“War”, by U2 also received 2 votes.
Ah - well, as I said, I picked “The Unforgettable Fire” from the multiple list, but we might as well throw “War” in there, too (making U2) by far the artist with most albums getting more than one vote).
In no particular order
- Rush - Moving Pictures
- Van Halen - Fair Warning
- Yes - Drama
- Genesis - Duke
- The Replacements - Sorry Ma, Forgot to take out the trash
- The Dickies - Stukas over Disneyland
- The Vapors - New Clear Days
- Rush - Exit Stage Left
- The Vandals - Slippery When Ill
- The Ramones - Too Tough to Die
No particular order, I can’t come up with 10. I get 6 then it’s a raffle.
Slippery when wet - Bon Jovi
Appetite for Destruction - Guns n Roses
Too low for zero - Elton John
Back in Black - AC-DC
Swingshift - Cold Chisel
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
I think everyone forgot INXS - Kick
Hmm. Hmmmmm. Hmm. Okay, I’m sticking with my original list, but this one’s worth consideration.
Living Color - Vivid
R.E.M. - Lifes Rich Pageant
Pretenders - Learning to Crawl
Bob Marley - Uprising
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Springsteen - Tunnerl of Love
Squeeze - ArgyBargy
Black Uhuru - Red Island
10,000 Maniacs - In My Tribe
The Clash - London Calling
- Guns ‘n’ Roses - Appetite for Destruction
- Beastie Boys - Paul’s Boutique
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
- Minor Threat - Minor Threat
- Black Flag - Damaged
- The Pixies - Doolittle
- Kurtis Blow - Ego Trip
- Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
- EPMD - Strictly Business
- Run DMC - Raising Hell
I really liked The Swing and Listen Like Thieves. I listened to those albums a lot when I was in high school.
In no particular order, but albums that have been on regular rotation for me since, well, since the '80s. And if this list sounds a little too '80s then, well, it was the '80s man!
- Sisters of Mercy - Floodland
- Love and Rockets - Express
- Thomas Dolby - Golden Age of Wireless
- Transvision Vamp - Pop Art
- The Wonder Stuff - Eight Legged Groove Machine
- Blue Oyster Cult - Imaginos
- Sinead O’Connor - Lion and the Cobra
- Camper Van Beethoven - Key Lime Pie
- Concrete Blonde - Debut
- Prince - Purple Rain
Here’s a list of the 10 1980s albums I listened to most at the time, and still like. I think I’ll do them in roughly chronological order, rather than rank them:
The Go-Go’s, Beauty and the Beat
Josie Cotton, Convertible Music
Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
Si Kahn, Unfinished Portraits
John Mellencamp, Scarecrow
Paul Simon, Graceland
John Mellencamp, Lonesome Jubilee
U2, Joshua Tree
Johnny Clegg & Savuka, Shadow Man
Voice of the Beehive, Let It Bee
Traveling Wilburys, Volume 1
Actually, that’s 11 albums.
No particular reason for choosing any of these, except that I listened to all of them continuously on my auto-reverse tape player. (And subsequently re-purchased all of them on CD.)
ZZ Top - Eliminator
Paul Simon - Graceland
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
The Police - Synchronicity
John Fogerty - Centerfield
John Cougar Mellencamp - Scarecrow
Van Halen - 1984
Billy Joel - An Innocent Man
Don Henley - Building the Perfect Beast
Boston - Third Stage
ETA - Yeah, agree on Traveling Wilburys, Vol. I. So, yeah, it goes to 11. 
Springsteen - Tunnel of Love
Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion
The Bangles - All Over The Place (and/or about the next 3 albums)
Zevon - Bad Luck Streak In Dancing School
Karla Bonoff - Wild Heart Of The Young
Rick Springfield - Working Class Dog
Dire Straits - Making Movies (this would be my most essential album of the decade)
38 Special - Tour de Force
Scandal - Scandal and Warrior
(Go-Gos should be in here somewhere, too, but I went with stuff I don’t think I’d seen mentioned much so far)
- Let It Be - The Replacements (1984)
- Lifes Rich Pageant - REM (1986)
- Rain Dogs - Tom Waits (1985)
- Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello (1982)
- Talking with the Taxman about Poetry - Billy Bragg (1986)
- Huevos - Meat Puppets (1987)
- Doolittle - Pixies (1989)
- I’m Your Man - Leonard Cohen (1988)
- Miss America - Mary Margaret O’Hara (1988)
- If I Should Fall from Grace with God - The Pogues (1987)
Good decade for music, that. It wasn’t all hair metal and cheesy synths.