Album Year: 1985
Midnite Dynamite
Midnite Dynamite is the band’s third full-length released on Atlantic Records. The album, released in 1985, features 7 out of 10 songs co-written by bassist Donnie Purnell with hit songwriter Bob Halligan Jr. (Kiss, Judas Priest, Icon, Blue Öyster Cult). Kip Winger was credited on one song and Crack the Sky frontman John Palumbo on … Read more
Love
Love is the second studio album by English rock band The Cult, released on 18 October 1985 by Beggars Banquet Records. The album was the band’s commercial breakthrough, reaching number four in the UK and staying on the chart for 22 weeks. It produced three Top 40 singles in the UK, “She Sells Sanctuary”, “Rain”, … Read more
Standing on the Edge
Standing on the Edge is an album by the American rock group Cheap Trick, released in 1985. Jack Douglas, the producer of Cheap Trick’s debut album Cheap Trick, made a return for this release.
Luxury of Life
Luxury of Life is the debut album by the British pop group Five Star. Though not a great success when it was first released in the summer of 1985, the album eventually peaked at number 12 in early 1986, and spent a total of 70 weeks in the UK Albums Chart. It was certified Platinum … Read more
The Spectre Within
The Spectre Within is the second studio album by progressive metal band Fates Warning, released in October 1985 through Metal Blade Records. It has been reissued three times: first as a double album together with Night on Bröcken (1984) in 1992, followed by a remastered edition in 1994, and again in 2002 with four bonus … Read more
Dare to Be Stupid
It is true that Weird Al Yankovic went into this third album with a huge hit behind him, the first of several satires of Michael Jackson he would be involved in, entitled “Eat It.” And it is also true that only someone who is missing important brain cells would suggest this artist’s original songs are … Read more