The heavy metal band King Diamond gained cult status during the 1980s releasing mostly all concept albums.

The concept of data warehousing dates back to the late 1980s when IBM researchers Barry Devlin and Paul Murphy developed the " business data warehouse ".

These companies introduced the concept of directory services to information technology and computer networking, their input culminating in the comprehensive X. 500 specification, a suite of protocols produced by the International Telecommunication Union ( ITU ) in the 1980s.

The discipline of memetics, which dates from the mid 1980s, provides an approach to evolutionary models of cultural information transfer based on the concept of the meme.

In the early 1980s, significant uncertainties surrounded the RISC concept, and it was uncertain if it could have a commercial future, but by the mid-1980s the concepts had matured enough to be seen as commercially viable.

In the 1980s and early-to-mid 1990s, shareware was considered to be a concept for independent software writers to receive a degree of remuneration for their labor.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Edward Shils explored the concept in detail.

The concept was based on the ideas developed in HyperCard stacks that Cunningham built in the late 1980s.

Ono's final album of the 1980s was Starpeace, a concept album that she intended as an antidote to Ronald Reagan's " Star Wars " missile defense system.

Although physical modelling was not a new concept in acoustics and synthesis, having been implemented using finite difference approximations of the wave equation by Hiller and Ruiz in 1971, it was not until the development of the Karplus-Strong algorithm, the subsequent refinement and generalization of the algorithm into the extremely efficient digital waveguide synthesis by Julius O. Smith III and others, and the increase in DSP power in the late 1980s that commercial implementations became feasible.

In the 1980s, there was a backlash against industrial kitchen planning and cabinets with people installing a mix of work surfaces and free standing furniture, led by kitchen designer Johnny Grey and his concept of the " Unfitted Kitchen ".

By the start of the 1980s most politicians had lost interest in the concept and the project was repeatedly de-funded in the early 1980s.

The concept behind translation memories is not recent — university research into the concept began in the late 1970s, and the earliest commercializations became available in the late 1980s — but they became commercially viable only in the late 1990s.

The term VLIW, and the concept of VLIW architecture itself, were invented by Josh Fisher in his research group at Yale University in the early 1980s.

The Republic of Korea's 1980s policy of Nordpolitik was named in allusion to Ostpolitik ; a similar concept is Sunshine policy, the successor to Nordpolitik.

By the early 1980s, the concept had broadened from agricultural systems design towards sustainable human habitats.

The failure of the Telidon efforts was a topic of considerable discussion in Canada, part of a similar and wider conversation on the entire concept of videotex that took place in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

* During the 1980s, the UK band The Stranglers recorded an album called Dreamtime, with a title track inspired by the Aboriginal concept.

In Māori usage the term applies much more broadly than the English concept of legal property, and since the 1980s courts have found that the term can encompass intangible things such as language and culture.

The concept of precision agriculture first emerged in the United States in the early 1980s.

This is a newer concept that first began in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

The Serpent Is Rising would foreshadow later endeavors by the group — the so-called concept album is an idiom upon which Styx would rely heavily by the 1980s.

During the 1980s and 1990s, she became one of the first CCM artists to cross over into mainstream pop on the heels of her successful albums Unguarded and Heart in Motion, the latter of which included the No. 1 single " Baby Baby ".

He released two albums in that country with some recognition as " the man who writes songs about vegetables ", referring to " Domates, Biber, Patlıcan " (" Tomato, Pepper, Aubergine ") and " Nane, Limon Kabuğu " ( Mint, Lemon Rind ), two of his hit songs from 1980s.

Their mixture of heavy metal and glam rock stylings produced several best-selling albums during the 1980s, including Shout at the Devil ( 1983 ), Theatre of Pain ( 1985 ), and Girls, Girls, Girls ( 1987 ), which showcased their love of motorcycles, whiskey and strip clubs, and which told tales of substance abuse, sexual escapades, and general decadence.

Rush started to deviate from their 1980s style with the albums Presto and Roll the Bones.

The bulk of the band's music has always included synthetic instruments in some form or another, and this is a great source of contention in the Rush camp, especially the band's heavy reliance on synthesizers and keyboards during the 1980s, particularly on albums Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, and Hold Your Fire.

Following the disbanding of Yellow Magic Orchestra in 1983, Sakamoto released a number of solo albums during the 1980s.

Waits's new emphasis on experimenting with various styles and instrumentation continued on 1985's Rain Dogs, a sprawling, 19-song collection which received glowing reviews ( the album was ranked # 21 on Rolling Stones list of the 100 greatest albums of the 1980s.

In the early 1980s, Vangelis formed a musical partnership with Jon Anderson, the lead singer of progressive rock band Yes, and the duo went on to release several albums together as Jon & Vangelis.

The albums ZZ Top's First Album, Rio Grande Mud, Tres Hombres, Fandango and Tejas were remixed with the result that the sound of the material from the first five albums was changed to sound like they had been recorded in the 1980s, with echo and drum machines, and very unlike their original album sound.

Leon McDermott of the Sunday Herald wrote: " Her million-selling albums in the 1980s helped invent contemporary R & B through Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis's muscular, lean production ; the sinuous grooves threaded through 1986's Control and 1989's Rhythm Nation 1814 are the foundation upon which today's hot shot producers and singers rely.

* Mournblade was a British NWOBHM band who made two albums in the 1980s: Time's Running Out and Live Fast Die Young.

These three albums ( from Alles ist gut to Für immer ) were all produced by Konrad " Conny " Plank, who was renowned for his pioneering work both with minimalist-influenced Krautrock bands and other experimenters in the 1970s, and with electro-pop artists in the 1980s.

Robbin Crosby ( August 4, 1959 – June 6, 2002 ) was an American guitarist who was a member of glam metal band Ratt, earning several platinum albums in the U. S. in the mid-to-late 1980s.

Gladstone also collected a number of Gottfredson's serials in the larger-size " comic albums " it issued during the 1980s ; in 1990, Disney Comics issued " Mickey Mouse Outwits the Phantom Blot " ( 1939 ) in the same format.

Throughout the 1980s, the band struggled to find success, but gained prominence in the UK in the mid-1990s with the release of the albums His ' n ' Hers in 1994 and particularly Different Class in 1995, which reached the number one spot in the UK Albums Chart.

The group recorded several albums and EPs on an indie label, Restless, in the 1980s and early 1990s.

In the early 1980s, Graham recorded five solo albums and had several solo hits on the R & B charts.

Since the 1980s, many comics are published exclusively as albums and do not appear in the magazines at all, while many magazines have disappeared, including greats like Tintin, À Suivre, Métal Hurlant and Pilote.

Literally hundreds of albums were recorded there in the 1980s and 1990s.

Through the 1980s and 1990s, Plant co-wrote three solo albums with keyboardist / songwriter Phil Johnstone.

As a singer she released two internationally successful albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, selling over four million copies worldwide.

Beginning in the early 1980s, Clinton recorded several nominal solo albums, although all of these records featured contributions from P-Funk's core musicians.