Via Slicing Up Eyeballs
http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2013/06/03/best-albums-of-1983/
Ahead of Minor Threat, Sonic Youth, The Church, Killing Joke, Cabaret Voltaire, Einstürzende Neubauten and The Ramones.
But not ahead of Power, Corruption and Lies.
REM #2 and U2 #3= total fail
Not surprising, it’s a good album! Deep down every Ministry fans knows it. [cool]
^HAHA! Yeah, REM and U2 should never outrank anything on any list ever.
Seeing lists like that always depress me . . . those were all albums from a single year, and he actually had to whittle stuff down to SELECT what made it on the list. Not everything on that list is stuff I particularly like, but even the stuff I couldn’t give a rat’s ass about is still pretty solid.
Nowadays I’m happy if there is even ONE album a year that I give a crap about and will enjoy listening to (usually it’s one album with maybe 3 or 4 songs I like (if I’m lucky).
Anyway, I’ll quit now before going into one of my long-winded “The 80’s were awesome and everything nowadays sucks!” lectures.
hehe, pretty cool!
Anyway, I’ll quit now before going into one of my long-winded “The 80’s were awesome and everything nowadays sucks!” lectures.
Those lectures are much needed, especially nowadays. Best decade in music…period.
Anyway, I’ll quit now before going into one of my long-winded “The 80’s were awesome and everything nowadays sucks!” lectures.
It’s the Curse of the Old Guy. I do the same damn thing.
Recently, a younger guy I work with was telling me about how he went to Coachella and how great the line up was. . .I told him the line up for Lollapalooza '92 and he couldn’t believe it.
The votes are from people who visit the site, and while I really like the Slicing Up Eyeballs site (they cover a wide range of ‘alternative’ news including Wax Trax, Skinny Puppy, etc.), it seems the majority of visitors are big fans of the more popular New Wave, mainstream artists (Cure , DM, Furs, Smiths, et al). I think it’s a respectable vote for With Sympathy, considering the number of quality releases that came out that year.
I know REM and U2 are the least popular bands on prongs, but Murmur and War really are great albums in their own right. I would actually put The Chameleons’ Script Of The Bridge at #1 for '83, but think the overall top 100 is pretty fair (honestly, after the first 10 or 20, does it matter where an album ranks, as long as it made the list?).
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The votes are from people who visit the site, and while I really like the Slicing Up Eyeballs site (they cover a wide range of ‘alternative’ news including Wax Trax, Skinny Puppy, etc.), it seems the majority of visitors are big fans of the more popular New Wave, mainstream artists (Cure , DM, Furs, Smiths, et al). 1002
Quite true. However…Power, Corruption and Lies was voted #1. So you gotta figure most of the voters are enlightened with regards to music.
That was a pretty great year for music. Glad WS made the cut. Just imagine how high it would be if the band had recorded the album that was meant to be…
I know REM and U2 are the least popular bands on prongs, but Murmur and War really are great albums in their own right.
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this.
Oh yea! New Order numero UNO! Good pick. Heaven 17 ranked up there too, good list.
so i’ve never listened to WS in full. just heard a few songs. i downloaded it a couple weeks ago and had my ipod on shuffle and What He Say came on. couldn’t stop laughing, that song rules!
so i’ve never listened to WS in full. just heard a few songs. i downloaded it a couple weeks ago and had my ipod on shuffle and What He Say came on. couldn’t stop laughing, that song rules!
haha… it definetly has some funk in there. young al was a funky dude. and to think he despises that album. its great! its fun! its cheesy but its good, wish he’d see that.
Not surprising, it’s a good album! Deep down every Ministry fans knows it. [cool]
[:)] Oh gawd how I LOVE With Sympathy.I am the world’s biggest fangirl of that album it’s not even funny. How Al is more ashamed of that than his current stuff I’ll never understand.
So much I actually ended my 8th live radio show with Effigy… which surprisingly is a great song to end a show with.