Intro to My New 2025 Monthly Post: Ranking Album Tracks

  Intro to Ranking:  Since this is the first in a monthly series I want to give a brief history of my album listening habits.  The 1980's was the decade where I started to buy more albums than singles.  This mostly had to do with finances. So, I was still buying singles for the most part over albums.  I turned 18 in May 1982, and started working more.  Which means more money.  Not that I wasn't buying albums before the 80's.  I worked part-time in the late 70's and able to buy an album here and there.  The first albums I bought were in 1976.  I think the first was the Bee Gees' comeback one, Main Course.  Until 1982 it was mostly singles.  And I still bought them until the late 80's, but not as much.  Also, as I got older my listening interests changed.  It wasn't just the latest albums at the top of the charts that interested me, but other genres.  Country, Indie Rock, Alt-Rock, Rap were growing during the 80's.  I also subscribed to more music magazines, read more music books and watched more videos (MTV, VH1) in the 80's.  

  What I'm going to do in this series is spotlight some of my most played albums.  And rank the songs from them.  One reason the 80's will dominate this series is because of my own record collection in that era.  Not as vast as it is now.  Streaming?  No, you had to buy the album or borrow it from a friend, library.  Maybe find them at a Thrift Store or used Record Shop.  There weren't many of those where I lived in the 80's (and still do today).