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Urban75 Album of the Year 1981

belboid

Exasperated, not angry.
Come on baby, Start Me Up and Let's Groove. It's time for you to be Making Your Mind Up about surely the greatest year in musical history, 1981. Yup, that year when you were fourteen, your tastes and values were being hotwired into you and when, if Alex looked at you when that song was playing... it would be lodged in your brain forever.

Although that may just have been me.

Here we go again (not to be confused with the Whitesnake song, which came out the following year). Synth pop, the scouse invasion, post-punk and a bunch of other shit. Do we dare to vote for some Wilder Killers? I shall take your answers at Face Value, without consideration for where you think Heaven is, or how long you have had No Sleep. From the Penthouse to the Pavement (no, not that one either) your choices will be taken on Trust.

Please submit ten (or more, I dont care) for me, preferably without any numerical sequencing and in the format Artist -Album. I believe I said by the 31st, midnight thereof.

I should also add, that while compilations are not acceptable, rerecording's of old songs in a brand new format most definitely is, so I am expecting this to be our final top choice.

 
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B.E.F. - Music For Stowaways
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Dread Beat An' Blood
Throbbing Gristle - Funeral in Berlin
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
 
B.E.F. - Music For Stowaways
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Dread Beat An' Blood
Throbbing Gristle - Funeral in Berlin
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club

Like the cut of your jib, but sadly wrong. Please refer to post 2 with reference to coded message in post 1.
 
B.E.F. - Music For Stowaways
Brian Eno & David Byrne - My Life in the Bush of Ghosts
Cabaret Voltaire - The Voice of America
Cabaret Voltaire - Red Mecca
Einstürzende Neubauten - Kollaps
Funkadelic - The Electric Spanking of War Babies
Grace Jones - Nightclubbing
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement
Kraftwerk - Computer World
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Dread Beat An' Blood
Throbbing Gristle - Funeral in Berlin
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
Fuggin' heck. Only one of them has a hope of making it into my top ten, but every one is bloody brilliant.
 
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I thought 1979 and 1980 were great years. Hating 1981 though. I suppose Life In the Bush of Ghosts and This Heat's Deceit are pretty good and I'm sure I'll dig out something.
 
Die Partei - La freiheit des geistes
Discogs says "German offbeat techno-industrial project by the duo of Tom Dokoupil (of The Wirtschaftswunder, Siluetes 61, etc.) and Walter Dahn (painter, photographer and sound artist)." Never heard of them but this a great album of german electronics.
 
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Craig Leon - Nommos
Craig Leon had worked with Blondie and the Ramones before, this was his first solo album.
 
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david borden - music for amplified keyboard instruments

exactly what you'd expect from the title - minimalist synth excursions

 
Was just about to post that. Great album - been checking out the Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Company stuff from the 70s too.
 
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Featuring Holger Czukay and Jaki Liebezeit (Can), Robert Gröl (DAF), produced by Conny Plank, obviously Annie Lennox singing and Dave Stewart doing whatever it is that Dave Stewart does. Sounds nothing like anything else they did.

 
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