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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"It's an anthem in a vacuum on a hyperstation, daydreaming days in a daydream nation."
Noisy, heavy, and dissonant, yet thoroughly beautiful. It's like the crumbling remains of a post-apocalyptic city where all that remains are the kids and their guitars.
Favourite Tracks: Teen Age Riot, The Sprawl, Trilogy, 'Cross The Breeze, Candle, Total Trash [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Noisy, heavy, and dissonant, yet thoroughly beautiful. It's like the crumbling remains of a post-apocalyptic city where all that remains are the kids and their guitars.
Favourite Tracks: Teen Age Riot, The Sprawl, Trilogy, 'Cross The Breeze, Candle, Total Trash [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Year of Release:
1988
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17,649
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"Everybody needs someone to live by. Everybody will need someone."
This is what I think it would sound like if the earth itself were to release an album. Also I don't understand a word that he's saying, and looking up the lyrics just makes them even more incomprehensible.
Favourite Tracks: The Rainbow, Wealth, Eden, I Believe In You [First added to this chart: 11/26/2016]
This is what I think it would sound like if the earth itself were to release an album. Also I don't understand a word that he's saying, and looking up the lyrics just makes them even more incomprehensible.
Favourite Tracks: The Rainbow, Wealth, Eden, I Believe In You [First added to this chart: 11/26/2016]
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1988
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11,259
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"There's a cat in my alleyway, dreaming of birds that are blue. Sometimes, girl, when I'm lonely, this is how I think about you."
Favourite Tracks: Love Goes On, Quiet Heart, Love Is A Sign, Streets Of Your Town, Dive For Your Memory [First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Love Goes On, Quiet Heart, Love Is A Sign, Streets Of Your Town, Dive For Your Memory [First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
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1988
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1,880
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"When routine bites hard, and ambitions are low, and resentment rides high, but emotions won't grow. And we're changing our ways, taking different roads."
Favourite Tracks: Atmosphere, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Transmission, She's Lost Control [First added to this chart: 05/13/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Atmosphere, Love Will Tear Us Apart, Transmission, She's Lost Control [First added to this chart: 05/13/2017]
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1988
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1,242
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"It began when they come took me from my home and put me in Death Row. Of which I am nearly wholly innocent, you know. And I'll say it again: I am not afraid to die."
Favourite Tracks: The Mercy Seat, Mercy, Up Jumped The Devil, Watching Alice [First added to this chart: 07/09/2017]
Favourite Tracks: The Mercy Seat, Mercy, Up Jumped The Devil, Watching Alice [First added to this chart: 07/09/2017]
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1988
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1,591
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"And people like you make me feel so old inside. Please die."
Favourite Tracks: Suedehead, Everyday Is Like Sunday, Margaret On The Guillotine [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Suedehead, Everyday Is Like Sunday, Margaret On The Guillotine [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
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1988
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1,583
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"Bloody your hands on a cactus tree, wipe it on your dress and send it to me."
Favourite Tracks: Where Is My Mind, Gigantic, River Euphrates, Bone Machine, Vamos [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Favourite Tracks: Where Is My Mind, Gigantic, River Euphrates, Bone Machine, Vamos [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
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1988
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"There's time to live, but isn't it strange, that as soon as you're born you're dying."
Favourite Tracks: Infinite Dreams, Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, The Evil That Men Do, The Clairvoyant [First added to this chart: 05/22/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Infinite Dreams, Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son, The Evil That Men Do, The Clairvoyant [First added to this chart: 05/22/2018]
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1988
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2,597
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"To yearn admits you're outside to me."
Favourite Tracks: Carolyn's Fingers, Blue Bell Knoll, The Itchy Glowbo Blow [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Carolyn's Fingers, Blue Bell Knoll, The Itchy Glowbo Blow [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
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1988
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"I cannot live, I cannot die, trapped in myself, body my holding cell."
Favourite Tracks: One, Blackened, ...And Justice For All, To Live Is To Die [First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
Favourite Tracks: One, Blackened, ...And Justice For All, To Live Is To Die [First added to this chart: 02/09/2018]
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1988
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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% | |
| The Cure | 4 | 4% | |
| R.E.M. | 4 | 4% | |
| Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds | 4 | 4% | |
| New Order | 3 | 3% | |
| The Replacements | 3 | 3% | |
| Iron Maiden | 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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