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Tag: 1980s albums
Paula Abdul – Forever Your Girl: #661 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Straight up, this album is catchy on a cellular level.
Billy Joel – The Nylon Curtain: #665 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You have no scars on your face and you cannot handle pressure.
Prince – Dirty Mind: #667 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Raw, grimy, funked up danceable R&B pop. Also: fun.
Cowboy Junkies – The Trinity Session: #671 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An album with a specific, intimate, and special energy to it.
Various Artists – Top Gun – Motion Picture Soundtrack: #673 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Revvin’ up your engine, listen to her howlin’ roar.
Huey Lewis & The News – Sports: #677 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The heart of rock and roll is still beating.
Electric Light Orchestra & Olivia Newton-John – Xanadu: #679 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You have to believe we are magic, nothing can stand in our way.
Prince – Purple Rain: #685 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Dearly beloved: let’s go crazy. Let’s get nuts.
Brian Wilson – Brian Wilson: #689 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The genius behind The Beach Boys finds his powers fully intact on his first solo album.
Devo – Oh No! It’s Devo: #695 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Peek-a-boo! I can see you.
Prince – 1999: #701 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I was dreaming when I wrote this, forgive me if it goes astray.
Skid Row – Skid Row: #713 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t wait for 18 and life to check this one out.
Bad Religion – Suffer: #715 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t suffer the fools who refuse to get enough-er of this construct of musical performances.
Minutemen – Double Nickels on the Dime: #723 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A sprawl of 43 eclectic gems add up to a greater whole, and that price is right on.
The Clash – Sandinista! #731 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The high highs make it well worthy of being in the magnificent seven… hundreds on the best 1,000 albums ever project.
Fishbone – Truth & Soul: #734 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It might not be for ma nor pa, but this Fishbone dish is sizzling.
Pretenders – Pretenders: #736 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A self-assured and strong debut album from Chrissie Hynde and crew.
Jane’s Addiction – Nothing’s Shocking: #739 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Nothing’s shocking, indeed, yet consistently surprising.
Wipers – Over the Edge: #319 of best 1,000 albums ever!
An early ‘80s gem with a super unique sound coming out of the gloom of the Pacific Northwest.
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message: #751 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t push me, ‘cause I’m close to the edge.
Various Artists – Say Anything: The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #759 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Amazing soundtrack from an amazing movie… almost too amazing? Nah.
Siouxsie and the Banshees – Through the Looking Glass: #762 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not your typical album of cover songs. Just ask Alice, I think she’ll know…
Hüsker Dü – New Day Rising: #771 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Listen to this on a battered cassette player for maximum effect.
Pet Shop Boys – Please: #774 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Chic, posh, and pulsing synth pop are tops for the lads of the furry, fluffy, feathered and/or aquatic creature shop.
The Replacements – Let It Be: #780 of best 1,000 albums ever!
From jangle pop to post-punk to quiet ballads, this one has great range (and each range is great).
The Bangles – Different Light: #782 of best 1,000 albums ever!
I mean, just ask any police officer who happens to be at a local fried carbohydrate treat market.
Chuck Berry – The Great Twenty-Eight: #793 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Go Johnny, go, go.
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms: #803 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Now that IS workin’, that’s the way you do it.
The Pointer Sisters – Break Out: #804 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You might just say that I’m so excited and yet I’m encountering a great deal of difficulty with regard to the prevention of obfuscating that emotional state.
Bad Brains – Rock for Light: #808 of best 1,000 albums ever!
You (and you) might be able to survive without this album, but why (and why)?
Men at Work – Business as Usual: #810 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Who can it be now? Why, it’s the band from down under, of course.
James Horner – Glory: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack: #814 of best 1,000 albums ever!
It’s a time machine to a little study lounge near the back of Johnson Hall at Binghamton University.
Elton John – Too Low for Zero: #815 of best 1,000 albums ever!
If you’re already standing, you might just remain so after listening to this one.
Rush – Moving Pictures: #831 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Great hard rock with just the right touch of prog rock-y flair.
Led Zeppelin – Coda: #849 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Ooh, it’s my love. Ooh, it’s my own true love.
U2 – Boy: #850 of best 1,000 albums ever!
The first U2 album sounds as fresh and energetic and urgent as ever.
Scorpions – Love At First Sting: #859 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Well-crafted hair metal. You might say it’ll rock you like… a powerful force of nature.
Kirsty MacColl – Kite: #862 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Pop gems from a UK-based singer-songwriter with a flat-out gorgeous voice.
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger: #870 of best 1,000 albums ever!
And the last known survivor stalks his prey in the night.
The Pogues: If I Should Fall from Grace with God – #871 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Meshes traditional Irish sounds with a propulsive punk sensibility. In short, a bottle of smoke.
The Power Station – The Power Station: #887 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Robert Palmer and members of Duran Duran and Chic combo for some super group action, 1980s style.
Lucinda Williams – Lucinda Williams: #891 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Whether this is country or rock or blues or whatever, it’ll make you say, “Hell yeah.”
Berlin – Pleasure Victim: #893 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Riding on the Metro.
Judas Priest – British Steel: #898 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Not including it would be akin to, say… breaking the law, for example?
The Human League – Dare!: #910 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Don’t you want me to tell you? Read on.
Indigo Girls – Indigo Girls: #911 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Folk rock that bridges the gap from the 1960s to the Lilith Fair generation.
The J. Geils Band – Freeze Frame: #913 of best 1,000 albums ever!
A delicious hamburger of fun early ‘80s rock ‘n roll.
Enya – Watermark: #919 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Celtic and new age-y, at turns gentle and pleasant or moving and beautiful.
The Jam – Sound Affects: #920 of best 1,000 albums ever!
Driving energy and pop hooks that helps to carry the initial British punk music wave forward.