Album Year: 1980
Women and Children First
Women and Children First is the third studio album by American hard rock band Van Halen, released on March 26, 1980 on Warner Bros. Records. Produced by Ted Templeman, it was the first to feature compositions written solely by the band, and is described by critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine as “[the] record where the group … Read more
Arc of a Diver
Arc of a Diver is the second solo album by singer/multi-instrumentalist Steve Winwood. The album was performed entirely by Winwood.
Seventeen Seconds
Seventeen Seconds is the second studio album by English alternative rock band The Cure, recorded at Morgan Studio and released on 22 April 1980 by Fiction Records. Seventeen Seconds established the group’s gothic rock sound that would continue until 1982’s Pornography. It is the only Cure album to feature keyboardist Matthieu Hartley. Inspiration was very … Read more
The Jazz Singer
The Jazz Singer is an album by Neil Diamond from 1980, which served as the soundtrack album to the 1980 remake of the film The Jazz Singer. The soundtrack was released in November 1980 originally on Capitol Records, instead of his then-usual Columbia Records, because the film was produced by EMI Films, owned by the … Read more
Flash Gordon
Flash Gordon is the ninth studio album of British rock band Queen, and is one of the two film soundtracks Queen produced, along with Highlander. It is the album to the science fiction film Flash Gordon, and features lyrics on only two tracks. The track Flash’s Theme was the only single to be released from … Read more
Unmasked
Unmasked is the eighth studio album by American hard rock band Kiss, released in 1980. It was the last studio album to feature the original lineup of Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss until the band reunited. Criss actually had no involvement with the recording of the album; Anton Fig (uncredited) played … Read more