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Was this one the best periods in Rock, ever? When 1980 began, The Wall by Pink Floyd was sitting at number #1, in the midst of a 15 week run at the top of charts and went on to become the best selling album of 1980. The next two years continuously got better musically for me from that point on.

Hi Infidelity (Best selling rock album of 1981)
Escape
Paradise Theater
Foreigner 4
Moving Pictures
Women And Children First
Back In Black
High 'n' Dry
Crimes Of Passion
Abacab
Don't Say No
Blizzard of Ozz
Modern Times
Heaven And Hell


So many great albums in such a short period of time

Which explains why '82 was such a dry spell giving Asia the chance to be the standout album of the year.

StoneCold wrote:Which explains why '82 was such a dry spell giving Asia the chance to be the standout album of the year.

Asia was formed in 81 but by releasing their album in 82 and with the exposure on MTV, they had an open field to run in, until Michael Jackson's album came out near the end of the year.

83 was a different animal, with Frontiers, Pyromania and other great releases. Ultimately though they were even over shadowed a bit by Thriller, which was still going strong.

My year of birth, of course is the years is when the good stuff were created !
btw fantastic records!

a couple more great perry records from that era:

1980


1981

I was SO sick of REOs album by the end of that year.
I bought tickets for them in Seattle and they had to postpone their show until the end of the year.
By that time, I was so SO sick of that record that I walked out halfway through their show. I'd never done that before.
I still can't stand them.

I STILL can't get Kevin Cronin's "4-everrrr" out of my head

I remember I went out and bought High Infidelity, Paradise Theater and Escape from Kmart all at the same time and wore them all out.

I'll take KOLY 10 times out of ten times over OA. I'll take WCN over both of them.

slucero wrote:I STILL can't get Kevin Cronin's "4-everrrr" out of my head

BINGO!

there are many albums that i had to dont hold up today..

in '81 i thought Physical was going down to be one of the

best albums of all time!!!

Gunbot wrote:I'll take KOLY 10 times out of ten times over OA. I'll take WCN over both of them.

Sorta OT, but I'll take Toto's Out of Love 10/10 over all of them. Luke's solo in that song is just

i think toto,asia and men at work were the big albums in '82.i do think in '80 and '81 lots of great albums were released.'82 was more of a down year before things picked back up in '83.

What about this wonderful records:

Judas Priest - British Steel (80') The best!!

Motorhead - Ace of spade (80')

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz (80'),Diary of a Mad man (81')

Accept - I'm a rebel(80'); Breaker (81')

Motley Crue - Too fast for love (81')