my top albums of the 80's

This has nothing to do with sales or air play.  As always this blog expresses my worthless opinion.  The 1980's were a strange and wonderful decade musically. We had some of the best and worst that could ever fit into a radio dial.

As a high school/college student.  the world of pop music had gone south.  It was all bad metal and hair bands.  Most of the folks I knew had retreated into the annals of classic rock.  There were the occasional recognitions of Punk and New Wave, but for the most part I was busy being entirely too angst ridden and listening to David Bowie's Hunky Dory and the first Boston album to care.

This does not mean that I wasn't listening to music made in the 1980's.  There are hundreds of songs released in the decade that I own on 45 rpm.

In the 80s, I was prone to insomnia.  I used to stay up late and listen to vinyl through a pair of Nova 16 head phones.

The albums that saved be during the decade are listed below in no particular order.

1. Let's Dance-David Bowie
2. Songs from the Big Chair-Tears For Fears
3. Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams-The BoDeans
4. Little Creatures-The Talking Heads
5. So-Peter Gabriel
6. Spike-Elvis Costello
7. Boomtown-David and David
8. Robbie Robertson-Robbie Robertson
9. Indigo Girls-Indigo Girls
10. Zenyatta Mondatta -The Police

 I've included on track from each album.  I hope you like it