Excellent hard hitting heavy metal.

This is some of the best party music I could think of from the 80s.

A great LP with songs like Livin On A Prayer and Wanted Dead Or Alive. I still hear some of these tracks in dance clubs, 17 years after their release.

One of my personal favourites, almost every song sounds like pure rock; I just wish I could understand the words being sung by Ian Astbury at least half the time.

Sure it launched great videos and contained "Billie Jean", but I just don't think this album deserves to be Number One based on the sheer quality of its music.

U2's best album. Ever.

Just on the strength of "Every Breath You Take" this should be Top 20 material. With a bunch of other really good songs though, it easily cracks my Top 5.

What a great album, the Crue's finest, made after they finally decided to stop drinking and doing drugs (finally??). Tracks like Dr. Feelgood, Kickstart My Heart, Without You, Same Ol' Situation, Time For Change all on one album. Definately deserves its place at Number 3.

Seven US Top 40 Singles. Seven. That includes Love Bites (A number one), Rocket, Animal, and my favourite, Pour Some Sugar On Me (this one reached Number 2).

Where do I begin. Everyone in L.A. in 1987 had a feeling this group was gonna take the world by storm. One of the most successful debut albums ever, G n' R introduced its particular brand of raging punk-metal. Sweet Child O' Mine, Out Ta Get Me, My Michelle, Rocket Queen, Mr. Brownstone...Axl was no Beethoven or Mozart, but who else expressed rage better? (even the way Guns n' Roses self-destructed is in keeping with their punk rock roots).

This album is a little on the dark and depressing side, but O'Connor's ability to sustain this mood throughout its entirety is what makes it so good.

A little less radio-friendly than In My Tribe, this album has a very original sound to it. Cryptic lyrics make it more interesting.

Great pop album with good energy and catchy songs. Wet Wet Wet should have had a much better career than they did.

Before they sold out and went techno, EBTG was an overlooked pop group. This album has sort of a '70's feel to it.

Hey, if you're going to make an in your face album, why not go all the way? This album pulls no punches.

Don't know how to describe this album. Kind of a hippie thing with funky drums and loopy guitars - great lyrics and vocals, too.

An interesting combination of musical styles fusing jazz, big band, 60's pop, and synth rock. Another underrated band from the '80's.

The most impressive debut album of the '80's. I think this album reached a whole new audience for rap music and added to its popularity.

N.W.A. perfected gangsta rap. A timeless hip-hop classic.

Best album from one of rock's most underrated bands. Great lyrics, Natalie Merchant's beautiful voice, and top-notch musicianship. What more could you want?

Where would we have been without Poison?

It's a shadow of their former incarnation, but it's a fine pop album.

This album was the high water mark for 80's hair rock.

If you haven't heard this, listen to it. Absolutely amazing rock.

One of the best albums from the Streetlife Serenader.

While not the best of the Masters of progressive rock, this album nevertheless stands above most of the material from the decade.

One of the greatest rock albums ever, and certainly the best of Def.

Not a wasted track on this album, one of the finest accomplishments of their impressive career.

While this is actually a compilation, the remixing gives it a life of its own. As a two-disc set, this is almost too perfect.

Not just the best of the 80's, the best ever. Soulful and passionate, musically unmatched.

A great follow up to DBT. Amazing drums. 'Fragile,' ... oh man a great song.

This album rocks, and you can really hear the band shine without Trevor Horns trade-mark over production tricks. Don't get me wrong, Pleasure dome was awesome, but this one got me through @#$*ing high school with songs like 'Maximum joy,' and 'For Heavens sake.' Warriors...! will rot... in a cage.... ...suicide... a go-go. Rage!

Nick Rhodes... quite gifted, such pop sensibility, and hey listen to Simon! Aint he all growz-up singing so purdy? Every song on this record is a gem. Some great guest appearnces (Sting, David Gilmore, Herbie Hancock)

Great from fron to finish, and what a way to finish.

Not a bad song on it (except maybe Role Call)

Very tough to pick a Maiden album out of the ten or twelve in the eighties that were good, but after 30 years of being alive, the Paul Diano albums still stand out srongly to me even though I might have picked 'Power Slave,' if I were still 15.

Rich album, from 'Red Rain,' to 'Excellent Birds.'

Ok this was put out in 79, but I was listening to it in the eighties, so there. This album is super cool. If your into vinyl, this album is like silk. All the themes segue into one another like a dream.

Quite an obscure choice, I know, but this album is way cool, earthy if you could ever describe Prince as earthy.

What bass lines, what grooves. This album is so full of energy. Hard choice between this and 'Duran Duran,' which rocks.

Best rap album ever. 'Walk this way' 'You be Illin' Ol' school but tagging off to newer era. Never thought I'd memorize an entire rap album word for word. Drum machine central, drum machine 'perfection!' 808s

One of Vancouvers recording industys best album ever. Sex appeal, great melodies, vocal exf, these guys showed that finally an American band could keep up to all those European ones. 'Livin on '- almost glam rock...but keeping masculine and smooth kept them from to much make-up on the face.

Did not want to put them twice...but how can you not?...REFLEX?..NeW MOON?..GIRLS ON FILM?....UNION OF THE SNAKE?...ALL GREAT TRACKS!!!!....REFLEX IS MILES AHEAD OF ITS TIME WITH LATIN PRODUCTION - sounds like it was released in 2003 not 1983.

'$$ for nothing' & 'Walk of life ' are enough to place this album in my top 10 for the 1980s. ( plus give them a 10/10 for brainpower..THATS STING ON INTRO OF MONEY FOR NOTHING

Quincy Jones..MJ..and even Jon Bon Jovi on guitar. 'Thriller' 'Billy' 'Beat it' - all made it based on their basslines. Simple bass lines and hitting horns hidden in production are sick! - ( unbelievablly great! ) - Lead vocals are a classic. Listen to all the middle production . Sometimes we have 4 guitars at once, and they blend to sound like one..Plus Thriller ( the video ) is best video of all time. MJ is the King of Pop. Hate to say it, but it is true..Justin Timber--puke!

this Trio hated eachother. Drumer used to fight Sting on stage. Stings writing and voice are unreal and connect. This Drummer is so good, perhaps best drums ever on an album. 'King of Pain' 'Every breath..' - and if you saw them live, they maintained the albums sharp production

The MOST under rated band of the 1980s. Never be typical and suggest they were a 'Boy band'..Their song writing is unreal, they merged 70s disco with new 70s punk. Simon Le Bon - Great front singer, dancer, and lyric man. All members played owns instruments well. 'Rio' 'Hungry' 'Chauffer' 'Save a prayer' - Still haunt me sweetly with their bass lines, synth parts, and vocal harmonies. - listen to them again....but really listen.

ladysmith Black Mambazo is discovered in Africa, and blesses us with 'Diamonds' - and 'Homeless' - 'Call Me Al' is great to dance to and very safisticated at the same time. Paul talks to all of us as he sings. ..Literally, his talking babbling style works. Too bad Art wasnt a part of the album but sometimes greats need to go solo.

We all love sexy muzic. Snare drums on album identify era. All guys want a girl who will dance to 'Purple Rain' for them in private. 'Let's go crazy' - speaks such truth 'When Doves cry' - overplayed, but remains a reminder of how how tough and rough familiy can be even when family love is strong and prevails.

'Where the Streets have no name'- absolute best intro for an entire album ever. Follwed by 'Still havn't found' & 'With or without you'- Need I say more?

other great band in spanish

one of my favorites

Bon Jovi ain´t history... it´s a Legend

Great album

Sebastian Bach is one the best singer in the whole world, just before Axl Rose

Don´t be afraid just because its in spanish, just get it

James, Lars and Kirk are the Gods of Metal

The best album ever

The first album I ever bought, it has half a dozen good songs on it, had to be in the list.

At least equally as good as Bat Out of Hell (1977), sometimes when I listen to it, I think it may even be better.

Recorded over a six year span between ‘floods and power failures’ this is a Tom Scholz masterpiece. A superb album. Brad Delp sings brilliantly.

A double album. Some dud tracks. Could have been brilliant, but itsn't. However, as a whole, a great album.

My favourite Eric Clapton album. Over produced and maybe light weight, but I love all the songs on it.

Powerful title track and no fillers, a complete album.

Well written. Not pop and not metal, rather the former pretending to be the latter. Excellent.

Just a cool album, good riffs, nice vocals, love it.

I don’t know if live albums are allowed in the list, and with a handful of exceptions, live albums are usually crap, but this is the best album that Queen ever made. The opening track, One Vision sends a chill down my spine.

Your Possible Pasts, The Gunners Dream, The Final Cut, every single track is brilliant. The band indulged him, and Roger Waters made the best album of the 80s, they hated it, not a hit single in sight, and I love it.