The 80S

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the Clean’s constant experimentation resisted nearly all of punk’s emergent stereotypes and musical formulas. The album was well-received and is still routinely named as one of the top albums of the early post-punk period.

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His 1987 album Tunnel of Lovecontinued the trend, winning Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance at the Grammy Awards. Kate Bush’s 1985 album Hounds of Lovehelped revitalize her career after a lag throughout the early-mid 1980s. During the 17 years of work that preceded the first release of “The Well-Tuned Piano,” minimalist pioneer La Monte Young was developing and testing everything about the piece—including the unusual tuning he preferred for his custom Bösendorfer Imperial Grand piano, as well as the improvisational approach that he would use when playing it. This is music that tears open a meditative portal, luring the listener into a new world of tranquility before crescendoing into a gorgeously aggressive wall of transients. The lyrics, too, showed growth, shading Costello’s earlier vitriol with greater perspective, while also allowing for far more enigmatic imagery.Pivotal to this album's success was their new keyboard player: Jonathan Cain co-wrote every song on Escape. On That Other Level blend the real-world horrors of Houston’s 5th Ward with exaggerated savagery from slasher flicks. When they started making their second album, 90, they thought carefully about how and where the album should flow and peak, and they infused it with the jazz, prog, and electro they enjoyed in their spare time. This is an almost perfect summer rock album, and a sheer joy to listen to, even if fans of Roth would never really take to Sammy Hagar as the new (infinitely better and more successful) singer. There are few albums that more perfectly exemplify the 1980s than Bruce Springsteen’s Born in The U.

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There's real substance and power to the likes of The Sentinel, and an endearing frisson of censor-baiting sexuality to the menacing Eat Me Alive. This is a record about being a woman in a boys’ club and blowing up the spot with uncompromising attitude.The ’80s saw heavy metal engaged in a sort of arms race, as groups across the world set out to one-up each other in a quest to be the heaviest, the most technical, or the most extreme.

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At the same time, the music on the Thompsons’ sixth and final album together represented the most beautifully honed work the couple ever produced. The piece isn’t officially finished, but this performance, all on its own, is beautiful enough to support decades of close listening. Ask anyone for the first 80s song that pops into their head, and there is no small chance they will say Thriller.It presents New York as the sort of gleeful interracial paradise that sadly only ever existed inside the music itself; this was the early ’80s, after all, amid the early rumblings of the crack epidemic and the AIDS crisis. At that time, the songs Welcome To The Jungle, Sweet Child O’ Mine, and Paradise Citybecame more widely known. Many people thought that Pink Floyd would be unable to survive without their erstwhile visionary Roger Waters.

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in the realm of college rock, Wild Planet doubles down on discarded things like surf rock, exotica, girl groups, and TV theme songs. The album was praised for its exploration into folk rock, earning attention from both commercial audiences and critics. From balls to the wall metal to dark, sexy alt-rock; from Aerosmith to the Replacements, the 80s was the decade when there really was an alternative to whatever was going on in the mainstream.Our list still reflects the realities of the ’80s—many great artists worked more successfully in singles than in full albums, for example—but we hope it represents the best of what this innovative decade has to offer, as well as how people consume music now. Their lurching beats, heavy bass lines, and sloshing guitars sounded like punk with a hangover, or maybe the Stooges chugging codeine.