10 Perfect 1980s Hard Rock Albums With No Bad Songs

Most of the best albums of the '80s really sound like it from the first moment you hear them. I mean, really think about the sound of something like Michael Jackson's Thriller and you can probably pinpoint the exact year that it was made. And that also stands with thrash metal's greatest album.... just not for the reasons you might expect.

First off, ...And Justice for All is definitely one of the worst sounding Metallica records, with the guitars and drums up front in the mix and virtually no bass to speak of. We're dealing with albums with no bad songs here though, and there is no amount of fat on any of these songs. And that's saying something because these songs are really damn long. Being the closest thing to prog metal that Metallica ever did, songs like the title track and Eye of the Beholder go through different movements that feel like they should belong on a Rush record if the Canadian band decided to get a little more gnarly.

By some miracle, this became the first Metallica record to break MTV, giving them their first major video with One and hammering you over the head on songs like Blackened. Towards the end, Dyers Eve is still the equivalent of taking all of the intensity of the past few years of thrash and condensing it into five glorious minutes. Since this was the last "true" thrash album according to some Metallica fans, you couldn't get a more concentrated version of kickass.