Shoot Out The Lights – Richard & Linda Thompson

A harrowing record filled with emotional tension, personal strife, and caustic lyrics, Richard and Linda Thompson's 1982 classic Shoot Out the Lights is a thematic statement of a marriage gone bad. Not coincidentally, it was made while the British duo's own marriage was heading South, which makes it one of the most unsparing, honest, and penetrating break-up albums ever committed to tape.