May 1, 201213 yr The inclusion of Starship at #94 proves to me this list is basically a joke. Having said that there are some cracking tunes in there
May 1, 201213 yr I am sorry but Teardrops better than Life's What You Make It, Spacemen 3's Revolution or anything by The Sisters of Mercy? And where is Touch Me I'm Sick? Ghosts? Kerosene? Waiting Room? f*** me the more I think about the worse this list gets. Bon Jovi and Starship? Give me a fukkin break.
May 1, 201213 yr Author Indeed. Living on a Prayer being better than nearly everything else released in the 80 is an insult to anyone with taste.
May 1, 201213 yr Not finished by a long chalk... Killing Joke - Love Like Blood , The Wedding Present - Kennedy , The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary , Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole, Metallica - One, Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit), Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause
May 1, 201213 yr I was thinking about this on the way home. Maybe we should run three rates concurrently rather than choose one decade over another, with a different person running each one. Then people can pick and choose which they want to contribute to. I'd take the 80s myself.
May 1, 201213 yr Killing Joke - Love Like Blood , The Wedding Present - Kennedy, Nine Inch Nails - Head Like a Hole, Public Enemy - Rebel Without A Pause These should be Top 100, totally agree
May 1, 201213 yr Author I think the 80s one would have fewer than 10 contributors? I'll take the 90s one - that is because I could do a decent commentary on the results, unlike the 80s and the 00s.
May 1, 201213 yr I think the 80s one would have fewer than 10 contributors? Probably! But I'll still give it a go.
May 2, 201213 yr Well I only know a few songs by them, but "Close (To The Edit)" is definitely one of those songs that defined / reshaped the 80's - I'd start there!
May 2, 201213 yr http://www.dingsme.info/avatar10.jpgSome confusing placings. Edited May 2, 201213 yr by David007
May 2, 201213 yr Grebo - all the great songs you mention would have been in a list twenty years ago, even ten years ago...but the NME is desperately trying to appeal to the easily-pleased generation for whom The Smiths, Joy Division and The Cure are enough. They don't need to know about bands who were really important at the time but aren't easily available in 3 for £10 deals in HMV. Lists like this exist more for people who think they know what they're talking about to nod and say, 'yes, that should be in there' than as some method of teaching the youth about the past. Starship and Bon Jovi were presumably included by the paper's current 'ironic' scribe. They're in there to provoke conversation as otherwise it's a really, really boring, very thick and completely pointless list.
May 2, 201213 yr Author You see - I only started getting into music in 1987 so what I know about from before that year is received wisdom. And I really didn't start backtracking until 1993 when I started investigating REM's early catalogue. As you say Richie, there's a lot more to the 80s than The Cure, Joy Division and the Smiths and it looks like NME are not going to help us out finding them.
May 2, 201213 yr I really dont know much about Art of Noise. what should I start with? Recommended: 1. the compilation "The Best of the Art of Noise" from 1988 2. the compilation "Daft" from 1986 3. their album "(Who's Afraid Of?) the Art of Noise!" from 1984 Their last album "The Seduction of Claude Debussy" also contains this hidden gem, "Metaforce" featuring Rakim: fENQF0C7Jso
May 2, 201213 yr Best Art of Noise songs: Beat Box 4q5UdiTOi4s Moments in Love RIcmIhOesaI Close (To the Edit) (The Prodigy's Firestarter took the "Hey, hey" shout from here) -sFK0-lcjGU Paranoimia pDvm_MlgxdU Peter Gunn iH33RIfi2KI Dragnet jtK5g1x0aBw Crusoe vS2jwRl2E2w PS: They also have a hit "Kiss" with Tom Jones, but I'm not a big fan of this song.
May 2, 201213 yr Author Thanks alin, I recognise a lot of that - whether it's from other artists sampling them or them sampling other artists, a lot of that seems familiar to me. Edited May 2, 201213 yr by tonyttt31
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