Which 80's/NW record passes the no skip test?

[WolverineSyr]

I can listen to these straight through,
Blondie - Plastic Letters
Til Tuesday - Til Tuesday
Motels - Careful

[tileboy]

XTC - English Settlement
The Boomtown Rats-the Fine Art of surfacing
The The -Infected
non-80's
The Hives - Veni Vidi Vicious(28 minutes of ferocious rock'n'roll)

[Obtuse]

Some off the top of my head:

Devo-Are We Not Men?
Talking Heads-Everything up to Naked
Screaming Blue Messiahs-Bikini Red
The Cult-Electric
The Cars-S/T and Candy-O
U2-War

I will admit that in the 80's I was more likely to actually listen to a whole album, because it took more effort to get to the next track with cassettes or vinyl. The CD and MP3 player have had the same effect on music as the remote control has had on television viewing. Sure, you get to skip right to what you want, but you miss plenty in the process.

[geoffolehane]

There are several newer albums that fit into that category for me but the ones from the 80's would be:

Re-Flex - The Politics of Dancing
New Musik - Anywhere
Buggles - The Age of Plastic
B-52's - Bouncing off the Satellites
Icehouse - Measure to Measure
OMD - Architecture & Moraility

[danelf]

Wow, good question...
You know, it's funny. Back in the good old days of tapes and vinyls (tapes mostly) it wasnt that easy to hit the "skip button". No, you had to Fast Forward and that was a pain in the ass... meaning: less skipped tracks. (hell! I even like The Police's "Mother" from Synchronicity)

But, oh well, I'll just list a few albums that I liked from beginning to end the first time I heard them.

1. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
2. Wall of Voodoo - Call of the West
3. Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming
4. Hüsker Dü - Warehouse: Songs and Stories
5. Oingo Boingo's first 3 albums
6. The Church - Heyday
7. The Cure - Pornography
8. The Smiths - Meat is Murder
9. OMD - Organisation
10. Tears for Fears - The Hurting (ok, I admit skipping "Ideas as Opiates" once in a while)

There are so many others, but these are the ones that came to mind in a jiffy...

[glokstadt]

This is hard, and "danelf" summed it up by stating: "...it wasnt that easy to hit the 'skip button.'" I always played each side of the LP/tape from start to finish...

OMD: OMITD, Organization, Architecture & Moraility, Dazzel Ships, Junk Culture
Depeche Mode: Speak+Spell, A Broken Frame
The Clash: The Clash, Give 'Em Enough Rope, Black market Clash, London Calling, Sandanista! (yes, I can!!![:)])
The Cars: The Cars, Candy-O
Simple Minds: Sons And Fascination, New Gold Dream
Tears For Fears: The Hurting
Kraftwerk: Autobahn, Trans Euro Express
XTC: English Settelment
Icehouse/The Flowers: Icehouse
U2: Boy, October, War, Joshua Tree
The The: Soul Minning
Bill Nelson: Vista Mix
ABC: The Lexicon Of Love
Roxy Music: Flesh + Blood, Avalon
Yazoo: Upstairs At Eric's, You And Me Both
Peter Gabriel: Peter Gabriel (3rd album)
The Pouges: Rum, Soddomy, And The Lash
Enya: any album! [:D]
The Psychedelic Furs: Talk Talk Talk, Forever Now
The Redskins: anything!
The Selector: The Selector, Cellebrate The Bullet
The Jam: All Mod Cons, Setting Sons, Sound Effects, This Is The Modern World, Gift, In The City
The Plimsouls: Everywhere At Once
The Ocean Blue: Cerulean
The Lightning Seeds: Cloudcuckooland
New Order: Lies, Power, Corruption
The Buggles: The Age Of Plastic
The Flys: Waikiki Beach Refugees
The Fleshtones: Hexbreaker
The Fine Young Canibals: The Raw And The Cooked
The "English" Beat: I Just Can't Stop It, Special beat Service
The Specials: The Specials, More Specials, Ghost Town EP
The Chameleons UK: Script Of The Bridge
The Boomtown Rats: The Boomtown Rats, Mondo Bongo, The Art Of Surfacing
Split Enz: Frenzy, True Colours, Waiata (Corroborre), Time And Tide
Gang Of Four: Entertainment!, What We All Want

Wow, that's a lot! There are so many great ones left to name... [8D]

[randy]

The Cars-The Cars
Alphaville-Forever Young
Fabulous Poodles-Mirror Star

[darwinsky]

OMD - Crush (Except for So in love, la femme and hold you, I used to hate the other songs but it's different now)
OMD - Pacific Age
OMD - Sugar Tax (How Come I'm the only one who appreciates OMD after Junk Culture? And Junk Culture ? C'mon - "Now and then they'll watch TV, Now and then they'll speak to me, Heaven knows their recipe"... duh!
Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane
A-ha - HHLW
New Order - Technique
Lightningseeds - Cloudcuckooland
Lightningseeds - Jollification (Ok, some are crap but I can bear listening to the entire album)
Pet Shop Boys - Actually
ocean Blue - Beneath the Rhythm and Sound


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