McQ's Favorite Albums Of 1983

Highest Recommends

1. Murmur - REM

Strong Recommends

2. Swordfishtrombones - Tom Waits
3. War - U2
4. Violent Femmes
5. Speaking In Tongues - The Talking Heads
6. Sychronicity - The Police

Solid Recommends

7. The Crossing - Big Country
8. Power, Corruption And Lies - New Order
9. Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) - The Eurythmics
10. Hootenanny - The Replacements

Mild Recommends

11. Uh-Huh - John Cougar Mellencamp
12. Labour Of Love - UB40
13. Let's Dance - David Bowie
14. Madonna

1983 Albums Of Critical Note I've Yet To Assess In Full

90125 - Yes

An Innocent Man - Billy Joel

Appollo: Atmospheres And Soundtracks - Brian Eno

Bad Influence - Robert Cray

Before Hollywood - The Go-Betweens

Break Out - The Pointer Sisters
Can't Slow Down - Lionel Ritchie

Clics Modernos - Charly Garcia
Colour By Numbers - Culture Club

Construction Time Again - Depeche Mode
Djam Leeli - Baaba Mall & Mansour Seck
Duck Rock - Malcolm McLaren
Eliminator - ZZ Top

Emergency Third Rail Power Trip - The Rain Parade

Fervor / Lost & Found - Jason & The Scorchrs

Frontiers - Journey

Future Shock - Herbie Hancock

Genesis

Hand Of Kindness - Richard Thompson

Head Over Heels - Cocteau Twins

Hearts And Bones - Paul Simon
High Land, Hard Rain - Aztec Camera
Holy Diver - Dio

Hootenanny - The Replacements

Inarticulate Speech Of The Heart - Van Morrison

Infidels - Bob Dylan

Jonathan Sings - The Modern Lovers
Kill 'Em All - Metallica
Koyaanisquatsi - Philip Glass

Labour Of Love - UB40

Learning To Cope With Cowardice - Mark Stewart & The Maffia

Legandary Hearts - Lou Reed
Life's A Riot With Spy Vs. Spy - Billy Bragg
Love Wars - Womack And Womack
Meat Puppets II

Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion

More Fun In The New World - X

No Parlez - Paul Young
Out Of Step EP - Minor Threat

Over The Edge - Wipers

Peace Of Mind - Iron Maiden

Perverted By Language - The Fall
Porcupine - Echo And The Bunnymen

Proof Through The Night - T-Bone Burnett
Punch The Clock - Elvis Costello
Pyromania - Def Lepperd
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Rock For Light - Bad Brains

Saturn Strip - Alan Vega

Script For A Jester's Tear

Script Of The Bridge - The Chameleons

Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran
She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper

Shout At The Devil - Motley Crue
Soul Mining - The The

Sports - Heuy Lewis & The News

Suicidal Tendencies

Synchro System - King Sunny Ade
Texas Flood - Stevie Ray Vaughn

The Hurting - Tears For Fears
Touch - The Eurythmics

Trouble In Paradise - Randy Newman

Uh-HUH! - John Mellencamp
Under A Blood Red Sky - U2

Where Angels Fear To Tread - Mink DeVille

You Gotta Say Yes To Another Excess - Yello