F**k yes, everyone always bangs on about Darklands, but I like my JMC a bit nasty.

"One Nation Under God, has turned into One Nation Under the Influence of One Drug"
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Combat rock the clash
Hounds of love Kate bush

walking down the holmesdale road to see the palace aces!

U2 - Joshua Tree
Jam packed with iconic songs from start to finish. I would put this a close second, though, to "Achtung Baby", which was peak U2 (but in the 90s). "War" coming in a close 3rd overall, and wafer-thin decision for 2nd in the 80s, with "The Unforgettable Fire" as a very close unplaced finisher, chased home by "Rattle and Hum".

Has there ever been a stronger run of albums than War to Joshua Tree to Unforgettable Fire to Rattle and Hum to Achtung Baby?

Elvis Costello - Get Happy!
New Amsterdam, High Fidelity and I Can't Stand Up... were the hits off an album packed with 20 tracks on a single vinyl disc and stacked with great tunes. Costello wrote some amazing lyrics, and this album has some of his best lines ("Don't put your heart out on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff").

Tears for Fears - The Hurting
Mad World, Pale Shelter, Change and on and on. An amazing debut album, which gets even more poignant when you learn the band's back story and that this is largely about being foster kids forced into primal scream therapy. "Songs from the Big Chair" continued this theme ("Shout" anyone?) but "The Hurting" was just so much more raw and - at the time - a unique sound.

The Cure - Disintegration
So many classics on this one album, but the title track is - for me - the standout:

So it's all come back round to breaking apart again
Breaking apart like I'm made up of glass again
Making it up behind my back again
Holding my breath for the fear of sleep again
Holding it up behind my head again
Cut in the deep to the heart of the bone again
Round and round and round and it's coming apart again
Over and over and over

Ouch!

Edited by Ray in Houston (20 Nov 2017 5.19pm)

We don't do possession; we do defense and attack. Everything else is just wa**ing with a football.

Either of these from Ballam And the Angel

Sun Family
The Greatest Story Ever Told

They might have been eps but:

The Mighty Lemon Drops ‎– Like an Angel
Creaming Jesus - Bark (A Forest done far better than the Cure).

"Everything is air-droppable at least once."

"When the going gets tough, the tough call for close air support."

I'm setting myself up for a kicking here, but:

Colour By Numbers - Culture Club
Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits

Underpants!