19= Virginia Astley - From Gardens Where We Feel Secure
Not an artist I'm familiar with. Pastoral and relentless lovely.
Not an artist I'm familiar with. Pastoral and relentless lovely.
Urban75 Album of the Year 1983
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17 - ZZ Top - Eliminator
Yeah OK the one with Gimme all Your Lovin and Legs and Sharp Dressed Man. Basically the three songs they did everybody knows. I suspect the "real fans" hate it but they've got something going on here.
Yeah OK the one with Gimme all Your Lovin and Legs and Sharp Dressed Man. Basically the three songs they did everybody knows. I suspect the "real fans" hate it but they've got something going on here.
16 - Herbie Hancock - Future Shock
So cool that HH was a contender in both 1973 and 1983 and with such a different sound.
So cool that HH was a contender in both 1973 and 1983 and with such a different sound.
15 - Mad Professor - Dub Me Crazy 3: The African Connection and Escape to the Asylum of Dub: Dub Me Crazy Pt. 4
I may have fucked up. Erm, yeah. I've counted these together, so just pretend it's a double album.
They're both as dubby as promised.
I may have fucked up. Erm, yeah. I've counted these together, so just pretend it's a double album.
They're both as dubby as promised.
13 - ESG - Come Away with ESG
I'm not familiar with this group at all. Never even heard of them. More importantly I've never heard anything quite like it. It is the groovy shit that it is whatever it is. Thankyou the four of you who voted for this. It's amazing.
I'm not familiar with this group at all. Never even heard of them. More importantly I've never heard anything quite like it. It is the groovy shit that it is whatever it is. Thankyou the four of you who voted for this. It's amazing.
12 - Subhumans - The Day the Country Died
High energy hardcore. Lots of energy and I can hear what he's saying. I recon that's a good combination.
High energy hardcore. Lots of energy and I can hear what he's saying. I recon that's a good combination.
11 - Sonic Youth - Confusion is Sex
I can never quite get into this band. Liking this early entry into their back catalogue though. Noise rock before it was really a thing. Would have been properly alt in 1983.
I can never quite get into this band. Liking this early entry into their back catalogue though. Noise rock before it was really a thing. Would have been properly alt in 1983.
maomao
普費斯
I forgot who said, they wrote the book on ripping up the rule book.
Lots of metal for the top ten I reckon.
8 - Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
A forty minute lesson on how to make songs land. With added manic energy.
A forty minute lesson on how to make songs land. With added manic energy.
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7 - Cocteau Twins - Head over Heals
An amazingly lush sound for 1983. I guess this is the origins of that dream pop I keep hearing about.
An amazingly lush sound for 1983. I guess this is the origins of that dream pop I keep hearing about.
6 - The The - Soul Mining
Another pop-rock album with an impressively modern sound though their name belongs firmly in the pre-google age.
Another pop-rock album with an impressively modern sound though their name belongs firmly in the pre-google age.
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
One of the few albums in these lists that has a song I’ve actually heard live - Earl’s Court 1999
5 - Brian Eno with Daniel Lanois & Roger Eno - Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
This total classic of ambient music is only at no. 5.
This total classic of ambient music is only at no. 5.
4 - The Fall - Perverted by Language
Neighbourhood of Infinity. Garden. Smile. Those three songs. I've listened to this album for decades and I still don't know how to come to terms with them. The Fall's secret greatest album. Remember that time The Fall played Smile on the Tube? What the hell?
Neighbourhood of Infinity. Garden. Smile. Those three songs. I've listened to this album for decades and I still don't know how to come to terms with them. The Fall's secret greatest album. Remember that time The Fall played Smile on the Tube? What the hell?
3 - Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
Funkier end of Talking Heads. Worries up thread about this being overlooked have proved to be unfounded. Also has the best song in the world on it.
Funkier end of Talking Heads. Worries up thread about this being overlooked have proved to be unfounded. Also has the best song in the world on it.
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
Kajagoogoo?
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Wham! FTW
1 - Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
So I've now heard two Tom Waits albums. The first from 73 and this. And so yeah he went weird in the interim. Very interesting album, not sure what to make of it yet. Nine of you say it's great though.
So I've now heard two Tom Waits albums. The first from 73 and this. And so yeah he went weird in the interim. Very interesting album, not sure what to make of it yet. Nine of you say it's great though.
