Your Favorite Albums Of 1980

Another great year!
Abba - Super Trouper
Adam & the Ats - Kings of the Wild Frontier
Boomtown Rats - Mondo Bongo
The Cars - Panorama
The Clash - Sandinista!
Def Leppard - On Through the Night
Eloy - Colours
Peter Gabriel - Melt
Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Journey - Departure
Judas Priest - British Steel
Magazine - Play
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Organisation
Alan Parsons Project - Turn of a Friendly Card
Rush - Permanent Waves
Toyah - The Blue Meaning
Visage - Visage
Urgh! A Music War

 

Tough to pick just one, great year... I'd probably say Springsteen's 'The River.' Rush's 'Permanent Waves' a close second...

 

My LP cover for Hall & Oates Voices was different than that one above. Good choices here.

 

XTC - black sea
Japan - gentlemen take polaroids
The Pretenders - S/T
Jeff Beck - There & Back
Ultravox - vienna
YMO – multiples
X - los angeles
Roxy Music - flesh & blood
Rolling Stones - emotional rescue
Jim Carroll - catholic boy
The Cars - Panorama
U2 - Boy

 

Feelies Crazy rhythms
Young Marble Giants Colossal Youth
David Bowie Scary Monsters
The Cure 17 seconds
Dexy midnight runners Searching for young soul
The Jam Sound affects
The Cramps Songs the lord
Dead Kennedys Fresh fruit
The Beat I just cant stop
Dire Straits Making movies
Bruce Springsteen The river
AC/DC Back in black
The Chords So far away
Tom Waits Heartartack and vine
Prince Dirty mind

 

Permanent Waves - Rush
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath
Back in Black - AC/DC
Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne
The River - Bruce Springsteen
Ace of Spades - Motörhead
Double Fantasy - John Lennon & Yoko Ono

 

Top five live all time for me. Listening on marbled pink vinyl right now.

 

Oh yes.

 

Peter Gabriel - 3 (Melt)
Joy Division- Closer
Magazine- The Correct Use of Soap
Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
Echo & The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
Genesis - Duke
Wishbone Ash - Just Testing
Saxon - Strong Arm of the Law
Judas Priest - British Steel
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

And a lot of others I’ve forgotten - such a great year for music.

 

Adam and the Ants - Kings of the Wild Frontier
The Specials - More Specials (of course!)
Madness - Absolutely
Queen - The Game
Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
U2 - Boy
The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
Motorhead - Ace of Spades
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
AC/DC - Back In Black
Joy Division - Closer
Prince - Dirty Mind
Bowie - Scary Monsters...
Blondie - Autoamerican
The Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
The Jam - Sound Affects
The Undertones - Hypnotised
Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
Associates - The Affectionate Punch
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Uprising
Kate Bush - Never For Ever
OMD - S/T debut

These are all albums I rate very highly and consider favourites. There's so much more I like as well as stuff I know is good but aren't familiar enough with. What a great year. One of the best. Incredibly varied with some truly original bands and musicians coming through.

 

Catholic Boy - Jim Carroll Band
Diana - Diana Ross
Double Fantasy - Lennon and Ono
Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones
Gaucho - Steely Dan
Get Happy - Elvis Costello
I Just Can't Stop It - The (English) Beat
The River - Bruce Springsteen

 

A great list. Many are in my Top 20 too. I agree it was one of the best years and varied in a why I don't think we'll see the likes of again. I'm always surprised Hazel O'Connor's Breaking Glass gets missed by UK based forum members; it's my # 1 that year by a mile.

 

Wow! what a year!

Ramones- End of the Century
The Cure- Seventeen Seconds
The Sound- Jeopardy
Echo and the Bunnymen- Crocodiles
David Bowie- Scary Monsters
The Clash- Sandinista
Circle Jerks- Group Sex
Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
The Cramps- Songs the Lord Taught Us
Scientist- Best Dub Album in the World
Siouxsie and the Banshees- Kaleidoscope
Psychedelic Furs- Psychedelic Furs
Peter Gabriel- Melt
Elvis Costello- Get Happy
Jim Carroll- Catholic Boy
Motorhead- Ace of Spades

 

Double Fantasy-John and Yoko
Hi Infidelity-Reo Speedwagon
diana-Diana Ross
Blackrose-Blackrose(Cher)
Loretta-Loretta Lynn
Diamond Duet-Loretta and Conway
Guilty-Barbra Streisand
Roses In The Snow-Emmylou Harris
The Wander-Donna Summer
Xanadu-OST
Heart and Soul-Conway Twitty
Scary Monsters-David Bowie
Musical Shapes-Carlene Carter
Dolly, Dolly, Dolly-Dolly Parton
Making Plans-Porter and Dolly
Dream Lovers-Tanya Tucker
You Brought Me Back-Tammy Wynette
I Am What I Am-George Jones

 

Scary Monsters

 

'79, I think. Gang of Four's Yellow EP came out in '80, which I nominate (not all the way through thread yet)

 

I was only six in 1980 but I remember Eighth Day and my auntie having the LP, which she still has. It was definitely big at the time and almost forgotten now. I never hear Hazel O Connor mentioned anywhere. I've never heard it.

 

This was my late-Junior/early-Senior year in High School...

Rush - Permanent Waves (hands-down winner)

XTC - Black Sea (one "New-Wave" record that I've never outgrown)

The Residents - Commercial Album (a mind-blowing record that sent me off into a whole different trajectory)

Minutemen - Paranoid Time (ditto my reaction to the Commercial Album)

There were, of course, countless others... these are just the ones that come to mind at the moment.