Music ads for 1981 releases

Music ads for 1980 releases

1980 Album of the Month: Duke

Released: March 24, 1980 (Atlantic) Produced by: David Hentschel & Genesis

Side One	Side Two
Behind the Lines Duchess Guide Vocal Man of Our Times Misunderstanding Heathaze	Turn It On Again Alone Tonight Cul-de-Sac Please Don't Ask Duke's Travels Duke's End

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Billboard 200	11
CashBox Albums	14
Rolling Stone 100	8

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Rolling Stone, September 4, 1980, p. 51

Smash Hits, April 17, 1980, p. 30

CashBox, April 14, 1980, p. 13

Record World, April 12, 1980, p. 1

Stereo Review, September 1980, p. 90

Allmusic

★★★★

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List of Billboard #1 Rock Albums of 1984

Until the September 15, 1984 issue, Billboard published a weekly list of the 50 top rock albums.  176 albums made the rock albums chart in 1984; here's a chart of the six albums that hit the #1 spot that year:

Week Ending	Track	Artist
January 7	90125	Yes
January 14
January 21	Genesis	Genesis
January 28
February 4	1984	Van Halen
February 11
February 18
February 25
March 3
March 10
March 17
March 24
March 31
April 7	Against All Odds	Soundtrack
April 14	Heartbeat City	The Cars
April 21
April 28
May 5
May 12
May 19
May 26
June 2
June 9
June 16	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen
June 23
June 30	Heartbeat City	The Cars
July 7	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen
July 14
July 21	Heartbeat City	The Cars
July 28	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen
August 4	Heartbeat City	The Cars
August 11
August 18
August 25
September 1
September 8	Born in the U.S.A.	Bruce Springsteen
Chart discontinued

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Blog post #850

Vintage Music Pinbacks #11

Eleventh (and last?) in a series.

Buttons, badges, pinbacks - whatever you call 'em, I've got a shoebox full. Here's a few of my vintage music pinbacks from the '70s and '80s:

1.  2" Electric Light Orchestra, Discovery, 1979
2.  1.25" Pretenders, Learning to Crawl, 1984
3.  1.25" Genesis, Duke, 1980
4.  1" Men at Work, ca. 1982
5.  1.25" Joe Jackson, I'm the Man, 1979
6.  1" Soft Cell, Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing, 1982
7.  1.25" Depeche Mode, Some Great Reward, 1984
8.  1.25" The Cure, ca. 1985