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Thank Foden it’s Friday.

It’s a wonderful summer’s day where you could fry an egg on the stones here… if you had a stone. So let’s have another music competition.

This week, dear readers, inspired by a new documentary that argues 1971 was the greatest year for music, I want to know the top music year of your life with the top tune of same.

For me, I’m gonna go with 1985:

Albums I binged on from that year included The Smiths – Meat Is Murder, REM – Fables, New Order – Lowlife, That Petrol Emotion – Manic Pop Thrill, Microdisney – The Clock Comes Down The Stairs, and 10,000 Maniacs – The Wishing Chair.

My song of 1985 has to be this.

Over to you…

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45 thoughts on “Win Nick’s Golden Voucher [Extended]

  1. scottser

    for me, 1979.
    the jam, blondie, elvis costello, dr feelgood, 2-tone, the police, pink floyd, boomtown rats, stiff records. reggae – tons and tons of reggae.
    plus all that disco stuff.

      1. scottser

        https://youtu.be/lgCZN1rU5co
        It has to be ‘gangsters’ by the specials.
        It was brand new. Nothing sounded or looked like it. It took no shit and wouldn’t take no for an answer. It laid the political foundations for a generation against bitch Thacher and scrote haughey and it turned me and my mates into a gang. It was the beginning of a very wonderful musical rabbit hole; I can’t even begin to estimate how much I owe that song.

  2. Micko

    That’s a hard one really. I was a teenager in the 90’s so grunge was a big influence on me.

    I was 13 in the summer of 1991 and the grunge game changer from Nirvana ‘Never Mind’ was still a few months away ( I think so anyway, been a while)

    Anyway, I remember that it was the summer time and I happened to see this track on MTV. – Alive by Pearl Jam

    I was blown away by it.

    I was learning to play the guitar ar the time and it was one of the first tracks I ever learned by ear.

    The album ‘Ten’ came out a while later and it was on constant rotation in my gaff. Much to my parents malaise

    So yep 1991 – class. We also had Metalica’s Enter Sandman), Massive Attacks Unfinished Symphony, GnR’s You could be mine & November Rain (And Terminator elfin 2) REM’s Losing my religion, There’s no other way from Blur, Under the bridge by RHCP and loads more.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qM0zINtulhM

    So yeah 1991 was deadly – but it all started with Alive for me

      1. Micko

        Ha!

        Nice one – excellent taste J

        Plus Eddie Vedder is ‘Still Alive’… eh eh?

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        Too soon? ;)

  3. Rosette of Sirius

    1995 was a great year to be alive musically speaking with some fantastically good music from the indie scene and many making the jump to mainstream airplay.

    Pulp – Different Class kicks us off along with Radiohead’s The Bends. We had The Great Escape from Blur, Tricky produced the fantastic Maxinquaye and Paul Weller released Stanley Road.

    In short, 1995 was quite an amazing year for music with seminal albums from – Mercury Rev, PJ Harvey, Teenage Fanclub and my beloved Wilco released A.M.

    Favourite track? It’s a throw up between Pulp and Radiohead but I think, on the whole it has to be – for the lyrics alone – Common People.

    https://youtu.be/yuTMWgOduFM

    (and I didn’t even reference Oasis onece…. well…um… sorry ’bout that…)

  4. Andy Pipkin

    1995

    To me it was a golden age in music across the water,
    Radiohead
    Supergrass
    Black Grape
    Too nome just a few, but it was also an exciting time for me as my love of Irish bands grew.
    I was working with bands for a few years and was fortunate enough to see them live, but the one band and album that blew my mind was, Heartworm by the brilliant Whipping Boy.

    It’s hard to pick a single track from the album but I’m going for this classic,

    When We Were Young

    https://youtu.be/HKFPMyauvbk

    Special mention for Revelino and Happiness Is Mine,

    https://youtu.be/0ewLFskgEXM

    Good times!!

    Enjoy and Happy Friday!

  5. Johnny

    …’18 was just the greatest year for music,i was splitting my time between NY/LA hanging out with a x UCLA college radio DJ,turned producer,listening lots great music,going out see bands/clubs.

    a few things i liked/enjoyed from that year.

    IDLES – Joy As An Act Of Resistance,Shame – Songs of Praise.

    Sunflower Bean – Twentytwo In Blue, Mitski – ‘Be the Cowboy’- Snail Mail – Lush,Parquet Courts – Wide Awake,Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Hope Downs,Amen Dunes – Freedom, Father John Misty – God’s Fav Customer,Kacey Musgraves-Golden Hour,Beach House-7,Low-Double Negative.

    Travis Scott – Astroworld,Vince Staples – FM!,Earl Sweatshirt Some Rap Songs.

    Ezra Furman – Transangelic Exodus,Janelle Monae – Dirty Computer,Soccer Mommy – Clean.

    this stood out-it’s a later live version from ’18 -in Sydney with the incredibly vastly underrated Roísín Murphy
    Dj Koze – Illumination feat. Roísín Murphy

    https://youtu.be/m93uyb-jnRs

    ..on the turntable i probably wore the needle out to this by Jon Hopkins,it’s a haunting piano cover of ‘Dawn Chorus’ – recorded in one take off Thom Yorke‘s album ‘Anima’.

    https://youtu.be/4sk0uDbM5lc

    finally …Kaye just owned 2018 with 3 outstanding albums.

    Kanye West – ye
    Pusha T – Daytona
    Kids See Ghosts – Kids See Ghosts

    Kids See Ghosts

    https://youtu.be/cHFzyFMT0pw

      1. Johnny

        ….highly regarded hardcore/punk LA underground band,one my favorites and great live Hot Snakes released Jericho Sires,Paid in Full is off it… from the greatest year ever in music,it changed everything….:)

        https://youtu.be/yrR50b7-OSQ

  6. H

    For me it’s got to be 1983, which featured many musical high notes including Say Hello, Wave Goodbye by Soft Cell, Dead Ringer For Love by Meat Loaf, Hungry Like The Wolf and Save a Prayer by Duran Duran, Centrefold by the J Geils Band, The look of Love by ABC, Mad World by Tears For Fears, Golden Brown by The Stranglers, Town Called Malice by The Jam, Eye of The Tiger by Survivor and Ghost Town by the Specials and House of Fun by Madness.

    But for me, the absolute anthem of that year and the early to mid 1980s has to be Come on Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners

    https://youtu.be/cVRB2HZ_R2U

      1. H

        D’oh! I was going to pick that for 1981 but the decided to go for 1983 instead – my fingers obviously decided to include it anyway….

  7. Muchacho Gordo-Delgado

    Sorry to cheese everybody out on such a lovely evening, but for me it was 1982 for many reasons, including my first “lads” holiday. Trio – Da Da Da, Steve Miller Band – Abracadabra, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? – Culture Club, Steppin’ Out – Joe Jackson, Rock The Casbah – The Clash,
    But the biggest smile comes on my face when I hear this
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAEsmzbw9hY
    Girl Crazy – Hot Chocolate

    1. Muchacho Gordo-Delgado

      Sorry to cheese everybody out on such a lovely evening, but for me it was 1982 for many reasons, including my first “lads” holiday. Trio – Da Da Da, Steve Miller Band – Abracadabra, Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? – Culture Club, Steppin’ Out – Joe Jackson, Rock The Casbah – The Clash,
      But the biggest smile comes on my face when I hear this
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAEsmzbw9hY
      Girl Crazy – Hot Chocolate
      Cheerful, fun, catchy, from a lead singer with enormous talent, taken from us all too soon.

  8. Otis Blue

    1985 here too.

    Nick’s on the money with his choices, though I’d swap 10,000 Maniacs for The Pogues, Rum, Sodomy and the Lash and add The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy for good measure

    And just because a blissful sunny evening in Doolin needs some dissonance, here’s You Trip Me Up

    https://youtu.be/zK2nJWNgZBA

  9. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

    2001, I want to say but lets just say early 2000’s because it’s a bit of a blur ( so long ago ;)) I was very much in my honeymoon period in Paris and with the x hubby, he was artistic director of a record label having left Sony for something more français and I was working for a techno label Prozac, setting up parties, its impossible to get those tacks on utube to share with you,
    but life was being on the list for live gigs at least four nights a week, every music festival and most backstage parties, the most memorable and one I can share was probably Marilyn Manson’s party, a lot of ladies in suspenders and naturally the beautiful people …and me ;) released in 1996 an awesome year for music https://youtu.be/Ypkv0HeUvTc

  10. goldenbrown

    ’85 was of course Live Aid
    the year before my Leaving Cert
    and that Saturday was a day very like today – beautiful, sunny and warm
    we lived on the edge of Dublin in a town technically in a different county but totally “down the country”
    up to my much wealthier best mates gaff to organise a very busy day (and because I fancied his sister rotten although she was 3 years older than me)
    started off with a round of par 3
    then jumping off the bridge into the canal
    back to his gaff for food, underage drink and watch the events of the day on an expensive Sony Trinitron
    had been thru a couple of genres already in my early teens up to that point
    but the band that caught my eye for some reason was Simple Minds…playing live in Philadelphia, LIVE I tells ya!! (it’s hard to put into words just how awesome that was at the time)
    super confidently stole a kiss
    one of the best days
    the following week I went straight into town to Freebird and bought an album called “Sparkle In the Rain” with the money I’d saved from picking strawberries at the fruit farm up the road (not a lot because I mostly ate the strawberries)
    I still have it on the shelf and it gets the odd spin to this day
    some great songs on that album but I will nominate “Waterfront” by Simple Minds

    simpler times and very glad and fortunate that I lived my teenage years in the ’80s!

  11. Papi

    I started going to Sir Henry’s when I was 15, and went there religiously, every Friday night without fail, and was introduced to proper ska, two tone and rude boys beats which obsession has stayed with me ever since, and just grows.
    So, 88 for me, even though it was only the beginning of the love affair.
    Song is 79, but 88 is when I fell in love.
    Prince Buster, Madness
    https://youtu.be/EZC6Ot1MLP0

  12. CapernosityandFunction

    I was too young for punk and new wave and there were no equivalent movements in the early 1980s that I could get my teeth into. By the late 80s I was moving beyond the Top of the Pops/Smash Hits phase to the NME/Hot Press phase. MTV Europe had arrived and opened up new horizons.

    1989 was the end of first and the beginning of my second year in college. It was a very disruptive and turbulent time in my life so my bedroom with headphones and my music was my retreat. For me my late teens and early twenties were THE period when I had the most passion for music. I started owning it and looking for other stuff beyond the charts, started going to gigs and clubs.

    What signified 1989 for me was the Madchester/Baggy scene and the wave of rap and hip hop coming from the US. Indie music was also a separate entity then with genuinely independent labels with their own charts and songs that barely skirted the Top 40. Taping off the radio and Fanning’s Fab 50, happy days.

    Here are the albums that meant most to me. I played these to death at the time on my radio cassette player:

    De La Soul – Three Feet High and Rising

    The Stone Roses – The Stone Roses

    The Pixies – Doolittle

    New Order – Technique

    Beastie Boys – Paul’s Boutique

    NWA – Straight Outta Compton

    The B-52s – Cosmic Thing

    The The – Mind Bomb

    Faith No More – The Real Thing

    Song of the year would have to be Public Enemy – Fight the Power from Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing”:

    https://youtu.be/mmo3HFa2vjg

    1989
    Another summer
    Get down
    To the sound of the funky drummer

    I don’t mind if I do.

    1. Janet, dreams of an alternate universe

      excellent choices
      isn’t it mad how much a pair of earphones and some tracks can help you escape

  13. Seamus

    1977 for me. Everything changed. Not just punk but disco was at its height as well.

    Rocket to Russia Ramones
    Ramones Leave Home
    Never Mind the Bollocks The Sex Pistols
    New Boots and Panties Ian Dury
    Cluster and Eno
    The Clash
    Rattus Norvegicus The Stranglers
    Damned Damned Damned The Damned
    Chic
    Marquee Moon Television
    Let there be Rock AC/DC
    Motörhead
    Trans Europe Express Kraftwerk
    Love at the Greek Neil Diamond
    My Aim is True Elvis Costello
    Sneakin Suspicion Dr Feelgood
    In the City The Jam

    I could go on but I should stop. Every one is a stonewall classic. And that’s only the albums. There were hundreds of ridiculously good singles as well. But the song of the year and probably the decade was this

    https://youtu.be/Nm-ISatLDG0

    I feel love Donna Summer

    1. H

      Great pick, it came on the radio yesterday when I was out driving so I treated the whole street to a blast of it :-)

  14. Gorugeen

    1991 for me. Leaving Cert, family disintegrated, became homeless, started college. Crazy year it was. Music got me through it.
    Sound garden- bad motor finger
    Guns n Roses – use your illusion 1 &2
    Metallica- Black Album
    Mr Bungle – Mr Bungle
    Kyuss -Wretch
    Nirvana -Nevermind
    Red Hot Chilli Peppers – blood, sugar, sex, magik
    Type of Negative – Slow, deep and hard.

    Rusty Cage by Soundagarden is my favourite 1991 track. The perfect soundtrack for a lost kid angry at the world.
    “gonna break my rusty cage and run”
    https://youtu.be/3JfiAUnUIq8

    Broke my heart the day Chris Cornell died.

  15. wearnicehats

    Those of certain vintage might remember Club 92 in Leopardstown Racecourse. There may be fewer who remember it as Blinkers. Many of those who do are probably like me – children of the 60s. Anyway – I remember one time in 1985 I had a sporting related reason to be in Dublin. Those of you who remember the 80s would realise that this was a big deal for someone to cross the border for any reason and at any age. It also happened to be the first time I had gone away from home on my own. I was staying with some fellow competitor who lived in Stillorgan and we found ourselves in the queue for Blinkers – obviously trying to look older than our 16 years. I think we only got in because it was cold and raining and the four of us probably doubled the attendance figure inside.

    The number one at the time was a song called Show some Concern by The concerned which was like Ireland’s version of Band Aid. It was truly awful.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueXmdgoxzlM

    I think they played it at the end to get people to leave. Anyway – I’m leaving it here for your delectation

  16. Penfold

    Going for 98.
    Previous years had larger volume of great albums, (95 mentioned loads) but some of my most played come from 98.
    “You’ve come a long way baby”. Fat boy slim, Beastie Boys “Hello Nasty”, “Moon Safari” by Air and Massive Attacks “Mezzanine” got me through hours of studying.

    Added to that, Fin de Siecle from Divine Comedy, Catatonia’s international Velvet and “without you I’m nothing” by Placebo, it was a solid enough year.

  17. seanydelight

    Was the idea here not to choose song from ’85?

    Well here’s mine. I’ve no nostalgia to wipe away from my eye as I air guitar around trying not to wake the missus. Wasn’t born. But it’s on the biggest selling album of the decade, so I guess it’s worth a shot.

    Also, that video…

    https://youtu.be/wTP2RUD_cL0

  18. Clampers Outside

    1985… was the year I fell in love..

    With HEAVY METAL! Metal of all types! If it was gnarly or heavy I was listening :)

    Guns N Roses, Janes Addiction, Sabbat, Stormtroopers of Death were some of the bands formed that year.
    Album releases included Anthrax ‘Spreading The Disease’, Slayer ‘Hell Awaits’ and ‘Live Undead’, Exodus ‘Bonded by Blood’, S.O.D. ‘Speak English Or Die’
    … And a whole heap of great metal albums from the like of Onslaught, Motley Crue, Celtic Frost, Loudness, Kreator, Overkill, Pantera, Faith No More, Twisted Sister, Megadeth… Ireland’s own Mamas Boys ‘Power & Passion’
    … and of course, Iron Maidens’ ‘Live After Death’

    As well as, special mention for The Cult ‘Love’ :)

    How was I going to get a hold of all this new music? Well, a summer job of course!

    And what made things even much better was working in my local Esso station and all those drivers not collecting Tiger Tokens!!! Best dual-brand promo ever! That Golden Discs / Esso promo meant that I got at least one album every week and sometimes two or three, aaaaall summer long :)

    It was Maiden’s Live After that solidified my love of metal, but that didn’t come until later in the year, well after that glorious summer.

    And the track from the album… It has to be…

    Running Free (Live)

    Enjoy! :)

    https://youtu.be/30sBKv7kvco

  19. eamonn

    So many years- so many tunes. not easy to pick the best of the best.
    1991 was another good one. I am going to plumb for Galliano from the album In pursuit of the thirteenth note
    the tune – Comin on Strong
    https://youtu.be/UmJMTi1quVI
    This is an album I have owned on cassette played past death,the vinyl often gets a spin still, a great sunny day listen. I could suggest just about any track
    I spent an age l.ast night listening to records I thought I might list, got lost in the middle of my travels and posted nothing.
    The other year that jumps out at me in 1993.The band- Dreadzone, the album 360degrees.
    If I were to pick one tune it might have to be LOVE
    https://youtu.be/-LSEjXIa8Rc
    another sunny day spin
    Another hot contender from 1993 – Drum Club – Sound System
    https://youtu.be/eniTus1qo-k
    Hard to pass up 1977-1979

  20. Claire Dennehy

    2000 with Maniac 2000. It was the year I finished secondary school so was the soundtrack to a lot of key events that year.

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