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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"Well, I don't need anybody, because I learned, I learned to be alone. And I said anywhere, anywhere, anywhere I lay my head, boys, I will call my home."
Favourite Tracks: Anywhere I Lay My Head, Hang Down Your Head, Downtown Train, Tango 'Til They're Sore, Clap Hands, Singapore [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Favourite Tracks: Anywhere I Lay My Head, Hang Down Your Head, Downtown Train, Tango 'Til They're Sore, Clap Hands, Singapore [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
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1985
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"But every time it rains, you're here in my head."
Favourite Tracks: Cloudbusting, Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), Hello Earth, Hounds Of Love, Waking The Witch [First added to this chart: 05/28/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Cloudbusting, Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God), Hello Earth, Hounds Of Love, Waking The Witch [First added to this chart: 05/28/2017]
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1985
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"Help me make the most of freedom and of pleasure, nothing ever lasts forever."
Favourite Tracks: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Shout, Head Over Heels, The Working Hour [First added to this chart: 01/15/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Shout, Head Over Heels, The Working Hour [First added to this chart: 01/15/2019]
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1985
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"Kneeling alongside old Sad Eyes, he says, opportunity knocks once, then the door slams shut. All I know is I'm sick of everything that my money can buy, the fool who wastes his life, God rest his guts."
Favourite Tracks: Here Comes A Regular, Bastards Of Young, Left Of The Dial, Swingin Party, Hold My Life [First added to this chart: 10/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Here Comes A Regular, Bastards Of Young, Left Of The Dial, Swingin Party, Hold My Life [First added to this chart: 10/07/2017]
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1985
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4,044
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"When you pissed yourself in Frankfurt and got syph down in Cologne, and you heard the rattling death trains as you lay there all alone, Frank Ryan bought you whiskey in a brothel in Madrid, and you decked some fucking blackshirt who was cursing all the Yids."
Favourite Tracks: The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn, Sally MacLenanne, A Pair Of Brown Eyes, Dirty Old Town, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda [First added to this chart: 05/22/2018]
Favourite Tracks: The Sick Bed Of Cúchulainn, Sally MacLenanne, A Pair Of Brown Eyes, Dirty Old Town, And The Band Played Waltzing Matilda [First added to this chart: 05/22/2018]
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1985
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2,981
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"I've seen this happen in other people's lives, and now it's happening in mine."
Favourite Tracks: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Well I Wonder, I Want The One I Can't Have, Barbarism Begins At Home, Meat Is Murder [First added to this chart: 03/31/2017]
Favourite Tracks: That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, Well I Wonder, I Want The One I Can't Have, Barbarism Begins At Home, Meat Is Murder [First added to this chart: 03/31/2017]
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1985
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"All those whose mind entitles themselves, and whose main entitle is themselves, shall feel the wrath of my bombast!"
Favourite Tracks: I Am Damo Suzuki, Barmy, Bombast, L.A. [First added to this chart: 06/14/2018]
Favourite Tracks: I Am Damo Suzuki, Barmy, Bombast, L.A. [First added to this chart: 06/14/2018]
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1985
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"Yesterday I got so old I felt like I could die."
Favourite Tracks: In Between Days, Close To Me, A Night Like This, Push [First added to this chart: 10/07/2017]
Favourite Tracks: In Between Days, Close To Me, A Night Like This, Push [First added to this chart: 10/07/2017]
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1985
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"In the end you will submit, it's got to hurt a little bit."
Favourite Tracks: Love Vigilantes, The Perfect Kiss, Sunrise, Sub-Culture [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Love Vigilantes, The Perfect Kiss, Sunrise, Sub-Culture [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
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1985
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"You can tell yourself you're dreaming, buddy, but no sleep runs this deep."
Favourite Tracks: Tupelo, Knockin' On Joe, Say Goodbye To The Little Tree Girl [First added to this chart: 11/29/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Tupelo, Knockin' On Joe, Say Goodbye To The Little Tree Girl [First added to this chart: 11/29/2017]
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1985
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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 |
| Biggest fallers |
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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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