Weekend Rock Question: What Was the Best Album of the Eighties?

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller', Madonna's 'Like a Prayer', R.E.M.'s 'Murmur' and Public Enemy's 'It Takes a Nation of Millions...'

Last week, we asked Rolling Stone readers to name their favorite songwriter of all time – and we compiled the votes into an official top 10 list.

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Now it's time for a new weekend rock question: What was the best album of the Eighties?

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Song Stories

“Baby Got Back”

Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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