Synchronicity
1983
The three of them recorded in separate rooms because they could no longer stand each other, and then made the biggest album of the year.
★ 7.9
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Murmur
1983
Stipe's words are deliberately buried in the mix, and nobody could work them out. Rolling Stone still named it album of the year over Thriller.
★ 7.5
Madonna
1983
Madonna fought the label for control of her own debut and got a club DJ brought in to remix it. It sold ten million.
★ 5.0
The Hurting
1983
The two of them had played together in a Bath mod band as teenagers, and named this one after a line in a psychology book.
★ 3.9
Uh-Huh
1983
His label had made him record as Johnny Cougar for years, and this is the first album with his real surname on the cover.
★ 3.5