Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 01:38:25 -0500
From: Miles Goosens <outdoorminer@mindspring.com>
To: audities@smoe.org
Subject: Re: 1984
Message-ID: <5.0.2.1.2.20040518011901.00b28be0@pop3.mindspring.com>

23) The Ramones, Too Tough To Die

Great album, but a month too late to be included in a Best of '84 list. It
was released in January 1985.

1984 was a great year for music, and in looking at my music collection it's
surprising how many albums I own from that year, and how all-over-the-map
they are as a collective whole -- which says as much about the overall
excellence of the year as it does about the eclecticism of my personal
taste.

Here's my top 40 of 1984:

1) The Replacements, Let It Be
2) The dBs, Like This
3) The Pretenders, Learning to Crawl
4) The Smiths, s/t
5) XTC, The Big Express
6) Prince, Purple Rain
7) Los Lobos, How Will the Wolf Survive?
8) The Dream Syndicate, Medicine Show
9) The Del Fuegos, The Longest Day
10) Greg Kihn Band, Kihntagious
11) The Bluebells, Sister
12) Hoodoo Gurus, Stoneage Romeos
13) Guadalcanal Diary, Walking In the Shadow of the Big Man
14) REM, Reckoning
15) Husker Du, Zen Arcade
16) The Bangles, All Over the Place
17) The Psychedelic Furs, Mirror Moves
18) Lloyd Cole & the Commotions, Rattlesnakes
19) Dwight Twilley, Jungle
20) The Long Ryders, Native Sons
21) Rank & File, Long Gone Dead
22) Let's Active, Cypress
23) Joe Jackson, Body & Soul
24) The Del Lords, Frontier Days
25) Van Halen, 1984
26) Katrina & the Waves, 2
27) The Alarm, Declaration
28) The Minutemen, Double Nickels on the Dime
29) Nick Lowe, Nick Lowe & His Cowboy Outfit
30) Echo & the Bunnymen, Ocean Rain
31) U2, The Unforgettable Fire
32) The Effigies, Forever Grounded
33) The Young Fresh Fellows, Fabulous Sounds of the Pacific Northwest
34) Madness, Keep Moving
35) Shoes, Silhouette
36) Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
37) The Style Council, My Ever-Changing Moods
38) The Cars, Heartbeat City
39) INXS, The Swing
40) Bananarama, s/t


Gregory Sager
whose jeans and Cheap Trick t-shirt didn't cut quite the sartorial swath in
1984 of Prince, Cyndi Lauper, or Culture Club