Top album.

Although not as good as their earlier stuff, still a brilliant album from start to finish.

Some of his lyrics might be controversial to say the least, who else could have the musical innovation he showed with lodi dodi.

A timeless album.

Forget All that you can't leave behind, U2 is in cruise control now. U2's earlier stuff is far more interesting.

Run-DMC perfected rap, but this is where it began.

Incredible for a band to lose there lead singer and come back with an album this good.

Defining moment of music, but all downhill for MJ from here.

Consistently brilliant funk from start to finish. Roger Troutman is the most underated artist ever.

What can I say, best rap album ever.

Mostly forgotten, Franke & The Knockouts were known for hits like "Sweetheart" and "Without You (Not Another Lonely Night)." If you can find this album, it is a great rock-n-roll album.

While Michael Jackson lost his touch after this album, there was something about this album that worked...even if it hasn't aged well.

Metal ruled in the 80s, and this is the album that started it all!

Supertramp frontman showed he was better off without his group,

Probably the only album to bridge the gap between the old Queen and the new Queen...and it was great.

Boston was back in a big way in the 80s!

Who can forget this album? It ruled.

This album set the stage for a lot of sound that followed, but this was the original.

Even 20 years later, this album rocks!

The final bow by Styx in the 80s was also a masterpiece

There were many soundtracks released in the eighties, and many of them became popular. Married To The Mob was not a hugely popular soundtrack (and sadly is out of print on CD) but it was one of the quirkiest and most enjoyable with artists ranging from Ziggy Marley to New Order to Chris Isaak to Debbie Harry. Hopefully, one day this soundtrack will be released on CD in a remastered version.

Bananarama could have been written off as a fluffy girl-group or a novelty act, but throughout the 80s, Bananrama had a string of big hits both in the UK and in the US. 1987's Wow was their most consistent pop record, thanks to the production of SAW (Stock, Aitken and Waterman). Their production was never better than on this album, and the Nanas would never sound as good.

One of the most thoughtful pop/rock albums of the 80s, which seemed to spawn anthem after anthem.

Coming off the critical success of 1979's "The Boss", Diana Ross was showing she was back in charge of her career, after it began to stall in the late seventies. Hooking up with Chic's Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards, Diana Ross took on a fresh sound with diana. It was lean, funky and hip and still sounds fresh over 20 years later, particularly thanks to a new reissue from Motown which features the original Chic mix of the album that was never released.

Kim Wilde is best known for her hits "Kids In America" and her remake of "You Keep Me Hanging On" but her best work came in 1988 when she made this pure pop pleasure.

After the breakup of Blondie and her lacklustre solo career, it looked like Deborah Harry's career was heading nowhere, and while this album was not a commercial success, it was her best work since Blondie's late seventies popularity. "Def, Dumb and Blonde" was the perfect Deborah Harry solo album, with songs that harkened back to Blondie's heyday but was also plugged into the current sound of the eighties.

Thanks to the production of Andre Cymone (who had previously worked with Prince), Jody Watley's debut was an alluring mix of Minneapolis funk and R&B pop, and Watle's sophisticated image made her one of the more interesting dance divas of the late eighties.

Considered Madonna's first "adult" record, the superstar's sound was less synthetic on this album, with more instruments as opposed to drum machines, and the lyrics and music were stronger and heartfelt, setting the stage for her mature work in the nineties, including "Erotica" and "Ray of Light".

Yes it was the biggest seller from the eighties, but it was also a brilliant pop record. Except for the soggy duet with Paul McCartney ("The Girl Is Mine"), Michael was never better than he was here.

So many great hits: "Let's Go Crazy", "When Doves Cry", "I Would Die 4 U" and the album tracks, "The Beautiful Ones" and "Baby I'm A Star" are just as good as the radio smashes.

Launched pop metal, album still stands the test of time

Worked synthsizer wonders!!

Classic cuts off of that one

Perfect pop/rock album

Actually hated the album in the 80's, but had a change of heart recently when I listened to it again.

Before Sting became a pretentious prick, he was a pretty good front man in a great band

New wave pioneers who shaped 90's rock!!

Brian didn't miss a bit after Bon!!

Before P.Diddy and Eminem, when hip-hop actually had substance

Simply of the greatest metal albums of all time

What can you say about one of the most selling albulms ever!

Punk masters, the Clash rocked the casbah like no other!

I know it wasn't the 80s but they then became New Order and they were!!! Unkown Pleasures is too important to ignore

Stinkin thinkin all round, great band, great music for lads being lads!

New Order's most serious and statement based albulm

Pop music at its cheesy best, cmon, you know you like it!

Greatest rock alulm of the eighties, evry song blows you away!

Lets Dance!

Aussies at their best, Michael is the best frontman to a band ever!!!

The timeless New Order at their best!!!

any word that i can say is too small to describe this album

these album represent the rock music of that country

a masterpiece

this album featuring all that rock and roll need to have

all the metal is here

buy it

amazing

judas priest best album

basic

terrifyc

(1988) This one is actually tied with the Pixies "Surfer Rosa". Both albums are great in their own rights and were released the same year.

(1987) The first cohesive Sonic Youth album. Very rough, but after a few listens, it grows on you....like mold.

(1986) So off-kilter and majestic. A very underrated band of the decade.

(1985) I'm not a huge fan of this guy's voice, but I love these songs.

(1980) Ian Curtis was a horrible talent to lose.

(1987) I hate metal, but I'll be damned if I don't enjoy listening to this every once in a while if not just for Slash.

(1986) Morrissey's voice and Marr's guitar playing are highly unique.

(1989) Super-simple songs that are timeless and highly influential.

(1989) My favorite rap album of all time.

(1988) Paved the way for alternative/indie guitar rock.

I don't like Bon Jovi that much, but this is a quality album.

Great album that lacks bass guitar which is the only bad thing I can really say about it. The epic "One" and "Harvestor of Sorrow" and every other track on the album is great.

Aces High and 2 mins to midnight are metal classics.

Very quick musicially, but the satanic lyrics are lame.

Great metal album.

Awesome album, their second best.

Hallowed be they name, 22 Acia Avenue, Number of the beast, Run to the hills. Enough said.

Back in Black and Hells Bells have very cool sounding riffs by guitar maestro, Angus Young. And the song "You shook me all night long" is the ultimate sex song.

I love the entire album like MOP. Slash plays really cool riffs and Axl wrote song really cool songs.

The Ultimate heavy metal album and the best rock n roll album of the 1980's. James Hetfield's intelligent lyrics and great riffs, Cliff Burton and his sensational bass playing and Kirk Hammett's awesome guitar solo's. This is a must have album for all metal fans and it is MetallicA's best album.