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 1. Hüsker Dü: Zen Arcade (SST, 1984)
Direct and raw, overcoming production limitations with an
immediacy and breakneck energy that ensure it will never seem dated.
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R.E.M.: Murmur (IRS, 1983)
Chronic Town merely
hinted at the potential realized on this remarkable, full-length
debut release.
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Public Enemy: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold
Us Back (Def Jam, 1988)
Forget the controversy
and outrage; what made this album so groundbreaking were the dense beats
and revolutionary tape loops.
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Dinosaur Jr.: You're Living All Over Me (SST, 1987)
The sound of the
Alternative '90s surfaces three years early.
Time has not dimmed the volcanic impact of this landmark effort.
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The Stone Roses: The Stone Roses (Silvertone, 1989)
One of the
great guitar-driven pop records. Janus-like in looking back to
the 1960s, while anticipating the sound of British rock in the
1990s.
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X: Wild Gift (Slash, 1981)
Better crafted and more
melodic than Los Angeles, a
rock solid benchmark for later pop-punk efforts.
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Prince: Sign O' The Times (Paisley Park, 1987)
Partially culled from
the abandoned Crystal Ball
sessions, the messiest, most
diverse and unwieldy album the Purple One ever released. Also his very
best.
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Minutemen: Double Nickels on the Dime (SST, 1984)
Anything goes, from blues-based cuts to the stray Van Halen
cover.
Ferociously daring and original, this is a brilliant patchwork.
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Sonic Youth: Daydream Nation (Enigma, 1988)
Art rock mixed with an uncompromising punk ethos. All the pieces fit on this,
the band's high water mark.
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Pixies: Doolittle (4AD/Elektra, 1989)
Less abrasive than
Surfer Rosa, with catchier
melodies and a greater attention to songcraft. An infectious, alternative pop masterstroke.
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| How big were the Big '80s? Check out the sizable list of high quality efforts
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- Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain (Sire, 1983)
- Beastie Boys: Paul's Boutique (Capitol, 1989)
- Camper Van Beethoven: Telephone Free Landslide Victory
(IRS, 1985)
- De La Soul: 3 Feet High and Rising (Tommy Boy, 1989)
- Echo & the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain (Sire, 1984)
- Eric B. & Rakim: Paid in Full (4th & Broadway, 1987)
- Eric B. & Rakim: Follow the Leader (UNI, 1988)
- The Feelies: The Good Earth (Twin/Tone, 1986)
- Fugazi: 13 Songs (Dischord, 1989)
- Guadalcanal Diary: 2X4 (Elektra, 1987)
- Hüsker Dü: New Day Rising (SST, 1985)
- Hüsker Dü: Flip Your Wig (SST, 1985)
- Hüsker Dü: Warehouse: Songs &
Stories (Warner Bros., 1987)
- The Jesus & Mary Chain: Psychocandy (Blanco y Negro, 1985)
- Mission Of Burma: Vs. (Rykodisc, 1982)
- Nine Inch Nails: Pretty Hate Machine (TVT, 1989)
- The Pogues: If I Should Fall From Grace With God
(Island, 1987)
- The Police: Zenyatta Mondatta (A&M, 1980)
- R.E.M.: Document (IRS, 1987)
- The Replacements: Let It Be (Twin/Tone, 1984)
- Paul Simon: Graceland (Warner Bros., 1986)
- The Smiths: The Queen Is Dead (Sire, 1986)
- The Soft Boys: Underwater Moonlight (Rykodisc, 1980)
- Sonic Youth: Sister (SST, 1987)
- Talking Heads: Remain In Light (Sire, 1980)
- U2: The Joshua Tree (Island, 1987)
- Tom Waits: Swordfishtrombones (Island, 1983)
- X: Los Angeles (Slash, 1980)
- X: Under the Big
Black Sun (Elektra, 1982)
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