Best Albums1981’s Best Rock Albums

[Nitro Express]

I can only think of 3 gigs in my long life I've walked out on for them just being bland and lame, Hagar, Loverboy and Def Leppard.

Ha! Ha!

[Nitro Express]

Another case in point: this is exactly why both slave SESH and slave FORD will never ever amount to anything culturally. They both live in a bubble of monoculturism and suburban sterility.

Albums of 1981 they never heard of:

New Musik - Anywhere
The Goat That Went "OM" - Can't Stop It
Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
Tuxedomoon- Desire
Bauhaus - Mask
A Certain Radio - Early
The Gist - Embrace The Heard
The Necessaries - Event Horizon
The Sound - From The Lion's Mouth
The Raybeats - Guitar Beat
Romeo Void - It's a Condition
Durutti Column - LC
The DB's - Like This
Bush Tetras - Rituals
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Martha & The Muffins - This is The Ice Age

And do you know why they never heard of them? Because they are readers (and subscribers) of Tiger Beat Magazine, that's why.

And...

Their lives are so boring they never do drugs. Now in August I'm planning on doing a lot more drugs, heavier drugs that will most likely land my F A T in the E.R. and revisiting these records (all which I have on the original vinyl) all from 1981 and all of them sound fucking great. All of you wish you were 1/1000 as cool as me. So yeah, fuck your corporate rock hippie shit and get wasted. I'm going to take some shit masturbate to my 1981 Kim Wild fantasy (not the 2021 versh of Kimmey because she's old and gross) because that's around the time her acne cleared up.


Don't talk shop, finger pop

Enjoy

Ha! I saw Romeo Void in the day. Unless you got picked up by a label like IRS and got put on the road with a headlining band or got some radio play because a DJ in a major market saw you, you just don’t break in the US. There was some good stuff though that never got the break.

[Nitro Express]

The drinking age was 19 in 81. If you had a good fake ID and could pass yourself off as a college student you could get into the bars and clubs. Fun times.

[FORD]

Romeo Void was a great band back in the day. Their drummer, Aaron Smith, was also in another band (the 77s) who were even better.

[Nitro Express]

For sure. Bands like Romeo Void were people who just got together and jammed. In those days the local DJ’s had a lot of say on what got played. Many radio stations were locally owned. Nothing did more damage artistically, socially and politically than having the media bought up and consolidated. That’s why everything is propaganda now.

Break it all up and go back to locally owned media and it gets better again. The internet even got pigeonholed with social media. It was better when you had websites ran by individuals who policed their own forums.

[Kristy]

Don't care. Point being I'm way cooler than all of you.

[Kristy]

And Romeo Void had an outstanding sax player

[Kristy]

And this still kicks ass (dark humor and all):

[Nitro Express]

And Romeo Void had an outstanding sax player

The sax was spice on the rice.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Dave has the legacy and Sam is known to be the replacement. The Red Rocker is about as memorable as Loverboy. Even with all his scratch Sam can’t buy being a legendary frontman but Sam will go to his grave trying to invade our space reminding us he once sang for Van Halen.

... someone else's grave, even.

[wolfsbane]

I can only think of 3 gigs in my long life I've walked out on for them just being bland and lame, Hagar, Loverboy and Def Leppard.

I never went to any of these shows.

I thought Def Leppard's High 'n' Dry was awesome when it came out. Pyromania turned me off. Can't believe that drunk streetfighter was kicked out of the band.

[Seshmeister]

The final straw was 8 songs in when they did an acoustic version of 'Two Steps Behind' which apparently is from Analize or one of those other later albums no one likes.

I had to look it up, ironically they did play High and Dry prior to that.

[Jérôme Frenchise]

Completely old-fashioned, but masterful. The Stray Cats' first album was fucking great.

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[Kristy]

The 1982 release US of that album (which was called Built for Speed) fucked it all up though. Greedy fuckers at EMI

[Jérôme Frenchise]

They celebrated their 40th anniversary in 2019 with a world tour and a new album, both very good. These guys are real top notches.