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

Top Pick 1984

So it's the last Thursday and Friday of the month and I have been posting my pick of each year in the 80's and posting them. First time for me to post these here. I originally made these into cassettes and then later into CD's and gave them to friends and radio listeners that asked for them. Until I ran out each year. Like the previous top picks, I do the single songs on Thursday and the next day it's the top ten albums. Some of these songs were not only what I listened to at home, but also at clubs I was going to. Hard to believe that a club was playing Public Image Limited and the Stranglers, but they were getting more New Wave. General Public was everywhere. Not so much Butthole Surfers and Chris and Cosey, but they were so much on my radar. I hope you like these picks. I still wonder how much of this I would keep on the list today? Did any of these make it on your list then?

Top Pick 1984

01 dB's - Amplifier

02 Alphaville - Big in Japan

03 Dalis Car - Artemis

04 Cabaret Voltaire - Do Right

05 Fad Gadget - Collapsing New People

06 Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - Hustlers Convention

07 Style Council - The Paris Match

08 Butthole Surfers - Dum Dum

09 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon

10 The Cure - The Caterpillar

11 Chris And Cosey - October Love Song

12 Public Image Limited - This Is Not A Love Song

13 Stranglers - Skin Deep

14 Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy

15 The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another

16 Blancmange - That's Love That It Is

17 General Public - Hot You're Cool

18 The Fall - C.R.E.E.P.

19 The Smiths - What Difference Does It Make

20 The Replacements - I Will Dare