Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s
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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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"She says you're only as good as the words you understand, and you, you don't understand a word."
Favourite Tracks: Makeshift Swahili, Sleep, Paper Hats, A New Kind Of Water [First added to this chart: 09/17/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Makeshift Swahili, Sleep, Paper Hats, A New Kind Of Water [First added to this chart: 09/17/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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1,864
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"Another lonely night, another lonely night. Stare at the TV screen, stare at the TV screen."
Favourite Tracks: Computer Love, Computer World [First added to this chart: 10/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Computer Love, Computer World [First added to this chart: 10/07/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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3,499
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"Talk, it's only talk. Arguments, agreements, advice, answers articulate announcements. It's only talk."
Favourite Tracks: Frame By Frame, Elephant Talk, Indiscipline [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Frame By Frame, Elephant Talk, Indiscipline [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
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1981
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3,286
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Favourite Tracks: The Spectacular Commodity, Light Field (In Consonance), The Ascension
[First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
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1981
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1,540
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"Take a piece of our lives? Didn't think that we would care?"
Favourite Tracks: When It's Over, Youth Of America, No Fair [First added to this chart: 09/17/2017]
Favourite Tracks: When It's Over, Youth Of America, No Fair [First added to this chart: 09/17/2017]
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1981
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1,843
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"A friend of mine once told me his one and only aim, to build a giant castle and live inside his name."
Favourite Tracks: That's When I Reach For My Revolver, Fame And Fortune, All World Cowboy Romance [First added to this chart: 02/17/2018]
Favourite Tracks: That's When I Reach For My Revolver, Fame And Fortune, All World Cowboy Romance [First added to this chart: 02/17/2018]
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1981
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625
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"My uncle has a country place that no one knows about, he says it used to be a farm before the Motor Law."
Facourite tracks: Red Barchetta, Tom Sawyer, Limelight, YYZ [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Facourite tracks: Red Barchetta, Tom Sawyer, Limelight, YYZ [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Year of Release:
1981
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8,877
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s composition
| Year | Albums | % | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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% | |
| The Cure | 4 | 4% | |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 4% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 4 | 4% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 3 | 3% | |
| Sonic Youth | 3 | 3% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 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 27thSubstance by Joy Division |
| Up 6 from 18th to 12th16 Lovers Lane by The Go-Betweens |
| Up 6 from 13th to 7thHounds Of Love by Kate Bush |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 7 from 7th to 14thDisintegration by The Cure |
| Down 4 from 11th to 15thDoolittle by Pixies |
| Down 4 from 12th to 16thThe Joshua Tree by U2 |
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