Year:1982

Bands Formed

 * Faith No More
 * Chumbawamba
 * Violent Femmes

Singles Released

 * Rock the Casbah The Clash
 * Eye of the Tiger Survivor
 * Shipbuilding Robert Wyatt


 * Love Is a Stranger Eurythmics


 * Nowhere Girl B-Movie


 * Imagination Just an Illusion


 * Electric Avenue Eddy Grant
 * Truly
 * You Are

Albums Released

 * February 12: XTC - English Settlement
 * March: Andy Partridge - The Bull With The Golden Guts
 * March 29: Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast
 * May 3: The Cure - Pornography

Other Events

 * XTC releases the Look Look video compilation.
 * The Roland TB-303 was a synthesizer/sequencer produced by the Roland Corporation in 1982 and 1983 that had a crucial role in the development of contemporary electronic music, but most of all on the acid house that would follow a couple of years later.
 * Dub in disco
 * "Thanks to You" and "Don't Make Me Wait" came out and started the whole dub thing in disco." Steven Harvey in Collusion magazine #5, 1983 [...]
 * Shep Pettibone: " [...] strangely enough, all these computer records started after "Thanks To You". It was kind of like that computer sound within a black vein.


 * Disco and electro
 * In 1982 NYC disco expanded its perimeters to include dub, electronics, jazz, Latin, afro, new wave - a cauldron capable of melting down any ingredient. Records by The Peech Boys, Sinnamon and D Train allied the Black R&B tradition with high-tech mix/electronics. The emergence of labels Tommy Boy and Streetwise under Arthur Baker and John Robie pushed the hard electronic/beat box edge to the fore. To turn on one of me city's three dance radio stations and hear a DJ mixing three records together at once seemed like an impossible dream of the avant garde infiltrating the market place. -- Steven Harvey


 * Compact disc launched
 * The compact disc was launched in 1982. The advantage of the CD is that it was digital, which helped prepare the MP3-P2P (Napster et all) revolution of the late nineties.