SINGLES: “The Killing Moon,” “Silver,” “Seven Seas”īAND: Ian McCulloch, Will Sergeant, Les Pattinson, Pete de FreitasīACKSTORY: U2’s fourth studio album featured a new, more ambient and atmospheric direction as the band for the first time worked with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. Central Rain (I’m Sorry),” “(Don’t Go Back To) Rockville”īAND: Bill Berry, Peter Buck Mike Mills, Michael StipeīACKSTORY: Recorded, in part, with a 35-piece orchestra, Echo & The Bunnymen’s fourth album has been called “the greatest album ever made” by frontman Ian McCulloch, a man prone to hyperbole. re-convened with its Murmur production team for its second album, fending off pressure to sound more commercial and instead focusing on better capturing the band’s live sound. SLICING UP EYEBALLS READERS POLL: TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1984īACKSTORY: Having scrapped their original sessions with Troy Tate, The Smiths made their debut with this John Porter-produced collection - although many fans still prefer the BBC session versions of some of these songs that appeared on the Hatful of Hollow compilation later in 1984.īAND: Morrissey, Johnny Marr, Andy Rourke, Mike JoyceīUY IT: ( CD, digital, vinyl), iTunes ( Digital)īACKSTORY: R.E.M. Take a look at the Top 100 list below - and feel free to offer your own take on the results, good or bad, in the comments below.Īnd stay tuned for the Best of 1985 poll, which will launch next Monday. So thank you all for voting and sharing your thoughts. Speaking of write-ins, Prince’s Purple Rain - the subject of much debate here and on our Facebook page after it was left off the ballot for not fitting the genre - received 43 such votes, which would have tied it with Felt’s The Splendour of Fear at No. It’s the first of the month, which means it’s time to unveil the results of Part 5 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, a year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine the best albums of each year of the 1980s - and then, when that’s wrapped up at the end of 2013, we’ll run a monster best-of-the-decade poll to crown the overall champs.įor the 1984 poll, we received more than 35,000 votes - the most yet - naming some 285 different albums, including, as always, write-in votes for a number of records that were not actually released in 1984 (don’t worry, you can vote for Psychocandy and Low-Life next week).
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