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Poll Question: Which is your favorite album?
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    Posted: May 23 2023 at 11:06

 3 stars 1979: The B-52's - The B-52's - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZNdaL75118
 3 stars 1979: The Boomtown Rats - The Fine Art of Surfacing - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lG0FvjqjQcE4X4voUFIqINXvoYhg-JL_w
 3 stars 1979: Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUzB_JSClpJhdWQFfOKfKaeX0Rcr5b3-S
 3 stars 1979: The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_S6tYQwhaA
 3 stars 1979: The Human League - Reproduction - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH8fGPG4xV4
 3 stars 1979: The Jam - Setting Sons - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSaNJS9EV1k
 3 stars 1979: Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oo7lt0lLOvg
 4 stars 1979: Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vSDv4SAsEetGsmkOR5_WHXB5rhbDjYG
 4 stars 1979: Pretenders - Pretenders - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwpEmD6-QU
 3 stars 1979: Talking Heads - Fear of Music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ij57gRfcoFI
 2 stars 1979: The Undertones - The Undertones - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQakCeVa48M
 2 stars 1979:  XTC - Drums and Wires - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N66oJVIjk2M


Edited by Psychedelic Paul - May 23 2023 at 13:41
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Candy-O   but, I love The B-52's, too. 
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Simple Minds - Life in a Day
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Wow, some cracking albums here.

Joy Division > XTC, The Stranglers, The Clash, Elvis Costello, Devo, Gary Numan, Tubeway Army

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Gary Numan ~ The Pleasure Principle
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The Clash - London Calling

I'm also quite fond of

The Police - Reggatta de Blanc
Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Armed Forces
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Lodger is actually among my favorite Bowie-albums. So another Bowie-vote from me. 

Most of these albums got something to them. Both Gary Numan and Tubeway Army are great. Joy Division, The Cure, Japan, Boomtown Rats, Talking Heads are all good (never been as crazy about Joy Division as I know many are). Blondie is a wonderful singles band, and there's very little I dislike here. Even Clash sounds occasionally semidecent by now at times. But some of the ones I'm actually a fan of (Siouxsie & The Cure in particular), got more interesting - and better - in the early eighties.



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3 stars 1979: The Human League - Reproduction - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH8fGPG4xV4
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Nice collection, again, of which I - discarding Bowie - personally like The B-52's, Japan, Gary Numan, Talking Heads, Toyah and Tubeway Army. Will vote for The Pleasure Principle.

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Magazine 'Second hand daylight'

There are a lot of great lps and artists listed here too, a few real game changers.

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Pretenders, specially Private Life.
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Things become seriously good here with Cure & Joy Division making their debut in the series, and Talking Heads, Japan & Stranglers getting better and better. My winner however is Joe Jackson.
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Talking Heads followed by Bowie.
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From this list: Replicas

But the best that year was P-Model: In a Model Room

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Gary Numan
I am honestly surprised how many people like this album. I certainly do.
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A poor year for Prog, but some of the better New Wave albums are to be found here: The Police, Joy Division, Tubeway Army. Not the hideous Lodger, but Bowie is quite out of place in this niche. And the time for the Simple Minds had not yet come.

I choose Regatta de Blanc.


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Originally posted by someone_else someone_else wrote:

A poor year for Prog, but some of the better New Wave albums are to be found here: The Police, Joy Division, Tubeway Army. Not the hideous Lodger, but Bowie is quite out of place in this niche. And the time for the Simple Minds had not yet come.

I choose Regatta de Blanc.
And it gets even better in 1980, when there are so many New Wave albums to choose from that it Buggles the mind trying to narrow it down to just 25 albums for the poll. Geek
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Tough choice between two of my favourite band - The Jam and XTC. The former just edge it as XTC hadn't quite peaked on Drums and Wires imo (even so, no way is it a 2 star album Unhappy)
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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

Tough choice between two of my favourite band - The Jam and XTC. The former just edge it as XTC hadn't quite peaked on Drums and Wires imo (even so, no way is it a 2 star album Unhappy)

Sorry, I've never been a fan of XTC, so I doubt if any of their albums are going to get any higher than a 2-star rating from me. Embarrassed
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Originally posted by Psychedelic Paul Psychedelic Paul wrote:

4 stars 1979: Blondie - Eat to the Beat 

I was quite fond of this album at the time of its release and for some years later on. Smile
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