From Madonna to U2 to the B-52s, we ranked the 20 best albums that came out in 1983.
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found the band diversifying beyond punk into blues, country, rockabilly, surf and even electronica. Standout “Color Me Impressed” finally proved that—in addition to heart and true punk-rock attitude—The Replacements had phenomenal songwriting chops. On the other hand,’s album-opening title track is a painfully tuneless wreck of a blues shuffle on which The Replacements irresponsibly swap instruments.
, it must be noted that it was the second-highest selling album of 1984. What LP topped it? Michael Jackson’s. The fact that Huey Lewis and the News were able to even come close to outmuscling the sales of Jackson’s masterpiece is one-in-a-million;living on as the best pop-rock record of the 1980s is some kind of unthinkable destiny that washed over the cultural mainstream in such a perfect, endearing and limitless way.
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