I just need to copy and paste my recommendation to Kev...
There are albums *from* the 80's and then there are albums that just scream "I am THE 80's album...and l will never EVER be mistaken for being from another time."
The greatest album from this latter category, is IMO......Get Lucky by Loverboy
Loverboy is truly a guilty pleasure in every way. They were just way too cheesy to ever become something bigger than their basic framework. But what they did, they did extremely well. Their first 4 albums are some of the most kick ass corporate rock I've ever heard...but Get Lucky was just lightning in a bottle. 9 songs, 7 of them were radio staples when the album was released, the other two were surprisingly good once you got it home.
This was like the girl named Cindy that you convinced to come over to your place because she was really hot. When you got her home, everything went really fantastic. And when you both woke up in the morning....neither one of you wanted to leave. So you hung out together like that for a whole decade. And you still wonder where that girl is. How she's doing? And maybe if you were just one of the guys or one of the special guys. Hmmmmmm
I will add this: I looked at the track listing again, and I will say that I now only remember 6 of these songs (not seven) being in regular rotation on rock radio when it was new. This was a *very big* album. Def Leppard's Hysteria gets the reputation of being the first rock album that was all singles, but I think Get Lucky beat it by six years.
Jump, Emotional and Watch Out are the songs that I did not hear on radio. And even those songs are really good. (especially Emotional, which is downright awesome)
Working for the Weekend, When It's Over, Gangs in the Street, Lucky Ones, It's Your Life (only heard this one a couple times on the radio, but I did hear it), and Take Me to the Top...all on the radio, all bonafide classics. This is a fantastic 80's album.