The Best Albums of 1982
Jackson’s Thriller (1982) is the best-selling album of all time, selling 25 million copies during the decade. In 1982, Melle Mel and Duke Bootee recorded
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The Best Albums of 1981
The arrival of MTV in 1981 would usher in the new wave’s most successful era. British artists, unlike many of their American counterparts, had
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The Best Albums of 1980
By 1980, the disco genre, largely dependent on orchestras, was replaced by a lighter synthpop production, which subsequently fuelled dance
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The Best Albums of 1979
In 1979, after a string of modestly-performing singles in his new style, he broke through with “Family Tradition,” an autobiographical
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The Best Albums of 1978
In the late 1970s, many bands in the United Kingdom began experimenting with synthesizers, forming the new wave style known as synthpop. Major
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The Best Albums of 1977
By the later half of the 1970s, Dolly Parton, a highly successful traditional-minded country artist since the late 1960s, mounted a
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The Best Albums of 1976
The mid-to-late 1970s Australian band AC/DC became one of the most popular and successful acts in Australia, scoring a string of hits,
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The Best Albums of 1975
Bob Dylan’s 1975–1976 Rolling Thunder Revue reunited him with a number of folk-rock acts from his early days of performing, most notably Joan
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The Best Albums of 1974
The country-pop sound was a successor to the countrypolitan sound of the early 1970s. In addition to artists such as Murray and
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The Best Albums of 1973
Pink Floyd’s 1973 release, The Dark Side of the Moon, was an immediate success, remaining in the charts for 741
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