Best Album of 1980

[hank hill]

no love for peter gabriel's 3rd album?

 

[LG]

^^Peter Gabriel's 3rd album was good, but I don't have it rated at the top of the 80's heap myself. I think So and Us are his two best solo albums but I'm a big fan of his so I have about 6 of his CD's.

 

[Kuaizi]

My all time favorite and most played album was released this year:

A few runners up:
Rush - Permanent Waves
Billy Joel - Glass Houses
The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta

I also thought Alan Parsons Project had a very good release this year:

 

[hank hill]

turn of a friendly card is awful

 

[Lynch]

Well, if I had to name JUST ONE bestest of the best albums of 1980, that honor HAS to go to none other than AC/DC - Back in Black. Near about rock and roll perfection and an album I continue to say is one of the 5 best albums in the history of rock. Perfection from start to finish

But there are many other albums that I also love from 1980:

Judas Priest - British Steel
Scorpions - Animal Magnetism
Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
Queen - The Game
Prince - Dirty Mind
Billy Joel - Glass Houses
Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion
Waylon Jennings - Music Man
Bob Seger - Against the Wind

 

[LG]

turn of a friendly card is awful

I disagree, I think that's a great album.

 

[Magic]

turn of a friendly card is awful

you're suppose to list what "you" considered the best album of 1980

 

[TheHealer]

British Steel - Judas Priest

1980, what a year in hard rock/metal history:

Sabbath's Heaven and Hell, Maiden's debut album, Ozzy's first solo album, Def Leppard's debut album, Motorhead's first official album in the U.S.,

And

AC/DC's Back in Black, Van Halen's Women & Children First, and Thin Lizzy's Chinatown.

 

[hank hill]

common one by van morrison is great

 

[ANF]

I was one but still an AMAZING year for music. The end of the 70's and birth of the 80's saw some of the best of both decades IMO.

In no particular order (and yes I know some of them are rather cheesy, but its my taste LOL):
Bowie - Scary Monsters
Prince - Dirty Mind (even though it was his third album, it was the album where we really hear the "birth" of Prince)
AC/DC - Back In Black
Pretenders - Pretenders
John Lennon/Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
Queen - The Game
Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
Bruce Springsteen - The River
Billy Joel - Glass Houses
ABBA - Super Trouper
U2 - Boy
The B-52's - Wild Planet
Pat Benatar - Crimes Of Passion
Judas Priest - British Steel
Diana Ross - Diana
Donna Summer - The Wanderer (where she proved she could make passable rock music and that she was more than a disco artist)
Olivia Newton-John/ELO - Xanadu (don't care, guilty pleasure!!)
Barbra Streisand - Guilty (ok, I know this one is embarrassing but her collaboration album with Barry Gibb is probably the best work of her career)