With so much happening in the new wave scene, as well as new evolutions in pop and rock, the early 1980s were quite a fun time for music. Specifically, quite a few killer tunes came out in the year ...

Imagine you sent a time traveler back to 1983 to bring back the biggest, most influential album of the year. If your time traveler didn’t return with Michael Jackson’s “Thriller,” well, you’d just ...