THE YEAR Part 3: 1985 - which 1985 album from this list is your choice as the best?

[treeduck]

Mid 80's, and here we are again. Edited April 17, 2020 by treeduck

[tangy]

misplaced childhood

 

in distant second is megadeth

[Entre_Perpetuo]

A battle between Marillion and Anthrax

 

Seeing as I've only listened to the Marillion album a couple times (despite loving it), I'll go with Anthrax.

[stoopid]

My answer to this poll has certainly changed over the years. I assumed this was a "right now" answer, not when I was 10 years old.

[treeduck]

My answer to this poll has certainly changed over the years. I assumed this was a "right now" answer, not when I was 10 years old.

Errrr what?

[Rick N. Backer]

For me, it’s between Invasion of Your Privacy and The Power Station. Probably The Power Station.

[J2112YYZ]

Anthrax.

[Tinwoodsman]

It was quite a lean music year for me, the only album on the list that I bought was Brothers In Arms.

[Mithrandir]

Heart!

[ST3V]

gotta go with Dire Straits because there are too many albums here that I am unfamiliar with

[78jazz]

Good thing Power Windows is not on this list, for that would be my choice.

 

I am with Tinwoodsman: This is a lean year with these choices. I still have Afterburner, but I am unsure I will ever play it again.

[Nova Carmina]

Good year, I think. Gary Moore? Slayer? Anthrax? Dire Straits is a good shout. I thought about Yngwie.

 

It's AC/DC for me, but it's mostly momentum from their earlier albums.

[goose]

It was quite a lean music year for me, the only album on the list that I bought was Brothers In Arms.

I was thinking the same. What a dip in quality from the other polls.

 

Overplayed, but Brothers in Arms gets the nod from me.

[treeduck]

I'm a big Holdsworth fan and Metal Fatigue almost won, but I really love Thunder in the East by Loudness, an underrated masterpiece of metal!

[Na na na]

Marillion

[Texas King]

Brothers in Arms out of those poll choices.

 

But my actual favorites from 1985 are Hounds of Love by Kate Bush and Rain Dogs by Tom Waits.

Honorable mention: The Cult - Love

[Segue Myles]

Killing Is My Business

[The Cat 3]

[Stormtron]

Megadeth - Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!

[BK 2112]

Interesting for me since by now I had strayed away from a lot of the prog and metal of my youth and was more in to punk/new wave, etc. I went with Dire Straits but my favorite album from 1985 is "This Is Big Audio Dynamite".

[custom55]

Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors

 

Fantastic album

[Nova Carmina]

Aerosmith - Done With Mirrors

 

Fantastic album

 

Under-rated, definitely.

[cygnify]

Easy - Misplaced Childhood. Masterpiece.

 

Power Windows obviously was very big for me too, lol.

 

Metal Fatigue is a great one - but got me much later. In 1985, I saw SRV and Heart in concert - but I preferred other albums of theirs. Megadeth had not really hit for me until Peace Sells. Anthrax was great. My GF liked Mr. Mister, so there's that nostalgia. I can appreciate Dire Straits, but they've never been that huge for me.

[treeduck]

 

I would have thought you'd have gone with Aerosmith in this one.

[treeduck]

Easy - Misplaced Childhood. Masterpiece.

 

Power Windows obviously was very big for me too, lol.

 

Metal Fatigue is a great one - but got me much later. In 1985, I saw SRV and Heart in concert - but I preferred other albums of theirs. Megadeth had not really hit for me until Peace Sells. Anthrax was great. My GF liked Mr. Mister, so there's that nostalgia. I can appreciate Dire Straits, but they've never been that huge for me.

Metal Fatigue was my choice for a while before I voted but I just changed my mind at the end.