1984 in music

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Albums released

• Balls to the Wall - Accept
• '74 Jailbreak EP - AC/DC
• Live Sentence - Alcatrazz
• Forever Young - Alphaville
• Fistful of Metal - Anthrax (debut)
• March of the Saint - Armored Saint (debut album)
• All Over the Place - The Bangles
• Tropico - Pat Benatar
• Black N' Blue - Black N' Blue
• Bon Jovi - Bon Jovi
• Box of Frogs - Box of Frogs
• Heartbeat City - The Cars
• Chicago 17 - Chicago
• Tonight - David Bowie
• Dreamtime - Death Cult (Band name was later changed to The Cult)
• Waking Up With the House on Fire - Culture Club
• The Top - The Cure
• Dali - Dalida
• Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple
• First strike EP - Def Leppard
• High 'N' Dry - Def Leppard (re-Release)
• Some Great Reward - Depeche Mode
• Desert Moon - Dennis DeYoung
• The Last in Line - Dio
• Tooth and Nail - Dokken
• Lady of the Stars - Donovan
• Arena (live album) - Duran Duran
• Wings of Tomorrow - Europe
• The Wonderful and Frightening World of the Fall - The Fall
• All Fired Up - Fastway
• Dancing on the Edge - Lita Ford
• Agent Provocateur - Foreigner
• About Face - David Gilmour
• Straight Ahead - Amy Grant
• Great White - Great White
• See You In Hell - Grim Reaper
• Walking in the Shadow of the Big Man - Guadalcanal Diary (debut)
• Big Bam Boom - Hall & Oates
• VOA - Sammy Hagar
• All Those Wasted Years - Hanoi Rocks (live album)
• Two Steps From The Move - Hanoi Rocks
• Walkin' The Razor's Edge - Helix
• The Art of Defense - Nona Hendryx
• Building the Perfect Beast - Don Henley
• I Often Dream of Trains - Robyn Hitchcock
• Zen Arcade - Hüsker Dü
• Icon - Icon (debut album)
• Powerslave - Iron Maiden
• Dream Street - Janet Jackson
• Heart Don't Lie - LaToya Jackson
• Centipede - Rebbie Jackson
• Under Wraps - Jethro Tull
• Piano Man - Billy Joel
• Breaking Hearts - Elton John
• Defenders of the Faith - Judas Priest
• Lay Down the Law - Keel (debut album)
• Animalize - KISS
• The Blitz - Krokus
• She's So Unusual - Cyndi Lauper
• Give Em' The Axe EP - Lizzy Borden
• How Will the Wolf Survive? - Los Lobos
• Like a Virgin - Madonna
• Yngwie J. Malmsteen/Rising Force - Yngwie J. Malmsteen's Rising Force (debut)
• Legend: Best of Bob Marley & the Wailers - Bob Marley & the Wailers
• Give My Regards to Broad Street - Paul McCartney
• Meat Puppets II - Meat Puppets
• Revolution - Menudo
• Ride the Lightning - Metallica
• Out of Step - Minor Threat
• Double Nickels on the Dime - The Minutemen
• No Remorse - Motörhead
• From Her To Eternity - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
• Penetrator - Ted Nugent
• ' - Robert Plant
• Learning to Crawl - The Pretenders
• Purple Rain - Prince
• The Works - Queen
• The Warning - Queensrÿche (first full length album release)
• Condition Critical - Quiet Riot
• Out of the Cellar - Ratt
• Breaking Curfew - Red Rider
• Reckoning - R.E.M.
• Let It Be - The Replacements
• What About Me? - Kenny Rogers
• Grace Under Pressure - Rush
• Love At First Sting - Scorpions
• Like A Virgin - Madonna
• Hyaena - Siouxsie and the Banshees
• Hatful of Hollow - The Smiths
• Born in the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
• Haunting The Chapel EP - Slayer
• The Yellow and Black Attack EP - Stryper
• Caught In The Act - Styx
• Cats Without Claws - Donna Summer
• Soul Mining - The The
• Into The Gap - Thompson Twins
• Isolation - Toto
• Private Dancer - Tina Turner
• her breakthrough solo album
• Thunder Seven - Triumph
• Stay Hungry - Twisted Sister
• The Unforgettable Fire - U2
• 1984 - Van Halen
• When In Rome Do As The Vandals - The Vandals
• Beverly Hills Cop (soundtrack) - Various Artists
• Couldn't Stand The Weather - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble
• The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking - Roger Waters
• No Brakes - John Waite
• Burning The Witches - Warlock (debut album)
• W.A.S.P. - W.A.S.P. (debut album)
• The Woman in Red - (cinematic soundtrack by Stevie Wonder)
• "Weird Al" Yankovic In 3-D - "Weird Al" Yankovic
• Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc. - Dwight Yoakam (debut)
• In Rock We Trust - Y&T
• No Tellin' Lies - Zebra