Best Metal/Rock album of 1980 out of these ?

beginning to end, this album kicks your ass

Indeed Motorhead is most kick ass band around

One of the very few things that makes me proud to be Australian.

[Again, no womyn on your list; what a shame!!]

Lately I've been listening to a lot of Judas Priest these days via YouTube; now I can see why people called him The [emphasized "the"] Metal God of all time during their early heydays; before and after arriving to America back then!!

Watching their videos very recently [Priest], I enjoyed how Halford looked with all the leather and studs ensemble he wore most of the time back then (pre-S&M; look; which is now predominantly owned by gay boys of the world today!!) and he still "fits" the look perfectly to a tee, past and present!!

Actually I'd say Def Lep's Pyromania.

Heaven and Hell <3

I hate to join the lemmings but I have to go with "Back in Black" as well. I love it. I honestly don't care for any of the rest. Dio in Sabbath shouldn't have happened and Ozzy without them just isn't the same. That's probably like blasphemy for many of you, and I apologize, but it's what my ears tell me.

That's alright I respect your opinion

Back in Black is solid from beginning to end.

Couldn't agree more, AC/DC's best albums

AC/DC is hard to beat.

No contest, actually. This album/CD/mp3 sounds just as good today--2012--as it did in 1980.

You could make an argument for #2, but #1 overwhelmingly, by any measure, is BiB.

From wikipedia:

The album has sold an estimated 50 million copies worldwide to date [2][3][4][5], making it the second highest-selling album of all time, the highest-selling album by a band, the best-selling hard rock album of all-time, and the best-selling album ever released by an Australian musical act [6]. On 13 December 2007, the RIAA certified it 22× Multi Platinum, recognizing sales of 22 million in the United States [7], making it the the sixth-highest selling album in the US (fourth-highest at the time). [8]

Back In Black is also praised for its sound quality. In the years after its release studios in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. (nicknamed "Music City") would use it to check the acoustics of a room, while Motorhead would use it to tune their sound system.[24]

Indeed

Hmmm...you know, The Clash (punk rock) put out Sandinista! in 1980, too...maybe not your cup of tea, but it was pretty good at the time, hahaha...I still like it...

From wikipedia:

Sandinista! is the fourth studio album by the English punk rock band The Clash. It was released on 12 December 1980 as a triple album containing 36 tracks, with 6 songs on each side.[1][2] Anticipating the "world music" trend of the 1980s, it features reggae, jazz, mock gospel, rockabilly, folk, dub, rhythm and blues, calypso, and rap.[1][2][3] For the first time, the band's traditional songwriting credits of Strummer and Jones were replaced by a generic credit to the Clash,[2] and the band cut the album royalties, in order to release the 3-LP at a low price.[4][5]

The title comes from the Nicaraguan socialist political party, the Sandinistas, and its catalogue number, 'FSLN1', refers to the abbreviation for Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.[3][4][6] Sandinista! was voted the best album of the year in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll, and it was ranked number 404 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time in 2003.[3] Slant Magazine listed the album at number 85 on its list of "Best Albums of the 1980's" in 2012.[7]

Sandinista! The Clash

Clash are good

I have always loved Ozzy... He kicked ass in concert too.

Same here

His music has never let me down

It hurts to only pick one

British Steel brought Metal to the Radio with "Breaking the Law". This opened the door for metal to the public to everyone else on the list except Saxon. They need to come off this list. Without "British Steel" "Back in Black" wouldn't have been the huge success that it was. Just about evey song on the first side of "Back in black" was a hit.

Agreed, Judas Priest and AC/DC definitely got metal and hard rock on top for the rest of the 80s, I think Saxon should stay on the list Wheels of Steel is a great album ( a nwobhm classic very underrated)

I cant get through a Saxon song. They are a terrible band in my opinion. A friend of mine tried to get me into them with Denim and leather, one of the worst songs Ive ever heard.

I like Women and Children First by Van Halen. or Permanent Waves by Rush.

Thanks for voting, Rush and Van Halen (David lee Roth era) are good

tough choices. Great year and a great decade for Rock Music Fans
Being RR is my favorite Guitar Player, I am going with Ozzy. But Dio joining Sabbath and being one of my favorite vocalist made it hard to pick, Maiden and Priest my all time favorites. Def Leppard even kicked ass but only through Pyromania.

Good tough poll

Couldn't agree more

I was tempted to pick Heaven and Hell, since it was my first Metal CD. But... naw, Back In Black gets it. Just, the perfect CD.

Agreed back in black one my top favorite AC/DC albums and one reason why their one of favorites bands

no led zepplin

Zeppelin didn't release an album in 1980 in fact they ended up disbanded that year after john bonham's death

OK --- I didn't recall that

No doubt about it;-)