A completely unnecessary and shameless plug:
I’m doing three hours of 80s music starting in, oh, about ten minutes. I do this every Friday night.
You can listen to me here. You don’t need Winamp to listen; any program that’ll work with streaming media will do.
And my website.
Robin, who is wearing black and red and who is the embodiment of the Bowling for Soup song “1985”.
Didn’t somebody already post that in this thread?
I’m not sure what exactly what criteria that list is based on, but any list of big-name 80s albums that leaves out Metallica’s Master Of Puppets is incomplete.
Did they? Well, I guess I missed it. This just looked like something they might find interesting. I had two other links to post but my goddamned computer is showing its ass today. Got a bug from somewhere and it keeps tyrying to load someshit I don’t even know what it is. Can’t get rid of it and it just pops up outta the blue.
anyway I had this top 100 link…a top 100 pop… and a top 100 metal and I thought I’d compare the three to see what they had in common (if anything) I didn’t see anything right off but like I said my PC is fucked right now and I’m late for a gig…so ima book…later…y’all have fun. 
I love 80’s music. Some stuff that’s not been mentioned:
Echo and the Bunnymen, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, The Psychedelic Furs, Tones on Tail, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Felt, Billy Bragg, The Violent Femmes, I could go on but I’ll stop now.
Hey, though I did advocate for the “alternative” side of things earlier, it doesn’t mean I don’t like metal…au contraire…I think AC/DC was one of the greatest bands EVAH! There was some pretty good metal going on the 80s, though much of it was overshadowed by the lightweight spandex-poodle hair bands.
I don’t diss these bands because they were metal, but because they were watered-down copies of better (metal) bands, and their songs sounded like beer commercials.