• Albums Released In 1989

Albums Released This Week (August 20 – 26) Great albums from the 60s, 70s and 80s rock and pop released this week (and some related albums of note): August 20 1975 ● Harmonia —— Deluxe ► Krautrock/Kosmische Musik 1976 ● Kiss —— Kiss Destroys Anaheim, Pt. 1 ► Hard Rock 1976 ● Kiss —— Kiss Destroys Anaheim, Pt.

OnatThis is a good, fun project BUTThere are, in my opinion, some serious flaws in the top ten. Chief among them is U2’s October. Sophomore slump anyone? Put Talk, Talk, Talk by the Furs in their spot.

As for the rest of the top 10, well, how do I put this? Could it be that the voter’s feelings of nostalgia outweighed the actual material on the albums in question?p.s.I’m writing in The Suburbs’ Credit In Heaven. It’s a solid effort and it includes that song.

You know the one I’m talking about. It’s the first track on the second album. It’s catchy and has a great beat. It also has really creepy, disturbing lyrics.

It’s just one of those songs that’s able to make you get up and dance while seriously disturbing images parade past your mind’s eye. Thanks a lot guys, I’m still in therapy. OnatThe Durans are going to be an interesting test case for this polling. The college radio station I was at played this first album, but abandoned the band overnight once their MTV silk-suits-and-sailboats heyday kicked in with “Rio.”I think that’s the case with a number of these bands. There was a definite overlap between “college rock” and “MTV” for the first couple of years of the 1980s, but then the college stations moved off in a more esoteric direction once Men at Work, Kim Wilde, Thompson Twins, Spandau Ballet and so forth found a mass audience.I’ll be interested to see how “Rio” fares — if it’s even on the list to be voted on — and how others perceive “college rock” as a retroactive concept, versus what college stations were, from 1982 on, actually playing. I’m not sure “Rio” and Dream Syndicate’s “Days of Wine and Roses” were on the same playlists.

OnatInteresting and fantastic project so farwell done and thank you for inviting us to participate in the process.This will always be a popularity contest, so while artistically we may strongly disagree with U2 and The Go-Go’s occupying top-10 places over more critical masterpieces (The Sound, Comsat Angels, Kiiling Joke, etc) it’s hard to not take pleasure in the entire process and the number of like-minded music lovers out there. It’s also heartening to see Wipers, Durutti Column and Felt getting love on these pollsnice taste voters!Looking forward to 1982!

Released in 1981, Grace Jones’s fifth studio album Nightclubbing is a masterpiece of post-punk pop featuring nine tracks of mostly reworked covers of songs by the likes of David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Bill Withers. With its fusion of musical genres such as reggae and electronic, along with elements of blues, funk, new wave and even salsa, the album marked a move away from her previous disco work and became an instant hit in the US and across the globe. It featured her much-loved hits Demolition Man, written by, and Pull up the Bumper.

Albums Released In 1989

For those who want to really indulge in a Grace Jones music marathon, her double-disc compilation album The Grace Jones Story released in 2006 compiles much of her best material from between her debut album Portfolio in 1977 and a one-off single Sex Drive in 1993. As an attempt by Island Records to create a comprehensive catalogue of her recording career, the 28 tracks bring together many of her signature 80s club singles such as Nipple to the Bottle and Pull up the Bumper but omits tracks from her hit album Slave to the Rhythm.