records i just couldn't live without

this blog will shortly begin to include some musical stuff that happened in the early 90's.
the main reason being that i want to talk about my favourite ever gig and that was in manchester in the early 90's.

though i won't be drifting away from the 80's altogether, it seemed like a nice idea to make a list (because i'm anal like that) of the records i bought during that decade that i couldn't live without.

obviously this is for my own enjoyment more than yours.
i couldn't possible start to put them in order of very favourite to least favourite - that'd be impossible - so they're in order of the year they were released.
i bought some of the earlier ones later of course, though still in the 80's.

anyway, here's a list of LPs and cassettes that i just couldn't live without.
i tried to keep it down to 50, but that was impossible too.
the next entry will be singles/EPs etc.

1980

- adam & the ants - kings of the wild frontier

- gary numan - telekon

- xtc - black sea

- monochrome set - strange boutique

1981

- fire engines - aufgeladen und bereit fur action und spass

- swell maps - collision time

- motorhead - no sleep 'til hammersmith

1982

- creation - how does it feel to feel

- the fall - hex enduction hour

- violent femmes - violent femmes

- nightingales - hysterics

- scritti politti - songs to remember

- supreme cool beings - survival of the coolest

1983

- swans - filth

- julian cope - world shut your mouth

1984

- lloyd cole & the commotions - rattlesnakes

- prefab sprout - swoon

- smiths - smiths

- talking heads - stop making sense

1985

- biff bang pow! - pass the paintbrush honey

- june brides - there are 8 million stories

- membranes - the gift of life

- chills - kaleidoscope world

1986

- a witness - i am john's pancreas

- age of chance - crush collision

- beat happening - beat happening

- bogshed - step on it

- creepers - miserable sinners

- west coast pop art experimental band - transparent day (reissue)

- wire - play pop

- various artists - nme c86

- sonic youth - evol

- stump - quirk out

- television personalities - mummy you're not watching me

- that petrol emotion - manic pop thrill

- mctells - mctells

- cannanes - happy swing

1987

- band of holy joy - more tales from the city

- buy off the bar - it's up to billy

- felt - poem of the river

- josef k - young and stupid - endless soul

- wolfhounds - unseen ripples from a pebble

- napalm death - scum

- pastels - up for a bit

- shrubs - take me aside for a midnight harangue

1988

- datblygu - wyau

- dog faced hermans - humans fly

- rapeman - two nuns and a pack mule

- stretchheads - five fingers four thingers a thumb a facelift and a new
identity

- 13th floor elevators - the psychedelic sounds of (reissue)

- red crayola - the parable of arable land

1989

- dandelion adventure - puppy shrine

- de la soul - 3 feet high and rising

- john zorn - spy vs spy

- maureen tucker - life in exile after abdication