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Poll Question: Which is your favorite album?
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    Posted: June 29 2023 at 11:22
Tubeway Army - Replicas
The Stranglers - The Raven
XTC - Drums & Wires
Talking Heads - Fear Of Music
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4 stars 1979: Pretenders - Pretenders - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmwpEmD6-QU

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4 stars 1979: Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0vSDv4SAsEetGsmkOR5_WHXB5rhbDjYG

Gary Numan - Cars - an era-defining video where giving a robotic performance is seen as being a good thing. Smile
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4 stars 1979: Blondie - Eat to the Beat - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kOkgiQfN1H91ukvupMERBHkTbHASoGZys

I have fond memories of Dreaming about Debbie Harry in 1979. Heart
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Joy Division > The Cure > Joe Jackson
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Bram Tchaicovsky used to be considered New Wave, if memory serves me.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

^ But anyway, I can surely imagine, it's not easy.
It's tempting to drop any albums I've only rated two stars from the poll, but it's the two-star albums that often go on to win the poll. Tongue

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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


^ But anyway, I can surely imagine, it's not easy.
It's tempting to drop any albums I've only rated two stars from the poll, but it's the two-star albums that often go on to win the poll. Tongue
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^ But anyway, I can surely imagine, it's not easy.
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....deciding who to include and who to leave out of these polls is always The Hardest Part. Smile

The first thing is of course the question of definition - at least as I see it. Smile




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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

Blondie won my vote easily in this poll, but deciding who to include and who to leave out of these polls is always The Hardest Part. Smile



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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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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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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 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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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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Gary Numan
I am honestly surprised how many people like this album. I certainly do.
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From this list: Replicas

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

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Talking Heads followed by Bowie.
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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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