Recommendations - Top 50 Essential Albums of the 80s ARTIST ALBUM 1927 ….ish ABC The Lexicon of Love AC/DC Back in Black Angels Dark Room Australian Crawl The Boys Light Up Australian Crawl Sirocco Billy Idol Whiplash Smile Billy Idol Rebel Yell Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet Bruce Springsteen The River Bruce Springsteen Born In The USA Cold Chisel East Cold Chisel Circus Animals Crowded House Crowded House Crowded House Temple Of Low Men Culture Club Colour By Numbers Cyndi Lauper She's So Unusual Daryl Braithwaite Edge David Bowie Let's Dance Def Leppard Hysteria Diana Ross Diana Dire Straits Brothers In Arms Divinyls What A Life Don Henley Building The Perfect Beast Duran Duran Rio Elton John Too Low For Zero Eurythmics Revenge Eurythmics Be Yourself Tonight Fine Young Cannibals The Raw & The Cooked Fleetwood Mac Tango In The Night Flowers Icehouse Frankie Goes To Hollywood Welcome To The Pleasuredome George Michael Faith Guns n' Roses Appetite For Destruction Hoodoo Gurus Blow Your Cool Hoodoo Gurus Mars Needs Guitars Hunters & Collectors Human Frailty Icehouse Man Of Colours Icehouse Primitive Man INXS Kick INXS The Swing INXS Listen Like Thieves Jimmy Barnes Freight Train Heart Jimmy Barnes For The Working Class Man John Farnham Whispering Jack John Farnham Age Of Reason John Lennon Double Fantasy John Mellencamp Scarecrow John Mellencamp Lonesome Jubilee John Mellencamp American Fool Johnny Diesel Johnny Diesel & The Injectors Kate Bush Hounds of Love Kylie Minogue Kylie Lionel Richie Can't Slow Down Madonna Like A Virgin Madonna True Blue Madonna Like A Prayer Men At Work Business As Usual Mental As Anything Cats & Dogs Mental As Anything Fundamental Michael Jackson Bad Michael Jackson Thriller Midnight Oil Diesel and Dust Midnight Oil 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 Models Out Of Mind, Out Of Sight Mondo Rock Chemistry Noiseworks Noiseworks Paul Kelly Gossip Paul Simon Graceland Pet Shop Boys Actually Peter Gabriel So Phil Collins No Jacket Required Police Synchronicity Police Zenyatta Mondatta Pretenders Pretenders Prince 1999 Prince Purple Rain Pseudo Echo Love An Adventure Queen The Works Real Life Heartland Robert Palmer Heavy Nova Rolling Stones Tattoo You Roxette Look Sharp! Simply Red A New Flame Spandau Ballet True Split Enz Waiata Split Enz True Colours Talking Heads Little Creatures Tears for Fears Songs from the Big Chair Terence Trent D'Arby Introducing The Hardline According To… The Cure The Head On The Door The Human League Dare Tina Turner Private Dancer Tom Petty Full Moon Fever Tracy Chapman Tracy Chapman Traveling Wilburys Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 U2 War U2 Rattle & Hum U2 The Joshua Tree Van Halen 1984 Wham! Make It Big Whitney Houston Whitney ZZ Top Eliminator .