Top 100 Music Albums of 1982
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desh79 
- Chart updated: 01/14/2022 12:45
- (Created: 01/03/2017 14:53).
- Chart size: 100 albums.
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Disclaimer: as this album's ranking insinuates, I utterly adore Music For A New Society and have nothing but respect for John Cale as an artist and a human being. If anything, the below is a homage to the strength of Cale's music, because they say that the strongest music can put the most vivid images in your mind ("they" mostly being me). And By God, are the images vivid here.
John had finally had enough. He'd just finished "Damn Life", his fingers sore, almost bleeding, from the intensity with which he pounded the piano as if butchering an already lifeless boar. Enough! He stood up, took a firm sip of Glenfiddich and threw his glass on the floor as it shattered into a hundred fine pieces on the silk marble floor. Enough! He took the harpsichord he had purchased at Sotheby's and smashed it against the wall. Repeatedly. They say Handel himself composed the Brockes Passion on it, but now it was fugueing no more.
John hadn't shaved in a while - weeks, perhaps - and he was wearing nothing but a bathrobe. It was all he had been wearing since she packed her things and left, coincidentally the last time he remembered seeing sunlight as her shadow disappeared into the horizon.
Enough! He turned on the amp to play Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 at full blast while loudly bellowing The Iliad at the top of his voice, the neighbours banging against the wall and shouting, almost pleading with John to be "QUIET! MAKE IT STOP! STOP THIS AWFUL RACKET!!" As John slowly stumbled into the bathroom, he fell over and mumbled something in Welsh into the bathtub as he slipped in and out of consciousness...
"Digon... dwi wedi cael digon... bydd rhai newidiadau..." [First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
John had finally had enough. He'd just finished "Damn Life", his fingers sore, almost bleeding, from the intensity with which he pounded the piano as if butchering an already lifeless boar. Enough! He stood up, took a firm sip of Glenfiddich and threw his glass on the floor as it shattered into a hundred fine pieces on the silk marble floor. Enough! He took the harpsichord he had purchased at Sotheby's and smashed it against the wall. Repeatedly. They say Handel himself composed the Brockes Passion on it, but now it was fugueing no more.
John hadn't shaved in a while - weeks, perhaps - and he was wearing nothing but a bathrobe. It was all he had been wearing since she packed her things and left, coincidentally the last time he remembered seeing sunlight as her shadow disappeared into the horizon.
Enough! He turned on the amp to play Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 1 at full blast while loudly bellowing The Iliad at the top of his voice, the neighbours banging against the wall and shouting, almost pleading with John to be "QUIET! MAKE IT STOP! STOP THIS AWFUL RACKET!!" As John slowly stumbled into the bathroom, he fell over and mumbled something in Welsh into the bathtub as he slipped in and out of consciousness...
"Digon... dwi wedi cael digon... bydd rhai newidiadau..." [First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
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1982
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Rank Score:
803
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[First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
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1982
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1,641
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[First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
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1982
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5,823
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[First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
Year of Release:
1982
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1,024
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[First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
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1982
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6,304
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[First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
Year of Release:
1982
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16,140
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[First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
Year of Release:
1982
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2,222
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West Berlin-based post-punk band with a debut that ranks as one of my favourite forgotten, underrated albums.
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[First added to this chart: 06/20/2017]
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1982
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2,487
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[First added to this chart: 06/15/2018]
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 composition
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| Bauhaus | 2 | 2% | |
| Laurie Anderson | 1 | 1% | |
| Led Zeppelin | 1 | 1% | |
| The Fall | 1 | 1% | |
| Herbert Grönemeyer | 1 | 1% | |
| Cocteau Twins | 1 | 1% | |
| Lou Reed | 1 | 1% | |
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Top 100 Music Albums of 1982 chart changes
| Biggest climbers |
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| Up 1 from 10th to 9th The Nightfly by Donald Fagen |
| Up 1 from 9th to 8th PVC by PVC |
| Up 1 from 8th to 7th Combat Rock by The Clash |
| Biggest fallers |
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| Down 5 from 5th to 10th Wave Notation 1: Music For Nine Post Cards by 吉村弘 [Hiroshi Yoshimura] |
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