NME Top 10 Albums 1985

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What’s Going On - Marvin Gaye
5
8%
Astral Weeks - Van Morrison
7
11%
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
10
15%
The Clash - The Clash
7
11%
Marquee Moon - Television
10
15%
Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
3
5%
The Band - The Band
0
No votes
Blonde On Blonde - Bob Dylan
9
14%
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band - John Lennon
5
8%
Unknown Pleasures - Joy Division
10
15%
 
Total votes: 66

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NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby naughty boy » 21 Aug 2016, 00:20

Back in the day the whole list of 100 albums was something of a touchstone for me and I think for several others here too.

Choose your absolute favourite - just the one - from the top ten!

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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby Matt Wilson » 21 Aug 2016, 00:28

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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby kath » 21 Aug 2016, 00:30

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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby toomanyhatz » 21 Aug 2016, 01:33

Marquee Moon in a very tough call slightly over Highway 61.

I like Swordfishtrombones, but what the holy fuck is it doing in the top ten? Doesn't even belong in the 100. Maybe 'cause it was new, and it seemed so revolutionary before he became a self-parody?
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby naughty boy » 21 Aug 2016, 01:57

toomanyhatz wrote:I like Swordfishtrombones, but what the holy fuck is it doing in the top ten? Doesn't even belong in the 100. Maybe 'cause it was new, and it seemed so revolutionary before he became a self-parody?


I think so, yeah. Something like that.

The biggest oddity in the whole list is the second Suicide album at 53. No justification for that.
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby Jimbly » 21 Aug 2016, 04:01

I have six of them. Picked the one that has been played the most over the years. Unknown Pleasures
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby Fonz » 21 Aug 2016, 09:00

Most of these I have never been interested in.

UP got my vote too.
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby Rayge » 21 Aug 2016, 09:04

Blimey, I actually own nine of them (not Marvin).
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby ChrisB » 21 Aug 2016, 09:06

Marquee Moon. A work of genius.

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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby soundchaser » 21 Aug 2016, 09:45

Quite an unusual list.

No Beatles? The revival was obviously still some time off.

I own 8 of these, and from those, I went with Highway 61 revisited.

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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby naughty boy » 21 Aug 2016, 10:02

soundchaser wrote:No Beatles? The revival was obviously still some time off.


It was, but note that Revolver is at number 11 (and The Beatles, A Hard Day's Night, and Rubber Soul further down the list).

On the next page they talked about Pepper as being 'an Exocet to the very heart of rock' :)
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby naughty boy » 21 Aug 2016, 10:29

It was the docu on the making of the Lennon album I saw last night that gave me the idea for this thread. The songs sounded great - I'd forgotten - so straight, such moving melodies, a real peak. And almost forgotten, it seemed. Then I remembered it had done well in this poll...
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby clive gash » 21 Aug 2016, 10:38

The Clash, it's undeniable, it'll always be in my heart.

I have (or had) most of the 100, collected over the next 18 months or so. I thank my lucky stars that it was this list that hit me at 15 rather than one infested with The Smiths, Stone Roses, Publc Enemy, Radiohead and Pixies.
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby clive gash » 21 Aug 2016, 10:38

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toomanyhatz wrote:I like Swordfishtrombones, but what the holy fuck is it doing in the top ten? Doesn't even belong in the 100. Maybe 'cause it was new, and it seemed so revolutionary before he became a self-parody?


I think so, yeah. Something like that.

The biggest oddity in the whole list is the second Suicide album at 53. No justification for that.


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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby naughty boy » 21 Aug 2016, 10:49

clive gash wrote:The Clash, it's undeniable, it'll always be in my heart.


I went for that one too, without too much hesitation (Marquee Moon is also a big fave, but it doesn't sing to me in quite the same way).

clive gash wrote:I have (or had) most of the 100, collected over the next 18 months or so. I thank my lucky stars that it was this list that hit me at 15 rather than one infested with The Smiths, Stone Roses, Publc Enemy, Radiohead and Pixies.


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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby Charlie O. » 21 Aug 2016, 16:52

I've got all ten, and they really are all great (very much including Swordfishtrombones), but I went with Blonde On Blonde.
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby Goat Boy » 21 Aug 2016, 17:02

Marquee Moon for me.

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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby BARON CORNY DOG » 21 Aug 2016, 17:11

It's between What's Going On and Plastic Ono Band for me. Most days, I'd rather save the babies, so I'll go for that (deeply unfashionable) choice.
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby yomptepi » 21 Aug 2016, 17:31

God the eighties were completley shit , weren't they.What an embarrassing list. Was everyone who voted a complete cunt or what?
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Re: NME Top 10 Albums 1985

Postby Brother Spoon » 21 Aug 2016, 19:13

I'll never get the time back I wasted on those Clash and Joy Division albums. Jeez.
Probably 'What's going on', though right now I'd put on 'Marquee Moon'.

There's a boring post-punk 'let's destroy rock'n'roll' thread running through the list. Glad times have changed and no one mentions those records anymore.


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