One album a year (a couple of these are more hard rock, but I steered it away from hair metal mostly):
- Ace of Spades, by Motörhead: 1980
- Diary of a Madman, by Ozzy Osbourne: 1981
- Number of the Beast, by Iron Maiden: 1982
- Show No Mercy, by Slayer: 1983
- Defenders of the Faith, by Judas Priest: 1984
- We Care a Lot, by Faith No More: 1985
- Peace Sells, by Megadeth: 1986
- Appetite for Destruction, by Guns N Roses: 1987
- Operation: Mindcrime, by Queensrÿche: 1988
- Conspiracy, by King Diamond: 1989
I started off today with Sound System, by The Clash, but quickly dumped it. Aside from their top 40 hits, they all sound the same and their lack of singing talent and failure to discover anything past three chords on the guitar, really gets on my nerves. They're like the worst caricature of "punk" you'd do as a joke, but carried on for a decade and roughly 500 "best of" albums. You can't listen to any '80s playlist without 25% of the songs being Clash, 25% being teeny little Prince (or whatever he called himself as he crawled further up his tiny butthole), neither of whom I want to hear more than one track a day from ever. And I suppose my Anglophobia doesn't help; English wankers preening about English mob politics. I ain't even mad right now, or this rant would go on longer.