Best Albums of 1982
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"Favourite Michael Jackson album Ever. It’s a game changer. Thriller really did a lot for music and the black community. That album showed he couldn’t be ignored by white stations or radios. With a song like Billie Jean or Beat It, the album showed that he’s MJ and that you can’t eras the man no m..." Reply
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1982
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"It took a few listens, but I've finally cracked it. The Dreaming is Bush at perhaps her most expressive and most volatile; it's a hard sell in my books, but you'd be hard pushed to find an experimental album quite as coherent or as majestic as this. Frankly, words do not do it justice; so much co..." Reply
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1982
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"This is a huge album in the genre and it is easy to see why when you listen to it as there is so much to love on here. This is probably the groups most consistent work with every song having some quality on it. The peak of the album is the sensational title track and also the closer Hallowed Be T..." Reply
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1982
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"I can't disagree more with the review that says this seems dated based on the fact that it sounds hollow and shallow. That was the ENTIRE point. The album has a hollow, dead flat sound throughout. That was the goal. It's symbolic of the emptiness of everything. The drums provide a pattern but no ..." Reply
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"So much better than Born In The USA. Raw, deep and powerful. Resonates with anyone." Reply
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1982
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"This album is definitely an inconsistent one. I will start with things that I liked about it, 1999 and especially Little Red Corvette are excellent opening tracks with immaculate production and lyrics more tasteful than any other ones on the record. Not much worse is D.M.S.R. which is one of the ..." Reply
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1982
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"I was 13 years old, when I listened Avalon for the first time . It gave me a completely new listening experience. This was something I have never previously heard. The elegant and lush sound impressed me very much. Up to now, this album has been one of my favorites." Reply
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1982
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"Album tracks New Religion, On My Own are ok but the Hits are what hold this album together best tracks Hungry like the Wolf, Save a Prayer." Reply
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1982
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"Mark Knopfler goes for the epic on Dire straits fourth album. Love over gold, only consists of five songs, but they are all excellent. Telegraph road, is a stunning opening track, and it's followed by the atmospheric, private investigations. Side gives us the enjoyable, industrial disease, the lo..." Reply
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1982
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"In some aspects, it's like just another Steely Dan album (and that's meant as a compliment) but in other ways this sounds like something only Fagen could accomplish on his own, mostly because of the lyrical consistency. Steely Dan albums generally strove for a connecting sound but never bothered ..." Reply
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 1 of 100
Best Albums of 1982 composition
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| Various Artists | 22 | 2% | |
| Ry Cooder | 3 | 0% | |
| The Beatles | 3 | 0% | |
| XTC | 3 | 0% | |
| The Original Broadway Cast | 3 | 0% | |
| The Fall | 3 | 0% | |
| Status Quo | 2 | 0% | |
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319 | 32% | |
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283 | 28% | |
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62 | 6% | |
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47 | 5% | |
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27 | 3% | |
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26 | 3% | |
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24 | 2% | |
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Best Albums of 1982 chart changes
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Up 5 from 46th to 41st |
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| Biggest fallers Biggest fallers in top 100 since last month |
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