1981

Heroes, Saints & Fools

Saracen

• Label: Nucleus
• Released: October 1981

• Heavy metal
• Hard rock

1. Crusader
2. Rock of Ages
3. No More Lonely Nights
4. Horsemen of the Apocalypse
5. Heroes, Saints & Fools
6. Dolphin Ride
7. Ready to Fly

Breaker

Accept

• Label: Brain
• Released: 16 March 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Starlight
2. Breaker
3. Run If You Can
4. Can't Stand the Night
5. Son of a Bitch
6. Burning
7. Feelings
8. Midnight Highway
9. Breaking up Again
10. Down and Out

Juju

Siouxsie and the Banshees

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 19 June 1981

• Post-punk
• Gothic rock
• Art rock

1. Spellbound
2. Into the Light
3. Arabian Knights
4. Halloween
5. Monitor
6. Night Shift
7. Sin in My Heart
8. Head Cut
9. Voodoo Dolly

Hard Promises

Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

• Label: Backstreet
• Released: 5 May 1981

• Roots rock

1. The Waiting
2. A Woman in Love (It's Not Me)
3. Nightwatchman
4. Something Big
5. Kings Road
6. Letting You Go
7. A Thing About You
8. Insider
9. The Criminal Kid
10. You Can Still Change Your Mind

Paradise Theatre

Styx

• Label: A&M
• Released: 16 January 1981

• Progressive rock
• AOR

1. A.D. 1928
2. Rockin' the Paradise
3. Too Much Time on My Hands
4. Nothing Ever Goes as Planned
5. The Best of Times
6. Lonely People
7. She Cares
8. Snowblind
9. Half-Penny, Two-Penny
10. A.D. 1958
11. State Street Sadie

Rock Until You Drop

Raven

• Label: Neat
• Released: January 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Hard Ride
2. Hell Patrol
3. Don't Need Your Money
4. Over the Top
5. 39-40
6. For the Future
7. Rock Until You Drop
8. Npbody's Hero
9. Hellraiser / Action
10. Lambs to the Slaughter
11. Tyrant of the Airways

Time Tells No Lies

Praying Mantis

• Label: Arista
• Released: 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Cheated
2. All Day and All of the Night
3. Running for Tomorrow
4. Rich City Kids
5. Lovers to the Grave
6. Panic in the Streets
7. Beads of Ebony
8. Flirting with Suicide
9. Children of the Earth

Fair Warning

Van Halen

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 29 April 1981

• Hard rock

1. Mean Street
2. Dirty Movies
3. Sinner's Swing!
4. Hear About It Later
5. Unchained
6. Push Comes to Shove
7. So This Is Love?
8. Sunday Afternoon in the Park
9. One Foor out the Door

Point of Entry

Judas Priest

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 27 February 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Heading out to the Highway
2. Don't Go
3. Hot Rockin'
4. Turning Circles
5. Desert Plains
6. Solar Angels
7. You Say Yes
8. All the Way
9. Troubleshooter
10. On the Run

Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks

Hanoi Rocks

• Label: Johanna Kustannus
• Released: 26 February 1981

• Glam metal
• Glam punk

1. Tragedy
2. Village Girl
3. Stop Cryin'
4. Don't Never Leave Me
5. Lost in the City
6. First Timer
7. Cheyenne
8. 11th Street Kids
9. Walking with My Angel
10. Pretender

Fire Down Under

Riot

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Swords and Tequila
2. Fire Down Under
3. Feel the Same
4. Outlaw
5. Don't Brign Me Down
6. Don't Hold Back
7. Altar of the King
8. No Lies
9. Run for Your Life
10. Flashbacks

The Evil One

Roky Erickson & the Aliens

• Label: 415 Records
• Released: 1981

• Psychedelic rock
• Hard rock

1. Two-Headed Dog
2. I Think of Demons
3. I Walked with a Zombie
4. Don't Shake Me Lucifer
5. Night of the Vampire
6. White Faces
7. Cold Night for Alligators
8. Creature with the Atom Brain
9. Mine Mine Mind
10. Stand for the Fire Demon

Difficult to Cure

Rainbow

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 9 February 1981

• Hard rock

1. I Surrender
2. Spotlight Kid
3. No Release
4. Magic
5. Vielleicht Das Nächste Mal
6. Can't Happen Here
7. Freedom Fighter
8. Midtown Tunnel Vision
9. Difficult to Cure (Beethoven's Ninth)

Eros

Dün

• Label: n/a
• Released: 1981

• Zeuhl
• Avant-garde rock
• Progressive rock

1. L'épice
2. Arrakis
3. Bitonio
4. Eros

Damaged

Black Flag

• Label: SST
• Released: December 1981

• Hardcore punk

1. Rise Above
2. Spray Paint
3. Six Pack
4. What I See
5. TV Party
6. Thirsty and Miserable
7. Polcie Story
8. Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie
9. Depression
10. Room 13
11. Damaged II
12. No More
13. Padded Cell
14. Life of Pain
15. Damaged I

Frost and Fire

Cirith Ungol

• Label: Liquid Frames Records
• Released: 1 January 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Frost and Fire
2. I'm Alive
3. A Little Fire
4. What Does It Take
5. Edge of a Knife
6. Better off Dead
7. Maybe That's Why

Spellbound

Tygers of Pan Tang

• Label: MCA
• Released: 10 April 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Gangland
2. Take It
3. Minotaur
4. Hellbound
5. Mirror
6. Silver and Gold
7. The Story So Far
8. Don't Stop by

Planets

Eloy

• Label: Harvest
• Released: June 1981

• Space rock
• Progressive rock

1. Introduction
2. On the Verge of Darkening Lights
3. Point of No Return
4. Mysterious Monolith
5. Queen of the Night
6. At the Gates of Dawn
7. Sphinx
8. Carried by Cosmic Winds

Welcome to Hell

Venom

• Label: Combat
• Released: December 1981

• Heavy metal
• Black metal

1. Sons of Satan
2. Welcome to Hell
3. Schizoid
4. Mayhem with Mercy
5. Poison
6. Live Like an Angel (Die Like a Devil)
7. Witching Hour
8. One Thousand Days in Sodom
9. Angel Dust
10. In League with Satan
11. Red Light Fever

Too Fast for Love

Mötley Crüe

• Label: Elektra
• Released: 10 November 1981

• Heavy metal, glam metal

1. Live Wire
2. Come on and Dance
3. Public Enemy #1
4. Merry-Go-Round
5. Take Me to the Top
6. Piece of Your Action
7. Starry Eyes
8. Too Fast for Love
9. On with the Show

Hit and Run

Girlschool

• Label: Bronze
• Released: 20 April 1981

• Heavy metal

1. C'mon Let's Go
2. The Hunter
3. (I'm Your Victim)
4. Kick It Down
5. Following the Crows
6. Tush
7. Hit and Run
8. Watch Your Sleep
9. Back to Start
10. Yeah Right
11. Future Flash

Marauder

Blackfoot

• Label: ATCO
• Released: July 1981

• Hard rock
• Southern rock

1. Good Morning
2. Payin' for It
3. Diary of a Workingman
4. Too Hard to Handle
5. Fly Away
6. Dry Country
7. Fire of the Dragon
8. Rattlesnake Rock'n'Roller
9. Searchin'

Discipline

King Crimson

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 22 September 1981

• Progressive rock
• Art rock

1. Elephant Talk
2. Frame by Frame
3. Matte Kudasai
4. Indiscipline
5. Thela Hun Ginjeet
6. The Sheltering Sky
7. Discipline

Bella Donna

Stevie Nicks

• Label: Atco
• Released: 27 July 1981

• Pop rock

1. Bella Donna
2. Kind of Woman
3. Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
4. Think About It
5. After the Glitter Fades
6. Edge of Seventeen
7. How Still My Love
8. Leather and Lace
9. Outside the Rain
10. The Highwayman

Diary of a Madman

Ozzy Osbourne

• Label: Jet
• Released: 7 November 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Over the Mountains
2. Flying High Again
3. You Can't Kill Rock and Roll
4. Believer
5. Little Dolls
6. Tonight
7. S.A.T.O.
8. Diary of a Madman

Moving Pictures

Rush

• Label: Anthem
• Released: 12 February 1981

• Progressive metal
• hard rock

1. Tom Sawyer
2. Red Barchetta
3. YYZ
4. Limelight
5. The Camera Eye
6. Witch Hunt
7. Vital Signs

Fire of Unknown Origin

Blue Öyster Cult

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 22 June 1981

• Hard rock
• heavy metal

1. Fire of Unknown Origin
2. Burnin' for You
3. Veteran of the Psychic Wars
4. Sole Survivor
5. Heavy Metal: The Black and Silver
6. Vengeance (The Pact)
7. After Dark
8. Joan Crawford
9. Don't Turn Your Back

Sözüm Meclisten Dışarı

Barış Manço

• Label: Türküola
• Released: 4 April 1981

• Anatolian rock
• Pop rock

1. Ademoğlu Kızgın Fırın, Havva Kızı Mercimek
2. Ali Yazar Veli Bozar
3. Arkadaşım Eşşek
4. 2025 (Üçüncü Yolculuk)
5. Bahçede Hanımeli
6. Gülpembe
7. Hamburger
8. Alla Beni Pulla Beni
9. Şehrazat
10. Dönence
11. Cacık
12. Hal Hal
13. Ce Sera le Temps

Mob Rules

Black Sabbath

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: 4 November 1981

• Heavy metal

1. Turn up the Night
2. Voodoo
3. The Sign of the Southern Cross
4. E5150
5. The Mob Rules
6. Country Girl
7. Slipping Away
8. Falling off the Edge of the World
9. Over and Over

Killers

Iron Maiden

• Label: EMI
• Released: 16 February 1981

• Heavy metal

1. The Ides of March
2. Wrathchild
3. Murders in the Rue Morgue
4. Another Life
5. Genghis Khan
6. Innocent Exile
7. Killers
8. Prodigal Son
9. Purgatory
10. Drifter