Best Album of 1981.

[WARF]

1982 and 1983 will be done tommorow.

[krcampbell]

This is tough...I love Diary of a Madman, but Fair Warning is my favorite Van Halen album and Van Halen is my favorite band. You should go with favorite non-Van Halen albums of a given year, that'd be a good poll.

[Unchainme]

FAIR FUCKING WARNING!!!! Mean Streets, Dirty Movies, Sinner's Swing, Hear 'bout it later,Unchained, So This Is Love?, FUCKING CLASSIC!!!!

When Are you going to do 1976-1979 I would like to see those.

[WARF]

Originally posted by krcampbell
This is tough...I love Diary of a Madman, but Fair Warning is my favorite Van Halen album and Van Halen is my favorite band. You should go with favorite non-Van Halen albums of a given year, that'd be a good poll.

I thought about that, but there's only two more Van Halen albums on the polls.

[krcampbell]

Yeah, I hear ya. Perhaps that would be a task best suited for sometime in the future

[WARF]

Originally posted by Unchainme
FAIR FUCKING WARNING!!!! Mean Streets, Dirty Movies, Sinner's Swing, Hear 'bout it later,Unchained, So This Is Love?, FUCKING CLASSIC!!!!

When Are you going to do 1976-1979 I would like to see those.

I'm doing my 80's series this week.... next week will be the 70's series.... then followed by the 90's series...

[Matt White]

FAIR WARNING

Class of '81 was pretty STELLAR

A TON of GRATE music.

[PenguinsKID1986]

Diary of a Madman kicked ass!, that's my favorite ozzy album. Ghost in the machine was also a real good album. I like the idea of no Van Halen in the polls though, of course you go with Fair Warning!

[FasterPussycat]

Time by ELO... ;)

[lionsfan]

Rush's "Moving Pictures", definitely. :cool:

[tobinentinc]

Fair Warning all the way

[Dave IS VH]

ok, this time I'll go with Van Halen "Fair Warning"

[Antman]

Like VH1's Behind the Music: 1981 said, "In 1981, no one rocked harder than Van Halen."

[Soul Reaper]

Fair Warning....duh

[theicecreamman]

Diary of A Madman. Randy Rhoads has always been my favorite guitarsit. And the song Diary of A Madman is just amazing.

[Mr. Vengeance]

As fucking good as VH's album was, I'd have to say AC/DC For Those About To Rock was my favorite of 1981.

[bueno bob]

Black Sabbath's "Mob Rules".

Easily one of their finest moments ever put to tape and much better than anything else that sold twice as much as it.

Closely followed by "Fair Warning", of course :D

[Satan]

Damn there was a lot of great records that year, but a Devil's gotta go with Fair Warning in the end.

[Last_Child]

Rush Wins this Match...

[BruinJer]

I went with High N Dry, that is an underrated album.

[Wawazat]

Fair Warning

for sure

[DLR_EngineRoom]

Originally posted by WARF
1982 and 1983 will be done tommorow.

VH - FW with Ozzy, Crue, Leppard, Rush and The Stones tied for a very very close 2nd.

[DrMaddVibe]

My fave...Fair Warning!

I gave Moving Pictures a listen to awhile back...that's held its own and still sounds great too!

The Stones...damn that was a great release too!

Ozzy...WITH Randy...damn.

Hard choices this year...but I went with what I listen to the most...Sorry Lemmy..."Ace Of Spades"!

[FORD]

Fair Warning. With Diary a close second, and Moving Pictures third.

I wouldn't vote for Tattoo You in this poll, as it wasn't really a studio album, but rather a collection of old songs dragged out of the vault with a few vocal overdubs. Not that Mick didn't do a Hell of a job in that department.

[Keeyth]

This is another really tough year. I'm a Van Halen fan, but in 1981, the album I was really into was High 'n' Dry. That album ROCKED. Fair Warning is so good I have to say it's a tie for first with those two. Second is Rush, Motley, and the Police, all tied for 2nd.

[VonHalen]

FW
stones tattoo you was good too

[Mr Badguy]

That`s a bitchin` list.

They`re all great but I`m picking "Escape" by Journey.

Closely followed by all the above.

[DLR7884]

Fair Warning is one of the greatest albums ever recorded.

DLR7884
Tatoo You finishes in 2nd for this year.