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| From | "Josh Chasin" <jchasin@nyc.rr.com> |
| Subject | Re: 1984 |
| Date | Tue, 18 May 2004 10:17:05 -0400 |
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By way of context, I was 25. The 3 albums that dominated 1984 for me (based
on how often I played them) were:
Prince, Purple Rain
Bangles, All Over the Place
Lindsey Buckingham, All Over the Place
Others to fill out a top-10, kind of clustered at 4-10, are:
dBs, Like This
Del-Lords, Frontier Days (the "Americana" thing didn't really explode till
'85)
Dire Straits, Alchemy (their double live)
Everly Brothers, EB 84 (also liked the live reunion set)
Kinks, Word of Mouth (surprisingly good late-period album)
Los Lobos, Will the Wolf Survive?
Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
Utopia, Oblivion came out at the very end of '83 and I didn't get it till
1/84, but I played that one to death as well.
I thought the Springsteen album was one of his weaker oes, and they released
every song off it as a single except the 2 I liked-- "Bobby Jean" and "No
Surrender."
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