I don't have cable. I miss it for things like this... I should've gotten that joke.

Here's the village voice Pazz & Jop poll for 1982

1982 Albums 1 Elvis Costello and the Attractions Imperial Bedroom Columbia 1061
1982 Albums 2 Richard & Linda Thompson Shoot Out the Lights Hannibal 946
1982 Albums 3 Bruce Springsteen Nebraska Columbia 869
1982 Albums 4 King Sunny Ade and His African Beats Juju Music Mango 745
1982 Albums 5 Lou Reed The Blue Mask RCA Victor 679
1982 Albums 6 Prince 1999 Warner Bros. 655
1982 Albums 7 The English Beat Special Beat Service I.R.S. 564
1982 Albums 8 Marvin Gaye Midnight Love Columbia 528
1982 Albums 9 Marshall Crenshaw Marshall Crenshaw Warner Bros. 440
1982 Albums 10 X Under the Big Black Sun Elektra 435
1982 Albums 11 Roxy Music Avalon Warner Bros. 363
1982 Albums 12 Flipper Album/Generic Flipper Subterranean 310
1982 Albums 13 Ornette Coleman Of Human Feelings Antilles 309
1982 Albums 14 Donald Fagen The Nightfly Warner Bros. 291
1982 Albums 15 Michael Jackson Thriller Epic 288
1982 Albums 16 Laurie Anderson Big Science Warner Bros. 286
1982 Albums 17 Joe Jackson Night and Day A&M 272
1982 Albums 18 The Clash Combat Rock Epic 264 listen own it!
1982 Albums 19 ABC The Lexicon of Love Mercury 256
1982 Albums 20 Gang of Four Songs of the Free Warner Bros. 211
1982 Albums 21 Richard Hell and the Voidoids Destiny Street Red Star 200
1982 Albums 22 Rank and File Sundown Slash 192
1982 Albums 23 dB's Repercussion Albion import 187
1982 Albums 24 The Dream Syndicate Days of Wine and Roses Ruby 177
1982 Albums 25 Fleshtones Roman Gods I.R.S. 177
1982 Albums 26 Kid Creole and the Coconuts Wise Guy Sire / ZE 169
1982 Albums 26 The Human League Dare A&M 169
1982 Albums 28 Van Morrison Beautiful Vision Warner Bros. 158
1982 Albums 29 George Clinton Computer Games Capitol 158
1982 Albums 30 XTC English Settlement Epic 156 listen
1982 Albums 31 Mission of Burma Vs. Ace of Hearts 152
1982 Albums 32 Warren Zevon The Envoy Asylum 145
1982 Albums 33 Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Ice Cream for Crow Epic 132
1982 Albums 34 Paul McCartney Tug of War Columbia 127 listen own it!
1982 Albums 35 The Roches Keep on Doing Warner Bros. 120
1982 Albums 36 Aretha Franklin Jump To It Arista 112
1982 Albums 37 Fleetwood Mac Mirage Warner Bros. 104
1982 Albums 38 Ronald Shannon Jackson and the Decoding Society Mandance Antilles 104
1982 Albums 39 Joni Mitchell Wild Things Run Fast Geffen 101
1982 Albums 40 Ted Hawkins Watch Your Step Rounder 10


Note: Prince "1999" comes in at 6 I doubt people were listening to a version that leaked over the internet

That Tom Dolby album is frightfully under-rated. Make sure to get the original Harvest pressiing rather than the Capital US version. They left "Leipzeig" and "Urges" off the US album.

Dolby's great.

I thought it sounded like the typical case of a band blowing all their good ideas on the debut, then scrounging to come up with something close to an album's worth of songs for the follow-up. Half-baked and tired would be my description. I mean, it's got Quine on it so it's not a complete waste of time, but it's close.

And I agree about the omissions of EC, R & L Thompson, and Prince. It's an Obner scandal, I tell ya.

I LOVE YOU BYRON THE SEVENTH!!

Well, damn. I guess we need to swap out Prince for Duran Duran and move that vote to other then. God fucking dammit.

You ever feel like Job, SK?

you sure you don't want to go with one that got zero votes?

Naw, it's cool. Duran Duran was a glossy-sheen "fuck you" pick that has obviously blown up in my face. That Mission of Burma record is fucking seminal, and there's no reason to punish poor Richard Hell.

I was just thinking this

same year as genesis "three sides live" and prince "1999"

k i only moved one to prince. is that right?

This is a tough one with no real standouts.

I'll be voting other, with the nod going to Richard & Linda Thompson's Shoot Out The Lights.

Other contenders are from Dream Syndicate, XTC, Roxy Music, Sioouxsie & the Banshees, Lou Reed and Gregory Isaacs.

voted for thriller

Yes.

Talk Talk, Peter Gabriel, Laurie Anderson, Thomas Dolby...

Other.

THRILLER.

Nebraska.

I don't know a lot from this year, but I also like:

Mission of Burma - Vs.
XTC - English Settlement
Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
Brian Eno - On Land
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom

And I hate to admit it, but I don't think I've heard Thriller in its entireity since I was a little kid. Even still, and as great as the singles from that album are, I doubt I'd pick it over Nebraska.

worst year yet for me. i really haven't heard a lot from this year...and the one's i've heard aren't what i'd consider "great", so i won't be voting.

if anything, this re-inforces the need for me to get over my mis-conception of bruce springsteen being all about "born in the usa" "glory days", etc. and the mental images of all the NJ white trash that lived in my freshman dorm at the university of maryland that overplayed brooooooooooooce all the time.

bill nelson - the love that whirls




followed by :
XTC - english settlement
Rank & File - sundown
Roxy Music - avalon

Well you can add +1 to the Prince column. That's probably one of my Top 20 favourite albums of all time.

Best line: "I sincerely want to fuck the taste out of your mouth" - Let's Pretend We're Married.

christ Paul McCartney's Tug of War is such a fantastically bad album.

Acclaimedmusic.net

first columns ranking by year
second colums ranking by all-time

1 32 Michael Jackson Thriller
2 130 Bruce Springsteen Nebraska
3 154 Prince and The Revolution 1999
4 225 Elvis Costello and The Attractions Imperial Bedroom
5 236 Richard and Linda Thompson Shoot Out the Lights
6 283 Donald Fagen The Nightfly
7 292 ABC The Lexicon of Love
8 299 Roxy Music Avalon
9 570 King Sunny Adé Juju Music
10 574 Iron Maiden The Number of the Beast
11 707 Laurie Anderson Big Science
12 714 John Cale Music for a New Society
13 745 Simple Minds New Gold Dream (81,82,83,84)
14 785 Duran Duran Rio
15 790 Marshall Crenshaw Marshall Crenshaw
16 881 Joe Jackson Night and Day
17 938 XTC English Settlement
18 940 The Cure Pornography
19 959 Dexy's Midnight Runners Too-Rye-Ay
20 963 Marvin Gaye Midnight Love
21 1000 The Clash Combat Rock
22 1100 Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five The Message
23 1219 Lou Reed The Blue Mask
24 1292 Orange Juice You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
25 1329 Peter Gabriel Peter Gabriel (IV)/Security
26 1362 The Gun Club Miami
27 1364 The Associates Sulk
28 1451 Bad Brains Bad Brains
29 1467 Descendents Milo Goes to College
30 1482 Scritti Politti Songs to Remember
31 1576 The Birthday Party Junkyard
32 1621 The Dream Syndicate The Days of Wine and Roses
33 1631 John Cougar Mellencamp American Fool
34 1661 Mission of Burma Vs.
35 1703 George Clinton Computer Games
36 1704 Van Morrison Beautiful Vision
37 1719 Yazoo Upstairs at Eric's
38 1760 Toto IV
39 1845 The Beat Special Beat Service
40 1927 The Jam The Gift
41 1944 The Psychedelic Furs Forever Now
42 1988 Angry Samoans Back from Samoa
43 2023 X Under the Big Black Sun
44 2058 Kid Creole and The Coconuts Wise Guy/Tropical Gangsters
45 2090 Gregory Isaacs Night Nurse
46 2094 Kate Bush The Dreaming
47 2121 The Fall Hex Enduction Hour
48 2129 Judas Priest Screaming for Vengeance
49 2158 Wall of Voodoo Call of the West
50 2163 The Time What Time Is It?
51 2326 Christian Death Only Theatre of Pain
52 2375 Siouxsie and The Banshees A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
53 2402 Culture Club Kissing to Be Clever

pretty weak year
Bauhaus- The Sky's Gone Out

I guess I'm gonna go with Nebraska. I don't necessarily like all of the versions on the album, but "Atlantic City" is one of my favorite Bruce songs and "Mansion On The Hill" and "Highway Patrolman" are up there as well.

Again, along with The Goast of Tom Joad, not one of my fav Bruce albums even if I do like the songs themselves; I guess I like my Bruce all jingly and electric.