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BAD YEAR IN MUSIC - 1985

tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
edited February 2006 in Strut Central
Man, just look at the the Pazz and Jop poll top 20??? the boomers were holdin on...http://www.robertchristgau.com/xg/pnj/pjres85.php
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  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    1. Talking Heads: Little Creatures (Sire)
    14. Sade: Diamond Life (Portrait)
    11. Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club (RCA Victor)
    12. The Velvet Underground: VU (Verve)
    32. Run-D.M.C.: King of Rock (Profile)
    37. L.L. Cool J: Radio (Def Jam)

    I wouldn't call these bad.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    I was pretty happy with these:









  • SupergoodSupergood 1,213 Posts
    I see some faves in that list, though (admittedly, most of the good ones are in the lower half of the Top 40):

    14. Sade: Diamond Life (Portrait)
    28. Prefab Sprout: Two Wheels Good (Epic) -------ABSOLUTE CLASSIC!!!
    31. Bryan Ferry: Boys and Girls (Warner Bros.)

    SG
  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    1.
    11. Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club (RCA Victor)
    12. The Velvet Underground: VU (Verve)


    I wouldn't call these bad.

    just old... which is my point.
  • jleejlee 1,539 Posts
    10. Kate Bush: "Running Up That Hill"

  • CousinLarryCousinLarry 4,618 Posts
    1.
    11. Sam Cooke: Live at the Harlem Square Club (RCA Victor)
    12. The Velvet Underground: VU (Verve)


    I wouldn't call these bad.

    just old... which is my point.

    You titled the post BAD.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    This too:

  • rape_donkeysrape_donkeys 615 Posts
    pazz and jop poll is notoriously terrible
    music journal/lists are inherently nonsensical

    bad moon rising
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts
    This too:


    Oh boy...
  • jleejlee 1,539 Posts
    You titled the post BAD.

    not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good ...


  • goatboygoatboy 371 Posts
    I was pretty happy with these:










    I used to see Fishbone live all the time when they first came out.
    Talk about a bunch of crazy-ass musicians on fire!
    Awesome fun!

    Saw them at a place in The Valley called The Country Club (I'm pretty sure this was the name) which was the place in the opening of Boogie Nights.
    Used to live right off that whole strip of Sherman Way that shows up in the movie...
  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    no. bad meaning bad. There's some great records that came out that year - but OVERALL - bad year in music. Pazz and jop is a good guage for that - still is:


  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    This too:


    Oh boy...

    Oh boy, what?

    Produced by George Clinton, includes nice covers of Sly's If You Want Me to Stay and the Meters' Africa, plus American Ghost Dance absolutely kills it on the whiteboy rap tip.

    But I suppose you're too good to have ever liked the Chili Peppers...i.e. I'd hate to be you.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    And this...

  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts

    But I suppose you're too good to have ever liked the Chili Peppers.

    Pretty much... worst music imaginable.
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    The hits keep coming...

  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts
    And this...


    well this is your kind of year. I file Fishbone, chillis and FNM under "bad funk".

  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts

    But I suppose you're too good to have ever liked the Chili Peppers.

    Pretty much... worst music imaginable.

    You must have the heart of a milk dud.
  • jamesjames chicago 1,863 Posts
    10. Kate Bush: "Running Up That Hill"


    Unfadeable. I still can't believe I heard this song on the radio more than once, and in broad daylight.

    ...

    And tonyphrone:

    This isn't a dis at all, but: You're seeming kinda young with all this.

    ...

    And doggie:

    bad moon rising

    Your boy John Fogerty's all up in this thing--why you mad? Because they weren't sweating dude's twenty-year-old single? Your blind allegiance to classic rock is troubling. Very troubling. You should explore some more contemporary sounds. Let me send you some Peter Gabriel records. Don't fear the texture.

    I will not deny, however, that Christgau is a--how you say--big fucking dick.
  • faux_rillzfaux_rillz 14,343 Posts

    This isn't a dis at all, but: You're seeming kinda young with all this.

    Perhaps he just has the heart of a milk dud...
  • jamesjames chicago 1,863 Posts

    This isn't a dis at all, but: You're seeming kinda young with all this.

    Perhaps he just has the heart of a milky dude...

    Why is it always about race with you?
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    This actually came out in december '84, but it was the jam all through '85:

  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts

    And tonyphrone:

    This isn't a dis at all, but: You're seeming kinda young with all this.


    maybe, and i'm not mad at classic rock- it's just that Dylan, Fogerty, Aretha, etc. were making there best records 10-15 years before this. Putting them in the top 20 in the last 25 years means it's a bad year for music. That's just my opinion, i'm not a fan of "newer" Dylan records or Peter Gabriel - but I fucks with Credence!
  • HarveyCanalHarveyCanal "a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
    This one got a lot of play in my Walkman back then as well...



    And I've been leaving this one out, for worse than anything else I've listed so far time has not treated it very well. Who am I kidding? It always sucked.



    Then we can't forget this one, which included one of the other big jams of '85 in the form of How Soon Is Now:



    Then there's this as well...

  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    This too:


    Oh boy...

    That made my day.
  • FatbackFatback 6,746 Posts
    are you kidding?

    Other than what was already mentioned. these are all good. Rain Dogs and Psychocandy are fucking classics IMO


    2. The Replacements: Tim (Sire) 865 (82)

    4. Tom Waits: Rain Dogs (Island) 607 (59)

    6. H??sker D??: Flip Your Wig (SST) 535 (51)
    7. R.E.M.: Fables of the Reconstruction (I.R.S.) 526 (52)
    8. H??sker D??: New Day Rising (SST) 457 (43)

    23. Meat Puppets: Up on the Sun (SST) 186 (20)

    25. The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy (Blanco y Negro import) 175 (15)
  • Deep_SangDeep_Sang 1,081 Posts



    worst clash album
  • bull_oxbull_ox 5,056 Posts
    I don't think I've ever heard a positive word about that particular Clash album... didn't the band disown it?

    Reading the title of this thread I kinda assumed I agreed with that sentiment, but there's a whole lot of gold listed here so I changed my mind...
  • tonyphronetonyphrone 1,500 Posts

    25. The Jesus and Mary Chain: Psychocandy (Blanco y Negro import) 175 (15)


    #1 record of that year...not #25. ya feel me?
  • grandpa_shiggrandpa_shig 5,799 Posts
    milk duds is a gross candy. i dont know why they make that shit.
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