Jim's Gems: These albums marking their 40th anniversary are some of 1982's finest
Jim Comet looks back at the music that defined the year he graduated from the North Mon: 1982. Picture: Lucy Keeffe O'Mahony
The year 1982 was another huge one for popular music, and we have quite a list of albums marking their 40th anniversary. The previous few years had seen dramatic changes on the musical landscape, mostly instigated by the emergence of punk, which paved the way for a new wave of bands that pushed a lot of the old guard aside. It was also a momentous year for me personally as I graduated from the North Mon. It was a great time to be a teenager into alternative music. Even better if you were a teenager with a well-paid job on the MV Innisfallen ferry, which meant I could buy records by the bucketload.
