Best Rock Album - 1983?

YellowSnow

BleachedAnusDawg

Pyromania - Def Leppard

Shoutout to Dio, though.

NoWarningJustDawg

Speaking In Tounges - Talking Heads

Shout at the Devil
Rebel Yell
Metal Health
The Hurting

...were all good too.

Somehow my fave song from the year is from someone who otherwise could miss me with his entire 80's catalog: "Well I guess that's why they call it the blues"
Love it, and even has Stevie Wonder on the harmonica. Played at the funeral for @MrsNoWarningJustDawg as I wanted something besides the tear-jerking BS she picked out.
...Yeah yeah, CSB.

PurpleThrobber

Synchronicity - The Police

Hooked up multiple times with a gal post- TDome Police concert. Have to go with that strictly on that basis.

GrundleStiltzkin

Eliminator - ZZ Top

2A Pyromania / 2B War / 2C Piece of Mind

Looking at the tracklists, War & Piece of Mind are better than I remember.

alumni94

Eliminator - ZZ Top

ZZ Top videos from this album helped me through puberty.

Fishpo31

War - U2

The beginning (and end, although I like selected cuts going forward) of my U2 phase...saw them at the Paramount...before “the pageantry” took over the music. Shout out to Dio, and the Femmes...

dflea

Kill 'Em All - Metallica

Kill 'em All is not just a great album, it's also a solid plan.

chuck

War - U2

I've really only cared for three U2 albums. This was my favorite and has New Year's Day which is their best song.

dnc

Kill 'Em All - Metallica

Hoping this vote gets @Swaye hard

Swaye

Kill 'Em All - Metallica

dnc said:

Hoping this vote gets @Swaye hard

BennyBeaver

War - U2

Pyromania close second.

DerekJohnson

Eliminator - ZZ Top

PurpleThrobber said:

Hooked up multiple times with a gal post- TDome Police concert. Have to go with that strictly on that basis.

I was in 7th grade that year, and was so excited about the Police - Tacoma Dome concert even though I didn't get to go.

DerekJohnson

Eliminator - ZZ Top

When you consider that Michael Jackson's Thriller also came out that year and what it meant to the culture, '83 was a great year for music

Laocoön

War - U2

NoWarningJustDawg said:

Shout at the Devil
Rebel Yell
Metal Health
The Hurting

...were all good too.

Somehow my fave song from the year is from someone who otherwise could miss me with his entire 80's catalog: "Well I guess that's why they call it the blues"
Love it, and even has Stevie Wonder on the harmonica. Played at the funeral for @MrsNoWarningJustDawg as I wanted something besides the tear-jerking BS she picked out.
...Yeah yeah, CSB.

Is my favorite Tears for Fears album.

Laocoön

War - U2

DerekJohnson said:

When you consider that Michael Jackson's Thriller also came out that year and what it meant to the culture, '83 was a great year for music

It was for sure!

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies
Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown
Ministry - With Sympathy
Swans - Filth
Cocteau Twins - Head Over Heels