Urban75 Album of the Year 1983

[Spandex]

Oh but then again...





(actually its pretty good but I don't expect to take many with me here!)

If you're going there, then allow me to retort with Motley Crüe's joyously stupid sleaze metal on Shout at the Devil...

 

[mojo pixy]

If you're going there, then allow me to retort with Motley Crüe's joyously stupid sleaze metal on Shout at the Devil...

lol even at the height of its power, we can already see metal is doomed to end up as Nirvana

 

[ska invita]

Spinal Tap and Bad News were being written in 1983...came out in 84

 

[ska invita]

Talking of Miles Davis there is this but not heard it yet

This live set featuring tracks from the album is better than the album IMO


this is even better - really enjoyed these jams - not sure if its based on any of the material off the album thought it is 83

 

[AverageJoe]

You metalheads all remember this one...

 

[AverageJoe]

And this.

 

[AverageJoe]

Emo before Emo was Emo.



True story. I once memorized all the lyrics to a Marillion song and wrote them out word for word in an English test.

I got an A

 

[Hollis]

Following the departure of "Fast" Eddie Clarke - Motorhead rock on with Brian "Robbo" Robertson and "Another Perfect Day"



Lemmy's thoughts on the album:

"Recording Another Perfect Day was fucking torture. Brian, he'd take seventeen hours doin' a guitar track. It fuckin' took so long compared with the other albums. And then when it was released everybody fucking hated it."

 

[Hollis]

I can't honestly say i was massively into hip-hop, but this was quite big in the 4th year at school:



Released October 83: on the compilation album Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five

 

[ska invita]

the tune white lines samples came out in 83

Liquid Liquid - Optimo

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its a great 4 track minialbum EP tbh

 

[ska invita]

Top Notch Dennis Brown LP this - loads of classic tunes inc Easy Take It Easy, Satisfaction Feeling, Praise Without Raise and the big anthem Don't Want To Be No General

Dennis Brown - Satisfaction Feeling

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and this a great DJ rubadub LP album - full Ribbit! and Bim! business
rrrright

Jah Batta - Argument

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[Idris2002]

Following the departure of "Fast" Eddie Clarke - Motorhead rock on with Brian "Robbo" Robertson and "Another Perfect Day"



Lemmy's thoughts on the album:

"Recording Another Perfect Day was fucking torture. Brian, he'd take seventeen hours doin' a guitar track. It fuckin' took so long compared with the other albums. And then when it was released everybody fucking hated it."

 

[hitmouse]

I don't know if you're interested in theory/analysis but here's something saying something about Blister in the Sun

I reckon I'd be quite up for that if it was a written article, but I struggle to find enthusiasm for a 17-minute video about a 2-minute song.

 

[Knotted]

I reckon I'd be quite up for that if it was a written article, but I struggle to find enthusiasm for a 17-minute video about a 2-minute song.

I've watched that video more times than I've listened to the song.

 

[hitmouse]

A classic bit of crusty US hardcore from Crucifix:


If nothing else, notable for how he weirdly manages to pronounce "arms production" to sound like "orange production" at the start.

 

[hitmouse]

You can all vote for The Day the Country Died now.

Apparently From The Cradle to the Grave and the Evolution and Time Flies... EPs were all 83 as well. Busy year for the Subhumans!

 

[hitmouse]

And not Conflict's finest moment, but It's Time to See Who's Who was 83 as well:

 

[SpookyFrank]

I don't know if you're interested in theory/analysis but here's something saying something about Blister in the Sun

Is it supposed to be 'deep' though? It's just a fucking rollicking tune and I seriously doubt whoever made that video has ever or will ever come up with anything better.

 

[Knotted]

Is it supposed to be 'deep' though? It's just a fucking rollicking tune and I seriously doubt whoever made that video has ever or will ever come up with anything better.

Indeed, that's what the thumbnail says. But how did they create a fucking rollicking tune? edit: it's not saying what you think it's saying, it's analysis not criticism.

 

[Indeliblelink]

Couple of nice Hi-NRG albums from Motion.

Motion - Don't Stop

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Motion - Gotta Keep On Dancin'

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[Indeliblelink]

Couple of dub poetry ones
MUTABARUKA - Check It!

Benjamin Zephaniah - Rasta

 

[hitmouse]

Wait, have we had Earth AD yet? (This one is definitely a proper album.)

 

[hitmouse]

Trying to get through albums that I feel I should have opinions on but don't know well enough to vote on/for, I think I'll leave Slayer and Metallica until they properly find their feet a few years later. Trying Daniel Johnston now, but even with my thoroughly Shaggs/Beat Happening-trained ears I think it'll take a bit of effort to get into this.

 

[Idris2002]

I was going to comment that this one hasn't exactly set the forum alight the way the 1973 thread did. I think that this is a sign of things "beginning their descent". Love it or hate The Dark Side of the Moon was an incredible development in a genre that had started with Elvis and Jerry Lee et al - and that development took place in less than 20 years. And not only that, there's been nothing like it since.

Which is why the feeling of being spoilt for choice that we had in the 1973 is absent here, and I can't really work up the same enthusiasm for this one.

 

[hitmouse]

I was going to comment that this one hasn't exactly set the forum alight the way the 1973 thread did. I think that this is a sign of things "beginning their descent". Love it or hate The Dark Side of the Moon was an incredible development in a genre that had started with Elvis and Jerry Lee et al - and that development took place in less than 20 years. And not only that, there's been nothing like it since.

Which is why the feeling of being spoilt for choice that we had in the 1973 is absent here, and I can't really work up the same enthusiasm for this one.

Completely the opposite here! Guessing you're not big into hiphop or house/techno?

 

[Idris2002]

Completely the opposite here! Guessing you're not big into hiphop or house/techno?

I can see why hiphop is important, but house/techno never did anything for me.

 

[hitmouse]

Tbf, I suppose I don't think of them as being album-listening genres either (house and techno, not hiphop). But just from listening to 1983 albums on this thread that I don't know as well as I should, there's Heaven 17 with the Luxury Gap, Cocteau Twins with Head Over Heels, Daniel Johnston with Hi How Are You and Tom Waits with Swordfishtrombones, none of them really feel like they're just retreads of styles that were already familiar in 83, all seem like they would (as far as I can tell from this vantage point) have been doing something pretty new at the time.

 

[maomao]

Tbf, I suppose I don't think of them as being album-listening genres either (house and techno, not hiphop). But just from listening to 1983 albums on this thread that I don't know as well as I should, there's Heaven 17 with the Luxury Gap, Cocteau Twins with Head Over Heels, Daniel Johnston with Hi How Are You and Tom Waits with Swordfishtrombones, none of them really feel like they're just retreads of styles that were already familiar in 83, all seem like they would (as far as I can tell from this vantage point) have been doing something pretty new at the time.

I was reading contemporary reviews of Swordfishtrombones the other day and they all accuse him of ripping off Beefheart.

 

[marty21]

Mine is in - did it on the basis of what I liked at the time - not retrospectively.

 

[hitmouse]

Also, since no-one's mentioned Speaking in Tongues by Talking Heads yet, worth mentioning the best song in the world is from an album that came out in 1983.