1. Michael Jackson - Thriller
2. U2 - The Joshua Tree
3. Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
4. Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction
5. Paul Simon - Graceland
6. Prince - Purple Rain
7. AC/DC - Back in Black
8. Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
9. Prince - Sign the Times
10. Run-DMC - Raising Hell
11. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
12. The Replacements - Tim
13. N.W.A - Straight Outta Compton
14. Pretenders - Pretenders
15. Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
16. Joy Division - Closer
17. Prince - 1999
18. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
19. Metallica - Master of Puppets
20. Peter Gabriel - So
21. R.E.M. - Murmur
22. Michael Jackson - Bad
23. Prince - Dirty Mind
24. The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
25. The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
26. Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
27. U2 - War
28. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
29. Pixies - Doolittle
30. Eric B. & Rakim - Paid in Full
31. Bonnie Raitt - Nick of Time
32. Madonna - Like a Prayer
33. The Replacements - Let It Be
34. Run-DMC - Run-DMC
35. Bruce Springsteen - The River
36. Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
37. Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
38. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
39. Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814
40. X - Los Angeles
41. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
42. Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
43. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
44. The Police - Ghost in the Machine
45. The Cure - Disintegration
46. Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
47. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
48. X - Wild Gift
49. Black Flag - Damaged
50. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
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Rolling Stone's list of the 100 best 80s albums. Your thoughts?
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51. De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
52. Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
53. New Order - Substance
54. The Smiths - Louder Than Bombs
55. Don Henley - The End of Innocence
56. ZZ Top - Eliminator
57. Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
58. The Clash - Sandinista!
59. Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
60. The Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat
61. U2 - Boy
62. The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
63. The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
64. The Police - Synchchronicity
65. EPMD - Strictly Business
66. Los Lobos - How the Wolf Survive
67. Public Image Ltd. - Second Edition
68. R.E.M. - Document
69. Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
70. Def Leppard - Hysteria
71. Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
72. L.L. Cool J - Radio
73. George Michael - Faith
74. The Smiths - The Smiths
75. Steve Earl - Guitar Town
76. Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual
77. Husker Du - New Day Rising
78. Eurythmics - Touch
79. The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
80. Roxy Music - Avalon
81. Def Leppard - Pyromania
82. Boogie Down Productions - Criminal Minded
83. Public Enemy - Yo! Bum Rush the Show
84. Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
85. Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
86. Lou Reed - New York
87. Black Uhuru - Red
88. Janet Jackson - Control
89. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
90. John Mellencamp - Uh-Huh
91. Husker Du - Zen Arcade
92. Metallica - Kill 'em All
93. Anita Baker - Rapture
94. Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
95. Robert Cray - Strong Persuader
96. Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
97. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel 3
98. Tina Turner - Private Dancer
99. XTC - Skylarking
100. Madonna - Madonna
The Stone Roses number 78? God I hate Americans
>appetite for destruction not in top 3
>eliminator not top 50
Not my personal picks, obviously, but could have been a lot worse.
Wow, the rockist magazine really doesn't like hardcore punk or metal at all, huh?
Rolling Stone place black artists up way to high in their lists due to their crippling white guilt.
Yeah, they shouldn't even be anywhere in the top 10,000.
wrong don henley album
>12. The Replacements - Tim
I like this. That's a good placement.
>no depeche mode
the absolute state...
Actually they should be number 1 but Americans are dumb
one good song
They're on the 90s list I think
>U2 at 2
>Stop Making Sense not higher up
These are the two major crimes I can make out
Not really, it's just an objective fact that the most talented musicians and entertainers are black. They really are a magical people
Surprisingly okay
Black artists get overpraised simply because they're black.
Prince is good, but arguably even his albums aren't as good as what the critics say. (Especially 1999, where nearly every song runs about 3-4 minutes too long. He's better as a live performer, like all funk/soul artists.)
But was it really necessary to have so many hip-hop albums on this list? All of these albums were already dated by 1990, as hip-hop ages like milk
>hip hop ages like milk
You sure you aren't talkin about white women lmaooo
>All of these albums were already dated by 1990, as hip-hop ages like milk
most of them are still listened to and discussed to this day
Because retards listen only to Violator. Some Great Reward, Black Celebration and Music for the Masses are some of the best albums of the 80s.
Prince is the shit and every bit as good as they say and more.
Hip hop has not fucking "aged like milk". That's like saying that synthpop "aged like milk" because it sounds like the 80s.
I think your view is heavily distorted by your own dislike of black people.
Public Image Ltd suck and shouldn't be there
terrible but very rolling stone in nature.
Public Enemy, De La Soul, and maybe BDP deserve their spots, but Run-DMC, LL Cool J, and Beastie Boys are expired.
>Beastie Boys are expired.
fucking pleb holy shit
Damn no Scary Monsters
They're the RHCP of hip-hop. I still really like Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, though.
I want to see your top 10 lists
>They're the RHCP of hip-hop.
you're the dumbest person in history
>Disintegration and Teenage Nation not even top 40
>NWA, Prince, Madonna, Public Ennemy and Michael above
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
psued
Hip-Hop is the most disposable genre of them all. Even stuff from last year already sounds outdated. It's the audial equivalent of bad fashion trends.
I've never understood the "black don't crack" meme.
The average 50 year old black man looks 50 years old, like everyone else.
I get the feeling that blacks lack the ability to recognize faces and facial traits in the way whites can. Look at how many of them are convinced that Ariana Grande is black.
But most importantly, white women are in their prime from their 16th birthday to their 35th, white men are in their prime from their 25th birthday to their 44th, and blacks never truly have a prime because they are always physically ugly
Only by 50+ year old music critics
(And they only pretend to like them so they don't get called a racist)
1) Talking Heads - Remain in Light
power gap
2) Foetus - Hole
3) Minutemen - Double Nickels On the Dime
4) Joy Division - Closer
5) NoMeansNo - Wrong
6) Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You
7) This Heat - Deceit
8) The Pop Group - For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
9) Tom Waits - Raindogs
10) Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground
>dude basic pop is actually patrician
psued
The only good thing this list has going on for itself is the amount of Prince.
>basic
Prince was one of the greatest singles artists of the 80s, I'll give you that, but most of his albums contain shitloads of filler. (Trust me, I've heard everything he's ever done. I much prefer listening to concert bootlegs than the albums.) Parade is a great album though (that for some reason is not on this list) and Purple Rain deserves to be on here (even if it's placed way too high)
No comment on defending hip-hop though. I think your view is heavily distorted by your own worship of black people. It's strange how just by saying "hip hop is shit", all the cucks come out and scream "racist" as if that word means anything and jazz doesn't exist.
1. New Order - Technique
2. Guns & Roses - Appetite
3. Metallica - Ride the Lightning
4. Ultramagnetic MCs - Critical Beatdown
5. Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
6. Jesus & Mary Chain - Darklands
7. Wipers - Youth of America
8. Skid Row - Skid Row
9. Scorpions - Love At First Bite
10. Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
I'll say it again. Public Image Ltd suck and shouldn't be there