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The Album Years

#21 (1983 Part 1) Pink Floyd, Yes, New Order, Tom Waits & more

The Album Years

W!ZARD Studios

Music

4.9859 Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Another epic two-parter as the no-man duo take on 1983, a year where bright young things and old curmudgeons alike are on creative fire, even if there’s still a lot of space for honourable eccentrics.  Buy The Album Years T-shirt (Graphite) Buy The Album Years T-shirt (Classic Olive) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.0

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0:10.0

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0:28.2

18 plus be gambleaware. Again, Tim, you've chosen. And welcome to the album years. We're back again after another delay.

0:55.1

We have another fantastic year to do.

0:57.3

Again, Tim, you've chosen this year of 1983.

1:00.5

I have, yeah.

1:01.1

And looking down the list, I mean, it is again another pretty phenomenal year,

1:06.8

which kind of, again, gives credence to that idea that the 80s in many ways was uh partly i guess

1:13.5

because we were growing up in this we were kind of discovering music in this decade it's another

1:18.1

golden decade isn't i know it gets sometimes it gets a bad rap sometimes from people who who think

1:23.5

the 70s was you know and nothing was ever as good after the 70s and i think think we've kind of proved on the show already that nothing could be further from the truth.

1:31.5

And this year is another great example of that, isn't it?

1:33.8

I think it is.

1:34.7

And I think it's an interesting year this one because it's for me the first post-post-punk year that, you know, we've had from sort of 77, 82, the influence of punk and post-punk.

1:45.4

And I think in 83, things shift quite dramatically. Things change as far as I'm concerned.

1:51.4

Yeah, they get a bit more lush and a bit more produced and a bit more sort of luxurious in their sound,

1:56.5

don't they? It was almost like shedding of the kind of post-punk DIY aesthetic seems to be going on.

2:03.1

And, you know, there's a few records that kind of support that theory as will come on to.

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