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A Pagan Place
A Pagan Place is the second studio album by the folk rock band The Waterboys, released in 1984 and named after Edna O'Brien's 1970 novel.
Bleach (Nirvana album)
Bleach, Nirvana's 1989 Sub Pop debut album, recorded for $606.17 with Jack Endino, initially sold about 35,000 copies, later 1.7 million in the US after Nevermind.
Born in the U.S.A.
Born in the U.S.A. is Bruce Springsteen's seventh studio album, released June 4, 1984. Seven Top Ten singles, number 1 in the US and ten other countries, and the top-selling album of 1985.
Bummed
Bummed is the second album by Happy Mondays, released 5 November 1988 on Factory Records (FACT 220), produced by Martin Hannett with design by Central Station Design; includes Wrote For Luck, later hailed as a Madchester landmark.
Daydream Nation
Daydream Nation: 1988 double album by Sonic Youth on Enigma/Blast First, recorded at Greene St. Recording, SoHo, with Nick Sansano; No. 2 in the 1988 Pazz & Jop poll, a National Recording Registry inductee, and the band's last indie-label album before Geffen.
Document (album)
Document (1987) is R.E.M.'s fifth album and last for I.R.S. Records, produced by Scott Litt in Nashville. Featuring "The One I Love" (No. 9 Billboard) and "It's the End of the World," it became the band's first million-selling, platinum album.
Doolittle (album)
Doolittle, Pixies' second studio album (1989, 4AD/Elektra), produced by Gil Norton; UK #8, US #98, RIAA Platinum, famed for quiet/loud dynamics and influence on Nirvana and Radiohead.
Double Fantasy
Double Fantasy (1980) is the final studio album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, released by Geffen on November 17, 1980, recorded at the Hit Factory, and winner of the 1982 Grammy for Album of the Year.
Fables of the Reconstruction
Fables of the Reconstruction (also printed as Reconstruction of the Fables) is R.E.M.'s third album, released June 10, 1985 on I.R.S., produced by Joe Boyd in London, a darker Southern-themed record that reached UK No. 35 and US No. 28.
Frontiers (Journey album)
Frontiers is Journey's eighth studio album, released in 1983 by Columbia Records. Recorded in Berkeley, California, it debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200.
Full Moon Fever
Full Moon Fever is Tom Petty's 1989 debut solo album on MCA, produced by Jeff Lynne with Mike Campbell, featuring Free Fallin', I Won't Back Down, and Runnin' Down a Dream; five million copies sold, 5x platinum, Grammy Album of the Year nominee.
Heart (Heart album)
Heart (1985) is Heart's self-titled Capitol Records album, their first Billboard 200 number one and 5x platinum, with four Top 10 singles including the US No. 1 "These Dreams", produced by Ron Nevison.
Hi Infidelity
Hi Infidelity is REO Speedwagon's ninth studio album (Epic, November 21, 1980), a Diamond-certified No. 1 Billboard album featuring "Keep On Loving You" and "Take It on the Run," the band's commercial breakthrough.
Hi, How Are You
Hi, How Are You (The Unfinished Album) is Daniel Johnston's 1983 self-released lo-fi cassette, recorded in San Marcos, Texas, with the Jeremiah the Innocent frog cover Kurt Cobain wore in 1992.
Keepin' the Summer Alive
Keepin' the Summer Alive is the twenty-fourth studio album by the Beach Boys, released in March 1980 and the band's first album of the 1980s.
Lifes Rich Pageant
Lifes Rich Pageant (no apostrophe) is R.E.M.'s fourth studio album, released July 1986 on I.R.S. Records, produced by Don Gehman at John Mellencamp's Belmont Mall Studio in Indiana; it became the band's first Gold record and peaked at No. 21 on the Billboard 200.
Louder Than Love
Louder Than Love is Soundgarden's second studio album and major-label debut, released September 5, 1989 on A&M, produced by Terry Date, peaking at number 108 on the Billboard 200, and the last album with bassist Hiro Yamamoto.
Meat Is Murder
Meat Is Murder, The Smiths' second studio album (Rough Trade, 11 February 1985), reached number one on the UK Albums Chart for 13 weeks; nine Morrissey-Marr tracks produced by the band, engineered by Stephen Street, with a vegetarianist title track and US edition adding "How Soon Is Now?".
Murmur (album)
Murmur is R.E.M.'s 1983 debut album on I.R.S. Records, produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon in Charlotte, North Carolina; 12 songs, about 200,000 copies sold, No. 1 Rolling Stone critics poll.
Raised on Radio
Raised on Radio is Journey's ninth studio album (April 1986, Columbia), produced solely by Steve Perry after Valory and Smith left; it peaked at #4, went double platinum, and preceded the band's decade-long hiatus.
Reckoning (R.E.M. album)
Reckoning, alternatively titled File Under Water, is R.E.M.'s second studio album (1984, I.R.S. Records), produced by Mitch Easter and Don Dixon; it peaked at No. 27 in the US and No. 91 in the UK and went Gold in 1991.
Sentimental Hygiene
Sentimental Hygiene is Warren Zevon's sixth studio album, released July 7, 1987 on Virgin after five years away, backed by R.E.M.'s Buck, Mills, and Berry with guests Neil Young, Bob Dylan, and George Clinton.
Southern Accents
Southern Accents: sixth 1985 studio album by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, a troubled loose concept album about the modern South on MCA, produced by Petty, Jimmy Iovine, Mike Campbell, Dave Stewart, and Robbie Robertson, best known for "Don't Come Around Here No More" and its title track.
Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out)
Squirrel and G-Man Twenty Four Hour Party People Plastic Face Carnt Smile (White Out) is Happy Mondays' 1987 debut album on Factory Records (FACT 170), produced by John Cale; early pressings carried "Desmond", later replaced by "24 Hour Party People".
Steel Wheels
Steel Wheels is a 1989 studio album by the Rolling Stones, their first in three years, reaching the Top 5 on both sides of the Atlantic.
Strangeways, Here We Come
Strangeways, Here We Come is the fourth and final studio album by the Smiths, released 28 September 1987 on Rough Trade after the band split; it peaked at number 2 in the UK, went gold in the UK and US, and is the band's most elaborately produced record.
Surfer Rosa
Surfer Rosa, Pixies' 1988 debut full-length album on 4AD, recorded with Steve Albini at Q Division, Boston; known for its raw drum sound, bathroom-recorded vocals, "Where Is My Mind?", and influence on 1990s alternative rock.
Technique (album)
Technique is New Order's fifth studio album, released 30 January 1989 on Factory Records (FACT 275). Recorded partly in Ibiza and at Real World Studios, it fused acid house with rock and became the band's first UK number 1 album.
Tender Prey
Tender Prey is the fifth studio album by the Australian rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, released on Mute Records in 1988 and best known for the song "The Mercy Seat".
The Lion and the Cobra
The Lion and the Cobra (1987) is Sinéad O'Connor's debut album on Ensign/Chrysalis, titled from Psalm 91; nine tracks including Troy, Mandinka, and I Want Your (Hands on Me).