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• 1983 in music (UK)
• Musical groups established in 1983
• Record labels established in 1983

This is a summary of 1983 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ...

Important Releases

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Michael Jackson's Thriller, the most successful album not only of 1983, but of all time, was released in 1982 and began its epic domination of the music charts the following year, 1983. The album spawned seven hit singles and stayed on the US and UK charts for over three years. Michael was nominated for ten Grammy Awards, of which he won eight: seven for the awe-inspiring album Thriller, and the other for the song "Someone in the Dark" featured in the movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. Thriller paved the way for countless other African-American artists' music to be aired on radio and MTV. Thriller has sold over 104 million copies, making it the greatest selling album of all time by an extremely large margin. Michael's domination of the 1980s was fueled by his follow-up hit album Bad (released in 1987), which held the title of the second greatest album of all time for several years. Image File history File links Broom_icon. ... Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958), commonly known as MJ as well as the King of Pop, is an American musician, entertainer, and pop icon whose successful career and controversial personal life have been a part of pop culture for the last three decades. ... Alternate cover Special Edition release Thriller is an album by pop singer Michael Jackson, released by Epic Records on December 1, 1982. ... Year 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday (link displays the 1982 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Grammy Award statuette The Grammy Awards, presented by the Recording Academy (an association of Americans professionally involved in the recorded music industry) for outstanding achievements in the recording industry, is one of four major music awards shows held annually in the United States (the Billboard Music Awards, the American Music... E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial is a 1982 science fiction film directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dee Wallace and Peter Coyote. ... Bad is an album of recorded music by pop music icon Michael Jackson, released in 1987. ... 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Head over Heels by the Cocteau Twins sold poorly upon its initial release but is considered one of the most influential albums of 1983. In the ensuing years, the album's eclectic assortment of alternative rock, New Wave and synth pop influences became a cornerstone of later alternative rock groups, most especially in the United Kingdom, where the Cocteau Twins' mix of airy textures and breathless vocals (dream pop) mutated into genres like twee pop, space rock and shoegazing, and eventually hit mainstream success with a psychedelic-influenced form, Britpop. Head over Heels is an August 1983 album by Scottish rock group Cocteau Twins. ... Cocteau Twins were an influential and prolific Scottish alternative rock band active from 1982 to 1997. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... Alternative rock (also called alternative music or simply alternative; known primarily in the UK as indie) is a genre of rock music that emerged in the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s. ... New Wave is a term that has been used to describe many developments in music, but is most commonly associated with a movement in Western popular music, in the late 1970s and early 1980s inspired by the punk rock movement. ... Synth pop is a style of popular music in which the synthesizer is the dominant musical instrument. ... Dream pop is a type of alternative rock that originated in the early 1980s when bands like Cocteau Twins, Dead Can Dance, and A.R. Kane (to whom the term has been attributed) began twisting New Wave melodies into sonic, echoing textures and mumbled vocals. ... This article is about the genre of music. ... For space rocks, see asteroid. ... Shoegazing (also known as shoegaze or shoegazer; practitioners referred to as shoegazers) is a style of Independent (or Indie) music that emerged from the U.K. in the late 1980s, lasting until the mid 1990s, with peaking circa 1990 to 1991. ... Psychedelic pop is a musical style inspired by the harder, louder songs of Psychedelic rock but applied more to a pop music setting. ... Britpop was a British alternative rock genre and movement that was at its most popular in Great Britain in the mid 1990s. ...

Quiet Riot's Metal Health was enormously popular in 1983, and was the first heavy metal album to go to #1 on the pop charts. The lead single, "Cum on Feel the Noize" (cover of Slade) was also a huge hit, #5 Billboard, and set the stage for the mainstream success of later glam metal bands like Poison. Other landmark rock/metal albums released in this year include Def Leppard's "Pyromania", Iron Maiden's "Piece of Mind", Mercyful Fate's "Melissa" Dio's "Holy Diver", Acccept's "Balls to the Wall", Metallica's "Kill 'em all", Slayer's "Show No Mercy", Ozzy Osbourne's "Bark at the Moon" and Mötley Crüe's "Shout at the Devil". Quiet Riot is an American heavy metal band, whose 1983 & 1984 success contributed to launching the 1980s glam metal scene. ... Metal Health was the breakthrough album for the American heavy metal band Quiet Riot. ... Heavy metal (sometimes referred to simply as metal) is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... In popular music, a cover version, or simply cover, is a new rendition (performance or recording) of a previously recorded song. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Glam metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s in the United States. ... Poison is an American rock band which originally achieved popular success in the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Pyromania is the third album by British hard rock band Def Leppard, released in 1983. ... Piece of Mind is the name of several albums, including: 1983 Piece of Mind by Iron Maiden 1996 Piece of Mind by Tela 1999 Piece of Mind by David McMurray 2003 Piece of Mind by Robin Lane This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages... In 1983 danish Heavy/Black Metal band Mercyful Fate released their stunning debut Melissa. ... Holy Diver was the debut album of Ronnie James Dios new band, Dio (which is a band as a whole, not a solo band) released in May 1983. ... Balls to the Wall is the fifth album by the German metal band Accept, which released in 1983. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Show No Mercy is the debut album by the thrash metal band Slayer, which was released in December 1983 through Metal Blade Records. ... Bark at the Moon is a heavy metal album by Ozzy Osbourne, released in December 10, 1983. ... Shout at the Devil is the second album by heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on September 26, 1983. ...

The country music legend Kenny Rogers records his 23rd studio album "We've Got Tonight," which was his last album for Liberty Records. He signed to RCA for a guaranteed sum of no less than $20 million for 6 albums, the biggest record deal of all-time up to that point. His earnings for those recordings amounted to even more, but no details have been made public. Rogers' RCA debut included his duet with Dolly Parton, "Islands in the Stream", which would become one of the biggest records of the year. This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Liberty Records was a United States based record label. ... RCA, formerly an initialism for the Radio Corporation of America, is now a trademark owned by RCA Trademark Management S.A. [1], owned by Thomson SA. The trademark is used by two companies for products descended from that common ancestor: Thomson SA, which manufactures consumer electronics like RCA-branded televisions... Dolly Rebecca Parton (born January 19, 1946) is an American Grammy-winning and Academy Award-nominated country singer, songwriter, composer, author, actress and philanthropist. ... Islands in the Stream was a 1989 hit country music single for Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton, written by the Bee Gees. ...

Some other releases from 1983 deserve special mention:

• The Police's Synchronicity was their final release together before breaking up, and was enormously popular, including one of their more popular songs, "Every Breath You Take"
• Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) was their breakthrough success, and included their signature tune, the title track
• Mötley Crüe's Shout at the Devil was their breakthrough, and included "Looks That Kill", though they would go on to greater popular and critical success in the later part of the decade after recovering from the shock of member Vince Neil's near-fatal car accident
• Nena releases 99 Luftballons and its English version, 99 Red Balloons, generating her fame in the English-speaking world
• Tom Waits' Swordfishtrombones was his first album for Island Records, and the first in a series of three thematically and stylistically linked albums that established him as a critical darling and cult favorite
• New Order's Power, Corruption & Lies was the second since forming from the ashes of Joy Division (after the suicide of Ian Curtis) and the first to achieve critical or popular success, as it was a stylistically innovative mix of synth vocals and dance-heavy beats. In some countries included the best-selling 12" record of all time, "Blue Monday"
• Duran Duran scored hits from three separate albums in this year (Rio, the reissue of Duran Duran, and Seven and the Ragged Tiger)
• Merle Haggard began a run of chart success in this year, which continued for about two years. His duet album with Willie Nelson, Pancho & Lefty, was an enormous critical and popular success and did much to revitalize the careers of both entertainers, especially with the hit title track
• Stevie Ray Vaughan's Texas Flood was more popular than any blues album since the late 1960s, and did much to establish country-blues as a commercially viable genre
• George Strait's Right or Wrong sold extremely well, and was a pivotal album in the development of the honky tonk revival during the rest of the decade.
• Now That's What I Call Music! kicked off the long-running compilation series in the UK
• Run DMC released their debut single, "It's Like That"/"Sucker M.C.'s"
• Atlanta's first single "Atlanta Burned Again Last Night," released on independent record label MDJ, broke the top ten on Billboard's country music charts
• Metallica and Slayer kicked off the thrash metal era with Kill 'Em All and Show No Mercy.
• R.E.M's first full-length album Murmur kick-started the band's long career, and was one of the most critically acclaimed albums of the year

The Police are a three-piece rock band consisting of singer/bassist Sting, guitarist Andy Summers, and drummer Stewart Copeland. ... Synchronicity is the fifth album by The Police, released in 1983. ... Every Breath You Take is a song written by Sting and originally performed by The Police. ... For the approach to music education, see Eurhythmics. ... Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) is a New Wave album by British synth pop duo Eurythmics, released in January of 1983 (see 1983 in music). ... Mötley Crüe (IPA pronunciation: ) is a popular American glam metal band from Los Angeles, California. ... Shout at the Devil is the second album by heavy metal band Mötley Crüe, released on September 26, 1983. ... Vince Neil (born Vincent Neil Wharton, February 8, 1961 in Hollywood, California) is the lead singer for American glam metal band Mötley Crüe. ... Nena (born March 24, 1960 in Hagen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a German singer who became famous with the New German Wave song 99 Luftballons (99 Red Balloons in the English version). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ... Swordfishtrombones is an album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in September of 1983 (see 1983 in music). ... Island Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and is operated through The Island Def Jam Music Group. ... New Order are an English rock group formed in 1980 by Bernard Sumner (vocals, guitars, synthesizers), Peter Hook (bass, electronic drums), and Stephen Morris (drums, synthesizers). ... Power, Corruption & Lies was the breakthrough album by Manchester band New Order, released in May 1983. ... Joy Division were an English rock band that formed in 1976 in Salford, Greater Manchester. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Blue Monday is a dance pop song recorded and released as a single in 1983 by British band New Order. ... Duran Duran is an English pop/rock band notable for a long series of popular singles and vivid music videos. ... Rio is an album by Duran Duran, originally released worldwide on May 10, 1982, but re-released in November in the United States. ... Duran Duran is an album by Duran Duran, originally released worldwide in 1981, and reissued to greater success in 1983. ... Seven and the Ragged Tiger is Duran Durans third studio album, released globally in November, 1983. ... Merle Ronald Haggard (born April 6, 1937) is an American country music singer, guitarist and songwriter. ... Willie Nelson (born William Hugh Nelson, 30 April 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. ... Pancho & Lefty is a honky tonk album by outlaw country musicians Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). ... Stephen Stevie Ray Vaughan (October 3, 1954 – August 27, 1990), born in Dallas, Texas, was an American blues guitarist. ... Texas Flood is an electric blues album by rock and roller Stevie Ray Vaughan, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... This article includes a list of works cited but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... George Harvey Strait, (born May 18, 1952), is an American country music singer. ... Right or Wrong is a country music album by George Strait, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). ... Honky tonk was originally the name of a type of bar common throughout the southern United States, also Honkatonk or Honkey-tonk. ... Now Thats What I Call Music! (often shortened to Now!) is a long-running series of various artists compilation albums released in the United Kingdom by Polygram/EMI/Virgin Records; spinoff series were later started in the United States and elsewhere. ... Run-DMC is a hip hop crew founded by Jason Jam Master Jay Mizell that included Joseph Run Simmons and Darryl DMC McDaniels. ... Atlanta was a country music band. ... Metallica is a Grammy Award-winning American heavy metal band formed in 1981[1] and has become one of the most commercially successful musical acts of recent decades. ... Slayer is an American thrash metal band, formed in 1981 by guitarists Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Show No Mercy is the debut album by the thrash metal band Slayer, which was released in December 1983 through Metal Blade Records. ... R.E.M. is an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in early 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and vocalist Michael Stipe. ... Murmur is the first full-length album released by Athens, Georgia alternative rock band R.E.M.. Released in April 1983, Murmur was preceded by the Chronic Town EP the previous year. ...

Events

• Publication of A Generative Theory of Tonal Music by Fred Lerdahl and Ray Jackendoff.
• February 11 - The Rolling Stones concert film Let's Spend the Night Together opens in New York
• Diana Ross performed in Central Park in the pouring rain
• Highest point of the 1981-1985 Menuditis and Menudomania all over Latin America.
• ZTT Records founded
• The UK singles chart starts to use electronic terminals in selected stores to gather sales information. The old "sales diary" method will be gradually phased out over the next few years
• 19th August : Radio Caroline broadcasts from Ross Revenge with a new mast
• Steve, Bob and Rich (soon to become The Rainmakers) release demos for Mercury Records

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Bands formed

• A-Ha
• ANTiSEEN
• Bon Jovi
• Death
• Dinosaur Jr.
• The Dust Brothers
• The Flaming Lips
• Mayhem
• Megadeth
• Phish
• Red Box
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Run-D.M.C.
• Samhain
• Soul Asylum
• Testament

The correct title of this article is . ... Antiseen, a self-described Destructo Rock band from North Carolina, have been playing and touring since 1983. ... Bon Jovi is a hard rock band originating from New Jersey. ... Death was an influential American death metal band founded in 1983 and dissolved in 1999. ... Dinosaur Jr is an American indie rock band. ... The Dust Brothers are the New York-based producers E.Z. Mike (Michael Simpson) and King Gizmo (John King), famous for their creation of sample-based music in the 1980s, and specifically for their work on the groundbreaking albums Pauls Boutique by the Beastie Boys and Odelay by Beck. ... The Flaming Lips (formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983) are a Grammy-award winning[1] American alternative rock band. ... Look up mayhem in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Megadeth is an American thrash metal band led by founder, frontman, and songwriter Dave Mustaine. ... This article is about a rock band; for deceptive e-mail practices, see Phishing. ... Red Box was British pop group active in the 1980s. ... The Red Hot Chili Peppers are an American rock band that formed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. ... Run-DMC is a famous hip hop crew founded by Jason Mizell (Jam Master Jay) and includes Joseph Run Simmons and Darryl DMC McDaniels, all from Hollis, Queens. ... Samhain was a deathrock/Horror punk band formed by Glenn Danzig in 1983 as The Misfits were in major turmoil and close to disbanding. ... Soul Asylum is an alternative rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1983. ... Testament is an American thrash metal band from California. ...

Bands disbanded

• Bauhaus
• Blondie (band)
• Budgie
• The Misfits
• Mission of Burma
• Roxy Music
• The Who

Bauhaus are an English Goth rock band, formed in Northampton in 1978. ... Blondie is an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s. ... Budgie is a hard rock band from Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales. ... For the movie of the same name, see The Misfits (film). ... Mission of Burma is a post-punk band from Boston, Massachusetts, USA comprising guitarist Roger Miller, bassist Clint Conley and drummer Peter Prescott, with Bob Weston (originally Martin Swope) as tape manipulator and sound engineer. ... Roxy Music are an English art rock group founded in the early 1970s by art school graduate Bryan Ferry (vocals and keyboards). ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ...

Bands reformed

• The Everly Brothers

The Everly Brothers are a pair of brothers who were top-selling country-influenced rock and roll performers, best known for their acoustic guitar playing and close harmony singing, who had their greatest success in the 1950s. ...

Albums released

• Balls to the Wall - Accept
• Flick of the Switch - AC/DC
• No Parole From Rock & Roll - Alcatrazz
• Forged in Fire - Anvil
• Lesson Well Learned EP - Armored Saint (first release)
• Feel My Soul - Jennifer Holliday (debut since Dreamgirls)
• High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera
• Into the Unknown - Bad Religion
• Deep Sea Skiving - Bananarama
• Live From Earth - Pat Benatar
• The Crossing - Big Country
• Cuts Like a Knife - Bryan Adams
• Live Evil - Black Sabbath
• Let's Dance - David Bowie
• Ich halt zu Dir - Die Flippers
• Fortune 410 - Donnie Iris
• Branigan 2 - Laura Branigan
• Johnny 99 - Johnny Cash
• Next Position Please - Cheap Trick
• You Shouldn't-Nuf Bit Fish - George Clinton
• Hello, I Must Be Going! - Phil Collins
• Colour by Numbers - Culture Club
• Head over Heels - Cocteau Twins
• Punch the Clock - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• DaDa - Alice Cooper
• Yes Sir, I Will - Crass
• Japanese Whispers - The Cure
• Star People - Miles Davis
• Canterbury - Diamond Head
• Pyromania - Def Leppard
• Construction Time Again - Depeche Mode
• Pictures - Atlanta
• Holy Diver - Dio
• I Put Away My Idols - Dion DiMucci
• Breaking the Chains - Dokken (major label debut), (rerelease)
• Alive, She Cried - The Doors
• Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran
• Powerlight - Earth, Wind & Fire
• Electric Universe - Earth, Wind & Fire
• Zeichnungen des Patienten O. T. (Drawings of Patient O. T.) - Einstürzende Neubauten
• Secret Messages - Electric Light Orchestra
• Europe - Europe
• Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
• Touch - Eurythmics
• Let's Start A War (Said Maggie One Day) - The Exploited
• Fastway - Fastway
• Out For Blood - Lita Ford (solo debut)
• Genesis - Genesis
• Before Hollywood - The Go-Betweens
• What's Funk? - Grand Funk
• Samurai - Grand Prix
• Ageless Medley EP - Amy Grant
• A Christmas Album - Amy Grant
• Heart to Heart - Merle Haggard
• Pancho & Lefty - Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson
• That's the Way Love Goes - Merle Haggard
• Rock 'n' Soul, Part 1 - Hall & Oates
• Back to the Mystery City - Hanoi Rocks
• Self-Destruction Blues Hanoi Rocks
• The Luxury Gap - Heaven 17
• No Rest For The Wicked - Helix
• Riding with the King - John Hiatt
• Feel My Soul - Jennifer Holliday
• Metal Circus - Hüsker Dü
• Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden
• Waylon & Company - Waylon Jennings
• Take It to the Limit - Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson
• Too Low for Zero - Elton John
• Shine On - George Jones
• Frontiers - Journey
• Pipes of Peace - Paul McCartney
• Lick It Up - KISS
• Headhunter - Krokus
• Madness - Madness (US only compilation)
• Madonna - Madonna
• Into Glory Ride - Manowar
• Script for a Jester's Tear - Marillion
• Confrontation - Bob Marley and the Wailers
• We Are One - Maze featuring Frankie Beverly
• Behind the Scene - Reba McEntire
• Legendary Hearts - Lou Reed
• Cargo - Men at Work
• A Volar - Menudo
• Kill 'Em All - Metallica
• Offramp - The Pat Metheny Group
• Travels - The Pat Metheny Group
• ""Buzz or Howl Under the Influence of Heat" - Minutemen
• "What Makes a Man Start Fires?" - Minutemen
• 31 July: Oriental Towers - The Modern Art
• Inarticulate Speech of the Heart - Van Morrison
• Shout at the Devil - Mötley Crüe
• Another Perfect Day - Motörhead
• Yokan (Hunch) - Miyuki Nakajima
• Sound Elixir - Nazareth
• Take it to the River - Willie Nelson
• Tougher than Leather - Willie Nelson
• Without a Song - Willie Nelson
• Dazzle Ships - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• Power, Corruption & Lies - New Order
• Trouble in Paradise - Randy Newman
• Subject: Aldo Nova - Aldo Nova
• American Made - The Oak Ridge Boys
• Dreamgirls - Original Broadway Cast Album
• Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
• Metal Magic - Pantera
• The Principle of Moments - Robert Plant
• The First Flower - Play Dead
• Urban Dance Floor Guerillas - P-Funk All Stars
• The Final Cut - Pink Floyd
• Works - Pink Floyd
• Platinum Blonde - Platinum Blonde (debut EP)
• Everywhere at Once - The Plimsouls
• Break Out - The Pointer Sisters
• Synchronicity - The Police
• Dancing For Mental Health - Will Powers (actually Lynn Goldsmith)
• Q-Feel - Q-Feel
• Queensrÿche - Queensrÿche
• Metal Health - Quiet Riot (American debut)
• Bent Out of Shape - Rainbow
• Subterranean Jungle - The Ramones
• Ratt EP - Ratt
• All for One - Raven
• Neruda - Red Rider
• Imagination - Helen Reddy
• Hootenanny - The Replacements
• Murmur - R.E.M. (full length debut)
• Can't Slow Down - Lionel Richie
• We've Got Tonight - Kenny Rogers
• Eyes That See In The Dark - Kenny Rogers
• In Heat - The Romantics
• The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect - Todd Rundgren
• Assault Attack - The Michael Schenker Group
• Built to Destroy - The Michael Schenker Group
• Hello Big Man - Carly Simon
• Hearts and Bones - Paul Simon
• Show No Mercy - Slayer (debut)
• Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion
• Confusion Is Sex - Sonic Youth (debut)
• Dagger And Guitar - Sort Sol
• Southern Death Cult EP - Southern Death Cult (first release by the band to eventually be known as The Cult)
• Works - Status Quo
• All the Best - Stiff Little Fingers
• Right or Wrong - George Strait
• Steeler - Steeler (Yngwie Malmsteen & Ron Keel's 1st band, This band's only release)
• 1st - Streets
• Yentl (soundtrack) - Barbra Streisand
• Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies (debut)
• She Works Hard For The Money - Donna Summer
• Speaking in Tongues - Talking Heads
• The Hurting - Tears for Fears (debut)
• Life - Thin Lizzy
• Thunder and Lightning - Thin Lizzy
• Hand of Kindness - Richard Thompson
• Never Surrender - Triumph
• Outside Inside - The Tubes
• You Can't Stop Rock 'n' Roll - Twisted Sister (major label debut)
• Lost in the Feeling - Conway Twitty
• Merry Twistmas - Conway Twitty
• Faster Than the Speed of Night - Bonnie Tyler
• Labour Of Love - UB40
• Under A Blood Red Sky - U2
• War - U2
• Peace Thru Vandalism - The Vandals
• Flashdance (soundtrack) - Various Artists
• Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughan
• At War with Satan - Venom
• Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes (debut)
• Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
• The Waterboys - The Waterboys (debut)
• Even the Strong Get Lonely - Tammy Wynette
• Good Love & Heartbreak - Tammy Wynette
• 90125 - Yes
• Mean Streak - Y&T
• No Parlez - Paul Young
• Zebra - Zebra
• Eliminator - ZZ Top
• Weeds & Water - Riders in the Sky
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - "Weird Al" Yankovic

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