Top Pick Albums 1984

Yesterday the top songs of the year 1984 and today the top albums. This pick was from then. What I was listening to and enjoying in 1984. Remember that people were talking about the book 1984 and saying that the US was becoming Orwellian because of the actor in the White House. Democrats had been saying that he was going to push the button and start WW3 and yet he won another term by a landslide and none of the bad ever happened. Kind of like now. Reagan who's now revered was then called a Hitler. The music reflected that, but I was in tune with something a little different. Lots of Trevor Horn (ZTT, Art Of Noise, Frankie). I loved the second Violent Femmes album. U2 had Brian Eno working with them. Bauhaus was Tones on Tail (and soon to be Love and Rockets). The Red Hot Chili Peppers were just a newer little band playing clubs (I saw them so many times in California). Just all great albums and songs this year. Two picks from each album. Including the Soundtrack to great movie Repo Man.

Top Pick Albums 1984

01 Tones on Tail - Go!

02 Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back

03 Robyn Hitchcock - Uncorrected Personality Traits

04 Violent Femmes - Country Death Song

05 U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love)

06 Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized

07 Art Of Noise - Beat Box (Diversion One)

08 Red Hot Chili Peppers - True Men Don't Kill Coyotes

09 Depeche Mode - Master And Servant

10 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes

11 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mommy Where's Daddy

12 Violent Femmes - Never Tell

13 Art Of Noise - The Army Now

14 Depeche Mode - People Are People

14 Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax (Come Fighting)

15 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire

17 Hoodoo Gurus - Leilani

18 Tones on Tail - War

19 Robyn Hitchcock - Sometimes I Wish I Were A Pretty Girl

20 Iggy Pop - Repo Man