1983 in music. • Page 3

Dude wails

 

1. U2 - War
2. R.E.M. - Murmur
3. Billy Joel - An Innocent Man

 

So far:

Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
Richard Thompson - Hand of Kindness
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band - Eddie and the Cruisers Soundtrack
Bob Dylan - Infidels
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
Wang Chung - Points on the Curve
Malcolm McLaren - Duck Rock
New Order - Power, Corruption, & Lies


Hoping to get in one or two tomorrow, too.

 

what did you think of new order?

 

LOVED it. I was honestly expecting something...colder? I've always found their original "Blue Monday" pretty dispassionate. But that album was warm and human and just excellent.

 

Yeah I was turned off by Blue Monday too but their records rule

 

i love blue monday but i get it. glad you enjoyed the album, it’s so good, and such an unexpected turn after joy division and the debut

 

Age Of Consent is one of the best riffs of all the riffs

 

1. Paul Simon - Hearts & Bones
2. Cheap Trick - Next Position Please
3. The Police - Synchronicity

Not a lot of all time faves in 1983, although Hearts & Bones and Next Position Please are two very overlooked classics.

A ton of albums I do love or love some songs from…

Cyndi Lauper - She’s So Unusual
Tears For Fears - The Hurting
Marshall Crenshaw - Field Day
REM - Murmur
Big Country - The Crossing (is this overlooked??? Its so good)
Echo & The Bunnymen - Porcupine
Wipers - On The Edge
Minutemen - What Makes A Man Start Fires (bob dylan wrote propaganda songs yasssss)
Ramones - Subterranean Jungle
Violent Femmes
David Bowie - Let’s Dance
Huey Lewis - Sports (really love it)
Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart
Brian Eno - Apollo
Kinks - State Of Confusion
John Mellencamp - Uh Huh

I don’t love the whole album but Bark At The Moon is like the most fun riff ever to play

 

got a tie for first and then a second place just a few points off today

 

1. David Bowie: Let’s Dance
2. Violent Femmes: Violent Femmes
3. Stevie Nicks: This Wild Heart

Shout out to An Innocent Man and Pipes of Peace too

Hoping I’ll have more time to listen to new stuff again starting this week. Been slacking here

 

george strait - right or wrong is very good. i get why he's a lot of people's fave in country. dude had hit after hit.

5 albums that could theoretically still get first in the votes.

 

1. Tears for Fears - The Hurting
2. David Bowie - let's dance
3. R.E.M. - Murmur

will do the rest tomorrow

 

so, there's a tie for first. bowie's let's dance and REM's murmur both have 14 points. i believe the last time we had a tiebreaker like this we gave deference to more appearances vs. more first place votes, so murmur will win (on 4 lists) over let's dance (3). bowie did have 2 first place finishes to REM's 0 though.

REM's Murmur wins this year and will move onto the eventual bracket

 

Got in two final listens:

Nile Rodgers - Adventures in the Land of the Good Groove
The Tubes - Outside Inside

 

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Still listening to The Hurting

 

Playing The Chameleons again. Man, "Second Skin" is so good

 

Copy pasting the ones I loved, liked, or am relatively familiar with... ** = saw them on that tour.

Men At Work - Business as Usual (cont. from '82)
The Police - Synchronicity**
Quiet Riot - Metal Health
pink floyd - the final cut
REM - murmur
stevie ray vaughan - texas flood
dio - holy diver
u2 - war
ozzy osbourne - bark at the moon
billy idol - rebel yell
bob dylan - infidels
brian eno - apollo
minutemen - what makes a man start fires
misfits - earth ad/wolfs blood
randy newman - trouble in paradise
the replacements - hootenanny
slayer - show no mercy
talking heads - speaking in tongues
zz top - eliminator
bauhaus - burning from the inside
billy joel - an innocent man
chic - believer
earth wind and fire - powerlight
echo and the bunnymen - porcupine
genesis - genesis**
lou reed - legendary hearts
paul simon - hearts and bones
richard thompson - hand of kindness
the rolling stones - undercover - This is a horrible Stones lp lol
social distortion - mommy’s little monster
suicidal tendencies - suicidal tendencies
the waterboys - the waterboys
Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Christopher Cross - Another Page
Eurythmics - Touch
Heart - Passionworks
Stevie Nicks - The Wild Heart
Sheena Easton - Best Kept Secret
John Cougar Mellencamp - Uh-Huh
Elton John - Too Low for Zero
Robert Plant - The Principle of Moments
Gordon Lightfoot - Salute
James Ingram - It's Your Night
Electric Light Orchestra - Secret Messages
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
The The - Soul Mining
The Moody Blues - The Present
Spandau Ballet - True
The Fixx - Reach the Beach
Big Country - The Crossing
Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger
Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love
Men at Work - Cargo
Culture Club - Colour by Numbers
Def Leppard - Pyromania
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (are Made of This)
The Tubes - Outside Inside
Randy Newman - Trouble in Paradise
T Bone Burnett - Proof Through the Night
Marshall Crenshaw - Field Day
The Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once
Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson - Pancho and Lefty
Paul McCartney - Pipes of Peace another truly terrible record.
Elvis Costello - Punch The Clock **
Tears for Fears


** The Police were fantastic live!
** I've seen Elvis Costello live 4 times and never seen what I'd call a great, or even good, show :(
** Free ticket to the Genesis show that year. They were ok. I like them more or less.

 

I may hate you for seeing the Mama tour and being eh about it. I've watched the concert film of it SO many times.

 

It was probably a great show.

I'm not that big of a Genesis fan...

 

Listening now, it rules.

 

Holy shit, I am listening to L’amour by Lewis right now and it’s brilliant. Scratches that Talk Talk/Blue Nile ambient pop itch perfectly. Completely missed all the hubbub about it back in 2014 when it was rediscovered

 

The Greatest Guitar Riff Ever: 1983

obvious one