Best Albums Ever: 1980s

The 80s... Some of the best and worst music ever.

1980:
1. AC/DC - Back In Black
2. Don McLean - American Pie
3. Bob Marley - Uprising
4. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
5. Bruce Springsteen - The River
6. Lou Reed - Growing Up In Public

1981:
1. Simon & Garfunkel - The Concert In Central Park
2. J.F.A. - Blatant Localism
3. Black Flag - Damaged
4. Balboa - Live Like This
5. The Police - Ghost In The Machine
6. The Go-Go's - Beauty And The Beat
7. Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard Of Ozz
8. Men At Work - Business As Usual

1982:
1. Michael Jackson - Thriller
2. R.E.M. - Chronic Town EP
3. The Misfits - Walk Among Us
4. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
5. Dead Kennedys - In God We Trust, Inc
6. Roxy Music - Daylight Again
7. Crosby, Stills, & Nash - Daylight Again
8. Toto - Toto IV

1983:
1. R.E.M. - Murmur
2. Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
3. Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
4. Circle Jerks - Golden Shower Of Hits
5. Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
6. The Police - Synchronicity
7. Metallica - Kill 'em All
8. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut
9. J.F.A. Valley Of The Yakes
10. U2 - War

1984:
1. R.E.M. - Reckoning
2. Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
3. Metallica - Ride The Lightning
4. Iron Maiden - Powerslave
5. Madonna - Like A Virgin
6. Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.
7. Dead Can Dance - Dead Can Dance

1985:
1. R.E.M. - Fables Of The Reconstruction
2. The Misfits - Legacy Of Brutality
3. Michael Jackson - Number Ones (another great compilation)
4. The Replacements - The Shit Hits The Fans
5. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Pack Up The Plantation (Live)
6. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Southern Accents
7. The Cure - The Head On The Door

1986 (two bad years in a row...):
1. Paul Simon - Graceland
2. Metallica - Master Of Puppets
3. R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant
4. Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
5. The Velvet Underground - Another View
6. Europe - The Final Countdown

1987:
1. Guns N' Roses - Appetite For Destruction
2. The Replacements - Pleased To Meet Me
3. Dead Kennedys - Give Me Convenience Or Give Me Death
4. Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
5. The Smiths - Strangeways, Here We Come
6. R.E.M. - Dead Letter Office
7. U2 - The Joshua Tree
8. R.E.M. - Document
9. Ozzy Osbourne - Tribute
10. David Bowie - Never Let Me Down

1988:
1. Cowboy Junkies - The Trinity Session
2. Leonard Cohen - I'm Your Man
3. Pixies - Surfer Rosa
4. R.E.M. - Green
5. Phish - Junta
6. Metallica - ...And Justice For All

1989:
Pixies - Doolittle
Nirvana - Bleach
The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Neil Young - Freedom
Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
Eurythmics - We Too Are One