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Pop album that has stood the test of time

I found a used CD copy of Sinead O’Conner’s “I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got” in Easy Street Records and snatched it up.  I remember liking it in the 90s when it came out and may have a lousy cassette copy somewhere, but I had not seriously listened to it with the better systems I have now.  Listening now, I am impressed by the material, the performance, and the recording quality, and it occurs to me that as an overall concept, it could have come out in 2024 and still sound poignant.  There are a few rock hangovers from the 80s, but even those are well delivered.

I am wondering what pop albums you have that you think have aged well in terms of material, performance and production.

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I was a teen in the 80’s, so grew up on this stuff, so these artists and albums carry a lot of nostalgia and happy memories, but for me they have stood the test of time and hold their own today:

Talk Talk - everything they released

REM - everything up to and including Green (they lost me after Green)

Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen

Mercury Rev - Yerself Is Steam

Pixies - Surfer Rosa, Come on Pilgrim, Dolittle

Lloyd Cole &. The Commotions - Rattlesnakes, Five Easy Pieces, Mainstream

Big Country - The Crossing, Steeltown

The Mercury Rev album was a '91 release but blew my mind at the time, despite the appalling production 😊. Apart from maybe Prefab Sprout and Lloyd Cole, I wouldn't classify the others as "pop", but I didn't really listen to what was classed as pop back then

 

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