My Top 50 Albums of 1982
Here's the Spotify playlist with one deep cut from each album:
1. Laurie Anderson - Big
Science
2. Prince – 1999
3. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
6. The Clash - Combat Rock
7. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
8. Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay
2. Prince – 1999
3. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Long After Dark
4. Michael Jackson - Thriller
5. Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
6. The Clash - Combat Rock
7. Bruce Springsteen – Nebraska
8. Dexys Midnight Runners – Too-Rye-Ay
9. Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
10. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
11. Duran Duran - Rio
12. John Mellencamp - American Fool
10. Kate Bush - The Dreaming
11. Duran Duran - Rio
12. John Mellencamp - American Fool
13. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
14. The Gap Band - The Gap Band IV
15. Roxy Music – Avalon
16. XTC - English Settlement
17. Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
18. Descendants - Milo Goes To College
19. Marvin Gaye – Midnight Love
20. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going!
21. Daryl Hall & John Oates - H2O
22. Warren Zevon - The Envoy
23. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 4 (Security)
24. The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?
25. Sparks – Angst In My Pants
26. Talking Heads - The Name Of this Band Is Talking Heads
27. The Cure – Pornography
28. Fleetwood Mac – Mirage
29. Neil Young - Trans
30. The Time - What Time Is It?
31. R.E.M. - Chronic Town EP
32. The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
33. Squeeze - Sweets From A Stranger
34. INXS - Shabooh Shoobah
35. X - Under The Big Black Sun
36. Rush – Signals
37. Split Enz - Time And Tide
38. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
39. Flipper – Album – Generic Flipper
40. Pat Benatar - Get Nervous
41. Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth EP
42. The Replacements - Stink EP
43. The Go-Go's – Vacation
44. Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
45. Queen - Hot Space
46. Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear
47. Chic - Tongue In Chic
48. Michael McDonald - If That's What It Takes
49. Lionel Richie – Lionel Richie
50. The Meat Puppets - The Meat Puppets
14. The Gap Band - The Gap Band IV
15. Roxy Music – Avalon
16. XTC - English Settlement
17. Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
18. Descendants - Milo Goes To College
19. Marvin Gaye – Midnight Love
20. Phil Collins - Hello, I Must Be Going!
21. Daryl Hall & John Oates - H2O
22. Warren Zevon - The Envoy
23. Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel 4 (Security)
24. The Waitresses - Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?
25. Sparks – Angst In My Pants
26. Talking Heads - The Name Of this Band Is Talking Heads
27. The Cure – Pornography
28. Fleetwood Mac – Mirage
29. Neil Young - Trans
30. The Time - What Time Is It?
31. R.E.M. - Chronic Town EP
32. The Fall – Hex Enduction Hour
33. Squeeze - Sweets From A Stranger
34. INXS - Shabooh Shoobah
35. X - Under The Big Black Sun
36. Rush – Signals
37. Split Enz - Time And Tide
38. Depeche Mode - A Broken Frame
39. Flipper – Album – Generic Flipper
40. Pat Benatar - Get Nervous
41. Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth EP
42. The Replacements - Stink EP
43. The Go-Go's – Vacation
44. Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
45. Queen - Hot Space
46. Oingo Boingo - Nothing To Fear
47. Chic - Tongue In Chic
48. Michael McDonald - If That's What It Takes
49. Lionel Richie – Lionel Richie
50. The Meat Puppets - The Meat Puppets
I was born in 1982, so it's interesting to consider that I've now done these lists for every year I've been alive, and from here on out I'll be delving into the years before I existed. And it's odd to think that even as I dipped my toe into older music throughout the 1990s, it probably wasn't until the early 2000s that I heard any of these albums in full. I remember my roommate putting on his LP of Thriller, and finally hearing it in full. I remember an online friend recommending Big Science, buying 1999 and Imperial Bedroom as I worked my way through those artists' catalogs, excitedly finding a cassette of Sonic Youth at The Sound Garden back when it was out of print, being given a friend's cassette of Pornography, buying a cheap used bin CD of Hello, I Must Be Going!, and finally hearing a lot of the rest over the last decade when streaming made it a lot cheaper to fill in the gaps in my musical knowledge. Pretty good year, I don't mind having been born in it.
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