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Best Albums From The 80 S. The 50 best albums of the 80s Louder Black Uhuru - Red (1981) Black Uhuru's second major album arrived at a critical time not just for the band, but for reggae as a whole Michael Jackson, Bad Michael Jackson's Bad, perhaps the most highly anticipated album of all time, took the multi-format approach of 1982's Thriller and magnified it to larger-than-life proportions

It had taken eight years (and multiple lineup changes) for the group to draw the attention of Island Records, and then the very month that Red was to hit shelves, Bob Marley died, leaving a musical movement without its prophet. First 10 entries here span the Clash's polyglot punk, Prince's crossover funkadelica, Afro-bop from Talking Heads and Paul Simon and hymns of innocence and experience by U2 and Tracy Chapman.

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Gang of Four: Songs of the Free (1982) Gang of Four's third full-length left behind the dry, unaffected sound that made their first two records so immediate and bracing, instead taking textural. (Notably, R&B took the form of carefully placed elements as opposed to the bedrock of the songs.) A list of the top albums of the year from Rolling Stone (1980s)

Top 80 Hard Rock + Metal Albums of the 1980s. First 10 entries here span the Clash's polyglot punk, Prince's crossover funkadelica, Afro-bop from Talking Heads and Paul Simon and hymns of innocence and experience by U2 and Tracy Chapman. A list of the top albums of the year from Rolling Stone (1980s)

Best 80s Album Covers 20 Iconic Artworks From An Outlandish Era Dig!. Cherry's debut album, Raw Like Sushi, which followed in 1989, took a similar approach, plucking from the '80s club pantheon of new jack swing, freestyle, and go-go to create an audacious. 41) The Scorpions - Love At First Sting (1984) If, as guitarist Rudolf Schenker once told Classic Rock , the Scorpions taught the aforementioned Bon Jovi everything they know, Love At First Sting was a priceless lesson in.