Top 15 Music Albums of 1981
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My Top 10 songs of 1981:
10. This Heat - Paper Hats (Deceit)
9. This Heat - Sleep (Deceit)
8. Soft Cell - Tainted Love (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)
7. This Heat - Makeshift Swahili (Deceit)
6. Mission Of Burma - That's When I Reach For My Revolver (Signals, Calls, And Marches)
5. Soft Cell - Say Hello, Wave Goodbye (Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret)
4. Dead Kennedys - Nazi Punks Fuck Off (Single)
3. Kraftwerk - Computer Love (Computer World)
2. The Specials - Ghost Town (Single)
1. New Order - Ceremony (Single)
- Chart updated: 04/13/2020 21:15
- (Created: 01/09/2017 02:42).
- Chart size: 15 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: 09/30/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Makeshift Swahili, Sleep, Paper Hats, A New Kind Of Water [First added to this chart: 09/30/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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Rank Score:
1,844
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"And I shook at my bench, and I cried and I cried, and my hands went on working, and the work hurried by."
Favourite Tracks: Freedom, The Song of Investment Capital Overseas, Democracy, The Song of the Martyrs
Favourite Tracks: Freedom, The Song of Investment Capital Overseas, Democracy, The Song of the Martyrs
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"Poor little fucker, poor little kid, never asked for life, no, she never did, poor little baby, poor little mite crying out for food as her parents fight."
Favourite Tracks: Berkertex Bribe, Bata Motel, Poison in a Pretty Pill, Systemic Death [First added to this chart: 04/13/2020]
Favourite Tracks: Berkertex Bribe, Bata Motel, Poison in a Pretty Pill, Systemic Death [First added to this chart: 04/13/2020]
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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: 03/23/2018]
Favourite Tracks: That's When I Reach For My Revolver, Fame And Fortune, All World Cowboy Romance [First added to this chart: 03/23/2018]
Year of Release:
1981
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Rank Score:
597
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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: 11/19/2017]
Favourite Tracks: Computer Love, Computer World [First added to this chart: 11/19/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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Rank Score:
3,411
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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: 04/01/2018]
Favourite Tracks: Frame By Frame, Elephant Talk, Indiscipline [First added to this chart: 04/01/2018]
Year of Release:
1981
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3,252
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"I'm so tired of endless art, love stories, I'm beginning to not give a damn, I wish I could reach right out for the untouchable, film starring Bruce, John Wayne, Elvis Presley, experiment with cocaine, LSD and set a bad bad example."
Favourite Tracks: Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Frustration, Tainted Love, Sex Dwarf [First added to this chart: 06/15/2019]
Favourite Tracks: Say Hello Wave Goodbye, Frustration, Tainted Love, Sex Dwarf [First added to this chart: 06/15/2019]
Year of Release:
1981
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899
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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: 09/30/2017]
Favourite Tracks: When It's Over, Youth Of America, No Fair [First added to this chart: 09/30/2017]
Year of Release:
1981
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1,699
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Favourite Tracks: The Spectacular Commodity, Light Field (In Consonance), The Ascension
[First added to this chart: 02/16/2018]
Year of Release:
1981
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1,536
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"I'll break them down, no mercy shown, heaven knows, it's got to be this time."
Favourite Tracks: Ceremony, Disorder, Dead Souls, Exercise One, The Only Mistake
Favourite Tracks: Ceremony, Disorder, Dead Souls, Exercise One, The Only Mistake
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Top 15 Music Albums of 1981 composition
| Artist | Albums | % | |
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| Crass | 1 | 7% | |
| Rush | 1 | 7% | |
| Mission Of Burma | 1 | 7% | |
| Iron Maiden | 1 | 7% | |
| Kraftwerk | 1 | 7% | |
| King Crimson | 1 | 7% | |
| Soft Cell | 1 | 7% | |
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