Oh yeah, mistake!
I already voted for it in 1981!
20. Public Image – This Is Not A Love Song

1983. Probably the happiest year of my life. The last year of High School and the first of University and, in the middle, what a summer!. Sade, my band then, we’ve just obtained some recognition with our first single and we spend the summer touring and recording our next record (don’t bother to listen to it, now it simply sounds awful). Anyway it was a wonderful period of discovering, and Aztec Camera’s “Walk Out to Winter” was the perfect soundtrack. Maybe the songs on my list are not that good as I remember, but most of them are blurred by a (dummy) haze of happiness.


ALBUMS:

1. TOM WAITS “Swordfishtrombones” (#6 in my all-time list)
2. AZTEC CAMERA “High Land Hard Rain” (#35)
3. NEW ORDER “Power, Corruption and Lies” (#60)
4. U2 “War” (#75)
5. VIOLENT FEMMES “Violent Femmes” (#97)
6. GOLPES BAJOS “Golpes Bajos”
7. THE THE “Soul Mining”
8. R.E.M. “Murmur”
9. MALCOLM McLAREN “Duck Rock”
10. THE POLICE “Synchronicity”
11. TEARS FOR FEARS “The Hurting”
12. DAVID BOWIE “Let’s Dance”
13. CULTURE CLUB “Colour by Numbers”
14. LOQUILLO Y TROGLODITAS “El ritmo del garage”
15. THE CHAMELEONS “Script of the Bridge”
16. THE STYLE COUNCIL “Introducing the Style Council”
17. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN “Porcupine”
18. BILLY BRAGG “Life's a Riot with Spy vs Spy”
19. METALLICA “Kill ‘Em All”
20. TA LKI N GHE ADS “SP EAK IN GI N TO NGU ES”
21. ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATRACTIONS “Punch the Clock”
22. SPANDAU BALLET “True”
23. BOB DYLAN “Infidels”
24. MEAT PUPPETS “Meat Puppets II”
25. PHILIP GLASS “Koyaanisqatsi”


SONGS:

1. TOM WAITS “In the Neighborhood” (#6 in my all-time list)
2. AZTEC CAMERA “Walk Out to Winter (Extended)” (#104)
3. GOLPES BAJOS “No mires a los ojos de la gente” (#171)
4. PALE FOUNTAINS “Palm of My Hand” (#176)
5. U2 “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (#199)
6. DAVID SYLVIAN & RYUICHI SAKAMOTO “Forbidden Colours” (#202)
7. DEPECHE MODE “Everything Counts”
8. NEW ORDER “Blue Monday”
9. THE SMITHS “This Charming Man”
10. U2 “New Year’s Day”
11. BILLY BRAGG “A New England”
12. VIOLENT FEMMES “Gone Daddy Gone”
13. THE THE “This Is the Day”
14. TEARS FOR FEARS “Pale Shelter (Album Version)”
15. MADONNA “Borderline”
16. DAVID BOWIE “Let’s Dance”
17. ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN “The Cutter”
18. THE CHAMELEONS “Up the Down Escalator”
19. R.E.M. “Talk About the Passion”
20. THE POLICE “Every Breath You Take”
21. DAVID BOWIE “China Girl”
22. EURYTHMICS “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)”
23. THE CURE “The Lovecats”
24. TOM WAITS “16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought Six”
25. LOQUILLO Y TROGLODITAS “Cadillac solitario”
26. NEW ORDER “Age of Consent”
27. CULTURE CLUB “Miss Me Blind”
28. AZTEC CAMERA “Oblivious”
29. THE STYLE COUNCIL “The Paris Match”
30. BAUHAUS “She’s in Parties”
31. ALASKA Y DINARAMA “Perlas ensangrentadas”
32. VIOLENT FEMMES “Blister in the Sun”
33. TALKING HEADS “This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)”
34. GOLPES BAJOS “Malos tiempos para la lírica”
35. ELVIS COSTELLO AND THE ATTRACTIONS “Everyday I Write the Book”
36. SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES “Dear Prudence”
37. THIS MORTAL COIL “Song to the Siren”
38. R.E.M. “Perfect Circle”
39. CINDY LAUPER “Time After Time”
40. SPANDAU BALLET “True”
41. EURYTHMICS “Here Comes the Rain Again”
42. FRANKIE GOES TO HOLLYWOOD “Relax”
43. SIMPLE MINDS “Waterfront”
44. THE POLICE “Synchronicity II”
45. MALCOLM McLAREN “Double Dutch”
46. CAMARÓN, PACO DE LUCÍA Y TOMATITO “Calle Real (fandangos del Alosno)”
47. BOB DYLAN “Blind Willie McTell”
48. PAUL SIMON “Train in the Distance”
49. LOS SECRETOS “No me imagino”
50. TOM WAITS “Johnsburg, Illinois”


FAVOURITE COMPILATION: THE CURE “Japanese Whispers”

The release of the first album of Golpes Bajos (“Low Blows” came as a shock for all the people (like me) that were devoted followers of Siniestro Total (“Totaled” or “Written Off” . Siniestro was a Galician punk band influenced by Dead Kennedys or Ramones that made irresistible funny songs with song titles as “All Hanged Die Hard-On”, “The Tits of My Girlfriend” or “My Ball Itches” (see the funny cover of the last one here parodying the “London Calling” cover with a Galician pipe instead the electric bass). The lead singer, Germán Coppini, left the band in 1983 when they were leading the independent scene to form Golpes Bajos with multi-instrument player Teo Cardalda and surprised everyone with his 180 degrees turn. Where there was simplicity now there was complexity, where there were guitars now there were keyboards and where there were jokes now there was introspection. Coppini uncovered his sensitive and tormented side delivering a brief but intense set on songs about isolation, fear, confinement, sickness and death.
The opener of the album was “No mires a los ojos de la gente” (“Don’t Look at the People’s Eyes”) and defined perfectly the ambiance. The arrangements fused the era synth-pop (with rhythm boxes and keyboards) with funk (the slap bass of Luis García and the guitars of Pablo Novoa). And the lyrics: “The song became a hymn for the introversion” (Ángel Carmona), “Coppini lyrics portrait with extreme ability feelings like the paranoia, the solitude or the terror of the misunderstood adolescents (or post-adolescents) to socialize” (Diego Onde).


NO MIRES A LOS OJOS DE LA GENTE
Composers: Teo Cardalda / Germán Coppini
Performer: GOLPES BAJOS
First release: 1983 (“Golpes Bajos” mini-album)
Length: 3’43”


No mires a los ojos de la gente,
me dan miedo,
siempre mienten.
No salgas a la calle cuando hay gente,
¿y si no vuelves?,
¿y si te pierdes?
¿Y si te pierdes?

Escóndete en el cuarto de los huéspedes,
todo está a oscuras,
no pueden verte.
Seguro que en la calle ahora habrá gente,
alguien te busca,
alguien lo siente.
Alguien lo siente.

Quédate a mi lado,
no te marches más.

No mires a los ojos de la gente,
me dan miedo,
siempre mienten.
No salgas a la calle cuando hay gente,
¿y si no vuelves?,
¿y si te pierdes?

Escóndete en el cuarto de los huéspedes,
todo está a oscuras,
no pueden verte.
Seguro que en la calle ahora habrá gente,
alguien te busca,
alguien lo siente.
Alguien lo siente.

Quédate a mi lado,
no te marches más.

Quédate a mi lado,
no te marches más.
Quédate a mi lado,
no te marches más.


DON’T LOOK AT THE PEOPLE’S EYES

Don’t look at the people’s eyes
they scare me,
they always lie.
Don’t go out on the street when there are people.
What if you don’t come back?
What if you get lost?
What if you get lost?

Hide into the guest room,
everything’s in darkness,
no one can see you.
Surely now on the streets there will be people,
somebody’s looking for you
somebody’s noticing it.
Somebody’s noticing it.

Stay by my side,
don’t go away anymore.

Don’t look at the people’s eyes
they scare me,
they always lie.
Don’t go out on the street when there are people.
What if you don’t come back?
What if you get lost?

Hide into the guest room,
everything’s in darkness,
no one can see you.
Surely now on the streets there will be people,
somebody’s looking for you
somebody’s noticing it.
Somebody’s noticing it.

Stay by my side,
don’t go away anymore.

Stay by my side,
don’t go away anymore.
Stay by my side,
don’t go away anymore.



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Albums

1)R.E.M.-Murmur
2)U2-War
3)The Police-Synchronicity
4)Violent Femmes-Violent Femmes
5)ZZ Top-Eliminator
6)Talking Heads-Speaking In Tongues
7)Tom Waits-Swordfishtrombones
8)Def Leppard-Pyromania
9)The Waterboys-The Waterboys

Songs

1)New Order-Blue Monday
2)This Mortal Coil-Song To The Siren
3)The Smiths-This Charming Man
4)Cyndi Lauper-Time After Time
5)The Police-Every Breath You Take
6)R.E.M.-Perfect Circle
7)Pretenders-2000 Miles
8)The Fall-Eat Y'Self Fitter
9)The Smiths-Hand In Glove
10)Violent Femmes-Blister In The Sun
11)KC & The Sunshine Band-Give It Up
12)Talking Heads-This Must Be The Place(Naive Melody)
13)Grandmaster Flash&Melle Mel-White Lines(Don't Do It)
14)U2-Sunday Bloody Sunday
15)U2-"40"
16)Stiff Little Fingers-The Price Of Admission
17)Style Council-Long Hot Summer
18)U2-New Year's Day
19)Echo&The Bunnymen-The Cutter
20)The Cure-Lovecats

Albums

1 Power, Corruption and Lies New Order
2 Before Hollywood The Go-Betweens
3 Porcupine Echo and the Bunnymen
4 High Land Hard Rain Aztec Camera
5 Soul Mining The The
6 Murmur R.E.M.
7 Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
8 Life's a Riot with Spy vs. Spy Billy Bragg
9 Infidels Bob Dylan
10 Head over Heels Cocteau Twins
11 Perverted by Language The Fall
12 War U2
13 Let's Dance David Bowie
14 Punch the Clock Elvis Costello and The Attractions
15 Swordfishtrombones Tom Waits
16 Pyromania Def Leppard
17 The Triffids Treeless Plain
18 Speaking in Tongues Talking Heads
19 White Heat Dusty Springfield
20 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This...) Eurythmics


Songs

1 This Charming Man The Smiths
2 Song to the Siren This Mortal Coil
3 Cattle and Cane The Go-Betweens
4 The Cutter Echo and the Bunnymen
5 Rip It Up Orange Juice
6 Pearly Dewdrops' Drops Cocteau Twins
7 A New England Billy Bragg
8 Blind Willie McTell Bob Dylan
9 Age of Consent New Order
10 Oblivious Aztec Camera
11 Total Eclipse of the Heart Bonnie Tyler
12 Jeanne The Smiths
13 Let's Dance David Bowie
14 Tour De France Kraftwerk
15 Blister in the Sun Violent Femmes
16 Hand in Glove The Smiths
17 Everyday I Write the Book Elvis Costello
18 Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This...) Eurythmics
19 2000 Miles Pretenders
20 Talk About the Passion R.E.M.
21 This Is Not a Love Song Public Image Ltd.
22 Relax Frankie Goes to Hollywood
23 Blue Monday New Order
24 Borderline Madonna
25 Pills & Soap The Imposter
26 White Lines (Don't Do It) Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel
27 In a Big Country Big Country
28 Long Hot Summer The Style Council
29 Your Silent Face New Order
30 Temptation Heaven 17
31 Walk Out To Winter Aztec Camera
32 Sunday Bloody Sunday U2
33 Shipbuilding Elvis Costello
34 In the Neighborhood Tom Waits
35 Electric Avenue Eddy Grant
36 Deep Blue Day Brian Eno
37 Lucky Star Madonna
38 Kicker Conspiracy The Fall
39 Add It Up Violent Femmes
40 Last Night a DJ Saved My Life Indeep
41 Ain't Nobody Rufus and Chaka Khan
42 Handsome Devil The Smiths
43 (Keep Feeling) Fascination The Human League
44 16 Shells from a Thirty-Ought-Six Tom Waits
45 Rockit Herbie Hancock
46 Never Stop Echo and the Bunnymen
47 This Is the Day The The
48 Undercover of the Night The Rolling Stones
49 This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody) Talking Heads
50 The Bad Seed The Birthday Party

Albums:

1. Black Flag – My War
2. Scott Walker – Climate Of Hunter
3. Metallica – Kill Em All
4. Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain
5. Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels
6. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
7. REM – Murmur
8. Meat Puppets – II
9. The Chamelions – Script Of The Bridge
10. Suicidal Tendencies – Suicidal Tendencies
11. Brian Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
12. Wipers – Over The Edge
13. The The – Soul Mining
14. Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi
15. Japan – Oil On Canvas
16. Lime – Lime III
17. Bad Brains – Rock For Light
18. The Misfits – Earth AD
19. Slayer – Show No Mercy
20. Tears For Fears – The Hurting

Songs:

1. Run DMC – It’s Like That
2. The Smiths – This Charming Man
3. New Order – Blue Monday
4. Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
5. Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup
6. U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
8. Billy Bragg – A New England
9. Scott Walker – Sleepwalkers Woman
10. Aztec Camera – Walk Out To Winter
11. The Smiths – Hand In Glove
12. This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren
13. Aztec Camera – Oblivious
14. Metallica – The Four Horsemen
15. U2 – New Years Day
16. Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
17. Run DMC – Sucker MC’s
18. Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized
19. The Go-Betweens – Cattle And Cane
20. Husker Du – Everything Falls Apart
21. The Wipers – Over The Edge
22. Brian Eno – Deep Blue Day
23. The The – This Is The Day
24. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel – White Lines (Don’t Do It)
25. The Romantics – Talking In Your Sleep
26. Elvis Costello – Everyday I Write The Book
27. The The – Uncertain Smile
28. Whodini – Magic’s Wand
29. Mtume – Juicy Fruit
30. Electric Light Orchestra – Stranger

yeeeshhh... Climate Of Hunter is also (formally) backdated to 1983. this is getting out of hand now. I've got both COH and Sleepwalkers Woman on call for my 1984's list...

Minor song change

Put R.E.M.'s "Talk About the Passion" at No. 18 and move the other three songs down appropriately. Thanks.

Songs

1. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (All- time #3)
2. Madonna - Burning Up (10)
3. Prince - Chocolate (54)
4. Eurythmics - I Could Give You (A Mirror) (72)
5. Eurythmics - Paint a Rumour (77)
6. Eurythmics - This City Never Sleeps (85)
7. Talking Heads - Naïve Melody (This Must Be the Place) (96)
8. Eurythmics - Jennifer (97)
9. New Order - Blue Monday (114)
10. David Bowie - China Girl (131)
11. Echo and the Bunnymen - Never Stop (Discotheque) (133)
12. Eurythmics - Cool Blue (160)
13. Mtume - Juicy Fruit (187)
14. Pretenders - Middle of the Road (193)
15. Grace Jones - Living My Life (194)
16. New Order - Age of Consent (238)
17. Madonna - Lucky Star (241)
18. Donna Summer - Woman (244)
19. Eurythmics - Who's That Girl? (245)
20. Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (255)
21. The Cure - The Walk (281)
22. Madonna - Everybody (360)
23. Depeche Mode - Love, in Itself (417)
24. Modern English - I Melt With You (471)
25. Cyndi Lauper - She Bop (498)
26. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (499)
27. Eurythmics - The First Cut
28. Talking Heads - Pull Up the Roots
29. Mary Jane Girls - All Night Long
30. Madonna - Physical Attraction
31. New Order - Your Silent Face
32. The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make?
33. Talking Heads - Girlfriend Is Better
34. Mtume - Hips
35. Echo and the Bunnymen - Porcupine
36. Donna Summer - Stop, Look and Listen
37. Prince - Irresistible Bitch
38. New Order - The Village
39. Donna Summer - People, People
40. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
41. Mtume - Green Light
42. U2 - New Year's Day
43. Tom Waits - Town with No Cheer
44. Kim Wilde - House of Salome
45. Cyndi Lauper - All Through the Night
46. Eurythmics - Aqua
47. Eurythmics - Somebody Told Me
48. Kim Wilde - Sparks
49. The Cure - The Dream
50. David Bowie - Criminal World

Vgrd: Scott Walker's "Climate Of Hunter" and "Sleepwalkers Woman" are 1984 tracks.

Album and track, that is.

My bad Stephan. Like this then:

Albums:
1. Black Flag – My War
2. Metallica – Kill Em All
3. Aztec Camera – High Land Hard Rain
4. Cocteau Twins – Head Over Heels
5. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
6. REM – Murmur
7. Meat Puppets – II
8. The Chamelions – Script Of The Bridge
9. Suicidal Tendencies – Suicidal Tendencies
10. Brian Eno – Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks
11. Wipers – Over The Edge
12. The The – Soul Mining
13. Philip Glass – Koyaanisqatsi
14. Japan – Oil On Canvas
15. Lime – Lime III
16. Bad Brains – Rock For Light
17. The Misfits – Earth AD
18. Slayer – Show No Mercy
19. Tears For Fears – The Hurting
20. Elvis Costello – Punch The Clock

Songs:
1. Run DMC – It’s Like That
2. The Smiths – This Charming Man
3. New Order – Blue Monday
4. Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
5. Cocteau Twins – Sugar Hiccup
6. U2 – Sunday Bloody Sunday
7. Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams
8. Billy Bragg – A New England
9. Aztec Camera – Walk Out To Winter
10. The Smiths – Hand In Glove
11. This Mortal Coil – Song To The Siren
12. Aztec Camera – Oblivious
13. Metallica – The Four Horsemen
14. U2 – New Years Day
15. Violent Femmes – Blister In The Sun
16. Run DMC – Sucker MC’s
17. Suicidal Tendencies – Institutionalized
18. The Go-Betweens – Cattle And Cane
19. Husker Du – Everything Falls Apart
20. The Wipers – Over The Edge
21. Brian Eno – Deep Blue Day
22. The The – This Is The Day
23. Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel – White Lines (Don’t Do It)
24. The Romantics – Talking In Your Sleep
25. Elvis Costello – Everyday I Write The Book
26. The The – Uncertain Smile
27. Whodini – Magic’s Wand
28. Mtume – Juicy Fruit
29. Electric Light Orchestra – Stranger

What!? No "Sports"??

1. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
2. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
3. David Bowie - Let's Dance
4. Echo & The Bunnymen - Porcupine
5. REM - Murmur
6. The Police - Synchronicity
7. Elvis Costello - Punch The Clock
8. U2 - War
9. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
10. Bad Brains - Rock For Light

About time, I guess :-)

1) R.E.M. - Murmur
2) Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
3) Bob Dylan - Infidels
4) Mitch Ryder - Never Kick a Sleeping Dog
5) Big Country - The Crossing
6) The Rain Parade - Emergency Third Rail Power Trip
7) Marianne Faithfull - A Child’s Adventure
8) T-Bone Burnett - Proof through the Night
9) Randy Newman - Trouble in Paradise

In terms of general album value, 1981 is even worse than 1983. There’s this cheesy sound around everything commercial, and a lot of fillers too.



Albums :

1. Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones (# 194 overall)
2. R.E.M. – Murmur (# 290 overall) (a real grower )
3. Bob Dylan – Infidels (Underrated album)
4. John Mellencamp - Uh-Huh
5. Renaud - Morgane de toi
6. Baaba Maal & Mansour Seck - Djam Leelii
7. David Bowie - Let's Dance (underrated too, great SRV gtr)
8. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
9. U2 - War
10. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
11. The Robert Cray Band - Bad Influence
12. Green On Red - Gravity Talks
13. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind
14. Metallica - Kill'em All
15. Djivan Gasparyan - I Will Not Be Sad In This World
16. ZZ Top - Eliminator
17. Philip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
18. New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
19. Culture Club - Colour By Numbers
20. Minor Threat - Out Of Step


Songs :
The year of guilty pleasures
In 1983 i was 13 and starting to listen to a lot of music (mostly commercial at that time)


1. Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell.
2. Lionel Richie - All Night long (All Night)
3. Alabama - Dixie Land Delight guilty pleasure
4. David Bowie- China Girl
5. Tom Waits - In The Neighborhood
6. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin'
7. Men At Work - Overkill
8. The Police - Every Breath You Take
9. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
10. U2 - New Year's Day
11. Oliver Cheatham - Get down Saturday night
12. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
13. Tom Waits- Swordfishrombone
14. John Mellencamp - Authority Song
15. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
16. U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
17. Yes - Owner of a lonely heart
18. Renaud - Morgane de toi
19. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride And Joy
20. Pretenders -Middle Of The Road
21. R.E.M. - Shaking Through
22. The Robert Cray Band - Bad Influence
23. John Mellencamp - Pink Houses
24. Metallica - The Four Horsemen
25. Violent Femmes - Good Feeling
26. Mike Oldfield - Moonlight Shadow
27. Elvis Costello - Every day I write The Book
28. Madonna - Holiday
29. Frankie Paul - Pass the Tu-Sheng-Peng
30. James Ingram & Michael McDonald - Yah Mo B There

Snusmumrik, we have the same first (but not in the same order)

If you asked my dad to make a 1983 list he'd probably include "Outfidels", which he thinks is not only underrated but better than Infidels.

Nicolas,
that's cool. And actually I used to like Mellencamp's uh-huh *really* a lot. I guess I just neglected to get a copy after moving out of the place where a guy used to play it.

BillaAdama,
I wouldn't quarrel with anyone who rates the Infidels outtakes above the stuff that actually went on the album. After all, Blind Willie McTell is an Infidels outtake not released until 1991. And then there's "Foot of Pride" and two other fine songs on the Bootleg Series 1-3 box. And a killer cover of Willie Nelson's "Angel Flying too Close to the Ground", and ....

There are still great songs on Infidels

Like "Neighborhood Bully" or "Man Of Peace"

Great lyrics, for once very straightforward, and great guitar duo : Knolpfer and Mick Taylor.

the only weird thing is Sly & Robbie, who don't always fit with the songs.

1984 marks a new era somehow...

I keep thinking that because it peters out toward the end that I should move She's So Unusual down a few slots, but then I think just how good and varied most of it is, and I can't do it. I also am tempted to move Punch the Clock up because I get almost giddy everytime I listen to it--but then I have to admit it is a bit of a mess, nonetheless. As for Synchronicity, I just keep wishing that lyrically there wasn't so much pretentious twaddle on it. Infidels might deserve to be higher; for some reason I'd never listened to the whole thing until quite recently, so I can't say I've fully digested it. If Dylan left "Blind Willie McTell" off because it was "never fully developed," then I suspect he should leave more of his songs not fully developed.

Albums:

1) Murmer - REM
2) War - U2
3) Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets
4) Swordfishtrobones - Tom Waits
5) She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper
6) Punch the Clock - Elvis Costello
7) Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads
8) Hootenanny - The Replacements
9) Out of Step - Minor Threat
10) Infidels - Bob Dylan
11) Field Day - Marshall Crenshaw
12) High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera
13) Synchronicity - The Police
14) Texas Rain - Stevie Ray Vaughan

Oops, that of course should be "Texas Flood" by SRV, not "Texas Rain."

Yes, I figured. A few hours left to submit your lists people!

Songs (yay!):

1. New Order - Age of Consent (#38)
2. New Order - Blue Monday (#59)
3. R.E.M. - Sitting Still (#230)
4. New Order - Leave Me Alone (#324)
5. R.E.M. - Moral Kiosk (#327)
6. R.E.M. - Laughing
7. R.E.M. - Shaking Through
8. Violent Femmes - Gone Daddy Gone
9. Madonna - Holiday
10. New Order - Confusion
11. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
12. The Smiths - This Charming Man
13. U2 - Sunday, Bloody, Sunday
14. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
15. Tom Waits - Down, Down, Down
16. Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart
17. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
18. Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years
19. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
20. Pretenders - Middle of the Road

I called Texas Flood "Texas Rain," I spelled Murmur "Murmer," and I left the "m" out of Swordfishtrombones. Three strikes and I'm out.

Especially the albums had an exciting race for the top 10 with Madonna, Aztec Camera, ZZ Top and Cyndi Lauper all being in 9th or 10th place at one point, but eventually they were all overtaken by Dylan in a last-minute sprint which made him end up with a mere 1 point more than Madonna. Murmur almost made it to as much points as "Remain In Light", even though it's the first album to finish first without having any songs in the top 10. In the songs department I was especially surprised by Billy Bragg, who I'm gonna have to look into. Even though both of her songs were in or near the top 10 at one point Cyndi Lauper lost here too, unfortunately.

Albums
1) R.E.M. - Murmur
2) Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
3) U2 - War
4) Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
5) New Order - Power, Corruption And Lies
6) The Police - Synchronicity
7) Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
Meat Puppets - II
9) Metallica - Kill 'Em All
10) Bob Dylan - Infidels

Songs
1) New Order - Blue Monday
2) U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
3) The Smiths - This Charming Man
4) Bob Dylan - Blind Willie McTell
5) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
6) Violent Femmes - Blister In The Sun
7) The Police - Every Breath You Take
This Mortal Coil - Song To The Siren
9) Billy Bragg - A New England
10) Talking Heads - Burning Down The House

These and everything that didn't make it:

I'm gutted that Madonna fell just short!

Great list. I'm glad to see the Dylan love although “Blind Willie McTell” is technically a 1991 song (in the same way that Big Star’s “Sister Lovers” is a 1978 album and not 1974).

great to see A New England in the list. slight hope has risen in me since I noticed the increased nominations in the individual lists, but now it's ...uhm... officially certified..

it's not that I want to be that picky, but apart from our Huey Lewis alliance, Greg and I are still two different persons

oh, that applies the excel sheet, btw...

Heh, that's strange. No idea what happened there.

whatever. as I said before, no big thing... but seeing Greg sacrifice 9 points to Filth is kind of - and somewhat amusing. how many spots do I actually owe you now, Greg??

As excited as I was to see an obscure Frank Zappa album get one additional point, it looks like poster Ze did not actually give one point to The Man From Utopia, like the spreadsheet says.

I really don't mean to be extra super picky, but with all this information coming into you, there might be certain mistakes that come up and I just want to make you aware of them. As this year's list show, one point can make all the difference!

Every year there are bound to be a few mistakes, and I really appreciate that some of you look through the list and point them out. Perfection is important, after all.

Corrected both mistakes.

haha, doh, i didn't get to see it. were nj and i somehow conflated? and did i somehow vote for swans? that is rather amusing

yes, you were soooo swanalicious, Greg, you wouldn't believe it yourselve. too bad I didn't make a screenshot of this spreadsheet... (obnoxiously exaggerating, but still bewitched by the reborn kiddie beast in mr. maurer, nj)

ps: Stephan, I don't want to emphasize it again, but... the work that you put in that project is admirable, some mistakes however remain, well.. adorable...

The only one this time I don't either have or dislike is Speaking In Tongues. Maybe I'll pick that up. Also might have to pick up Porcupine just because I like Crocodiles and Ocean Rain.

Every breath you take, I'll be stalking you...

(Seriously. Imagine singing that song from behind a telescope.)

Greg: I attributed every album from netjade's list to your name unless netjade and you both picked the same album (which was twice, I believe) so you had 38 entries and netjade had 2. Didn't make a difference for the score, just a little weird. And thanks netjade.

The Bob Dylan and Billy Bragg songs become the first two to advance that I've never heard
How can so many people have that anthology with 'Blind Willie McTell' on it? It costs loads

It's only $20. Dylan (2007 compilation, around the same price), The Essential Bob Dylan (Australia/NZ release only, around $14 on amazon I think) both have the song as well.

I was sooooooooo close to give Madonna one or two points...

Stephan, my 18 points in the song poll went to Depeche Mode's "The Great Outdoors" and not Cocteau Twins' "In the Gold Dust Rush".

I'm glad I got this extra opportunity to write about Depeche Mode and the B-sides of their singles. Everyone seemed to collect Depeche Mode's "extra material" in the '80s. My guess is that no other band has sold more maxi-singles (at least in Sweden). The B-sides show a less commercial, more experimental side of Depeche Mode, with some songs ("Now This Is Fun", "In Your Memory") that get you wonder how it's possible to put so many rhythms and sounds together at the same time, while other songs are dark instrumentals (e.g. "Christmas Island"). But my favourite of them all is "The Great Outdoors" (the flipside of "Get the Balance Right"), which sounds like a barrel-organ blended with some dark and weird (i.e. wonderful) sounds.

You're welcome. And that is one strange error, I wonder why I did that..

Sorry to be picking without saying thanks.

Heh, no problem. I meant "You're welcome" in response to the "I'm glad I got this opportunity" sentence.