Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s by 
Onater 
My Top 10 songs of the 80s:
10. Joy Division - Atmosphere (Single, 1980)
9. Tom Waits - Downtown Train (Rain Dogs, 1985)
8. The Replacements - Androgynous (Let It Be, 1984)
7. Sonic Youth - Teen Age Riot (Daydream Nation, 1988)
6. Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - The Mercy Seat (Tender Prey, 1988)
5. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Single, 1980)
4. The Smiths - There Is A Light That Never Goes Out (The Queen Is Dead, 1986)
3. The Smiths - Reel Around The Fountain (The Smiths, 1984)
2. Laurie Anderson - O Superman (Big Science, 1982)
1. Talking Heads- This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody) (Speaking In Tongues, 1983)
- Chart updated: 01/15/2019 07:45
- (Created: 10/25/2016 00:24).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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"Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us, same as it ever was, same as it ever was."
I like to imagine this album as waking up in a dark room tied to a chair without knowing how you got there as a weird man in a big suit yells at you about his hands and the properties of facts and shapeshifting faces while awkwardly flailing his arms around in an attempt to dance.
Favourite Tracks: Once In A Lifetime, Born Under Punches, The Great Curve, Crosseyed And Painless [First added to this chart: 03/17/2017]
I like to imagine this album as waking up in a dark room tied to a chair without knowing how you got there as a weird man in a big suit yells at you about his hands and the properties of facts and shapeshifting faces while awkwardly flailing his arms around in an attempt to dance.
Favourite Tracks: Once In A Lifetime, Born Under Punches, The Great Curve, Crosseyed And Painless [First added to this chart: 03/17/2017]
Year of Release:
1980
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"Mother I tried please believe me, I'm doing the best that I can. I'm ashamed of the things I've been put through, I'm ashamed of the person I am."
Favourite Tracks: Decades, Atrocity Exhibition, Twenty-Four Hours, The Eternal, Isolation [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Favourite Tracks: Decades, Atrocity Exhibition, Twenty-Four Hours, The Eternal, Isolation [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
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1980
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"I want to be somebody, you were like that too. If you don't get given you learn to take, and I will take you."
Favourite Tracks: Intruder, Games Without Frontiers, Family Snapshot, No Self-Control, Biko [First added to this chart: 06/09/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Intruder, Games Without Frontiers, Family Snapshot, No Self-Control, Biko [First added to this chart: 06/09/2018]
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1980
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"Is a dream a lie if it don't come true, or is it something worse?"
Would be better if it weren't so long.
Favourite Tracks: The River, Point Blank, The Ties That Bind, Hungry Heart, Stolen Car [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Would be better if it weren't so long.
Favourite Tracks: The River, Point Blank, The Ties That Bind, Hungry Heart, Stolen Car [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
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1980
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4,051
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"It's not a case of doing what's right, it's just the way I feel that matters."
Favourite Tracks: The Forest, Play For Today, M, Seventeen Seconds [First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
Favourite Tracks: The Forest, Play For Today, M, Seventeen Seconds [First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
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1980
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2,912
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"Seems like my shadow mocks every stride."
Favourite Tracks: I Can't Escape Myself, Heartland, Missiles, Jeopardy [First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
Favourite Tracks: I Can't Escape Myself, Heartland, Missiles, Jeopardy [First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
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1980
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773
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Favourite Tracks: Music For A Large Ensemble, Octet
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"Time and again I tell myself, I'll stay clean tonight."
Favourite Tracks: Ashes To Ashes, Teenage Wildlife, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), It's No Game [First added to this chart: 11/26/2016]
Favourite Tracks: Ashes To Ashes, Teenage Wildlife, Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), It's No Game [First added to this chart: 11/26/2016]
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1980
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5,938
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"Where is the string that Theseus laid? Find me out this labyrinth place."
Favourite Tracks: In The Flat Field, Double Dare, Nerves [First added to this chart: 10/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: In The Flat Field, Double Dare, Nerves [First added to this chart: 10/07/2017]
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1980
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
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| 1980 | 9 | 9% | |
| 1981 | 7 | 7% | |
| 1982 | 9 | 9% | |
| 1983 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1984 | 13 | 13% | |
| 1985 | 10 | 10% | |
| 1986 | 9 | 9% | |
| 1987 | 13 | 13% | |
| 1988 | 12 | 12% | |
| 1989 | 8 | 8% |
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| The Smiths | 6 | 6% | |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 4% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 4 | 4% | |
| The Cure | 4 | 4% | |
| Talking Heads | 3 | 3% | |
| New Order | 3 | 3% | |
| The Replacements | 3 | 3% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 10 from 37th to 27th Substance by Joy Division |
| Up 6 from 18th to 12th 16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens |
| Up 6 from 13th to 7th Hounds Of Love by Kate Bush |
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| Down 7 from 7th to 14th Disintegration by The Cure |
| Down 4 from 11th to 15th Doolittle by Pixies |
| Down 4 from 12th to 16th The Joshua Tree by U2 |
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