1982 AOTY
I've done it this year too, 100 albums, an estimate of 8 or 9 albums per month. Here is what I jammed, very loosely ranked. Maybe the top 50 you could say it's ranked, with strong feelings towards the top 10. No blurbs this year, or ever again, because it's just not worth the effort. I'm doing these in RYM cause it's easier to move albums up and down but I'm happy to share them here too. I probably missed your favorite, so let me know in the comments! |
| 100 |  | Casiopea
Four by Four
Release date: December 16th
Genre: Jazz Fusion
Label: Alfa
Highlight: Shanderia |
| 99 |  | Black Uhuru
Chill Out
Release date: May
Genre: Reggae / Roots
Label: Island
Highlight: Darkness |
| 98 |  | Status Quo
1+9+8+2
Release date: April
Genre: Rock
Label: Vertigo
Highlight: Young Pretender |
| 97 |  | Jean-Luc Ponty
Mystical Adventures
Release date: January 18th
Genre: Progressive Rock / Jazz Fusion
Label: Atlantic
Highlight: Rythms of Hope |
| 96 |  | La Mode
El Eterno Femenino
Release date: ???
Genre: Synthpop / New Wave
Label: Nuevos Medios
Highlight: La teoría de la relatividad |
| 95 |  | The Cleaners From Venus
Midnight Cleaners
Release date: December
Genre: New Wave / Post Punk
Label: Calypso Now
Highlight: Only A Shadow |
| 94 |  | The Prisoners
A Taste Of Pink
Release date: ???
Genre: Garage Rock
Label: Skydog
Highlight: Better in Black |
| 93 |  | Twelfth Night
Fact and Fiction
Release date: December
Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Unknown
Highlight: This City |
| 92 |  | Naomi Akimoto
The 20th Anniversary
Release date: December 16th
Genre: City Pop
Label: Invitation
Highlight: Enjoy Yourself |
| 91 |  | Hanoi Rocks
Self Destruction Blues
Release date: November
Genre: Glam / Hard Rock
Label: Johanna / Mercury
Highlight: Dead By X-Mas |
| 90 |  | Michael Schenker Group
Assault Attack
Release date: January - October
Genre: Hard Rock / Heavy Metal
Label: Chrysalis
Highlight: Assault Attack |
| 89 |  | Ornette Coleman
Of Human Feelings
Release date: ???
Genre: Jazz
Label: Antilles
Highlight: Love Words |
| 88 |  | Psychic TV
Force The Hand Of Chance
Release date: December
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Some Bizarre
Highlight: OV Power |
| 87 |  | Seiko Matsuda
Candy
Release date: November 10th
Genre: City Pop
Label: CBS / Sony
Highlight: 星空のドライブ |
| 86 |  | Survivor
Eye of the Tiger
Release date: June 8th
Genre: AOR
Label: Scotti Brothers
Highlight: Eye of the Tiger |
| 85 |  | Raven (UK)
Wiped Out
Release date: June 3rd
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Neat
Highlight: Faster Than The Speed of Light |
| 84 |  | China Crisis
Difficult Shapes and Passive Rhythms
Release date: November
Genre: New Wave
Label: Virgin
Highlight: No More Blue Horizons |
| 83 |  | Shooting Star
Hang On for Your Life
Release date: January
Genre: AOR
Label: Virgin
Highlight: Flesh And Blood |
| 82 |  | Aviador Dro
Alas sobre el mundo
Release date: February
Genre: New Wave
Label: Dro
Highlight: Ondina |
| 81 |  | The Roches
Keep On Doing
Release date: September 29th
Genre: Folk / Pop
Label: Warner
Highlight: Losing True |
| 80 |  | Blondie
The Hunter
Release date: May 27th
Genre: New Wave
Label: Chrysalis
Highlight: Island of Lost Souls |
| 79 |  | Y&T
Black Tiger
Release date: ???
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: A&M
Highlight: Forever |
| 78 |  | Zero Nine
Visions, Scenes and Dreams
Release date: January
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Dig It
Highlight: Visions, Scenes and Dreams |
| 77 |  | Manowar
Battle Hymns
Release date: August
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Liberty
Highlight: Dark Avenger |
| 76 |  | Killing Joke
Revelations
Release date: April
Genre: Post Punk
Label: E'G
Highlight: Land of Milk and Honey |
| 75 |  | Kyoko Koizumi
My Fantasy
Release date: August 21st
Genre: City Pop
Label: Victor
Highlight: 私の16才 |
| 74 |  | Heart
Private Audition
Release date: May 14th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Epic
Highlight: City's Burning |
| 73 |  | Grace Jones
Living My Life
Release date: November 7th
Genre: Dance / Pop
Label: Island
Highlight: Everybody Hold Still |
| 72 |  | Clannad
Fuaim
Release date: ???
Genre: Celtic Music
Label: Tara
Highlight: La Breá fán dThuath |
| 71 |  | Riot
Restless Breed
Release date: June
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Elektra
Highlight: Showdown |
| 70 |  | Killer (BEL)
Wall of Sound
Release date: ???
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Lark / CMC
Highlight: Wall of Sound |
| 69 |  | Witchfinder General
Death Penalty
Release date: October
Genre: Heavy Metal / Doom
Label: Heavy Metal
Highlight: Invisible Hate |
| 68 |  | Twisted Sister
Under The Blade
Release date: September
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Secret
Highlight: Run For Your Life |
| 67 |  | Singers and Players
War of Words
Release date: August
Genre: City Pop
Label: On-U / 99
Highlight: Devious Woman |
| 66 |  | Loudness
Devil Soldier
Release date: July 26th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: B&M / Roadrunner
Highlight: Lonely Player |
| 65 |  | Anvil
Metal on Metal
Release date: April 15th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Attic
Highlight: Metal on Metal |
| 64 |  | The Names
Swimming
Release date: April
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Crépuscule
Highlight: Discovery |
| 63 |  | Virgin Prunes
...If I Die, I Die
Release date: November 4th
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Rough Trade
Highlight: Sweethome Under White Clouds |
| 62 |  | Akina Nakamori
Prologue
Release date: July 1st
Genre: City Pop
Label: Warner / Reprise
Highlight: あなたのポートレート |
| 61 |  | Jethro Tull
The Broadsword and the Beast
Release date: April
Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Chrysalis
Highlight: Broadsword |
| 60 |  | Asia
Asia
Release date: March 15th
Genre: AOR
Label: Geffen
Highlight: Heat of the Moment |
| 59 |  | Bad Religion
How Could Hell Be Any Worse?
Release date: February 25th
Genre: Punk Rock
Label: Epitaph
Highlight: In The Night |
| 58 |  | Maanam
O!
Release date: November 15th
Genre: Post Punk / New Wave
Label: Pronit
Highlight: Paranoja jest goła |
| 57 |  | Eloy
Time to Turn
Release date: ???
Genre: Progressive Rock
Label: Harvest
Highlight: Time to Turn |
| 56 |  | Uriah Heep
Abominog
Release date: March
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Bronze
Highlight: Chasing Shadows |
| 55 |  | Fleetwood Mac
Mirage
Release date: June 18th
Genre: Pop Rock
Label: Warner
Highlight: Love in Store |
| 54 |  | The Au Pairs
Sense and Sensuality
Release date: August
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Kamera
Highlight: Instant Touch |
| 53 |  | Hanoi Rocks
Oriental Beat
Release date: February
Genre: Glam Rock
Label: Johanna / Mercury
Highlight: Visitor |
| 52 |  | Peter Gabriel
Security
Release date: September 10th
Genre: Art Rock
Label: Charisma / Geffen
Highlight: San Jacinto |
| 51 |  | Tygers Of Pan Tang
The Cage
Release date: August
Genre: hard Rock
Label: MCA
Highlight: Rendesvouz |
| 50 |  | A Certain Ratio
Sextet
Release date: January
Genre: Post Punk / Funk
Label: Factory
Highlight: Lucinda |
| 49 |  | A Flock of Seagulls
A Flock of Seagulls
Release date: April 30th
Genre: New Wave
Label: Jive
Highlight: Modern Love is Automatic |
| 48 | | Konomi Sasaki
心のうちが分かればいいのに
Release date: February 25th
Genre: Singer Songwriter / Kayo Idol
Label: Sony / CBS
Highlight: ドライブ |
| 47 |  | Phil Collins
Hello, I Must Be Going!
Release date: November 1st
Genre: Pop Rock
Label: Atlantic
Highlight: You Can't Hurry Love |
| 46 |  | Obus
Poderoso como el trueno
Release date: ???
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Chapa
Highlight: Perdido en la ciudad |
| 45 |  | Romeo Void
Benefactor
Release date: August 6th
Genre: Post Punk
Label: Columbia
Highlight: Undercover Kept |
| 44 |  | Rainbow
Straight Between the Eyes
Release date: June 10th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Polydor
Highlight: Bring on the Night |
| 43 |  | Taeko Onuki
Cliche
Release date: September 21st
Genre: City Pop
Label: RCA
Highlight: Labyrinth |
| 42 |  | KISS
Creatures of the Night
Release date: October 13th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Casablanca
Highlight: Creatures of the Night |
| 41 |  | The Sound
All Fall Down
Release date: October
Genre: Post Punk
Label: WEA
Highlight: In Suspense |
| 40 |  | The Go-Go's
Vacation
Release date: July 20th
Genre: Pop
Label: I.R.S.
Highlight: Vacation |
| 39 |  | XTC
English Settlement
Release date: February 12th
Genre: New Wave
Label: Virgin
Highlight: Runaways |
| 38 |  | Lou Reed
The Blue Mask
Release date: February
Genre: Art Rock
Label: RCA / Victor
Highlight: The Blue Mask |
| 37 |  | Duran Duran
Rio
Release date: May 10th
Genre: Synth Pop
Label: EMI
Highlight: Save a Prayer |
| 36 |  | Diamanda Galas
The Litanies of Satan
Release date: February 25th
Genre: Satanic Avant Garde
Label: Y / Virgin
Highlight: Litanies of Satan |
| 35 |  | Christian Death
Only Theatre of Pain
Release date: March 24th
Genre: Gothic Rock / Post Punk
Label: Frontier
Highlight: Rome's Distress |
| 34 |  | Kate Bush
The Dreaming
Release date: September 1st
Genre: Art Pop
Label: EMI
Highlight: Get Out of My House |
| 33 |  | X
Under The Big Black Sun
Release date: July
Genre: Punk
Label: Elektra
Highlight: Under the Big Black Sun |
| 32 |  | Yazoo
Upstairs at Eric's
Release date: August 20th
Genre: Synth Pop
Label: Mute
Highlight: Don't Go |
| 31 |  | Pagan Altar
Pagan Altar
Release date: December
Genre: Doom
Label: n/a
Highlight: Judgement of the Dead |
| 30 |  | The Church
The Blurred Crusade
Release date: March 25th
Genre: Pop / New Wave
Label: Carrére
Highlight: Almost With You |
| 29 |  | Magnum
Chase the Dragon
Release date: March
Genre: Hard Rock / Progressive Rock
Label: Jet
Highlight: Sacred Hour |
| 28 |  | Ultravox
Quartet
Release date: October
Genre: New Wave
Label: Chrysalis
Highlight: Mine For Life |
| 27 |  | Supertramp
…Famous Last Words…
Release date: October
Genre: Pop Rock
Label: A&M
Highlight: It's Raining Again |
| 26 |  | Bauhaus
The Sky's Gone Out
Release date: October 19th
Genre: Gothic Rock / Post Punk
Label: Beggars Banquet
Highlight: In The Night |
| 25 |  | Steve Miller Band
Abracadabra
Release date: June 15th
Genre: New Wave / Pop Rock
Label: Capitol
Highlight: Keeps Me Wondering Why |
| 24 |  | Misfits
Walk Among Us
Release date: March
Genre: Horror Punk
Label: Ruby
Highlight: Vampira |
| 23 |  | Venom
Black Metal
Release date: November
Genre: Heavy Metal / Speed Metal
Label: Neat
Highlight: Heaven's On Fire |
| 22 |  | Discharge
Hear Nothing See Nothing Say Nothing
Release date: May
Genre: Punk
Label: Clay
Highlight: Drunk With Power |
| 21 |  | Siouxsie and the Banshees
A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
Release date: October
Genre: Gothic Pop
Label: Polydor
Highlight: Cascade |
| 20 |  | Cocteau Twins
Garlands
Release date: July 10th
Genre: Ethereal Wave
Label: 4AD
Highlight: Blood Bitch |
| 19 |  | Nina Hagen
NunSexMonkRock
Release date: May
Genre: Post Punk
Label: CBS
Highlight: Smack Jack |
| 18 |  | The Alan Parsons Project
Eye in the Sky
Release date: May
Genre: Progressive Pop / Rock
Label: Arista
Highlight: Eye In The Sky |
| 17 |  | Talk Talk
The Party's Over
Release date: July 12th
Genre: New Romantic / Synthpop
Label: EMI
Highlight: Talk Talk |
| 16 |  | Toto
Toto IV
Release date: April 8th
Genre: AOR
Label: Columbia / CBS
Highlight: Africa |
| 15 |  | Brian Eno
Ambient 4: On Land
Release date: October 5th
Genre: Ambient
Label: Polydor / Virgin
Highlight: Unfamiliar Wind (Leeks Hills) |
| 14 |  | Michael Jackson
Thriller
Release date: November 30th
Genre: Pop / Dance / r&b
Label: Epic
Highlight: Billie Jean |
| 13 |  | Accept
Restless and Wild
Release date: October 4th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Brain
Highlight: Fast as a Shark |
| 12 |  | Steve Reich
Tehillim
Release date: September 6th
Genre: A Cappella / Folk
Label: ECM
Highlight: I. Psalm 19:2-5, "Hashamyim mehsapehrim kavohd Kail" |
| 11 |  | Girlschool
Screaming Blue Murder
Release date: June 7th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Bronze / Mercury
Highlight: Screaming Blue Murder |
| 10 |  | Motorhead
Iron Fist
Release date: April 17th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: Bronze / Mercury
Highlight: (Don't Let 'Em) Grind You Down |
| 9 |  | Roxy Music
Avalon
Release date: May 28th
Genre: Art Pop
Label: Polydor
Highlight: More Than This |
| 8 |  | Philip Glass
Glassworks
Release date: March
Genre: AMbient / Modern Classical
Label: CBS
Highlight: Floe |
| 7 |  | The Cure
Pornography
Release date: May 3rd
Genre: Cold Wave / Gothic Rock
Label: A&M
Highlight: Cold |
| 6 |  | Dead Kennedys
Plastic Surgery Disasters
Release date: November
Genre: Punk
Label: Alternative Tentacles
Highlight: Halloween |
| 5 |  | Mecano
Mecano
Release date: May 5th
Genre: Pop
Label: CBS
Highlight: Me colé en una fiesta |
| 4 |  | Bad Brains
Bad Brains
Release date: February 5th
Genre: Punk / Dub / Reggae
Label: ROIR
Highlight: Don't Need It |
| 3 |  | Judas Priest
Screaming for Vengeance
Release date: July 14th
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: CBS / Columbia
Highlight: Electric Eye |
| 2 |  | Scorpions
Blackout
Release date: March 29th
Genre: Hard Rock
Label: Harvest / Mercury
Highlight: No One Like You |
| 1 |  | Iron Maiden
The Number of the Beast
Release date: March 22nd
Genre: Heavy Metal
Label: EMI
Highlight: Hallowed Be Thy Name |
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