US Top 25 Albums. Week Ending 23rd March 1985. Pick Your Favourites

33 years ago this week.

Nice diverse chart. I own 16 of these. Many accumulated over the years.

How many do you like and/or own?

Pick as many as you like.

 

I own three: Born In The U.S.A., She's So Unusual and Purple Rain. I used to own Centerfield also, when I collected vinyl.

 

Own most of these. Big year in pop 85.

 

Some good, some not so good....

 

Agent Provocateur - Foreigner many have called album a weak effort but I always liked it from day one.

 

Prince, Bruce and Bryan are the best ones

 

The hated Chicago 17 but I live it.

 

This is like the best albums chart you've posted yet, picked 13 of them.

Lionel Richie
Sade
Wham
Tina Turner
Madonna

My top 5 but I also chose New Edition, Hall & Oates, Pointer Sisters, Billy Ocean, Phil Collins, Prince, Cyndi Lauper and Springsteen.

 

Meant but I LOVE it.

 

I remember this lot because it was the early years of CDs and many were in the new release lists.

 

The days of vinyls in the racks at the record stores. CD were ready to take take over in the next couple of years.

 

If you love pop and the 80s, you’ll be hard pressed to find a better week than this.

 

And we had to wait for the CDs to come out. Often many weeks after the LPs and cassettes. If at all!

 

My Lord this chart brings back many memories.

 

What a chart. WOW!!! A mid 80's explosion!

 

don, prince and cyndi for me there. i liked born in the usa, but to me it's still one of his weaker albums

 

Unreal a plethora of multi million selling albums on this chart some carried from the pop explosion of 1984.

 

Great list. I have most of these, some on vinyl, some on CD. Picked up a Japan for US of Pointer Sisters' Break Out a few weeks ago. Had forgotten what a good album it is.

 

This is the full Top 200 for anyone who’s interested.

Top 200 Albums

 

Could this list be any more ‘80s? No, none more ‘80s.

 

Much listening fun on this list.

 

Definitely a great period for pop music. Some of my favorites on the Top 200 at the time: REM, The Smith’s, U2, Los Lobos, Richard Thompson are a little further down the list

 

RECKLESS

Bryan Adams masterpiece...When He ROCKED!

 

Decent chart. My faves are:

REO Speedwagon - Wheels Are Turnin'
Foreigner - Agent Provocateur
Bryan Adams - Reckless
Chicago - 17
Lionel Richie - can't Slow Down

Normally, I'd pick Don Henley - I think he's usually top notch - but outside a few tracks, Building The Perfect Beast is the closest he ever came to ordinary.

 

Yeah, that album to me defined the 80's. If you did a top 10 of 80's defining albums you could probably pull at least 1/2 of them from this chart.