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(21)
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(42)
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(15)
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(66)
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(108)
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(60)
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(53)
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(20)
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(45)
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(37)
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(26)
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(16)
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(154)
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(21)
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(22)
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(18)
Jun 14
Joy Division
Unknown Pleasures
88
critic score
(5)
88
user score
(2,985)
Aug 3
Talking Heads
Fear of Music
96
critic score
(5)
86
user score
(1,077)
May 11
The Cure
Three Imaginary Boys
80
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(633)
Sep 25
Gang of Four
Entertainment!
95
critic score
(2)
86
user score
(576)
Sep 1
Wire
154
94
critic score
(3)
85
user score
(281)
Nov 23
Public Image Ltd.
Metal Box
95
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(274)
Aug 17
XTC
Drums and Wires
90
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(223)
Apr 20
The Pop Group
Y
85
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(220)
Sep 7
The Slits
Cut
88
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(155)
Nov 3
The Raincoats
The Raincoats
90
critic score
(4)
77
user score
(151)
Mar 16
The Fall
Live at the Witch Trials
86
critic score
(4)
82
user score
(112)
Nov 12
The Damned
Machine Gun Etiquette
84
critic score
(3)
82
user score
(76)
Oct 26
The Fall
Dragnet
82
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(69)
Oct
Joy Division
Transmission
95
user score
(51)
Jun 1
Devo
Duty Now for the Future
65
critic score
(3)
73
user score
(49)
Oct 7
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Join Hands
45
critic score
(2)
69
user score
(48)
Jul 1
Swell Maps
A Trip to Marineville
82
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(44)
Aug 6
Bauhaus
Bela Lugosi's Dead
91
user score
(44)
Jun 12
The Cure
Boys Don't Cry
91
user score
(38)
Mar 15
Chrome
Half Machine Lip Moves
80
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(37)
Mar 30
Magazine
Secondhand Daylight
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(31)
Mar 15
The Boys Next Door
Door, Door
80
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(30)
1979
Talking Heads
Life During Wartime
87
user score
(24)
Oct 23
Cabaret Voltaire
Mix Up
71
user score
(23)
Dec
Tuxedomoon
Half-Mute
90
critic score
(1)
75
user score
(21)
1979
Talking Heads
Cities
91
user score
(20)
1979
The Flying Lizards
The Flying Lizards
60
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(20)
Jan 1
Public Image Ltd.
Second Edition
100
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(20)
Sep 21
The Stranglers
The Raven
70
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(20)
Jan 1
The Soft Boys
A Can of Bees
80
critic score
(2)
72
user score
(18)
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Sep 1
Pere Ubu
New Picnic Time
73
critic score
(3)
66
user score
(15)
1979
Aunt Sally
Aunt Sally
75
user score
(14)
Oct 11
Simple Minds
Real to Real Cacophony
88
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(14)
Sep
XTC
Making Plans For Nigel
93
user score
(12)
Oct 30
Adam and the Ants
Dirk Wears White Sox
90
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(12)
Apr 1
Simple Minds
Life in a Day
50
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(11)
Oct 26
Killing Joke
Almost Red
75
user score
(5)
1979
Tuxedomoon
Scream With a View
77
user score
(4)
Jul
Black Randy & The Metrosquad
Pass the Dust, I Think I'm Bowie.
74
user score
(4)
Aug 3
Toyah
Sheep Farming in Barnet
78
user score
(4)
Sep
Felt
Index / Break It
37
user score
(3)
Mar 23
Siouxsie and the Banshees
The Staircase (Mystery)
78
user score
(2)
Oct
Gloria Mundi
The World Is Out
76
user score
(2)
1979
The Doll
Desire Me
80
user score
(1)
Sep 1
Pylon
Cool / Dub
85
user score
(1)
Sep 7
A.D. 1984
The Russians Are Coming!
70
user score
(1)
Nov
Hobbies Of Today
Metal Boys
70
user score
(1)
1979
Sputniks
Second Glance / Our Boys
1979
The Atoms
Max Bygraves Killed My Mother / Beetlejacket
1979
C.O.M.A.
C.O.M.A.
Feb
The Teardrop Explodes
Sleeping Gas / Camera Camera / Kirkby Workers Dream Fades
May
Alternative TV
The Force Is Blind
Aug
The Associates
Boys Keep Swinging
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