Were there any 80s albums that you played so many times that you swore you never wanted to hear them again?
For me, there were a few:
Revenge -Eurythmics
Man Of Colours -Icehouse
Colour By Numbers -Culture Club
True Colors -Cyndi Lauper

Incidentally, all of the above, I have taken out again, played and thought, Hmmm, that's not so bad after all..... ;)

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Over the years, I've played these albums / tapes to death

Diamond Sun - Glass Tiger
Rio - Duran Duran
Alien Shores - Platinum Blonde
Stand Back - The Arrows
Bananarama (ST)
Script of the Bridge - Chameleons UK
Go West (ST)
A Secret Wish - Propaganda

I still play them alot too  ;)

Heart Attack by Olivia Newton John (Early 80's)  first real album.

Relax- Frankie Goes to Hollywood
ABC
Depeche Mode
Survivor

Thriller
Like a Virgin
True Blue
Like A Prayer (I was a major madonna fan)
Purple Rain

cyndi lauper-12 deadly cyns
A few madonna's
Micheal jackson-the one with all the greatest hits
whitney houston-greatest hits

Lots others...mostly all i like is 80's LOL  :o

Here are some from throughout the decade:

Depeche Mode: Black Celebration
Depeche Mode: Some Great Reward
Depeche Mode: A Broken Frame
Depeche Mode: Construction Time Again
Depeche Mode: Speak & Spell
The Smiths: The Queen is Dead
The Smiths: Louder Than Bombs
The Smiths: Meat Is Murder
The Smiths: Hatful of Hollow
The Smiths: s/t
OMD: Crush
OMD: Architecture & Morality
OMD: Junk Culture
OMD: (s/t U.S. domestic debut album)
A Flock of Seagulls: Listen
A Flock of Seagulls: s/t
New Order: Low-Life
New Order: Brotherhood
New Order: Substance
New Order: Power Corruption and Lies
New Order: Factus 8
New Order: Technique
Midnight Oil: Red Sails in the Sunset
Midnight Oil: Diesel and Dust
Midnight Oil: 10, 9, 8...
Ultravox: Quartet
Ultravox: The Collection
Thompson Twins: Side Kicks
Thompson Twins: The Gap
Talking Heads: Remain In Light
Talking Heads: Speaking In Tongues
Laurie Anderson: Mister Heartbreak
Laurie Anderson: Big Science
The Fixx: Shuttered Room
The Fixx: Reach the Beach
Sisters of Mercy: First and Last and Always
Sisters of Mercy: Floodland
Clan of Xymox: Medusa
Clan of Xymox: s/t
Clan of Xymox: Twist of Shadows
This Mortal Coil: Filigree and Shadow
Cocteau Twins: The Pink Opaque
Tears for Fears: The Hurting
Coil: Horse Rotorvator
Coil: Gold is the Metal
Simple Minds: New Gold Dream
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret/Non-Stop Ecstatic Dancing
Soft Cell: Soul Inside
Soft Cell: The Art of Falling Apart
Shriekback: Oil & Gold
Shriekback: Big Night Music
Yazoo: Upstairs at Erics
Yazoo: You and Me Both
Erasure: Wonderland
Erasure: The Circus
Tackhead: Mind At the End of the Teather
Mark Stewart & Maffia: Learning to Cope With Cowardice
Revolting Cocks: Big Sexy Land
Ministry: Twitch
Ministry: With Sympathy
Front 242: Official Version
Front 242: No Comment
Psychedelic Furs: s/t
Psychedelic Furs: Talk Talk Talk
Psychedelic Furs: Mirror Moves
Psychedelic Furs: Forever Now
Howard Jones: Human's Lib
Howard Jones: Dream Into Action
Cabaret Voltaire: The Arm of the Lord
Cabaret Voltaire: The Crackdown
Bauhaus: Mask
Bauhaus: The Sky's Gone Out
Yello: You Gotta Say Yes to Another Excess
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Juju
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Tinderbox
Siouxsie and the Banshees: Nocturne
The Cure: The Head on the Door
The Cure: Standing On the Beach
The Cure: Japanese Whispers
The Cure: Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me
The Cure: Disintegration
Men Without Hats: Rhythm of Youth
Men Without Hats: Folk of the '80s Part III
Heaven 17: The Luxury Gap
Heaven 17: How Men Are
Heaven 17: (s/t U.S. domestic debut)
The Human League: Dare
The Human League: Fascination!
The Human League: Hysteria
The The: Soul Mining
Sinead O'Connor: The Lion & The Cobra
The Sugarcubes: Life's Too Good
Killing Joke: Brighter Than A Thousand Suns
Wire: The Ideal Copy
Dream Academy: s/t
The Legendary Pink Dots: Any Day Now
Real Life: Heartland

and so on
and so on
and so on
::)

Didn't have *too* many albums, and the ones I did have were 70s mostly.

I know I played the heck out of my Queen "The Game" album.  It was spinning the day of my accident at school where this girl and I were spinning each other around and around holding hands and she let go and I went flying into a desk and broke my two front teeth.  lol  Quite memorable.

Also played my three Abba albums to death (even though one of the three came out in the 70s)

Abba - The album
Abba - Voulez-Vous
Abba - Greatest Hits vol. 2

Wow, what a cool site...my very first post here :D

Cool topic with all very good songs listed!!!  But the only song I know that I played to death was Ahas "Take On Me".  I remember after playing it to death to hear the another version of the song, which was the "warp version" after the tape finally met its match and started to get all worn and stretched.  "Take on Me" is still my very favorite song of all time.

Long live the 80s!!! 8)

I sometimes think I'm the only one who really didn't care about albums.  I preferred singles.  Even in the early 80's, I'd buy a 45 if I could... and if I couldn't find it, I'd be upset that i had to buy the whole album just for one song.

So the few albums I played alot... were mostly Erasure ones (The Innocents, Wild, Wonderland, Circus, etc) and the Peter Schilling album with Major Tom, Terra Titanic, City of Night, etc...  and Thriller, of course.

All of my INXS albums got a fair flogging too, though I never tired of them.

Beelzebubba....The dead Milkmen
Death Rides A Pale Cow...The Dead Milkmen
Bedtime For Democracy...The Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables...The Dead Kennedys
English Settlement...XTC
Russian Roulette..Triumvirat
Self titled album....Asia

Dirty Dancing Soundtrack
Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (debut album)
Invisible Touch - Genesis
Thriller - Michael Jackson (Who didn't overdo this one? lol)
Bad - Michael Jackson
Third Stage - Boston

And albums by Kenny Rodgers, Dan Hill, New Kids on the Block, and more that I can't think of at the moment.. Oh and Atlantic Star.

80s albums i played to death
ac dc back in black
def leppard  pyromania
zz top eliminator
judas preist screaming for vengance
van halen 1984
van halen 5150
accually these were cassettes played to death in my car after cds came along had to buy em all over again  this is just a small list there were many more

oops I thought the question was "do you play to death"  LOL

Oh well the answer dosent change much.  Except add Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, and New kids on the block!

Thats easy:
1> Journey    Frontiers
2>Madonna  Likea Virgin
3> Janet Jackson  Control
4> def Leppard  Pyromania

Youthquake by Dead or Alive
True Blue by Madonna
Songs from the Big Chair by Tears for Fears
Colour by Numbers by Culture Club

I used to play track 1 on Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night when I was five or six because I saw the Warner Bros logo on the back of the CD case and I liked their cartoons such as Looney Tunes and Animaniacs. It's a CD in my parents' collection and I also listened to Abba's The Visitors in the car a lot when I was 10 or 11.

I used to play track 1 on Fleetwood Mac's Tango In The Night when I was five or six because I saw the Warner Bros logo on the back of the CD case and I liked their cartoons such as Looney Tunes and Animaniacs. It's a CD in my parents' collection and I also listened to Abba's The Visitors in the car a lot when I was 10 or 11.

That is another album I have played incessantly, but never tired of -love it! 8)

"We Close Our Eyes" Go West
Anything by Crowded House or Squeeze

Prince-Purple Rain
Rolling Stones- Tattoo You
Robert Plant-Principle Of Moments
Motley Crue- Theater Of Pain
Pat Benatar-Get Nervous
Def Leppard-Pyromania
Foreigner-4
Journey -Escape
Journey -Frontiers
Van Halen-1984
John Cougar-American Fool
Bruce Springsteen-The River
Bruce Springsteen-Born In The USA

Not vinyl but cassettes...
Metallica's Kill "Em All, Ride The Lightning, and And Justice for All
Twisted Sister's You Can't Stop Rock N' Roll and Stay Hungry
Iron Maiden's The Number Of The Beast and Piece of Mind
Robert Hazard and the Heroes EP with Escalator Of Life(Robert Hazard is from Philly so some people here may not have heard of him)
Venom's Black Metal
Megadeth's Peace Sells..But Who's Buying?
Judas Priest's Screaming For Vengeance
Motley Crue's Too Fast For Love and Shout at the Devil
Kiss' Lick It Up and Creatures of the Night
Aerosmith's Pump
The Cult's Love, Electric, and Sonic Temple

Bon Jovi - Slippery when wet & New Jersey
Michael Jackson - Bad & Thriller
Pet Shop Boys - Actually & Introspective
George Michael - Faith
Bross - Bross
Europe - Out of this world
Madonna - Like a virgin

Well...I also prefered singles, though I did buy a lot of albums as well. I bought a hell of a lot of compilation Lps, and played them so much that I got sick of them...compilations such as:

1981 Rocks On

1981 Over The Top

1982 With A Bullet

1982 Up In Lights

1983 Through The Roof

Go For It 1983

Summer Breaks 1983

Throbbin '84

1984 The Beat

Hits Hot '84/'85

Choose 1985

Smash Hits '87

Hit City '87

Pump It Up '88

Smash Hits '88

Hit Pix '88

Summer '88


Albums by artists:

Thriller and Bad by Michael Jackson

Triumph and Victory by The Jacksons

Tiffany by Tiffany

Hold An Old Friends Hand by Tiffany

Faith by George Michael

Like A Prayer by Madonna

...The Hard Line According To by Terence Trent D'Arbey

Tango In The Night by Fleetwood Mac

Born In The USA by Bruce Springstein

Purple Rain by Prince

CODA by Led Zeppelin

Dirty Creatures by Split Enz




there were a few others, but these will do.








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Were there any 80s albums that you played so many times that you swore you never wanted to hear them again?

Yes, there was one album I played to death, and it was Standing On A Beach by The Cure.

Now I really enjoy listening to it occasionally.

Scorpions "World Wide Live" and every album by the german metal band Warlock.

Then and Now  The Best of the Monkees, Purple Rain (back when he was Prince) :)