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Manowar
Battle Hymns
Jun 7 • LP
60
critic score
(1)
72
user score
(63)
Pagan Altar
Pagan Altar
Dec • LP
79
user score
(63)
芦川聡 [Satoshi Ashikawa]
Wave Notation 2: Still Way
1982 • LP
78
user score
(62)
Go-Go's
Vacation
Aug 11 • LP
70
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(62)
Los Jaivas
Aconcagua
Mar • LP
82
user score
(61)
Naniwa Express
No Fuse
May 21 • LP
79
user score
(61)
John Cale
Music for a New Society
Sep • LP
81
critic score
(4)
75
user score
(61)
Mike Oldfield
Five Miles Out
Mar 19 • LP
80
critic score
(1)
74
user score
(60)
Voo-Doo Church
Voo-Doo Church
Dec • EP
82
user score
(60)
Zero Boys
Vicious Circle
1982 • LP
90
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(60)
The Stalin
Stop Jap
Feb 1 • LP
77
user score
(59)
Iggy Pop
Zombie Birdhouse
Sep 1 • LP
55
critic score
(2)
63
user score
(59)
Ornette Coleman
Of Human Feelings
Mar 25 • LP
80
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(58)
Cabaret Voltaire
2X45
Apr • LP
85
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(58)
Caetano Veloso
Cores, Nomes
1982 • LP
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(57)
Gregory Isaacs
Night Nurse
1982 • LP
100
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(56)
Wayne Jarrett
Showcase Vol 1
1982 • LP
80
critic score
(1)
78
user score
(56)
DeBarge
All This Love
Apr 22 • LP
80
critic score
(1)
79
user score
(56)
Negative Approach
Negative Approach
1982 • EP
79
user score
(54)
Angry Samoans
Back From Samoa
Nov • LP
80
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(54)
Casiopea
4 X 4 (Four by Four)
Dec 16 • LP
72
user score
(54)
Rainbow
Straight Between the Eyes
Jun 10 • LP
55
critic score
(2)
65
user score
(53)
Dan Johnston
The What of Whom
Aug • LP
40
critic score
(1)
69
user score
(52)
Twisted Sister
Under the Blade
Sep 18 • LP
60
critic score
(2)
67
user score
(52)
大貫妙子 [Taeko Ōnuki]
Cliché
Sep 21 • LP
79
user score
(52)
José Mário Branco
Ser solidário
Oct 12 • LP
88
user score
(52)
Lô Borges
Nuvem Cigana
1982 • LP
60
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(52)
The Beat
Special Beat Service
Jan 1 • LP
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(51)
Luther Vandross
Forever, For Always, For Love
Sep 21 • LP
80
critic score
(2)
79
user score
(51)
中森明菜 [Akina Nakamori]
バリエーション〈変奏曲〉
Oct 27 • LP
78
user score
(51)
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Ultravox
Quartet
Oct 15 • LP
60
critic score
(1)
70
user score
(50)
暗黒大陸じゃがたら [Ankoku Tairiku Jagatara]
南蛮渡来
May • LP
80
user score
(50)
John Williams
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Jun 11 • Soundtrack
80
critic score
(1)
81
user score
(50)
Crass
Christ – The Album
1982 • LP
80
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(49)
Pat Metheny Group
Offramp
May • LP
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(48)
Merle Haggard
Going Where the Lonely Go
Oct 18 • LP
75
critic score
(2)
80
user score
(48)
Whitesnake
Saints & Sinners
Nov 20 • LP
50
critic score
(2)
70
user score
(47)
New Order
1981-1982
Nov 30 • EP
60
critic score
(1)
83
user score
(47)
Mercyful Fate
Mercyful Fate
1982 • EP
60
critic score
(1)
82
user score
(47)
The Cleaners from Venus
On Any Normal Monday
1982 • LP
69
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(47)
Rudimentary Peni
Farce
1982 • EP
80
user score
(47)
Diamond Head
Borrowed Time
Mar 12 • LP
40
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(47)
The Residents
The Tunes of Two Cities
Mar 10 • LP
60
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(46)
Men Without Hats
Rhythm of Youth
Mar 20 • LP
90
critic score
(1)
64
user score
(46)
Osiris
Osiris
1982 • LP
76
user score
(46)
Meat Puppets
Meat Puppets
1982 • LP
45
critic score
(2)
59
user score
(45)
Huey Lewis & The News
Picture This
Jan 29 • LP
80
critic score
(1)
71
user score
(45)
Anvil
Metal on Metal
Apr 15 • LP
90
critic score
(1)
73
user score
(45)
Marshall Crenshaw
Marshall Crenshaw
Apr 28 • LP
90
critic score
(2)
77
user score
(45)
Camel
The Single Factor
May 6 • LP
40
critic score
(1)
44
user score
(45)
Takanaka
OCEAN BREEZE
May 21 • Live
83
user score
(44)
Wall Of Voodoo
Call Of The West
Aug 17 • LP
90
critic score
(1)
76
user score
(44)
Nina Simone
Fodder on My Wings
1982 • LP
77
critic score
(2)
71
user score
(44)
The Waitresses
Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful?
Jan 1 • LP
86
critic score
(2)
76
user score
(43)
Willie Nelson
Always on My Mind
Feb • LP
40
critic score
(2)
65
user score
(43)
羅大佑 [Lo Ta-yu]
之乎者也
Apr 21 • LP
84
user score
(43)
Juan Gabriel
Cosas de enamorados
May 25 • LP
86
user score
(43)
NoMeansNo
Mama
1982 • LP
60
critic score
(1)
65
user score
(42)
The Vandals
Peace Thru Vandalism
1982 • EP
80
critic score
(1)
84
user score
(42)
Tim Maia
Nuvens
Nov 11 • LP
74
user score
(41)
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