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troutman · 08-29-2012, 10:05 AM

1983 was a significant year:

http://blog.allmusic.com/2012/04/11/...ic-loves-1983/

If any year captured the heady rush of the early ’80s, it was 1983, the year Michael Jackson’s Thriller became a phenomenon and, not coincidentally, the year of MTV’s prime. The cable network debuted two years earlier but ‘83 was when music videos took over, popping up on cable channels and network TV, and along with videos came a glorious period of hit singles by one-hit wonders, new invaders from Britain, and veterans who now mastered synths and drum machines, the latter inexplicably led by grizzled, hairy blues-rockers ZZ Top and the visionary jazz-fusion keyboardist Herbie Hancock. Underneath all this televised glitz were some major debuts: the first albums from Madonna, Metallica, R.E.M., and Hüsker Dü, and the first singles from the Smiths and Run-D.M.C. And there were the mammoth hits — yes, Thriller, but also Def Leppard’s Pyromania and the Police’s Synchronicity, all giving us more than enough reason to love 1983.

Talking Heads, Replacments, XTC, Violent Femmes, Bowie, Yes, Prince, Pretenders, Elvis Costelllo, New Order, Big Country

1984:

http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/7/31/allmusic-loves-1984/

08-29-2012, 10:05 AM	#37
troutman Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Crowsnest Pass Exp:	1983 was a significant year: http://blog.allmusic.com/2012/04/11/...ic-loves-1983/ If any year captured the heady rush of the early ’80s, it was 1983, the year Michael Jackson’s Thriller became a phenomenon and, not coincidentally, the year of MTV’s prime. The cable network debuted two years earlier but ‘83 was when music videos took over, popping up on cable channels and network TV, and along with videos came a glorious period of hit singles by one-hit wonders, new invaders from Britain, and veterans who now mastered synths and drum machines, the latter inexplicably led by grizzled, hairy blues-rockers ZZ Top and the visionary jazz-fusion keyboardist Herbie Hancock. Underneath all this televised glitz were some major debuts: the first albums from Madonna, Metallica, R.E.M., and Hüsker Dü, and the first singles from the Smiths and Run-D.M.C. And there were the mammoth hits — yes, Thriller, but also Def Leppard’s Pyromania and the Police’s Synchronicity, all giving us more than enough reason to love 1983. Talking Heads, Replacments, XTC, Violent Femmes, Bowie, Yes, Prince, Pretenders, Elvis Costelllo, New Order, Big Country 1984: http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/7/31/allmusic-loves-1984/ Last edited by troutman; 08-29-2012 at 10:11 AM.