Tin Drum

If Polaroids broke down the wall of popular and critical antipathy, it was 1981's seminal album Tin Drum which surged into the freshly-disclosed open spaces, colouring and utilising them with tremendous aesthetic dignity and grace. In November '81 it reached number twelve and stayed on the chart for no less than fifty weeks. More importantly, it did so not by diluting or bolting down the band's sound and vision, but by testing and stretching these out on an entirely unforeseen limb.