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Vote for your favorite album of 1981...

"Escape" and "Fair Warning" almost made it for me but I'm going with "Moving Pictures" by Rush.

mine is a tie between journey escape and my favorite ozzy album of all time diary of a madman.randy rhoads would've been the next eddie van halen had he lived.

As much as I love Escape, I'm rolling with the Rush release here.

I know it was released in '80...but where the hell is Styx- Paradise Threater? It was released in late '80 but for some reason it was an '81 album. Would've still said Escape...but c'mon.

Some other notable ones are missing:

Hi Infidelity - REO Speedwagon
Paradise Theatre - Styx
Don't Say No - Billy Squier
Allied Forces - Triumph
Blizzard of Oz - Ozzy (Amazon says this was a 1981 release)
Get Lucky - Loverboy
Belladonna - Stevie Nicks
Precious Time - Pat Benatar
Fire of Unknown Origin - BOC

IMO 1981 was the best year ever for melodic rock. I'd be curious to see what Drew thinks.

EDIT - I see that Dave listed some of these under the 1980 poll. I got my list from Amazon, so who knows which one is correct.

Mob Rules

As much as I love Escape, ANYTHING with Dio is gonna be my first choice over Journey.

conversationpc wrote:Vote for your favorite album of 1981...

"Escape" and "Fair Warning" almost made it for me but I'm going with "Moving Pictures" by Rush.

I just threw up.

Just Mindy wrote:Mob Rules

As much as I love Escape, ANYTHING with Dio is gonna be my first choice over Journey.

Dio over Perry, eh? Strange coming from a chick.

NealIsGod wrote:

Just Mindy wrote:Mob Rules

As much as I love Escape, ANYTHING with Dio is gonna be my first choice over Journey.

Dio over Perry, eh? Strange coming from a chick.

Dio has that God given height of being able to munch on a chick's carpet while they're both standing up....chicks dig that.

Saint John wrote:

conversationpc wrote:Vote for your favorite album of 1981...

"Escape" and "Fair Warning" almost made it for me but I'm going with "Moving Pictures" by Rush.

I just threw up.

Come on dawg, Rush owns!

ProgRocker53 wrote:

Saint John wrote:

conversationpc wrote:Vote for your favorite album of 1981...

"Escape" and "Fair Warning" almost made it for me but I'm going with "Moving Pictures" by Rush.

I just threw up.

Come on dawg, Rush owns!

I can honestly say that there is only ONE song by them that I like....The Temples of Syrinx. That's it. Sorry, dude.

Saint John wrote:

ProgRocker53 wrote:

Saint John wrote:

conversationpc wrote:Vote for your favorite album of 1981...

"Escape" and "Fair Warning" almost made it for me but I'm going with "Moving Pictures" by Rush.

I just threw up.

Come on dawg, Rush owns!

I can honestly say that there is only ONE song by them that I like....The Temples of Syrinx. That's it. Sorry, dude.

Everybody should own a copy of Moving Pictures and Signals, at least.

I agree that Moving Pictures is a great record. I, of course, chose Escape followed very closely by Fair Warning. One of VH's best.

Saint John wrote:

NealIsGod wrote:

Just Mindy wrote:Mob Rules

As much as I love Escape, ANYTHING with Dio is gonna be my first choice over Journey.

Dio over Perry, eh? Strange coming from a chick.

Dio has that God given height of being able to munch on a chick's carpet while they're both standing up....chicks dig that.

Oh Jeez Not quite what I had in mind when I posted I'd choose Dio over Journey

Just Mindy wrote:

Saint John wrote:

NealIsGod wrote:

Just Mindy wrote:Mob Rules

As much as I love Escape, ANYTHING with Dio is gonna be my first choice over Journey.

Dio over Perry, eh? Strange coming from a chick.

Dio has that God given height of being able to munch on a chick's carpet while they're both standing up....chicks dig that.

Oh Jeez Not quite what I had in mind when I posted I'd choose Dio over Journey

Dio would still need to tippytoe on a stack of phone books.

NealIsGod wrote:Dio would still need to tippytoe on a stack of phone books.

Saint John wrote:I can honestly say that there is only ONE song by them that I like....The Temples of Syrinx. That's it. Sorry, dude.

Umm...Perhaps nitpicking but that is only section #2 of the song "2112".

Genesis-abacab....my fave
Rush-moving pictures......best music

conversationpc wrote:

Saint John wrote:I can honestly say that there is only ONE song by them that I like....The Temples of Syrinx. That's it. Sorry, dude.

Umm...Perhaps nitpicking but that is only section #2 of the song "2112".

Didn't know that, don't care. If the rest of the garbage on that song is actually all one song, I officially like zero songs by them and only part of one. Happy?

Saint John wrote:

conversationpc wrote:

Saint John wrote:I can honestly say that there is only ONE song by them that I like....The Temples of Syrinx. That's it. Sorry, dude.

Umm...Perhaps nitpicking but that is only section #2 of the song "2112".

Didn't know that, don't care. If the rest of the garbage on that song is actually all one song, I officially like zero songs by them and only part of one. Happy?

I find it odd that out of everything Rush has done, you only like one song. Extremely hard to believe, maybe you need to check out more?