1980 - We first heard the phrase "Luke, I am your father"... and what were your 5 favorite albums of the year?

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My Top 5 from 1980

1 Heaven & Hell-Black Sabbath

2 Time Tells No Lies-Praying Mantis

3 British Steel-Judas Priest

4 Iron Maiden-Iron Maiden

5 Ace Of Spades-Motorhead

Some other fave albums of Mine from 80 that didn't quite make it

Ready An Willing-Whitesnake

Blizzard Of Ozz-Ozzy Osbourne

Permanent Waves-Rush

Against The Wind-Bob Seger

Making Movies-Dire Straits

Back In Black-AC/DC

Boy-U2

Women & Children First-Van Halen

Metal Rendevouz-Krokus

Cultosarus Erectus-BOC

Progressions Of Power-Triumph

Drama-Yes

The Game-Queen

Wheels Of Steel-Saxon

Strong Arm Of The Law-Saxon

1980 was a very \m/METAL\m/ Year!

AC/DC Back In Black

Ozzy Osbourne Bizzard Of Ozz

Van Halen Women And Children First

Judas Priest British Steel

Def Leppard On Through The Night

Rod Stewart - Foolish Behaviour

The Pretenders - Pretenders

Bruce Springsteen - The River

Queen - The Game

Double Fantasy - John Lennon/Yoko Ono

Against The Wind- Bob Segar & The Silver Bullet Band

Glass Houses - Billy Joel

Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones

Hold Out -Jackson Browne

Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne

Boy - U2

Seventeen Seconds - The Cure

Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden

I Just Can't Stop It - The English Beat

1. Judas Priest - British Steel

2. AC/DC - Back in Black

3. Van Halen - Women and Children First

4. Kiss - Unmasked

5. Def Leppard - On Thrugh the Night

Man, that was hard. All the albums you listed belong in the top 5, in my opinion.

Oh now this is something I can answer, 1980 was my favorite year in music

1. Blizzard of Ozz - Ozzy Osbourne(DUH)

2. Back in Black - AC/DC

3. Women and Children First - Van Halen

4. British Steel - Judas Priest

5. Ace of Spades - Motorhead

top 5

1- Women and Children First - the best Van Halen album ever!

2-Voices - Hall & Oats (w/kiss on my list and everytime you go away)

3- Xanadu - Olivia Newton John (great memories w/my sister)

4- Pretenders - the Pretenders

5- INXS -INXS

Just one night - Eric Clapton (live!)

The River - Bruce Springsteen

Remain in Light - Talking Heads

Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel

Paris - Supertramp

Paradise Theater - Styx

Panorama - The Cars

One For The Road - The Kinks

Crimes of Passion - Pat Benatar

Crocodiles - Echo and the Bunnymen

Cultosaurus Erectus - Blue Öyster Cult

Carnaval - Spyro Gyra

British Steel - Judas Priest

Boy - U2

Boys Don't Cry - The Cure

David Bowie - Scary Monsters

Judas Priest - British Steel

Iron Maiden - S/T

Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz

Rush - Permanent Waves

Van Halen - Woman and Children First

1. Back in Black - AC/DC without a doubt

2. Sabbath - Heaven and Hell

3. Priest - British Steel

4. Motorhead - Ace of Spades

5. Ozzy - Blizzard

1. Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine

2. Levon Helm - American Son

3. Bauhaus - In The Flat Field

4. The Alan Parsons Project - The Turn of a Friendly Card

5. The Kings - The Kings Are Here