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    Posted: January 03 2014 at 19:37
( I hit 10 posts so I can now create my own)...My fav's were stuff that was non-commercial and with a dark side to them:

1. Joy Division: Unknown Pleasures
2. Chameleons: Script of the Bridge
3. Echo & the Bunnymen: Ocean Rain
4. The Psychedelic Furs: First
5. Cure: 17 Seconds
6. Stranglers: Feline
7. Simple Minds: Sons & Fascination
8. OMD: Architecture & Morality
9. Wild Swans: Bringing Home the Ashes
10. Smiths: The Very Best of the Smiths
11. Peter Murphy: Love Hysteria
12. Simple Minds: New Gold Dream
13. Sisters of Mercy: Some Girls Wander by Mistake
14. Clan of Xymox: First
15. New Order: Movement

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 04 2014 at 12:18
Some of my favorites from the eighties:

Cindytalk - Camouflage Heart and In This World.
Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing.
Icehouse - Primitive Man.
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland.
Clannad - Macalla.
Head Of David - Dustbowl and LP.
The Police - Synchronicity.
Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown.
Bailterspace - Tanker.
New Order - Movement.
Talk Talk - The Color Of Spring.
Ric Ocasek - Beatitude.
Chrome - Red Exposure and Blood On The Moon.
Clock DVA - Thirst.
Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love.
Yello - Solid Pleasure.
Laibach - Rekapitulacija 1980 - 1984.
Joy Division - Closer.
Killing Joke - Killing Joke.
Peter Gabriel - Passion.
Bauhaus - In The Flat Field.
The Blue Nile - Hats.
The Smiths - The Smiths.
Fields Of The Nephilim - Elizium.
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold.
This Mortal Coil - Filigree And Shadow and It'll End In Tears.
The Birthday Party - Junkyard.
Enya - Watermark.
Coil - Horse Rotorvator.
Loop - A Gilded Eternity.
Ministry - In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing Up.
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams and Touch.
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever.
Breathless - Chasing Promises.
Talking Heads - Remain In Light.
Swans - Filth.
and many more...

So much great music was released in that decade...




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