Billboard Number One Albums – 1982

Flamethrower alone...

Coug

Haven't heard Asia, Men At Work, J. Geils, or Foreigner albums; just know the singles. 1982 was the last gasp of a certain kind of late seventies/early eighties AOR mullet madness before MTV sent makeup and octagonal drums across the Atlantic.

For me it's the Hip-Hop finds drum machine thing that creates the 80s boom, which germinated in the 2nd half of 82 and fully bloomed in 83

Not to say I wasn't aware of Human League or whatever...it all just lines up in my memory.

Then again, we didn't have MTV in 1982.

i could justify cougar or j.geils, but i'ma go go-go's. even beyond the singles it's got "can't stop the world," "tonite," "this town," "lust to love," "automatic"... classic.

Geir will vote for his beloved Tug of War.

Things really were shit back then! It's quite interesting, I thought things were shit now, but obviously not.

But yeah, Cougs.

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I voted for BATB too. "Tonite," "Lust To Love," and "Skidmarks On My Heart" are enough.

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Men At Work!

yeah - remove the kitchy-eighties-memory aspect of the videos 'n' all and you're left with some incredibly solid songwriting I think.

I like the singles on the next one: "It's A Mistake" and "Overload."

What does the post-disco era look like?/