Alert: 80's Album Draft - Redux > Starting Soon...

A while ago now we had an enjoyable 80's album draft. Maybe it's time for another...?

Can't remember if it was a standard or snake draft and I thought we may have had a ban on live albums and compilations.

I've posted below in A-Z format all albums taken from the 1st draft which would be unavailable for this draft. So some big hitters off the board but still plenty left from a decade of music.

Who's up for it...?

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7 Seconds - The Crew
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe

A

AC/DC - Back in Black
The Alarm - Strength
Alphaville - Forever Young
Astor Piazzolla - Tango Zero Hour

B

The B-52's - Wild Planet
Bad Brains - I Against I
Bad Religion - Suffer
Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Billy Bragg - Talking With the Taxman...
Billy Idol - Whiplash Smile
Black Flag - Damaged
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Black Uhuru - Red
Blue Murder - Blue Murder
Bob Marley & the Wailers - Uprising
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the U.S.A.
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Butthole Surfers - Locust Abortion Technician

C

Caifanes - Caifanes
The Call - Reconciled
The Cars - Heartbreak City
The Clash - Combat Rock
The Clash - Sandinista!
Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
Crowded House - Crowded House
The Cult - Electric
The Cult - Love
The Cure - Disintegration
The Cure - The Head on the Door

D

Daniel Johnston - Hi, How Are You
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses
Devo - Freedom of Choice
Dinosaur Jr. - You're Living All Over Me
Dire Straits - Brothers in Arms
Dire Straits - Making Movies
Duran Duran - Rio

E

Echo & the Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
Elvis Costello - Spike
English Beat - Special Beat Service
Erasure - The Innocents
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in Full

F

Faith No More - The Real Thing
Ferron - Shadows on a Dime
Fishbone - Truth and Soul
Flipper - Generic Album

G

Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Glenn Gould Bach:- Goldberg Variations
Grateful Dead - In the Dark
Guns N' Roses - Appetite for Destruction

H

Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos
The Hooters - Nervous Night
The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4
The Human League - Dare
Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising
Hüsker Dü - Zen Arcade

I

INXS - The Swing
Iron Maiden - Killers
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast

J

The Jam - Sound Affects
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
Janet Jackson - Control
The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
Joe Satriani - Surfing With the Alien
John Fogerty - Centerfield
John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
John Mellencamp - Scarecrow
Joy Division - Closer
Juan Gabriel - Pensamiento
Jungle Brothers - Done by the Forces of Nature

K

Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
Killing Joke - Night Time
Kraftwerk - Computer World

L

Living Colour - Vivid
Los Fabulosos Cadillac - Yo Te Avise!
Los Lobos - By the Light of the Moon
Los Lobos - How Will the Wolf Survive?
Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett

M

Madness - The Rise & Fall
Madonna - Like a Prayer
Maldita Vecindad - y los Hijos del Quinto Patio
Maria McKee - Maria McKee
Marillion - Misplaced Childhood
Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
Megadeth - Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?
Mercyful Fate - Don't Break the Oath
Merle Haggard - Big City
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - Ride the Lightning
Metallica - The $5.98 E.P.
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Minor Threat - Out of Step
Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Motörhead - Ace of Spades

N

Nanci Griffith - The Last of the True Believers
Neil Young - Freedom
New Order - Power, Corruption, and Lies
New Order - Technique
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
Nirvana - Bleach
N.W.A. - Straight Outta Compton

O

Oingo Bongo - Only A Lad

P

Paul Simon - Graceland
Pere Ubu - The Tenement Year
Peter Gabriel - So
Pet Shop Boys - Please
The Pixies - Doolittle
The Pixies - Surfer Rosa
The Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace With God
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
The Police - Synchronicity
Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen
Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
Pretenders - Pretenders
Prince - 1999
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince - Sign 'O' the Times
The Proclaimers - Sunshine on Leith
Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions...

Q
Queen - The Game
Queensrÿche Operation: Mindcrime

R

R.E.M. - Document
R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
R.E.M. - Murmur
The Replacements - Let It Be
The Replacements - Tim
Richard Thompson - Hand of Kindness
Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Rick James - Street Songs
Robert Cray - Strong Persuader
The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Roxy Music - Avalon
Run DMC - Raising Hell
Rush - Moving Pictures

S

Silvio Rodriguez - Unicornio
Simple Minds - Once Upon a Time
Simply Red - Picture Book
Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Slick Rick - The Great Adventures of...
The Smiths - The Queen is Dead
The Smiths - The Smiths
Soda Stereo - Signos
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Sonic Youth - Sister
Spinal Tap - This is Spinal Tap
Squeeze - Argybargy
Stephane Grappelli/David Grisman - Live
Steve Earle - Guitar Town
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Soul to Soul
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Texas Flood
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
The Sugarcubes - Life's Too Good

T

Talking Heads - Remain in Light
Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless
Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
The Traveling Wilburys- Vol. 1

U

U2 - The Joshua Tree
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
U2 - War

V

Van Halen - 1984
Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
Voivod - Nothingface

W

The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues
Wynton Marsalis - Black Codes (From the Underground)

X

X - Los Angeles
X - More Fun in the New World
XTC - English Settlement
XTC - Skylarking

Y
Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's
Youssou N'Dour - Immigrés

Z

ZZ Top - Eliminator

I missed out on that draft, about the only one I've not taken part in, and seeing how the voting went, I was happy to be out. There was a lot of dreck chosen while a lot of great stuff was left off.

So, I'm in.

No snaking. Unless, I'm last. And then I'm all for it....

Damn, all my favourites are gone!

In

Well, in that draft, I said I could go for 100 rounds and not run out... big words!
I'm in.... again. Been so long since I was in a draft!

How many rounds? Only pop/rock or other kinds of music?

Do I gather that the albums chosen in the first draft will be off-limits? And that the list above is complete? If so I'm in.

im in

I'm open to suggestions although I'd go between 10-12 rounds as a conservative estimate. As for criteria, it's whatever floats your boat.

Yep. And yep. That list above is a full list of the original draft and they are all unavailable.

If you go above 6, you are asking for trouble.

We've seen too many drafts gently expire if they go 10-12 rounds. And I've always wanted longer drafts, but it should be much tighter: 7 rounds max. And I think any album released in the 80s ought to count.

I suppose it was a vain hope for Declaration to make it to the third round...

I think you get around that if you have a relatively short window-- six hours maybe-- and the next person goes on the clock with the first guy able to draft at any point thereafter.

Personally I think 10 rounds is workable.

I think we tried 12 hours on the song draft and by the middle rounds we had skipped so many people so many times we didn't know who was picking. I think we foolishly proposed a 20 round book draft but by round 7 we'd thrown in the towel and only made it to 10.

I'm open to a majority vote on the number of rounds. I haven't taken part in a draft in this forum for a while but I distinctly remember the previous album drafts hitting 12 rounds without too much trouble.

So it looks like either going for -

a) 6 or 7 rounds
b) 10 rounds

I'd be happy to go with 10 as well. It might be worth listing people geographically rather than randomly when we have a final number of participants.

Will it really matter if someone has a high selection in a draft like this...?

Obviously I'm Europe based but will more than happily PM someone with selections to keep things moving along.

Check.

I think a draft order dependant on time zones may be the way to go.

I'm in if it's 7 or less. I don't think I can come up with 10.

List of possible participants currently stands as -


frasermc
Val1
Father Ted
Crimen y Castigo
Iceblink
Matt in the Hat
spejic
Ismitje
taosjohn
StiltonFC
Crazypete13
ElasticNorseman
Cascerino's Pizzeria


10 is a nice round number. I'm inclined to give it another 24hrs or so max for any other players and then, if we can all agree on the number of rounds, we get this show on the road.