My 51 Fave Albums of the 1980s

Ahhhh... I could not get it down to 50 no matter how brutal I was with my cuts. I started out with 120 albums and wound up with 5o plus 1.

1. Purple Rain - Prince & the Revolution
2. Appetite for Destruction - Guns n' Roses
3. Master of Puppets - Metallica
4. Brothers In Ams - Dire Straits
5. Synchronicity - The Police
6. Licensed to Ill - Beastie Boys
7. Welcome to the Pleasure Dome - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
8. 1984 - Van Halen
9. War - U2
10. Let's Dance – David Bowie
11. Joshua Tree - U2
12. Sweet Dreams – Eurythmics
13. Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
14. Thriller - Michael Jackson
15. Pretenders – Pretenders
16. Music for the Masses - Depeche Mode
17. Faith - George Michael
18. Songs From the Big Chair - Tears for Fears
19. Born In the USA - Bruce Springsteen
20. Pyromania - Def Leppard
21. Private Dancer - Tina Turner
22. The Raw and the Cooked - Fine Young Cannibals
23. 1999 - Prince
24. Back in Black - AC/DC
25. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
26. Remain in Light - Talking Heads
27. The Head on the Door - The Cure
28. Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell
29. Dare - Human League
30. Moving Pictures - Rush
31. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
32. Hounds of Love - Kate Bush
33. Meat is Murder - Smiths
34. Slippery When Wet - Bon Jovi
35. Queen is Dead – Smiths
36. Lexicon of Love - ABC
37. So - Peter Gabriel
38. Hysteria - Def Leppard
39. Strangeways Here We Come - Smiths
40. Sign O the Times - Prince
41. Pump - Aerosmith
42. Nothing''s Shocking - Jane's Addiction
43. Green - REM
44. Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode
45. Rain - Cult
46. 3 Feet High & Rising - De La Soul
47. Combat Rock - The Clash
48. Kick – INXS
49. Scarey Monsters - David Bowie
50. Disintegration – The Cure

and

51. The Hurting – Tears for Fears