1980 Albums I love from your list. - Black Sea - Boy - Kings of the Wild Frontier - Scary Monsters - Seventeen Seconds - Gentlemen Take Polaroids - The Pretenders - Remain in Light - Crocodiles - Closer Albums on my "needs a spin or another spin" list. - Strange Boutique - The Return of the Durutti Column - I Just Can't Stop It - Colossal Youth - Jeopardy - Kaleidoscope - Kilimanjaro - Crazy Rhythms - The Songs the Lord Taugth Us - The Correct Use of Soap - Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables Albums I'm not so keen on. - Dirty Mind - Empires and Dance Albums I don't know or had never heard of. - The Black Album - Underwater Moonlight Albums I miss from your list and might be on my list. - Argybargy (Squeeze) - From A to B (New Musik) - Going Deaf for a Living (Fischer-Z) - Killing Joke (by Killing Joke) - Love Stinks (The J. Geils Band) - Organisation (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark) - Super Trouper (ABBA) - True Colours (Split Enz) - Vienna (Ultravox) - Zenyatta Mondatta (The Police)
@@spoteach Wow, Gunter! I absolutely loved reading this 🙏 I really enjoyed how you broke each batch of albums into these very specific sections. I would be most intrigued to see you apply these categories to the other years I have done/am going to do as well. I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this post. Best wishes, Christian
Great video - comprehensive coverage of 1980 - Peter Gabriel's third album (Melt) could do with an appearance. Monochrome Set, The Sound, Magazine and The Feelies (often overlooked) all make a welcome appearance.
@@drdavid1963 Wow, great to see you making your way through my vids, Dr David 🙏 I do own ‘Melt’ and it was very unlucky not to make it into my top 25, but you make a very fair point because it’s an excellent album. I am also very happy to hear you approve of seeing The Monochrome Set, Magazine and The Feelies 😊 Best wishes, Christian
More than seeing/enjoying the superb albums that you ranked from 1980 Christian. I also really appreciate your detailed descriptions. Especially on the great Durutti Column's "The Return Of the DC". Wonderful presentation. Excellent choices~ Rob/Boston
@@Paneeks1960 Wow, Rob! Thank you so much for leaving such a kind and supportive comment, which is truly appreciated 😊🙏 I am very happy to read you enjoyed seeing my list, and that my descriptions, as regards presentation style, are to your liking 👍🏻👍🏻 Yes, ‘The Return of the Durutti Column’ is such a marvellous album! I love how chilled it is, and it puts me in a relaxed state in a similar way that ‘Colossal Youth’ by Young Marble Giants does. Thank you so much for watching and sending best wishes, Christian
@@spikesdeb Is that you Debsi? Lovely to have you here in The Vinyl Sanctuary! 🙏 I’m so pleased you wore your face paint with pride back in the day - and yep, ‘Kings of the Wild Frontier’ is a fantastic album! Best wishes, Christian
Great list and what an amazing year for music! Not sure what I would leave off from your list, but my top 25 would include: Police-Zenyatta Mondatta; Squeeze-Argy Bargy; Associates-the Affectionate Punch; Killing Joke-ST; Steely Dan-Gaucho; and Sandinista by the Clash, which I love from start to finish, so “juicy” and daring!
@@ashrobinson4604 Hi Ash! 👋 I am very happy to see you have checked out my 1980 vid too - thank you so much! 🙏 Yes, 1980 was an incredible year for music! If you take a look at the ‘Community’ section on the channel, you will see the other albums I have in my vinyl collection from 1980 which didn’t make my final top 25 - a good few of which you have listed as personal faves 😊 I really appreciate you being here and I do hope you continue to enjoy the channel! Best wishes, Christian
Hi Christian, blimey 1980 was a good year! Mind you every year in the early/mid 80’s was a good year. Two there that are gaps in my collection neither of which I have ever seen out in the wild, Empires and Dance and The Feelies album. Onwards to 1984! Andy
@@andygladwin2049 Hi, Andy! Great to hear from you 😊👍🏻 I am so appreciative of you working through my ‘80s vids and taking the time to comment. It’s really greatly appreciated 🙏 1980 was ridiculously strong, as mention in the vid, but I got there in the end with my ranking! 😂 I agree that so many years in the 1980s were great for music, which makes finalising my picks each time all the more fun - and all the more difficult! ‘Empires and Dance’ and ‘Crazy Rhythms’ are super-great albums and I’m delighted to have them in the collection. If you ever see them out in the wild, please let me know if you take the plunge! I hope you enjoy 1984! Best wishes, Christian
@@spikesdeb One of Bowie’s best! I love art-rock Bowie and there’s some truly awesome songs on it. Maybe my video will encourage you to give your copy a spin sometime soon? Best wishes, Christian
that was great. as a post-punk aficionado myself I would probably have had picked 25 post-punk albums from 1980. :D I think "strange boutique" deserves much wider recognition. " The Puerto Rican Fence Climber" is one of my favourite tracks of all times. from the list, apart from The Monochrome Set, I have deep love for "Colossal Youth", "Kilimanjaro", " Crocodiles" and "The Return...". that would have been my top-5. Can I just mention one album outside those 25? "Michael & Miranda" by The Passions is such a great album.
@@akis723 Hi Akis! 👋 Thank you very much indeed for such a kind comment - and for taking the time to watch this vid 🙏 I am always delighted to encounter a fellow fan of The Monochrome Set 😊 They are indeed very underrated and ‘The Puerto Rican Fence Climber’ is a fine choice for an all-time-fave track 👏 I was very happy to read how much of a fan you are of some of the albums I showed - and yes, the five you listed would have made for a brilliant top five in its own right 👍🏻 That Passions album is excellent 👌 If you take a look at the comment I posted in the ‘Community’ section you will see the other albums I have in the vinyl collection from 1980 that didn’t make the list I showed on camera. ‘Michael and Miranda’ is one of them, and it’s a very enjoyable listen. Reminds me in places of the earlier period of The Cure. Best wishes, Christian
Great video Quick comment before I fully digest this London Calling was released Mid December 1979 in UK but in January 1980 in USA So Clash often tops lists on 1980 albums maybe even Rolling Stone Magazine Just wanted all to know you didn’t miss it . London Calling is a 79 album
@@jessem470 Hi Jesse! 👋 Many thanks for commenting and watching my latest vid - much appreciated 🙏 Yes, ‘London Calling’ is most definitely a 1979 record for me, but of course I can appreciate why my friends across the pond would list it for 1980. After all, it did land Stateside in 1980, so it is technically correct. For me personally, it’s one of the best albums of 1979 - and one of the best of all time! Best wishes, Christian
@@noticeddamian Hi and many thanks indeed for watching and commenting - sincerely appreciated 🙏 Always brilliant to converse with a fellow Prince fan and I totally agree that ‘Dirty Mind’ is a hugely enjoyable album - definitely one of his best 💜 Best wishes, Christian
I’m so happy you’re continuing your favorite albums of the 1980s series. Paying your respects to this totally tubular decade! This was a comprehensive overview of the music that started off the 80s with a bang. (as far as my tastes are concerned - you included many gems!) ‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ is my favorite of the year. It just has an otherworldly hold on me. My fave track is “My New Career” There was indeed “something in the water” - what an exciting time to experience all of this in real time as a teenager or young adult, if you were so lucky! Toddler me had to wait. Albums not mentioned that also slap are: Split Enz - True Colours Bauhaus - In The Flat Field Peter Gabriel 3/Melt The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta Diana Ross - Diana The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy covered “California Uber Alles” in 1992 and I was introduced to this and the DK original around the same time. It has a Public Enemy vibe. Love them both!
@@michelewiese48 Hiya, Michele! 👋 Always great to hear from you and thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a supportive, encouraging and detailed comment 🙏 I am very happy to hear you approve of my decision to continue to rank the 1980s, and I am pleased you found my overview to be comprehensive 😊 ‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ is a superb choice for your fave album of the year, and it very easily made it into my top 25. ‘My New Career’ is an excellent choice of fave track too 👏 I didn’t reference it directly in my vid, as I mentioned a few other personal faves, but I do enjoy your fave song a great deal too. Yes, there was definitely something in the water and I can only imagine how it must have been back then to be a teenager or young adult, buying those records in real-time alongside watching them perform on telly and going to gigs ❤️🎶 Toddler you had to wait, whilst I had to wait to be born 😆 You listed some brilliant faves there, Michele that I didn’t. I would love ‘In the Flat Field’ in the collection, but I don’t have it on vinyl; I need more time with Split Enz, but enjoy what I’ve heard (I have none of their records though on vinyl anyhow); I have ‘Melt’ and ‘Zenyatta’, but they didn’t make the final list; and I’ve only heard the three big hits off ‘Diana’, so I don’t know the album well enough, although I do love its hits! I will definitely check out that DK cover, like right now! It sounds ace, so thank you so much for passing that recommendation on to me 😊🙏 It’s great also that you love both the cover and the original 👍🏻👍🏻 Thanks again for commenting and watching - and sending best wishes, Christian
@@TheVinylSanctuary My pleasure, as always! Looking forward to 1981. My favorite album by Split Enz is their debut ‘Mental Notes’ (1975) - it’s really something! Ciao for now, Christian. ❤️🎶
1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light 2. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms 3. Joy Division - Closer 4. The Sound - Jeopardy 5. The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle 6. XTC - Black Sea 7. Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles 8. The Birthday Party - The Birthday Party 9. Killing Joke - Killing Joke 10. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field 11. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station 12. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope 13. X - Los Angeles Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth The Cure - Seventeen Seconds The Jam - Sound Affects Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro U2 - Boy Pretenders - Pretenders The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs Simple Minds - Empires And Dance Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette Horace Andy - Showcase David Bowie - Scary Monsters Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody’s Heroes The Associates - The Affectionate Punch
@@Fastnbulbous1969 Hiya, Fast 👋 Thank you for taking the time to check out my 1980 vid - much appreciated 🙏 Your list is exquisite and great to see we have a fair bit of crossover 👌 Best wishes, Christian
Great stuff. I did a 1980 run down & I think we share 4. I had The Sound in my hand last week but £80.00 was a bit strong for me...despite that being a good price. I had 'More Specials' at number 1, although tbh most of mine were pretty interchangeable position wise.
Thank you so much for your comment and kind words - much appreciated 🙏 I will definitely check out your rundown for 1980 and I look forward to seeing the four we have in common. £80 is a good price for ‘Jeopardy’ but it is rather steep. ‘More Specials’ is a more than worthy number 1. A great album and it would have made my top 25 if I owned it on vinyl. As you say, so many picks can be interchangeable position-wise because all these albums are great in one way or another! Thanks for watching and best wishes, Christian
Great video 1980 phew ! What a year Picking 25 virtually impossible and you did amazing job to edit to down to your picks. I have no issue with any of your choices they are all well deserving to make any list Few quick comments Sounds ; Ive never seen a vinyl copy of this amazing record but would love to get it one day Boy ; I agree and this has alway been my favorite U2 album Japan ; an incredible band and so much more than Sylvains looks ; I remember them doing Ghost om OFWT and became an instant and lifelong fan . Mick Karn what a talent lost way too young But the biggest surprise was choice of Feelies for Thumbnail I love Feelies and lucky to see them loads of time even back in Maxwells , Hoboken days Their new VU tribute album is a must have . I had made my mind up I was putting on Japans Oil on Cavas to listen to as i write this but lo and behold a few Albums to the left was Sound Affects by the Jam Now i know 25 is tight but its Sound Affects! , and it thats not entertainment i don’t know what is Another Album to the right of Japan was Grace Jones : Warm Leatherette another 1980 album and it has her version of Private Life Believe me your picks are flawless Duritti , Teardrops , Soft Boys , Echo , Talking heads all top 10 for me But I have to go back to an album I mentioned on June Brides video Captain Beefheart : Doc at Radar Station I hitchhiked 30 miles to get a copy of this at the time; I think the store that had it must have made a mistake or its was flogged off on them by a supplier anyways i was so happy to get it and still have that copy to this day Notable bands from 1980 On my shelves that would make my 25 Dexy’s : Searching for Young Souls rebels The Pylons ; Gyrate the best band from Athens Georgia just ask B52s or REM Finally one of my all time most listenable albums Bass Culture : Linton Kwesi Johnson No offense intended to the greatest poet of them all Dr John Cooper Clarke who’s masterpiece Snap Crackle and Bop was also released 1980 and another Martin Hannett effort and Vinnie Reilly had some input and received Special Thanks from JCC 80 was huge for ska and reggae ; after all it was the year the world was gifted Redemption Song but i cant settle on 1 album from either genre so Signing Off ; for now
@@jessem470 Phew indeed, Jesse! That was some task editing down the albums I have in my collection from 1980 - and the ones which didn’t make it onto my video (listed as a ‘Community’ post, if you’re interested) are all great albums too! 😰 Thank you so much for taking the time to comment on some of my picks - much appreciated - as I always love reading what you have to say 😊👍🏻 I couldn’t agree more about Japan (way more than just Sylvian’s looks) and I’m so happy that you also consider ‘Boy’ to be the best U2 album 👏 I love that Feelies album so much, and was in my top 5 for so many years before Magazine snuck up on it and then overtook. The album artwork is so lovely for ‘Crazy Rhythms’ that I chose it for the title card too. That’s so cool you’ve seen them live so many times! Brilliant to hear as well that they’ve done a VU tribute album ❤️ You are more than fair to pick me up on ‘Sound Affects’. I adore that album and I have it in the collection, but I haven’t listened to it in so young - hardly ever since my thirties and I’m 42 now. I do need to revisit it, because I listened to The Jam’s albums a lot in my teens and twenties, but it didn’t make the cut this time. Hey, at least I gave you ‘The Gift’ in 1982! 🎁 I do love ‘Warm Leatherette’ by Grace Jones and I briefly mention her cover of ‘Private Life’ in my commentary, but the only album I have of hers on vinyl is ‘Nightclubbing’. I will need to check out the Beefheart record, and as regards the other records you listed: I have Dexys’ ‘Searching for…’ but it didn’t make my cut (a fine album though); I listened to ‘Gyrate’ many years ago, because R.E.M. told me to, but I can’t recall it at all… That one is definitely due a revisit; I only know ‘Bass Culture’ by name, but don’t know the record; I love ‘Snap, Crackle’ by Dr JCC, but don’t have it on vinyl. I loved what you did in your final sentence, Jesse 😉👏 So did UB40 release your fave album of 1980? Best wishes, Christian
NOTE TO VIEWERS A big apology here to all you Tom Verlaine fans. I incorrectly state in this video that Verlaine covered the song ‘Kingdom Come’ on his self-titled debut album - released in 1979. Verlaine didn’t cover the song at all; he wrote it. The person who covered ‘Kingdom Come’ was Bowie, which pops up on the 1980 album ‘Scary Monsters’, as shown in this video. All I can say is I know Verlaine wrote the song and it was Bowie doing the covering, but somehow I’ve ended up saying on camera it’s a Bowie song that Verlaine covered… Oh dear! 🙈 With all that being said, this pinned comment is my attempt at acknowledging the error and seeking to correct it, so many thanks for reading 🙏 Best wishes, Christian
Thank you Christian. Yes, you're talkin' about my generation...by the third album I pretty much knew what you were going to choose...in a good way...most albums you mentioned passed through my record collection at one point or another...excluding Simple Minds...I could never get them...some are still there. I have mentioned before my great love of Durutti Column and indeed the Monochrone Set, LC is almost my favorite Durutti Column album, as it is many peoples, but slightly pipped at the post by Without Mercy (which I think was 1984)...although possibly if I could only choose one song to take with me to my musical afterlife it would be 'Sketch for Dawn'. The Correct Use of Soap, I probably had this by 1981. I had never heard them, didn't know even the Buzzcocks association, but there was a coterie of biker-punks...post-punks with powerful motorbikes, not just the usual ubiquitous Kwaka 125, and the leader of the peroxide pack had MAGAZINE painted across the back of his leather jacket, I thought he was quite cool, so I went to the record store and purchased that album (I'd like to say it ended well for the Magazine biker-punk, that he has kids and grandkids, a vintage Triumph and a record collection to outweigh yours...but there was a high mortality rate amongst the youth - especially the punks - of my generation...at least perhaps he had the ability to exit with some style. I think it goes without saying that the decade, which produced more than its fare share of both palatable and unpalatable gloom and misery, has much to atone for). Echo and the Bunnymen still live in my vinyl collection, I might've told you that they did a benefit gig for Layla when she was a kid and needed specialised doctoring in Italy (which is another story and a half, unblievable yet true). Layla's mum was present in the studio when they were recording 'Ocean Rain' (I'm not entirely clear why) both Layla and her mum were present in the studio and the hotel when Oasis recorded their first album, whatever that was called...I think you know which story I privilege. 'Closer' is still one of my favourite albums...I also have the choral version of Eternal by the Nau Ensemble...and even managed to see Scanner and the Heritage Orchestra perform the music of Joy Division, which was a strange gig, the audience full of the fading stragglers of my generational cohort, no longer in their prime but dressed as if they were, like time had stooped in 1983, and I thought "are these really my people? " and then "yes, these are my people!". Dead Kennedy's continues to be relevant although nolonger really listened to in our house of quietude...sometimes that Nouvelle Vague bossa nova version of the song not for family listening gets trotted out. In addition, although dated, and sullied by their later output and some crap singles, and goth associations, I very likely would put 'In the Flat Field' by Bauhaus in my own 1980 top five, purely because that was mainly really what I was listening to at the time. Bauhaus being the local band of the ancesteral hood, me being a Northamptonshire lad originally. S.
PS...I could've easily segwayed this unlikely aside into the comment but I forgot...I am also a bit of a David Sylvian apprechiator...so this concerns he, athough, I don't know much detail, it wasn't a thing talked of overly...but my friend's big sister had a correspondence with Japan era David Sylvian, I am unsure how it began and it ended because...all I know is "That it became too dangerous" it wasn't the usual fan-penpal deal, it centred around a ghost which haunted her bedroom in Glasgow, who Sylvian was also in communication with via a ouija board. S.
@@Layla-kd4ui You’re most welcome, Sean - and thank you for watching and commenting! 😊🙏 I have been looking forward to what you would have to say about my 1980 vid and the year in general - and your recollections did not disappoint 👏 I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on certain albums. I love ‘LC’ but I don’t have it in the collection - ditto with ‘In the Flat Field’. The biker punk story was moving and you have mentioned the Bunnymen benefit gig before, which is also moving albeit for totally different reasons. Your words on ‘Closer’ were superb. You made me chuckle with your Dead Kennedys section and, as always, I appreciate having you here in The Vinyl Sanctuary! Best wishes, Christian
@@michelewiese48 it wasn't particularly tall, just a strange aside, mentioned in passing, matter-of-factly, to kind of explain the strange atmosphere in the house...I don't think my friend knew all the details of the correspondance with David Sylvian, and I didn't know the sister that well...but I believe the ghost was of a teenager who died in a motorcycle accident in the late-1950s or early-1960s...maybe one day they'll be a David Sylvian biography that mentions it. S.
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1980
Albums I love from your list.
- Black Sea
- Boy
- Kings of the Wild Frontier
- Scary Monsters
- Seventeen Seconds
- Gentlemen Take Polaroids
- The Pretenders
- Remain in Light
- Crocodiles
- Closer
Albums on my "needs a spin or another spin" list.
- Strange Boutique
- The Return of the Durutti Column
- I Just Can't Stop It
- Colossal Youth
- Jeopardy
- Kaleidoscope
- Kilimanjaro
- Crazy Rhythms
- The Songs the Lord Taugth Us
- The Correct Use of Soap
- Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables
Albums I'm not so keen on.
- Dirty Mind
- Empires and Dance
Albums I don't know or had never heard of.
- The Black Album
- Underwater Moonlight
Albums I miss from your list and might be on my list.
- Argybargy (Squeeze)
- From A to B (New Musik)
- Going Deaf for a Living (Fischer-Z)
- Killing Joke (by Killing Joke)
- Love Stinks (The J. Geils Band)
- Organisation (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
- Super Trouper (ABBA)
- True Colours (Split Enz)
- Vienna (Ultravox)
- Zenyatta Mondatta (The Police)
@@spoteach Wow, Gunter!
I absolutely loved reading this 🙏 I really enjoyed how you broke each batch of albums into these very specific sections. I would be most intrigued to see you apply these categories to the other years I have done/am going to do as well.
I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this post.
Best wishes,
Christian
Great video - comprehensive coverage of 1980 - Peter Gabriel's third album (Melt) could do with an appearance.
Monochrome Set, The Sound, Magazine and The Feelies (often overlooked) all make a welcome appearance.
@@drdavid1963 Wow, great to see you making your way through my vids, Dr David 🙏
I do own ‘Melt’ and it was very unlucky not to make it into my top 25, but you make a very fair point because it’s an excellent album.
I am also very happy to hear you approve of seeing The Monochrome Set, Magazine and The Feelies 😊
Best wishes,
Christian
More than seeing/enjoying the superb albums that you ranked from 1980 Christian. I also really appreciate your detailed descriptions. Especially on the great Durutti Column's "The Return Of the DC". Wonderful presentation. Excellent choices~
Rob/Boston
@@Paneeks1960 Wow, Rob! Thank you so much for leaving such a kind and supportive comment, which is truly appreciated 😊🙏
I am very happy to read you enjoyed seeing my list, and that my descriptions, as regards presentation style, are to your liking 👍🏻👍🏻
Yes, ‘The Return of the Durutti Column’ is such a marvellous album! I love how chilled it is, and it puts me in a relaxed state in a similar way that ‘Colossal Youth’ by Young Marble Giants does.
Thank you so much for watching and sending best wishes,
Christian
Love Kings of the Wild Frontier. Wore my face paint with pride. Belting album.
@@spikesdeb Is that you Debsi? Lovely to have you here in The Vinyl Sanctuary! 🙏
I’m so pleased you wore your face paint with pride back in the day - and yep, ‘Kings of the Wild Frontier’ is a fantastic album!
Best wishes,
Christian
Great list and what an amazing year for music! Not sure what I would leave off from your list, but my top 25 would include: Police-Zenyatta Mondatta; Squeeze-Argy Bargy; Associates-the Affectionate Punch; Killing Joke-ST; Steely Dan-Gaucho; and Sandinista by the Clash, which I love from start to finish, so “juicy” and daring!
@@ashrobinson4604 Hi Ash! 👋
I am very happy to see you have checked out my 1980 vid too - thank you so much! 🙏
Yes, 1980 was an incredible year for music! If you take a look at the ‘Community’ section on the channel, you will see the other albums I have in my vinyl collection from 1980 which didn’t make my final top 25 - a good few of which you have listed as personal faves 😊
I really appreciate you being here and I do hope you continue to enjoy the channel!
Best wishes,
Christian
Hi Christian, blimey 1980 was a good year! Mind you every year in the early/mid 80’s was a good year. Two there that are gaps in my collection neither of which I have ever seen out in the wild, Empires and Dance and The Feelies album. Onwards to 1984! Andy
@@andygladwin2049 Hi, Andy!
Great to hear from you 😊👍🏻 I am so appreciative of you working through my ‘80s vids and taking the time to comment. It’s really greatly appreciated 🙏
1980 was ridiculously strong, as mention in the vid, but I got there in the end with my ranking! 😂 I agree that so many years in the 1980s were great for music, which makes finalising my picks each time all the more fun - and all the more difficult!
‘Empires and Dance’ and ‘Crazy Rhythms’ are super-great albums and I’m delighted to have them in the collection. If you ever see them out in the wild, please let me know if you take the plunge!
I hope you enjoy 1984!
Best wishes,
Christian
Wow. Scary Monsters Suoer Creeps. Not listened to that for so long and I played it to death.
@@spikesdeb One of Bowie’s best! I love art-rock Bowie and there’s some truly awesome songs on it. Maybe my video will encourage you to give your copy a spin sometime soon?
Best wishes,
Christian
that was great.
as a post-punk aficionado myself I would probably have had picked 25 post-punk albums from 1980. :D
I think "strange boutique" deserves much wider recognition. " The Puerto Rican Fence Climber" is one of my favourite tracks of all times.
from the list, apart from The Monochrome Set, I have deep love for "Colossal Youth", "Kilimanjaro", " Crocodiles" and "The Return...".
that would have been my top-5.
Can I just mention one album outside those 25?
"Michael & Miranda" by The Passions is such a great album.
@@akis723 Hi Akis! 👋
Thank you very much indeed for such a kind comment - and for taking the time to watch this vid 🙏
I am always delighted to encounter a fellow fan of The Monochrome Set 😊 They are indeed very underrated and ‘The Puerto Rican Fence Climber’ is a fine choice for an all-time-fave track 👏
I was very happy to read how much of a fan you are of some of the albums I showed - and yes, the five you listed would have made for a brilliant top five in its own right 👍🏻
That Passions album is excellent 👌 If you take a look at the comment I posted in the ‘Community’ section you will see the other albums I have in the vinyl collection from 1980 that didn’t make the list I showed on camera. ‘Michael and Miranda’ is one of them, and it’s a very enjoyable listen. Reminds me in places of the earlier period of The Cure.
Best wishes,
Christian
Great video
Quick comment before I fully digest this
London Calling was released Mid December 1979 in UK but in January 1980 in USA
So Clash often tops lists on 1980 albums maybe even Rolling Stone Magazine
Just wanted all to know you didn’t miss it . London Calling is a 79 album
@@jessem470 Hi Jesse! 👋
Many thanks for commenting and watching my latest vid - much appreciated 🙏
Yes, ‘London Calling’ is most definitely a 1979 record for me, but of course I can appreciate why my friends across the pond would list it for 1980. After all, it did land Stateside in 1980, so it is technically correct. For me personally, it’s one of the best albums of 1979 - and one of the best of all time!
Best wishes,
Christian
I love Prince and find dirty mind the album I play most often these days 👌
@@noticeddamian Hi and many thanks indeed for watching and commenting - sincerely appreciated 🙏
Always brilliant to converse with a fellow Prince fan and I totally agree that ‘Dirty Mind’ is a hugely enjoyable album - definitely one of his best 💜
Best wishes,
Christian
I’m so happy you’re continuing your favorite albums of the 1980s series. Paying your respects to this totally tubular decade! This was a comprehensive overview of the music that started off the 80s with a bang. (as far as my tastes are concerned - you included many gems!) ‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ is my favorite of the year. It just has an otherworldly hold on me. My fave track is “My New Career”
There was indeed “something in the water” - what an exciting time to experience all of this in real time as a teenager or young adult, if you were so lucky! Toddler me had to wait. Albums not mentioned that also slap are:
Split Enz - True Colours
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
Peter Gabriel 3/Melt
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
Diana Ross - Diana
The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy covered “California Uber Alles” in 1992 and I was introduced to this and the DK original around the same time. It has a Public Enemy vibe. Love them both!
@@michelewiese48 Hiya, Michele! 👋
Always great to hear from you and thank you so much for taking the time to leave such a supportive, encouraging and detailed comment 🙏
I am very happy to hear you approve of my decision to continue to rank the 1980s, and I am pleased you found my overview to be comprehensive 😊
‘Gentlemen Take Polaroids’ is a superb choice for your fave album of the year, and it very easily made it into my top 25. ‘My New Career’ is an excellent choice of fave track too 👏 I didn’t reference it directly in my vid, as I mentioned a few other personal faves, but I do enjoy your fave song a great deal too.
Yes, there was definitely something in the water and I can only imagine how it must have been back then to be a teenager or young adult, buying those records in real-time alongside watching them perform on telly and going to gigs ❤️🎶 Toddler you had to wait, whilst I had to wait to be born 😆
You listed some brilliant faves there, Michele that I didn’t. I would love ‘In the Flat Field’ in the collection, but I don’t have it on vinyl; I need more time with Split Enz, but enjoy what I’ve heard (I have none of their records though on vinyl anyhow); I have ‘Melt’ and ‘Zenyatta’, but they didn’t make the final list; and I’ve only heard the three big hits off ‘Diana’, so I don’t know the album well enough, although I do love its hits!
I will definitely check out that DK cover, like right now! It sounds ace, so thank you so much for passing that recommendation on to me 😊🙏 It’s great also that you love both the cover and the original 👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks again for commenting and watching - and sending best wishes,
Christian
@@TheVinylSanctuary My pleasure, as always! Looking forward to 1981. My favorite album by Split Enz is their debut ‘Mental Notes’ (1975) - it’s really something!
Ciao for now, Christian. ❤️🎶
Remind me again...because I'm not from around here...is "totally tubular" good or bad? : )
@@Layla-kd4ui Hi! Yes, it is good. I love all of those silly phrases from my childhood. Gag me with a spoon is another fave.
@@Layla-kd4ui ‘Totally tubular’ is like, totally a compliment dude!
1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
2. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
3. Joy Division - Closer
4. The Sound - Jeopardy
5. The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle
6. XTC - Black Sea
7. Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
8. The Birthday Party - The Birthday Party
9. Killing Joke - Killing Joke
10. Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
11. Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Doc At The Radar Station
12. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Kaleidoscope
13. X - Los Angeles
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
The Jam - Sound Affects
Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
U2 - Boy
Pretenders - Pretenders
The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
Simple Minds - Empires And Dance
Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
Horace Andy - Showcase
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody’s Heroes
The Associates - The Affectionate Punch
@@Fastnbulbous1969 Hiya, Fast 👋
Thank you for taking the time to check out my 1980 vid - much appreciated 🙏
Your list is exquisite and great to see we have a fair bit of crossover 👌
Best wishes,
Christian
Great stuff. I did a 1980 run down & I think we share 4. I had The Sound in my hand last week but £80.00 was a bit strong for me...despite that being a good price. I had 'More Specials' at number 1, although tbh most of mine were pretty interchangeable position wise.
Thank you so much for your comment and kind words - much appreciated 🙏
I will definitely check out your rundown for 1980 and I look forward to seeing the four we have in common.
£80 is a good price for ‘Jeopardy’ but it is rather steep.
‘More Specials’ is a more than worthy number 1. A great album and it would have made my top 25 if I owned it on vinyl. As you say, so many picks can be interchangeable position-wise because all these albums are great in one way or another!
Thanks for watching and best wishes,
Christian
Great video
1980 phew ! What a year
Picking 25 virtually impossible and you did amazing job to edit to down to your picks. I have no issue with any of your choices they are all well deserving to make any list
Few quick comments
Sounds ; Ive never seen a vinyl copy of this amazing record but would love to get it one day
Boy ; I agree and this has alway been my favorite U2 album
Japan ; an incredible band and so much more than Sylvains looks ; I remember them doing Ghost om OFWT and became an instant and lifelong fan . Mick Karn what a talent lost way too young
But the biggest surprise was choice of Feelies for Thumbnail
I love Feelies and lucky to see them loads of time even back in Maxwells , Hoboken days
Their new VU tribute album is a must have .
I had made my mind up I was putting on Japans Oil on Cavas to listen to as i write this but lo and behold a few Albums to the left was Sound Affects by the Jam
Now i know 25 is tight but its Sound Affects! , and it thats not entertainment i don’t know what is
Another Album to the right of Japan was Grace Jones : Warm Leatherette another 1980 album and it has her version of Private Life
Believe me your picks are flawless
Duritti , Teardrops , Soft Boys , Echo , Talking heads all top 10 for me
But I have to go back to an album I mentioned on June Brides video
Captain Beefheart : Doc at Radar Station
I hitchhiked 30 miles to get a copy of this at the time; I think the store that had it must have made a mistake or its was flogged off on them by a supplier anyways i was so happy to get it and still have that copy to this day
Notable bands from 1980 On my shelves that would make my 25
Dexy’s : Searching for Young Souls rebels
The Pylons ; Gyrate the best band from Athens Georgia just ask B52s or REM
Finally one of my all time most listenable albums
Bass Culture : Linton Kwesi Johnson
No offense intended to the greatest poet of them all
Dr John Cooper Clarke who’s masterpiece Snap Crackle and Bop was also released 1980 and another Martin Hannett effort and Vinnie Reilly had some input and received Special Thanks from JCC
80 was huge for ska and reggae ; after all it was the year the world was gifted Redemption Song but i cant settle on 1 album from either genre so
Signing Off ; for now
@@jessem470 Phew indeed, Jesse! That was some task editing down the albums I have in my collection from 1980 - and the ones which didn’t make it onto my video (listed as a ‘Community’ post, if you’re interested) are all great albums too! 😰
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment on some of my picks - much appreciated - as I always love reading what you have to say 😊👍🏻
I couldn’t agree more about Japan (way more than just Sylvian’s looks) and I’m so happy that you also consider ‘Boy’ to be the best U2 album 👏
I love that Feelies album so much, and was in my top 5 for so many years before Magazine snuck up on it and then overtook. The album artwork is so lovely for ‘Crazy Rhythms’ that I chose it for the title card too. That’s so cool you’ve seen them live so many times! Brilliant to hear as well that they’ve done a VU tribute album ❤️
You are more than fair to pick me up on ‘Sound Affects’. I adore that album and I have it in the collection, but I haven’t listened to it in so young - hardly ever since my thirties and I’m 42 now. I do need to revisit it, because I listened to The Jam’s albums a lot in my teens and twenties, but it didn’t make the cut this time. Hey, at least I gave you ‘The Gift’ in 1982! 🎁
I do love ‘Warm Leatherette’ by Grace Jones and I briefly mention her cover of ‘Private Life’ in my commentary, but the only album I have of hers on vinyl is ‘Nightclubbing’.
I will need to check out the Beefheart record, and as regards the other records you listed: I have Dexys’ ‘Searching for…’ but it didn’t make my cut (a fine album though); I listened to ‘Gyrate’ many years ago, because R.E.M. told me to, but I can’t recall it at all… That one is definitely due a revisit; I only know ‘Bass Culture’ by name, but don’t know the record; I love ‘Snap, Crackle’ by Dr JCC, but don’t have it on vinyl.
I loved what you did in your final sentence, Jesse 😉👏 So did UB40 release your fave album of 1980?
Best wishes,
Christian
UB40s album really was an amazing political statement at the time
Yes I love that record
@@jessem470 😊👍🏻
NOTE TO VIEWERS
A big apology here to all you Tom Verlaine fans. I incorrectly state in this video that Verlaine covered the song ‘Kingdom Come’ on his self-titled debut album - released in 1979. Verlaine didn’t cover the song at all; he wrote it.
The person who covered ‘Kingdom Come’ was Bowie, which pops up on the 1980 album
‘Scary Monsters’, as shown in this video.
All I can say is I know Verlaine wrote the song and it was Bowie doing the covering, but somehow I’ve ended up saying on camera it’s a Bowie song that Verlaine covered… Oh dear! 🙈
With all that being said, this pinned comment is my attempt at acknowledging the error and seeking to correct it, so many thanks for reading 🙏
Best wishes,
Christian
Thank you Christian. Yes, you're talkin' about my generation...by the third album I pretty much knew what you were going to choose...in a good way...most albums you mentioned passed through my record collection at one point or another...excluding Simple Minds...I could never get them...some are still there. I have mentioned before my great love of Durutti Column and indeed the Monochrone Set, LC is almost my favorite Durutti Column album, as it is many peoples, but slightly pipped at the post by Without Mercy (which I think was 1984)...although possibly if I could only choose one song to take with me to my musical afterlife it would be 'Sketch for Dawn'. The Correct Use of Soap, I probably had this by 1981. I had never heard them, didn't know even the Buzzcocks association, but there was a coterie of biker-punks...post-punks with powerful motorbikes, not just the usual ubiquitous Kwaka 125, and the leader of the peroxide pack had MAGAZINE painted across the back of his leather jacket, I thought he was quite cool, so I went to the record store and purchased that album (I'd like to say it ended well for the Magazine biker-punk, that he has kids and grandkids, a vintage Triumph and a record collection to outweigh yours...but there was a high mortality rate amongst the youth - especially the punks - of my generation...at least perhaps he had the ability to exit with some style. I think it goes without saying that the decade, which produced more than its fare share of both palatable and unpalatable gloom and misery, has much to atone for). Echo and the Bunnymen still live in my vinyl collection, I might've told you that they did a benefit gig for Layla when she was a kid and needed specialised doctoring in Italy (which is another story and a half, unblievable yet true). Layla's mum was present in the studio when they were recording 'Ocean Rain' (I'm not entirely clear why) both Layla and her mum were present in the studio and the hotel when Oasis recorded their first album, whatever that was called...I think you know which story I privilege. 'Closer' is still one of my favourite albums...I also have the choral version of Eternal by the Nau Ensemble...and even managed to see Scanner and the Heritage Orchestra perform the music of Joy Division, which was a strange gig, the audience full of the fading stragglers of my generational cohort, no longer in their prime but dressed as if they were, like time had stooped in 1983, and I thought "are these really my people? " and then "yes, these are my people!". Dead Kennedy's continues to be relevant although nolonger really listened to in our house of quietude...sometimes that Nouvelle Vague bossa nova version of the song not for family listening gets trotted out. In addition, although dated, and sullied by their later output and some crap singles, and goth associations, I very likely would put 'In the Flat Field' by Bauhaus in my own 1980 top five, purely because that was mainly really what I was listening to at the time. Bauhaus being the local band of the ancesteral hood, me being a Northamptonshire lad originally. S.
PS...I could've easily segwayed this unlikely aside into the comment but I forgot...I am also a bit of a David Sylvian apprechiator...so this concerns he, athough, I don't know much detail, it wasn't a thing talked of overly...but my friend's big sister had a correspondence with Japan era David Sylvian, I am unsure how it began and it ended because...all I know is "That it became too dangerous" it wasn't the usual fan-penpal deal, it centred around a ghost which haunted her bedroom in Glasgow, who Sylvian was also in communication with via a ouija board. S.
@@Layla-kd4ui What?! I loved reading this. Tall tale, surely?! ✍️ 👻
@@Layla-kd4ui You’re most welcome, Sean - and thank you for watching and commenting! 😊🙏
I have been looking forward to what you would have to say about my 1980 vid and the year in general - and your recollections did not disappoint 👏
I really enjoyed reading your thoughts on certain albums. I love ‘LC’ but I don’t have it in the collection - ditto with ‘In the Flat Field’.
The biker punk story was moving and you have mentioned the Bunnymen benefit gig before, which is also moving albeit for totally different reasons. Your words on ‘Closer’ were superb.
You made me chuckle with your Dead Kennedys section and, as always, I appreciate having you here in The Vinyl Sanctuary!
Best wishes,
Christian
@@michelewiese48 Maybe, Michele - as regards it being a tall tale - and maybe it’s where the song ‘Ghosts’ stems from? 🤔
@@michelewiese48 it wasn't particularly tall, just a strange aside, mentioned in passing, matter-of-factly, to kind of explain the strange atmosphere in the house...I don't think my friend knew all the details of the correspondance with David Sylvian, and I didn't know the sister that well...but I believe the ghost was of a teenager who died in a motorcycle accident in the late-1950s or early-1960s...maybe one day they'll be a David Sylvian biography that mentions it. S.