Your three favorite albums of the 1980's are?

[Juggernaut]

Exodus - Fabulous Disaster
Slayer - Reign in Blood
Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

 

[skullfxr]

1. Slayer - Reign in Blood OR South of Heaven
2.Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell or Ozzy - Diary of a madman
3.Metallica - Master of Puppets or Ride the Lightning

Three artists top two each toss-up.

 

[thenine]

extra:


Kick Axe - Vices (1984)

Kick Axe! Holy smokes! From Saskatchewan?!

I still listen to Heavy Metal Shuffle. But whoever I’ve played it for has never heard of them. Seems like I’m the only one who remembers them but obviously not!

 

[lll]

extra:


Kick Axe - Vices (1984)

Kick Axe! Holy smokes! From Saskatchewan?!

I still listen to Heavy Metal Shuffle. But whoever I’ve played it for has never heard of them. Seems like I’m the only one who remembers them but obviously not!

They're Canadian (but I don't know where from).

Heavy Metal Shuffle had its "15 mins of fame" in my high school way back in the day.

Yeah, that album (Vices) and the next one (Welcome To The Club) are fantastic 80's albums.

 

[stratjacket]

Killer Dwarfs - Stand Tall (still listen to it and jam along with it)
Loudness - Thunder in the East
Yngwie - Rising Force

So many, but tried to limit to ones I still listen to regularly, more sentimental I guess.

 

[Beyond Black]

Slayer-Hell Awaits
Dio- Holy Diver
Mercyful Fate- Don’t Break the Oath
Slauter Xstroyes- Winter Kill

 

[Monkey Man]

Joe Satriani - Flying In A Blue Dream
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Yngwie - Rising Force

The first I think of 'though is the original Toto album, but that was 1978 I think, but I always see it as the first of a long line of great '80s albums. We were spoiled back then... or deprived now, depending on how you look at it. So much great stuff in many genres.

Special mentions. I keep adding as things come back to me:

Boston - Third Stage
AC/DC - Back In Black
Def Leppard - Hysteria
Prince - Controversy
Larry Carlton - Friends
Toto - Toto IV

... and too many others to list, of course. Loved the friggin' '80s; it was the decade before music died IMHO.

 

[mooncobra]

Janes Addiction -Nothings Shocking - amazing album, I was driving with a friend in high school and he put this album on and I was blown away from the first second until the end, epic album, still listen regularly, in the middle of the 80s, actually 87, this came out and sounded like NOTHING else, such a good album!!!

Guns n Roses - Appetite - still listen to this all the time

Van Halen - 1984 - Girl Gone Bad, enough said

honorable mention - Master of Puppets, Fair Warning

 

[thegame]

Reign, Justice, Vengeance.

No further elaboration necessary.

 

[Exo-metal]

Pretty solid there Gary?

 

[Fret-Shredder]

RATT: Out of the Cellar
DOKKEN: Under Lock and Key & Back for the Attack (Its a tie between those two)
VAN HALEN: 1984

 

[PBGas]

Mine are like several others here:
Ratt : Out of the Cellar
Dokken: Under Lock and Key
Judas Priest: Screaming for Vengeance

So many great albums! Can’t just have 3 of them.
Iron Maiden : Number of the Beast & Piece of Mind
VH: Fair Warning

 

[errrrrl]

Ride the Lightning
Reign in Blood
Speak English or Die...

I feel like I should have Screaming for Vengeance in there somewhere though... Or Diary of a Madman... 2112...

 

[sytharnia1560]

Looking back with todays eyes and ears it is almost impossible to name just 3 so I am trying to think back to what 13 - 19 year old me would say and 3 albums jump out as maybe not my favourites but they were the 3 albums that I absolutely played to death

W.A.S.P. - Live ... in the raw
Ozzy - Randy Rhoads Tribute
Judas Priest - Priest Live

(Can't leave out Dokken - Beast from the east either)

not totally sure why I had a hard on for "live" albums but I did

 

[Exo-metal]

They don't make music like back in the day do they.

 

[romanianreaper]

Helloween - Keepers of the seven keys -part II
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time

3rd??? i don't know, maybe

any other Iron maiden album
Twisted Sister- Love is for suckers
Europe - The final countdown

Just a sidenote, I can tell a bunch of you pricks are old like me....LOL

Dude, Love is for Suckers was an amazing album! I have the title song on my iPod for when I go running. My buddy and I were working on an Air Force Base in Germany, cutting grass. We would have this time in-between jobs to eat snacks and listen to metal on our boombox. My friend put that album on and I couldn't believe it was TS. Great guitar tones on that one.

 

[Thunkful]

Whitecross - Triumphant Return
Shout - In Your Face
Aerosmith - Pump

 

[Bloodrock]

Gn'R ,Appetite for Destruction

The Cure, Disintegration

WASP

 

[spacebard]

Helloween - Keepers of the seven keys -part II
Iron Maiden - Somewhere in time

3rd??? i don't know, maybe

any other Iron maiden album
Twisted Sister- Love is for suckers
Europe - The final countdown

Just a sidenote, I can tell a bunch of you pricks are old like me....LOL

Dude, Love is for Suckers was an amazing album! I have the title song on my iPod for when I go running. My buddy and I were working on an Air Force Base in Germany, cutting grass. We would have this time in-between jobs to eat snacks and listen to metal on our boombox. My friend put that album on and I couldn't believe it was TS. Great guitar tones on that one.

And Reb Beach played guitar on that album.

 

[Racerxrated]

1. Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime"
2. Ozzy Osbourne "Diary of a Madman"
3. Gary Moore "Corridors of Power"

Great minds think alike.

1. Diary-Ozzy
2. Operation Mindcrime-Queensryche
Tie
3. Victims of the Future-Gary Moore
3. Number of the Beast-Iron Maiden

Sorry but I had to add just one more....