despite dealing with heavy emotional topics and primal scream therapy - which is where the band got its name. SINGLES: “New Year’s Day,” “Two Hearts Beat As One,” “Sunday Bloody Sunday”īAND: Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen Jr.īACKSTORY: The debut from Tears For Fears spawned three Top 5 singles in the U.K.
1983 BILLBOARD TOP 100 FREE
SINGLES: “Radio Free Europe,” “Talk About the Passion”īAND: Bill Berry, Peter Buck Mike Mills, Michael StipeīACKSTORY: On the band’s third album and commercial breakthrough, U2 went noticeably political, with a harder rock sound to accompany its more strident and impassioned messages.
SLICING UP EYEBALLS READERS POLL: TOP 100 ALBUMS OF 1983īACKSTORY: For their second album, New Order turned to an increasingly electronic-based sound, employing more synthesizers than on their debut, Movement, for a more dance-friendly collection.īAND: Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Gillian GilbertīUY IT: ( CD, digital, vinyl), iTunes ( Digital)īACKSTORY: R.E.M.’s iconic debut album, released by IRS Records, became the mumbling backbone of the American independent rock and college radio movements taking root in the early ’80s. PAST RESULTS: Top 100 Albums of 1980, Top 100 Albums of 1981, Top 100 Albums of 1982 Take a look at the Top 100 list below - and feel free to offer your own take on the results, good or bad, in the comments below.Īnd stay tuned for the Best of 1984 poll, which will launch Friday. So thank you all for voting and sharing your thoughts. With nearly 3,600 total votes cast for the two albums combined, New Order came out on top by a 135-vote margin. 1 spot over R.E.M.’s genre-defining Murmur. More surprising to some, though, will be New Order’s Power, Corruption & Lies taking the coveted No. With each of the top seven albums receiving more than 1,000 votes apiece this time around, we narrowly averted - for the second straight month - another Top 10 tie, this time as Tears For Fears’ The Hurting edged out Violent Femmes by a single vote to claim the No. It’s the first Monday of the month, which means it’s time to unveil the results of Part 4 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, a year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs’ readers to determine the best albums of each year of the 1980s - and then, when that’s wrapped up at the end of 2013, we’ll run a monster best-of-the-decade poll to crown the overall champs.įor the 1983 poll, we received nearly 32,000 votes naming more than 260 different albums - including once again, as write-ins, a good number of records that were not actually released in 1983 (we’re looking at you, person who voted for Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me).
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