Electric Empire

Electric Empire is where Power Ballad stopped being a band people talked about and became a band people couldn't avoid. "The City Is Ours" and "Raise the Skyline" are stadium anthems built for exactly that—stadiums—and "World on the Wire" is the sound of a band that knows the whole country is finally listening.

This is the record that turned regional success into global domination, and it's the sound the rest of the '80s got measured against.