Your shirt almost matches the design pattern & color of Mike Watt's shirt. 7:52

@pd4268

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That is very observant.

@vinylrichie007

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That is funny and I’m going to mention it in a future video.

These records are 39 years old... and still sound great. Thanks.

@vinylrichie007

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I agree.

Great list.

@vinylrichie007

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Thanks

Anyone who's hung up on audiophile shit isn't cool enough to be worthy of that Celtic Frost record.

@MetalTheologian

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I just figured the #1 spot would be occupied by Everybody's Favorite....

@vinylrichie007

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Audiophiles aren’t cool enough to own most of these records.

@vinylrichie007

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@@MetalTheologianWhich everyone’s favorite? GG or Phil Collins.

I laughed my ass off when you were talking about Robert Smith looking scary. “You’re going to scare the kids looking like that.”

@vinylrichie007

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It might not be cool to say but he does look scary.

Great selection of killer records,and I love that shirt seriously!

@vinylrichie007

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Thanks. I rather like the shirt too.

Keep these coming at least though the early 90s man

@vinylrichie007

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I’ll keep going.

Enjoyed your list as usual! Love the Pretenders pick. I just posted our 1980 list yesterday.

@vinylrichie007

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I watched your video last night.

The Battalion of Saints are one of the most underrated bands of the 80’s! Any genre!

@vinylrichie007

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They really are but there are many other 80’s bands that I would say the same about.

Slip it in is like Black Flag's Funhouse, really powerful, second only to My War. That Ramones LP kicks ass. Love the Minutemen, Double Nickles is a great album. I have some Misfits albums, but not any Samhain, never got into them. Saw the Pretenders for the Learning to Crawl tour, they put on a great show. Good choices for the top 2, The Smiths were fantastic, saw them in the 85 for Queen is Dead tour. The Buttholes were great psych punk, cool you got to see them, I never did. Great showing Rich.

@vinylrichie007

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Before giving all these records a listen I was not only sure My War would make the list but would fare better than Slip It In. I just don’t think the songs are as good.

I concur with most of your favs. First saw BS's in 84 too and they just blew us away. My tastes were becoming more extreme by this time. Trouble Psalm 9 on white vinyl brought me back into metal. SWANS Cop listening through pain and Scrapping Foetus Off the Wheel- Hole. My War!

@vinylrichie007

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My War didn't quite make my list. I need to check out the Swans.

@briggscharleton6139

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@@vinylrichie007 I suggest starting Swans with their newest stuff and working your way back to the primal stuff

@vinylrichie007

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@@briggscharleton6139 That seems odd.

What a great year. Hope you continue, I'd love to see your 1985 picks.

@vinylrichie007

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I can do 85.

I love these videos. I would be sorry to see them go!

@vinylrichie007

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I’ll most likely keep doing these until I run out of records to show.

Great video. Another favorites from that year: The Replacements - Let It Be REM - Reckoning Lyres - On Fyre Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive? The Gun Club - The Las Vegas Story Violent Femmes - Hallowed Ground The Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldn't Stand The Weather

@Nick-qf7vt

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Good call on Lyres. Let It Be is a top 10 album of all time for me.

@vinylrichie007

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If I owned the Replacements and REM on vinyl I would have included them.

Awesome list!! I was surprised to see the JP album! That’s easily my favorite of the 80’s by them! Cool a few metal and some killer punk! A few i’m not familiar with intrigued me and i will hunt them down!! Killer video VR!!!! 👍🤘🤘

@vinylrichie007

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I don't go much further with Judas Priest.

BF!!!!! Slip It In. I’m surprised Kira was comfortable playing that song live. Just shows you how cool she was/is!

@mattjohn4731

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It's funny how Ginn wrote such scary paranoid lyrics. But no one found him scary or even fascinating. Cause he's got the nerd demeanor, never trying to score chicks like Ron was lol. Also Greg is greedy and antisocial. But his lyrics are sadly relatable. Capitalism kills #EattheRich

@mattjohn4731

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Sorry my comment was not about Slip It In. That's an issue I have. I had something to say about Slip It In but my mind raced onto the overall BF themes. Kira was not ok with the album art. I personally am feminist. I think GG had incel energy. Sorry but I do. And even Henry had it back then. Sort of a troll girls because they hate me, type vibes

@stevegilmore2093

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@@mattjohn4731 Greg Ginn was a fucking GENIUS. People don’t realize that about him, he wrote most of their songs. His other half, Ray Ginn is just as genius, in a different aspect of art.

@vinylrichie007

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I don't think the lyrics are that outrageous. They are just telling a story.

@stevegilmore2093

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@@vinylrichie007 I don’t think they’re outrageous but I do think they are very intense and I can understand how someone could think they’re paranoid. Just listen to the first nervous breakdown ep. But I don’t know any black flag song that tells a story. Not one

Great selections! 1984 was an incredible year for underground music. Lots of iconic records.

@vinylrichie007

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Two other great ones that I don't own on vinyl are the Replacements and REM.

Great. Today I am listening to some of the albums. And yesterday, I ordered a few albums inspired by your show. Again, another inspiring and costly episode. Thanks! Br, Claus

@vinylrichie007

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I have slowed down on buying this year. Sorry to cause the expense.

@clausfjeldingwhitt152

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@@vinylrichie007 No problem. Thanks for your reply. /C

In 1984 my entire music collection was of artists I discovered on Top 40 radio and MTV. So, glad your list didn't include any of those with the exception of Madness and The Pretenders. "Learning to Crawl" is such a great album and "2,000 Miles" is one of the few Christmas songs I enjoy. I'd be interested to see you continue this series at least through the 80's.

@vinylrichie007

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I purged a lot of my 80's albums. By the 90's I wasn't buying many records so this can't go further than late 80's. I'll keep doing it until I run out of 10 good records.

Wow you got this one out quick. I’m still pulling records and listening to them. Over half you albums I had no clue about, obviously mine is much more mainstream. I hope you keep it going. I plan to do it until I run out of vinyl.

@vinylrichie007

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I’ll keep it going till I run out of records. Three that I don’t own are REM, Replacements, and Echo and the Bunnymen.

I remember everyone dreading 1984....end of the world blah etc. it was a GREAT year after all....ZEN ARCADE was my fave album........great choices Richie!!!

@vinylrichie007

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I remember 2000 being a year that all would end.

@VagueRANT100

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@@vinylrichie007 2000 was about the end of my interest in new music....replaced by console gaming and now I just watch KZread

I remember when 1984 seemed like the future....now it's just a long time ago. Nice picks btw.

@vinylrichie007

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Funny how that works.

Dang I love you dude! Smiths in your top 3.! You rock. You have balls. Happy to see Learning To Crawl here - criminally dismissed so often by casual fans and critics. I saw that Butthole Surfers/PIL tour myself. Good show. Missing in action here; REM, Madonna, Simple Minds, Frankie…, Echo.., but I know those punk/hard rock bands are your main jam. Please keep ‘em coming!!!! Please do 1985! Your videos are a highlight to my week. Don’t break too long! You’ve got some hardcore fans out here dude!

@vinylrichie007

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REM and the Replacements would have made the list if I owned them on vinyl. I can do 85.

Good video. I was thinking of doing a video based on the year of release too. Thx and keep rockN

@vinylrichie007

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I enjoy watching the year of release videos.

Nice Richie... I actually own 5 or 6 of these 1984 releases. Stay the course and do a 1985 entry. 😎

@vinylrichie007

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I can do 85 but it will come to a point where I will run out of records.

Decent list, Rich. You have two of my three faves from the year on there.

@vinylrichie007

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To be honest if I had REM and the Replacements on vinyl they would have made the list.

Very interesting list of albums ! I remember buying the Sam Hain debut after reading about it in a zine. Can't remember which. I'm pretty sure Glenn plays all the guitars that's why it's kinda on the sloppy sound. But it's Horror Rock Gold! I passed on many Hardcore masterpieces back then like Husker Du and JFA. JFA's first 7" ep is a gem! Bravo on putting The Smiths on there! Yes, to BEST OF 1985 from me.

@vinylrichie007

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Glenn does play most of the guitars. I can do 85.

You're probably, (no you are) my favorite record reviewer!!! Good shit VR!

@vinylrichie007

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Wow. That is one of the nicest comments ever. Thank you.

@oneearbandit814

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@@vinylrichie007 “Scoop, there it is!” Yes sir, I take notes when I watch. Your taste is impeccable! You had me at Christian Death.

I was introduced to The Pogues via the Sid & Nancy Soundtrack Great film btw! Awesome soundtrack too! I’ve been listening to some Christian Death stuff lately as I’ve been into kind of an 80’s gothic type vibe. Cool stuff now I need to get some of their records LoL! I have that Ramones album but I haven’t listened to in awhile Was Dee Dee still in the band at that point? I’m gonna pull it for a listen later! Another killer list Rich! Glad you kept this going as long as you did! ✨✌️👽✨

Great list! I hope you do 1985 and beyond whenever you feel like continuing

@vinylrichie007

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I’ll do a few more years.

Yes! The Butthole Surfers I purchased that LP when it first was released. Seen them so many times live in the 80's. They used to play in Detroit a lot in the 80's.

@vinylrichie007

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They must have toured a lot.

Some definite bangers in there but dang I feel old now.

@vinylrichie007

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I am old. No doubt about it.

Crazy dude! You always have lots of stuff that I’ve never heard of! I do agree with you on the Metallica album! Ride the lightning kicks ass! Great video

@vinylrichie007

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I really like Ride The Lightning. I didn't listen to it back then.

That Priest album has “Jawbreaker” on it. One of their best, “Ride The Lightning” great pick, Never heard PIL, but I heard from a girlfriend that said she was on the Pill.

@vinylrichie007

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That Judas Priest is good. Album by PIL is one you would like.

Not in the mainstream.. that's what makes your 1984 list so interesting and... great !! Good picks Richie ! Killer B Surfers pick for your #1. 💥

@vinylrichie007

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The Butthole Surfers were a favorite of mine.

@jtsrecordroom3963

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@@vinylrichie007 "Hairway To Steven" is good too ! 'Ricky" is a track I like off of it.

‘84 was such a good year for music.

@vinylrichie007

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On to 85.

@sexobscura

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yes PURPLE RAIN: PRINCE

@vinylrichie007

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@@sexobscura I saw Prince in the Purple Rain tour. It was great.

I hope you keep going with these, I really like them. I think I’m going to start doing these. You’re right that minute men cover sucks. Great record though. My favorite of this year is the smiths first record. The weird fade in on hand in glove is awesome. But I also really love shout by Devo, brewing up by Billy Bragg, and This is what you want this is what you get by PIL, but I really need to find commercial zone, I’d probably like it more.

@vinylrichie007

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I haven't heard Shout by Devo. I can do 85.

I was in a bar band prior to moving down to St Louis from Iowa We we’re a cover band called Section 7 and we covered Metallica’s For Whom the Bell Tolls which may be my fave Metallica song. God that was a fun song to play and sang! People loved it! God I miss being in a cover band Just fun no pressure to write or anything Just memorize and sing So fun!

@vinylrichie007

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I’ve seen some very good bar bands.

A great year for music. Some of my favs - The Replacements: Let It Be (this album literally saved my life) - Celtic Frost: Morbid Tales - Bathory: Bathory - Leonard Cohen: Various Positions - Saint Vitus: S/T - Lou Reed: New Sensations (yeah I like it) - Iron Maiden: Powerslave - Bob Marley: Legend - Black Flag: Slip It In - Judas Priest: Defenders Of The Faith - Aerosmith: Done With Mirrors - 7 Seconds: The Crew - Black Flag: My War - Batallion of Saints: Second Coming - Trouble: Psalm 9 - Chaos UK: Short Sharp Shock - MIA: Murder In A Foreign Place

@vinylrichie007

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Some of these I considered. The two records that would make the cut if I owned them are the Replacements and Bathory.

@Nick-qf7vt

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@@vinylrichie007 If you do find a bootleg of the Bathory album, get it. The bootlegs sound better than the new reissues

@vinylrichie007

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@@Nick-qf7vt That is so sad it is funny.

@sexobscura

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you forgot Like A Virgin: Madonna

@vinylrichie007

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@@sexobscura Not quite top 20 material.

Knowing which albums will clear a room is a valuable skill...took me years to develop. Defenders of the Faith is cool choice, pretty sure the cover art was inspired by ELP's Tarkus. That Pogues album and Learning to Crawl are 2 of my faves.

@vinylrichie007

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I never thought about it but Tarkus does have a similarity to Defenders Of The Faith.

Welcome To 1984... Great List. I did my Top 20 Thrash Albums and Metallica & Celtic Frost both were in there. That Die Kruzen album Kills too it's kind of a Crossover album but definitely more Hardcore than Metal.

@vinylrichie007

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I will check out your video.

I have that Minutemen album also, it's a great record but I also don't listen to it much. It's a bit overwhelming, the songs are so short and they're so many of them. I just got Acid Bath a week or so ago. Love it.

@vinylrichie007

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I may do a deep dive video on the Minutemen album.

YES!!! just came across that Defenders of The Faith album 2 weekends ago,that album fuckin rocks!!

@vinylrichie007

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It is a very consistent record.

Be careful what you say about not being one to clean records. You may be kicked out of the VC. Didn’t they try to cancel you before.

@vinylrichie007

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The Karens and Kevins did go after me.

Great choices! The Smiths were definitely krypton to us metalheads. Listen to "Ride The Lightning" back to back with King Diamond's "Abigail". Same studio, same production. It's somewhat eerie how similar those records sound alike. Well, let me go back to seeing the world through rat's eyes, rat's eyes, rat's eyes . . . 🤘

@vinylrichie007

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I can’t get into King Diamond because of the vocals.

@hellionrebellionrocknrolla744

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Totally understand. Ha, ha! I'm actually like that with Geddy Lee ("2112"and now I can't take anymore; please stop!) or that old nasally country/bluegrass music. All ear drums aren't created equal.

@vinylrichie007

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@@hellionrebellionrocknrolla744 Rush are great musicians but they suck.

Agree on pretenders and smiths. Missing unforgettable fire 80s are not very exciting to me but gotta do 90s before you bail. I know it’s hard cause pressings we’re limited

@vinylrichie007

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I don’t have the records to do the 90’s.

Mr. Richie, here are my two cents as to whether or not you should continue these favorite albums-of-the-year videos. If you're tired and bored of doing them, don't do them. If your heart's not in it, that can show. How many times have we seen this with music? A band keeps putting out one lackluster album after another, like they're punching the clock and just waiting for their paycheck. And a comment on your #1 pick. I love Prince and the Butthole Surfers. The Butthole Surfers are one of my favorite bands. Psychic Powerless is great funhouse music. On their first four albums, the Butthole Surfers were the aural equivalent of that great Texas funhouse movie, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It doesn't get better than that, does it? A Prince and Butthole Surfers collab would've been pretty awesome. I just listened to the JFA album for the first time. I'm a fan of Bowie so I enjoyed hearing "Andy Warhol" in a punk song. I read "ABA" means "Anita Bryant's Army." Ha! "The Day Walt Disney Died" also made me smile. Overall, I'd say the album is like skatepunk for a post-apocalyptic world. Fun stuff. I'll be listening to it again. Hmm, now I'm thinking you should keep making these favorite album videos because you're turning me on to new stuff. As for the pressing issue of vinyl pressings, I've been buying records for a long time, and one truism is that no matter how good a repress sounds there will always be someone saying the original is better. You're definitely an original. I enjoy the videos. Of course, do whatever the heck you want. Thanks.

@vinylrichie007

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I’m not tired of doing my yearly top ten lists. I’m wondering if others are tired of me doing them. I’ve decided I’ll keep doing them until I run out of records. Anita Bryant’s Army is very funny. I did not know that.

@romanlewandowski5027

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@@vinylrichie007 Ah, then it's very simple, keep doing them. I'm certainly not tired of them. That JFA album was a treat. I have cast my vote. Peace out.

I was a dumb teenager in the middle of nowhere in 1984 that depended on MTV, a crappy FM station, and KMart for music, so it was a few years later before stuff like Black Flag, Minutemen, and Husker Du got to me.

@vinylrichie007

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LA had some great record stores.

Boy, everyone is busting out their Smiths albums. Reel Around the Fountain is far and away my favorite track on the album. WHAT? You purged Purple Rain - Richie!!!@

Always great Ritchie that is my fav buttholes and pioged jfa brilliant low rider classic u carnt go wrong with any pil but i have that one and is underrated and timeless and as always peace and love lloydy

@vinylrichie007

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I’m sure Butthole Surfers and PIL will make future appearances.

LOLO The Surfers Rule!!!!! When I heard Locus Abortion first time in 93 i had a flash Forward .... and back..Yeah< keep DoinEm Richie

@vinylrichie007

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85 is in the works.

Love that debut Surfers album! The only one I ever owned for some reason...stuff happens. Totally agree on Ride The Lightning. My fave Metallica still. Priest is one of my faves still, though Defenders is definitely in my list of faves from '84, it's far from my fave JP album. Pretenders. For a band whom were essentially starting over...what an amazing album. My vote is definitely do a 1985 vid VR. Love this series. Cheers. ✌️🍻🤘🎶🤘

@vinylrichie007

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I will have no problem with 85 but by 89 or so I might run out of records. I’m sure Butthole Surfers will see a return to future lists.

@vinylrichie007

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Thanks for the comment.

Priest!!!! Defenders!!!! Great album!

@vinylrichie007

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Agree. Almost as good as the Butthole Surfers and the Smiths.

15-20 years ago I would have hated the 80s esthetic of Defenders of the Faith but now I have enough perspective to appreciate it... extremely well produced album with some great songs, Rock Hard Ride Free at the top of them

@vinylrichie007

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I’ve only owned Defenders Of The Faith for about 5 years. Fir some reason I stopped at Screaming For Vengeance.

Running was one of the Eighties themes of CURSE OF LONO that showed Hunter Thompson still had genius and a funny bone in 1983, finger on the pulse of a fad that seemed as desperate as the Eighties itself to Thompson. He still had his finger on the pulse in his observations about *competing* in the new decade and what all those runners with walkmans really signified, exact opposite to Angels and motorbikes 15 years ago. Thompson saw that running wasn't a sport, it was a nervous tic. Which was funny, because RUNNING magazine commissioned his piece in the first place. Thompson never compromised for the sake of any sponsor of any magazine - - actually attacked one of Rolling Stone's Japan company sponsors in the Seventies, Hitachi I think it was. Steadman's paintings really stuck it to the Eighties marathon crowd in the LONO book. Well worth the reprint edition if you didn't get it first time around, V-R. Sometimes you find the 2005 oversize limited hardback edition at a bargain, where Steadman's paintings really pop on lovely paper stock, and there are *more* paintings in that edition. I remember an Eighties colleague so into jogging for years and years that it seemed like a serious coke habit, he even SNORTED when he ran. Not an ounce of fat anywhere on the man as he stared down the barrel of physical endurance, as streamlined as a spearhead, so addicted was he to outdo Dustin Hoffman in MARATHON MAN. He was also the first audiophile I ever met, obsessive about upgrading whatever equipment he just got last week as if he could streamline SOUND. And all so that Ricky Lee Jones and Paul McCartney would sound better than the neighbor's get-up. MARATHON MAN was ahead of a craze in 1976 when you look back on it. I guess I forgot to talk about the music in all that, and that's what it's all about, right? Well anyway but Michael Small's broody tense soundtrack for MARATHON MAN was superb music, and the cd goes for big money now, this side of the pond - - I wish I'd got it 20 years ago. I'm glad I didn't take up running though, because that Eighties colleague kept on running every week right into the new millennium where he had a terrible stroke, and I had a presentiment of that outcome even in the Eighties. Serious running is no healthier than vacc/boosts. Except you didn't lose yr job if you didn't run. Oops this post is a bit of a marathon itself. Most of the sentences are short though. Streamlined. Anyway I hope you don't run this Eighties thing into the ground, V-R. It was a devastating earthquake of a decade and civilization never did recover. So how about taking up a countdown backwards from the place you started from? 1963: 'Beatlemania' year in England, and Motown was all over the place even more than Merseybeat, and Dylan was an urban hillbilly. I bet you could even uncover some proto-punk record from 1963, stuck away on some 'B' side. In 1963 anyone seen running down the street for any reason would have been instantly considered guilty of something heinous.

@vinylrichie007

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I started at 65 because I don’t have enough records from the earlier years. I’ve never read Curse of Lono. I never ran a marathon. I would run 2 or 3 miles. I was more into lifting weights. I have some favorite bands from the 80’s.

Viva The Smiths!

@vinylrichie007

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Indeed

I love that Pretenders record and also Husker Du.The Smiths! Awesome.

@vinylrichie007

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Have you heard the PIL record?

@EmbryonicRobot

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@@vinylrichie007 I have heard This Is What You Want (I have a copy) but I have never heard Commercial Zone...

@vinylrichie007

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@@EmbryonicRobot It sounds like the band from Metal Box doing the songs. Plus two songs sound like the Velvet Underground.

@EmbryonicRobot

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@@vinylrichie007 I have been streaming it on YT this morning. Very cool. I might have to search for a copy.

surprised by the picking of Slip It In over My War..

@vinylrichie007

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Actually, I was also. If I made this list without listening to the albums My War would have topped Slip It In.

Husker Du, Minutemen were Huge listens for me in 84. Along with Violent Femmes Hollowed Ground, Van Halen 1984, Bruce Springsteen Born in the USA, Echo and the Bunnymen Ocean Rain, Style Council Cafe Blu, Minor Threat. A Huge Disappointment for that year was David Bowie Tonight and I wasn't big on The Cars Heartbeat and U2 Unforgettable Fire. I also listened to Lou Reed New Sensations in 84, but haven't played that one in years...Almost forgot REM Reckoning

@vinylrichie007

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Its funny you mention Tonight by Bowie. Thar was the last album I bought by Bowie. It had a couple of good songs. I haven’t listened to any of his albums since.

@deanaz41

Жыл бұрын

@@vinylrichie007 Bowie last two albums were pretty good. Check out The Next Day

I'd have been hugely disappointed if Acid Bath wasn't in your list! I would have included The Cure's The Top and Siouxsie & the Banshees' Hyaena. Roll on 1985!

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

I considered Hyaena over the Madness album. It has some great songs but quite a few I din’t like. I’ve never heard The Top.

@steveclark9426

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@@vinylrichie007 The Top is one of my favourite Cure albums, alongside Pornography and Faith. Might not be your cup of tea tbough

@vinylrichie007

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@@steveclark9426 Of the ones I’ve heard Seventeen Seconds is my favorite Cure album.

i came across a minutemen related album Mike watt's next band, "Firehose"

@vinylrichie007

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Very cool.

Nothing wrong with The Smiths, so sad to just listen to one style of music, appreciate everything.

@vinylrichie007

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Sometimes I do go on a kick and listen to one style of music for a month or so. I then go on and listen to another style or just completely mix it up.

@bugolsson

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@@vinylrichie007 agree, I'm on a Australian Punk journey at the moment, Bored!, Celibate Rifles, feedtime, Cosmic Psycos and Powder Monkeys are recent buys. But also just come across a UK group, High Vis and their album Blending, crap name, good record

A confession (shock horror)! I really dislike guitars, guitar bands, etc. I did like some punk/new wave etc from late 70s to mid 80s, esp. Joy Division and the Cure, but nothing since. Give me Kraftwerk or anything synth/electronic heavy any day. Which probably explains why I have 0/20 on your list. Here's my top 5 : 1 Assassin - Mark Shreeve 2 This Last Night in Sodom - Soft Cell 3 No Comment - Front 242 4 Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode 5 Berserker - Gary Numan.

I remember the Padres were really good in 1984 with veterans Garvey & Nettles & kids Gwynn & McReynolds & they had an epic baseball fight with The Braves. From 84-87 SST was the best record label around. Shame that Greg G was such a crappy business guy. My Top 3 were The Replacements - Let It Be , Lloyd Cole - Rattlesnakes & The Smiths. Saw JFA open for Killing Joke ..Great show.

@vinylrichie007

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I was not big on Garvey going to the Padres. I wish I had picked up more of the SST catalog. If I had REM and Replacements on vinyl they would have made the list.

Might go Hatful of Hollow ahead of the Smiths

@vinylrichie007

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I love Hatful of Hollow but it is a comp. I’m not including comps or live albums.

Looks like you can still run for Dinner // Oh Yah records where good

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

Can’t run for dinner.

Lost a bit of weight. Well done

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

Not much.

Never heard that Butthole Surfers album, interesting choice. I liked Locust Abortion, saw them at Reading in 1989. Wild boys. You’re dead right about side 2 of The Smiths - that’s as good as they ever were. Perfect side of a record. I always recommend it to others. The actual number one is Treasure - Cocteau Twins. Still one of the most strange sounding records to this day. And probably the finest record ever made by a Scottish band.

@Bartholomew_Musgrave

6 ай бұрын

Oh, and “What Difference Does It Make?” was on the original British pressing. It wasn’t just a US inclusion.

@vinylrichie007

6 ай бұрын

Cocteau Twins are a band that I have not dove into. This Charming Man is the song that was not on the UK version.

@Bartholomew_Musgrave

6 ай бұрын

Well, Cocteau Twins aren’t for everyone. They’re pretty much the opposite end of the spectrum to the Butthole boys in terms of musical sensibility. They’re a band I’ve come to love more as I’ve gotten older. Treasure is very special, and their first three albums as a trilogy are unbeatable for that early 80s Scottish gothic sound.

Richie you gotta listen to more minutemen!

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

I’m not sure about that but I’m going to do a Minutemen deep dive.

@AsherReed

Жыл бұрын

@@vinylrichie007 best albums by them in my opinion will always be What Makes A Man Start Fires?, and Paranoid Time.

surfers .. totally agree

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

Never been a surfer.

@wurmholewizrdree3475

Жыл бұрын

@@vinylrichie007 me neither duuude ... 'Hairway to Steven' is their best record I reckon .

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

@@wurmholewizrdree3475 My favorite is Rembrandt Pussyhorse.

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

@@wurmholewizrdree3475 When I first responded I thought you were referring to actual surfers. Duh.

@wurmholewizrdree3475

Жыл бұрын

@@vinylrichie007 its a goodie for sure , creep in the cellar and sea ferring . yeh. all their stuff ..really ....they are hilarious too.

Three of a perfect pair?

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

I don’t own any of the 80’s version of King Crimson. I do like them.

Top 5 would of suffice

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

Not even.

I reckon ill know one of these

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

That is funny.

Do 1985

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

85 is in the works.

like the video. don;t be a chump!

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

Okay

Husker Du and B surfers is epic. MINUTEMEN DOUBLE LP is straight garbage. You don't listen to it because its not good. In fact, I Challenge you DOUBLE DOG DARE you to listen to all 4 sides, no breaks and then say its a good album. Lol 😆😆😆😆

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

That is s great idea. A deep dive video is in the works.

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

I’m halfway through side two. C+ at best. At this point it should have been 18 or maybe 21 and not making the list.

@AsherReed

Жыл бұрын

Great album, minutemen flies over peoples heads cause there over the top creative, almost jazzy fluent style off playing. Great album 9/10. You would’ve gotten along with the close minded punks who hated them at the time when they came into the scene.

@AsherReed

Жыл бұрын

@@vinylrichie007 I can’t disagree more, Minutemen never had a universal sound. It’s like all three members are doing there own thing at once. Unique different style of playing and there music can be labeled as challenging to most people or complex. Not everyone gets it, but there’s a reason that this album is so loved by people who understand and endure it vs people who don’t get it. Not there best album but still great, I would give it an A.

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

@@AsherReed The Minutemen do not go over my head. I saw them live and they were great.

Not to judge (God forbid), but it's interesting to make a note that this collection would be fairly identical to any 'wannabe-hipsters' record collection (albeit a few records by some cool bands has, personally, picked the wrong albums, ie: The Smiths debut and TOO TOUGH TO DIE) PS: How dare Minutemen NOT HAVE a professional looking album cover, as we all know how much effort Independant bands put into their album covers back then (as now) and COMMERCIAL ZONE (released by Levene) is infintely better than that horrible mess of a version Lydon eventually mutilated as THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

Not having a professional cover is one thing but that Minutemen album cover is bad. Actually the front cover isn’t bad but the back cover is terrible.

@sexobscura

Жыл бұрын

@vinylrichie007 I get your grievance, but there a 1000x worse shocking covers out there from the era

@vinylrichie007

Жыл бұрын

@@sexobscura not sure there are that many worse than pictures of two dudes driving