Billy Squier (1980): For a moment in time, Billy Squier was everywhere, as songs like "My Kinda Lover" and "The Stroke" ruled ...

Madness is here, and we’re joining in on bracket-mania by forcing 32 excellent ’80s rock albums to do battle with each other. We’ve filled our bracket with the most popular, influential and enduring ...

In their place were compact, polished songs that hurtled up the charts, taking the LPs with them. Every '80s album reached No. 1 on the U.K. charts, and after Duke, the next three Genesis LPs were ...

The British new wavers saw chart success with their 1983 debut album Like Gangbusters; they recorded two albums afterwards, Skin And Bone in 1985 and Missing Link in 1986, but for some reason ...

Leppard pitched straight into making what was to be a career-defining album as soon as they came off a near year-long tour on the back of Pyromania. They didn’t ease down to enjoy their success ...

What’s really striking about In Search of the Turtle’s Navel is how fleeting these moments can feel—particularly up against much of Windham Hill’s best-selling albums of the ’80s.