These albums are 40 years old! The Greatest Albums of 1985 | Ranked

[@robboxify]

1. hounds of love - Kate Bush 2. Love - The Cult 3. This is the sea - Waterboys 4. Head on the door - The Cure 5. Songs from the big chair - Tears for fears 6. Around the world in a day - Prince

[@bassfan41]

Love is a great album

[@LordHasenpfeffer]

@@bassfan41 For me I would cite Tears For Fears, "The Hurting" and OMD's, "Dazzle Ships" because I never heard either of those until 1985 and when I did they occupied both sides of one poor TDK SA-90 cassette which never got any relief after that.

[@fightersweep]

Great video Andy! Got me thinking about the albums I was hammering in 85. It was a bit eclectic. In no particular order: The Cult - Love Once Upon A Time - Simple Minds Cupid And Psyche 85 - Scritti Politti First And Last And Always - Sisters of Mercy Dream Of The Blue Turtles - Sting Phantasmagoria - The Damned Be Yourself Tonight - Eurythmics Psycho Candy - Jesus And Mary Chain Songs From The Big Chair - Tears For Fears Oil And Gold - Shriekback

[@iancorne5288]

Rain Dogs - Tom Waits, Low Life - New Order, Husker Du - New Day Rising.

[@metrakos]

Ahh goodb

[@metrakos]

Love all those albums

[@psychomoonrider8700]

My number one album of '85 was ZZ Top's Afterburner. To this day I still listen to it.

[@JohnnyRecently]

Highly underrated album.

[@SunhairSpiralmind]

The Cult - Love (October, 1985)

[@Arutha_Con_Doin]

One of the greatest years in music! 1) New Model Army - No Rest for the Wicked One 2) Sisters of Mercy - First and Last and Always 3) The Pogues - Rum Sodomy and the Lash 4) The Smiths - Meat is Murder 5) The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace 6) R.E.M. - Fables of Reconstruction 7) Fates Warning - The Spectre within 8) Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising 9) The Cult - Love 10) Sonic Youth - Bad Moon Rising 11) Death in June - Nada 12) Nick Cave - The Firstborn is Dead 13) Christian Death - Ashes 14) Laibach - Laibach 15) Ozric Tentacles - Erpsongs

[@Altres]

Great list, but no Heyday by the Church? 😮

[@paulcollins5586]

Great taste.

[@Arutha_Con_Doin]

@@Altres It's a great album, but when i listen to The Church these days i always go for Starfish.

[@kevincorrigan7893]

Love this list.

[@duanedoberman]

Lost and Found by Jason and the Scorchers. Country rock with the emphasis on the rock!

[@heygringo7]

1. Love - The Cult 2. Heyday - The Church 3. Rain Dogs - Tom Waits 4. Meat is Murder - Smiths 5. Psycho Candy - JMC 6. Power Windows - Rush 7. Blue Turtles - Sting 8. Songs From the Big Chair - Tears for Fears 9. Zillionaire - ABC 10. Promise - Sade

[@dewdew34]

Songs from the Big Chair - still listening.

[@fanboy324]

Great list! Big year for metal releases, too.

[@davealburger]

Excellent list

[@karlvre8790]

Great list, but no list about 1985 should be without "Steve McQueen", if you ask me. (it even has a few jazz cords, Andy 😉) So many other great pop albums from this year, but since this is not that kind of site, I will kindly bugger off now. (Blimey, it's nearly 25 O'clock) Looking forward to your next video.

[@tomtrana3449]

Steve Morse Band - Stand Up (Rod Morgenstein, drummer extraordinaire) Rush - Power Windows Roy Harper - What ever happened to Jugula? Emmett Chapman - Parallel Galaxy (Developer of the Chapman Stick) David Borden / The New Mother Mallard Band - Anatidae Hawkwind - The Chronicle of the Black Sword

[@grahamnunn8998]

Another great video Andy. I was 19 at the time and was torn between so many directions. I watched Bring On The Night recently and really enjoyed it. Hakim on I Burn for you is insane and his voice is pretty good too!

[@TBonzzz]

I completely agree on “Dream Of The Blue Turtles”. Like you, I bought it on CD when it came out and still have and listen to it when the mood hits me!

[@boudiccamarchestorome9475]

I do understand why Talking Heads didn't grab you as a teen but am happy that you included them; I think TH's messages were recognizable mainly to adults, if that makes sense. But I still don't get how you could be a teenaged jazz fan! I hung around with all the "music nerds" in my high school and the boys didn't really get modern jazz, but they were crazy about Zappa and Captain Beefheart.

[@ashfromlondon7008]

Not in any particular order... This Nation's Saving Grace - The Fall New Day Rising - Hüsker Dü Rum, Sodomy & the Lash - The Pogues Meat is Murder - The Smiths Head on the Door - The Cure Low Life - New Order Hounds of Love - Kate Bush Flip Your Wig - Hüsker Dü Psycho Candy - The Jesus and Mary Chain Spreading the Disease - Anthrax ...and I also had a soft spot for AC/DC's 'Fly on the Wall'...

[@erikbartlam7377]

Unbelievable year for Husker Du…then Warner Brothers.

[@frankhumphries1927]

My top 1985 Albums: 1. Larry Coryell / Emily Remler, Together; 2. Tony Williams Civilization, 3.Tom Waits Rain Dogs

[@johngreaves3749]

Wow, you've included Little Creatures! Love Talking Heads. I've still got the album on vinyl, which I remember buying on release.

[@preservedmoose]

Bass Desires is a great choice…one of my all-time favourite albums. It was very strange to me when I first bought it, but I just loved it. I’m not even sure why I knew about it but I did and it’s still great. Still Warm is excellent too…great album. Metal Fatigue… I wish it hadn’t taken me until years later before I was able to get access to his catalogue but no one knew where to get his music in those days.

[@wallac11]

Decode Yourself is incredible! Dream of the Blue Turtles? Not so much. Great selection.

[@MrCherryJuice]

A few things: - In addition to Sting's Blue Turtles band Darryl Jones was also in Andy Summers's band, which I saw at the Montréal Jazz Fest and had Chad Wackerman drumming. - The video clip of Sting and his band is, for those unaware, from the video - available on DVD - 'Bring On the Night', which is a fantastic reveal of Mr. Sumner and his jazz buddies (let's not forget that Sting too was a jazzer) coming together and rehearsing in the lead-up to their debut gig. - Alan Holdsworth's 'Road Games', which saw EVH out of the picture but Jack Bruce, Jeff Berlin, Chad Wackerman and Paul Williams in definitely was the guitarist's prime shot for success. His attitude, however, sealed his fate. - In the mid 60s, Paul Williams, best known as a singer with Juicy Lucy and Jon Hiseman's Tempest (he had a great Jack Bruce-style approach) played bass and sang in Zoot Money's Big Roll Band, which also included Andy Summers. Zoot Money is known to many only as the first person Chas Chandler introduced Jimi Hendrix to upon his arrival in London. They stopped at Money's band house enroute to Chandler's spot in central London, which was a flat in Montagu Square owned by Ringo Starr. What a small world it was in those days! I saw him with Wackerman and bassist Dave Larue at the Modern Drummer Festival. They were great. But offstage and on Holdsworth had the look of someone who didn't want to be there. What was great was that there were so many drummers in the room who were Holdsworth fans. I always longed for Jeff Beck to be there with one of his drummers, so there was a band setting. - Kate Bush's 'Hounds of Love' is great. But like you I prefer 'The Dreaming'. Its tunes do an incredible job of stretching way out into surprising new territory without Kate ever severing herself from the core essence of who she is and how she expresses herself. She is never less than brilliant. Cheers!

[@onsenkuma-l2p]

Interesting mix Andy. I wouldn't have immediately recalled 1985 as any sort of banner year for releases, but there were some things from that year that I liked then and for the most part still like now: THE SMITHS: Meat is Murder; NEW ORDER: low-life; THE FALL: This Nation's Saving Grace; FELT: Ignite The Seven Cannons; TERJE RYPDAL: Chaser; CHAMELEONS: What Does Anything Mean? Basically; PRINCE: Around The World in a Day; DUKES OF STRATOSFEAR (XTC): 25 O'Clock; DAVID SYLVIAN: Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities; PREFAB SPROUT: Steve McQueen; KRONOS QUARTET: Cadenza On the Night Plain; SADE: Promise; PROPAGANDA: A Secret Wish; THE SOUND: Heads and Hearts; BRIAN ENO: Thursday Morning; DEAD CAN DANCE: Spleen and Ideal; THE STYLE COUNCIL: Our Favourite Shop; SCRITTI POLITTI: Cupid & Psyche 85; EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL: Love Not Money...

[@apparaoapparao]

@@onsenkuma-l2p Scritti Politti were great….often forgotten

[@jimnewl]

Only missed 1985 by two months: Let It Be, by The Replacements. My #1.

[@westong6215]

The Replacements Tim was 1985. Top 5 album for me that year

[@alexmanne]

I agree - Metal Fatigue might be Holdsworth's best and most accessible work. Amazing stuff. Btw, Still Warm was released in 1986.

[@drumsybatabamboom8022]

Sting's "Driven To Tears" live with Omar.....yes!

[@VictorCairo-Archivist]

Andy, you have some great people in the chat! Real music lovers. Great video! Thanks

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

I know...I have the best viewers!

[@mymixture965]

To do a list mixing all these styles is a challenge, not my list but you did very well, yours is a list I could live with.

[@rickpaul4216]

My Faves Rain Dogs - Tom Waits Songs From the Big Chair - Tears for Fears

[@baronhelius4596]

I was 18 in ‘85 and just about to graduate from High School. And another brilliant album with Graham Bonnet at the time was Michael Schenkers Assault Attack (even got the picture disc). I was a huge Schenker fan in the 80s.

[@mutant_blues]

(Random Order): 01. The Fuzztones - Lysergic Emanations 02. Tuxedomoon - Holy Wars 03. Faith no More - We care a lot 04. The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy 05. John Fogerty - Centerfield 06. Shankar - Song for Everyone 07. Green on Red - No free Lunch 08. The Cult - Love 09. Michael Rother - Sussherz & Tiefenscharfe 10. The Waterboys - This is the Sea

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Yes, none of those will be on this list

[@mutant_blues]

​@@AndyEdwardsDrummerAnd that just means my list is better...

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Yes...mine is rubbish.

[@mutant_blues]

​@@AndyEdwardsDrummerWhat??? Of course not!!! Just less good...

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

Are you English? That is such a great example of English encouragement

[@pop-optic9620]

(Random) Propaganda - A Secret Wish / Cure - Head on the Door / Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen / Yello - Stella / The Sound - Heads and Hearts / Tears For Fears - Big Chair / ABC - Zillionaire / Talking Heads - Little Creatures / Chess - OST

[@pop-optic9620]

ahhh after reading your list's I forgot 25 O'Clock by the Dukes of XTC. That was why I only did a list of 9. haha

[@aaronhayman8558]

Decode Yourself... Are you kidding me?!!! I discovered that album in the cutout bin of a crappy record store in a mall, selling for cheap, probably only a year or two after it came out. I only bought it because of the cover, which looked interesting and because the leader was a drummer (I'm a drummer). It blew my mind when I pulled it out of the shrink and listened to it, as it still does so many years later. One of my very favorite records from that era. It has a particular quality that I find in lots of my favorite jazz, where the melodies are often very odd and disonant, yet somehow still very catchy. The guy was a great drummer with a really original concept, great band, and was an excellent composer as well.

[@lupcokotevski2907]

Yay I picked 1 and 2. The most fun album of 1985: Mars Needs Guitars by the Hoodoo Gurus (Australia) - hook laden guitar pop rock. Hugely popular on the USA college circuit, charted on Billboard. The Gurus recently toured America. The best song of 1985: We Will Together by the Eurogliders (Australia), glorious post punk new wave proggy pop with the fab funky English bassist Ron Francois ( spelling ?). Fantastic brass as well. Eurogliders has a hit in the US with Heaven Must Be There in 1984, with Ron funking out. James Morrison at the Winery (1985). Big band jazz, including the Flintstones theme, Basin Street Blues etc. Prodigiously talented.

[@paulmartinson875]

Thanks!

[@mulholand]

A surprisingly vital and exciting year right in the midst of all eightyishness, with some very innovative electronics courtesy the Fairlights and Synclaviers rather than just the DX7s. "Steve McQueen", "Cupid & Psyche '85", "A Secret Wish" - all of them up there with "Hounds of Love". As is "Slave to the Rhythm" with Grace Jones and "Stella" with Yello. There's "Language Barrier" by Sly & Robbie, "The Family", a beautiful Prince project, "So Where Are You?" by Loose Ends, "The Rhythmatist" by Stewart Copeland and Ray Lema, "Love Bomb" by the Tubes, "Mix-Up" by Annie Whitehead (great British trombone player) and the wonderful Hal Willner compilation "Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill" (you really need to do a Willner special one day). All of them immensely listenable to this very day, at least in these quarters.

[@pop-optic9620]

Prefab, Propaganda and Yello were some of my mentions too.!

[@mulholand]

@@pop-optic9620 Yello could just do no wrong at this point. Great sounds and so much fun and excitement. Even their B sides were sublime.

[@pop-optic9620]

@ Angel No was my absolute fave!

[@Matias-music-71]

I think these 3 hit the hardest as far as influence in that year , Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair , Slayer Hell Awaits , and lastly Run DMC King Of Rock ..,

[@robertlewis8024]

In some ways the Kate Bush seems like a surprising pick, but the more you think about it the more sense it makes.

[@gweduck]

I'm feeling you, Andy. It's cold here in Tacoma, Washington (home of The Sonics) too! Didn't know about Vernon Reid's band before Public Enemy,

[@gweduck]

okay! okay! I meant Living Colour

[@mikecook7334]

Keith Jarret: “Okay, let’s all cough together and get it over with”. 🤡🎹

[@stewrmo]

Andy, have you ever done a video on the famous "Amen Break"? With it being so Important to music in the 80s, till today, I just wondered. Or has it be done/ your not interested? One love from Glasgow. 💙

[@JohnnyRecently]

Marillion- Misplaced Childhood Kate Bush- Hounds of Love Sting- Dream of the Blue Turtles The Cult- Love The Jesus and Mary Chain- Psychocandy John Cougar Mellencamp- Rain on the Scarecrow Alan Parson's Project- Vulture Culture Presence- Le poison qui rend fou

[@ConorHanley]

Decode yourself and hounds of love are the only albums I got which I still play from time to time. Not sure I'd bother with many of the others

[@eximusic]

Meat is Murder - The Smiths, The Head on the Door - The Cure, Fables of the Reconstruction - REM, Songs From the Big Chair - Tears for Fears, Tim - The Replacements, and yes Kate Bush and Talking Heads.

[@dirkbogarde44]

What were you listening to? Dear oh dear. 1-Meat is Murder The Smiths 2, Low Life New Order, 3 Steve McQueen Prefab Sprout, 4, Rain Dogs Tom Waits, 5, This Is The Sea The Waterboys, 6, Centerfield John Fogerty, 7, Scarecrow John Mellencamp, 8, Cupid & Psyche 85 Scritti Polliti, 9, World Service Spear of Destiny 10, Songs from the Big Chair Tears For Fears.

[@Altres]

Heyday by the Church. There, that’s that list sorted. 👏

[@paulcollins5586]

All time classic.

[@peterkarlsson1825]

Of course.

[@mrinalkundu1521]

1985 - was at Art College; hated the music; gave up the guitar; took up the trumpet; went into a Jazz Coma.

[@Kuesel68]

Children's Crusade is what you were looking for, one of my fav DotBT. Mispaced Childhood was my gateway to Marillion when it came out and I didn't like it but then I got Script, wow! And I started to see the genius of MC. But it doesn't reach the grandour and diversity of Brave, Marbles, or Anorak. YES, HoL! Imo one of the greatest albums ever made. Wasn's Songs from the Big Chair also from 85? Would be also on my list. BTW thank you for the video (I am nearly live). I turn 57 today, actually this minute, but am sick in bed instead of attending Paganfest in Basel (Alestorm, Tyr, Elvenking and others). Now I got rewared with your video instead.

[@nobrainsnoheadache2434]

Unpopular choice - Worldwide Live by Scorpions. Sting for sure, and Brothers In Arms, but for me #1 is This Is Big Audio Dynamite. 'Get 3 coffins ready' is a phrase I hear most every week :)

[@tonyrapa-tonyrapa]

I"m going to do a bit of my own research and see what I can muster for 1985.

[@robboxify]

not heard any early Vernon Reid stuff will have a listen - what a great band Living Colour are

[@seekah1]

01. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush 02. This is the Sea -The Waterboys 03. Meat is Murder - The Smiths 04. Hell Awaits - Slayer 05. Invasion of Your Privacy - Ratt 06. Low-Life - New Order 07. The Wishing Chair -10,000 Maniacs 08. Boys and Girls - Bryan Ferry 09. The Head on the Door - The Cure 10. Rock a Little - Stevie Nicks HM: Killing is my Business - Megadeth Power Windows - Rush Heyday - The Church

[@sicko_the_ew]

You forgot *Salad Days* by *Minor Threat* !

[@ElvisBeery]

I was neck-deep in Physical Graffiti in 1985. I think I'm one episode late. In My Time Of Dying was the exact time it took for me to walk from my house to my girlfriends house, on my Walkman.

[@GriezelOnderdentafel]

Prog was not at its peak in 85. However, in Mexico they did not know that. Check : Nirgal Vallis - Y Murió la Tarde

[@marklar9156]

Prog-fan here. Thanks for the hint, I had never heard about the band and their sole album. Listening to it at the moment and it sure has its merits and despite some very 80s like sounds the overall style is commendably "anti-eighties".

[@paulthew2]

You finished with Kate? Well done.

[@BernieForMayor]

I bought Al Dimeola's Tour de Force on vinyl in 1985. What was going on in the UK?

[@metrakos]

Head on door great album

[@BanalayerPete1972]

Misdemeanor - UFO Run for Cover - Gary Moore Hold Me - Laura Branigan 7800* Fahrenheit - Bon Jovi Meat Is Murder - Smiths Shaken & Stirred - Robert Plant Disturbing the Peace - Alcatrazz The Powerstation - Same band The Firm - Same band Hounds of Love - Kate Bush

[@daicullinane7746]

Andy reveals his love for power metal and has Helloween's Walls of Jericho at #1.

[@tonyrapa-tonyrapa]

Absolutely love Kate Bush... Great choice. Metal Fatigue is sensational - I was, and still am, in awe of this album.

[@johngreaves3749]

I agree, Hounds of Love is the greatest album of 1985! Arguably the best album of the 80s, although personally, I'd go with Purple Rain.

[@stewrmo]

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you, I only want you to have some fun." Bloody magic, I agree.

[@LordHasenpfeffer]

In the 1980s, "40 years" meant World War II... the stuff you see so often in Pink Floyd, "The Wall". To this day I still think of World War II as "40 years ago" because of that even though it ain't. It's actually double that now. Funny how that works.

[@johnrogers2826]

I'd list my favourites, but really, no one but me would care. Strange but true, Steve Vai has six fingers on his left hand! Just look at his handprints in cement at Guitar Centre in Hollywood!

[@davestephens6421]

I love Still Warm by Sco.......it's a killer and where he really finds his feet, great tunes!!!!! Love this era of John!!!

[@grahamnunn8998]

I first heard Scho on a Guitar Player cover disc that had an outtake from this album.

[@hjs5686]

J.J. Cale - 8 Pat Metheny - Pat Metheny Group Sting - Dream of the blue turtles Eric Johnson - Tones Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair Marc Johnson - Bass Desires James Taylor - That's Why I'm Here Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms Keith Jarrett - Standards II Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen John Scofield - Still Warm John Fogerty - Centerfield Howard Jones - Dream Into Action Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue Level 42 - World Machine

[@davidbarton1928]

...So no love for The Jesus & Mary Chain's 'Psychocandy'? 😂 The struggle was real, wasn't it?

[@koomaj]

Number one was a nice surprise. Absolutely love Kate Bush.

[@johnfmullett]

I haven't watched this yet, but the first mention of the Mahavishnu Orchestra or anyone who's ever played with them, it will be turned the fuck off.

[@colinburroughs9871]

Power Windows and it's themes and the fact the all of the issues addressed under Neil's theme of "Power" seem ripped from the headlines still and the guy who probably was the human inspiration for The Big Money, being in charge is all very odd to me. Last great Rush record. One of the better from the year. 85 stuff really feels like it's setting up the grunge people taking over.

[@stewarttiley9683]

The Cure -Head on the Door Propaganda -A secret Wish The Tubes -Love Bomb (side 2 is a masterpiece!) Rush -Power Windows (dated production, but superb song compositions!) Killing Joke-Nighttime Slayer-Hell Awaits Waterboys - This is the sea

[@wylieroth3145]

Nobody ever mentions Bill Frisell's work with Zorn and Naked City. Why is that?

[@jeffxpmdisc]

"Torture Garden"... mentioned!

[@wylieroth3145]

@@jeffxpmdisc Guess I missed what must have been a very brief reference. It was Bill's early work with Zorn that I came to appreciate what he can do. I still collect Frisell, and will continue to do so, but miss some of that earlier angst in some of his playing of late. However, Breaking the Shell comes close. Carry on.

[@wylieroth3145]

I must add that Bass Desires and the follow up, Second Sight, are go-to recordings for me. Fine, fine, work by that group.

[@wallac11]

This Nation’s Saving Grace -The Fall Run, Sodomy and The Lash - The Pogues In My Head -Black Flag Psychocandy-Jesus and The Mary Chain Rain Dogs Tom Waits Tim-The Replacements To Mega Therion- Celtic Frost Killing Is My Business- Megadeth Bad Moon Rising-Sonic Youth Love -The Cult

[@h.m.7218]

The Tubes-Love Bomb One of my 15 alltime favorite albums. Todd Rundgren, who produced the album, was also credited as a member of the band on the back cover which features a great picture of all the guys. Commercial disaster. Artistic triumph. Ranked as a 1,5 star album on the AllMusic web site... Grotesque review of the album by a guy called Dave Connolly. Who lost forever his rock critic creds after writing it. Most of the users reviews, one of them mine, are spot on. Love the great back cover by drummer Prairie Prince, as much a great graphic artist as he is a great drummer. Utopia-POV Last Utopia album. Very good.

[@dirtharris]

I'm with you. Love Love Bomb.

[@heftyjay1]

Agreed! Love Utopia and The Tubes…🆒🇨🇦

[@GlennSmith-m2e]

85 is when a lot of bands I liked were getting a bit boring or didn't release anything. I still like Loose Nut-Black Flag.

[@erikbartlam7377]

Process of Weeding Out was released in 85 too. In the purest format 10”

[@GlennSmith-m2e]

@@erikbartlam7377 Their Jazz record. The 10" is a great format. In My head was late 85 as well.

[@erikbartlam7377]

@ Andy had a chance to pick a hardcore prog but whiffed it 😝 Pound for pound the best releases by so many bands is a 10” or an EP..Slates, Cut, Watery Domestic, Metal Circus,…

[@drumsybatabamboom8022]

Nick Kershaw- The Riddle. Still a good listen!

[@edwardmorris3453]

I adore Kate Bush and it makes me happy that she tops your list! That said, Hounds of Love was, in my opinion, the beginning of the end. All her best work came before. The first two were her best. They were the most original. The more she learned about her craft, the more she began to sound like other artists. By 1985, she was almost purely percussive. I find Hounds of Love a flat listen. No dynamics, just this high-timbred percussion. Not much melody going on. Maybe I should give it a listen. I haven't in years. It just fell so short of what she'd done before. There was no room for a "Coffee Homeground" or a "Wow" or a "Moving" or a "Wuthering Heights". Those early songs were real SONGS! A medium-sized backing band and Kate doing her Kate Bush mime thing and you had art at art's absolute best. Whole little worlds, self-contained, inspiring, wonderful gems all under three minutes. Maybe a couple went over. Just amazing she could pack so much into such small spaces of time. By '85 that was all gone. Oh well, still better than Songs From The Big Chair!

[@stufen11]

John Lydon, a great fan of Katie Bush... Say No More!!

[@mikekain3735]

I'll throw one out there from 85. Gowan , Stange Animal. Thoughts ?

[@BanalayerPete1972]

Love it, but I think it's an '84 album.

[@mikekain3735]

Wikipedia states Feb 85 🤷 Styx has Criminal Mind in their setlist. It's awesome. Great vid on KZbin.

[@heftyjay1]

I want Gowan to forever more perform under his given name instead of his sir name….Ladies and Gentlemen…LARRY!

[@BanalayerPete1972]

@@mikekain3735: Sorry, my mistake. A very good album which I picked up as a bargain. Have seen Styx twice, both times with Larry Gowan. The first time was in 2007, with Deep Purple and Thin Lizzy (fronted by John Sykes, RiP). The next time, Styx were headlining, and they did Criminal Mind. I agree, it was awesome. Must upload that show (Bristol, UK, 2009 (I think)).

[@johnnybcn1906]

Yes, I was going to be disappointed if you hadn't chosen Kate at number one. Cheers 🥂

[@winstonsmith8240]

Didn't Bananarama or Gary Newman release anything in 1985?

[@erikbartlam7377]

Can’t wait for the Psychocandy segment.

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

then dont

[@erikbartlam7377]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer😂

[@tdog5035]

Hunting high and low by a-ha. The big hit overshadows what is a very sophisticated synth pop album. Laugh all you want but you're wrong😊

[@pop-optic9620]

Absolutely correct answer!! You are going to the Bonus Round!🙃

[@DannyMcGrath1969]

"Andy Edwards Plays with himself"-The Drum Solos...That didn't come out quite right now did it....

[@bert7867]

Phil Collins No Jacket Required. Sold over 25 millions copies worldwide.

[@drumsybatabamboom8022]

Roger Glover- The Mask.

[@DrOz-007]

Is that Kelly Le Brock?

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

of course...who else could represent 1985

[@Arutha_Con_Doin]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Molly Ringwald 😉

[@AndyEdwardsDrummer]

True...so what differentiates Molly and Kelly?

[@Arutha_Con_Doin]

@@AndyEdwardsDrummer Their age. Kelly was born in '60, Molly in '68. While Kelly played the grown up in Weird Science, Molly still was the teenager in Breakfast Club. I was 12 years old in '85 so Molly was a lot closer in age to me than Kelly. Kelly was more like the cool aunt while Molly was more the girlfriend type.

[@simonhodgetts6530]

I do hope that this means that the soundtrack from The Lady In Red is in your top ten…….Stevie’s Bontempi era at its best!

[@f666frida]

Power Windows by Rush!

[@GriezelOnderdentafel]

Best albums of that year i discovered long afterwards. I did not like the 80s in the 80s

[@lupcokotevski2907]

Eurythmics LP in 85 is great.

[@docpangasinan]

Even Mick Jagger had a better album that year than some of your selections 😛 But we certainly agree on Sting and Kate Bush!

[@rabbitisrich]

I think Meat is Murder (1985) might actually be the best Smiths album, apart from the bloody awful title track. But it’s Johnny Marr at his inventive best and Mozzer at his ‘English Aesthetic’ peak!

[@seekah1]

Solid 4/5 and I love the title track...Queen is such a masterpiece though, can't be beaten for me.

[@tylerthecreation998]

1985! what a year for music. its so hard to pick just 10 but if i had to.. 1. kate bush - hounds of love (one of my all time favs) 2. prefab sprout - steve mccqueen 3. the smiths - meat is murder 4. new order - lowlife 5. sade - promise 6. strawberry switchblade s/t 7. everything but the girl - love not money 8. the chameleons - what does anything mean basically 9. tom waits - rain dogs 10. the cure - the head on the door and trust me. there were many MANY more i could have chosen

[@dirkbogarde44]

Early EBTG is the best.

[@pop-optic9620]

strawberry switchblade and chameleons great stuff many have forgotten!

[@jeffxpmdisc]

Mid to late 80's not my fav. era. Maybe "Up on the Sun" by Meat Puppets. "Double Nickles on the Dime" might be 85?

[@normanjones9663]

Sorry, I've just looked at your video, and it seems to me like 1985 = pretty dire. I was keen on the beginnings of Thrash or Math Rock at about this time. Thrash always seemed like the '80s version of punk (punk of the '70s, in contrast, seemed a waste of time to me), and I enjoyed the hell out of it. Bands such as Mekong Delta, Coroner, Sieges Even, Watchtower, or Don Caballero for instance. This was all really new, great, virtuoso, and had substance. I think that that music blows everything on your list out of the water. Again, sorry! (runs for cover).

[@ЛюбительСерфинга]

Afterburner by ZZ Top was on top for me. Not as good as Eliminator though, but back in 1985 it was the best, considering that on the whole music was really crap in the mid 80s

[@kirkgray6949]

Sting ripped them off money wise…greed is ugly

[@heftyjay1]

Sting…one of the three most pretentious men in rock…Sting, Michael Stipe, Bono….fight me…🤣🆒🇨🇦

[@montaguewithnail6372]

When did Kate Bush become the darling of Prog geeks? I must have missed that.

[@Unity_Mot]

The association was there from the outset. David Gilmour paid for her demos and co-produced 'The Kick Inside', the use of odd time signatures on Wuthering Heights, the backing vocal she contributed to with Peter Gabriel's 'Melt', the experimentation on 'The Dreaming' and then side 2 of 'Hounds of Love' is a seven song concept suite 'The Ninth Wave'.

[@apparaoapparao]

@@montaguewithnail6372 widespread appeal with other influential artists in the 80s. Prince and Robert Smith from the Cure were fans along with Gilmour and Gabriel.

[@montaguewithnail6372]

@@Unity_Mot I can see the connections there but is it really Prog?

[@YaoEspirito]

Yo, that cap looks doofy as hell.

[@seekah1]

go google postmodernism to help you out kid

[@wahid-lg1kk]

I hated the 80s..tried to ignore it..couldn't. Left the West entirely. Haven't been back.