Squeeze : Tempted
Happy New Year and welcome to 1981! We're going to have to go a full year without David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, The Clash and many more. We do get what may be the last excellent album by The Rolling Stones and some very good albums from Grace Jones, Squeeze, Psychedelic Furs and Elvis Costello. 1981 was one of the hardest years of my life, but it was also the year I picked up a copy of The Rolling Stone Record Guide and began my journey as a music snob.
This may come across as a big revelation but I enter each of these years not as an expert but as someone beginning a journey. To illustrate here are my 25 favorite albums of 1981 as we begin. Of these I own 12 or 13. I bought maybe 4 in 1981 because I was spending my money on Otis Redding, Aretha Franklin, Al Green and David Bowie.
So let's see what 1981 reveals...
25 fave albums from 1981
Squeeze: East Side Story
Psychedelic Furs: Talk Talk Talk
The dB's: Repercussion
David Lindley: El Rayo-X
Neville Brothers: Fiyo on the Bayou
Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Trust
Black Uhuru: Red
The Rolling Stones: Tattoo You
Echo & The Bunnymen: Heaven Up Here
Joan Armatrading: Walk Under Ladders
King Crimson : Discipline
Brian Eno & David Byrne : My life in the bush of ghosts
Kraftwerk : Computer World
The Kinks : Give The People What They Want
The Blasters
Garland Jeffreys : Escape Artist
Tom Tom Club
The Police: Ghost in the Machine
Plastics : Welcome Back
Black Flag : Damaged
Dance Craze
Tom Petty : Hard Promises
David Byrne: Songs from the Broadway Production of "The Catherine Wheel"
Jerry Harrison: The Red and the Black
Cars : Shake It Up
No comments:
Post a Comment