Just list your favorite albums from 1982. As many or as few as you wish. The eligibility is albums released from Jan 1, 1982 to Dec 31, 1982. Other than that there are really no rules. Just have fun.
Top 3: Peter Gabriel (Security) by Peter Gabriel The Dreaming by Kate Bush Wild Things Run Fast by Joni Mitchell And hey...Wiki just taught me that my two favorite bands both released their '82 live albums on the same day! Still Life by the Rolling Stones Three Sides Live by Genesis
My list from 1982, in alphabetical order by artist: Laurie Anderson - Big Science Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino Berlin - Pleasure Victim Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band - Ice Cream For Crow Cheap Trick - One On One The Chesterfield Kings - Here Are The Chesterfield Kings The Clash - Combat Rock Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw The dB's - Repercussion The Dream Syndicate - The Days Of Wine And Roses Donald Fagan - The Nightfly Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Tropical Gangsters Paul McCartney - Tug Of War Men Without Hats - Rhythm Of Youth Eddie Money - No Control Prince - 1999 Roxy Music - Avalon Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights Translator - Heartbeats & Triggers Van Halen - Diver Down The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?
Favorite from '82: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast Other great albums I love: King Crimson - Beat KISS - Creatures of the Night Andy Summers & Robert Fripp - I Advance Masked Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino Joe Jackson - Night and Day Stevie Wonder - Original Musiquarium (kinda cheating, but it was released in '82) Rush - Signals Ozzy - Speak of the Devil Michael Jackson - Thriller
1. Pete Townshend - All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes 2. Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark 3. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska 4. Van Halen - Diver Down 5. The Who - It's Hard 6. Dire Straits - Love Over Gold 7. John Cougar - American Fool 8. Chuck Berry - The Great Twenty Eight 9. The Monkees - More Greatest Hits 10. Foreigner - Records
1982 favorites... ASIA (self titled) Signals (by Rush) Tug of War (by Paul McCartney) English Settlement (by XTC) The #1 albums of 1982: Freeze Frame - The J. Geils Band Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's Chariots of Fire - Vangelis Asia - Asia Tug Of War - Paul McCartney Mirage - Fleetwood Mac American - Johnny Cougar Business as Usual - Men at Work
Ok most of my favorites already mentioned, but I will second: Laurie Anderson - Big Science Genesis - Three Sides Live PG - Security Dire Straits - Love Over Gold
1. Iron Maiden – Number of the Beast 2. Neil Young – Trans 3. Captain Beefheart – Ice Cream for Crow 4. Billy Joel – Nylon Curtain 5. Kiss- Creatures of the Night 6. Twisted Sister – Under the Blade 7. Eno – Ambient 4 On Land 8. Rush - Signals 9. Men at Work - Business as Usual 10. George Harrison - Gone Troppo
I can't make it a poll. There's too many albums to pick from. If I can spare some time doing all these threads I'll see about tallying them up.
