It's interesting seeing Seventeen Seconds that high. I find Pornography, Head In The Door, and Disintegration much stronger. Then again I guess we haven't seen Pornography or Disintegration yet.

Pornography was all the way back at #88.

If REM's less impressive albums of the decade all made the top 50, I can only imagine how well Murmur and Document did. Same deal with Prince.

Murmur did very well indeed.. I won't spoil how well though.


The 80's poll is a bit more suspenseful than the end of the all time polls, because there are just so many different albums that could be #1.

Yep, it's all pretty close on this one. The songs are a little further apart, but even they are quite close.

Looking at my top 10 and what has already come up in it...maybe my vote could of mattered a little.

Nicolas! Hüsker Dü left hardcore with "Zen Arcade". Also should have been a single album imo.

Stephan, I noticed that Let It Be & Zen Arcade have less points than many albums below them. (Kate Bush has same score).

It's very hard to guess which album is gonna be #1. My guess is Doolittle.

Here are the albums which are in top 20 (in alphabetical order).
Beastie Boys Paul's Boutique
De La Soul 3 Feet High And Rising
Jackson, Michael Thriller
Jesus And Mary Chain, The Psychocandy
Joy Division Closer
Paul Simon Graceland
Pixies Doolittle
Pixies Surfer Rosa
Prince Purple Rain
Prince Sign 'O' the Times
Public Enemy It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back
R.E.M. Murmur
Smiths, The The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth Daydream Nation
Springsteen, Bruce Nebraska
Stone Roses, The The Stone Roses
Talking Heads Remain In Light
U2 The Joshua Tree
Waits, Tom Swordfishtrombones
Waits, Tom Rain Dogs

Heh, I put their points where their years were supposed to be. Number overload.

I'm a little bummed that 1999 and Disintegration didn't make the top 20, but I can't be too upset with them in the top 25.

And Seventeen Seconds absolutely deserves to be up there.

I'm going to guess either "Purple Rain" or "The Queen Is Dead" is No. 1.

I'm bummed that "Imperial Bedroom" didn't make the top 25, but I can't say anything because I finked out and didn't vote. If I had voted, it probably would have moved to at least #25, because I would have had it at #1 and "1999" wouldn't have been in my top 10. Ah well. I shouldn't have been so indecisive. Still, a very interesting list. Can't wait to see the top 5!

I think it'll be Nebraska.

Woohoo, eight out of my first 10 are in the top 20!!!

Interesting that when everybody expected R.E.M.'s albums to be extremely high because of Reckoning's late appearance, all of their other albums appeared together in a row, and now there's only Murmur out there. Indeed, beside Automatic for the People and Murmur, I have some difficult in discerning which is their next best album, there are at least five with the same level of quality.

I didn't know enough about these albums to cast a vote, but my top 3 would have been "The Joshua Tree," "The Stone Roses," and "The Queen Is Dead."

glad to see 3 hip-hop albums in the top 20 (especially my #1 vote !). Only Enter the Wu Tang was not in the bottom 20 on the 90s poll if I remember well.

These albums are all in the AM top 22 of the 1980s. Talk about agreement with the critics!

according to the forum all-time albums poll 1 year ago

1. Doolittle
2. The Queen Is Dead
3. Remain In Light
4. Purple Rain
5. Stone Roses
6. Daydream Nation
7. Murmur
8. Surfer Rosa
9. The Joshua Tree
10. Closer
11. Graceland
12. Sign O The Times
13. Rain Dogs
14. It Takes A Nation
15. Thriller

None of the 80s album in the overall poll 100 won't be in this poll's top 20


Lower than 100 (with their ranking in the overall poll 80's albums)

16. Swordfishtrombones (18)
17. Paul's Boutique (20)
18. 3 Feet High (22)
19. Psychocandy (27)
20. Nebraska (28)

Left behind here :

Sister "went down" 50 slots (#19 in the overall albums poll, # 59 in this poll)
Spirit of Eden lost 16 slots

Disintegration, The Smiths did better (+ 2 spots)

i haven't been lower than Nebraska's position in the overall top 100

Clear ?

#20

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy (1985)

Score: 1297 points

Biggest fans:
otisredding (#6), Snusmumrik (#6), Midaso (#7), SuperFurry (#9), Mitchell Stirling (#9)

Comments:
None

Place in the 1985 poll: 2

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 17







#19

Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (1989)

Score: 1320 points

Biggest fans:
LonesomePanda (#1), SuperFurry (#2), tremolo (#2), Sonofsamiam (#4), Henrik (#10)

Comments:
None

Place in the 1989 poll: 4

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 20







#18

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska (1982)

Score: 1341 points

Biggest fans:
Nicolas #1), SuperFurry (#5), Stephan (#10), Snusmumrik (#11), Greg Rumpff (#11)

Comments:
Made at home on a 4-track recorder, a record that reads like a short stories book. "Well they closed down the auto plant in mahwah late that month…" remind you of something? (Nicolas)
Portraits of crime and desperation, nude and chilling songs, a dark album whose stature and influence is getting bigger and bigger every year. (Honorio)

Place in the 1982 poll: 1

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 21







#17

U2 - The Joshua Tree (1987)

Score: 1356 points

Biggest fans:
Stephan (#1), Rocky Raccoon (#2), Greg Rumpff (#3), Toni (#4), Michel (#10)

Comments:
I love listening to this album while traveling at night. Try to put it very low and forget it, its a wonderful experience. Track by track it takes you to diverse "musical places" and it's all relaxing, even if quite epic. U2 have tried to repeat this kind of artwork again, but of course they've failed. This is that type of result that is impossible to be repeated. (Toni)

Place in the 1987 poll: 2

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 5







#16

Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)

Score: 1385 points

Biggest fans:
Greg Rumpff (#2), Stephan (#3), LonesomePanda (#7), Toni (# , Honorio (#

Comments:
A classic. Here again, 9 potential singles, and so many memories. I was 12 or 13 when this one came out and let me tell you, it was HUGE… (Nicolas)
Much more than "the best selling album of all time", Thriller is a manual of great production in pop music. These songs probably wouldn't become good in the hands of the majority of the other producers, but here they were took exactly to the right point, and from normal compositions, were born atemporal recordings. (Toni)
The best selling album ever deserves for sure to be in the top 10. There are enough evidences throughout the album to support that: the stronger set of songs on Jackson career, the wide range of styles displayed, the crossover appeal capable to satisfy both the most exigent critic and the casual listener and, of course, the meticulous production of Quincy Jones. (Honorio)

Place in the 1982 poll: 2

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 4







#15

Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones (1983)

Score: 1416 points

Biggest fans:
Honorio (#1), Mo (#1), Henrik (#2), Miguel (#7), Netjade (#10)

Comments:
“A precious pile of junk”, that’s the way Roger Roca described the album for Rockdelux. Waits seemed to manufacture his album with materials from demolished buildings (as vintage jazz, Berlin cabaret, New Orleans parade music or lunatic Delta blues), rummaging among the debris to find a terrific new sound not tied at all with the sound of his contemporaries. (Toni)

Place in the 1983 poll: 2

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 18







#14

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses (1989)

Score: 1421 points

Biggest fans:
Toni (#1), Mitchell Stirling (#2), Midaso (#2), Mo (#5), LonesomePanda (#5), Andre (#5)

Comments:
Eight classics and two other personal favorites in a 13-track album. How many discs contain that? People can say the Stone Roses's debut was the birth of the ninities, the album that "saved" English rock, etc. That's no important, I only know this is a fucking great bunch of perfect gems in all of the senses! Melodies, harmonies, bassline, vocal interpretation, textures, climates and, of course, Squire's guitars filling everything. I Am the Ressurection and Fools Gold are just the least great they could be! (Toni)

Place in the 1989 poll: 2

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 8







#13

Paul Simon - Graceland (1986)

Score: 1427 points

Biggest fans:
Miguel (#1), Stephan (#2), Mo (#2), Greg Rumpff (#4), Rocky Raccoon (#

Comments:
None

Place in the 1986 poll: 2

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 13







#12

Pixies - Surfer Rosa (198

Score: 1432 points

Biggest fans:
tremolo (#1), BillAdama (#1), otisredding (#2), Mitchell Stirling (#3), Fred (#4)

Comments:
None

Place in the 1988 poll: 3

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 15







#11

De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising (1989)

Score: 1462 points

Biggest fans:
Netjade (#1), Sonofsamiam (#3), otisredding (#4), Adrian (#7), Honorio (#9), Midaso (#12)

Comments:
Funny, because although the songs and the samples are really great, I think this record has not aged very well compared to "It Takes A Nation". That said, it is the definitive conscious rap record, paving the way for a lot of others. (Nicolas)
De La Soul celebrated the first decade of hip hop with an album that simultaneously supposed one of the peaks of the genre and its main revitalization, pulling away the many clichés that it was piling up during its relatively brief existence. The humour, the fun, the sense of freedom that exudes with every word and with every sample was enough. (Honorio)

Place in the 1989 poll: 3

Acclaimed Music 1980s rank: 16