My favourite albums from 1984

1. 30

   Purple Rain

   Prince and the Revolution

   

   

   Pop rock | Funk pop

   Tracks:

   1. Let's Go Crazy
   2. Take Me With U
   3. The Beautiful Ones
   4. Computer Blue
   5. Darling Nikki
   6. When Doves Cry ●
   7. I Would Die 4 U
   8. Baby I'm a Star
   9. Purple Rain

   Album blurb pending

2. 29

   Wings of Tomorrow

   Europe

   

   

   Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Stormwind
   2. Scream of Anger ●
   3. Open Your Heart
   4. Treated Bad Again
   5. Aphasia
   6. Wings of Tomorrow
   7. Wasted Time
   8. Lyin' Eyes
   9. Dreamer
   10. Dance the Night Away

   Album blurb pending

3. 28

   Saint Vitus

   Saint Vitus

   

   

   Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. Saint Vitus
   2. White Magic / Black Magic
   3. Zombie Hunger
   4. The Psychopath ●
   5. Burial at Sea

   Album blurb pending

4. 27

   My War

   Black Flag

   

   

   Hardcore punk | Sludge metal | Post-hardcore

   Tracks:

   1. My War
   2. Can't Decide
   3. Beat My Head Against the Wall
   4. I Love You
   5. Forever Time
   6. The Swinging Man
   7. Nothing Left Inside ●
   8. Three Nights
   9. Scream

   Album blurb pending

5. 26

   1984

   Van Halen

   

   

   Hard rock | Glam metal

   Tracks:

   1. 1984
   2. Jump
   3. Panama
   4. Top Jimmy
   5. Drop Dead Legs
   6. Hot for Teacher ●
   7. I'll Wait
   8. Girl Gone Bad
   9. House of Pain

   Album blurb pending

6. 25

   Out of the Cellar

   Ratt

   

   

   Glam metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Wanted Man ●
   2. You're in Trouble
   3. Round and Round
   4. In Your Direction
   5. She Wants Money
   6. Lack of Communication
   7. Back for More
   8. The Morning After
   9. I'm Insane
   10. Scene of the Crime

   Album blurb pending

7. 24

   King of the Dead

   Cirith Ungol

   

   

   Heavy metal | Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Atom Smasher
   2. Black Machine
   3. Master of the Pit
   4. King of the Dead ●
   5. Death of the Sun
   6. Finger of Scorn
   7. Toccata in Dm
   8. Cirith Ungol

   Album blurb pending

8. 23

   Psalm 9

   Trouble

   

   

   Doom metal

   Tracks:

   1. The Tempter
   2. Assassin
   3. Victim of the Insane
   4. Revelation (Life or Death)
   5. Bastards Will Pay ●
   6. The Fall of Lucifer
   7. Endtime
   8. Psalm 9

   Album blurb pending

9. 22

   Sign of the Hammer

   Manowar

   

   

   Heavy metal | Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. All Men Play on 10
   2. Animals
   3. Thor (The Powerhead) ●
   4. Sign of the Hammer
   5. The Oath
   6. Thunderpick
   7. Guyana (Cult of the Damned)

   Album blurb pending

10. 21

    Zen Arcade

    Hüsker Dü

    

    

    Hardcore punk | Post-hardcore

    Tracks:

    1. Something I Learned Today
    2. Broken Home, Broken Heart
    3. Never Talkng to You Again
    4. Chartered Trips
    5. Dreams Reoccurring
    6. Indecision Time
    7. Hare Kṛṣṇa
    8. Beyond the Threshold
    9. Pride
    10. I'll Never Forget You
    11. The Biggest Lie
    12. What's Going on
    13. Masochism World
    14. Standing by the Sea
    15. Somewhere
    16. One Step at a Time
    17. Punk Turns to Blue
    18. Newest Industry
    19. Monday Will Never Be the Same
    20. Whatever
    21. The Tooth Fairy and the Princess
    22. Turn on the News
    23. Reoccurring Dreams ●

    Album blurb pending

11. 20

    Hail to England

    Manowar

    

    

    Heavy metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Blood on My Enemies
    2. Each Dawn I Die
    3. Kill with Power
    4. Hail to England
    5. Army of the Immortals
    6. Black Arrows
    7. Bridge of Death ●

    Album blurb pending

12. 19

    Bathory

    Bathory

    

    

    Black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Storm of Damnation
    2. Hades ●
    3. Reaper
    4. Necromansy
    5. Sacrifice
    6. In Conspiracy with Satan
    7. Armageddon
    8. Raise the Dead
    9. War
    10. Outro

    Album blurb pending

13. 18

    Rising Force

    Yngwie J. Malmsteen

    

    

    Neoclassical metal

    Tracks:

    1. Black Star ●
    2. Far Beyond the Sun
    3. Now Your Ships Are Burned
    4. Evil Eye
    5. Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4
    6. As Above, So Below
    7. Little Savage
    8. Farewell

    Album blurb pending

14. 17

    Couldn't Stand the Weather

    Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

    

    

    Blues | Blues rock

    Tracks:

    1. Scuttle Buttin' ●
    2. Coudn't Stand the Weather
    3. The THings (That) I Used to Do
    4. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
    5. Cold SHot
    6. Tin Pan Alley
    7. Honey Bee
    8. Stang's Swang

    Album blurb pending

15. 16

    Three of a Perfect Pair

    King Crimson

    

    

    Progressive rock | New wave

    Tracks:

    1. Three of a Perfect Pair ●
    2. Model Man
    3. Sleepless
    4. Man with an Open Heart
    5. Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds)
    6. Industry
    7. Dig Me
    8. No Warning
    9. Larks' Tongue in Aspic (Part III)

    Album blurb pending

16. 15

    Reckoning

    R.E.M.

    

    

    Jangle pop | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Harborcoat
    2. 7 Chinese Bros.
    3. So. Centra Rain (I'm Sorry)
    4. Pretty Persuasion ●
    5. Time After Time (Annelise)
    6. Second Guessing
    7. Letter Never Sent
    8. Camera
    9. (Don't Go Back to) Rockville
    10. Little America

    Album blurb pending

17. 14

    Defenders of the Faith

    Judas Priest

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Freewheel Burning
    2. Jawbreaker ●
    3. Rock Hard Ride Free
    4. The Sentinel
    5. Love Bits
    6. Eat Me Alive
    7. Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
    8. Night Comes Down
    9. Heavy Duty
    10. Defenders of the Faith

    Album blurb pending

18. 13

    Reckless

    Bryan Adams

    

    

    Pop rock | roots rock

    Tracks:

    1. One Night Love Affair
    2. She's Only Happy When She's Dancin'
    3. Run to You ●
    4. Heaven
    5. Somebody
    6. Summer of '69
    7. Kids Wanna Rock
    8. It's Only Love
    9. Long Gone
    10. Ain't Gonna Cry

    Album blurb pending

19. 12

    From Her to Eternity

    Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

    

    

    Post-punk

    Tracks:

    1. Avalanche
    2. Cabin Fever!
    3. Well of Misery
    4. From Her to Eternity ●
    5. Saint Huck
    6. Wings off Flies
    7. A Box for Black Paul

    Album blurb pending

20. 11

    Morbid Tales

    Celtic Frost

    

    

    Thrash metal | Black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Into the Crypts of Rays
    2. Visions of Mortality
    3. Dethroned Emperor
    4. Morbid Tales ●
    5. Procreation (of the Wicked)
    6. Return to the Eve
    7. Danse Macabre
    8. Nocturnal Fear

    Album blurb pending

21. 10

    The Warning

    Queensrÿche

    

    

    Heavy metal | Progressive metal

    Tracks:

    1. Warning
    2. En Force
    3. Deliverance
    4. No Sanctuary
    5. N M 156
    6. Take Hold of the Flame ●
    7. Before the Storm
    8. Child of Fire
    9. Roads to Madness

    Album blurb pending

22. 9

    Love at First Sting

    Scorpions

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bad Boys Running Wild
    2. Rock You Like a Hurricane
    3. I'm Leaving You
    4. Coming Home
    5. The Same Thrill
    6. Big City Nights
    7. As Soon As the Good Times Roll
    8. Crossfire
    9. Still Loving You ●

    Album blurb pending

23. 8

    The Last in Line

    Dio

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. We Rock
    2. The Last in Line
    3. Breathless
    4. I Speed at Night
    5. One Night in the City
    6. Evil Eyes
    7. Mystery
    8. Eat Your Heart out
    9. Egypt (The Chains Are on) ●

    Album blurb pending

24. 7

    Don't Break the Oath

    Mercyful Fate

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. A Dangerous Meeting
    2. Nightmare
    3. Desecration of Souls
    4. Night of the Unborn
    5. The Oath ●
    6. Gypsy
    7. Welcome Princess of Hell
    8. To One Far Away
    9. Come to the Sabbath

    Album blurb pending

25. 6

    W.A.S.P.

    W.A.S.P.

    

    

    Heavy metal | glam metal

    Tracks:

    1. Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)
    2. I Wanna Be Somebody
    3. L.O.V.E. Machine ●
    4. The Flame
    5. B.A.D.
    6. Schoo Daze
    7. Hellion
    8. Sleeping (in the Fire)
    9. On Your Knees
    10. Tormentor
    11. The Torture Never Stops

    Album blurb pending

26. 5

    Powerslave

    Iron Maiden

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Aces High
    2. 2 Minutes to Midnight
    3. Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
    4. Flash of the Blade
    5. The Duellists
    6. Back in the Village
    7. Powerslave ●
    8. Rime of the Ancient Mariner

    Album blurb pending

27. 4

    Perfect Strangers

    Deep Purple

    

    

    Hard rock | heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Knocking at Your Back Door
    2. Under the Gun
    3. Nobody's Home
    4. Mean Streak
    5. Perfect Strangers ●
    6. A Gypsy's Kiss
    7. Wasted Sunsets
    8. Hungry Daze

    Album blurb pending

28. 3

    Metal Church

    Metal Church

    

    

    Heavy metal | thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Beyond the Black
    2. Metal Church ●
    3. Merciless Onslaught
    4. Gos of Wrath
    5. Hitman
    6. In the Blood
    7. (My Favourite) Nightmare
    8. Battalions

    Album blurb pending

29. 2

    Ele Güne Karşı Yapayalnız

    Mazhar Fuat Özkan

    

    

    Pop rock | Anatolian rock

    Tracks:

    1. Ele Güne Karşı
    2. Deli Deli
    3. Sen ve Ben
    4. Yalnızlık Ömür Boyu
    5. Neye Niyet Neye Kısmet
    6. Ondan Şikayet Bundan Şikayet
    7. Bu Sabah Yağmur Var İstanbul'da ●
    8. Olmuyor Olamiyor
    9. Sevdim Bir Kere
    10. Bodrum
    11. Güllerin İçinden

    Album blurb pending

30. 1

    Ride the Lightning

    Metallica

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Fight Fire with Fire
    2. Ride the Lightning
    3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
    4. Fade to Black ●
    5. Trapped Under Ice
    6. Escape
    7. Creeping Death
    8. The Call of Ktulu

    Album blurb pending