| Top 101 Rock Albums (from 1980-1992) | |||
| Whether you call it Heavy Metal or any other variations of Thrash, Power, Hair, Pop, Glam, Arena Rock below are the 101 best Rock/Metal | |||
| Albums from the period of 1980 - 1992 put together by your friends here at Godz Useless Music. Note: Bands such as Nirvanna and Pearl | |||
| Jam are omitted basically because they despised most if not all of the bands, so they can go to Hell!! | |||
| # | Band | Album Title | Standout Tracks |
| 1 | Guns N' Roses | Appettite for Destruction | Welcome to the Jungle, It's So Easy, Sweet Child O'Mine |
| 2 | Ozzy Osbourne | Blizzard of Oz | Crazy Train, Mr Crowley, Over the Mountain |
| 3 | AC/DC | Back in Black | Hell's Bells, You Shook Me All Night Long, Back in Black |
| 4 | Metallica | Black Album | Enter Sandman, Wherever I May Roam, Nothing Else Matters |
| 5 | Motley Crue | Shout at the Devil | Looks That Kill, Shout at the Devil, Too Young to Fall in Love |
| 6 | Def Leppard | Pyromania | Rock of Ages, Foolin', Billy's Got a Gun |
| 7 | Judas Priest | Screaming for Vengeance | Electric Eye, You've got Another Thing Comin' |
| 8 | Skid Row | Slave to the Grind | Monkey Business, Quicksand Jesus, Wasted Time |
| 9 | Iron Maiden | Number of the Beast | Run to the Hills, Number of the Beast |
| 10 | Queensryche | Operation Mindcrime | Eyes of a Stranger, I Don't Believe in Love, Suite Sister Mary |
| 11 | Metallica | Master of Puppets | Master of Puppets, Battery |
| 12 | Judas Priest | British Steel | Livin' After Midnight, Breaking the Law |
| 13 | Alice in Chains | Dirt | Them Bones, Down in a Hole, Would |
| 14 | Pantera | Cowboys From Hell | Cowboys From Hell, Heresy |
| 15 | Van Halen | 1984 | Jump, Panama, I'll Wait, Hot for Teacher |
| 16 | Ratt | Out of the Cellar | Round and Round, Wanted Man, Back for More |
| 17 | Dio | Holy Diver | Rainbow in the Dark, Holy Diver, Don't Talk to Strangers |
| 18 | Van Halen | Fair Warning | So This is Love, Unchained, Mean Street |
| 19 | Ozzy Osbourne | The Ultimate Sin | Shot in the Dark, Lightning Strikes, Ultimate Sin |
| 20 | Iron Maiden | Piece of Mind | Flight of Icarus, The Trooper |
| 21 | Motley Crue | Too Fast for Love | Livewire, On with the Show, Piece of Your Action |
| 22 | Poison | Look What the Cat Dragged In | Cry Tough, I Want Action, Talk Dirty to Me |
| 23 | Scorpions | Love at First Sting | Rock You like a Hurricane, Still Loving You |
| 24 | Queensryche | Empire | Empire, Jet City Woman, Silent Lucidity |
| 25 | Ozzy Osbourne | Diary of a Madman | Flying High Again, Diary of a Madman |
| 26 | Rush | Moving Pictures | Tom Sawyer, Limelight, Red Barchetta |
| 27 | Whitesnake | Whitesnake | Still of the Night, Is this Love?, Here I go Again |
| 28 | Cinderella | Night Songs | Shake Me, Nobody's Fool, Push, Push |
| 29 | Megadeth | Countdown to Extinction | Symphony of Destruction, Foreclosure of a Dream |
| 30 | Bon Jovi | Slippery When Wet | Wanted Dead or Alive, You Give Love a Bad Name. |
| 31 | Twisted Sister | Stay Hungry | Were Not Gonna Take It, I Wanna Rock, The Price |
| 32 | Motley Crue | Dr Feelgood | Dr Feelgood, Kickstart my Heart, Don’t go away Mad |
| 33 | Judas Priest | Defenders of the Faith | Some Heads are Gonna Roll, Eat Me Alive, Love Bites |
| 34 | Aerosmith | Pump | Love in a Elevator, F.I.N.E., Janies Got a Gun |
| 35 | Van Halen | Women and Children First | And the Cradle will Rock, Everybody Wants Some |
| 36 | Guns N' Roses | Use Your Illusion 1 | Don't Cry, November Rain, Garden of Eden |
| 37 | Def Leppard | High N' Dry | Bringing on the Heartbreak, Let it Go, |
| 38 | Great White | Twice Shy | Once Bitten Twice Shy, Angel Song, |
| 39 | Dio | Last in Line | Last in Line, Mystery, We Rock |
| 40 | Scorpions | Blackout | No One Like You, Blackout |
| 41 | Warrant | Cherry Pie | Uncle Tom's Cabin, Cherry Pie, I Saw Red |
| 42 | Tesla | The Great Radio Controversy | No Way Out (Heaven's Trail), Hang Tough, Love Song |
| 43 | AC/DC | For Those About to Rock… | Let's Get it Up, For Those About to Rock, |
| 44 | Skid Row | Skid Row | Youth Gone Wild, 18 and Live, Big Guns |
| 45 | Whitesnake | Slide it In | Love Ain't No Stranger, Slide It In, Slow and Easy |
| 46 | Quiet Riot | Metal Health | Cum On Feel the Noize, Metal Health, Slick Black Cadillac |
| 47 | Guns N' Roses | Use Your Illusion 2 | You Could Be Mine, Civil War, Knockin' on Heaven's Door |
| 48 | Badlands | Badlands | Dreams in the Dark, Winters Call |
| 49 | Black Sabbath | Heaven and Hell | Neon Nights, Heaven and Hell, Children of the Sea |
| 50 | Iron Maiden | Killers | Wrathchild, Purgatory |
| 51 | Queensryche | The Warning | Take Hold of the Flame, Road to Madness |
| 52 | Cinderella | Long Cold Winter | Gypsy Road, Don't Know What You Got, Last Mile |
| 53 | Ozzy Osbourne | No More Tears | Mama I'm Coming Home, No More Tears |
| 54 | Rush | Signals | Subdivisions, New World Man |
| 55 | Helloween | Keeper of the Seven Keys Pt 1 | Tale That Wasn't Right, Future World |
| 56 | Faith No More | The Real Thing | Epic, Falling to Pieces |
| 57 | Kix | Blow My Fuse | Cold Blood, Don't Close Your Eyes, Blow My Fuse |
| 58 | Aerosmith | Permanent Vacation | Dude Looks like a Lady, Angel |
| 59 | Tesla | Mechanical Resonance | Modern Day Cowboy, GettinBetter, Coming at Ya Live |
| 60 | Great White | Once Bitten | Rock Me, Save Your Love |
| 61 | Dokken | Tooth and Nail | Just Got Lucky, When Heaven Comes Down |
| 62 | W.A.S.P. | The Last Command | Wild Child, Blind in Texas, Sex Drive |
| 63 | Metal Church | Metal Church | Gods of Wrath, Metal Church |
| 64 | Metallica | …And Justice for All | One, Harvester of Sorrow |
| 65 | Iron Maiden | Somewhere in Time | Wasted Years, Stranger in a Strange Land |
| 66 | Anthrax | Among the Living | Indians, Caught in a Mosh |
| 67 | Anthrax | Spreading the Disease | Madhouse, Medusa |
| 68 | Gary Moore | Victims of the Future | Shape of Things, Victims of the Future, Murder in the Skies |
| 69 | Blue Oyster Cult | Fire of Unknown Origin | Burnin' for You, Joan Crawford |
| 70 | Krokus | Headhunter | Screaming in the Night, Eat the Rich |
| 71 | W.A.S.P. | The Headless Children | The Real Me, Forever Free, Mean Man |
| 72 | LA Guns | LA Guns | Sex Action, Electric Gypsy, One More Reason |
| 73 | Dream Theater | Images and Words | Pull Me Under, Another Day |
| 74 | The Cult | Sonic Temple | Fire Woman, Edie, New York City |
| 75 | Dokken | Back for the Attack | Kiss of Death, Dream Warriors, Heaven Sent |
| 76 | Iron Maiden | Powerslave | 2 Minutes to Midnight, Aces High |
| 77 | Fates Warning | No Exit | Ivory Gate of Dreams, Silent Cries |
| 78 | Anthrax | State of Euphoria | Anti-Social, Now its Dark |
| 79 | Def Leppard | On Through the Night | Rock Brigade, Wasted |
| 80 | Metallica | Kill Em' All | Seek and Destroy, Four Horseman |
| 81 | Damn Yankees | Damn Yankees | Come Again, High Enough, |
| 82 | Keel | The Final Frontier | Rock N Roll Animal, Because the Night |
| 83 | Def Leppard | Hysteria | Animal, Woman, Hysteria, Gods of War |
| 84 | Y & T | In Rock We Trust | Don't Stop Runnin', Lipstick and Leather |
| 85 | Dokken | Under Lock and Key | The Hunter, Unchain the Night, In My Dreams |
| 86 | Megadeth | Peace Sells…But Who's Buying | Peace Sells, My Last Words |
| 87 | Metallica | Ride the Lightning | Fade to Black, Creeping Death |
| 88 | KISS | Revenge | Domino, God Gave Rock N' Roll to You |
| 89 | Overkill | Under the Influence | Hello from the Gutter, Druken Wisdom |
| 90 | Ugly Kid Joe | America's Least Wanted | Neighbor, Cats in the Cradle, Buzy Bee |
| 91 | Ratt | Invasion of Your Privacy | Lay It Down, You're in Love |
| 92 | Ozzy Osbourne | Bark at the Moon | Bark at the Moon, So Tired, Rock N' Roll Rebel |
| 93 | White Lion | Pride | Lady of the Valley, When the Children Cry, Tell Me |
| 94 | Testament | Practice What You Preach | Practice What You Preach, Ballad, Time is Coming |
| 95 | Mr Big | Lean Into It | Green Tinted Sixties Mind, Alive & Kickin' |
| 96 | Motley Crue | Girls, Girls, Girls | Girls, Girls, Girls, Wild Side, |
| 97 | Deep Purple | Perfect Stangers | Knocking on Your Back Door, Perfect Strangers |
| 98 | Slayer | Reign in Blood | Angel of Death, Necophobic |
| 99 | Queensryche | Rage for Order | Walk in the Shadows, I Dream in Infrared |
| 100 | Bon Jovi | New Jersey | Born to be my Baby, |
| 101 | Twisted Sister | Under the Blade | I'll Never Grow Up Now, Shoot 'Em Down |