Author: Echofoxylover

This will forever be known as the 80s hangover, given how there was no attempt at moving away from that decade once the 90s began. There was a ton of Kylie Minogue rip-offs to make it big as well as Paula Abdul rip-offs in America given how Kylie wasn’t popular on Billboard like Paula was… Continue reading NZ albums of 1990

This is sandwiched between two of the worst years of the 80s, although the rest of the world was finally done with having older songs clog up their charts and instead allowed genres of the moment to dominate. This culminated by having the bombast of the decade compete with the more subdue genres such as… Continue reading NZ albums of 1988

If I were merely going off what was popular solely here in Australia, this would be much higher as this was an excellent year for queer music given how hi n r g dominated our airwaves this year. Alas, I have to factor in what was happening internationally this year, which drags it down as… Continue reading NZ albums of 1987

If it weren’t for the last quarter of the year being where the trend of older songs being featured in commercials took off internationally, this year would be even higher on this list as we had great offerings from the many pop divas of the moment as well as the introduction to sophistopop which sadly… Continue reading NZ albums of 1986

I’m tempted to leave my explanation of why this is my favourite year in music with two words, live aid. I’ll elaborate as naturally a concert that brought together the biggest names in music wasn’t the only thing this year had to offer. First off, there was the combination of older artists recharging themselves to… Continue reading NZ albums of 1985

If there’s one word to describe this year, it’s colourful as there was no shortage of colour both with the music and the visuals that accompany said music. Some will say that this year is overrated as naturally the songs with the wackiest music videos were pushed to the top of the charts, however they… Continue reading NZ albums of 1984

Don’t think for a second that me attacking the “woke” crowd means I’m against progressive music, if that were the case, I wouldn’t be ranking this year so high as this was when artists of any kind were able to find success regardless of the colour of their skin or sexual orientation or what genre… Continue reading NZ albums of 1983

This was where MTV truly kicked off, meaning that the new wave acts of the moment really let their creative juices run wild both musically and especially visually, resulting in some rather wacky music and videos. These were balanced out with the genres sophisticated cousin new romance which is a precursor to sophistopop as has… Continue reading NZ albums of 1982