Top 100 80s Albums (Part II)

November 19th, 2002

Having read the second half of Pitchfork's Top 100 Albums of the 1980s, I can now confirm that I quite definitely wasn't a Hip Young Thing in my late teens and my twenties. As was the case yesterday, on average I own about 1 album in 10 of the Top 50. If I hadn't been a huge Prince fan in the 1980s then I'd have done a lot worse.

(For what it's worth, I think they should have reversed the order of Sign 'O' The Times and Purple Rain in the list. The latter was a great album, but SOTT was a great double album. Making a genuinely great double album is a major achievement. Making a truly essential double album should have been enough to earn Prince the top slot on the list.)

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2 Responses to “Top 100 80s Albums (Part II)”

  1. Martin Says:
    November 21st, 2002 at 03:30

    I had 22 of them, including eight of the top ten, but then eighties post-punk/indie is really my thing. I thought it was a pretty good list, not sure how you can say Prince deserved top spot without hearing 90% of the other albums :-)

  2. John Says:
    November 21st, 2002 at 07:11

    You mean you expected me to consider all the evidence before reaching a conclusion? This is a weblog, not a courtroom! :-)

    OK, it's a fair cop. But I still think that SOTT is a better album than Purple Rain.