1983
MTV, for better or for worse, changed the face of popular
music forever. This year took the full brunt of the cable channel's
force and passed it on to us. Some of these experiments
succeeded (Yes, Bowie, the Kinks, the Police) artistically
and some failed (anything connected to Michael Jackson[!])
(Commercially is another matter.)

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Bryan Adams
Cuts Like a Knife
A & M Records
Asia
Alpha
Geffen Records
David Bowie
Let's Dance
EMI Records
David Bowie
Serious Moonlight
sirtwiggly records
Bow Wow Wow
When the Going Gets
Tough the Tough Get
Going
Capitol Records

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Boys Brigade
Boys Brigade
Capitol Records
Martin Briley
One Night with a Stranger
Mercury Records
Cheap Trick
Next Position Please
Epic Records
Elvis Costello &
the Attractions
Punch the Clock
Columbia Records
Marshall Crenshaw
Field Day
Warner Bros.Records

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Dave Davies
Chosen People
Warner Bros. Records
Def Leppard
Pyromania
Mercury Records
Dire Straits
dancE Play
Warner Bros. Records
Duran Duran
Seven & the Ragged
Tiger
Capitol Records
Echo & the
Bunnymen

Porcupine
Sire Records

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The Elvis Brothers
Moving Up
Portrait Records
Exotic Birds
Exotic Birds
sirtwiggly records
1st Airborne Rock
'n' Roll Division
1st Airborne Rock 'n'
Roll Division
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The Fixx
Reach the Beach
MCA Records
A Flock of Seagulls
Listen
Jive Records

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John Foxx
The Golden Section
Virgin Records
Peter Gabriel
Plays Live
Geffen Records
Genesis
Genesis
Atlantic Records
Grand Funk Railroad
What's Funk?
Asylum Records
Hall & Oates
Rock 'N Soul Part 1
RCA Records

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Hall & Oates
Live Rock 'N Soul
sirtwiggly records
The Hollies
What Goes Around . .
Atlantic Records
Donnie Iris &
the Cruisers

Fortune 410
MCA Records
The Jam
Snap!
Polydor Records
The Kinks
State of Confusion
Arista Records

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Kiss
Lick It up
Mercury Records
Led Zeppelin
The Long Lost
Zeppelin Concert
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Let's Active
Afoot
IRS Records
Huey Lewis &
the News
Sports
Chrysalis Records
The Long Ryders
10-5-60
PVC Records

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Madness
Madness
Geffen Records
Marillion
Script for a Jester's Tear
Capitol Records
Paul McCartney
Pipes of Peace
Capitol Records
Men at Work
Cargo
CBS Records
Modern English
After the Snow
Sire Records

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Michael Nesmith
Timerider
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New Order
"Power, Corruption, Lies"
Qwest Records
Gary Numan
Warriors
Numa Records
Pink Floyd
the final cut
CBS Records
Robert Plant
The Principle of
Moments
Esperanza Records

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The Plimsouls
Everywhere at Once
Geffen Records
The Police
Synchronicity
A & M Records
The Raisins
The Raisins
Strugglebaby Records
The Ramones
Subterranean Jungle
Sire Records
Re-Flex
The Politics of Dancing
EMI Records

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R.E.M.
Murmur
IRS Records
The Rolling Stones
Undercover
Rolling Stones Records
Roxy Music
The High Road
Polygram Records
Split Enz
Conflicting Emotions
A & M Records

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Rick Springfield
Living in Oz
RCA Records
Michael Stanley Band
You Can't Fight Fashion
EMI America Records
Ringo Starr
Old Wave
1983 RCA Records
System 56
Beyond the Parade
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Talking Heads
Speaking in Tongues
Sire Records

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Tears for Fears
The Hurting
Fontana Records
Thompson Twins
Side Kicks
Arista Records
The Three O'Clock
Sixteen Tambourines
Frontier Records
Pete Townshend
Scoop
Atco Records
Simon Townshend
Sweet Sound
Century 21 Records

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The Tubes
Outside Inside
Capitol Records
Ultravox
Monument
Chrysalis Records
U2
War
Island Records
U2
Under a Blood Red Sky
(Complete)
sirtwiggly records
Joe Walsh
You Break It - You
Bought It
Warner Bros. Records

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XTC
Mummer
Virgin Records
The Yardbirds
The Yardbirds
Epic Records
Yes
90125
Atco Records
Neil Young
Everybody's Rockin'
Geffen Records
Zebra
Zebra
Atlantic Records

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Various Artists
The Big Chill
Motown Records
Various Artists
Spring Break
Warner Bros. Records
Various Artists
Valley Girl
Roadshow Records

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The Leibrary
1983, Vol. One
sirtwiggly records
The Leibrary
1983, Vol. Two
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The Leibrary
1983, Vol. Three
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