1982 is 30 years old!

Hi guys,
I’m pretty new to the forum, although I’ve lurked the site for years. I’m sure there’s already a similar post out there, but last night I was adjusting a playlist and tossed together a new one in recognition that 1982 is now 30 years old. Crazy!?! I certainly don’t remember much about junior high but I clearly remember these albums. My music palate is pretty wide open, so enjoy the playlist.

Chris

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Asia- Asia
The Clash- Combat Rock
Devo- Oh No! It’s Devo
Dire Straits- Love Over Gold
Duran Duran- Rio
Donald Fagen- The Nightfly
Peter Gabriel- IV (Security)
Genesis- Three Sides Live
Sammy Hagar- Three Lock Box
Iron Maiden- The Number of the Beast
Joe Jackson- Night & Day
Michael Jackson- Thriller
Billy Joel- The Nylon Curtain
Judas Priest- Screaming For Vengeance
King Crimson- Beat
Kiss- Creatures of the Night
Alan Parson’s Proj.- Eye in the Sky
Robert Plant- Pictures at Eleven
Prince- 1999
Queen- Hot Space
Rush- Signals
Bob Seger- The Distance
The Scorpions- Blackout
Van Halen- Diver Down
XTC- English Settlement

 

...and Asia was the number one album.

 

my first summer of really buying music, I was 15. Got the 10 albums for a penny or some number of albums. Hard to believe it's been 30 years.

 

I wasn't alive yet, but I got a couple friends turning 30 this year so that feels weird.

Some good albums listed up there.

 

Edit:

Saw that you already mentioned the one I was thinking of from 1982.

 

Highly enjoyable list, and a great year for music (I was 19). Queen's "Hot Space" is the only one missing from my collection.

 

It was the year that brought us Heartache Avenue by The Maisonettes. Quite frankly you can't really argue with that.

 

30 years old, this year:

REM -- Chronic Town
The Call -- S/T
The Go-Go's -- Vacation
Kate Bush -- The Dreaming

I feel old.

 

I would personally say both 1984-85 and 1988-89 were quite a bit better for music, 1984-85 both for the albums and pop music and 1988-89 for the Cure, Stones Roses, heavy metal and the great alternative rock and hip-hop that surfaced.

Thriller is great and I like The Dreaming a lot but I can't really think of anything else from 1982 that stands out, but I probably need to dig deeper.

 

I think 1982 and I think The Clash, J. Geils Band, and Thomas Dolby, for starters. Some great music was happening back then.

 

Probably my favorite that year...Scorpions Blackout http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...sr_1_cc_1&s=aps&qid=1330108990&sr=1-1-catcorr

And don't forget the Police Ghost in the Machine (came out in '81 actually). Glad I got the SACD when it was still reasonable. Look at it now. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0...EIO&ref_=sr_1_1&s=music&qid=1330109186&sr=1-1

"I feel old"

If you think 30 is old, just wait. It gets a lot worse.

 

There was, also, Frank Zappa's Ship Arriving Too Late To Save A Drowning Witch. Yes, friends. This was the year of "Valley Girl".

 

Music was in dire straights by this time. Hell, on that list, I can only listen to Combat Rock and some of Thriller. It was at this point that I started going back through the history of music and building up my collection of fantastic music.

 

New Wave kicked into full gear a short time later - so it was all good. I would say that the early 80's were a bit of a transition.

I hope this doesn't become another "music died in 1979" thread.

 

Happy birthday, 1982!

I love the albums you listed. Here are some other of my favorite albums from that year:

Adrian Belew - Lone Rhino
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band - Ice Cream for Crow
Cheap Trick - One on One (I recall huge MTV exposure for this one!)
Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Imperial Bedroom
Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
Heart - Private Audition
Richard Hell & The Voidoids - Destiny Street
INXS - Shabooh Shoobah
Led Zeppelin - Coda
LMNOP - LMNOP
Love Tractor - Love Tractor
Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets
Mission of Burma - Vs.
Night Ranger - Dawn Patrol (again, big MTV exposure, and a guilty pleasure album for me)
Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now ("Love My Way"!)
Rank and File - Sundown
Lou Reed - The Blue Mask
Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Roxy Music - Avalon
Todd Rundgren - The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect
Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
Billy Squier - Emotions in Motion
Supertramp - ...Famous Last Words...
Toto - Toto IV
Pete Townshend - All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes
Triumph - Allied Forces
Wall of Voodoo - Call Of The West
Yazoo - Upstairs At Eric's
Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes
Frank Zappa - Ship Arriving Too Late To Save a Drowning Witch

(I hope those are all actually first released in 1982; I'm relying on my music collection database which was populated mostly by freedb entries or copyright dates on the album sleeves, and those sources are not always accurate.)

What a great year for music! I was 12 years old so this music really had a huge impression on me and helped launch my lifelong passion for music.

Craig.

 

Surprise, we're old! Seems like we are similar age.

In a few years, I thought that age of rock/blues was starting to wind down, despite being in college the number of 90s CDs I own is much smaller vs. 80s and back.

I really enjoy/own a lot of that list.

 

Oof! Ugh! Don't remind me!!!

Yeah, I was 12 and this was just when I was coming of age and starting to absorb music and pop culture around me. We also started getting MTV at some point, or maybe it was early '83. Either way, it's a pivotal year for me. And now it's 30-years ago. Oof!!!

dan c

 

I had seen MTV at the houses of other friends, but 1982 was the year we got cable and I had MTV in my home. It was a major, major, major turning point for me. I had "discovered" new wave back in 1979 when The B-52's were on SNL, and I consider that a life-changing moment. But August of '82, when we had cable installed, well I just never looked back after that point. I was soon a full-fledged new waver. We even got the "stereo hookup" when it came out - anyone remember that? It was cable for your radio. You had to tune the stations a little off from their regular dial numbers, but it was a super-clear signal, and it gave you MTV and other channels in full stereo as well.

It would take too long to list all my favorites from this year. Just include all of the new wave stuff, some pop and rock, a couple of old-school hip hop tracks, and we're done.

 

I was 15! Old man am I.

That Psych Furs one I own on vinyl and just needle dropped, about a week back. Still need to finish it up.

 

Of course, if Butthead was real he'd be about 32 this year!

Anyway, I might add that 1982 was the year this classic-in-certain-circles LP was unleashed:

 

The only good ones I can think of (I've not heard many from that year) are Pete Townshend's all the best cowboys have chinese eyes and Springsteen's nebraska,both of which have been mentioned in a previous post.

 

Wow talk about diverse tastes. Elvis Costello, Meat Puppets and Love Tractor on the same list as Night Ranger, Toto and Billy Squier.

You truly ran the gamut.

 

On a related note, I could be wrong, but I believe the poster you're quoting in your signature was actually being tongue-in-cheek (from http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?p=7347968), if his musical preferences are anything to go by? (Unlike in nbakid2000's sig, where the guy he quoted genuinely believed there hadn't been a good album from start to finish released for a long time.)

Not that I mind, as it's a pretty amusing signature in itself.