Retro Albums of the Year 2010's: 2020

[Stadler]

So many of those records are either my favorite of that artist, or damn near.   Love the mentions for "Don't Say No" (I was listening to a live Billy Squier record today as well as "Tell The Truth", an amazing record that I'm pretty sure only about 250 people have ever heard. 

[Zoom E]

OK, I'm on record ar 1981 being my favorite year of music. My list is big but I've separated them into
groups..

Albums in my Top 50:

Michael Schenker Group-MSG
UFO-The Wild The Willing And The Innocent
Thin Lizzy-Renegade
Def Leppard-High n Dry
Rush-Moving Pictures
Riot-Fire Down Under
Ozzy Osbourne-Diary Of A Madman
Lucifer's Friend-Mean Machine

These are GREAT albums! that I love..

Joe Perry Project-I've Got The Rock And Rolls Again
Triumph-Allied Forces
AC/DC-For Those About To Rock
Black Sabbath-Mob Rules
Rainbow-Difficult To Cure
Accept-Breaker
Saxon-Denim And Leather
Iron Maiden-Killers
Y&T-Earthshaker
Van Halen-Fair Warning
Shooting Star-Hang On For Your Life
Journey-Escape
Gary Moore-Dirty Fingers
Blackfoot-Marauder

Good to decent albums that I did replace on CD..

Kiss-The Elder
Ted Nugent-Intensities In 10 Cities
Pat Benatar-Precious Time
Alice Cooper-Special Forces
Krokus-Hardware
Judas Priest-Point Of Entry
Tygers Of Pan Tang-Spellbound
Molly Hatchet-Take No Prisoners

Albums I had as a kid, but never replaced on CD..

Kix-s/t
Billy Squire-Don't Say No
38 Special-Wild Eyed Southern Boys
April Wine-The Nature Of The Beast
Blue Oyster Cult-Fire Of Unknown Origin
Loverboy-Get Lucky

I forgot about Renegade. Another great one. That was my first Thin Lizzy album.

[EPICVIEW]

Thin Lizzy FOREVER   ,,,,,

[wolfking]

Bored at work, might have a crack at this.  Where we up to, 81, alright, no order;

Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Judas Priest - Point of Entry
Iron Maiden - Killers
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary of a Madman
Y&T - Earthshaker
Rush - Moving Pictures
Riot - Fire Down Under
UFO - The Wild, The Willing and the Innocent
Michael Schenker - MSG
Thin Lizzy - Renegade

What an exciting list lol!

[Stadler]

The Cars - Shake It Up.  LOVE that record; on any given day it's my favorite.   I love "Since You're Gone"  ("moonlight... ain't so great").

[TAC]

OK, I'm on record ar 1981 being my favorite year of music. My list is big but I've separated them into
groups..

Albums in my Top 50:

Michael Schenker Group-MSG
UFO-The Wild The Willing And The Innocent
Thin Lizzy-Renegade
Def Leppard-High n Dry
Rush-Moving Pictures
Riot-Fire Down Under
Ozzy Osbourne-Diary Of A Madman
Lucifer's Friend-Mean Machine

These are GREAT albums! that I love..

Joe Perry Project-I've Got The Rock And Rolls Again
Triumph-Allied Forces
AC/DC-For Those About To Rock
Black Sabbath-Mob Rules
Rainbow-Difficult To Cure
Accept-Breaker
Saxon-Denim And Leather
Iron Maiden-Killers
Y&T-Earthshaker
Van Halen-Fair Warning
Shooting Star-Hang On For Your Life
Journey-Escape
Gary Moore-Dirty Fingers
Blackfoot-Marauder

Good to decent albums that I did replace on CD..

Kiss-The Elder
Ted Nugent-Intensities In 10 Cities
Pat Benatar-Precious Time
Alice Cooper-Special Forces
Krokus-Hardware
Judas Priest-Point Of Entry
Tygers Of Pan Tang-Spellbound
Molly Hatchet-Take No Prisoners

Albums I had as a kid, but never replaced on CD..

Kix-s/t
Billy Squire-Don't Say No
38 Special-Wild Eyed Southern Boys
April Wine-The Nature Of The Beast
Blue Oyster Cult-Fire Of Unknown Origin
Loverboy-Get Lucky

I forgot about Renegade. Another great one. That was my first Thin Lizzy album.

Mine too! and still my favorite!

[SoundscapeMN]

1982

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Honestly, despite 1 of my higher ranked Rush albums and Pat Metheny. Along with both classics from both Michael Jackson and Prince, 1982, compared many/most other years, is rather thin/weak.

Certainly, there's some stuff on the calendar I haven't heard that could change that. But from my list, it's filled with mid-level stuff. I guess when I finish this project, I may rank each year, and at this point, 1982 I suspect won't be placing incredibly high.

1. Rush - Signals
2. Pat Metheny - Offramp
3. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Security)
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Van Halen - Diver Down
6. Prince - 1999
7. XTC - English Settlement
8. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
9. Duran Duran - Rio
10. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
11. Genesis - Three Sides Live
12. Daryl Hall and John Oates - H2O
13. Toto - IV
14. Led Zeppelin - Coda
15. Al Di Meola - Tour de Force - "Live"
16. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
17. Huey Lewis and the News - Picture This
18. Al Di Meola - Electric Rendezvous
19. Asia - Asia
20. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must be Going!
21. Jethro Tull - Broadsword and the Beast
22. King Crimson - Beat
23. Jon Anderson - Animation

[TAC]

Another great year!
*makes list*

[Zoom E]

1982

Scorpions - Blackout
Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
Michael Schenker Group - Assault Attack
Diamond Head - Borrowed Time
Vandenberg - Vandenberg
Anvil - Metal on Metal
Riot - Restless Breed
Accept - Restless and Wild
Tygers of Pan Tang - The Cage
Rush - Signals
Manowar - Battle Hymns
Aldo Nova - Aldo Nova
Rainbow - Straight Between the Eyes
Magnum - Chase the Dragon
Asia - Asia
Raven - Wiped Out

[ariich]

1. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
2. Toto - IV
3. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
4. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
5. Michael Jackson - Thriller
6. King Crimson - Beat
7. Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast
8. Maynard Ferguson - Hollywood
9. Rush - Signals
10. Asia - Asia

[KevShmev]

01 Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
02 Rush - Signals
03 XTC - English Settlement
04 Asia - Asia
05 Peter Gabriel - Security
06 Michael Jackson - Thriller
07 Prince - 1999
08 Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
09 The Fixx - Shuttered Room
10 Fleetwood Mac - Mirage

[ReaperKK]

1. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold - 3.5/5
2. Rush - Signals - 3/5
3. Pat Metheny Group - Offramp - 2/5
4. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast - 2/5

[Trav86]

01 Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
02 Rush - Signals
03 XTC - English Settlement
04 Asia - Asia
05 Peter Gabriel - Security
06 Michael Jackson - Thriller
07 Prince - 1999
08 Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
09 The Fixx - Shuttered Room
10 Fleetwood Mac - Mirage

1. The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky
2. Toto - IV
3. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
4. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
5. Michael Jackson - Thriller
6. King Crimson - Beat
7. Jethro Tull - The Broadsword and the Beast
8. Maynard Ferguson - Hollywood
9. Rush - Signals
10. Asia - Asia

All of this.

[TAC]

1982 was a great year. I started High School in the fall of 1982 and was by this point very into music.


As a kid, I had all of these and have replaced them all on CD:
Iron Maiden-The Number Of The Beast
Gary Moore-Corridors Of Power
UFO-Mechanix
Judas Priest-Screaming For Vengeance
Michael Schenker Group-Assault Attack
Alice Cooper-Zipper Catches Skin
Aerosmith-Rock In A Hard Place
Accept-Restless And Wild
Riot-Restless Breed
Rainbow-Straight Between The Eyes
Scorpions-Blackout
KISS-Creatures
Y&T-Black Tiger
Ozzy Osbourne-Speak Of The Devil
Rush Signals
Robert Plant-Pictures At Eleven
Krokus-One Vice At A Time
Twisted Sister-Under The Blade
Manowar-Battle Hymns
Van Halen-Diver Down
Motorhead-Iron Fist
Talas-Sink Your Teeth Into That


I haven't replaced these on CD, but I still have these on vinyl...in my attic.
Vandenberg-s/t
Mama's Boys-Plug It In
Uriah Heep-Abominog
Anvil-Metal On Metal

These I had, but have never replaced.
Whitesnake-Saints And Sinners
Hughes/Thrall
More-Blood And Thunder



I also wanted to mention that the record store I used to go had a certain album and while I never bought it, a 13 /14 y/o TAC loved to stare at the cover (and back cover, especially the back cover!) of Witchfynder General's Death Penalty album.

[King Puppies and the Acid Guppies]

1982 was another big year for me. Several highly influential albums that shaped my musical tastes.

1. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
2. The Alan Parson Project - Eye in the Sky
3. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
4. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
5. Rush - Signals
6. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
7. Roxy Music - Avalon
8. Brian Eno - Ambient 4: On Land
9. Michael Jackson - Thriller
10. The Cure - Pornography
11. Pagan Altar - Pagan Altar
12. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
13. Scorpions - Blackout
14. Toto - IV
15. Univers Zero - Ceux du dehors
16. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel (Security)
17. Prince - 1999
18. Whitesnake - Saints & Sinners
19. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
20. Eloy - Time to Turn
21. Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - I Advance Masked
22. Duran Duran - Rio
23. Asia - Asia
24. Twelfth Night - Fact and Fiction
25. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must be Going
26. Led Zeppelin - Coda
27. Steve Winwood - Talking Back to the Night

[Trav86]

While most of my favorites for this year have been mentioned, I haven’t seen these three:

Oingo Boingo - Nothing to Fear
Joe Jackson - Night and Day
Level 42 - The Pursuit of Accidents

[MirrorMask]

1. IRON MAIDEN - The Number of the Beast

Not even my favorite Maiden album, but it's legendary. Hallowed Be Thy Name song of the year.

2. MANOWAR - Battle Hymns (glad to see some love for this!)
3. JUDAS PRIEST - Screaming for Vengeance
4. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN - Nebraska
5. RAINBOW - Straight Between the Eyes (more a honorable mention just to round it up to five)

[Lowdz]

The albums I have from 1982

Magnum - Chase The Dragon

UFO - Mechanix

Asia - st

Iron Maiden - TNOTB

Scorpions- Blackout

Van Halen - Diver Down

Motörhead - Iron Fist

Rainbow- Straight Between The Eyes

Saxon - The Eagle Has Landed (should have been a double album)

ManOwaR - Battle Hymns

Survivor- Eye Of The Tiger

Judas Priest - Screaming

Coney Hatch - st

Demon x The Unexpected Guest

Rush - Signals

Accept - Restless & Wild

KISS - Creatures of the Night

Pat Benatar- Get Nervous

MSG - Assault Attack

Ozzy - Talk of the Devil

Night Ranger - Dawn Patrol

Whitesnake- Saints and Sinners

Slade - Slade On Stage

[HOF]

The top 3 in 1982 for me were very good. Overall a strong year.

1. Rush - Signals
2. King Crimson - Beat
3. Peter Gabriel - Security
4. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going!
5. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
6. XTC - English Settlement
7. Talk Talk - The Party’s Over

[HOF]

Some really great stuff for 1981:

1. Journey - Escape
2. Genesis - Abacab
3. King Crimson - Discipline
4. Phil Collins - Face Value
5. Rush - Moving Pictures
6. Ricky Lee Jones - Pirates

Just realized there was one major omission for me on my 1981 list. Re-ranked:

1. Journey - Escape
2. Genesis - Abacab
3. King Crimson - Discipline
4. Phil Collins - Face Value
5. Camel - Nude
6. Rush - Moving Pictures
7. Ricky Lee Jones - Pirates

[SoundscapeMN]

While most of my favorites for this year have been mentioned, I haven’t seen these three:
Joe Jackson - Night and Day

 

love Steppin' Out, but sadly i don't recall the rest of the record.

[Stadler]

While most of my favorites for this year have been mentioned, I haven’t seen these three:
Joe Jackson - Night and Day

 

love Steppin' Out, but sadly i don't recall the rest of the record.

OOOH!  You might want to revisit it; the second side of that record is almost flawless to these ears. "Breaking Us In Two" (the better single between that and Steppin' Out), Real Men (a quintessential Joe Jackson song; aggressive and ground-breaking and you don't even know it), and his best song, IMO, Slow Song.   Cancer is good, but it's sort of "Joe Jackson by Numbers", not that that's a bad thing.

[Stadler]

1981 was amazing, but the one year that might challenge it is... 1982. 

I like Straight Between The Eyes more than Difficult To Cure, and on any given day, Hello I Must Be Going over Face Value.

Signals.
Security (my second favorite Gabriel record after Us).

And my musical awakening: The Number Of The Beast and Screaming For Vengeance.

[Trav86]

While most of my favorites for this year have been mentioned, I haven’t seen these three:
Joe Jackson - Night and Day

 

love Steppin' Out, but sadly i don't recall the rest of the record.

OOOH!  You might want to revisit it; the second side of that record is almost flawless to these ears. "Breaking Us In Two" (the better single between that and Steppin' Out), Real Men (a quintessential Joe Jackson song; aggressive and ground-breaking and you don't even know it), and his best song, IMO, Slow Song.   Cancer is good, but it's sort of "Joe Jackson by Numbers", not that that's a bad thing.

Yes! Breaking Us in Two is awesome. And Slow Song is truly epic. And not in the cheesy prog-metal way. Which I love also!

[TAC]

1981 was amazing, but the one year that might challenge it is... 1982. 

I just did my 1983 list and 1983 crushes 1982.

[KevShmev]

While most of my favorites for this year have been mentioned, I haven’t seen these three:
Joe Jackson - Night and Day

 

love Steppin' Out, but sadly i don't recall the rest of the record.

OOOH!  You might want to revisit it; the second side of that record is almost flawless to these ears. "Breaking Us In Two" (the better single between that and Steppin' Out), Real Men (a quintessential Joe Jackson song; aggressive and ground-breaking and you don't even know it), and his best song, IMO, Slow Song.   Cancer is good, but it's sort of "Joe Jackson by Numbers", not that that's a bad thing.

I need to check out that album as well.  Steppin' Out is legit one of my favorite songs ever by anyone, and Breaking Us in Two is pretty great as well, but I think Is She Really Going Out with Him? is the only other song by him that I know.  I really need to change that.

[WildRanger]

1982:
1. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold (fav DS record)
2. Prince - 1999
3. The Cure - Pornography
4. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
5. Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast
6. Scorpions - Blackout
7. Rush - Signals
8. Accept - Restless and Wild
9. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
10. Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

[Kwyjibo]

My favs from 1982 in alphabetical order

Asia - Asia
Benatar, Pat - Get Nervous
Collins, Phil - Hello, I Must Be Going
Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
Henley, Don - I Can't Stand Still
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Joel, Billy - The Nylon Curtain
Level 42 - The Pursuit Of Accidents
Magnum - Chase The Dragon
Spliff - 85555 & Herzlichen Glückwunsch
Springfield, Rick - Success Hasn't Spoiled Me Yet
Supertramp - Famous Last Words
Toto - Toto IV
Van Halen - Diver Down
Whitesnake - Saints An' Sinners

[Stadler]

Interestingly enough, SO MANY of these records I still listen to regularly today.  I just played the Asia album earlier this week in the shower.

[King Postwhore]

Interestingly enough, SO MANY of these records I still listen to regularly today.  I just played the Asia album earlier this week in the shower.

That's a hell of a stereo system to play with water on it.

[TAC]

I just played the Asia album earlier this week in the shower.

While in the shower Stadler felt the heat of the moment and decided it was time again so he started "cutting" it fine until here comes the feeling and so for the rest of the shower he can simply ride easy.


Sounds yucky.

[King Postwhore]

I just played the Asia album earlier this week in the shower.

While in the shower Stadler felt the heat of the moment and decided it was time again so he started "cutting" it fine until here comes the feeling and so for the rest of the shower he can simply ride easy.


Sounds yucky.

In your wildest dreams Tim.

[hefdaddy42]

No particular order:

Michael Jackson - Thriller
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
John Mellencamp - American Fool
Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
Toto - Toto IV
Rush - Signals
Duran Dura - Rio
Asia - Asia

[Stadler]

I just played the Asia album earlier this week in the shower.

While in the shower Stadler felt the heat of the moment and decided it was time again so he started "cutting" it fine until here comes the feeling and so for the rest of the shower he can simply ride easy.


Sounds yucky.

In your wildest dreams Tim.

Well, I WAS the sole survivor.   

The Nylon Curtain is another phenomenal record.

[T-ski]

I just played the Asia album earlier this week in the shower.

While in the shower Stadler felt the heat of the moment and decided it was time again so he started "cutting" it fine until here comes the feeling and so for the rest of the shower he can simply ride easy.


Sounds yucky.

In your wildest dreams Tim.

Well, I WAS the sole survivor.   

The Nylon Curtain is another phenomenal record.

Only time will tell if it was worth it.