My favourite albums from 1985

1. 30

   The Wake

   IQ

   

   

   Progressive rock | Neo-prog

   Tracks:

   1. Outer Limits
   2. The Wake
   3. The Magic Roundabout ●
   4. Corners
   5. Widow's Peak
   6. The Thousand Days
   7. Headlong

2. 29

   The Spectre Within

   Fates Warning

   

   

   Heavy metal | Progressive metal

   Tracks:

   1. Traveler in Time ●
   2. Orphan Gypsy
   3. Without a Trace
   4. Pirates of the Underground
   5. The Apparition
   6. Kyrie Eleison
   7. Epitaph

3. 28

   Dealing with It

   D.R.I.

   

   

   Hardcore punk | Crossover thrash | Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Snap
   2. I'd Rather Be Sleeping ●
   3. Marriage
   4. Yes Ma'am
   5. Soup Kitchen
   6. Mad Man
   7. Stupid, Stupid War
   8. Counter Attack
   9. Couch Slouch
   10. Karma
   11. Nursing Home Blues
   12. I Dond't Need Society
   13. Give My Taxes Back
   14. The Explorer
   15. Reaganomics
   16. How to Act
   17. Shame
   18. Argument Then War
   19. Evil Minds
   20. Busted Again
   21. Equal People
   22. On My Way Home
   23. Bail out

4. 27

   Endless Pain

   Kreator

   

   

   Thrash metal | Black metal

   Tracks:

   1. Endless Pain
   2. Total Death
   3. Storm of the Beast
   4. Tormentor
   5. Son of Evil
   6. Flag of Hate ●
   7. Cry War
   8. Bonenreaker
   9. Living in Fear
   10. Dying Victims

5. 26

   Invasion of Your Privacy

   Ratt

   

   

   Glam metal | Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. You're in Love
   2. Never Use Love
   3. Lay It Down ●
   4. Give It All
   5. Closer to My Heart
   6. Between the Eyes
   7. What You Give Is What You Get
   8. Got Me on the Line
   9. You Should Know by Now
   10. Dangerous but Worth the Risk

6. 25

   Power of the Night

   Savatage

   

   

   Heavy metal

   Tracks:

   1. Power of the Night
   2. Unusual
   3. Warriors
   4. Necrophilia
   5. Washed out
   6. Hard for Love
   7. Fountain of Youth
   8. Skull Session ●
   9. Stuck on You
   10. In the Dream

7. 24

   Southern Accents

   Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

   

   

   Roots rock | Southern rock

   Tracks:

   1. Rebels
   2. It Ain't Nothin' to Me
   3. Don't Come Around Here No More ●
   4. Southern Accents
   5. Make It Better (Forget About Me)
   6. Spike
   7. Dogs on the Run
   8. Mary's New Car
   9. The Best of Everything

8. 23

   Infernal Overkill

   Destruction

   

   

   Thrash metal

   Tracks:

   1. Invincible Force
   2. Death Trap
   3. The Ritual
   4. Tormentor
   5. Bestial Invasion
   6. Thrash Attack ●
   7. Antichrist
   8. Black Death

9. 22

   Walls of Jericho

   Helloween

   

   

   Speed metal | Power metal

   Tracks:

   1. Walls of Jericho
   2. Ride the Sky
   3. Reptile
   4. Guardians
   5. Phantoms of Death
   6. Metal Invaders
   7. Gorgar
   8. Heavy Metal (Is the Law)
   9. How Many Tears ●

10. 21

    The Skull

    Trouble

    

    

    Doom metal

    Tracks:

    1. Pray for the Dead
    2. Fear No Evil
    3. The Wish ●
    4. Truth Is — What Is
    5. Wickedness of Man
    6. Gideon
    7. The Skull

11. 20

    Night Time

    Killing Joke

    

    

    Gothic rock | Post-punk

    Tracks:

    1. Night Time
    2. Darkness Before Dawn
    3. Love Like Blood
    4. Kings and Queens
    5. Tabazan
    6. Multitudes
    7. Europe
    8. Eighties ●

12. 19

    Fear of Tomorrow

    Artillery

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Time Has Come
    2. The Almighty
    3. Show Your Hate
    4. King, Thy Name Is Slayer ●
    5. Out of the Sky
    6. Into the Universe
    7. The Eternal War
    8. Fear of Tomorrow
    9. Deeds of Darkness

13. 18

    Speak English or Die

    S.O.D.

    

    

    Crossover thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. March of the S.O.D.
    2. Sargent D and the S.O.D.
    3. Kill Yourself
    4. Milano Mosh
    5. Speak English or Die
    6. United Forces
    7. Chromatic Death
    8. Pi Alpha Nu
    9. Anti-Procrastination Song
    10. What's That Noise
    11. Freddy Krueger
    12. Milk ●
    13. Pre-Menstrual Princess Blues
    14. Pussy Whipped
    15. Fist Banging Mania
    16. No Turning Back
    17. Fuck the Middle East
    18. Douche Crew
    19. Hey Gordy!
    20. Ballad of Jimi Hendrix
    21. Diamonds and Rust (Extended Version)

14. 17

    On a Storyteller's Night

    Magnum

    

    

    Hard rock | progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. How Far Jerusalem ●
    2. Just Like an Arrow
    3. On a Storyteller's Night
    4. Before First Light
    5. Les Morts Dansants
    6. Endless Love
    7. Two Hearts
    8. Steal Your Heart
    9. All England's Eyes
    10. The Last Dance

15. 16

    Misplaced Childhood

    Marillion

    

    

    Progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Pseudo Silk Kimono ●
    2. Kayleigh
    3. Lavender
    4. Bitter Suite
    5. Heart of Lothian
    6. Waterhole (Expresso Bongo)
    7. Lords of the Backstage
    8. Blind Curve
    9. Childhood's End?
    10. White Feather

16. 15

    Flip Your Wig

    Hüsker Dü

    

    

    Power pop | Punk rock

    Tracks:

    1. Flip Your Wig
    2. Every Everything ●
    3. Makes No Sense at All
    4. Hate Paper Doll
    5. Green Eyes
    6. Divide and Conquer
    7. Games
    8. Find Me
    9. The Baby Song
    10. Flexible Flyer
    11. Private Plane
    12. Keep Hanging on
    13. The Wit and the Wisdom
    14. Don't Know Yet

17. 14

    Metal Heart

    Accept

    

    

    Heavy metal

    Tracks:

    1. Metal Heart ●
    2. Midnight Mover
    3. Up to the Limit
    4. Wrong Is Right
    5. Screaming for a Love-Bite
    6. Too High to Get It Right
    7. Dogs on Leads
    8. Teach Us to Survive
    9. Living for Tonite
    10. Bound to Fall

18. 13

    Open the Gates

    Manilla Road

    

    

    Heavy metal | Power metal

    Tracks:

    1. Metalström
    2. Open the Gates
    3. Astronomica
    4. Weavers of the Web
    5. Heavy Metal to the World
    6. The Fires of Mars
    7. Road to Kings
    8. Hour of the Dragon
    9. Witches Brew ●

19. 12

    Metal Fatigue

    Allan Holdsworth

    

    

    Jazz fusion

    Tracks:

    1. Metal Fatigue ●
    2. Home
    3. Devil Take the Hindmost
    4. Panic Station
    5. The Un-Merry-Go-Round
    6. In the Mystery

20. 11

    The Return ...

    Bathory

    

    

    Black metal

    Tracks:

    1. Revelation of Doom
    2. Total Destruction
    3. Born for Burning
    4. The Wind of Mayhem
    5. Bestial Lust (Bitch)
    6. Possessed
    7. The Rite of Darkness
    8. Reap of Evil
    9. Son of the Damned
    10. Sadist (Tormentor)
    11. The Return of the Darkness and Evil ●
    12. Outro

21. 10

    Hell Awaits

    Slayer

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Hell Awaits ●
    2. Kill Again
    3. At Dawn They Sleep
    4. Praise of Death
    5. Necrophiliac
    6. Crypts of Eternity
    7. Hardening of the Arteries

22. 9

    Fables of Reconstruction

    R.E.M.

    

    

    Folk rock | Alternative rock

    Tracks:

    1. Feeling Gravity's Pull
    2. Maps and Legends
    3. Driver 8
    4. Life and How to Live It
    5. Old Man Kensey
    6. Can't Get From Here
    7. Green Grow the Rushes ●
    8. Kohoutek
    9. Auctioneer (Another Engine)
    10. Good Advice
    11. Wendell Gee

23. 8

    Hounds of Love

    Kate Bush

    

    

    art pop | progressive rock

    Tracks:

    1. Running up That Hill (A Deal with God) ●
    2. Houdns of Love
    3. The Big Sky
    4. Mother Stands for Comfort
    5. Cloudbusting
    6. And Dream of Sheep
    7. Under Ice
    8. Waking the Witch
    9. Watching You without Me
    10. Jig of Life
    11. Hello Earth
    12. The Morning Fog

24. 7

    Spreading the Disease

    Anthrax

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. A.I.R.
    2. Lone Justice
    3. Madhouse ●
    4. S.S.C. / Stand or Fall
    5. The Enemy
    6. Aftershock
    7. Armed and Dangerous
    8. Medusa
    9. Gung-Ho

25. 6

    The Last Command

    W.A.S.P.

    

    

    Heavy metal | glam metal

    Tracks:

    1. Wild Child ●
    2. Ballcrusher
    3. Fistful of Diamonds
    4. Jack Action
    5. Widowmaker
    6. Blind in Texas
    7. Cries in the Night
    8. The Last Command
    9. Running Wild in the STreets
    10. Sex Drive

26. 5

    Brothers in Arms

    Dire Straits

    

    

    Pop rock

    Tracks:

    1. So Far Away
    2. Money for Nothing
    3. Walk of Life
    4. Your Latest Trick
    5. Why Worry
    6. Ride Across the River
    7. The Man's Too Strong
    8. One World
    9. Brothers in Arms ●

27. 4

    To Mega Therion

    Celtic Frost

    

    

    Death metal | thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Inocence and Wrath
    2. The Usurper ●
    3. Jewel Throne
    4. Dawn of Meggido
    5. Eternal Summer
    6. Circle of Tyrants
    7. (Beyond the) North Winds
    8. Fainted Eyes
    9. Tears in a Prophet's Dream
    10. Necromantical Screams

28. 3

    Seven Churches

    Possessed

    

    

    Death metal | thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. The Exorcist
    2. Pentagram
    3. Burning in Hell
    4. Evil Warriors
    5. Seven Churches
    6. Satan's Curse
    7. Holy Hell
    8. Twisted Minds
    9. Fallen Angel
    10. Death Metal ●

29. 2

    Killing Is My Busness ... and Business Is Good!

    Megadeth

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Last Rites / Loved to Deth
    2. Killing Is My Business ... and Business Is Good!
    3. The Skull Beneath My Skin
    4. These Boots
    5. Rattlehead ●
    6. Chosen Ones
    7. Looking down the Cross
    8. Mechanix

30. 1

    Bonded by Blood

    Exodus

    

    

    Thrash metal

    Tracks:

    1. Bonded in Blood
    2. Exodus
    3. And Then There Were None
    4. A Lesson in Violence ●
    5. Metal Command
    6. Piranha
    7. No Love
    8. Deliver Us to Evil
    9. Strike of the Beast