100 greatest albums of the 80's according to pitchfork
 

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Pretty good list.

Yea, I've seen it before. DDN is #1. I think I can agree with that... I mean, there might be thing si like better, depeneding on the day, but it's easily the indeal apex of 80s alternative.

Good top 10...
010: Joy Division
Closer
009: Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
008: Tom Waits
Rain Dogs
007: Pixies
Surfer Rosa
006: The Smiths
The Queen Is Dead
005: R.E.M.
Murmur
004: Pixies
Doolittle
003: Beastie Boys
Paul's Boutique
002: Talking Heads
Remain in Light
001: Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation

I wouldn't have put two pixies albums on the top 10 though. I think a top ten should really show they variety of the decade. The rest of the list is good. Anyway, I was disappointed that Bad Moon Rising didn't make it.

Yeah, it actually is.

One question I have: How does Meat Puppets - Up On The Sun beat Meat Puppets II by like 20?

Murmur kicks ass.

Yeah Murmur is great.....so is REM.

yea, they did a good job with the 90s list too. DDN rules.

Hmm, The Whitey Album should be on.

its a pretty good list, needs bleach though

acually, the 90s list sucks

A piece of shit list. Pixie's fucking love affair and no Throwing Muses or Suzanne Vega.

i'm just glad to see some they might be giants on there! i'm one hundred percent accordian-core until the day i die!

it's too soon... well, maybe was, too soon to have a truly awesome 90's list.

I'm glad television personalities was on the list. I got into them from that list. It's a really out of place album for 1981

Not a bad list. I haven't heard a lot of the records from about 50 - 100, but I'd add NIN's pretty hate machine (that was 89 I think).

Yarr. Nice to see the Fall and Prince in the top 20. Although in a just world the top three would contain The Fall, half man half biscuit and purple rain, but we can't always get what we want, can we?

Good to see Duran Duran there, but the only reason for picking 'Rio' above 'Duran Duran' or 'Seven and the Ragged Tiger' is 'Save a Prayer' (a very good reason). The other two are better LP's, and 'Seven and the Raagged Tiger' in particular has a grandiose pop majesty that cannot be denied ('Tiger Tiger', New Moon on Monday', 'Union of the Snake').

What? There's no Swans album?

Top would be 'A Secret Wish' by Propaganda. THen The Fall and SOnic Youth.

NO place for either of the GAye Bykers on Acid's classics, 'Drill Your Own Hole' and 'Stewed to the Gills'? Bah, humbag and balderdash. And not enough Public Enemy on the list.


IN many cases the LP's picked are by the right bands, but I think are the wrong LP's. So you're right.

I've got these
prince - dirty mind
pixies - come on pilgrim
big black -songs about fucking
beastie boys - licensed to ill
dino jr - living all over me
stone roses - s/t
eno&byrne - life in bush of ghosts
SY - sister
The Fall - saving grace
Public enemy - a nation of 1000000s
tom waits - rain dogs
pixies - surfer rosa
pixies - doolittle
sy - Daydream nation
thought I would have had more than that

no melvins?!

They can't get every single band that released an album on the list...