We have reached the end of a five-week dive into the albums of 1983, and I am more convinced than ever that this was one of the great years for popular music.

So many excellent artists and albums, so many important debuts. And I didn’t get to a host of other albums I considered for this series. Here’s a sampling of some of those titles: Jackson Browne’s Lawyers in Love, Ozzy Osbourne’s Bark At the Moon, Depeche Mode’s Construction Time Again, Tears For Fears’ The Hurting, New Order’s Power, Corruption & Lies, Duran Duran’s Seven and the Ragged Tiger.

Whew.

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