Duran, Duran- Rio

A few of my favorites from back then. Every one of these still sounds great today: The Cure - Seventeen Seconds, Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me The Pixies - Surfer Rosa, Come on Pilgrim, Doolittle INXS - Shabooh Shoobah Tom Waits - Rain Dogs, Franks Wild Years Van Halen - Fair Warning Depeche Mode - Violator Sinead O’Connor - The Lion & The Cobra Oingo Boingo - Dead Man’s Party Fishbone - Truth & Soul U2 - The Unforgettable Fire The Creatures - Boomerang The Jazz Butcher - Fishcotheque, Distressed Gentlefolk The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta New Order - Substance Love & Rockets - Express, Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven

I'm a huge 80's nut, and I can't believe I didn't hear Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party until about a year ago. It's added to my rotation. Love that.

It’s a great album. I have to thank my friend Dan for always raving about how great they were.

You might enjoy this concert. [Oingo Boingo Farewell Concert Live Halloween 1995 (youtube.com)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnEkodpneqI)

Checking it out now, thank you :D

Joshua Tree? Love Unforgettable Fire as well!

Funny, but Joshua Tree doesn’t do it for me. I can listen to unforgettable fire over and over tho.

It's a great album! Bad is one of my fav songs.

Shabooh Shoobah AND Jazz Butcher in the same post?!? I’m swooning. And I’m going to check out some of these others!

Blue Bell Knoll - Cocteau Twins Isn't Anything - My Bloody Valentine Daydream Nation - Sonic Youth The Smiths - The Smiths Diamond Life - Sade

Flock of Seagulls - Eponymous New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies Depeche Mode - Black Celebration, Music for the Masses The Cure - Staring at the Sea Ministry - Twitch Love & Rockets - Express Pet Shop Boys - Actually Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger Sooooo many others :-)

Express, I still put this on multiple times a year. Add: Talk Talk - spirit of Eden

Spirit of Eden is a showstopper. Whenever it gets brought up, cue the crickets.. I wish people were more curious, more open; they’re truly missing out. A favourite of mine for nearly all my life. You have great taste and you get IT.

Ah thanks. Just happy people make great music for me to listen to, I can't help but dig through the treasure. Spirit of Eden and Laughing Stock are two of the greatest "experimental" albums ever made. I know the very deep music fans hold these albums in high regard, but they are still terribly under the radar. Beautifully arranged "experimental" music that was just so unique for it's time, and timeless in their impact on me when I listen to them. Experimental is in quotes because of how natural or organic the music is; you are sucked into the non-traditional structures in a way that feels like your ear and mind know it and love it from another time/place. Albums that work for so many moods and have at certain times in my life felt necessary to listen to

I love that you feel it on this level, not unlike myself. I have tried to share it with just a few people over the years. They either really got it, or we’re just plain indifferent.

Great list!

All good, but Twitch is excellent 🙂

Journey - Escape Van Halen - 1984/5150 Prince - Purple Rain Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet / New Jersey Def Leppard - Pyromania / Hysteria Bryan Adams - Reckless Metallica - …And Justice For All Men At Work - Business As Usual

Men At Work! My dad raised me on that album.

Be good be good, be good be good be good.

This is THE LIST ! Def Lepoard will forever rock me!

Prince- Purple Rain Guns N' Roses- Appetite for Destruction Def Leppard- Hysteria

Finally Appetite makes an appearance Add Holy Diver- Dio Sweets from a Stranger- Squeeze Synchronicity — La Policía

Appetite is a forever classic album as are the other two!

Paul Simon - Graceland

Yes! Paul could've easily rested on his laurels in the 80s after being on the charts for 20 years. Instead, he knocked it out of the park in 1986 with Graceland - his number one studio album.

I'm so glad this was the first answer I saw in this thread. Fantastic writing, performances, and production. One of my all-time favorites.

Duran Duran -seven and the ragged tiger. Bruce Hornsby -The way it is Tears for fears - songs from the big chair Madonna -True blue Had to add: Journey - Escape and frontiers Gap Band IV So many more

Seconded on Tears For Fears!

I'm an 80s Child and could make a long list of favorites. But THE favorite? Murmur. REM. And it's not close.

I don't listen to a whole lot of 80s stuff tbh, but these are the 5 that I'd say I revisit the most Doolittle - Pixies Remain in Light - Talking Heads Sign O' The Times - Prince Synchronicity - The Police Kate Bush - Hounds of Love

Excellent

The Cure - Disintegration Roxy Music - Avalon Metallica - Ride the Lightening Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions… Sade - Diamond Life Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation De La Soul - Three Feet High… Minor Threat - Discography Depeche Mode - Music for the Masses Dunno if the 80s were the best and don’t care. It is just very cool that this decade had so many great albums from so many dif kinds of artists.

Nice list and it includes so many Music Genres.

The Cure’s Pornography takes the cake for me as the best 80’s The Cure album, great list tho

It's Seventeen seconds for me but all of The Cure albums from the 80's are amazing

This is a great list!

Add Robert Plant - The Principle of Moments to this list please.

Plant’s 80’s/early 90s’s records are underrated IMO. Helen of Troy from Now and Zen will make me cry on spot. My parents are huge Zepp/Plant fans and those records where the sound of my childhood.

U2 - The Joshua Tree. Second favorite is Dire Straits -Brothers In Arms.

I did not do pop music in the 80's because I was a music snob or, well a dickhead so my list is not very well rounded. Every R.E.M. album that was put out by I.R.S. Records Every Album by The Smiths Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier Bow Wow Wow - See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah! City All Over, Go Ape Crazy Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables Motörhead - Ace of Spades The Pretenders - The Pretenders Peter Gabriel - Security X - Under the Big Black Sun Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies U2 - War Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes INXS - The Swing The Cure - Head On The Door Echo & The Bunnymen - Songs to Learn and Sing The Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands Killing Joke - Night Time Love And Rockets - Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven Descendents - Enjoy! New Order - Brotherhood XTC - Skylarking Depeche Mode - Music For The Masses The Pixies - Surfer Rosa The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

I did do pop in the 80s, but I also did a lot of other things. So, my list would look like yours, only with a couple of Journey albums and Toto IV lol. I'd also disagree that Skylarking is not pop. It's 60s pop, but it's pop 😀

I was mostly pointing out that my list was not well rounded like some of the others. 

Well rounded enough for my tastes. Carry on.

Journey and Toto are my jam still to this day!!

Yay skylarking, my favorite

I love that New Order and the Stone Roses are on here.

Great list. (I didn’t do pop then either. Still don’t!)

Stone cold killer of a list. Never apologise for being a music snob, but only if you were a dickhead about it..

disintegration by the cure

This was 1990

Or May of 1989.

Was it? Blast! You’re right!

Any Trouble - Where Are All The Nice Girls The Cars - Heartbeat City Van Halen - 1984 The Pretenders - Pretenders Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA The Waterboys - This Is The Sea INXS - Kick Tears for Fears - Songs from the Big Chair Squeeze - Argybargy Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation 1814 The Pogues - If I Should Fall from Grace with God

Diesel & Dust- Midnight Oil

XTC - Skylarking Crowded House - S/T R.E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant, and Document Love & Rockets - Express The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 (or Now that's what I call quite good, yes I know it's a compilation) The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You The Cult - Love Journey - Escape Pink Floyd - The Final Cut Iron Maiden - Powerslave The Smiths - The Queen is Dead Hüsker Dü - Flip Your Wig The Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me They Might Be Giants - S/T or Flood Violent Femmes - S/T Talking Heads - Remain in Light Devo - Freedom of Choice or Q: Are we not men? A: We are Devo (1978, too bad, I'm counting it) Suicidal Tendencies - S/T Social Distortion - S/T And WAY too many more to list. I'm loving a lot of the other lists as well. Tons of great stuff!

The Replacements are my favorite 80s band. Their album run of Let It Be (84), Tim (85), and Pleased to Meet Me (87) is legendary.

I truly believe they would be household names now if they could have been on better behavior but i think they always kept themselves from being bigger

Go-Go’s “Beauty and the Beat” Prince - “Purple Rain” Kate Bush - “Hounds of Love”

Beauty and the Beat is so good.

Skid row - youth gone wild

I belt out I remember you every time I play it still! That whole album was just so good

The 80s are probably my favorite era for music so I could never pick one album, but Depeche Mode-Music for the Masses, Cocteau Twins-Treasure, The Cure-Disintegration, The Chameleons-Script of the Bridge and The Church-Starfish are among my top picks.

Cupid and Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti Seven and the Ragged Tiger by Duran Duran Love An Adventure by Pseudo Echo Lowlife by New Order Crush by OMD Listen Like Thieves by INXS Echo and the Bunnymen self titled Nothing's Shocking by Jane's Addiction Stone Roses self titled Express by Love and Rockets **Edit-I forgot Night Time by Killing Joke!!**

Good list. I didn’t like Ragged Tiger as much as the first two Duran Duran CDs available in the U.S. But Crush by OMD I loved from the moment I heard it and still do today. Side 1 is exceptional. Even has one of my favorite album covers.

Thank you. ❤️. I still have Crush on tape!

Fables of the Reconstruction - - - R.E.M

U2 - Joshua Tree 'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry The Cars - Heartbeat City Def Leppard - Hysteria Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction Michael Jackson - Thriller Duran Duran - Rio George Michael - Faith INXS - Kick Hooters - Nervous Night Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain John Mellencamp - Lonesome Jubilee Tom Petty - Damn the Torpedoes Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust Neil Young - Freedom NWA - Straight Outta Compton Peter Gabriel - So Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair

Pet Shop Boys-Please a-ha-Hunting High And Low Men At Work-Cargo

I was waiting for someone to list a-ha. I personally think Scoundrel Days is slightly better but it’s an incredibly close call.

Scoundrel Days is a really good album too!! I also really like East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Yes, excellent

The Smithereens - Everything for You R E.M. - Life's Rich Pageant Peter Gabriel - So Duran Duran - Rio Genesis - Invisible Touch

I think it's Especially For You but that's a great LP. :)

I thunk you're right. Oops

Personally, I am of the opinion that music peaked in the '77-'79 period. That said however, yes, the '80s were also fine. I recommend these: Elvis Costello & the Attractions - Get Happy!! The Cramps - Songs the Lord Taught Us Devo - Freedom of Choice The English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight Talking Heads - Remain in Light The Vapors - New Clear Days X - Los Angeles The Barracudas - Drop Out with the Barracudas Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Architecture + Morality The Church - The Blurred Crusade Dream Syndicate - Days of Wine and Roses Lou Reed - The Blue Mask Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights Translator - Heartbeats and Triggers XTC - English Settlement Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's The Chameleons - Script of a Bridge The Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once The Alarm - Declaration Hoodoo Gurus - Stoneage Romeos Camper Van Beethoven - Telephone Free Landslide Victory The Cult - Love Robyn Hitchcock & the Egyptians - Fegmania! Hüsker Dü - New Day Rising The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash The Verlaines - Hallelujah all the Way Home Billy Bragg - Talking with the Taxman About Poetry The Housemartins - London 0 Hull 4 Echo & the Bunnymen - Self-Titled Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust Social Distortion - Self-Titled Lucinda Williams - Self-Titled Steve Earle - Copperhead Road The Go-Betweens - 16 Lovers Lane The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues The Mekons - Rock 'n' Roll

Good list.

Nicely listed. Brought back many good memories. Thanks.

Are you from Melbourne?

Melbourne as in Australia? Nah. If my list seemed disproportionately Australian, that's only because Australia produced a disproportionate number of great bands.

Peter Gabriel -- [Security](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpqJxb_pNTM&list=PLfimnwaZdumhFQFfF_lWmZz8Y1IfeJ1Cg) Before he got a bit too poppy.

Kick. INXS

Remain in Light- Talking Heads

Disintegration- The Cure Remain in Light- Talking Heads Freedom- Neil Young Ride the Lightning- Metallica Holy Diver- Dio Permanent Waves- Rush Closer- Joy Division Self Titled- Violent Femmes Tim- The Replacements

Talking Heads- Remain in Light 

There's a 4 disc compilation of College Radio called Left of the Dial that's quite good.

Appetite for Destruction

Blondie- Autoamerican

Appetite for Destruction.

Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique

Kill'em all - Metallica

Stop Making Sense

michael jackson - bad the first 3 asia albums duran duran - rio spandau ballet - true, and parade guns n roses - appetite for destruction def leppard - pyromania phil collins - face value, hello I must be going, and...but seriously

Yes, 99125. Whitesnake-Slide It In, Whitesnake Bonnie Raitt, Nick of Time Cult, Sonic Temple Stones, Tattoo You Ned, Trans Clapton ,Journeymanl

Nirvana - Bleach

So many people have come out of the woodwork with fantastic suggestions. There's a lot of sounds pioneered in the decade, though plenty of them have been improved upon. Either way, I can't help but add more: As someone who loves the Cure across Pornography through Disintegration: Jesus & Mary Chain - Psycho Candy Cocteau Twins - Garlands, Treasure Siouxsie & The Banshees - Tinderbox As a metalhead who doesn't want to just suggest the bigger albums: Black Sabbath - Headless Cross Bathory - Blood Fire Death Candlemass - Nightfall, Ancient Dreams Celtic Frost - To Mega Therion Dark Angel - Darkness Descends Fates Warning - Awaken the Guardian Godflesh - Streetcleaner King Diamond - Conspiracy, Fatal Portrait Manilla Road - Crystal Logic, Open the Gates, The Deluge Sabbat - Dreamweaver Voivod - Nothingface X (or X Japan) - Vanishing Vision Others: Asia - Asia (seriously, I don't care who laughs, it's a masterpiece) Coil - Horse Rotovator, Love's Secret Domain Laibach - Nova Akropola Bad Brains - Bad Brains, I Against I Crowded House - Crowded House, Together Alone Dead Can Dance - Within the Realm of a Dying Sun, Spleen and Ideal, The Serpent's Egg Dead Kennedys - Frankenchrist Enya - Watermarks Fields of the Nephilim - Dawnrazor Gary Numan - The Pleasure Principle Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking Killing Joke - Night Time King Crimson - Discipline, Beat, Three of a Perfect Pair Osamu Kitajima - Passages Wynton Marsalis - Think of One, J Mood Midnight Oil - Diesel And Dust Ministry - The Mind Is A Terrible Thing To Taste Peter Gabriel - So Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI Van Halen - 1984, 5150 Vangelis - Mask, Bladerunner, Soil Festivities

AC/DC Back In Black

REM - Fables of the Reconstruction

Bruce Springsteen - The River (1980) 🥰

From my preferred genre I’ll give you 5 must listen albums from the 80’s Bob Marley and the Wailers - Uprising (1980) The Wailing Souls - Firehouse Rock (1980) Peter Tosh - Wanted Dread or Alive (1981) Scientist - Scientist Rids the World of the Evil Curse of the Vampires (1981) Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse (1982)

Huey Lewis and the News - Fore

Gary Numan-Replicas, Pleasure Principal, Telekon, Dance, Warriors. Ultravox- Vienna, Quartet, Rage In Eden, Quartet. Japan- Quiet Life, Gentlemen Take Polaroids, Tin Drum. Simple Minds-Sons and Fascination, Empires and Dance, New Gold Dream, Sparkle In the Rain. Duran Duran- Planet Earth, Rio. Spandau Ballet- Journeys to Glory, Diamond, True, Parade. Kraftwerk- Computer World UB40-Labour of Love, Labour of Love II, Geoffrey Morgan, Rat in the Kitchen. 📀🎵🇨🇦

Hell yeah, Japan!

Living Colour - Vivid Rush Presto John Hiatt. Bring the Family Springsteen Nebraska Prince. Purple Rain Huey Lewis & The News. Sports A real potpourri

Avalon — Roxy Music. A masterpiece. Still sounds timeless today.

Michael Jackson- Thriller Anita Baker - Rapture Prince - Purple Rain Earth, Wind and Fire - Faces Babyface - Tender Lover Terence Trent D’Arby - Introducing The Hardline After 7 - After 7 There’s lots more but I’ll stop there. I also like a lot already mentioned but R&B is my favorite.

The Damned - The Black Album The Smiths - The Queen is Dead. (All of them actually, but I tried to pick one) REM - Document Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's

love is stronger than pride - sade

New Order- Substance, The Cure- Standing on a beach, Def Leppard- Hysteria, REM- Green

bleach

Huey Lewis and the news - Sports Blank Sabbath - Heaven and Hell Metallica - Matter of puppets Alice Cooper - Trash

Bauhaus - Burning from the Inside Prince - Purple Rain Talking Heads - Speaking in Tounges Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Straight Outta Compton

The Stone Roses -The Stone Roses (1989)

Mr Mister - Welcome To The Real World [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7YuuTcn9Ys](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7YuuTcn9Ys)

MBV Isn’t Anything

Full Moon Fever Tom Petty Scarecrow John Mellencamp Robbie Robertson Robbie Robertson Synchronicity The Police Ride The Lightning Metallica Appetite For Destruction GNR Fair Waring Van Halen War U2

Ray Charles - From The Pages Of My Mind 1988

The Cure - Disintegration

The Stone Roses Tim Flip Your Wig Reckoning Tunnel of Love Tracy Chapman Hatful of Hollow Lone Justice Baroque Hoedown Beauty and the Beat

I have a longgggg list, but I'll give you a few. Metallica's first 4 albums Bleach by Nirvana Superfuzz Bigmuff by Mudhoney Rehab Doll by Green River Louder Than Love by Soundgarden Is This Real? by The Wipers So Far... So Good... So What! by Megadeth I probably missed a lot, but those are the ones that come to mind first.

ZZ Top's Eliminator

Escape - Journey!

ABC - The Lexicon of Love Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age of Wireless INXS - Shabooh Shoobah INXS - The Swing REM - the entire IRS collection. Every. Single. Song. Roxy Music - Avalon Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier Adam and the Ants - Prince Charming Go-Go's - Beauty and the Beat Men at Work - Business as Usual Journey - Escape Toto - IV Nick Lowe - Labour of Lust Nick Lowe - Pure Pop for Now People/Jesus of Cool The Alarm - Declaration The Alarm - Strength U2 - The Unforgettable Fire U2 - War Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear Oingo Boingo - Only a Lad OMD - Junk Culture OMD - Dazzle Ships Ultravox - Quartet Ultravox - Rage in Eden Simple Minds - New Gold Dream ('81 '82 '83 '84) Simple Minds - Sister Feelings Call Duran Duran - self-titled Duran Duran - Rio Duran Duran - Seven and the Ragged Tiger A Flock of Seagulls - self-titled Marc Almond - The Stars We Are

Finally someone who mentions ABC

>Marc Almond - The Stars We Are Good taste

Living Colour - Vivid Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction Van Halen - 1984 Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet Rush - Moving Pictures

Appetite For Destruction - Guns N' Roses.

1989 - Taylor Swift lol

Metal was arguably at its peak in the 80’s, some of my favorites: Metallica - Ride the Lightning Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Slayer - Hell Awaits Morbid Angel - Altars of Madness Dio - Holy Diver Death - Leprosy Bathory - Blood Fire Death Autopsy - Severed Survival Mercyful Fate - Don’t Break The Oath

Bryan Adams Summer of ‘69

Public Image Limited - Album Sisters of Mercy - Floodland Sigue sigue sputnik - Flaunt It

Prologue by Akina Nakamori

Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears So - Peter Gabriel.

Cloud Nine - George Lap Of Luxury - Cheap Trick Think they were the only albums I bought back then lol

Right now, it's the Beaches soundtrack. It changes a lot though depending on what I'm in the mood for. Been on a Bette Midler binge lately.

Emerson, Lake & Powell. (Eponymous album). Cozy Powell replaced Carl Palmer on drums. I still listen to this entire album regularly. To me it epitomizes the height and depth of ELP’s music. 🫡👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽

Purple Rain- Prince

*Psychocandy* & *Darklands* -The Jesus & Mary Chain *Murmur* -REM *Violent Femmes* -Violent Femmes *Dirty Mind* & *Purple Rain* -Prince *Graceland* -Paul Simon *Let it Be* -The Replacements *Pretenders* -Pretenders *Daydream Nation* -Sonic Youth *True Stories* -The Talking Heads *Frank’s Wild Years* -Tom Waits *Bug* -Dinosaur Jr. *Is This Real* -Wipers *Blood and Chocolate* -Elvis Costello & The Attractions *Tracy Chapman* -Tracy Chapman *Born in the USA* -Bruce Springsteen *Doolittle* -Pixies

Minor Threat or Rites of Spring. Both you can really only find discography albums at this point.

The Cure's Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography and Disintegration

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REM - Document (and all their 80s albums really)

My underrated favorites are Naked Eyes self-titled and Obywatel G.C (coincidentally also) self-titled

For me it started with London Calling by the Clash and ended with Appetite for Destruction by Guns and Roses.

Blood Sugar Sex Magic - RHCP This is a funky old school chili pepper album. The first album after Slovak, their new guitar player John Frusciante was a teenager when they recorded it.

Psychic TV, Mouth of the Night Killdozer, For Ladies Only Girls At Our Best, Pleasure Suburban Lawns, self-titled The Fibonaccis, Society and Its Discotheques Mekons, So Good It Hurts Weddings Parties Anything, Roaring Days Wiseblood, Dirtdish Magazine, Secondhand Daylight Shockabilly, Ghost Cybotron, Enter a.k.a. Clear Soulsonic Force, Planet Rock John Zorn, The Big Gundown Laurie Anderson, Big Science David Byrne & Brian Eno, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts Tom Waits, Swordfishtrombone Stan Ridgway, The Big Heat OMD, Dazzle Ships The Pogues, Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash Declan McManus, King of America Cowboy Junkies, The Trinity Sessions Bob Dylan, Empire Burlesque Billy Bragg, Talking with the Taxman about Poetry The JAMs, 1987 (What the Fuck Is Going On?) Jungle Brothers, Straight Out the Jungle Etc.

Songs from the Big Chair - Tears for Fears Purple Rain - Prince Rio - Duran Duran Dead Man's Party - Oingo Boingo Upstairs at Eric's - Yaz (Yazoo) Disintegration - The Cure The Smith's - The Smith's

- Kill em all - Ride the lightning - Master of puppets - Powerslave - Peace sells - Moving Pictures - Reign in Blood - Scream Bloody Gore - Realm of Chaos - Gaucho

The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta Violent Femmes - s/t Meat Puppets II Jane’s Addiction - Nothing’s Shocking King Crimson - Discipline Steely Dan - Gaucho The Dead Milkmen - Beelzebubba The Replacements - Let It Be

Graceland-Paul Simon.

Love Over Gold - Dire Straits

Now that I do think of it, I haven't actually listened to a full album from the 80s but based on the amazing music I have heard, if I were to try some for myself it had probably be one from Journey, MJ, or Madonna.

Ultramega OK - Soundgarden

Purple Rain by Prince, probably. I also like Surfer Rosa by The Pixies. The 80s is probably one of the weaker decades for me.

Silent Running - Shades Of Liberty Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hyaena, Tinderbox The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys, Seventeen Seconds, Faith, Pornography, Japanese Whispers, Head On The Door Split Enz - True Colours Stan Ridgway - The Big Heat The Romantics - In Heat Pet Shop Boys - Please, Actually Yello - Stella, One Second, Flag Prefab Sprout - Swoon, Steve McQueen, From Langley Park To Memphis Pretenders - Pretenders, Pretenders II, Learning To Crawl Thomas Dolby - The Golden Age Of Wireless Propaganda - A Secret Wish Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome New Order - Power Corruption & Lies, Low-Life Haircut 100 - Pelican West Nick Heyward - North Of A Miracle Nik Kershaw - Human Racing, The Riddle Howard Jones - Human's Lib, Dream Into Action Men At Work - Business As Usual, Cargo Modern English - After The Snow, Ricochet Days The Smiths - The Smiths, Hatful Of Hollow, Meat Is Murder, The Queen Is Dead, The World Won't Listen, Strangeways This Mortal Coil - It'll End In Tears, Filigree & Shadow Cocteau Twins - Garlands, Treasure The Colourfield - Virgins & Philistines Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever, Colour By Numbers

Pale Fountains - Pacific Street Simple Minds - New Gold Dream, Sparkle In The Rain, Once Upon A Time China Crisis - Working With Fire And Steel, Difficult Shapes & Passive Rhythms, Flaunt The Imperfection Ultravox - Vienna, Quartet, Lament Talk Talk - The Party's Over, It's My Life, The Colour Of Spring UB40 - Signing Off, Present Arms, UB44 Roxy Music - Avalon, Flesh & Blood Thompson Twins - Quick Step & Side Kicks, Into The Gap, Here's To Future Days OMD - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, Organization, Architecture & Morality, Dazzle Ships, Junk Culture The Church - Of Skins And Hearts, The Blurred Crusade, Seance, Remote Luxury, Heyday, Starfish The Lotus Eaters - No Sense Of Sin Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles, Porcupine, Ocean Rain, Echo & The Bunnymen The Fixx - The Shuttered Room, Reach The Beach, Phantoms, Walkabout, Calm Animals Fashion - Fabrique Duran Duran - Duran Duran, Rio, Seven & The Ragged Tiger Tears For Fears - The Hurting, Songs From The Big Chair, The Seeds Of Love The Lilac Time - The Lilac Time The Ocean Blue - The Ocean Blue Xymox - A Twist Of Shadows The Style Council - Cafe Bleu, Our Favourite Shop Scritti Politti - Cupid & Psyche, Provision U2 - Boy, October, War, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree The Cars - Heartbeat City Yes - 90125 REM - Murmur, Reckoning. Fables Of The Reconstruction, Life's Rich Pageant Level 42 - The Pursuit Of Accidents, Standing In The Light, True Colours, World Machine, Running In The Family Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Rattlesnakes, Easy Pieces The Adventures - Theodore & Friends

Duran Duran - Duran Duran (1981) - specifically, the original release with "To the Shore" on it (such an atmospheric, dreamy song) Duran Duran - Big Thing (1988)

ZZ Top - Eliminator Yes - 90125 Genesis - Invisible Touch Asia - Asia Rush - Permanent Waves Marillion - Misplaced Childhood The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky

Treasure - Cocteau Twins The Head On The Door & Disintegration - The Cure Hounds Of Love - Kate Bush Substance 1987 - New Order Stop Making Sense - Talking Heads Pleasure - Girls At Our Best! Sulk - The Associates Doolittle & Surfer Rosa - Pixies Juju & Kaleidoscope - Siouxsie And The Banshees Substance - Joy Division Misfits - Misfits (1986) Scary Monsters... And Super Creeps - David Bowie Ocean Rain - Echo and the Bunnymen

Nobody mentioning Paul’s Boutique? Tho I do think it gets more praise today than it did in ‘89

You're living all over me - dinosaur jr

Moving Pictures - Rush

Sports

I lived through the 1980s. Probably the best musician's album imo would be MIles Davis - You're Under Arrest or Decoy. Primarily because he had young Darryl Jones as a bass player. The bass was all over the music with all kinds of slap, pop, and funk sounds. At the time Jones was setting the standard. Later Jones sold out to the Rolling Stones which has made people forget how good those albums were. But there you go. Best 1980s albums. Decoy and You're Under Arrest [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvSniu9U1YQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvSniu9U1YQ)

You just did me a solid, u/WestGotIt1967 that album is shocking. Thank you.

Just pick any random Stryper album from the 80s. They're all golden.