Urban75 Album of the Year 1983

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What an absolute fucking banger. This can rock any dancefloor today. I can't imagine the damage it would have done in 1983

Livy Ekemezie - Friday Night

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And the rest of the album has the same energy. Essential!

Was just listening to that after seeing it mentioned in this [it was re-released on their label a few years ago] -

which I was watching after listening to this 1983 album - Odion Iruoje - Down to Earth

 

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Eleni Vitali - Vara Mou To Defi

 

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Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made Of This

You've probably heard the title track too many times (if such a thing is possible), so remind yourself how great the rest of it is...

 

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Everyone at school loved it because it had that 'I saw your mommy and your mommy's dead' song but it's a uniquely charming album, still more punk than metal.

 

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Yello - Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess

When Yello are great they're great.

 

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Two Daniel Johnston albums and maybe the only two Daniel Johnston albums you really need. That's going to be hard to beat (Yip! Jump Music has to be the favourite for Casper, Worried Shoes, I Remember Painfully etc., amazing songs).

 

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Cabaret Voltaire shifted sound on The Crackdown from the paranoid industrial they'd pioneered, jumping into electro-funk instead.

 

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I don't think I'd heard of Philip Glass until I saw Koyaanisqatsi in my teens, fell in love with his score and been a fan ever since.


Did The Photographer also come out 1983? RYM & Discogs say so but Wiki says 1984.
I watched a beautiful summer solstice sunset this year with this playing, it was the perfect accompaniment.

 

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Sotiria Bellou - O Ai Laos

 

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Rebetiko (soundtrack from the film)

 

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Maria Bethânia - Ciclo

 

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Matt Johnson getting into his stride

 

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Two from the 2 this year

Parade your music credentials all you want but these were fire

 

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Prog heroes go all 80s with the help of Trevor Horn

 

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Dionysis Savopoulos - Trapezakia Exo

Got that on vinyl. Brilliant album

 

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Liked this mainly cos Thomas Dolby is on it, but it's alright

 

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Groundbreaking godlike genius

 

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Won't hear a word against it. A great pop/rock LP

 

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Hell, yes. Hard to believe it's 40 years ago.

 

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Also, her finest and freshest

 

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Rebetiko (soundtrack from the film)

The film is decent as well.

 

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Underrated and unfashionable ten years after the Bells, but have a real soft spots for this

 

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Almost the definition of all killer, no filler: There's only one duff track on this absolute monster from Roy Ayers. Total class, head bopping, dancefloor destroying jazz funk. I love this.

Roy Ayers - Silver Vibrations

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Good Good Music is so good (good). It's like a Sly Stone funk jam...it just never lets up. And the title track is heavyweight, but you can't overlook Chicago for what's gotta be one of the 'anthems' of this genre, if such a thing exists

 

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Actually, I need to post Good Good Music, too. What a tune! It's class throughout, but it might have one of the best outros I've ever heard.



Deserves your attention for the full 6 minute runtime.

 

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Actually, I need to post Good Good Music, too. What a tune! It's class throughout, but it might have one of the best outros I've ever heard.



Deserves your attention for the full 6 minute runtime.

I've never even heard of this album. Good. Good Music definately lives up to its name. It's a 100 megaton bomb of a tune

 

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Hell, yes. Hard to believe it's 40 years ago.

For some reason I'm seeing your YouTube as a greyed out rectangle, so just in case anyone skims past without clicking on it to notice it's a classic, classic pop album and giving it the love it deserves...

 

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Right, time to test the rules again, as is tradition.

Nightdubbing is a dub mix album of tunes from earlier Imagination albums (1981 and 1982). These versions that are more than just remixes...they're completely new tunes, I say.

Let's see what thread Führer decides

Imagination - Night Dubbing

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It's brilliant, btw. Sounds very modern. Obviously with the caveat that everything these days harks back to these times.

I bought that after hearing it in someone's car late at night when it came out . It's got some high points and tbf some low points where the ideas sound a little tired but you are right in some places reconstructs the originals.

 

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Another one that doesn't qualify for the list cos it's an EP, but SS Decontrol released Get It Away in 1983:

While fellow Bostoners The Proletariat had obviously been busy listening to a fair bit of Gang of Four, and got round to releasing an actual album:

Robert Christgau sez: The hardcore debut of 1983 doesn't sound very hardcore, which may not bode well for the movement--this is like a more rigorous, less cosmic PIL. There's a touch too much Geddy Lee in Richard Brown's vocals, but he sure doesn't think like Geddy Lee--avoiding tantrum and who-am-I?, these spare slogans are underpinned by actual left theory, though not much practice.

That review page also confirms that although the now-very-difficult-to-google Avengers broke up in 79, they didn't actually release a full-length record until 1983, but I'm not sure if it qualifies because a lot of it was previously released material, and also it may not qualify for anyone's best-of list because they were great in short bursts but wear a bit thin over the course of that album.

 

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Merle Haggard - That's the Way Love Goes

 

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Willie Nelson - Tougher Than Leather