Some Of The Best Music Ever Made: Syk's Picks Of Les '80s
Some Of The Best Music Ever Made: Syk's Picks Of Les '80s
They were the best of times, they were the worst of times. Then thrash kicked glam out of the way, and once again, it was the best of times. Haha. Def Leppard's debut came close. Box of Frogs may yet make an appearance (or two). (Probably not two... something in the air there's just rather Average.)
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Diamond Head
- Lightning To The Nations
1980 - Lightning to the Nations, Sucking My Love, Am I Evil?, Helpless
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Jeff Beck
- There and Back
1980 - Star Cycle, The Pump, El Becko, Space Boogie (it seems a couple ideas here were influenced by Rick Derringer's hits as can be found on his Rk'n'Roll, Hoochie Koo compilation CD... oh well, end result sounds great)
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Neil Young
- Trans
1982 - the Computer songs, the Cowboy songs, the Love songs and the re-jig of "Mr. Soul" are all good, but epic finisher "Like an Inca" is the definite masterpiece here (somewhat like v)
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Rory Gallagher
- Jinx
1982 - Big Guns, Signals, Jinxed, Easy Come, Easy Go, Ride On Red, Ride On
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Anthrax
- Spreading The Disease
1985 - A.I.R, Lone Justice, Madhouse, S.S.C/Stand or Fall, Armed and Dangerous
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Slayer
- Reign In Blood
1986 - Angel of Death, Jesus Saves, Criminally Insane, Postmortem, Raining Blood
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Metallica
- Master Of Puppets
1986 - all songs rule except The Thing... tho oddly, I quite liked Adema's version 19 years later
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Iron Maiden
- Somewhere In Time
1986 - Caught Somewhere in Time, Wasted Years, Sea of Madness, The Loneliness of the LDR
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Metallica
- ...And Justice For All
1988 - everything 7-9... + 1-5 (love for Sorrow hinges on my mood)
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Morbid Saint
- Spectrum Of Death
1988 - can I say "whole damn album" again? ...I just did, ah well...
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Anacrusis
- Quick To Doubt
1989 - overall a very strong prog-leaning thrash demo, with some parts over-long but indeed some great songs... I tend to prefer the material right in the middle (Wrong + Child Inside + Vital = classic) - see #1 on my next list to see how they still had better to give! (and check the band's news on MS for new stuff 25 years later)
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28.
Neil Young
- Freedom
1989 - Crime in the City (Sixty to Zero, Pt. 1), Don't Cry, No More, Rockin' in the Free World [Electric Return] (Eldorado's a great Latin-tinged/flamenco-influenced rock tune, and most of the rest's a bunch of country ? that doesn't prevent them from being good songs, though. Not in the slightest!)
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