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Because it deserves a thread:

1. The Landscape Is Changing – Depeche Mode
2. Forbidden Colours – David Sylvian & Ryuchy Sakamoto
3. Told You So – Depeche Mode
4. The Bugle Calls Again – Aztec Camera
5. Sunday People – The Monroes
6. Fools – Depeche Mode
7. This Boy Wonders – Aztec Camera
8. Shipbuilding – Elvis Costello
9. René & Georgette Margritte With Their Dog After The War – Paul Simon
10. Walk Out To Winter – Aztec Camera
11. We Are Detective – Thompson Twins
12. Script For a Jester’s Tear – Marillion
13. Train In The Distance – Paul Simon
14. Great Fire – XTC
15. Two Minute Warning – Depeche Mode
16. Hold Me Now – Thompson Twins
17. 68 Guns – The Alarm
18. Home By The Sea – Genesis
19. All Of The Good Ones Are Taken – Ian Hunter
20. Everything Counts – Depeche Mode
21. Judy Do – Thompson Twins
22. The Late Great Johnny Ace – Paul Simon
23. Oblivious – Aztec Camera
24. Love On Your Side – Thompson Twins
25. New Moon On Monday – Duran Duran
26. Shame – Depeche Mode
27. It’s So Strong - Beranek
28. Hearts And Bones – Paul Simon
29. If You Were Here – Thompson Twins
30. Wrapped Around My Finger – The Police
31. What Is Love – Howard Jones
32. Radio Free Europe – R.E.M.
33. Walk Away From Love – Yazoo
34. Owner Of a Lonely Heart – Yes
35. Karma Chameleon – Culture Club
36. Human Touch – Rick Springfield
37. Wonderland – XTC
38. All Fall Out – Thompson Twins
39. And On – Yazoo
40. My Foolish Friend – Talk Talk
41. Down The Dip – Aztec Camera
42. More Than a Party – Depeche Mode
43. The Sun Goes Down – Level 42
44. Overkill – Men At Work
45. Blue Hat For a Blue Day – Nick Heyward
46. Whenever You’re On My Mind – Marshall Crenshaw
47. Move In Closer – The Monroes
48. True – Spandau Ballet
49. Mr. Blue – Yazoo
50. Wishful Thinking – China Crisis
51. I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me – Nik Kershaw
52. Nobody’s Diary – Yazoo
53. Forgotten Sons – Marillion
54. Mama – Genesis
55. Never Never – The Assembly
56. The Lovecats – The Cure
57. Love On a Farmboy’s Wages – XTC
58. Next Exit – Split Enz
59. New Song – Howard Jones
60. Love Lies Bleeding – Thompson Twins
61. Arabian Night – The Monroes
62. Tiger By The Tail – Rick Springfield
63. The Devil Has All The Best Tunes – Prefab Sprout
64. After a Fashion – Midge Ure & Mick Karn
65. The Stand – The Alarm
66. Talk About The Passion – R.E.M.
67. Stockholmsserenad – Adolphsson & Falk
68. Wherever I Lay My Hat (That’s My Home) – Paul Young
69. Christian – China Crisis
70. Turkish Takeaway – The Monroes
71. Love Of The Common People – Paul Young
72. It’s a Mistake – Men At Work
73. Never Stop – Echo & The Bunnymen
74. Every Breath You Take – The Police
75. Pipes Of Peace – Paul McCartney
76. Blue Monday – New Order
77. Softly Over – Yazoo
78. Come Live With Me – Heaven 17
79. Come Dancing – The Kinks
80. Garden Party – Marillion
81. The Sun And The Rain – Madness
82. Living In China – Men Without Hats
83. Heaven Sent – Paul Haig
84. Chelsea Monday – Marillion
85. Holiday – Madonna
86. Don’t Forget To Dance – The Kinks
87. Come Back And Stay – Paul Young
88. Everyday I Write The Book – Elvis Costello
89. Our Town – Marshall Crenshaw
90. Affair Of The Heart – Rick Springfield
91. Pipeline – Depeche Mode
92. If I Had You Back – The Rubinoos
93. The Web – Marillion
94. Only For Love – Limahl
95. Unmarked – Yazoo
96. Break My Stride – Matthew Wilder
97. Dr. Heckyll & Mr. Jive – Men At Work
98. Love In Itself – Depeche Mode
99. Love Is a Stranger – Eurythmics
100. Cath – The Bluebells

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 November 2004 03:36 (twenty-one years ago)

That's a pretty grim list

― ne-phil, Saturday, 27 November 2004 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

the goggles
they do nothing

― autovac (autovac), Saturday, 27 November 2004 03:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Cocteau Twins - "In the Gold Dust Rush" (x50)
The Chameleons - "Monkeyland" (x50)

*cheeky grin*

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 27 November 2004 03:58 (twenty-one years ago)

donut christ to thread!

― Matos W.K. (M Matos), Saturday, 27 November 2004 03:59 (twenty-one years ago)

You lose me with Marillion.

― maria b (maria b), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000003S1O.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:06 (twenty-one years ago)

The Landscape Is Changing – Depeche Mode

this is EASILY one of the WORST things depeche mode ever did. and i LIKE early depeche mode (i.e., the stuff before some great reward)!

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:14 (twenty-one years ago)

This thread is making me feel wholly justified in my hatred of the 1980s.

― Hurting (Hurting), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

20. Everything Counts – Depeche Mode

Probably the best thing on this list.....apart from "Shipbuilding" and "Script for a Jester's Tear" (take THAT, Marilliion haterz!)

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, the best thing on this list -- and I defy anyone to argue is....

76. Blue Monday – New Order

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:31 (twenty-one years ago)

No "9-9"?
No "Laughing"?

Hell, every single song on Murmur should be on that list.

― Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:42 (twenty-one years ago)

"Whenever You're on My Mind" should be way higher

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hell, every single song on Murmur should be on that list.

ahem ...

66. Talk About The Passion – R.E.M.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 27 November 2004 04:56 (twenty-one years ago)

#32 also.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:13 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.theskyway.com/covers/hootenanny.jpg

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

the replacements = the anti-geir rock band.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the anti-geir rock band

not even "within yr reach"?

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i like "holiday" a bit more than "blue monday."

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing from Cop or Kill Yr Idols?

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 27 November 2004 06:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I hated "Holiday" then and I hate it now.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:13 (twenty-one years ago)

That's too bad.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't hate Madonna, I just think "Holiday" is some weak shit.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:17 (twenty-one years ago)

swordfishtrombones pwns your whole dealie.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Saturday, 27 November 2004 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Probably the whole reason I became obsessed with all things USA, REM included. (although I did dig Killing Joke)

Why IS there no Husker Du ? Or the 'Mats as mentioned above? You've missed Dirty Rotten Imbeciles and the Nip Drivers. Is there a reason for that? It's screaming out for some Die Kreuzen.

Seriously though, no Cocteau Twins. for fucks sake!

It hasn't even got 'Good Technology' by my home town band the Red Guitars. At least that song wasn't as ,erm, grim as most of the other stuff on the list

― hull hole (hull hole), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:40 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.gamechronicles.com/features/gtascarface/soundtrack.jpg

― MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Saturday, 27 November 2004 08:45 (twenty-one years ago)

This is almost a perfectly complementary 1983 than I had planned.

AWESOME!

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 27 November 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

(to Geir's that is, not the suggestions....)

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 27 November 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

No, seriously this is great... that means if there's anything I "forgot", I can just say "Well, Geir put it on his".. :) :) :)

― donut christ (donut), Saturday, 27 November 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tour de France"?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Saturday, 27 November 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

genetic engineering!

telegraph!

DAZZLE SHIPS!

that's three big OMD-shaped holes. the last of which should be around, ooh, the #1 mark.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 27 November 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Pointing out omissions in this list brings to mind purses and sows' ears.

― Alba (Alba), Saturday, 27 November 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

thing is, though, i love "construction time again" (except, heh, "the landscape is changing"); i adore yazoo; i even quite like "pipes of sodding peace". there's a lot of grimly fiendish in that list, you know. which makes the inexplicable omission of one of the greatest albums of the 1980s - hell, all time, let alone 198-sodding-3 - all the harder to take.

― grimly fiendish (grimlord), Saturday, 27 November 2004 16:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Talking Heads - "Burning Down The House"
Herbie Hancock - "Rockit"
Topps - Wade Boggs Rookie Card

― jack est moi, Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Despite my love for the 80s, I'm not familiar with most of these songs.

― Leelee, Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Never quite gotten into "Dazzle Ships" myself. Way too weird. Prefer earlier OMD.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 27 November 2004 21:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm.. "Rockit" probably should have been in my list, I must admit...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 November 2004 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

58. Next Exit – Split Enz - this is one of at least 13 songs that coulda been singles

― finn bros, Sunday, 28 November 2004 08:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never seen that Giorgio Moroder/Debbie Harry soundtrack thing. I wonder what that is.

Also, there is way too much Rick Springfield in that list.

― Bimble (bimble), Sunday, 28 November 2004 09:11 (twenty-one years ago)

From my knowledge "Next Exit" was a single. In fact, it was only a single, and wasn't included on any album.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 28 November 2004 11:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Confusion is Sex - Sonic Youth
Perverted by Language - the Fall
Sports - Huey Lewis

― autovac (autovac), Sunday, 28 November 2004 12:29 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

relatively speakinh 1983 was the worse year in music history.
that's why:
http://rateyourmusic.com/top_albums/year_is_1983

awful records, besides nice records, but not even one i would take to an isolated island.
the mid-80's were kinda bad, but 1983 is the lower point ever.

― should the stars shine after, Friday, 31 March 2006 23:04 (twenty years ago)

670. Michael Jackson/Paul McCartney: “The Girl Is Mine” [1.15.83]
671. Gap Band: “Outstanding” [2.5.83]
672. Michael Jackson: “Billie Jean” [2.12.83]*
673. George Clinton: “Atomic Dog” [4.16.83]
674. New Edition: “Candy Girl” [5.14.83]
675. Michael Jackson: “Beat It” [5.21.83]
676. Gladys Knight & the Pips: “Save the Overtime (For Me)” [5.28.83]
677. Mtume: “Juicy Fruit” [6.4.83]
678. Donna Summer: “She Works Hard for the Money” [7.30.83]
679. Aretha Franklin: “Get It Right” [8.20.83]
680. Rick James: “Cold Blooded” [9.3.83]
681. Rufus and Chaka Khan: “Ain’t Nobody” [10.15.83]
682. Lionel Richie: “All Night Long (All Night)” [10.22.83]
683. DeBarge: “Time Will Reveal” [12.10.83]

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Saturday, 1 April 2006 20:12 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Tonight at 10 on ITV!

10.00pm Now That's What I Call 1983

Denise Van Outen presents a nostalgic trip through the musical highlights of 1983. Heaven 17, Howard Jones, Nick Heywood, Paul Young, Ali Campbell, Kajagoogoo, Nik Kershaw and Tony Hadley perform their greatest hits in the studio, and there is a glance at the year's big events, including the release of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, the arrival of the compact disc and the advent of morning television.

― the pinefox, Friday, 21 November 2008 13:55 (seventeen years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Here's what I came up with:

Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything
Yes - Leave It
Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Everyday I Write The Book
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
The Human League - Fascination - Extended Remix
Joan Armatrading - Drop The Pilot
The Replacements - Color Me Impressed
Wham! - Young Guns (Go for It!)
Marshall Crenshaw - Whenever You're On My Mind
Tracey Ullman - They Don't Know
R.E.M. - Perfect Circle
New Order - Ultraviolence
The Rolling Stones - Undercover Of The Night
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Echo & the Bunnymen - The Cutter
Dave Edmunds - Slipping Away
Liquid Liquid - Cavern
Pylon - Crazy - Remastered
Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages
The Cure - The Lovecats
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
A Flock Of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
Dolly Parton,Kenny Rogers - Islands In the Stream
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Robert Plant - In the Mood
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Tears For Fears - Pale Shelter
Huey Lewis & The News - Heart And Soul
Madonna - Holiday
The Tubes - She's A Beauty
The Kinks - Come Dancing
Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love
Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
David Bowie - Cat People (Putting Out Fire)
Jo Boxers - Just Got Lucky
Fun Boy Three - Our Lips Are Sealed
XTC - Great Fire - 2001 Remaster
Eurythmics,Annie Lennox,Dave Stewart - Love Is a Stranger
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Ministry - Work for Love
Hüsker Dü - It's Not Funny Anymore
The Cucumbers - My Boyfriend
Jonathan Richman,The Modern Lovers - Give Paris One More Chance
ZZ Top - Legs
Red Rockers - China
Cocteau Twins - In Our Angelhood
The Greg Kihn Band - Talkin' to Myself
UB40 - Please Don't Make Me Cry
Marine Girls - Love to Know
John Mellencamp - Crumblin' Down
The Church - Disappear?
ESG - Dance
New Age Steppers - 5 Dog Race
Duran Duran - New Moon on Monday
The Smiths - Jeane
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
The Police - Synchronicity I
Brian Eno - An Ending (Ascent)
10,000 Maniacs - My Mother the War
The Go-Betweens - Cattle And Cane
Shannon - Let the Music Play
Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long
Lindsey Buckingham - Holiday Road
Heaven 17 - Let Me Go
Paul McCartney - So Bad
Midnight Star - Freak-a-Zoid
Kraftwerk - Tour de France
Dumptruck - Things Go Wrong
The Bangles - Talking in My Sleep
Lou Reed - Turn Out the Light
Dalek I Love You - The Mouse That Roared
Mtume - Hip Dip Skippedabeat
The Durutti Column - Bordeaux
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Telegraph
The Waitresses - Everything's Wrong If My Hair Is Wrong
Thompson Twins - If You Were Here
Spandau Ballet - Lifeline
Level 42 - Dance On Heavy Weather
Styx - Mr. Roboto
Trio - Out In The Streets
Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues
Caetano Veloso - A Outra Banda Da Terra - Remixed Original Album
Yazoo - Nobody's Diary
The Romantics - Open Up Your Door
KC & The Sunshine Band - Do It
The Plimsouls - How Long Will It Take
Rain Parade - What's She Done To Your Mind
The B-52's - Legal Tender
The Call - The Walls Came Down - Single Version
Sesame Street's Bruce Stringbean And The S Street Band - Born to Add
Terry Allen & The Panhandle Mystery Band - Oh What a Dangerous Life

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Wednesday, 9 July 2025 01:35 (eleven months ago)

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