My Favorite Albums of 1982

Below are an A-Z listing of my favorite albums released in 1982.  Lots of genres, and most likely, even in 2022, lots of albums that I still haven't heard.  All are studio or live, no greatest hits albums.  

A Flock of Seagulls - s/t

ABC - Lexicon of Love

Adam Ant - Friend Or Foe

Alabama - Mountain Music

Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky

Aretha Franklin - Jump To It

Asia - s/t

Bad Brains - s/t

Billy Idol - s/t

Billy Joel - Nylon Curtain

Billy Squier - Emotions In Motion

Bruce Springsteen - Nebraska

Cameo - Alligator Woman

Cheap Trick - One on One

Chicago - 16

Clash - Combat Rock

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Daylight Again

Culture Club - Kissing To Be Clever

DeBarge - All This Love

Deniece Williams - Niecy

Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too-Rye-Ay

Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker

Dire Straits - Love Over Gold

Donald Fagen - Nightfly

Donna Summer - s/t

Duran Duran - Rio

Eddie Money - No Control

Elvis Costello - Imperial Bedroom

English Beat - Special Beat Service

Fleetwood Mac - Mirage

Flipper - Album/Generic Flipper

Gap Band - IV

George Clinton - Computer Games

George Strait - Strait From The Heart

Go-Go's - Vacation

Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five - Message

Gregory Isaacs - Night Nurse

Huey Lewis & the News - Picture This

Husker Du - Everything Falls Apart

Iron Maiden - Number of the Beast

Jam - The Gift

Joe Jackson - Night and Day

John Anderson - Wild & Blue

John Cougar Mellencamp - American Fool

Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance

Kate Bush - Dreaming

Kid Creole & The Coconuts - Tropical Gangsters 

King Sunny Ade - Juju Music

Kool & The Gang - As One

Laurie Anderson - Big Science

Led Zeppelin - Coda

Lionel Richie - s/t

Luther Vandross - Forever, For Always, For Love

Marshall Crenshaw - s/t

Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love

Men at Work - Business As Usual

Merle Haggard - Going Where The Lonely Go

Michael Jackson - Thriller

Mission of Burma - Vs.

Neil Young - Trans

Ornette Coleman - Of Human Feelings

Patrice Rushen - Straight From The Heart

Paul McCartney - Tug of War

Peter Gabriel - s/t

Phil Collins - Hello I Must Be Going

Prince - 1999

Professor Longhair - Last Mardi Gras

Psychedelic Furs - Forever Now

Ray Parker Jr. - The Other Woman

Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out The Lights

Ricky Skaggs - Highways & Heartaches

Robert Plant - Pictures At Eleven

Ronnie Milsap - Inside

Rosanne Cash- Somewhere In The Stars

Roxy Music - Avalon

Rush - Signals

Shalamar - Friends

Simple Minds - New Gold Mine

Siouxsie and the Banshees - Kiss In The Dreamhouse

Squeeze - Sweets From A Stranger

Steve Miller - Abracadabra

Toto - IV

Van Halen - Diver Down

Warren Zevon - Envoy

Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind

Willie Nelson & Webb Pierce - In The Jailhouse Now

X - Under The Big Black Sun

Yazoo - Upstairs at Eric's