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2018
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1980 Album Releases
1979
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1980
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Type
Compilation
(13)
EP
(13)
Live
(20)
LP
(361)
Single
(10)
Soundtrack
(3)
Genre
Adult Contemporary
(4)
Ambient
(4)
Art Pop
(6)
Art Punk
(3)
Art Rock
(6)
Disco
(4)
Electronic
(7)
Experimental Rock
(8)
Folk
(4)
Funk
(4)
Hard Rock
(12)
Heavy Metal
(7)
Metal
(7)
New Wave
(29)
Noise Rock
(3)
Pop
(25)
Pop Rock
(23)
Post-Punk
(27)
Punk
(10)
Punk Rock
(8)
Reggae
(4)
Rock
(59)
Singer-Songwriter
(7)
Soul
(4)
Synthpop
(11)
Oct 8
Talking Heads
Remain in Light
98
critic score
(5)
92
user score
(493)
Jul 18
Joy Division
Closer
95
critic score
(4)
91
user score
(423)
Sep 12
David Bowie
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
90
critic score
(3)
85
user score
(201)
Jul 25
AC/DC
Back in Black
93
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(149)
Oct 8
Prince
Dirty Mind
99
critic score
(6)
86
user score
(119)
Sep 2
Dead Kennedys
Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
88
critic score
(4)
86
user score
(93)
Oct 17
Bruce Springsteen
The River
90
critic score
(3)
86
user score
(78)
Apr 18
The Cure
Seventeen Seconds
71
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(75)
Oct 20
U2
Boy
77
critic score
(6)
79
user score
(69)
Sep 5
Kate Bush
Never For Ever
60
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(68)
Jun 27
Queen
The Game
78
critic score
(4)
73
user score
(61)
Apr 14
Iron Maiden
Iron Maiden
83
critic score
(3)
78
user score
(60)
Oct 1
Bauhaus
In the Flat Field
86
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(59)
Dec 12
The Clash
Sandinista!
75
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(59)
Apr 1
The Feelies
Crazy Rhythms
100
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(55)
Feb 1
Young Marble Giants
Colossal Youth
91
critic score
(8)
87
user score
(42)
Apr 1
X
Los Angeles
100
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(40)
Apr 25
Black Sabbath
Heaven and Hell
78
critic score
(4)
79
user score
(39)
Apr 1
Brian Eno & Harold Budd
Ambient 2: The Plateaux of Mirror
82
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(36)
Jan 1
Rush
Permanent Waves
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(31)
Sep 1
Tom Waits
Heartattack and Vine
75
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(31)
Nov 8
Motörhead
Ace of Spades
95
critic score
(2)
85
user score
(31)
Apr 14
Judas Priest
British Steel
73
critic score
(3)
79
user score
(30)
Oct 3
The Police
Zenyatta Mondatta
100
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(28)
Jul 18
Echo & the Bunnymen
Crocodiles
86
critic score
(4)
81
user score
(27)
Nov 28
The Jam
Sound Affects
90
critic score
(3)
80
user score
(27)
Nov 1
The Sound
Jeopardy
90
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(26)
May 23
Peter Gabriel
Peter Gabriel
90
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(25)
Jun 20
The Rolling Stones
Emotional Rescue
70
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(24)
Jun 23
Bob Dylan
Saved
48
critic score
(3)
43
user score
(24)
Aug 1
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Kaleidoscope
90
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(23)
Feb 4
Ramones
End of the Century
68
critic score
(3)
70
user score
(22)
Feb 5
The Cure
Boys Don't Cry
80
critic score
(2)
86
user score
(22)
May 9
Grace Jones
Warm Leatherette
88
critic score
(2)
86
user score
(22)
Jun 28
The Soft Boys
Underwater Moonlight
95
critic score
(3)
83
user score
(22)
Sep 12
XTC
Black Sea
91
critic score
(2)
89
user score
(22)
Jan 19
Wipers
Is This Real?
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(21)
May 16
Paul McCartney
McCartney II
71
critic score
(6)
67
user score
(21)
May 14
Devo
Freedom of Choice
65
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(20)
Nov 3
ABBA
Super Trouper
60
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(20)
Oct 17
Dire Straits
Making Movies
85
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(19)
Aug 1
Captain Beefheart
Doc at the Radar Station
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(18)
Sep 20
Ozzy Osbourne
Blizzard of Ozz
85
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(18)
Jan 1
Suicide
Suicide: Alan Vega/Martin Rev
89
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(17)
Mar 28
Genesis
Duke
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(17)
Jun 10
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Uprising
90
critic score
(1)
85
user score
(17)
Jul 11
Dexys
Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
90
critic score
(1)
87
user score
(17)
Feb 15
Elvis Costello & The Attractions
Get Happy!!
100
critic score
(2)
82
user score
(16)
May
The Cramps
Songs the Lord Taught Us
75
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(16)
Jul 28
Swell Maps
Jane from Occupied Europe
90
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(16)
Nov 17
The Fall
Grotesque (After the Gramme)
80
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(16)
Nov 21
Steely Dan
Gaucho
85
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(16)
Jan 1
Laraaji
Ambient 3: Day of Radiance
80
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(15)
Sep 29
Stevie Wonder
Hotter Than July
85
critic score
(2)
83
user score
(15)
Nov 17
John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Double Fantasy
74
critic score
(3)
59
user score
(15)
Aug 22
Yes
Drama
65
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(14)
Nov 26
Blondie
Autoamerican
40
critic score
(2)
68
user score
(14)
Mar 10
Billy Joel
Glass Houses
90
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(13)
May 23
Roxy Music
Flesh + Blood
53
critic score
(2)
75
user score
(13)
Sep 27
The B-52's
Wild Planet
95
critic score
(2)
78
user score
(13)
Sep 1
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(12)
Oct 1
Circle Jerks
Group Sex
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(12)
Dec 5
Queen
Flash Gordon
59
critic score
(4)
48
user score
(12)
Nov 3
Neil Young
Hawks & Doves
59
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(11)
Jan 10
The Buggles
The Age of Plastic
90
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(10)
Jan 1
Pylon
Gyrate
90
critic score
(1)
86
user score
(9)
Jan 1
Daniel Johnston
Songs of Pain
60
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(9)
Jan 1
This Heat
Health and Efficiency
74
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(9)
Jun 11
Ultravox
Vienna
90
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(9)
Aug
Chrome
Half Machine Lip Moves
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(9)
Aug 1
Adam and the Ants
Kings of the Wild Frontier
70
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(9)
Oct 1
The Residents
Commercial Album
80
critic score
(1)
77
user score
(9)
Nov 1
The Alan Parsons Project
The Turn of a Friendly Card
90
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(9)
Jan 1
Laurie Spiegel
The Expanding Universe
85
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(8)
Feb 1
Iggy Pop
Soldier
55
critic score
(2)
58
user score
(8)
Mar 26
Van Halen
Women and Children First
70
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(8)
Jun
Joy Division
Love Will Tear Us Apart
80
critic score
(1)
92
user score
(8)
Oct 24
Japan
Gentlemen Take Polaroids
80
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(8)
Jan 1
Half Japanese
1/2 Gentlemen / Not Beasts
91
critic score
(2)
85
user score
(7)
Feb 7
The Sugarhill Gang
Sugarhill Gang
80
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(7)
Mar 1
The Pop Group
For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder?
80
critic score
(2)
87
user score
(7)
Mar 1
Glenn Branca
Lesson No. 1
89
critic score
(3)
84
user score
(7)
Mar 24
The Beach Boys
Keepin' the Summer Alive
31
critic score
(3)
41
user score
(7)
May 1
The Beat
I Just Can't Stop It
100
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(7)
May 22
Diana Ross
Diana
100
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(7)
Jun 23
Pink Floyd
Comfortably Numb
95
user score
(7)
Aug 9
George Benson
Give Me The Night
100
critic score
(1)
91
user score
(7)
Sep 23
Barbra Streisand
Guilty
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(7)
Sep 25
Rita Lee
Rita Lee
84
user score
(7)
Oct 2
The Teardrop Explodes
Kilimanjaro
75
critic score
(2)
84
user score
(7)
Oct 13
Colin Newman
A-Z
90
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(7)
Nov 1
The Birthday Party
The Birthday Party
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(7)
Jan 1
The Durutti Column
The Return of the Durutti Column
90
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(6)
Jan 1
Jon Hassell & Brian Eno
Fourth World, Vol. 1: Possible Musics
100
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(6)
Jan 1
Steve Reich
Octet / Music for a Large Ensemble / Violin Phase
88
critic score
(2)
89
user score
(6)
Jan 18
John Foxx
Metamatic
90
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(6)
Jun 5
Yellow Magic Orchestra
×∞Multiplies
50
critic score
(1)
68
user score
(6)
Aug 15
The Cars
Panorama
57
critic score
(3)
62
user score
(6)
Sep 5
The Comsat Angels
Waiting for a Miracle
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(6)
Sep 12
Simple Minds
Empires and Dance
81
critic score
(2)
81
user score
(6)
Sep 26
The Jacksons
Triumph
85
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(6)
Nov 10
Visage
Visage
90
critic score
(1)
80
user score
(6)
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