8* Your 1985-1989 track faves One track per album

This is the eighth topic in a series with one track per album for given years. In this it is one track per album for the years 1985 through 1989. Hope to see some of your favourite tracks from those years (a long or short list).

Here is a list of some of mine:

- After Dinner "Ka-No-Pu-Su-No-Ha-Ko" (Paradise of Replica, 1989, Art/Avant Pop/Folk, Japan)
- Art Zoyd "Sortie 134 (Part One)" (Le mariage du ciel et de l'enfer, Rock in Opposition, 1985, France)
- Art Zoyd "Epithalam" (Berlin, 1987, Rock in Opposition, 1985, France)
- Harold Budd, Elizabeth Fraser, Robin Guthrie & Simon Raymonde "She Will Destroy You" (The Moon and the Melodies, 1986, Ambient/ Dream Pop, Scotland, US)
- Kate Bush "And Dream of Sheep" (Hounds of Love, 1985, Art Pop, England)
- Kate Bush "The Fog" The Sensual World, 1989, Art Pop, England)
- Camberwell Now "Working Nights (The Ghost Trade, 1986, Avant Prog, Art Punk, England)
- Cardiacs "Big Ship" (Big Ship, 1987, Art Punk, England)
- Cardiacs "The Whole World Window" (A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window, 1988, Art Punk, US)
- Cardiacs "The Everso Closely Guarded Line" (On Land and in the Sea, 1989, Art Punk, England)
- Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Your Funeral My Trial" (Your Funeral My Trial, 1986, Goth Rock, Post Punk, England)
- Cocteua Twins "Lazy Calm" (Victorialand, 1986, Dream Pop/ Etheral Wave, Scotland)
- Cocteau Twins "The Itchy Glowbo Blow" (Blue Bell Knoll, 1988, Dream Pop/ Etheral Wave, Scotland)
- Coil "The First Five Minutes After Death" (Horse Rotorvator, 1986, Industrial, England)
- The Cure "Pictures of You" (Disintegartion, 1989, Gothic Rock/ Post-Punk, England)
- Current 93 "Hourglass for Diana" (Earth Covers Earth, 1988, Neofolk, England)
- Dead Can Dance "Advent" (Spleen and Ideal, 1985, Neoclassical Darkwave, Gothic Rock, Australia)
- Dead Can Dance "Summoning of the Muse" (Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, 1987, Neoclassical Darkwave, Australia)
- Dead Can Dance "The Host of Seraphim" (The Serpent's Egg, 1988, Neoclassical Darkwave, Australia)
- Divinyls "Good Die Young" (What a Life!, 1985, Pop-Rock, Australia)
- Geinoh Yamashirogumi "Teinshou (Reincarnation)" (Ecophony Rinne, 1986, Tribal Ambient, Japan)
- Geinoh Yamashirogumi "Requiem" (Symphonic Suite AKIRA, 1988, Tribal mabient, Japan)
- The Lounge Lizards "My Trip To Ireland" (No Pain for Cakes, Avant-Garde Jazz Fusion, US)
- The Lounge Lizards "A Paper Bag and the Sun" (Voice of Chunk, 1989, Avant-Garde Jazz Fusion, US)
- Midnight Oil "Whoah" (Diesel and Dust, 1987, Big Music/ Alt. Rock, Australia)
- Miriodor "Checkmate" (Rencontres, 1986, Progressive Jazz/Rock, Canada)
- Miriodor "Suspicion" (Miriodor, 1988, Avant Prog/ Jazz, Canada)
- News From Babel "Dark Matter" (Letters Home, 1986, Avant Prog, England)
- Present "Ersatz" (Le poison qui rend fou, 1985, Rock in Opoosition, Belgium)
- The Residents (God in Three Persons, 1988, Exp. Rock, US)
- Renaldo and the Loaf "Hambu Hodo" (1987, The Elbow Is Taboo, Exp. Rock, England)
- Shub-Niggurath "Incipit tragaedia" (Les morts vont vite, 1986, Zeuhl/ Avant Prog, France)
- The Smiths "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" (The Queen Is Dead, 1986, Indie Pop, England)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees "Lands End" (Tinderbox, 1986, Gothic Rock, Post Punk, England)
- Siouxsie & the Banshees "The Killing Jar" (Peepshow, 1988, Art Pop, England)
- Swans "In My Garden" (Children of God, 1987, Exp./ Gothic, Rock, US)
- Swans "God Damn the Sun" (The Burning World, 1989, Neofolk/ Gothic Ruck, US)
- David Sylvian "The Boy With The Gun" (Secrets of the Beehive, 1987, Art Pop, England)
- Talk Talk "I Believe in You" (Spirit of Eden, 1988, Post/Art Rock, England)
- Thinking Plague "Warheads" (Moonsongs, 1986, Avant Prog, US)
- Thinking Plague "Lycanthrope" (In This Life, 1989, Avant Prog, US)
- Tuxedomoon "The Waltz" (Holy Wars, 1985, Post Punk / Exp./Art Rock, US)
- Univers Zéro "The Funeral Plain" (Heatwave, 1986, Rock in Opposition, Belgium)
- Robert Wyatt "Alliance" (Old Rottenhat, 1985, Canterbury Scene, England)
- John Zorn "Forbidden Fruit" (Spillane, Avant-Garde, 1987, US)

I made a playlist of my choices again, although I don't have everything in my list there.



Here are the past topics:

7: Your 1990-1994 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
6: Your 1995-1999 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
5- Your 2000-2004 track faves: One track per album (CLICK)
4: Your 2005-2009 track faves (one track per album) (CLICK)
3: Your 2010-2015 tracks faves (one per album) (CLICK)
2016-2019 Album tracks, one track per album (CLICK)
One per act: 2020s tracks under ten minutes, or... (CLICK)

^ Thanks for the list, I checked those out. It was especially nice for me to hear the Joe Jackson again.

The more the merrier.    It would be enjoyable if more people joined in, but I guess to some it might seem a bit too much of a chore coming up with a list, and the Prog-minded often are so album focused that choosing individual tracks might well be harder than for the rather more song-minded like me (those Interactive polls got me all the more thinking along the lines of sharing tracks, but then actually I have long done that here). Choosing faves can be hard, and worrying about leaving out ones for the perfectionists can be troublesome (one can edit in more later or come up with a second, third, fourth... list if one wants). The Rate Your Music, Prog Archives and other charts might help some by searching for the years, and styles.

I did not use it, but here is the progarchives chart for 1985 to 1989 including those listed as Proto-Prog and Prog Related bands: CLICK
And here is the rateyourmusic chart for those years (which I used to help me to remember and I have discovered much music through the charts): CLICK

^ Many thanks, Richard. That's quite a list. Glad to see someone who also listed a track off both Kate Bush albums. The album The Sensual World used to find did not get much love (see more love for it now), and it's one I've really liked since I got it for really cheap in the cassette bargain bin not very long after its release. I chose "The Fog" and "Rocket's Tail" would be my second pick -- with David Gilmour on guitar, a rockin' Rocket it is. I was going to go with "Cloudbursting" too, but then opted to go with the, I find, very beautiful opening for The Ninth Wave "suite" or "side", although I prefer listening to all of The Ninth Wave. I had planned to include Enya's Watermark, but then faltered on deciding on track. Was leaning towards "Storms in Africa". It's an album (CD) I bought back in 1990, and used to listen to lots of Enya, but have not played much in many years. I used to be much more into New Age (although one might not like the term) kinds of music then like Enya, Clannad, Kitaro.... For relaxing/ relaxing, I tend to turn to other Ambient music now, Chill, Downtempo, and love Dream Pop....

^ Thanks Paul. "Le Parc" is one of my favourite 80s Tangerine Dream tracks.

Logan wrote: ^ Thanks Paul. "Le Parc" is one of my favourite 80s Tangerine Dream tracks.

Two additional albums from 1985 I forgot to mention, making it a Top 22. 

Edited by Psychedelic Paul - November 01 2023 at 00:16

Logan wrote: ^ Thanks Paul. "Le Parc" is one of my favourite 80s Tangerine Dream tracks.

Psychedelic Paul wrote: Frets N Worries wrote: ^^Love Dire Straits, Paul which is their best song in your humble opinion? Two of my favourite Dire Straits songs are both from the Love Over Gold album:- Telegraph Road and Private Investigations.

An overlooked favourite Tangerine Dream album from 1986 which features the dreamy Jon Anderson song, Loved by the Sun, which is loved by me too. 

I could go on "forever", but decided to limit myself to ten for each year. Here's 1985:

Hellebore - Debout ce sont des choses qui arrivent (Il Y A Des Jours)
Kate Bush - Jig of Life (Hounds of Love)
Dead Can Dance - Mesmerism (Spleen and Ideal)
a-ha - Living A Boy's Adventure Tale (Hunting High and Low)
Tom Waits - Clap Hands (Rain Dogs)
Leven Signs - Our Position Vanishes (Hemp is here)
Sade - The Sweetest Taboo (Promise)
The Arms of Someone New - Susan Slept Here (Susan Sleepwalking)
Benjamin Lew & Steven Brown - S'ignorer (A Propos D'un Paysage)
Present - Le Poison Qui Rend Fou, Part I: Ram Ram Va Faire 'Pif Paf' (Le Poison Qui Rend Fou)