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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"You said, it's so cold, it's like the cold if you were dead. And you smiled for a second."
Favourite Tracks: Pictures Of You, Plainsong, Disintegration, Untitled [First added to this chart: 03/09/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Pictures Of You, Plainsong, Disintegration, Untitled [First added to this chart: 03/09/2017]
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1989
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"Got me a movie, I want you to know, slicing up eyeballs, I want you to know."
When I first heard this album, I absolutely hated it, but over time the distorted guitars and maniacal screaming about dead monkeys, mutilation, and 1920s surrealist films came to grow on me.
Favourite tracks: Here Comes Your Man, Hey, Debaser, Monkey Gone To Heaven, Mr. Grieves, Wave Of Mutilation, Dead [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
When I first heard this album, I absolutely hated it, but over time the distorted guitars and maniacal screaming about dead monkeys, mutilation, and 1920s surrealist films came to grow on me.
Favourite tracks: Here Comes Your Man, Hey, Debaser, Monkey Gone To Heaven, Mr. Grieves, Wave Of Mutilation, Dead [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
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1989
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"Don't let yourself be hurt this time."
Favourite Tracks: Falling, Into The Night, The Nightingale, Floating, Rockin' Back Inside My Heart, The World Spins [First added to this chart: 10/09/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Falling, Into The Night, The Nightingale, Floating, Rockin' Back Inside My Heart, The World Spins [First added to this chart: 10/09/2017]
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1989
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1,358
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"I am the resurrection and I am the life. I couldn't ever bring myself to hate you as I'd like."
Favourite Tracks: I Am The Resurrection, Waterfall, This Is The One, (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister, Made Of Stone [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Favourite Tracks: I Am The Resurrection, Waterfall, This Is The One, (Song For My) Sugar Spun Sister, Made Of Stone [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Year of Release:
1989
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25,875
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"Fingers and toes, fingers and toes, forty things we share. Forty-one, if you include the fact that we don't care."
Favourite Tracks: New Orleans Is Sinking, Boots Or Hearts, 38 Years Old, Opiated [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
Favourite Tracks: New Orleans Is Sinking, Boots Or Hearts, 38 Years Old, Opiated [First added to this chart: 10/25/2016]
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"I got tired of waiting because I found out there's only a very very fine line between biding one's time and wasting one's time, you know what I mean?"
Favourite Tracks: It's Catching Up, All Lies, The Tower, Tired Of Waiting [First added to this chart: 10/10/2017]
Favourite Tracks: It's Catching Up, All Lies, The Tower, Tired Of Waiting [First added to this chart: 10/10/2017]
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1989
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"Why close your eyes to the sky today? Why do you cry today just because the sky is grey?"
Favourite Tracks: Strange, Blue Thunder, Snowstorm, Isn't It a Pity [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Strange, Blue Thunder, Snowstorm, Isn't It a Pity [First added to this chart: 05/14/2018]
Year of Release:
1989
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"Never been dumped, cause I'm the most mackinest, never been jumped, cause I'm known the most packinest."
Favourite Tracks: B-Boy Bouillabaisse, The Sounds Of Science, Shake Your Rump, Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun [First added to this chart: 11/29/2017]
Favourite Tracks: B-Boy Bouillabaisse, The Sounds Of Science, Shake Your Rump, Looking Down The Barrel Of A Gun [First added to this chart: 11/29/2017]
Year of Release:
1989
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Top 100 Music Albums of the 1980s composition
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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% | |
| Bruce Springsteen | 3 | 3% | |
| Tom Waits | 3 | 3% | |
| Talking Heads | 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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