1978
Album of the year : This year’s model by Elvis
Costello
Single of the year: Shame by Evelyn « Champagne » King
Tabulated from top 10 singles & albums lists supplied by each MM
Writer.
1979 Melody Maker Albums
- Fear of music - Talking Heads
- Bop till you drop - Ry Cooder
- Entertainment - Gang of four
- Forces of victory - Linton Kwesi Johnson
- Rust never sleeps - Neil Young
- The Undertones - The Undertones
- Off the wall - Michael Jackson
- I am - Earth, wind & fire
- Metal Box - PIL
- London calling - The Clash
- The original sin - Cowboys international
- Squeezing out sparks - Graham Parker
- We are family - Sister sledge
- Armed forces - Elvis Costello
- Tom Verlaine - Tom Verlaine
- 154 - Wire
- Drums and wires - XTC
- Exposure - Robert Fripp
- Rock on - Raydio
- Bad girls - Donna Summer
Singles
Melody Maker never did a singles list this year but just had
Public Image Limited - Death Disco as single of the year.
1980 Melody Maker Albums
- Remain in light - Talking heads
- Get Happy - Elvis Costello
- Pretenders - The pretenders
- Vienna - Ultravox
- Searching for the young soul rebels - Dexy's midnight runners
- Crocodiles - Echo & the bunneymen
- Closer - Joy division
- Scary monsters - David Bowie
- Boy - U2
- Empires & dance - Simple minds
- Kings of the wild frontier - Adam and the ants
- Sandinista - The Clash
- Absolutely - Madness
Note: Melody Maker Only Named a No. 1 album this year, The rest were listed in
no order. No Singles List.
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1981 Melody Maker Albums
- Penthouse and pavement - Heaven 17
- Trust - Elvis Costello
- Almost Blue - Elvis Costello
- East side story - Squeeze
- Ghost in the machine - The Police
- Touch - Eurythmics
- The crossing - Big Country
- Soul mining - The the
- Rhythm of life - Paul Haig
- Sweet dreams are made of this - Eurythnics
- Duck rock - Malcolm McLaren
- Murmur - REM
- Synchronicity - The police
- Porcupine - Echo & the Bunnymen
- Synchro system - King sunny Ade
- Power, corruption & lies - New order
- The hurting - Tears for fears
- No Parlez - Paul Young
- Life's a riot with spy vs spy - Billy Bragg
- Colour by numbers - Culture club
- Swardfishtrombones - Tom Waits
- Fantastic - Wham!
Singles:
- Human League: (Keep feeling) Fascination
- Heaven 17: Temptation
- Rolling Stones: Undercover of the night
- Culture Club: Church of the poison mind
- Echo & the Bunnymen: Never stop
- Eurythmics: Who´s that girl?
- Police: Every breath you take
- Malcolm McLaren: Soweto
- R.E.M.: Radio Free Europe
- Lionel Richie: All night long
Many
thanks to Rolf Holle [holle@gsf.de] for
supplying the singles list.
Note: Only top ten Melody Maker albums ordered.
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1984 MM Albums & Singles
- Ocean rain - Echo & the bunneymen
- The smiths - The Smiths
- In the studio - The special AKA
- Cypress - Lets active
- Hallowed ground - Violent femmes
- Steeltown - Big country
- The age of consent - Bronski beat
- The unforgettable fire - U2
- Born in the USA - Bruce Springsteen
- Diamond life - Sade
- Purple rain - Prince
- Cafe bleu - The style council
- Reckoning - REM
- Welcome to the pleasuredome - Frankie goes to Hollywood
- Like a virgin - Madonna
- From her to eternity - Nick Cave
Singles
- Frankie goes to Hollywood: Two tribes
- Womack & Womack: Love wars
- Echo & the Bunnymen: The killing moon
- U2: Pride (in the name of love)
- The Special AKA: Nelson Mandela
- ZZ Top: Gimme all your loving
- Orange Juice: What presence ?!
- Bronski Beat: Smalltown boy
- SOS Band: Just be good to me
- Human League: The Lebanon
Many thanks to Rolf Holle [holle@gsf.de]
for supplying the singles list.
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1985 Melody Maker Albums & Singles
Albums (MM of 21/28-12-1985)
1) The head of the door: Cure
2) Rum, sodomy & the lash: Pogues
3) Cupid & psyche ‘85 : Scritti
Politti
4) A secret wish: Propaganda
5) Psychocandy: Jesus and Mary Chain
6) No free lunch: Green On Red
7) Meat is murder: Smiths
8) Fables of the reconstruction: R.E.M.
9) Stories of johnny: Marc Almond
10) Night of a thousand candles: Men They
Couldn’t Hang
Singles
1) Bring on the dancing horses: Echo
& the Bunnymen
2) Running up that hill: Kate Bush
3) Johnny come home: Fine Young Cannibals
4) Duel: Propaganda
5) Going down to liverpool: Bangles
6) In between days: Cure
7) Between the wars: Billy Bragg
8) Slave to love: Bryan Ferry
9) I feel love: Bronski beat with Marc Almond
10) The boys of summer: Don Henley
"
Thanks to Dominique Durland for
supplying this list.
This list appeared in an '80's supplement in the Feb 25th 1989 issue of MM.
- The Smiths - Meat is murder
- The Sisters of Mercy - First and last always
- New Order - Lowlife
- Prince - Around the world in a day
- Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche
- Bryan Ferry - Boys & Girls
- The Pogues - Rum Sodomy & the Lash
- Suzanne Vega - Suzanne Vega
- The Waterboys - This is the sea
- The Cure - The head on the door
- The Cult - Love
- Kate Bush - The Hounds of love
- Big Audio Dynamite - This is Big Audio Dynamite
- The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
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MM Albums & Singles 1986
- Licensed to ill - Beastie boys
- Parade - Prince
- Blood and chocolate - Elvis Costello
- Throwing muses - Throwing muses
- King of America - Elvis Costello
- The queen is dead - The smiths
- Infected - The the
- Life's rich pageant - REM
- No 10 upping street - BAD
- Word up - Cameo
- Back to the old school - Just ice
- Raising hell - Run DMC
- Brotherhood - New Order
- Radio - LL cool J
- Victoraland - The Cocteau twins
- Giant - The woodentops
- Kicking against the pricks - Nick Cave and the bad seeds
- Gods own medicine - The mission
- London 0 Hull 4 - The housemartins
- Whiplash smile - Billy Idol
- Talking to the taxman about poetry - Billy Bragg
- EVOL - Sonic youth
- Schoolly-D - Schoolly-D
- The occupied Europe tour - Laibach
- Please - Pet shop boys
- Peter Case - Peter Case
- Beat Happening - Beat Happening
- Music - Mantronix
- Born sandy devotional - The triffids
- The album - Mantronix
MM Singles 1986
- Kiss - Prince
- Some candy talking EP - Jesus and Mary chain
- Word up - Cameo
- Human - The human league
- Rise - PIL
- E=MC2 - BAD
- Tokyo storm warning - Elvis Costello
- Panic - The Smiths
- Papa don't preach - Madonna
- Who snatched the baby - The band of holy joy
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MM Albums & Singles 1987
- The young gods - The young gods
- Sign 'O' the times - Prince
- Yo! Bum rush the show - Public enemy
- The fat skier - Throwing muses
- Songs about fucking - Big black
- Darklands - Jesus and Mary chain
- Substance - New order
- Kiss me, kiss me, Kiss me - The cure
- Bigger and deffer - LL Cool J
- Locust abortion technician - The butthole surfers
- mind the perpetual intercourse - Skinny puppy
- Strangeways, here wo come - The smiths
- Document - REM
- Pleased to meet me - The replacements
- Floodland - Sisters of mercy
- In my tribe - 10,000 maniacs
- Franks wild years - Tom Waits
- Poetic champions compose - Van Morrison
- Come on pilgrim - The pixies
- Secrets of the beehive - David Sylvian
- Warehouse: Songs and stories - Husker Du
- The world of echo - Arther Russell
- This is the story - The proclaimers
- You're living all over me - Dinosaur
- Happy come home - Victoria Williams
- Heaven's end - Loop
- Calenture - The triffids
- Squirrel and g-man... - Happy Mondays
- Oh! tears baby - Win
- At my window - Townes Van Zandt
MM Singles 1987
- Birthday - The Sugercubes
- Lollita EP - AR Kane
- Sign 'O' the times - Prince
- This corrosion - The sisters of mercy
- Catch - The cure
- Pump up the volume - M|A|R|R|S
- If I was your girlfriend - Prince
- Chains chained EP - Throwing muses
- April skies - Jesus and Mary chain
- Who's that girl - Madonna
- Forgotten town - The Christians
- Rebel without a pause - Public enemy
- Alex Chilton EP - The replacements
- A town called walker - Tom Verlaine
- Let happiness in - David Sylvian
- When your sad/Haunted - AR Kane
- Hope against hope - Band of Susan’s
- I'm bad - LL Cool J
- Happy when it rains - Jesus and Mary chain
- Why can't I be you - The Cure
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MM Albums & Singles 1988
- Surfer Rosa - The pixies
- Life's to good - Sugercubes
- Isn't anything - My bloody valentine
- Green - REM
- 69 - AR Kane
- Blue bell knoll - Cocteau twins
- Hairway to Steven - Butthole surfers
- All about eve - All about eve
- Fisherman's blues - The waterboys
- Bug - Dinosaur Jr.
- The house of love - The house of love
- Lovesexy - Prince
- VIVIsectVI - Skinny puppy
- Spirit of Eden - Talk talk
- So far so good - Megadeath
- The walking - Jane Siberry
- Tender pray - Nick Cave
- In the Spanish cave - Thin white rope
- Live! You goddamned son of a bitch - Revolting cocks
- House tornado - Throwing muses
- Miss America - Mary Margaret O'Hara
- Shiva Burlesque - Shiva Burlesque
- Provision - Scritti Politti
- Daydream nation - Sonic youth
- Here come the snakes - Green on red
- The eight legged groove machine - The wonder stuff
- California - American music club
- It takes a nation of millions.. - Public enemy
- Dusted - Live skull
- 16 Lovers lane - The go betweens
MM Singles 1988
- The mercy seat - Nick Cave
- You made me realise - My bloody valentine
- Freak scene - Dinosaur Jr.
- Gigantic - Pixies
- Destroy the heart - The house of love
- L'amourir - The young gods
- Christine - The house of love
- Sidewalking - Jesus and Mary chain
- Feed me with your kiss - My bloody valentine
- Martha's harbour - All about eve
- Follow the leader - Eric B & Rakim
- Alphabet street - Prince
- UP home EP - AR Kane
- Crash - The primitives
- Teardrops - Womack & womack
- Collision EP - Loop
- O Patti - Scritti Politti
- The race - Yellow
- Revolution - Spaceman
- Headhunter - Front 242
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MM Albums & Singles 1989
- Disintegration - The Cure
- Doolittle - The Pixies
- The sensual World - Kate Bush
- The stone roses - The stone roses
- Freedom - Neil Young
- New York - Lou Reed
- L'eau rouge - The young gods
- Hats - The blue Nile
- Oh mercy - Bob Dylan
- 3 feet high and rising - De la soul
- The trinity sessions - The cowboys junkies
- Technique - New order
- Club classics vol. I - Soul II soul
- United kingdom - American music club
- Automatic - Jesus and Mary chain
- Hope and despair - Edwin Collins
- Hup - The wonder stuff
- I - AR Kane
- Superfuzz bigmuff - Mudhoney
- Spike - Elvis Costello
- Straight outa Compton - NWA
- Hunkpapa - Throwing muses
- Playing with fire - Spaceman 3
- Raw like sushi - Neneh Cherry
- Scarlet and other stories - All about eve
- Bizarro - The wedding present
- The iceberg/Freedom of speech - Ice-T
- The only ones live - The only ones
- Manic, Magic, Majestic - Band of holy joy
- Pump - Aerosmith
MM Singles 1989
- Monkey gone to heaven - The pixies
- Can't be sure - The Sundays
- The sensual world - Kate Bush
- Lullaby - The Cure
- Keep on movin' - Soul II Soul
- Just like heaven - Dinosaur Jr.
- She bangs the drums - The stone roses
- Me myself and I - De la soul
- Love in an elevator - Aerosmith
- Fire woman - The cult
- W.F.L. - Happy Mondays
- Back to life - Soul II Soul
- Eye know - De la soul
- You're history - Shakespeare’s sister
- Downtown lights - The blue Nile
- Say no go - De la soul
- Blue moon revisited - Cowboy junkies
- Manchild - Neneh Cherry
- Lazyitis - Happy Mondays
- Omega amigo - The shamen
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