instruments.

I prefer Thomas Dolby without "real instruments".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 March 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

"Upstairs At Eric's" is a great album btw. Very close to entering my Top 50.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 13 March 2003 16:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Rescue the jam from that list of dreck

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 13 March 2003 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

and insert the style council

― girl scout heroin (iamamonkey), Thursday, 13 March 2003 23:20 (twenty-three years ago)

geir has gone on record as being against digital synths and against real instruments when it comes to thomas dolby.

― dan (dan), Thursday, 13 March 2003 23:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Please disregard this imposter's thread. The Real 80s action is HERE!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Right!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Begone Thou FOUL tags!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:06 (twenty-three years ago)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:09 (twenty-three years ago)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:10 (twenty-three years ago)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Its amazing how much frustration you can cause yourself when fighting with a syntax checker and a missing < /FONT > tag

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 14 March 2003 00:15 (twenty-three years ago)

You secretly really enjoyed that, Custos.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Friday, 14 March 2003 08:54 (twenty-three years ago)

no pixies, smiths, sonic youth or butthole surfers. geir, you disappoint me!

― weasel diesel (K1l14n), Friday, 14 March 2003 10:29 (twenty-three years ago)

An 80s list devoid of Fishbone and They Might Be Giants is not an 80s list.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone else prefer this font?

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:56 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah it is easier on the eyes

― robin (robin), Friday, 14 March 2003 14:59 (twenty-three years ago)

no pixies, smiths, sonic youth or butthole surfers. geir, you disappoint me!

The 80s were a bad decade for guitar bands. Most of the best music of the 80s (particularly the first half) was synth based.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 14 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

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