15 of your fave non-Prog albums from the '80s?

Talking Heads - Remain in Light

Philip Glass - Koyaaniqatsi
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather

Peter Gabriel - Security & So

Fogerty, John        Centerfield

Living Colour - Vivid

The Cult - Love

Lenny Kravitz – Let Love Rule
Red Hot Chili Peppers         Mother's Milk
Noir Désir              Veuillez Rendre l'âme (à Qui Elle Appartient)

Those that played a big role in my 80's in bold 

Something else, which can be good to mention about the non-Prog 80's, is the the very informative book 

Our band could be your life. Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991 (2001)

by Michael Azerrad - even the author's description of large part of the bands portrayed

isn't particularly flattering, not least concerning Black Flag and Henry Rollins. Of other bands

profiled, let me mention Sonic Youth, Fugazi, Hüsker Dü, Butthole Surfers and Mission of Burma.

        

And talking about the 80's counterculture, I'd like to mention the very fine compilation of

the American Punk

   Various artists (USA)  -  Let them eat Jellybeans! 17 Extracts from Americas

Yes, that was pretty much the impression in my listening today.

I haven't listened to Solid Pleasure for a long time now, but it its turn this evening as the last one of my 80's albums (I'm listening to my whole collection for the time being). It'll be quite interesting to see how I will find it this time.

I'm quite fond of Floodland, as well, and heard it a couple of days ago.

Heaven Up Here - Echo & the Bunnymen

Seventeen Seconds - the Cure

Pornography - the Cure

Disintegration - the Cure

Kiliminjaro - the Teardrop Explodes

Wilder - the Teardrop Explodes

Swoon - Prefab Sprout

Steve McQueen - Prefab Spout

Meat is Murder - the Smiths

Strange Boutique - the Monochrome Set

Love Zombies - the Monochrome Set

Eligible Bachelors - the Monochrome Set

the Lost Weekend - the Monochrome Set

New Gold Dream - Simple Minds

16 Lovers Lane - the Go Betweens

But I certainly don't mind what is left (quoted) of it. 

I just listened to 

and being in an almost perfect mood for it, it was quite a bit of a special experience.

Anyway, I thought then that it's a really fine album and certainly good to be mentioned here as well,

so as I don't think it has been so far, here it comes.

- But I'm not fond of the artwork, even I like more the back of the cover than the front.

My favorite non-prog band of the 80s are the Deep Freeze Mice (Jean and I actually consider them to be prog; they are very avant-garde). They made a lot of great albums with brilliant album titles like "My Geraniums are Bulletproof ", "Teenage Head in My Refrigerator", "The Gates of Lunch", "Saw a Ranch House Burning Last Night", "I Love You Little Bo Bo with Your Delicate Golden Lions", "Hang on Constance, Let Me Hear the News", "War, Famine, Death, Pestilence and Miss Timberlake", "Rain Is When the Earth is Television" or "The Tender Yellow Ponies of Insomnia". Their lyrics are very witty and often satirical; as an example the track "I Vote Conservative (Because I Am in Love with You)" from their album "My Geraniums are Bulletproof", a song about Margaret Thatcher: