GNMD Poll: Top Ten Albums of 1982

[Serjeant Grumbles]

1 9 8 2


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

The deadline is 29th of July 2020.

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.

 

[CiG]

Damn good year.

 

[Slammed]

1. Rose Tattoo – Scared For Life
2. Cold Chisel - Circus Animals
3. Midnight Oil - 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
4. Icehouse - Primitive Man
5. George Thorogood & The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone
6. John Couger – American Fool
7. Dire Straits – Love Over Gold
8. Billy Idol - Billy Idol
9. Sunnyboys – Individuals
10. Split Enz - Time and Tide

 

[Oblivious Maximus]

1. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
2. Rush - Signals
3. Misfits - Walk Among Us
4. Cocteau Twins - Garlands
5. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going!
6. Goblin - Tenebre
7. Flipper - Generic Flipper
8. Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
9. David Allan Coe - Rough Rider
10. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

Laurie Anderson - Big Science
V/A - This Boston, Not LA
Fear - The Record
Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Bad Brains - Bad Brains
MDC - Millions of Dead Cops
SS Decontrol - The Kids Will Have Their Say
Descendants - Milo Goes to College

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I've never listened to Flipper aside from their 90's hit song "Roll to Me."

 

[CiG]

I've never listened to Flipper aside from their 90's hit song "Roll to Me."

 

[Sirjack]

1. Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch
2. Brand X - Is There Anything About?
3. Al De Miola - Electric Rendezvous
4. The Dregs - Industrial Standard
5. Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
6. Allan Holdsworth - I.O.U.
7. Talas -Sink Your Teeth Into That
8. Roxy Music - Avalon
9. Weather Report - Weather Report
10. Sun Ra - Strange Celestial Road

Best Film: The Thing
.

 

[Bloopy]

I don't listen to Flipper but they played 150m from my apartment. I wanted to go but it clashed with something else, so hopefully they come back.

 

[CiG]

1. Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
2. Descendents - Milo Goes to College
3. Misfits - Walk Among Us
4. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
5. The Faith / Void - Split LP
6. Flipper - Album: Generic Flipper
7. Lydia Lunch - 13.13
8. Psychic TV - Force the Hand of Chance
9. Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
10. Devo - Oh, No! It's Devo
----HM:-----------------------------------------------------------------------
The Cure - Pornography
Minutemen - Bean Spill EP
Charged G.B.H - City Baby Attacked by Rats
The Exploited - Troops of Tomorrow
Magnum - Chase the Dragon

 

[HamburgerBoy]

1. Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear
2. Ultravox - Quartet
3. Chaka Khan - Chaka Khan
4. Zapp - Zapp II
5. Duran Duran - Rio
6. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
7. LASK - Lask
8. Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
9. Serge Blenner - Fracture interne
10. Chrome - 3rd From the Sun
Michael Jackson - Thriller
藤真利子 [Mariko Fuji] - 狂躁曲
Kate Bush - The Dreaming
Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
矢野顕子 [Akiko Yano] - 愛がなくちゃね。 (Ai ga Nakucha ne)
Warning - Warning
The Birthday Party - Junkyard
James Blood Ulmer - Black Rock
Rush - Signals
Toto - IV
KaS Product - Try Out
美狂乱 [Bi Kyo Ran] - Bi Kyo Ran (美狂乱)

Not a totally firm order but submitting it as-is cuz I won't have the time to give many relistens. Another great year as usual.

 

[Einherjar86]

1. Peter Gabriel—IV (opening track is seriously underrated; “Drawn across the plainlands to the place that is higher...”)
2. Springsteen—Nebraska (dark folk masterpiece)
3. Kate Bush—The Dreaming
4. Brian Eno—Ambient 4: On Land
5. Dire Straits—Love Over Gold (for “Telegraph Road” alone)
6. Jethro Tull—Broadsword and the Best (not my first Tull choice, but some solid tracks)
7. Toto—IV
8. Roxy Music—Avalon

 

[Bloopy]

1. SPK - Leichenschrei
2. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
3. Anti-Nowhere League - We Are the League
4. Nurse With Wound - Homotopy to Marie
5. Throbbing Gristle - Journey Through a Body
6. Vice Squad - Stand Strong Stand Proud
7. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
8. GBH - City Baby Attacked By Rats
9. Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
10. Gang of Four - Songs of the Free

HM:
The Gun Club - Miami

 

[challenge_everything]

1. Misfits - Walk Among Us
2. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
3. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
4. Descendents - Milo Goes to College
5. King Crimson - Beat
6. The Cure - Pornography
7. Discharge - Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
8. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
9. Bad Religion - How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
10. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I will keep this open till next Monday. Meanwhile, I could use some more offerings.
@Krow
@Allfader
@dwellerINTHEdark
@Slayed Necros
@crimsonfloyd
@Somethingface
@no country for old wainds
@zabu of nΩd

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

What happened to July 29th sir?

 

[Serjeant Grumbles]

I meant to type June 29th. I should hope I won't have to keep this open for two months. However, if anyone was misled by that oversight of mine regarding the deadline and now feels they are being rushed, do let me know.

 

[Slayed Necros]

1. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
2. Kim Wilde - Select
3. The Cure - Pornography
4. Missing Persons - Spring Session M
5. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
6. Winterhawk - Revival
7. Bob Theil - So Far
8. Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
9. Merle Haggard - Going Where the Lonely Go
10. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out

 

[Krow]

Fuckin neato year

1. The Birthday Party - Junkyard
2. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
3. Fabio Frizzi - Paura nella città dei morti viventi OST City of the Living Dead
4. The Cure - Pornography
5. Christian Death - Only Theatre of Pain
6. Ennio Morricone - The Thing OST
7. Bauhaus - The Sky’s Gone Out
8. MDC - Millions of Dead Cops
9. Night Ranger - Dawn Patrol
10. Magnum - Chase the Dragon

 

[dwellerINTHEdark]

1. The Cure Pornography
2. Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain
3. Bauhaus The Sky's Gone Out
4. Modern English After the Snow
5. The Birthday Party Junkyard
6. Misfits Walk Among Us
7. Bad Brains Bad Brains
8. Mission of Burma Vs.
9. John Williams E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
10. Discharge Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing

 

[no country for old wainds]

just noticed walk among us is 1981 on discogs