kicked out some serious streetwise jams Metallica and Guns NвЂ™ Roses established new hard-rock beachheads and HГјsker DГј, Sonic Youth and the Replacements offered definitive statements of postpunk angst. Further down the list, old-timers like Dylan, the Stones and Lou Reed hit new highs Public Enemy and Run-D.M.C. The first 10 entries here span the ClashвЂ™s polyglot punk, PrinceвЂ™s crossover funkadelica, Afro-bop from Talking Heads and Paul Simon and hymns of innocence and experience by U2 and Tracy Chapman. And rap transformed the face - and voice - of popular music. Punks got older and more articulate in their frustration and rage, while many veteran artists responded to that movementвЂ™s challenge with their most vital work in years. The following survey of the 100 best albums of the Eighties, as selected by the editors of Rolling Stone, shows that the music and the values it stands for have been richer for the struggle. Musicians and audiences alike have struggled to come to terms with rockвЂ™s parameters and possibilities, its emotional resonance and often dormant social consciousness.

But if the past 10 years havenвЂ™t exactly been the stuff of revolution, they have been a critical time of re-assessment and reconstruction. In comparison, the Eighties have been the decade of, among other things, synth pop, Michael Jackson, the compact disc, Sixties reunion tours, the Beastie Boys and a lot more heavy metal. The Seventies gave rise to David Bowie, Bruce Springsteen, heavy metal, punk and New Wave. The Sixties were rocked by Beatlemania, Motown, Phil Spector, psychedelia and Bob Dylan. The Fifties witnessed nothing less than the birth of the music. This has been the first rock & roll decade without revolution, or true revolutionaries, to call its own.

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