My favourite albums from 1985

1. 32

   The Wake

   IQ

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Outer Limits
   2. The Wake
   3. The Magic Roundabout ●
   4. Corners
   5. Widow's Peak
   6. The Thousand Days
   7. Headlong

   Genres

   • Progressive rock
   • Neo-prog

2. 31

   Sacred Heart

   Dio

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. King of Rock and Roll
   2. Sacred Heart
   3. Another Lie
   4. Rock 'n' Roll Children ●
   5. Hungry for Heaven
   6. Like the Beat of a Heart
   7. Just Another Day
   8. Fallen Angels
   9. Shoot Shoot

   Genres

   • Heavy metal
   • Hard rock

3. 30

   Little Creatures

   Talking Heads

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. And She Was
   2. Give Me Back My Name
   3. Creatures of Love ●
   4. The Lady Don't Mind
   5. Perfect World
   6. Stay up Late
   7. Walk It Down
   8. Television Man
   9. Road to Nowhere

   Genres

   • New Wave
   • Pop rock

4. 29

   The Spectre Within

   Fates Warning

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Traveler in Time ●
   2. Orphan Gypsy
   3. Without a Trace
   4. Pirates of the Underground
   5. The Apparition
   6. Kyrie Eleison
   7. Epitaph

   Genres

   • Heavy metal
   • Progressive metal

5. 28

   Dealing with It

   D.R.I.

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Snap
   2. I'd Rather Be Sleeping ●
   3. Marriage
   4. Yes Ma'am
   5. Soup Kitchen
   6. Mad Man
   7. Stupid, Stupid War
   8. Counter Attack
   9. Couch Slouch
   10. Karma
   11. Nursing Home Blues
   12. I Dond't Need Society
   13. Give My Taxes Back
   14. The Explorer
   15. Reaganomics
   16. How to Act
   17. Shame
   18. Argument Then War
   19. Evil Minds
   20. Busted Again
   21. Equal People
   22. On My Way Home
   23. Bail out

   Genres

   • Hardcore punk
   • Crossover thrash
   • Thrash metal

6. 27

   Endless Pain

   Kreator

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Endless Pain
   2. Total Death
   3. Storm of the Beast
   4. Tormentor
   5. Son of Evil
   6. Flag of Hate ●
   7. Cry War
   8. Bonenreaker
   9. Living in Fear
   10. Dying Victims

   Genres

   • Thrash metal
   • Black metal

7. 26

   Invasion of Your Privacy

   Ratt

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. You're in Love
   2. Never Use Love
   3. Lay It Down ●
   4. Give It All
   5. Closer to My Heart
   6. Between the Eyes
   7. What You Give Is What You Get
   8. Got Me on the Line
   9. You Should Know by Now
   10. Dangerous but Worth the Risk

   Genres

   • Glam metal
   • Heavy metal

8. 25

   Power of the Night

   Savatage

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Power of the Night
   2. Unusual
   3. Warriors
   4. Necrophilia
   5. Washed out
   6. Hard for Love
   7. Fountain of Youth
   8. Skull Session ●
   9. Stuck on You
   10. In the Dream

   Genres

   • Heavy metal

9. 24

   Southern Accents

   Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

   
   

   Tracklist

   1. Rebels
   2. It Ain't Nothin' to Me
   3. Don't Come Around Here No More ●
   4. Southern Accents
   5. Make It Better (Forget About Me)
   6. Spike
   7. Dogs on the Run
   8. Mary's New Car
   9. The Best of Everything

   Genres

   • Roots rock
   • Southern rock

10. 23

    Infernal Overkill

    Destruction

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Invincible Force
    2. Death Trap
    3. The Ritual
    4. Tormentor
    5. Bestial Invasion
    6. Thrash Attack ●
    7. Antichrist
    8. Black Death

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

11. 22

    Walls of Jericho

    Helloween

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Walls of Jericho
    2. Ride the Sky
    3. Reptile
    4. Guardians
    5. Phantoms of Death
    6. Metal Invaders
    7. Gorgar
    8. Heavy Metal (Is the Law)
    9. How Many Tears ●

    Genres

    • Speed metal
    • Power metal

12. 21

    The Skull

    Trouble

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Pray for the Dead
    2. Fear No Evil
    3. The Wish ●
    4. Truth Is — What Is
    5. Wickedness of Man
    6. Gideon
    7. The Skull

    Genres

    • Doom metal

13. 20

    Night Time

    Killing Joke

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Night Time
    2. Darkness Before Dawn
    3. Love Like Blood
    4. Kings and Queens
    5. Tabazan
    6. Multitudes
    7. Europe
    8. Eighties ●

    Genres

    • Gothic rock
    • Post-punk

14. 19

    Fear of Tomorrow

    Artillery

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Time Has Come
    2. The Almighty
    3. Show Your Hate
    4. King, Thy Name Is Slayer ●
    5. Out of the Sky
    6. Into the Universe
    7. The Eternal War
    8. Fear of Tomorrow
    9. Deeds of Darkness

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

15. 18

    Speak English or Die

    S.O.D.

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. March of the S.O.D.
    2. Sargent D and the S.O.D.
    3. Kill Yourself
    4. Milano Mosh
    5. Speak English or Die
    6. United Forces
    7. Chromatic Death
    8. Pi Alpha Nu
    9. Anti-Procrastination Song
    10. What's That Noise
    11. Freddy Krueger
    12. Milk ●
    13. Pre-Menstrual Princess Blues
    14. Pussy Whipped
    15. Fist Banging Mania
    16. No Turning Back
    17. Fuck the Middle East
    18. Douche Crew
    19. Hey Gordy!
    20. Ballad of Jimi Hendrix
    21. Diamonds and Rust (Extended Version)

    Genres

    • Crossover thrash metal

16. 17

    On a Storyteller's Night

    Magnum

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. How Far Jerusalem ●
    2. Just Like an Arrow
    3. On a Storyteller's Night
    4. Before First Light
    5. Les Morts Dansants
    6. Endless Love
    7. Two Hearts
    8. Steal Your Heart
    9. All England's Eyes
    10. The Last Dance

    Genres

    • Hard rock
    • progressive rock

17. 16

    Misplaced Childhood

    Marillion

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Pseudo Silk Kimono ●
    2. Kayleigh
    3. Lavender
    4. Bitter Suite
    5. Heart of Lothian
    6. Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
    7. Lords of the Backstage
    8. Blind Curve
    9. Childhood's End?
    10. White Feather

    Genres

    • Progressive rock

18. 15

    Flip Your Wig

    Hüsker Dü

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Flip Your Wig
    2. Every Everything ●
    3. Makes No Sense at All
    4. Hate Paper Doll
    5. Green Eyes
    6. Divide and Conquer
    7. Games
    8. Find Me
    9. The Baby Song
    10. Flexible Flyer
    11. Private Plane
    12. Keep Hanging on
    13. The Wit and the Wisdom
    14. Don't Know Yet

    Genres

    • Power pop
    • Punk rock

19. 14

    Metal Heart

    Accept

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Metal Heart ●
    2. Midnight Mover
    3. Up to the Limit
    4. Wrong Is Right
    5. Screaming for a Love-Bite
    6. Too High to Get It Right
    7. Dogs on Leads
    8. Teach Us to Survive
    9. Living for Tonite
    10. Bound to Fall

    Genres

    • Heavy metal

20. 13

    Open the Gates

    Manilla Road

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Metalström
    2. Open the Gates
    3. Astronomica
    4. Weavers of the Web
    5. Heavy Metal to the World
    6. The Fires of Mars
    7. Road to Kings
    8. Hour of the Dragon
    9. Witches Brew ●

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • Power metal

21. 12

    Metal Fatigue

    Allan Holdsworth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Metal Fatigue ●
    2. Home
    3. Devil Take the Hindmost
    4. Panic Station
    5. The Un-Merry-Go-Round
    6. In the Mystery

    Genres

    • Jazz fusion

22. 11

    The Return ...

    Bathory

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Revelation of Doom
    2. Total Destruction
    3. Born for Burning
    4. The Wind of Mayhem
    5. Bestial Lust (Bitch)
    6. Possessed
    7. The Rite of Darkness
    8. Reap of Evil
    9. Son of the Damned
    10. Sadist (Tormentor)
    11. The Return of the Darkness and Evil ●
    12. Outro

    Genres

    • Black metal

23. 10

    Hell Awaits

    Slayer

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Hell Awaits ●
    2. Kill Again
    3. At Dawn They Sleep
    4. Praise of Death
    5. Necrophiliac
    6. Crypts of Eternity
    7. Hardening of the Arteries

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

24. 9

    Fables of Reconstruction

    R.E.M.

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Feeling Gravity's Pull
    2. Maps and Legends
    3. Driver 8
    4. Life and How to Live It
    5. Old Man Kensey
    6. Can't Get From Here
    7. Green Grow the Rushes ●
    8. Kohoutek
    9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
    10. Good Advice
    11. Wendell Gee

    Genres

    • Folk rock
    • Alternative rock

25. 8

    Hounds of Love

    Kate Bush

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Running up That Hill (A Deal with God) ●
    2. Houdns of Love
    3. The Big Sky
    4. Mother Stands for Comfort
    5. Cloudbusting
    6. And Dream of Sheep
    7. Under Ice
    8. Waking the Witch
    9. Watching You without Me
    10. Jig of Life
    11. Hello Earth
    12. The Morning Fog

    Genres

    • art pop
    • progressive rock

26. 7

    Spreading the Disease

    Anthrax

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. A.I.R.
    2. Lone Justice
    3. Madhouse ●
    4. S.S.C. / Stand or Fall
    5. The Enemy
    6. Aftershock
    7. Armed and Dangerous
    8. Medusa
    9. Gung-Ho

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

27. 6

    The Last Command

    W.A.S.P.

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Wild Child ●
    2. Ballcrusher
    3. Fistful of Diamonds
    4. Jack Action
    5. Widowmaker
    6. Blind in Texas
    7. Cries in the Night
    8. The Last Command
    9. Running Wild in the STreets
    10. Sex Drive

    Genres

    • Heavy metal
    • glam metal

28. 5

    Brothers in Arms

    Dire Straits

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. So Far Away
    2. Money for Nothing
    3. Walk of Life
    4. Your Latest Trick
    5. Why Worry
    6. Ride Across the River
    7. The Man's Too Strong
    8. One World
    9. Brothers in Arms ●

    Genres

    • Pop rock

29. 4

    To Mega Therion

    Celtic Frost

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Inocence and Wrath
    2. The Usurper ●
    3. Jewel Throne
    4. Dawn of Meggido
    5. Eternal Summer
    6. Circle of Tyrants
    7. (Beyond the) North Winds
    8. Fainted Eyes
    9. Tears in a Prophet's Dream
    10. Necromantical Screams

    Genres

    • Death metal
    • thrash metal

30. 3

    Seven Churches

    Possessed

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. The Exorcist
    2. Pentagram
    3. Burning in Hell
    4. Evil Warriors
    5. Seven Churches
    6. Satan's Curse
    7. Holy Hell
    8. Twisted Minds
    9. Fallen Angel
    10. Death Metal ●

    Genres

    • Death metal
    • thrash metal

31. 2

    Killing Is My Busness ... and Business Is Good!

    Megadeth

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Last Rites / Loved to Deth
    2. Killing Is My Business ... and Business Is Good!
    3. The Skull Beneath My Skin
    4. These Boots
    5. Rattlehead ●
    6. Chosen Ones
    7. Looking down the Cross
    8. Mechanix

    Genres

    • Thrash metal

32. 1

    Bonded by Blood

    Exodus

    
    

    Tracklist

    1. Bonded in Blood
    2. Exodus
    3. And Then There Were None
    4. A Lesson in Violence ●
    5. Metal Command
    6. Piranha
    7. No Love
    8. Deliver Us to Evil
    9. Strike of the Beast

    Genres

    • Thrash metal