1982 in music

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Albums released

• Circus Animals Cold Clisel
• The Lee Aaron Project - Lee Aaron
• The Singles: The First Ten Years - ABBA
• Lexicon of Love - ABC
• Rock in A Hard Place - Aerosmith
• Now and Forever - Air Supply
• Metal on Metal - Anvil
• Big Science - Laurie Anderson
• Asia - Asia
• Mesopotamia - The B-52's
• Bad Brains - Bad Brains
• Rough Diamonds - Bad Company
• How Could Hell Be Any Worse? - Bad Religion (debut full-length)
• Get Nervous - Pat Benatar
• Junkyard - The Birthday Party - final full-length album
• Damaged - Black Flag
• Live Evil - Black Sabbath
• The Hunter - Blondie (final studio album until early 1999)
• The Distance - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
• The Dreaming - Kate Bush
• I Paralyze - Cher
• 16 - Chicago
• Only Theatre Of Pain - Christian Death - debut album
• Timepieces: Best of Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton (Best of 1969-1979)
• Combat Rock - The Clash
• Computer Games - George Clinton
• Zipper Catches Skin - Alice Cooper
• Hello, I Must Be Going! - Phil Collins
• Imperial Bedroom - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• American Fool - John Cougar Mellencamp
• Christ The Album - Crass
• Kissing to Be Clever - Culture Club
• Pornography - The Cure
• Spécial Dalida - Dalida
• Le Disque d'Or du Mundial '82 - Dalida (compilation)
• Mondialement Vôtre - Dalida
• Milo Goes to College - The Descendents
• Too-Rye-Ay - Dexys Midnight Runners
• Oh No!, It's Devo - Devo
• Love over Gold - Dire Straits
• Fast Women & Slow Horses - Dr. Feelgood
• Rio - Duran Duran
• Troops Of Tomorrow - The Exploited
• The Nightfly - Donald Fagen
• Hex Enduction Hour - The Fall
• The Record - Fear
• Mirage - Fleetwood Mac
• Peter Gabriel a.k.a. Security - Peter Gabriel
• Another Day/Another Dollar - Gang of Four
• Songs of the Free - Gang of Four
• Midnight Love - Marvin Gaye
• Wasted Youth - Girl
• There For No One To See - Grand Prix
• Age To Age - Amy Grant
• H₂O - Daryl Hall & John Oates
• Three Lock Box - Sammy Hagar
• Oriental Beat - Hanoi Rocks
• Private Audition - Heart
• Nona - Nona Hendryx
• Groovy Decay - Robyn Hitchcock
• The Number of the Beast - Iron Maiden
• Everything Falls Apart - Hüsker Dü
• Night and Day - Joe Jackson
• Thriller - Michael Jackson
• The Broadsword and the Beast - Jethro Tull
• Nylon Curtain - Billy Joel
• Jump Up! - Elton John
• Screaming for Vengeance - Judas Priest
• Revelations - Killing Joke
• Living My Life - Grace Jones
• One To One - Carole King
• Beat - King Crimson
• Creatures of the Night - KISS
• One Vice At A Time - Krokus
• Coda - Led Zeppelin
• Tug of War - Paul McCartney
• Meat Puppets - Meat Puppets
• Business as Usual - Men at Work
• In My Eyes - Minor Threat
• Minor Threat - Minor Threat
• Bean Spill - The Minutemen
• Underwater Kites - The Modern Art (debut)
• Too Fast for Love - Mötley Crüe (debut re-release)
• Iron Fist - Motörhead
• Dawn Patrol - Night Ranger
• Nugent - Ted Nugent
• It's Alright (I See Rainbows) - Yoko Ono
• Speak of the Devil - Ozzy Osbourne (Live)
• Bobbie Sue - The Oak Ridge Boys
• Death Wish II - Jimmy Page
• Pictures at Eleven - Robert Plant (former Led Zeppelin Vocalist's solo debut)
• Ghost in the Machine - The Police
• 1999 - Prince
• Forever Now - The Psychedelic Furs
• Straight Between the Eyes - Rainbow
• The Tunes of Two Cities - The Residents
• Chronic Town EP - R.E.M.
• Stink - The Replacements
• Love Will Turn You Around - Kenny Rogers
• Avalon - Roxy Music
• Signals - Rush
• Blackout - Scorpions
• Naked - Sex Gang Children
• A Kiss In The Dreamhouse - Siouxsie And The Banshees
• Alice - The Sisters of Mercy
• Sweets From a Stranger - Squeeze
• Mommy's Little Monster - Social Distortion
• Sonic Youth - Sonic Youth
• Nebraska - Bruce Springsteen
• Now Then... - Stiff Little Fingers
• Donna Summer - Donna Summer
• Shoot out the Lights - Richard and Linda Thompson
• Hour Live - Toots & the Maytals
• Toto IV - Toto
• Ruff Cuts EP - Twisted Sister
• Under The Blade - Twisted Sister (debut album)
• Diver Down - Van Halen
• Black Metal - Venom
• If I Die, I Die - Virgin Prunes
• Hérésie - Virgin Prunes
• The Anvil - Visage
• Saints & Sinners - Whitesnake
• It's Hard - The Who
• Original Musiquarium - Greatest Hits - Stevie Wonder
• Under the Big Black Sun - X
• English Settlement - XTC
• Upstairs at Eric's - Yaz
• Black Tiger - Y&T