Lyrics, Album Art, Originality, Greatest Cuts??
2007-09-22 16:41:59 · 16 answers · asked by Beatrice C 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses
Axl Rose- The most volatile and talented lead singer of the 80s who could do amazing screams as well as melodies- look at Welcome to the jungle and sweet child of mine
Slash- His solos truly shaped the album. Sweet child o' mine
Duff- Great bassist
Izzy - amazing rhythm guitarist as well as composer
Steven- His drumming shaped every song perfectly.
The lyrics for every song were so true and thoughtful, it was things that people were doing and the way they were living their life
Album Art- come on cross with bone skulls of all the members
top that.
Originality- Every song on it laid the frameword for music after it.
Greatest Cuts- Appetite for Destruction is a greatest hits album anyway since every song on it belongs on the album.
It still stands the test of time after 20 years and it still sells .
2007-09-22 17:31:33 · answer #1 · answered by nickp 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
London Calling by The Clash. Technically, it could be from either the 70's (in the U.K.) or the 80's (in the U.S.), but I'll just go with the U.S. release date.
Seriously...reggae-influenced basslines, classic punk rock guitar, excellent lyrics, etc. London Calling is one of the greatest albums of all time and the album proves how good the Clash is. It's very original as well.
I'd say that the best songs on the album are: the title track, "Train in Vain", "Guns of Brixton", and "Clampdown". But to be honest, I don't really know what are the best songs...they're all so darn good.
And the cover...Paul Simonon along with the lettering style from Elvis's debut album...truly what you call classic.
But an album officially released worldwide in the 80's...I'd say Guns N' Roses's Appetite For Destruction. I can listen to the album over and over again. Everyone is at their best, especially Slash (although the solo and guitar work in "November Rain" in another album is good as well).
My favorites are: "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Paradise City", and "Anything Goes". The cover art is good too, showing the band members are skulls.
2007-09-23 00:40:24 · answer #2 · answered by Montag 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Metallica - "Master Of Puppets". It was a brilliant album, both lyrically and musically. It established the band and, for better or worse, established Heavy Metal as something the record companies could make money with. Metallica became the biggest band in the world.
2007-09-23 05:42:05 · answer #3 · answered by The Dragon 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Guns N' Roses- Appetite For Destruction
The lyrics, SLASH's guitarwork, Steven Adler's Drumming, and especially Axl's unique voice. Everything is perfect.
2007-09-23 03:43:45 · answer #4 · answered by hvy_mtl8089 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Thriller by Michael Jackson
because it was the height of his adult career - he was handsome, "normal", a great dancer, respected by people of all ages. The album art was of Michael just laying down, then on the inside he was with a baby tiger - sort of adorable yet sexy and dangerous. The songs were danceable, entertaining, produced great videos to promote the songs, and were just all around mesmerizing to a young, infatuated girl like myself. (Although lots of young men thought the album was cool, too.)
I really loved "The Girl is Mine," because it was a duet with Paul McCartney - his good friend at the time. It was just a great collaboration.
But the best cut, to me, was Thriller. It was such a detailed, theatrical, interesting song and intro. And when the video came out, forget it.......... That was, and always will be, the most ground-breaking and entertaining video of our generation.
2007-09-22 23:56:38 · answer #5 · answered by Annie K 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
This is a really tough one--it involves several of my influences. Given your criteria, several candidates come to mind: "Judas Priest - Defenders of the Faith" (Columbia); "Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet" (Mercury); "Van Halen - 1984" (Warner Bros.); "Def Leppard - Pyromania" (Polydor); "A Flock of Seagulls" (Arista); "Pat Benatar - Get Nervous" (Chrysalis), for starters. ("Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth" (Atlantic) failed the Originality criterion; Gibson's poetry was in line with bubblegummers from the previous two decades as of 1989.)
Given their continual innovation in all four criteria since the 1970's, I nominate "AC/DC - Blow Up Your Video" (Atlantic) for Best Album from the 1980's.
2007-09-23 00:36:20 · answer #6 · answered by B. C. Schmerker 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Pixies "Surfer Rosa". It's a magnificent mix of brilliant songwriting, insane lyrics, and stunning melody. Not to mention the biggest influence on Nirvana.
2007-09-22 23:48:53 · answer #7 · answered by Lady Madonna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
beauty and the beat by the Go Go's it was such an upbeat punkish album, plus it actually hit number one and became the first album in 25 years... at that time, to consist of an all girl group to hit number one on the charts.. before that it was the supremes.
2007-09-23 00:58:48 · answer #8 · answered by poet 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Joe Jackson--Night and Day
It just has such a beautiful slick sound to it. And some wonderful songs (and all keyboards!--this coming from a guy who'd started out as an Angry Young Guitarist just a few years before).
2007-09-23 06:20:16 · answer #9 · answered by Omar Cayenne 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I agree with Queen Jane.
The Pixies' "Surfer Rosa" captures this because of its unapologetic fusion of sweetness of "Where is My Mind" and "Gigantic" and sourness like "I'm Amazed" and "River Euphrates", heat and cold, darkness and light, calm and fury. They can go to either extreme at will. They sounded like no one, and nobody will sound like them.
I saw them couple of years ago at Lowell, MA (they just blew away the entire audience) who were as young a 13 and old as their forties.
2007-09-23 00:39:33 · answer #10 · answered by Tom L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋