GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1980

[Serjeant Grumbles]

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Obviously make sure to hit up RYM yourself and search your favourite genres.

The deadline is whenever I feel like it.

The rules:
- submit at least 5 releases.
- first place in your rankings gets 10 points, 2nd gets 9, etcetc, 10th gets 1.
- feel free to post more than 10, but only the top 10 will get points.
- feel free to post less than 10, the same scoring will apply.
- feel free not to rank your picks, in which case all ten picks will get 5.5 points.

GNMD = General Non-Metal Discussion, so NO UNAMBIGUOUSLY METAL ALBUMS are to be included in anybody's list.

 

[Slammed]

1. Icehouse – Flowers
2. Dark Room - The Angels
3. East - Cold Chisel
4. White Spirit - White Spirit
5. The Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers
6. True Colours - Split Enz
7. The Game – Queen
8. Back in Black – AC/DC
9 The River - Bruce Springsteen
10. Making Movies - Dire Straits

 

[Bloopy]

1. The B-52's - Wild Planet
2. Plasmatics - New Hope for the Wretched
3. Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Doc at the Radar Station
4. Throbbing Gristle - Heathen Earth
5. UK Subs - Brand New Age
6. Cold Chisel - East
7. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
8. Einstürzende Neubauten - Stahlmusik
9. Nurse With Wound - To the Quiet Men From a Tiny Girl
10. The Residents - Commercial Album

 

[CiG]

For any fans of Dead Moon this was Fred and Toody's band before it.

 

[Sophii]

Good fucking year, bunch of things I need to check out!

1.) Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2.) The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
3.) Killing Joke - Killing Joke
4.) Joy Division - Closer
5.) Rush - Permanent Waves
6.) The Wipers - Is This Real?
7.) Joan Jett - Joan Jett
8.) Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
9.) AC/DC - Back In Black
10.) The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs

Albums I Need to Listen To:

The Birthday Party - The Birthday Party
Lydia Lunch - Queen of Siam
The B52s - Wild Planet

 

[CiG]

"I got somethin' to say to you and you better listen, I'ma tell ya how to be cool in one easy lesson. Go!"

1. The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us
2. GG Allin - Always Was, Is and Always Shall Be
   
3. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
   
4. Devo - Freedom of Choice
   
5. Wipers - Is This Real?
   
6. Roky Erickson and The Aliens - Roky Erickson and the Aliens (5 Symbols)
   
7. The Ovarian Sisters - Beat Your Breasts
   
8. The Residents - Commercial Album
   
9. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
   
10. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field

 

[CiG]

6.) The Wipers - Is This Real?

This is actually from 1979.

 

[Sophii]

This is actually from 1979.

Ahhh fuck, then RYM is lame.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

1. AC/DC - Back in Black
2. Steely Dan - Gaucho
3. Hawkwind - Levitation
4. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
5. Joy Division - Closer
6. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
7. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
8. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
9. Rush - Permanent Waves
10. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope

 

[CiG]

Ahhh fuck, then RYM is lame.

Don't forget to edit it out.

 

[Sophii]

Don't forget to edit it out.

Yeahhhh I knoowwww I'm trying to figure out with what though. Thats my main concern.

I'm leaving it up for revision because I don't want to have to shift things around too much again.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Kate Bush - Never for Ever
2. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
3. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
4. George Jones - I Am What I Am
5. Roky Erickson and The Aliens - Roky Erickson and the Aliens (5 Symbols)
6. Ultravox - Vienna
7. Joy Division - Closer
8. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
9. The Sound - Jeopardy
10. Thin Lizzy - Chinatown

 

[challenge_everything]

The Misfits - Beware

The Misfits' 12 Hits from Hell was recorded in 1980 too, though only released in 2001. One of my favourite Misfits recordings.

 

[no country for old wainds]

@Slayed Necros ever listen to slim dusty? the man who steadies the lead (it is 1980, 1992 is just the remaster date i think)

 

[Slayed Necros]

Only familiar with the name. I'll give it a listen.

 

[CiG]

Probably time to start naming and shaming the pussies that couldn't even do a list for a year this good.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i’m doing a list although i don’t really consider it a great year tbh

 

[CiG]

i don’t really consider it a great year tbh

 

[no country for old wainds]

tbf i'm not planning to include EPs and your list has loads

 

[CiG]

tbf i'm not planning to include EPs and your list has loads

It has 3 ya bastard... I suppose that's a lot.