when the album was all important
50-100 plays
Bruce, Jack - Automatic
Hammill, Peter - Patience
Brown, Arthur - Speaknotech
Weather Report - Domino Theory
10-20 plays
Genesis - Genesis
U2 - Under a Blood Red Sky
Trower, Robin - Back It Up
Yes - 90125
Young, Neil - Trans
Clannad - Magical Ring
Di Meola, Al - Scenario
Walsh, Joe - You Bought It, You Name It
5-10 plays
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
Bowie, David - Let's Dance
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Def Leppard - High & Dry
INXS - Original Sin
No mention of: Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues ? (I prefer Remain In Light, which made your 1980 list, but you can't escape the gigantic impact in music this one had in '83.) Almost as ubiquitous and popular as your "5-10 plays: Bowie, David - Let's Dance"
"Wouldn't it be odd, if there really was a God, and he looked down on Earth and saw what we've done to her?" -- Adrian Belew ('Men In Helicopters')
Bacamarte Depois Do Fim
Marillion Script For a Jester's Tear
Violent Femmes Violent Femmes
Eskaton Fiction
Pink Floyd The Final Cut
Art Zoyd Les Espaces Inquiets
Dire Straits Alchemy
Etron Fou Leloublan Les Sillons de la Terre
Gabriel, Peter Plays Live
McLaughlin, John / Al Di Meola / Paco De Lucia Passion, Grace and Fire
Talking Heads Speaking In Tongues
Vaughan, Stevie Ray / Double Trouble Texas Flood
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
From my playlists:
Amenophis: S/T
Ariel: The Planet’s Morning
Joan Armatrading: The Key
The Blue Nile: A Walk Across the Rooftops
Caja de Pandora: S/T
Cartoon: Music From Left Field
Cos: Pasiones
Eloy: Planets
Farkasok: Rock-Fantázia
Happy the Man: 3rd: “Better late...”
Nona Hendryx: Nona
Iconoclasta: 1st
IQ: Tales From the Lush Attic
Kaseke: Pőletus
Pablo “El Enterrador”: 1st
Panos Dracos: 2000 AD or BC
The Passage: Enflame
Annette Peacock: Been in the Streets Too Long
Pictures: S/T
10cc: Windows in the Jungle
Tyndall: Durch die Zeiten
Judie Tzuke: Ritmo
XTC: Mummer
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MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")
"That's my purse! I don't know you!" --Bobby Hill
N.P.:nothing
No mention by anyone of another winner of the most popular & ubiquitous 'rock-pop' album of 1983, The Police - Synchronicity ? (probably fits under the "10-20 plays" category)
"Wouldn't it be odd, if there really was a God, and he looked down on Earth and saw what we've done to her?" -- Adrian Belew ('Men In Helicopters')
High And Dry came out in '81, Pyromania came out in '83.Originally Posted by Rufus
I played these a lot.
Ian Anderson-Walk Into Light
Oregon-s/t on ECM
Bob Dylan-Infidels
Jean-Luc Ponty-Individual Choice
Allan Holdsworth -Road Games
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30 years ago I had youngsters at home and a new mortgage. I was working a franchise record store mall location. My listening was at work and it was music for the masses to pay the bills. Heard these a ton but I'm better now
Eurythmics-Sweet Dreams
Bryan Adams-Cuts Like A Knife
Def Lep-Pyro
Red Rider-Neruda
a lot of country like Willie, Kenny and Dolly
Qiet Riot-Metal Health
ZZ Top-Eliminator
Bowie-Lets Dance
Oldfield-Crisis
Police-Synchronicity
Corey Hart-First Offense
Loverboy-Keep it Up
Neil Young- Shocking Pinks
Billy Joel-Innocent Man
Stray Cats-Rant Rave
Huey Lewis-Sports
Linda Ronstadt-Whats New
Mellencamp-UhUh
Lionel Itchie-Can't Slow Down
Culture Club-
Billy Idol-Rebel
Yes 90120
Greg Kihn-Kihnspiracy
The Neil Young album is called Everybody's Rockin'; The Shocking Pinks was the backing group he used for said album. The Billy Idol album is Rebel Yell, and 90125 is the Yes album.
lemme guess... you're Canadian ... Your list sounds very much of the mainstream pop-rock buyer from the Great White North...
my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicts to complete nutcases.
Yes I'm Canadian, and in 1983 I was working a national franchise record shop in a subrban mall, thus the mainstream music while listening at work. That Red Rider Neruda lp was good.
Most of these albums / Cds were not heard in the actual year... Lets Dance I got in my local ASDA along with a double re-recording of John Barry Soundtracks for about a tenner. Afaic, Talking Heads and The Police put out singles, not albums and I never went overboard on any single by Talking Heads. Bowie was too fashion conscious for me while Hammill and Gabriel, I hoped, wouldn't pander to the current trends.No mention of: Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues ? (I prefer Remain In Light, which made your 1980 list, but you can't escape the gigantic impact in music this one had in '83.) Almost as ubiquitous and popular as your "5-10 plays: Bowie, David - Let's Dance"
Most plays (30-50?)
Tony Banks - The Wicked Lady (for sure this one got the most plays)
Tony Banks - The Fugitive
Happy The Man - Third (Better Late...)
Steve Hackett - Bay of Kings
Then: lesser plays: (10-30?)
Steve Hackett - Highly Strung
Blue Nile - A Walk Across Rooftops
Ian Anderson - Walk Into Light
Yes - 90125
Renaissance - Time Line
XTC - Mummer
Thanks bill, your plays range is fine by me... some albums from say, Magma and Weather Report, take at least 20 plays before my brain says Eureka!
True, and also in 1983 there were not a whole lot of new music that I was connecting with, like today. So the fewer new music I had got a lot more plays. Today, my favorites rarely get more than 10, which is kind of sad. I know even the last Anglagard hasn't had 10 plays.
Bacamarte - Depois Do Fim
Eskaton - Fiction
Phillip Glass - Koyaanisqatsi
Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood
The Enid - Something Wicked This Way Comes
Ian
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Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
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Most to least plays:
Pink Floyd -Final Cut
Tangerine Dream - Hyperborea
Peter Gabriel - Plays Live
Genesis - Genesis
Tony Banks - Wicked Lady
Tony Banks - Fugitive
Elton John - Too Low For Zero
Yes - 90125
Jean Luc Ponty - Individual Choice
Moody Blues - The Present
James Blood Ulmer - Odyssey
REM - Murmur
Talking Heads - Speaking In Tongues
The Police - Synchronicity
P-Funk All-Stars - Urban Dancefloor Guerillas
U2 - War
Moraz/Bruford - Music for Piano and Drums
The Fall - Perverted By Language
Lou Reed - Legendary Hearts
Orchestral Manouvers in the Dark - Dazzle Ships
Countless + Many + Lots of drugs have messed up my mind thread...
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