Album of The Year - Endgame

The N+G Top 20 Albums of 1963
  1. Bob Dylan - The Freewheelin Bob Dylan
  2. Charles Mingus - The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
  3. The Beatles - Please Please Me
  4. The Beatles - With the Beatles
  5. The Beach Boys - Surfer Girl
  6. The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk's Dream
  7. James Brown - Live At The Apollo
  8. Kenny Burrell - Midnight Blue
  9. Sam Cooke - Night Beat
  10. Miles Davis - Seven Steps to Heaven
  11. Jorge Ben - Samba esquema novo
  12. Phil Spector - A Christmas Gift For You
  13. Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, and Max Roach - Money Jungle
  14. Ike Quebec - Blue and Sentimental
  15. John Coltrane - Impressions
  16. Roy Orbison - In Dreams
  17. Dexter Gordon - Our Man In Paris
  18. Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane
  19. Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers - Caravan
  20. Vince Guaraldi and Bola Sete - Vince Guaraldi / Bola Sete / and Friends
 
1. The Cure - Pornography
2. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
3. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
4. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
5. Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
6. Alice Coltrane - Turiya Sings
7. Michael Jackson - Thriller
8. African Head Charge - Environmental Studies
9. Lydia Luch - 13.13
10. Venom - Black Metal

Not a bad year at all, definitely heavier on the metal/punk/industrial side than I was expecting!
 
Not much I’ve heard from ‘82, but I was able to get a top 10 out of it:
  1. Thriller - Michael Jackson (yeah, I still love this album)
  2. 1999 - Prince
  3. Midnight Love - Marvin Gaye
  4. Changes - Keni Burke
  5. Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
  6. Hello, I Must Be Going! - Phil Collins
  7. Avalon - Roxy Music
  8. Too-Rye-Aye - Dexys Midnight Runners
  9. Rio - Duran Duran
  10. IV - Toto
And here‘s Billboard top 100 best-selling singles of that year.
 
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1. The Church - The Blurred Crusade
2. XTC - English Settlement
3. The Cure - Pornography
4. The Beat - Special Beat Service
5. The Fixx -Shuttered Room
6. Descendants - Milo Goes to College
7. Mission of Burma - Vs.
8. The Clash - Combat Rock
9. Midnight Oil - 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1
10. Berlin ‎– Pleasure Victim

(R.E.M. - Chronic Town was my favorite release of 1982)
 
1982 picks

1) Michael Jackson - Thriller
2) The Clash - Combat Rock
3) Prince - 1999
4) Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
5) Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
6) George Strait - Strait from the Heart
7) The Cure - Pornography
8) Siouxsie and the Banshees - A Kiss in the Dreamhouse
9) Lou Reed - Blue Mask
10) Misfits - Walk Among Us
11) Grandmaster Flash - The Message
12) Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
 
My Favourite Albums from 1982:

0. Michael Jackson – Thriller
(This album has brought me so much joy in my life, but whenever it comes on now, I just feel sad.)
  1. Prince – 1999
  2. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
  3. Talking Heads – The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads
  4. The Clash – Combat Rock
  5. Glenn Gould – The Goldberg Variations
  6. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
  7. Donald Fagen – The Nightfly
  8. John Cougar – American Fool
  9. R.E.M. – Chronic Town EP
  10. Bad Brains – Bad Brains
  11. Simon & Garfunkel – The Concert in Central Park
  12. Roxy Music – Avalon
  13. The Cure – Pornography
  14. Duran Duran – Rio
  15. Ennio Moricone – The Thing Soundtrack
  16. Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message
  17. Marvin Gaye – Midnight Love
  18. Peter Gabriel – IV
  19. Bauhaus – Sky’s Gone Out
  20. Dexy’s Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay
Special Mention: Chuck Berry’s The Great Twenty-Eight as one of the greatest compilation albums of all-time.
 
Transitional schmansitional! This is a great year (even without MJ).

Top 10 - 1982
  1. Duran Duran - Rio
  2. Prince - 1999
  3. Yaz - Upstairs At Eric’s
  4. Descendents - Milo Goes To College
  5. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
  6. Mission Of Burma - Vs.
  7. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
  8. XTC - English Settlement
  9. Horace Andy ‎– Dance Hall Style
  10. Bad Brains - S/T

HMs:
Fleetwood Mac - Mirage
Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
Roxy Music - Avalon
Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
 
1. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
2. Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
3. Dexys Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay
4. The Cure - Pornography
5. Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84)
6. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
7. Prince - 1999
8. The Clash - Combat Rock
9. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedrooms
10. Fleetwood Mac - Mirage
 
cbl said:
I really wonder what this year's lists would've looked like 6 months ago
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Six months shouldn’t have made that much of a difference. The basic info of that doc was decades old. Unless people need to hear the gory details of child abuse to know it’s bad.

Thriller will still top my list because it’s a killer album and easily the biggest album of that year, if not the decade.
 
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Jango said:
Six months shouldn’t have made that much of a difference. The basic info of that doc was decades old. Unless people need to hear the gory details of child abuse to know it’s bad.

Thriller will still top my list because it’s a killer album and easily the biggest album of that year, if not the decade.
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Is it not still the biggest selling album of all time? I was never the biggest Jackson fan to be honest so it’d probably have been 8-10 at one point, it’s been a long while since that was the case though, as you say this information has been out there a long time!
 
1982

  1. Descendents - Milo Goes to College
  2. Talking Heads - The Name of This Band is Talking Heads
  3. The Cure - Pornography
  4. Orange Juice - You Can't Hide Your Love Forever
  5. Orange Juice - Rip it Up
  6. Brian Eno - Ambient 4
  7. R.E.M. - Chronic Town
  8. Phillip Glass - Glassworks
  9. The Fall - Hex Enduction Hour
  10. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
 
  1. Brian Eno - Ambient 4
  2. Alan R. Splet & David Lynch - Eraserhead
  3. Michael Jackson - Thriller
  4. Mission of Burma - Vs.
  5. Bad Brains - Bad Brains
  6. Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
  7. Dead Kennedys - Plastic Surgery Disasters
  8. Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
  9. Laurie Anderson - Big Science
  10. Bauhaus - The Sky's Gone Out
 
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