Monday, September 14th - Friday, September 18th, we’ll be counting down the 500 Greatest Albums of the 80's as chosen by you. Tune in from 6 am till 7 pm and spend the week reminiscing, or discovering these totally gnarly jams. Follow along till we hit #1 just before 6 pm with Laura Shine on Friday the 18th, and keep an eye on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter for some fun trivia, photos and conversation!
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1 Prince - Purple Rain
2 U2 - The Joshua Tree
3 Michael Jackson - Thriller
4 Bruce Springsteen - Born in The USA
5 Police - Synchronicity
6 Paul Simon - Graceland
7 AC/DC - Back In Black
8 Guns N Roses - Appetite for Destruction
9 Peter Gabriel - So
10 Tom Petty - Full Moon Fever
11 Talking Heads - Remain in The Light
12 David Bowie - Lets Dance
13 REM - Murmur
14 Rolling Stones - Tattoo You
15 Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill
16 Talking Heads - Speaking in Tongues
17 Prince - 1999
18 Clash - London Calling
19 Talking Heads - Stop Making Sense
20 Van Halen - 1984
21 Cure - Disintegration
22 Pixies - Doolittle
23 U2 - War
24 INXS - Kick
25 Smiths - The Queen is Dead
26 DIRE STRAITS - BROTHERS IN ARMS
27 Beastie Boys - Pauls Boutique
28 Tears For Fears - Songs from The Big Chair
29 Pretenders - The Pretenders
30 Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
31 Bruce Springsteen - The River
32 Cyndi Lauper - Shes So Unusual
33 George Michael - Faith
34 Rush - Moving Pictures
35 Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska
36 Clash - Combat Rock
37 Madonna - Like a Virgin
38 Tracy Chapman - Tracy Chapman
39 Violent Femmes - Violent Femmes
40 Traveling Wilburys - Volume 1
41 Replacements - Let It Be
42 Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet
43 Duran Duran - Rio
44 Metallica - Master of Puppets
45 Def Leppard - Pyromania
46 Madonna - Madonna
47 Police - Ghost in The Machine
48 Janes Addiction - Nothings Shocking
49 Journey - Escape
50 Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
51 ZZ Top - Eliminator
52 Kate Bush - Hounds of Love
53 REM - Lifes Rich Pageant
54 John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
55 Pixies - Surfer Rosa
56 Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
57 NWA - Straight Outta Compton
58 Prince - Sign O The Times
59 REM - Document
60 Roxy Music - Avalon
61 Go - Gos - Beauty and The Beat
62 Huey Lewis and The News - Sports
63 stevie ray vaughan - texas flood
64 B52s - Cosmic Thing
65 Talking Heads - Little Creatures
66 Tina Turner - Private Dancer
67 Replacements - Tim
68 Steve Earle - Guitar Town
69 David Bowie - Scary Monsters
70 Devo - Freedom of Choice
71 John Cougar Mellencamp - Uh Huh
72 Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
73 REM - Green
74 U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
75 XTC - Skylarking
76 Clash - Sandinista
77 Dire Straits - Making Movies
78 Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
79 Smiths - The Smiths
80 Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
81 Crowded House - Crowded House
82 Melissa Etheridge - Brave and Crazy
83 New Order - Power, Corruption and Lies
84 Nirvana - Bleach
85 Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
86 REM - Reckoning
87 Squeeze - East Side Story
88 Culture Club - Colour By Numbers
89 Cure - The Head on The Door
90 Def Leppard - Hysteria
91 Don Henley - Building The Perfect Beast
92 Janet Jackson - Control
93 Run DMC - Run DMC
94 Smiths - Meat is Murder
95 X - Los Angeles
96 Cars - Shake It Up
97 Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
98 Depeche Mode - Music for The Masses
99 Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc, Etc
100 John Cougar Mellencamp - American Fool
101 Men at Work - Business as Usual
102 Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
103 Queen - The Game
104 U2 - Rattle and Hum
105 Yes - 90125
106 10,000 Maniacs - In my tribe
107 Cars - Heartbreak City
108 De La Soul - Three Feet High and Rising
109 John Hiatt - Bring The Family
110 Michael Jackson - Bad
111 REM - Fables of The Reconstruction
112 Replacements - Pleased to Meet Me
113 Sting - Dream of The Blue Turtles
114 Bonnie Raitt - The Nick of Time
115 Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom
116 Grateful Dead - In The dark
117 Heart - Heart
118 inxs - Listen like thieves
119 Joe Jackson - Night and Day
120 Joy Division - Closer
121 Leonard Cohen - Im Your Man
122 Lyle Lovett - Lyle Lovett
123 Midnight Oil - Diesel and Dust
124 Pink Floyd - A Momentary Lapse of Reason
125 Prince - Dirty Mind
126 Rolling Stones - Steel Wheels
127 Sade - Diamond Life
128 Tom Petty - Southern Accents
129 Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston
130 Bob Dylan - Oh Mercy
131 Elvis Costello - Get Happy
132 Indigo Girls - Indigo Girls
133 Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy
134 Lou Reed - New York
135 Metallica - Ride The lightning
136 Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
137 Richard and Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights
138 Sting - Nothing Like The Sun
139 UB40 - Labour of Love
140 Van Halen - 5150
141 Adam and The Ants - Kings of The Wild Frontier
142 Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
143 Billy Joel - Glass Houses
144 Edie Brickell and New Bohemians - Shooting Rubberbands at The Stars
145 English Beat - I Just Cant Stop it
146 Janet Jackson - Rhythm Nation
147 John Cougar Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
148 King Crimson - Discipline
149 Madonna - True Blue
150 Ozzy Osborne - Diary of a Madman
151 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mothers Milk
152 Steve Winwood - Back in The High Life
153 U2 - Boy
154 Wham! - Make It Big
155 XTC - English Settlement
156 Yaz - Upstairs at Erics
157 Aha - Hunting High and Low
158 Billy Squier - Dont Say No
159 Bob Dylan - Infidels
160 Bob Marley - Legend
161 Bryan Adams - Reckless
162 Donald Fagen - The Nightfly
163 Echo and The Bunnymen - Ocean Rain
164 John Hiatt - Slow Turning
165 Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengence
166 Living Colour - Vivid
167 Metallica - And Justice for All
168 Billy Joel - An Innocent Man
169 Minutemen - Double Nickels on The Dime
170 Motorhead - Ace of Spades
171 Neil Young - Freedom
172 New Order - substance
173 Ozzy Osborne - Blizzard of Ozz
174 Pink Floyd - The Wall (Soundtrack - Not the album)
175 REO Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
176 Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
177 Smiths - Strangeways Here We Come
178 Styx - Paradise Theater
179 Talk Talk - Spirit of Eden
180 They Might Be Giants - They Might Be Giants
181 Waterboys - Fishermans Blues
182 ABC - lexicon of love
183 Anita Baker - Rapture
184 Bad Brains - I Against I
185 Bangles - Different Light
186 Beat Farmers - Tales of The New West
187 Genesis - Invisible Touch
188 Black Flag - Damaged
189 Culture Club - Kissing to be Clever
190 Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
191 B52s - Wild Planet
192 Soundtrack - Breakfast Club
193 Duran Duran - Duran Duran
194 Cure - The Top
195 Fixx - Reach The Beach
196 Fugazi - 13 Songs
197 Hall and Oates - Private Eyes
198 Human League - Dare
199 J Geils Band - Freeze Frame
200 Joan Jett - I Love Rock n Roll
201 Journey - Departure
202 Love and Rockets - Express
203 Lucinda Williams - Lucinda Williams
204 Madonna - Like a Prayer
205 Marshall Crenshaw - Marshall Crenshaw
206 New Order - Brotherhood
207 Pet Shop Boys - Please
208 Phish - Junta
209 Prince - Around The World in a Day
210 Prince - Controversy
211 Randy Newman - Trouble in Paradise
212 Run DMC - Rasing Hell
213 rush - Permanent Waves
214 Sinead OConner - The Lion and The Cobra
215 Smiths - Louder than Bombs
216 Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
217 Suzanne Vega - Solitude Standing
218 They Might be Giants - Lincoln
219 Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones
220 Toto - IV
221 Waterboys - This Is The Sea
222 Alan Parsons Project - Eye in The Sky
223 Psychedelic Furs - Talk Talk Talk
224 Aztec Camera - High Land, Hard Rain
225 Duran Duran - Seven and The Ragged Tiger
226 Soundtrack - Pretty in Pink
227 Bob Marley - Uprising
228 BoDeans - Love and Hope and Sex and Dreams
229 Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is
230 Chris Isaak - Heart shaped world
231 Weird Al - Weird Al in 3D
232 Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
233 Bob Seger - Against Wind
234 Devo - New Traditionalists
235 Dinosaur Jr - Youre Living All Over Me
236 Double Fantasy - John Lennon and Yoko Ono
237 Echo and The Bunnymen - Heaven Up Here
238 Electric Light Orchestra - Time
239 Elvis Costello - King of America
240 English Beat - Special Beat Service
241 Queen - A kind of magic
242 Eric Clapton - Journeyman
243 Fine Young Cannibals - The Raw and The Cooked
244 Fleetwood Mac - Tango in The Night
245 Foreigner - 4
246 Genesis - Abacab
247 Metallica - Kill em All
248 Go - Gos - Vacation
249 Hall and Oates - Voices
250 Highwaymen - The Highwaymen
251 INXS - Shabooh Shoobah
252 Iron Maiden - The Number of The Beast
253 Jam - Sound Affects
254 Joan Armatrading - Me Myself I
255 John Cougar Mellencamp - Big Daddy
256 John Fogerty - Centerfield
257 Laurie Anderson - Big Science
258 Los Lobos - By The Light of The Moon
259 Psychedelic Furs - All of This and Nothing
260 Merle Haggard - Big City
261 Kate Bush - Dreaming
262 Minor Threat - Out Of Step
263 Missing Persons - Spring Session M
264 Morrissey - Viva Hate
265 Motley Crue - Dr Feelgood
266 Motley Crue - Shout at The Devil
267 Cult - Love
268 New Order - Technique
269 Oingo Boingo - Dead Mans Party
270 Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Soundtrack
271 Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
272 Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder
273 Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
274 Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Uplift Mofo Party Plan
275 Husker Du - New Day Rising
276 Cure - Japanese Whispers
277 Tom Waits - The Black Rider
278 Rush - Signals
279 Soft Cell - Non - Stop Erotic Cabaret
280 Flashdance - Soundtrack
281 Steely Dan - Gaucho
282 Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
283 Bon Jovi - New Jersey
284 Stevie Ray Vaughan - Couldnt Stand The Weather
285 Van Halen - Diver Down
286 Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
287 ZZ Top - El Loco
288 Adam and The Ants - Prince Charming
289 Aerosmith - Pump
290 Bob Dylan - Down in The Groove
291 B52s - Mesopotamia
292 Depeche Mode - Some Great Reward
293 Pretenders - The Pretenders II
294 Big Country - The Crossing
295 Blasters - Hard Line
296 Psychedelic Furs - Psychedelic Furs
297 Blondie - Autoamerican
298 Soundtrack - Say Anything
299 Bobby Brown - Dont Be Cruel
300 Kim Carnes - Mistaken Identity
301 Outfield - Play Deep
302 Cars - Panorama
303 Cocteau Twins - Blue Bell Knoll
304 Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions
305 Cramps - Bad Music For Bad People
306 Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
307 Huey Lewis and The News - Fore
308 Pete Townsend - Empty Glass
309 Simple Minds - Once Upon A Time
310 Echo and The Bunny Men - Crocodiles
311 Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt and Emmylou Harris - Trio
312 Don Henley - The End Of Innocence
313 Duran Duran - Arena
314 Roxette - Look Sharp!
315 Duran Duran - Notorious
316 Bananarama - Bananarama
317 Dwight Yoakam - Buenas Noches From a Lonely Room
318 Elvis Costello - Blood and Chocolate
319 Eurythmics - Revenge
320 Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
321 FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS - FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS
322 Soundtrack - Top Gun
323 Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Welcome to The Pleasuredome
324 Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
325 Pogues - If I Should Fall From Grace of God
326 David + David Boomtown
327 Soundtrack - Xanadu
328 Genesis - Genesis
329 George Harrison - Cloud Nine
330 Robert Plant - Now and Zen
331 Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five - The Message
332 Janes Addiction - Janes Addiction
333 grateful dead go to heaven
334 Dead Or Alive - Youthquake
335 Howard Jones - Dreams into Action
336 Robert Cray - Strong Persuader
337 Husker Du - Zen Arcade
338 Jackson Browne - Lives in The Balance
339 Jam - The Gift
340 Alabama - Roll On
341 Jason and Scorchers - Lost and Found
342 Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
343 Jimmy Buffet - Coconut Telegraph
344 Wang Chung - Points on The Curve
345 Kate Bush - The Sensual World
346 Katrina and The Waves - Katrina and The Waves
347 Kinks - Give The People What They Want
348 Kraftwerk - Computer World
349 Los Lobos - How Will The Wolf Survive?
350 Loverboy - Get Lucky
351 Lyle Lovett - Pontiac
352 Madness - The Rise and Fall
353 Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets II
354 Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper - Frenzy
355 Concrete Blonde - Free
356 Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
357 Oingo Boingo - Good For Your Soul
358 Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth
359 Plimsouls - Everywhere at Once
360 Pogues - Rum, Sodomy, and The Lash
361 cheap trick - lap of luxury
362 Del Fuegos - Longest Day
363 Depeche Mode - speak and spell
364 Primitives - Lovely
365 Prince - Parade
366 Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love
367 Psychedelic Furs - Mirror Moves
368 Blasters - The Blasters
369 Buggles - Age of Plastic
370 Cocteau Twins - Treasure
371 Eric B and Rakim - Paid In Full
372 Queen - The Works
373 Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
374 Ratt - Out of The Cellar
375 Elton John - Too Low for Zero
376 Richard Thompson - Amnesia
377 Enya - Watermark
378 Robbie Robertson - Robbie Robertson
379 Sade - Stronger Than Pride
380 Fleetwood Mac: Mirage
381 Shawn Colvin - Steady On
382 Simple Minds - New Gold Dream
383 Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland
384 Skid Row - Skid Row
385 Faith No More - The Real Thing
386 Smithereens - Especially For You
387 Dan Fogelberg - Innocent Age
388 Social Distortion - Mommys Little Monster
389 Spandau Ballet - True
390 Squeeze - Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti
391 Squirrel Bait - Skag Heaven
392 Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
393 Stevie Ray Vaughan - In Step
394 Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
395 Stray Cats - Built For Speed
396 Dream Academy - Dream Academy
397 Suicidal Tendencies - Suicidal Tendencies
398 Talking Heads - True Stories
399 Tears for Fears - Hurting
400 Thomas Dolby - Golden Age of Wireless
401 Thompson Twins - Into The Gap
402 Tom Petty - Hard Promises
403 Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
404 Tom Waits - Franks Wild Years
405 Tubes - The Completion Backwards Principle
406 U2 - October
407 Van Halen - Women and Children First
408 Van Morrison - Poetic Champions Compose
409 Jimmy Buffett - Floridays
410 Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
411 X - More Fun in The New World
412 10,000 Maniacs - Blind Mans Zoo
413 Elvis Costello - Spike
414 A Flock of Seagulls A Flock of Seagulls
415 ABC - How to be a Zillionaire
416 Soundtrack - Back to The Future
417 AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
418 Adam Ant - Friend or Foe
419 Patti Smith - Dreams of Life
420 Dolly Parton - 9 To 5 and Odd Jobs
421 INXS - Swing
422 Aerosmith - Permanent Vacation
423 Soundtrack - Repo Man
424 Al Jarreau - Breakin Away
425 Alabama - Mountain Music
426 James McMurtry - Too long in The wasteland
427 Paul McCartney - Tug of War
428 Alice Cooper - Trash
429 Alison Moyet - Alf
430 April Wine - Nature of The Beast
431 OMD - Architecture and Morality
432 Aretha Franklin / Whos Zoomin Who
433 Asia - ASIA
434 Thompson Twins - Set
435 Whitney Houston - Whitney
436 XTC - Black Sea
437 Soundtrack - Cocktail
438 Wang Chung - To Live and Die In LA
439 Rosanne Cash - Seven Year Ache
440 Bananarama - Deep Sea Skiving
441 Weird Al - Dare to Be Stupid
442 Bangles - All Over The Place
443 Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
444 Melissa Etheridge - Melissa Etheridge
445 Smithereens - 11
446 Billy Joel - The Nylon Curtain
447 Georgia Satellites - Georgia Satellites
448 Tom Waits - Heart Attack and Vine
449 The The - Soul Mining
450 Big Audio Dynamite - This is BAD
451 Slint - Tweez
452 Men Without Hats - Rhythm of Youth
453 Bears - The Bears
454 Billy Ocean - Love Zone
455 Randy Travis - Always & Forever
456 Dwight Yoakam - Hillbilly Deluxe
457 Plimsouls - The Plimsouls
458 George Thorogood - Bad to The Bone
459 Ramones - End of The Century
460 Blue Nile - Hats
461 Alarm - Strength
462 Bob Dylan - Shot of Love
463 Billy Squire - Signs of Life
464 Bob Seger - Like a Rock
465 Bodeans - Home
466 Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
467 Soundtrack - When Harry Met Sally Motion Picture
468 Boston - Third Stage
469 Brian Eno and David Byrne - My Life in The Bush of Ghosts
470 Bronski Beat - Age of Consent
471 Siouxsie and The Banshees - Kaleidoscope
472 Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife
473 Bryan Ferry - Bete Noire
474 Haircut 100 - Pelican West
475 Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion
476 Soundgarden Louder than Love
477 Soundtrack - Beverly Hills Cop
478 Camper Van Beethoven - our beloved revolutionary sweetheart
479 Captain Beefheart and The Magic Band - Ice Cream for Crow
480 dBs - Stand For Decibels
481 Carly Simon - Coming around again
482 Cars - Door to Door
483 Erasure - Wonderland
484 Chameleons UK - Strange Times
485 Poison - Look What The Cat Dragged In
486 cheap trick - one on one
487 Cher - Heart of Stone
488 Church - Startfish
489 Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
490 Go Betweens - Tallulah
491 Golden Earring - Cut
492 Soundtrack - Blues Brothers
493 Cocteau Twins - Moon and The Melodies
494 Human League - Crash
495 Bobby McFerrin - Simple Pleasures
496 Til Tuesday - Voices Carry
497 New Kids on the Block - Hangin' Tough
498 Starship - Knee Deep In the Hoopla
499 Dexy's Midnight Runner - Too Rye Ay
500 Rick Astley - Whenever You Need Somebody
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