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alicore's Top 200 Albums of the 1980s
A list by
alicore
Updated 1y ago
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reworked jan 25, 2021
1.
Kate Bush
Hounds of Love
1985
100
2.
Prince & The Revolution
Purple Rain
1984
100
3.
Talking Heads
Remain in Light
1980
100
4.
Sonic Youth
Daydream Nation
1988
100
5.
Galaxie 500
On Fire
1989
100
6.
The Cure
Disintegration
1989
100
7.
New Order
Power, Corruption & Lies
1983
100
8.
Kate Bush
The Dreaming
1982
100
9.
The Replacements
Let It Be
1984
100
10.
Sade
Diamond Life
1984
100
11.
Pixies
Doolittle
1989
100
12.
XTC
Skylarking
1986
100
13.
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Psychocandy
1985
100
14.
Grace Jones
Nightclubbing
1981
100
15.
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Tinderbox
1986
100
16.
Cocteau Twins
Treasure
1984
100
17.
Madonna
True Blue
1986
100
18.
Prince
Sign "O" the Times
1987
100
19.
Violent Femmes
Violent Femmes
1983
100
20.
Public Enemy
It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back
1988
100
21.
Felt
Forever Breathes the Lonely Word
1986
100
22.
Joy Division
Closer
1980
100
23.
U2
The Joshua Tree
1987
100
24.
Metallica
Ride the Lightning
1984
100
25.
Pixies
Surfer Rosa
1988
100
26.
The Fall
This Nation's Saving Grace
1985
100
27.
Minutemen
Double Nickels on the Dime
1984
100
28.
The Feelies
Crazy Rhythms
1980
100
29.
Kraftwerk
Computerwelt [Computer World]
1981
100
30.
The Smiths
The Queen is Dead
1986
100
31.
Tracy Chapman
Tracy Chapman
1988
100
32.
The Stone Roses
The Stone Roses
1989
100
33.
Candlemass
Epicus Doomicus Metallicus
1986
100
34.
Hüsker Dü
Zen Arcade
1984
100
35.
Bruce Springsteen
The River
1980
98
36.
Rites of Spring
Rites of Spring
1985
100
37.
Metallica
Master of Puppets
1986
100
38.
Tom Waits
Rain Dogs
1985
100
39.
Prince
1999
1982
98
40.
Arthur Russell
World of Echo
1986
97
41.
Killing Joke
Killing Joke
1980
97
42.
R.E.M.
Reckoning
1984
96
43.
This Heat
Deceit
1981
96
44.
Bruce Springsteen
Born in the U.S.A.
1984
96
45.
808 State
Newbuild
1988
97
46.
Madonna
Like a Prayer
1989
96
47.
The Police
Synchronicity
1983
95
48.
Galaxie 500
Today
1988
96
49.
Prefab Sprout
Steve McQueen
1985
95
50.
Dinosaur
You're Living All Over Me
1987
95
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MusicNPlants
2y
Might steal your disclaimer and the ideas in it...
cummerbummer
2y
gd this list is so good, better than any publications best-of the 80s list i’ve ever seen
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