Top 10 albums of my teenage years

Pontifications

(in no order, just numbered for convenience, “top” means I wore the record or cassette out through repeated playing :-))

Top 10 albums of my teenage years:

The Beat – Special Beat Service - (I confess and Save it for later!!!!!)
ABC – Lexicon of Love (add and subtract but as a matter of fact)
The The– Soulmining (every track especially loved Perfect)
Joe Jackson – Night and Day (up town downtown; I was trying to find Chinatown)
Heaven 17 – The Luxury Gap (although I played the UK import 12” of Let Me Go even more!)
Roxy Music – Avalon (perfect melancholy )
Dexy’s Midnight Runner’s – Too rye ay (‘til I believe in my Soul!)
The Smiths – The Smiths (simply the best angst)
New Order – Power Corruption and Lies - the floppy!!!!!!! Confusion is my favorite New Order track of all time ! Blue Monday!!!!
Bruce Springsteen – The River (I loved that album and then I bought the whole back catalogue and loved it, didn’t like anything to do with Reagan so didn’t like Born in the USA but that was Raygun’s :-) fault not Bruce’s: The River, Cadillac Ranch, Hungry Heart, never seen Bruce live though)

Honorable Mentions:

Kings - Are Here (I loved This beat goes on/Switching’ to Glide)
Fleetwood Mac – Rumours (my sister loved it! i hated it at first but learned to love it)
The Kinks - One for the Road (live) - Ray Davies is God!
The Style Council – Introducing the Style Council, i was mesmerized by Long Hot Summer
The 12” of The Message - original rap forever :-)

I loved the albums that Barb mentioned too (but most of them weren’t during my teenage years):

  Depeche Mode -- Construction Time Again
  Depeche Mode--Black Celebration
  The The -- Soulmining
  The Grapes of Wrath -- September Bowl of Green
  The Payola$ -- No Stranger to Danger
  Echo and the Bunnymen -- Ocean Rain
  The Psychedelic Furs -- Forever Now
  The Smiths -- The Smiths
  The Smiths -- The Queen is Dead
  54-40 -- 54-40