Ep. 483: TOP 10 Albums of 1983 | Tim’s Vinyl Confessions 

Amazing! 1983 is my favorite year for music! Great representation!

Enjoyed the video and discussion.

Great choices!

My top three would be Asia Alpha...Yes 90125.... Black Sabbath Born Again. Forty years on, they're the only ones I reach for.

Great show as always! Here’s my list! Honourable Mentions (No particular order) Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac Anvil - Forged In Fire AC/DC - Flick Of The Switch Black Sabbath - Born Again Metallica - Kill Em All My Top 10 10. Manowar - Into Glory Ride 9. Savatage - Sirens 8. Manilla Road - Crystal Logic 7. Accept - Balls To The Wall 6. Raven - All For One 5. Def Leppard - Pyromania 4. Misfits - Earth A.D. 3. Dio - Holy Diver 2. Slayer - Show No Mercy 1. Mercyful Fate - Melissa

Great show! I actually have that masters of metal on cassette, vinyl and 8 track. The only time a Dio song officially came out on 8 Track.

Great episode. 83 was a great year for me and good to see a lot of my faves make your lists. Here's how i rank em.. 1. Iron Maiden - Piece Of Mind 2. Y&T - Mean Streak 3. Metallica - Kill Em All 4. Manowar - Into Glory Ride 5. Gary Moore - Victims Of The Future 6. Motorhead - Another Perfect Day 7. AC/DC -Flick Of The Switch 8. Slayer - Show No Mercy 9. Dio - Holy Diver 10.Savatage - Sirens HMs 11. Accept - Balls To The Wall 12. Kiss - Lick It Up 13. ZZ Top - Eliminator 14. Thin Lizzy - Thunder And Lightning 15. Yes - 90125

Fantastic !! Great stuff guys . One of my absolute fav years in music. So many great albums. Excellent rundown of them ! Thank you . Chez

love these episodes! Always fun to do best of lists

Kill em All- Metallica Born Again - Black Sabbath Born in America- Riot Fastway- S/ T Holy Diver- Dio You Cant Stop Rock n Roll- Twisted Sister Balls To the Wall- Accept Flick of the Switch- AC/ DC Headhunter- Krokus Another Perfect Day- Motorhead HM All For One- Raven Into Glory Ride- Manowar Show No Mercy - Slayer Heavy Metal Maniac- Exciter Bent Out of Shape- Rainbow

1. Dio - Holy Diver 2. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 3. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 4. Metallica - Kill 'Em All 5. Thin Lizzy - Thunder and Lightning 6. Accept - Balls to The Wall 7. Black Sabbath - Born Again 8. Queensryche - Queensryche (EP) 9. Pink Floyd - The Final Cut 10. Motley Crue - Shout at The Devil Honorable mentions: 11. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at The Moon 12. Saxon - Power & The Glory 13. Blue Oyster Cult - The Revolution By Night 14. Alcatrazz - No Parole from Rock 'n' Roll 15. Y&T - Mean Streak

Pretty sure my ‘83 US Pyromania pressing has liner notes and lyrics. Maybe it was just a Vertigo thing as opposed to Mercury. What a year for music. Zebra debut, Pyromania, Flick of the Switch, Lick It Up, Piece of Mind, 90125, 1984 (Jump single), etc.

Great episode!

I love these episodes. Another great countdown.

1. .38 Special - Tour de Force 2. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 3. Dio - Holy Diver 4. Black Sabbath - Born Again 5. Motorhead - Another Perfect Day 6. Rainbow - Bent Out of Shape 7. The Tubes - Outside Inside 8. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon 9. Kiss - Lick it Up 10. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind HMs Survivor - Caught in the Game Loverboy - Keep it Up Kansas - Drastic Measures Bryan Adams - Cuts Like a Knife ZZ Top - Eliminator

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1. Def Leppard - Pyromania 2. Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil 3. Ozzy Osbourne - Bark at the Moon 4. Zebra - Zebra 5. Dokken - Breaking the Chains 6. Warlord - Deliver Us 7. Krokus - Headhunter 8. Blackfoot - Siogo 9. Iron Maiden - Piece of Mind 10. Exciter - Heavy Metal Maniac Honorable Mentions: 1. KISS - Lick It Up 2. Alice Cooper - DaDa 3. Ashbury - Endless Skies 4. Mercyful Fate - Melissa 5. THOR - Unchained