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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@slaw thats funny cause the first name that popped into my head was Suzanne Vega.  I got on a kick a while ago listening to several of her early albums.  Very good.

Here's a few from 80s/90s everyone should have.
Pulp - Different Class
Prefab Sprout – From Langley Park to Memphis
The Bathers – Unusual Places to Die
R.E.M. – Green
Paul Simon - Graceland
It's Immaterial – Life's Hard and Then You Die
Fairground Attraction – The First Of A Million Kisses
The The – Mind Bomb
Talk Talk – The Colour of Spring
XTC – Oranges & Lemons

Although maybe a loose interpretation of pop music, I would have to say the inaugural offerings from Joe Jackson/Look Sharp and Elvis Costello/My Aim is True, are as good today as they were when first introduced. Enjoy the music

Great topic and way too many to name for me. But here are the ones that I have that come to mind:

The Smiths - (any of them) but The Queen is Dead

Pet Shop Boys - Please

New Order - Technique

Madonna - Erotica

FGTH - Welcome to the Pleasuredome

Yaz - Upstairs at Erics

Brian Ferry - Boys and Girls

ABC - The Lexicon of Love

Grace Jones - Nightclubbing

I could go on and on.

Peter Gabriel - So

The first 6 or 7 REM albums

Most of the Joe Jackson stuff.

The Clash - London Calling

 The Specials first two albums

Dire Straits first album