1983 -- very cool year

the billboard top 95, in order...

Cum on Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot
Photograph - Def Leppard
Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
Bark at the Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
In a Big Country - Big Country
I'll Tumble For Ya - Culture Club
Our House - Madness
Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) - Journey
Foolin' - Def Leppard
Down Under - Men at Work
Pink Houses - John Cougar Mellencamp
Pride and Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughn and Double Trouble
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Faithfully - Journey
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes
Shout at the Devil - Motley Crue
Too Late for Love - Def Leppard
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Sweet Dreams - The Eurythmics
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? - Culture Club
Rio - Duran Duran
Africa - Toto
She's a Beauty - The Tubes
Holy Diver - Dio
Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.
Breaking the Chains - Dokken
Goodbye to You - Scandal
Modern Love - David Bowie
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders
Stray Cat Strut - Stray Cats
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
Add it Up - Violent Femmes
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Lick it Up - Kiss
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Middle of the Road - The Pretenders
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Flick of the Switch - AC-DC
Little Red Corvette - Prince
Allentown - Billy Joel
Don’t tell Me You Love Me - Night Ranger
Don't Change - INXS
Straight From the Heart - Bryan Adams
Bang the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren
True - Spandau Ballet
Talking in Your Sleep - The Romantics
Breaking Us In Two - Joe Jackson
It's Raining Men - Weather Girls
Come Dancing - The Kinks
Time (Clock of the Heart) - Culture Club
Kiss Off - Violent Femmes
The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Shock the Monkey - Peter Gabriel
Church of the Poison Mind - Culture Club
Right Before Your Eyes - Survivor
Blue Monday - New Order
Flashdance…What a Feeling - Irene Cara
Burning Heart - Vandenburg
Beat It - Michael Jackson
Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
Let's Dance - David Bowie
(Keep Feeling) Fascination - The Human League
I'm Still Standing - Elton John
Red Skies - The Fixx
Slick Black Cadillac - Quiet Riot
Every Breath You Take - The Police
Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
I Melt With You - Modern English
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
In the Mood - Robert Plant
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
99 Luftballoons - Nena
Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
Cuts Like a Knife - Brian Adams
Stand Back - Stevie Nicks
Der Kommissar - After the Fire
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
1999 - Prince
All Night Long - Lionel Richie
Saved By Zero - The Fixx
Your Love is Driving Me Crazy - Sammy Hagar
The One Thing - INXS
Overkill - Men at Work
A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls
Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top
New Years Day - U2
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Only You - Yaz
King of Pain - The Police

 

That is my favorite music year of all. I have about 1/2 of those songs on a cassette, CD or mp3 file.

 

Dang, no doubt, Larry! There's a TON of great music on that list. :xyzthumbs

 

yikes! this is my year!!!!

thanx, lar. this is a great year, indeed.

def leppard! prince! bryan adams!


the fixx's money for nothing didnt make it? wtf? was it them? hmmm, now i cant remember.

 

Re: yikes! this is my year!!!!

Dire Straits, Lex. "Brothers in Arms" album, I think.

 

the fixx was saved by zero off the reach the beach album. i think it had a guy on a tank.

war was a big theme back then.

i think what struck me most about this list was the mesh of so many different styles of music:

ozzy, journey, men at work, rem, mellencamp, kizz, bonnie tyler, violent femmes, michael jackson, the police...it's a fantastic collection.

 

There weren't many songs better than "She's a Beauty" by The Tubes. I can still see myself doing the air guitar to it.....

 

I have that Fixx album... I haven't heard In a Big Country in a long time. That was a good year.

 

hard to believe that it was 20 ago, huh?

 

ahhhh yes. dire straits. thanx, 99. still was an awesome year, 83!

john mayer wrote a song called '83. he knows it too!

it's been 2 decades? OY!