Just look at the cover.

This one is just...an 80's staple. - Key tracks - Flesh for Fantasy, Rebel Yell, Eyes Without A Face, The Dead next door.

This album just has something about it that I love. Van Halen's debut was of course fanstastic but I think Fair Warning was their first great record in the 80's. There's no party anthems on this record and compared to Van Halen's other records it's very dark. The guitar work is of course, fantastic. It branches out musically more than any of their other records of the 80's. - Key Tracks - Unchained, So This Is Love?, Mean Street, Sinner's Swing!

The 80's was Prince's decade. His sexually fueled Funk-Rock was just what the music of the decade needed. and with his 1987 record, Sign 'o' the times, He brings it so another level yet again. This is a double album that contains the next evolution of Prince. The record branches out in more directions than Prince has before. It's the first time I recall Prince branching into some social commentary and doing it in a way that is artistic and smart. This record is eclectic and so sprawling that it's mind boggling. It's bleak but it still has several bright moments. A daring and bold album. - Key Tracks - Sign 'O' the Times, Hot Thang, If I Was Your Girlfriend, U Got The Look.

Their last great record in my opinion. A masterpiece of metal that is so thick and brooding its scary. Not to slam Metallica, but everything since this is a joke. - Key tracks - Orion, Master of puppets, Battery, The thing that should not be.

What can I say that has not already been said? GnR was the grittiest and most amazing band to hit the hard-rock scene in the eighties. Their take no prisoners style of rock was just what the rock world needed at the time. great record, every track is a keeper. - Key Tracks - Welcome to the Jungle, Mr. Brownstone, Sweet Child 'o' Mine, Nightrain

Stands up against any rap record ever produced. The use of samples is seamless, abundant, and revolutionary. This record changed hip-hop and is not widely recognized for it. - Key Tracks - Me, Myself and I, Ghetto Thang, Buddy, Say no go.

This is where Prince truly came into his own. The subject matter is very taboo. It ranges from incest to oral sex. So sexually driven and raw...yet still easy enough to really get into. It's a very short record but horrifically fantastic. Funky and Brilliant. Dirty...yet impossible to resist. - Key Tracks - Uptown, Dirty Mind, Head, Do it all night.

Michael had "it" in the 80's. He was not trying to be political in his music at this point and that's the reason this record succeeds where his others fail. It's pure fun and energy. Dancable Pop with a broad range of sounds. - Key Tracks - P.Y.T., Thriller, Billie Jean, Beat it, Human Nature.

Prince is the greatest performer of the 80's...Maybe of all time. This record is his most solid work and propelled him into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The material never gets old. One of the greatest records of all time. A Funk-Rock-Pop masterpiece. - Key Tracks - When Doves Cry, Computer Blue, I Would Die 4 U, Let's Go Crazy.

I could write for ever on this one. Title track is my favorite to date. A great sone in "Orion" no lyrics and some mean solos. "Sanitarium" is another instant classic on this album. My underground favorite is "Dissposable Heros" Fast, long, and has a solo that goes for 1 min. and 10 seconds. "Battery" is also a great opening song, and food for thought---canadian band (you should know) Rush helped put the guys songs in order on the album (they helped)

Is there a more classic rock album. Nobody will ever make a rock album the same. The only equal (rockwise) is Van Halen's debut. Both deserve credit, but Back in Black is just amazing.

The Prince of Darkness does all his greatest solo hits with his greatest guitar player by his side (live)!!!! Randy is my favorite guitarist and plays at the top of his game in this album. A must have for any rockers with old school tracks with new solos like "Iron Man" "Paranoid" and has a great guitar solo at the end of "Suicide Solution" Buy this album.

Amazing album. Joe lays down some firey tracks in Surfing with the Alien and Crush. Anybody that has everybeen interested in playing the guitar, or even likes listening to great music, this is a must buy album. You could pay twice the price for the album and it would be worth it.

What else can I say? Amazing album and some of the greatest guitar work in late 80's and definetly the best in the 90's. (being that Nirvana killed the guitar solo)

Used to own the album. Not my style, but the Eddie Van Halen solo in "Beat It" is classic Eddie. Thriller is also a classic.

Iron maiden is my second favorite band (to metallica) of all time. The number of the beast has some of their greatest songs, and Dickenson brings something to the band that was missing in the first albums. Amazing album, as all of them are.

I know all the words to all the songs. Amazing album. Could be a little too produced at times, but still worth every penny.

Not as good as master of pups. but still has "one" on the album. Had the song not gotten so much radio play, it would be the greatest metal song of all time. Other tracks including the title track, and to live is to die are worth buying the album for. The bass on the album is a little to thumpy for me. I always need to turn down the bass when I put the album in, but all in all great album.

Kirk Hammet has some of his best solo work on their debut album. One of the few revolutionary speed metal albums of all time. Amazing bass player (that is now missed) and James Hets. voice is rough, rugged, and raw. No metallica album would ever be as fast or in your face.

1986. Another old favorite, this time in a sort of industrial meets synthpop meets prog meets 20th century orchestral music vein. Very weird, thoroughly original concept album, with harrowing vocals from lead singer Edward Ka-Spel.

1982. Freaky, theatrical, demented art-rock. Kate Bush can use her voice in more ways than most, and she really throws everything in here. Far and away her best work.

1980. Extremely dense Italian avant-prog. Some of the most intricate composition in all of rock. Some circus music here, too.

1989. An old avant-prog favorite.

1986. Beautiful, delicate chamber rock from former members of Henry Cow (Lindsay Cooper, Chris Cutler, Dagmar Krause) plus Soft Machine's Robert Wyatt. Hints of klezmer, art song, experimental electronics. Very subtle.

1984. Clunky, awkward and brilliantly written. One of XTC's best (though not quite as good as 1979's Drums and Wires).

1988. British prog-punk, with Gentle Giant counterpoint, Spike Jones wackiness and a circus music vibe. Far better than it has any right to be.

1988. The classic that accidentally started both indie rock and alternative. Almost every song taken on its own seems badly proportioned or annoying, but together they're somehow fantastic.

1986. Björk's early post-punk band's second album. Dissonant, sample-heavy, very complex and better than anything she's done since.

1981. Debut of Danny Elfman's spiky, hyperactive New Wave band. Shocklingy catchy tunes, perverse and vitriolic lyrics, theatrical and versatile vocals with plenty of falsetto. Completely amazing. I listened to it three or four times the day I got it.

1983 Best Song: Faithfully

1988 Best Song: Heaven Is A Place On Earth

1987 Best Song: True Faith

1981 Best Song: Open Arms

1989 Best Song: Don't Walk Away

1987 Best Song: Big Sleep

1987 Best Song: Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

1989 Best Song: Famous Last Words

1989 Best Song: No Promises

1986 Best Song: Suzanne

One great voice, one great album, never to be heard from again.

This album was the Hip Hop equivallent of the Beatles Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. It's the dividing line between what came before it and what came after it.

She was the Christina Aguilera to Madonna's Britney musically and asthetically. (She Bop, Girl's Just wanna have fun, Time after time and the awesome remake of Prince's when you were mine.

All of Madonna's best pop is right here...Borderline, Burnin Up, Lucky Star, Holiday. You better ask somebody!!!

This album gave us the formula by which all boy bands would follow while borrowing from the original boy band of brothers...the Jackson 5

Too good to be classified as just an 80's album

The master of all he surveyed...this put folks on their a**.

The most well crafted pop metal album ever, heavier that Bon Jovi yet not too pretty to hate

This album and group typified the boy band and second British invasion of the 80s.

For all the right reasons and all the wrong reasons this is the quitessential 80s album

My favorite of the Stones. Also reminds me of cruising when I was 16.

Reminds me of being 16 and cruising. We were the first at school to like them.

Wow! Reminds me of cruising summer 1984. One of our favorites for cruising.

Great great album! Saw them in concert during this album & they are just as great in concert!

Another album my husband turned me on to. I never like Bruce Springsteen before this album. Great album! My favorite of Bruce.

My husband turned me on to this album when we met & it is great! I never liked the Kinks before this album. It is kind of weird & quirky.

Makes me think of my senior year in high school. This may have been his first. I know it was the first one that produced hits & I loved it. Still do.

First album to put Duran Duran on the map. Feel good album.

The first album that put Def Leppard on the map! Has a lot of great songs. I love the whole album.

The 80s precursor (and prototype) for Oasis, Blur, Coldplay, etal...

Scared the he** out of me...

Great album that ushered in a decade of crappy, big hair/heavy plastic rip-offs...

Gave white rappers everywhere hope...for better or worse...

Not exactly my cup of tea, but you can't deny the lasting influence...

The defining album of the forefathers of "Alternative"...

Yes, she can't sing, but what female, pop act doesn't emulate her?...

Maybe its just me, but had you heard of rap before this album? (OK, save "Rappers' Delight")...

The 80s album and band with arguably the greatest influence on the 90s...

The "Gold Standard" for pop albums ever since...

What rock n roll is all about. R-O-C-K in the U.S.A. always pumps me up.

Every song is kick-a**. Slash is one of the best guitar players of all-time. Izzy is one of the coolest rockers ever.

The Edge's guitar playing on every single song is masterful. Bono's singing is simply emotional and genuine.