Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s
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Top 100 Albums: 1980 ~ 1989
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Disintegration 
United Kingdom The Cure
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 08/28/2017]
Year of Release:
1989
Appears in:
1,866 charts
Rank Score:
25,387
Rank in 1989:
2
Rank in 1980s:
4
Overall Rank:
28
Average Rating:
Top rated album (86/100 - 2094 votes)  86 (2,094 votes)
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The Queen Is Dead 
United Kingdom The Smiths
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 12/12/2016]
Year of Release:
1986
Appears in:
2,505 charts
Rank Score:
31,228
Rank in 1986:
1
Rank in 1980s:
1
Overall Rank:
16
Average Rating:
Top rated album (88/100 - 2959 votes)  88 (2,959 votes)
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Night Music 
Compilation
United Kingdom Tones On Tail
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 12/05/2017]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
5 charts
Rank Score:
70
Rank in 1987:
193
Rank in 1980s:
2,158
Overall Rank:
16,150
Average Rating:
 71 (7 votes)
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Hatful Of Hollow 
United Kingdom The Smiths
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 08/10/2016]
Year of Release:
1984
Appears in:
640 charts
Rank Score:
6,029
Rank in 1984:
6
Rank in 1980s:
35
Overall Rank:
267
Average Rating:
Top rated album (85/100 - 1064 votes)  85 (1,064 votes)
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Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac 
United States Butthole Surfers
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 11/14/2014]
Year of Release:
1984
Appears in:
123 charts
Rank Score:
484
Rank in 1984:
52
Rank in 1980s:
466
Overall Rank:
3,162
Average Rating:
 77 (144 votes)
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Double Nickels On The Dime 
United States Minutemen
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 08/10/2016]
Year of Release:
1984
Appears in:
591 charts
Rank Score:
4,620
Rank in 1984:
7
Rank in 1980s:
48
Overall Rank:
354
Average Rating:
 80 (645 votes)
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Daydream Nation 
United States Sonic Youth
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 04/26/2017]
Year of Release:
1988
Appears in:
1,595 charts
Rank Score:
14,694
Rank in 1988:
1
Rank in 1980s:
10
Overall Rank:
75
Average Rating:
 84 (1,890 votes)
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Legend: The Best Of Bob Marley And The Wailers 
Compilation
Jamaica Bob Marley & The Wailers
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 08/10/2016]
Year of Release:
1984
Appears in:
526 charts
Rank Score:
3,124
Rank in 1984:
15
Rank in 1980s:
84
Overall Rank:
549
Average Rating:
Top rated album (85/100 - 1037 votes)  85 (1,037 votes)
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You're Living All Over Me 
United States Dinosaur
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 08/26/2014]
Year of Release:
1987
Appears in:
657 charts
Rank Score:
5,210
Rank in 1987:
5
Rank in 1980s:
43
Overall Rank:
317
Average Rating:
 82 (744 votes)
Comments:
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Reckoning 
United States R.E.M.
Available from United States
[First added to this chart: 08/10/2016]
Year of Release:
1984
Appears in:
503 charts
Rank Score:
3,160
Rank in 1984:
14
Rank in 1980s:
82
Overall Rank:
544
Average Rating:
 80 (714 votes)
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From 09/30/2014 10:14 | #123046
You try to avoid all well known artists.
Why not.
Good to see Eugene Chadbourne.
I don`t know that particular albums but I can recommend the "Corpses Of Foreign War". That is a funny political album he did together with the musicians from the Violent Femmes.
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From 04/19/2015 02:03 | #139811
80s. The decade of my youth. Surfers and Joe Pop O Pie. Good to see you still rate them so high. I agree with sssvnnn; you intentionally avoid well known artists, but that is your superpower!!
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From 10/09/2017 19:00 | #199317
Always nice seeing decade lists from people who actually lived through the decade. Sometimes I wish I was around for the wildness of 70s/80s punk. Sometimes.
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From 11/13/2014 11:39 | #126875
Wow...this is pretty out there! Lots of stuff I haven't heard but would probably like.
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