Hounds of Love
1985
Bush built her own studio at home so nobody could interfere, then gave over an entire side to a woman drowning through one night.
★ 9.0
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Rain Dogs
1985
Waits had Marc Ribot play guitar as though he had never been taught, and Keith Richards turns up on three tracks.
★ 7.5
Tim
1985
Tommy Ramone produced it, and the band got themselves banned from Saturday Night Live after one drunken appearance a few months later.
★ 6.3
Brothers in Arms
1985
The first album to sell a million copies on compact disc, and one of the first recorded digitally start to finish.
★ 6.1
Songs from the Big Chair
1985
Everybody Wants to Rule the World was written last, in a few days, and the band nearly left it off the record entirely.
★ 5.9
Whitney Houston
1985
Her mother sang backing vocals for Aretha Franklin. Arista spent two years and a great deal of money picking songs before releasing any of it.
★ 4.8