1984

Purple Rain

Prince and the Revolution

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 25 June 1984

• Pop rock
• Funk pop

1. Let's Go Crazy
2. Take Me With U
3. The Beautiful Ones
4. Computer Blue
5. Darling Nikki
6. When Doves Cry
7. I Would Die 4 U
8. Baby I'm a Star
9. Purple Rain

Wings of Tomorrow

Europe

• Label: Hot Records
• Released: 24 February 1984

• Heavy metal

1. Stormwind
2. Scream of Anger
3. Open Your Heart
4. Treated Bad Again
5. Aphasia
6. Wings of Tomorrow
7. Wasted Time
8. Lyin' Eyes
9. Dreamer
10. Dance the Night Away

Saint Vitus

Saint Vitus

• Label: SST
• Released: 13 January 1984

• Doom metal

1. Saint Vitus
2. White Magic / Black Magic
3. Zombie Hunger
4. The Psychopath
5. Burial at Sea

My War

Black Flag

• Label: SST
• Released: March 1984

• Hardcore punk
• Sludge metal
• Post-hardcore

1. My War
2. Can't Decide
3. Beat My Head Against the Wall
4. I Love You
5. Forever Time
6. The Swinging Man
7. Nothing Left Inside
8. Three Nights
9. Scream

1984

Van Halen

• Label: Warner Bros.
• Released: 9 January 1984

• Hard rock
• Glam metal

1. 1984
2. Jump
3. Panama
4. Top Jimmy
5. Drop Dead Legs
6. Hot for Teacher
7. I'll Wait
8. Girl Gone Bad
9. House of Pain

Out of the Cellar

Ratt

• Label: Atlantic
• Released: 17 February 1984

• Glam metal
• Heavy metal

1. Wanted Man
2. You're in Trouble
3. Round and Round
4. In Your Direction
5. She Wants Money
6. Lack of Communication
7. Back for More
8. The Morning After
9. I'm Insane
10. Scene of the Crime

King of the Dead

Cirith Ungol

• Label: Enigma
• Released: 2 July 1984

• Heavy metal
• Power metal

1. Atom Smasher
2. Black Machine
3. Master of the Pit
4. King of the Dead
5. Death of the Sun
6. Finger of Scorn
7. Toccata in Dm
8. Cirith Ungol

Psalm 9

Trouble

• Label: Metal Blade
• Released: 10 March 1984

• Doom metal

1. The Tempter
2. Assassin
3. Victim of the Insane
4. Revelation (Life or Death)
5. Bastards Will Pay
6. The Fall of Lucifer
7. Endtime
8. Psalm 9

Sign of the Hammer

Manowar

• Label: Virgin
• Released: 15 October 1984

• Heavy metal
• Power metal

1. All Men Play on 10
2. Animals
3. Thor (The Powerhead)
4. Sign of the Hammer
5. The Oath
6. Thunderpick
7. Guyana (Cult of the Damned)

Zen Arcade

Hüsker Dü

• Label: SST
• Released: 1 July 1984

• Hardcore punk
• Post-hardcore

1. Something I Learned Today
2. Broken Home, Broken Heart
3. Never Talkng to You Again
4. Chartered Trips
5. Dreams Reoccurring
6. Indecision Time
7. Hare Kṛṣṇa
8. Beyond the Threshold
9. Pride
10. I'll Never Forget You
11. The Biggest Lie
12. What's Going on
13. Masochism World
14. Standing by the Sea
15. Somewhere
16. One Step at a Time
17. Punk Turns to Blue
18. Newest Industry
19. Monday Will Never Be the Same
20. Whatever
21. The Tooth Fairy and the Princess
22. Turn on the News
23. Reoccurring Dreams

Hail to England

Manowar

• Label: Music for Nations
• Released: February 1984

• Heavy metal
• Power metal

1. Blood on My Enemies
2. Each Dawn I Die
3. Kill with Power
4. Hail to England
5. Army of the Immortals
6. Black Arrows
7. Bridge of Death

Bathory

Bathory

• Label: Black Mark
• Released: 2 October 1984

• Black metal

1. Storm of Damnation
2. Hades
3. Reaper
4. Necromansy
5. Sacrifice
6. In Conspiracy with Satan
7. Armageddon
8. Raise the Dead
9. War
10. Outro

Rising Force

Yngwie J. Malmsteen

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 1984

• Neoclassical metal

1. Black Star
2. Far Beyond the Sun
3. Now Your Ships Are Burned
4. Evil Eye
5. Icarus' Dream Suite Op. 4
6. As Above, So Below
7. Little Savage
8. Farewell

Couldn't Stand the Weather

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble

• Label: Epic
• Released: 15 May 1984

• Blues
• Blues rock

1. Scuttle Buttin'
2. Coudn't Stand the Weather
3. The THings (That) I Used to Do
4. Voodoo Child (Slight Return)
5. Cold SHot
6. Tin Pan Alley
7. Honey Bee
8. Stang's Swang

Three of a Perfect Pair

King Crimson

• Label: E.G.
• Released: March 1984

• Progressive rock
• New wave

1. Three of a Perfect Pair
2. Model Man
3. Sleepless
4. Man with an Open Heart
5. Nuages (That Which Passes, Passes Like Clouds)
6. Industry
7. Dig Me
8. No Warning
9. Larks' Tongue in Aspic (Part III)

Reckoning

R.E.M.

• Label: I.R.S.
• Released: 9 April 1984

• Jangle pop
• Alternative rock

1. Harborcoat
2. 7 Chinese Bros.
3. So. Centra Rain (I'm Sorry)
4. Pretty Persuasion
5. Time After Time (Annelise)
6. Second Guessing
7. Letter Never Sent
8. Camera
9. (Don't Go Back to) Rockville
10. Little America

Defenders of the Faith

Judas Priest

• Label: Columbia
• Released: 13 January 1984

• Heavy metal

1. Freewheel Burning
2. Jawbreaker
3. Rock Hard Ride Free
4. The Sentinel
5. Love Bits
6. Eat Me Alive
7. Some Heads Are Gonna Roll
8. Night Comes Down
9. Heavy Duty
10. Defenders of the Faith

Reckless

Bryan Adams

• Label: A&M
• Released: 5 November 1984

• Pop rock
• roots rock

1. One Night Love Affair
2. She's Only Happy When She's Dancin'
3. Run to You
4. Heaven
5. Somebody
6. Summer of '69
7. Kids Wanna Rock
8. It's Only Love
9. Long Gone
10. Ain't Gonna Cry

From Her to Eternity

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

• Label: Mute
• Released: May 1984

• Post-punk

1. Avalanche
2. Cabin Fever!
3. Well of Misery
4. From Her to Eternity
5. Saint Huck
6. Wings off Flies
7. A Box for Black Paul

Morbid Tales

Celtic Frost

• Label: Noise
• Released: November 1984

• Thrash metal
• Black metal

1. Into the Crypts of Rays
2. Visions of Mortality
3. Dethroned Emperor
4. Morbid Tales
5. Procreation (of the Wicked)
6. Return to the Eve
7. Danse Macabre
8. Nocturnal Fear

The Warning

Queensrÿche

• Label: EMI
• Released: 7 September 1984

• Heavy metal
• Progressive metal

1. Warning
2. En Force
3. Deliverance
4. No Sanctuary
5. N M 156
6. Take Hold of the Flame
7. Before the Storm
8. Child of Fire
9. Roads to Madness

Love at First Sting

Scorpions

• Label: EMI
• Released: 27 March 1984

• Heavy metal

1. Bad Boys Running Wild
2. Rock You Like a Hurricane
3. I'm Leaving You
4. Coming Home
5. The Same Thrill
6. Big City Nights
7. As Soon As the Good Times Roll
8. Crossfire
9. Still Loving You

The Last in Line

Dio

• Label: Vertigo
• Released: 2 July 1984

• Heavy metal

1. We Rock
2. The Last in Line
3. Breathless
4. I Speed at Night
5. One Night in the City
6. Evil Eyes
7. Mystery
8. Eat Your Heart out
9. Egypt (The Chains Are on)

Double Nickels on the Dime

Minutemen

• Label: SST
• Released: 3 July 1984

• Post-punk
• Art punk
• Post-hardcore

1. Anxious Mo-Fo
2. Theatre Is the Life of You
3. Viet Nam
4. Cohesion
5. It's Expected I'm Gone
6. #1 Hit Song
7. Two Beds at the End
8. Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?
9. Don't Look Now
10. Shit from an Old Notebook
11. Nature Without Man
12. One Reporter's Opinion
13. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
14. Maybe Partying Will Help
15. Toadies
16. Retreat
17. The Big Foist
18. God Bows to Math
19. Corona
20. The Glory of Man
21. Take 5, D.
22. My Heart and the Real World
23. History Lesson — Part II
24. You Need the Glory
25. The Roar of the Masses Could be Farts
26. Mr. Robot's Holy Order
27. West Germany
28. The Politics of Time
29. Themselves
30. Please Don't Be Gente with Me
31. Nothing Indeed
32. No Exchange
33. There Ain't Shot on T.V. Tonight
34. This Ain't No Picnic
35. Spillage
36. Untitled Song for Latin America
37. Jesus and Tequila
38. June 16th
39. Storm in My House
40. Martin's Story
41. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love
42. Doctor Wu
43. Little Man with a Gun in His Hand
44. The World According to Nouns
45. Love Dance

Don't Break the Oath

Mercyful Fate

• Label: Roadrunner
• Released: 7 September 1984

• Heavy metal

1. A Dangerous Meeting
2. Nightmare
3. Desecration of Souls
4. Night of the Unborn
5. The Oath
6. Gypsy
7. Welcome Princess of Hell
8. To One Far Away
9. Come to the Sabbath

W.A.S.P.

W.A.S.P.

• Label: Capitol
• Released: 17 August 1984

• Heavy metal
• glam metal

1. Animal (Fuck Like a Beast)
2. I Wanna Be Somebody
3. L.O.V.E. Machine
4. The Flame
5. B.A.D.
6. Schoo Daze
7. Hellion
8. Sleeping (in the Fire)
9. On Your Knees
10. Tormentor
11. The Torture Never Stops

Powerslave

Iron Maiden

• Label: EMI
• Released: 3 September 1984

• Heavy metal

1. Aces High
2. 2 Minutes to Midnight
3. Losfer Words (Big 'Orra)
4. Flash of the Blade
5. The Duellists
6. Back in the Village
7. Powerslave
8. Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Perfect Strangers

Deep Purple

• Label: Polydor
• Released: 29 October 1984

• Hard rock
• heavy metal

1. Knocking at Your Back Door
2. Under the Gun
3. Nobody's Home
4. Mean Streak
5. Perfect Strangers
6. A Gypsy's Kiss
7. Wasted Sunsets
8. Hungry Daze

Metal Church

Metal Church

• Label: Ground Zero
• Released: 1 December 1984

• Heavy metal
• thrash metal

1. Beyond the Black
2. Metal Church
3. Merciless Onslaught
4. Gos of Wrath
5. Hitman
6. In the Blood
7. (My Favourite) Nightmare
8. Battalions

Ele Güne Karşı Yapayalnız

Mazhar Fuat Özkan

• Label: Balet Plak
• Released: 1984

• Pop rock
• Anatolian rock

1. Ele Güne Karşı
2. Deli Deli
3. Sen ve Ben
4. Yalnızlık Ömür Boyu
5. Neye Niyet Neye Kısmet
6. Ondan Şikayet Bundan Şikayet
7. Bu Sabah Yağmur Var İstanbul'da
8. Olmuyor Olamiyor
9. Sevdim Bir Kere
10. Bodrum
11. Güllerin İçinden

Ride the Lightning

Metallica

• Label: Megaforce
• Released: 27 July 1984

• Thrash metal

1. Fight Fire with Fire
2. Ride the Lightning
3. For Whom the Bell Tolls
4. Fade to Black
5. Trapped Under Ice
6. Escape
7. Creeping Death
8. The Call of Ktulu