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Rolling Stone Magazine: Albums Of The Year 1980–1989

The best albums of the Eighties according to Rolling Stone. Click on an album or album title to read more.


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1989

Neil Young
Freedom
Previous albums: After the Gold Rush, American Stars 'N Bars, Comes A Time, Eldorado (with The Restless), Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Everybody's Rockin', Harvest, Hawks & Doves, Journey Through The Past (Soundtrack), Landing On Water, Life (with Crazy Horse), Neil Young, Old Ways, On The Beach, Re-ac-tor (with Crazy Horse), Rust Never Sleeps (with Crazy Horse), This Note's For You (with The Blue Notes), Time Fades Away, Tonight's The Night, Trans, Where The Buffalo Roam (Soundtrack), Zuma (with Crazy Horse)
Albums released since: Are You Passionate? (with Booker T. & the M.G.'s), Broken Arrow (with Crazy Horse), Dead Man (Soundtrack), Greendale (with Crazy Horse), Harvest Moon, Live At Massey Hall, Live At The Fillmore East (with Crazy Horse), Living With War, Living With War: In the Beginning, Mirror Ball (with Pearl Jam), Prairie Wind, Ragged Glory (with Crazy Horse), Rock Road Vol. 1 (Live), Silver & Gold, Sleeps With Angels (with Crazy Horse), Unplugged (Live), Year Of The Horse (Live with Crazy Horse)

1988

Midnight Oil
Diesel And Dust
Previous albums: 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Head Injuries, Midnight Oil, Place Without A Postcard, Red Sails In The Sunset
Albums released since: Blue Sky Mining, Breathe, Capricornia, Earth And Sun And Moon, Flat Chat, Redneck Wonderland, Scream In Blue (Live)

1987

Bruce Springsteen
Tunnel Of Love
Previous albums: Born In The U.S.A., Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., Live/1975-85, Nebraska, The River, The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle 
Albums released since: 18 Tracks, Born To Run 30th Anniversary Edition, Devils & Dust, Hammersmith Odeon London '75, Human Touch, In Concert/MTV Plugged, Live In New York City, Lucky Town, The Ghost Of Tom Joad, The Rising, Tracks, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

1986

Paul Simon
Graceland
Previous albums: Hearts And Bones, One-Trick Pony (Soundtrack), Paul Simon, Paul Simon In Concert: Live Rhymin', Still Crazy After All These Years, The Paul Simon Song Book, There Goes Rhymin' Simon

Albums released since: Negotiations And Love Songs, Paul Simon's Concert in the Park, August 15, 1991 (Live), Songs From The Capeman, Surprise, The Paul Simon Anthology, The Rhythm Of The Saints, You're The One

1985

Talking Heads
Little Creatures 
Previous albums: Fear Of Music, More Songs About Buildings And Food, Remain In Light, Speaking In Tongues, Talking Heads: 77, The Name Of this Band is talking Heads (Live), Stop Making Sense (Live)

Albums released since: Naked, True Stories

1984

Bruce Springsteen
Born In The U.S.A.
Previous albums: Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., Nebraska, The River, The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle 
Albums released since: 18 Tracks, Born To Run 30th Anniversary Edition, Devils & Dust, Hammersmith Odeon London '75, Human Touch, In Concert/MTV Plugged, Live/1975-85, Live In New York City, Lucky Town, The Ghost Of Tom Joad, The Rising, Tracks, Tunnel Of Love, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

1983

R.E.M.
Murmur
Previous albums: None
Albums released since: Around The Sun, Automatic For The People, Document, Fables Of The Reconstruction, Green, Life's Rich Pageant, Monster, New Adventures In Hi-Fi, Out Of Time, Reckoning, Reveal, Up

1982

Bruce Springsteen
Nebraska

Previous albums: Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J., The River, The Wild, The Innocent And The E Street Shuffle 

Albums released since: 18 Tracks, Born In the U.S.A., Born To Run 30th Anniversary Edition, Devils & Dust, Hammersmith Odeon London '75, Human Touch, In Concert/MTV Plugged, Live/1975-85, Live In New York City, Lucky Town, The Ghost Of Tom Joad, The Rising, Tracks, Tunnel Of Love, We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions

1981

Rolling Stones
Tattoo You
Previous albums: Aftermath, Beggar's Banquet, Between The Buttons, Black And Blue, December's Children (And Everybody's), Emotional Rescue, Exile On Main St., Flowers, Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones In Concert (Live), Goat's Head Soup, Got Live if You Want It! (Live), It's Only Rock'n Roll, Let It Bleed, Love You Live, Out Of Our Heads, Some Girls, Sticky Fingers, The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones No.2, Their Satanic Majesties Request
Albums released since: A Bigger Bang, Bridges To Babylon, Dirty Work, Flashpoint (Live), In Concert (Live), Live Licks (Live), No Security (Live), Still Life (American Concert 1981) (Live), Steel Wheels, Stripped (Live), Undercover, Voodoo Lounge

1980

The Clash
London Calling
Previous albums: Give 'Em Enough Rope, The Clash
Albums released since: Combat Rock, Cut The Crap, Sandinista!

 



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