The year in music
Best Songs of 1982
Michael Jackson’s “Thriller”. The compact disc goes on sale, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record “The Message”, and Prince “1999”.
Play 1982
65 songs
Sexual Healing
Marvin Gaye
Hungry Like the Wolf
Duran Duran
Rio
Duran Duran
Save a Prayer
Duran Duran
Beat It
Michael Jackson
Billie Jean
Michael Jackson
Human Nature
Michael Jackson
The Lady in My Life
Michael Jackson
Thriller
Michael Jackson
Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’
Michael Jackson
Heart Attack
Olivia Newton-John
Up Where We Belong
Joe Cocker
Electric Eye
Judas Priest
Goodnight Saigon
Billy Joel
You've Got Another Thing Comin'
Judas Priest
Gypsy
Fleetwood Mac
Love Is a Stranger
Eurythmics
Subdivisions
Rush
Truly
Lionel Richie
1999
Prince
All of My Heart
ABC
Back on the Chain Gang
Pretenders
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
Culture Club
I'll Tumble 4 Ya
Culture Club
Ice Cream for Crow
Captain Beefheart
Iron Fist
Motörhead
Little Red Corvette
Prince
Poison Arrow
ABC
The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash on the Wheels of Steel
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
The Look of Love
ABC
The Message
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Time (Clock of the Heart)
Culture Club
Avalon
Roxy Music
I Ran (So Far Away)
A Flock of Seagulls
Mad World
Tears for Fears
Maneater
Hall & Oates
More Than This
Roxy Music
Night Train
Visage
Pale Shelter
Tears for Fears
Space Age Love Song
A Flock of Seagulls
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)
A Flock of Seagulls
Rock the Casbah
The Clash
Run to the Hills
Iron Maiden
Should I Stay or Should I Go
The Clash
Africa
Toto
Der Kommissar
After the Fire
Don't Go
Yazoo
House of Fun
Madness
I Love a Man in a Uniform
Gang of Four
Our House
Madness
Rosanna
Toto
Situation
Yazoo
Atomic Dog
George Clinton
Bam Bam
Sister Nancy
Come On Eileen
Dexys Midnight Runners
Electric Avenue
Eddy Grant
Eye of the Tiger
Survivor
Forget Me Nots
Patrice Rushen
Here I Go Again
Whitesnake
I Keep Forgettin’ (Every Time You’re Near)
Michael McDonald
I Melt with You
Modern English
It’s Raining Men
The Weather Girls
Living on the Ceiling
Blancmange
Major Tom (Coming Home)
Peter Schilling
The Safety Dance
Men Without Hats
1982 on Music By Decade
The catalogue holds 65 songs first released in 1982. Pop, Synth-Pop and Rock lead the year. Michael Jackson, A Flock of Seagulls and ABC are among the voices of 1982.
Artists of 1982
- Michael Jackson6
- A Flock of Seagulls3
- ABC3
- Culture Club3
- Duran Duran3
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five2
- Judas Priest2
- Madness2
- Prince2
- Roxy Music2
- Tears for Fears2
- The Clash2
- Toto2
- Yazoo2
- After the Fire
- Billy Joel
- Blancmange
- Captain Beefheart
- Dexys Midnight Runners
- Eddy Grant
- Eurythmics
- Fleetwood Mac
- Gang of Four
- George Clinton