Your Favorite Albums Of 1981

Hey all! Usual thread here. Just post Your favorite albums from 1981. The albums in question will have been released between Jan I, 1981 and De c 31, 1981. Pick as few or as many as you wish. Have fun. It's all in the name of a good time. That's all I got to say about that.

 

X: Wild Gift
Elvis Costello: Trust
Psychedelic Furs: Talk Talk Talk
Rick James: Street Songs
Rolling Stones: Tattoo You
The Blasters

 

X - Wild Gift
Public Image LTD. - The Flowers Of Romance
Robyn Hitchcock - Black Snake Diamond Role
Triumph - Allied Forces
The Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
Go-Gos - Beauty And The Beat
Pretenders - Pretenders II
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Hard Promises
The Plimsouls - The Plimsouls
The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot To Take Out The Trash
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Private Eyes
Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
Ramones - Pleasant Dreams
Phil Seymour - Phil Seymour
Men At Work - Business As Usual
The Moody Blues - Long Distance Voyager
Styx - Paradise Theater
The J. Geils Band - Freeze-Frame
The Kinks - Give The People Want They Want
Lindsey Buckingham - Law And Order
ZZ Top - El Loco

 

Nice picks! Killer Albums!

 

Sorry, you can't have good albums from this year. The 80s were crap and no good music came from them, remember?

 

I disagree. I was in my teens in the 80s and I found lots of great music. You usually just had to look harder for it.

 

Moving Pictures, Moving Pictures then Moving Pictures. Rush's masterpiece.

Others I really enjoyed:

Dare - Human League
Heaven Up Here - Echo & The Bunnymen
Ghost In The Machine - Police
Bella Donna - Stevie Nicks
Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
Hard Promises - Tom Petty

 

Great albums! Nice picks!

 

Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Reactor
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Gillan - Future Shock

Can't wait for bvb1123 to start "Your Favorite Albums Of 1982" so I can name "Trans".

Edit: I had almost forgotten 1981 was the year I bought my first record and I need to list that one:

Rainbow - Difficult To Cure

 

Rush Moving Pictures
Billy Squire Dont Say No
Cars Shake it Up
Styx Paradise theatre
BOC Fire of an Unknown Origin
Pretenders II
U2 October

 

Good Pick!

 

All solid albums! Nice job!

 

Best Album Of 1981?

Rush - Moving Pictures
Black Sabbath - Mob Rules
Ozzy Osbourne - Diary Of A Madman
Blue Oyster Cult - Fire Of Unknown Origin

 

Rush - Moving Pictures
BOC - Fire Of Unknown Origin
ELO - Time

 

Killer albums! Great picks!

 

Terrific picks! Solid albums!

 

Ringo Starr - Stop and Smell The Roses
George Harrison - Somewhere In England
Flo & Eddie - Rock Steady With Flo & Eddie

 

Superb selection! Somebody besides me likes Stop And Smell The Roses! Kool!

 

Ultravox - Rage In Eden
Echo & The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
Human League - Dare
Byrne and Eno - My Life In The Bush of Ghosts
Elvis Costello - Trust
Stones - Tattoo You
X - Wild Gift
Heaven 17 - Penthouse and Pavement

 

A good year, the 1981:

SAGA - Worlds Apart
ARS - Quinella
38 SPECIAL - Wild Eyed Southern Boys
BOC - Fire of Unknown Origin
Dan FOGELBERG - The Innocent Age
FOREIGNER - 4
TUBES - The Complexion Backward Principle

 

Excellent picks! All great albums!

 

Nice albums! Good picks!

 

The Allman Brothers Band - Brothers Of The Road
Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Reactor
Frank Zappa - Shut Up And Play Yer Guitar, You Are What You Is
Chic - Take It Off
Gil Scott-Heron - Reflections
ZZ Top - El Loco
The Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime
Stray Cats - s/t, Gonna Ball
Grateful Dead - Reckoning, Dead Set
Van Halen - Fair Warning
Iggy Pop - Party
Miles Davis - The Man With The Horn
Pretenders - Pretenders II

 

King Crimson - "Discipline"
Kraftwerk - "Computer World"
The Cure - "Faith"
ELO - "Time"
Japan - "Tin Drum"
Rickie Lee Jones - "Pirates"
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - "Trust"
Billy Joel - "Songs In The Attic"
Frank Zappa - "You Are What You Is"
Pretenders - "II"

 

Easy.