"The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking" was the best album of the 80s. Prove me wrong

[mdubya]

Killing Joke's first record and Siouxsie and the Banshees Juju were pretty good.

Jesus and Mary Chain Psychocandy

Love and Rockets Express

Bad Brains Roir cassette

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

This thread is like dracula.

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Is one allowed to resurrect their own thread..

Or better yet.... Who is allowed too??

"This thread is like Dracula"

I thought: "Yeah, it sucks!"

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

I’m going with License to Ill
It was everything good and stupid about the 80’s rolled into a great album with a new sound.

I think that "License to Ill" shooked the World of Music.
I was that big.

White boys rappin',
Lude behavior lyrics,
Sampling,
The works...

 

[mdubya]

UK Subs Brand New Age

Discharge Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing

There was some ground breaking shit going down in the 80's.

 

[mdubya]

Soundgarden Louder Than Love

 

[Bobby Mahogany]

You want the 80's?

The 80's are all over the place in this video.
The glammer rockers, two comics, one scandal girl, obvious "drugging"
and great guitars and great guitar parts!

A Masterpiece in its own right.
Imagine the the behind the scenes party!

Better definition and sound here but it doesn't have the little movie part at the beginning

 

[Pop1655]

@Who has been stirring it up for a while and @TheX has been “shrugs” for a while.

It’s a fun read. Thanks.

 

[Zungle]

When it comes to Waters, 1992's "Amused to Death" was better. But these were better 80s albums:

Moving Pictures - Rush
Back in Black - AC/DC
Born in the USA - Springsteen
90125 - Yes
Graceland - Paul Simon
Appetite For Destruction - GnR
Discipline - King Crimson
Document - REM
The Stone Roses
The Joshua Tree - U2
Power, Corruption and Lies - New Order
Closer - Joy Division
Murmer - REM
Abacab - Genesis
Asia
Night and Day - Joe Jackson
Eliminator - ZZ Top
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
Scarecrow - John Mellencamp
So - Peter Gabriel
Electric - The Cult
Traveling Wilburys 1
Full Moon Fever - Tom Petty
The End of the Innocence - Don Henley
Pump - Aerosmith
The Pretenders

and everything by Stevie Ray Vaughan

Well....no accounting for taste......

 

[MikeyTheCat]

Just finished listening to Pros and Cons, and really didn’t care for it. Clapton sure isn’t Gilmore. And Waters isn’t Gilmore either.

 

[Zungle]

I listened to Floyd and Zep all through the 80s (Along with tons of other 60s-70s stuff), but my favorite albums of the 80s takes a bit of a different direction. In no particular order:

Fixed.........

 

[Marshall & Moonshine]

It’s good.

 

[Deftone]

Soundgarden Louder Than Love

 

[Deftone]

 

[Tone deaf]

I listened to the entire Hitchhiking album, last eve, whilst commenting here and perusing vast quantities of information on the interweb. As a huge fan of The Wall and of Clapton in general (although I haven't listen to him much these past 10 years), I must say that Hitchhiking doesn't really resonate with me. It is certainly better than anything by Nine Inch Nails. That said, I am a proponent of the axiom of "If you like it, then it is good."

 

[JTM45]

That Clapton album is really what got me out of that genre and more into Priest and Maiden


Still, the best album of the 80’s for me is British Steel, pure sonic analog goodness

 

[Deftone]

That Clapton album is rely what got me out of that genre and more into Priest and Maiden


Still, the best album of the 80’s for me is British Steel, pure sonic analog goodness



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Solid choice. But if we're talking Judas Priest, I'd have to go with Screaming for Vengeance. Non stop epic dueling guitar riffage from start to finish. Check out the lead solo battle in "Riding on the Wind"

 

[WaywerdSon]

Solid choice. But if we're talking Judas Priest, I'd have to go with Screaming for Vengeance. Non stop epic dueling guitar riffage from start to finish. Check out the lead solo battle in "Riding on the Wind"

If somebody asked me to tell them what heavy metal sounds like this is the record I would have them listen to. Might be the perfect metal album. Priest was really at the top of their game in 82

 

[Tone deaf]

With all that leather and studs, Priest seems a little...

 

[James Carney]

Waters’ latest (2017) album, Is This The Life We Really Want?, is by far his best solo album.

It is also by far the best Floyd-solo album.

And it also sounds more like classic 71-79 era PF than the three Gilmour era PF albums.

It’s produced by Nigel Goodrich (Radiohead) and sounds brilliantly impeccable.
If you like PF’s Animals, you will love it.

It’s a concept album start to finish, so is hard to sell it on songs, but these three should seal you.

The album ends on this three song suite, and still chokes me up:

Also, I still think ‘Hitchhiking sucks. I’ll take Amused to Death and Radio KAOS over it, or any Gilmour solo album, especially his last two.

 

[Spiteface]

Gotta draw the line somewhere.......

Where do we draw the line on "London Calling"?

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Can't be the best 80s album on account of it being released in 1979.

Anyway you're all wrong, because none of you mentioned this: