Great combo of keyboard/guitar rock.

Nobody wrote better "who cares what other people think" songs than Dee Snider.

I could stand these guys as people, but there's no question this album belongs here.

It's almost impossible to not include this one with "Hysteria."

I think this is one of the all-time greats.

His last album as just John Cougar is still his best.

Fun rock is always important.

Gave 1984 the punch in the gut it needed.

Not too many artist can pull off a fifties sounding album and still have huge hits.

Kiss at their heaviest.

I actually consider this a tie for #2, but it had to go somewhere

I always thought that they were good, and this was definitely a good album.

I loved "Manic Monday" and "Walk Like An Egyptian"

A very great album! I don't know why people still dog her, she was an excellent singer! I especially like "Danny" and "I Saw Him Standing There"

OK, so there's only one song from this album that was released, but I loved every song, they just have that familiar "pop" beat

What can I say? Except that I LOVE this album! It was almost better than the first. Two notable and excellent songs were Lost In Your Eyes and Electric Youth.

Her debut album, and a great one. I love every song on it, even the unreleased ones

great ballads and mid-tempo tunes

at their best

good rockers

every song is excellent

one of my favorite bands of the 80's

has the sound of the 80's

all the hits

great southern rock!

anyone remember these guys?

great versatility on this record,still rocking today

Glen Danzig used to kick ass. This album will make you believe that Elvis was alive, and living inside Danzigs body. One of those albums, which shitty production helps it achieve its goal. I love it!

The Clash were and will forever be one of the top 5 punk bands of all time. This album is incredible. London Calling rocks, and with this album these english rebels proved why they really were the only band that mattered

These chicanos fucking rock without using too many guitars. Do you like great latin music with a hip hop flavor, then get this shit. Skip the first and the last song, all the rest is excellent.

Josh Homme can't fail. Shit this guy couldn't make a mistake even if he tried and teamed-up with your mom. The first albums is more straight forward,and it is catchy as hell. The second one is a lesson on how to write simple songs and sound like a copy machine without being boring. This is the band of the future.

The rudest, meanest band on the universe. Get all their stuff, it is just plain offensive, but shows a quality you won't find in shitty bands like the Offspring. Ohh Yeahh, I want you to die!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now this is something special. Shit the singer even died on stage. Can you think of anything more romantic? Anyways, this three-piece band, had no guitars, only bass, drums, and sax, and they know what they are doing. Believe me you won't miss the guitars.

If you don't care about categorizing music, and you like great grooves. get this album, it goes from hip hop, to bossa nova to jazz, with the smoothness of Fonzy during his best years. These mexicans are sure talented, not like all the other ones that get caught at the border.

One of the nastiest bands around. The fucker left Entombed to form a garage-punk band, and shit this is one helluva band. Super dirty, and fuzzy. Get it at all cost.

This album kicks fat ass. It is a heavy trip in an unknown orbit. It can be heavy, and it can be acoustic, but this is MM at its best, high on all the available drugs.

The heaviest band on the planet since Black Sabbath. It is original, it grooves, it is smooth, it feels like getting high on glue and it is absolutely excellent. The most underrated band on the planet. Too bad they broke up. Shut the fuck up! you don't deserve them.

Many other people would have chosen murmur or documentm, but I really like Green because it was the first R.E.M album I heard, and because it has my two favourite R.E.M songs of all time (orange crush and world leader pretend.)

A great sense of humour and drama runs through this album. Love those lyrics, love that down and out image, love the way he draws his influences from old and traditional music styles but still sounds so contemporary, the way he weaves affecting little narratives out of the stuff of cheap magazines. I just wish someone would stop Rod Stewart from destroying more of his songs......

Nick Cave has never bought out a bad album, but I reckon this is still his finest 45 minutes.

Hmm...the best sad album since Leonard Cohen's Songs of Love & Hate. Drugstore, Madder Rose, Mazzy Star and all the other Mary Chain disciples have never managed to top this one.

Is there are more powerful symbol for eighties excess than this group and this record, the only consistently brilliant album they ever recorded?

Sonic Youth were sort of the Velvet Undergound of the eighties. While Synth-driven pop was taking off, Sonic Youth's reinvention of guitar rock showed the world that there was life in the old beast yet.

Many people would have selected Surfer Rosa, but I love this album because of the great tunes, tight insutrumentation and slick production. If there were any justice in the world, this would have sold the way Nevermind did: every little ditty is a killer piece of spiky power pop.

The first time I heard this, it blew me away. Some detractors whine that there are no hooks and not enough choruses, but that is exactly what I like about it. No traditional verse chrosus verse solo chorus structures here - it sounds something like a messy collision between the Chilli Peppers, Pixies and G n R. The drumming and guitar work are superlative, as is the way Perry Farrell screams, howls, whispers, and spits his (somewhat pretinuous) lyrics out like a man possessed.

The definitive English indie album.

Definitely one of the best albums of the eighties, and one of the worst movies. Its brew of pop, funk, rock, and soul sounds fantastic to this day.

OK, so its not as good as Escape, but still great rock.

What a band, Phil Lynott was such a great front man and well as a great songwriter

Babys / Journey combination. Great Album.

The album that 'broke' them in the states, and not before time.

Great band who we bigger in the States than in their home country. Proves most of us Brits no nothing about rock music

His best album by a street.

Not a bad song on this album.

This album has something for everyone, heavy metal, soft rock, ballads.

Just about their defining work, great melodies with a hard edge.

Journey never had a hit single in the UK but Escape hung around the UK Album chart for months and months, probably the definitive 80's rock albun

You could practically make a greatest hits cd out of Hysteria. And to think that this album was quickly written off as a comercial failure before the release of the single Pour Some Sugar On Me.

Love it or hate it....rap music isnt just a trend, its here to stay. This is the cd that started it all.

Slayer is the definition of heavy metal. Listen to this album and you will most likely agree.

The last harrah before the Van Hagar era began....=(

Absolutely awesome rock and roll album from beginning to end...Perhaps i should have placed this one higher on my list.

Living on a Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive, You Give Love a Bad Name.... There's three good reasons to make this album number 5.

Somewhat out of place on my list...but deserving. Michael seemed to rule the world for a few years (of course i was only 3 when this album came out)

The all time definitive party band...and this is their all time definitive album.

Why can't these guys get a knock on the head and remember just how much they used to rock?

Everyone has a different opinion, but mine is that motley crue were the true originators and kings of the glam era that dominated the 80's. Shout at the Devil is an awesome album for any decade.