re: The Cure - Disintegration is the greatest album of the 1980's; AP top 25

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Somewhere there's a dilettante music fan who's a little too much into the Church this week, who is wetting his little pantaloons that other dilettante music fans are falling for his worthless, tossed off rankings.

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this. i am a fan of the church and all but 2 albums in the top 25 is ridiculous.

is this one man's list posted as the "AP"?

I've seen worse.. (Pitchfork)... Could've atleast replaced one of those Church records with a hip hop album (Paul's Boutique; Straight Outta Compton; It Takes A Nation..)

Rolling Stone:

1-10

The Clash, 'London Calling'
Prince and the Revolution, 'Purple Rain'
U2, 'The Joshua Tree'
Talking Heads, 'Remain in Light'
Paul Simon, 'Graceland'
Bruce Springsteen, 'Born in the U.S.A.'
Michael Jackson, 'Thriller'
R.E.M., 'Murmur'
Richard and Linda Thompson, 'Shoot Out the Lights'
Tracy Chapman, 'Tracy Chapman'

11-20

Elvis Costello and the Attractions, 'Get Happy!'
Public Enemy, 'It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back'
Midnight Oil, 'Diesel and Dust'
Peter Gabriel, 'So'
The Replacements, 'Let It Be'
Prince, '1999'
The Police, 'Synchronicity'
Prince, 'Dirty Mind' 3 albums in top 20?
Lou Reed, 'New York'
Pretenders, 'Pretenders'

21-25

Tom Waits, 'Rain Dogs'
The Smiths, 'The Smiths' (there you go alx)
Black Uhuru, 'Red Island' WTF IS THIS shite???
X, 'Los Angeles'
Bruce Springsteen, 'Tunnel of Love'

Turrible.

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Prince, 'Dirty Mind

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The only Prince album I like.

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Lots yelling for Prince and Hip Hop. Is this a personal preference thread or an affirmative action thread?

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Prince had a run of stone classics during the 80s -- Purple Rain, Sign O The Times and 1999. There were some great hip hop albums in the 80s - Paul's Boutique, It Takes A Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, Raising Hell. All of those were gigantic critically and commercially and had a lot bigger influence than the two freaking Church albums on the list. Shoot, Thriller ought to probably be on the list. It really looks odd to talk about the best popular music of the 80s and not include Prince, Michael Jackson and early rap music. I'm wondering if this isn't just a list of the best alternative albums of the decade...although they missed some real obvious ones, like Daydream Nation or anything from the Replacements.

Bull , Disintegration is an absolute masterpiece. I can see you haven't listened to the entire album!