Pitchfork: Top 100 Albums of the 1980s
I have none of the top 10 albums. I've heard songs off of some of them, but I do not own the albums in any format.
Of the top 20, I think I had Purple Rain, #12, but don't have it anymore. I'm certain that was vinyl. Michael Jackson's Thriller (#27) was in the house, but I think it was my sister's. I have #30, U2's The Joshua Tree, on tape.
I just recently (within the past year) purchased #38, The Cure's Disintegration, on CD along with their greatest hits CD. While I love The Violent Femmes, the eponymous #36 was my brother's. I bought Hallowed Ground specfically for Country Death Song.
Ah, #46 (can you tell I'm browsing backwards?). XTC's English Settlement. My brother had this one, and this was my first intro to XTC. Love this album. My sister and I would listen to it all the time.
Well, that's the top 50. Wonder how many of the rest I'll have. *counts* Looks like 4. If I count in my siblings albums again.
Not buying any REM really didn't help my count. Then again, I'm not a critic, and I listened to and bought a lot of pop, which (with the exception of Duran Duran's Rio) doesn't seem to have made this list.
I'd like to see them do the top 100 songs of the 80s. Then I'd probably have a better ratio!
Comments (5)
Hmmm. Hadn't thought of reviewing albums on the Pop Culture blog... probably a good idea, as I'm musically depraved. But I'm a huge XTC fanatic, so... [grin]
Posted by MT Fierce | November 22, 2002 11:56 AM
Posted on November 22, 2002 11:56
I have a huge CD collection and there's very few of that 'top 100' in mine. That list is hopelessly overloaded by the dreary indie bands that music journalists always drool over.
Posted by Tim Hall | November 22, 2002 1:03 PM
Posted on November 22, 2002 13:03
Precisely _two_ - King Crimson's Discipline, and the debut album by The Stone Roses.
Posted by Tim Hall | November 22, 2002 5:11 PM
Posted on November 22, 2002 17:11
Eight... which is probably more than the top 100 books/movies of the century that I've watched, strangely enough.
Posted by MT Fierce | November 22, 2002 6:45 PM
Posted on November 22, 2002 18:45
I own 5 of the top 10, 4 of the next, 3 of the next... and that's as far as I've gotten so far, but I suspect there will be a lot more. It's actually about the sort of list I'd expect from Pitchfork (which leans toward the indie scene), though I'm a bit surprised about the inclusion of things like Thriller.
Hmm... it's actually making me want to fill in lots of CDs I never got around to buying back then.
Michael
Posted by Michael | November 22, 2002 9:13 PM
Posted on November 22, 2002 21:13